September 11, 2025 Welcome to the 171st Edition... Please forward this to ONE friend today and tell them to subscribe here. You can find the online version of this newsletter here. We were blessed to find our peer crew! Where Are Your People At? Last weekend we hosted our annual “grown-up” party. About 40 friends came, plus one couple new to Cleveland, fresh from Australia. They didn’t know anyone, so my wife and I started introducing them. Over and over, the introductions sounded the same:...
22 days ago • 6 min read
August 28, 2025 Welcome to the 170th Edition... Please forward this to ONE friend today and tell them to subscribe here. You can find the online version of this newsletter here. Carmen, Erika, Joe and Pamela post CEX Smart Creators Do This I just returned from the 4th Annual Content Entrepreneur Expo and I am still in post-event glow. Everything came together this year. The presenters were sharp, the quality of the attendees was high, the networking was incredible, and yes, we even managed to...
about 1 month ago • 4 min read
August 14, 2025 Welcome to the 169th Edition of the Orangeletter Please forward this to ONE friend today and tell them to subscribe here. You can find the online version of this newsletter here. You are a great salesperson! Why Most Creators Fail(and How to Think Like the Ones Who Don’t) CEX is less than two weeks away, and I’m deep into prepping a new keynote. Everyone I know approaches presentations differently. My personal process? Obsess over the topic for months. At the last possible...
about 2 months ago • 6 min read
July 31, 2025 Welcome to the 168th Edition of the Orangeletter Please forward this to ONE friend today and tell them to subscribe here. You can find the online version of this newsletter here. Me and Molly the Dog Dogs and Goals I have two things to pitch you on before we start this issue. First, yesterday was our biggest promotional day for Content Entrepreneur Expo (CEX) 2025. If you are involved in digital content creation, this is your event. And we included all that “figure out how to...
2 months ago • 4 min read
July 17, 2025 Welcome to the 167th Edition of the Orangeletter Please forward this to ONE friend today and tell them to subscribe here. You can find the online version of this newsletter here. The Misogi Challenge A Big Goal for 2025 Do you want to do something amazing this year? If so, read on. As you know, I’m a huge fan of goal setting. There are a couple different templates I use to accomplish things. My original goal-setting program is to set a few goals in each of six categories each...
3 months ago • 3 min read
July 3, 2025 Welcome to the 166th Edition of the Orangeletter Please forward this to ONE friend today and tell them to subscribe here. You can find the online version of this newsletter here. Time freedom A special Independence Day issue today. Back to our regular schedule in two weeks. Actionable Freedom Tomorrow is Independence Day in the United States…so it's the perfect time to talk about freedom. To me, freedom means full control over my time, income and life choices without relying on...
3 months ago • 3 min read
June 19, 2025 Welcome to the 165th Edition of the Orangeletter Please forward this to ONE friend today and tell them to subscribe here. You can find the online version of this newsletter here. An ending or a beginning? (Taken in Key West, 2025) In this issue, I discuss: What Is Our AI Future? My Content Marketing Predictions The Power of the Bamboo Tree Is Attitude a Choice? My Aunt Em Future Freedom Geoffrey Hinton, one of the fathers of the AI movement, was asked the advice he would give to...
4 months ago • 6 min read
June 5, 2025 Welcome to the 164th Edition of the Orangeletter Please forward this to ONE friend today and tell them to subscribe here. You can find the online version of this newsletter here. Tabula Rasa No Audience. No Money. What Do You Do? I have a couple of big things coming up. First, the Content Inc. podcast, started back in 2014 as marketing to promote the first edition of the Content Inc. book, will be 500 episodes old next week (I just finished 498). Second, I’m finishing up the...
4 months ago • 5 min read
May 22, 2025 Welcome to the 163rd Edition of the Orangeletter Please forward this to ONE friend today and tell them to subscribe here. You can find the online version of this newsletter here. Showing Up Matters A Win for Speech Therapy I’m so thankful for everyone’s support in my 6th Annual quest to golf 100 holes in a day. We were able to raise more than $55,000 for the Orange Effect Foundation. Over 30 golfers finished at least 100 holes during the day. Every bit of that money is going...
4 months ago • 4 min read