Posted by pat on Jul 23, 2010 in Featured Articles, Internet Marketing, Portable Empire | 3 comments
A Working Vacation
My last few blog posts haven’t had much to do with Internet Marketing. I’ve been chasing Jack Kerouac around California, absorbing inspiration to finish my new book. Let’s talk about Internet Marketing, now. A couple of weeks ago, on our weekly UnWebinar, I was talking with my coaching students about driving traffic to their website. Here’s the dirty truth about traffic- most of the people who are teaching traffic-driving online are just blowing smoke. I buy most of the...
Posted by pat on Jul 22, 2010 | 0 comments
It was almost exactly 50 years ago that Jack Kerouac left his mother’s house on the East coast and took a luxury liner to San Francisco to dry out. DTs were shaking his body and he was seeing ghosts.
He was headed for Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s cabin in Bixby Cabin. Beautiful location near the ocean, and most importantly, no booze. Isolation. Just Jack and his muse. It was a good...
The End of the Road- Bixby...
Posted by pat on Jul 16, 2010 | 0 comments
As the trip-odometer rolled over 2,000 miles, we looked out over the Pacific ocean and watched the fog roll in over highway 1. It’s been a trip.
It’s bothered me that I know the basic geography of Europe so much better than I know the basic geography of the U.S. Having taken the Dover to Calais ferry and driven up the coast of Western Europe from France to the top of Sweden, I’ve got a...
On the Road 2. Closing in...
Posted by pat on Jul 9, 2010 | 0 comments
Portable Empire on the Roa...
We left a rainy Wimberley, Texas this morning and the rain kept us company all the way to Fort Stockton, Texas. We’re going to keep driving West until we find the sun. And the Beats. Specifically Jack Kerouac. Now, I know old Jack has gone to the land where old drunks go when they die. In his old age, the booze got him. He looked like he was in his 80’s, and walked like old men walk. ...
Posted by pat on Jun 24, 2010 | 4 comments
Imagine the best weekend of your life. Now imagine it even better. Ask anybody who was there- that’s what UnSeminar8 was.
If you haven’t attended one, it’s probably hard to imagine an Internet Marketing (Un)Seminar as being “the best weekend of your life.” If you have attended one, then you know what I mean. As the last stragglers left the Vitale Cigar Bar Monday evening,...
UnSeminar 8 in the Rear Vi...
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