I believe just about everyone needs to learn how to do a product launch. Now mind you, a product launch is different from a product release. Product releases are often dull, flat, and disappointing for everyone involved. Product launches are often (usually) exciting, fun, and profitable for everyone involved.

In this show, I'll share the daily practice that leads to prosperity – and is guaranteed to spare you a life of poverty, fear, and depression.

We use the word “friend” too lightly, and we do so at our peril. My message today is that true friendship is rare and important, while false friendship is common and dangerous. Let me tell you a story…

I still haven't figured out a naming convention for these posts. Suggestions welcome. Here are my 6 Links for this week…

Dennis McIntee is passionate about helping leaders develop their coaching skills. He keynotes frequently at leadership seminars as well as appearing in magazines, newspapers, trade journals, and on national radio and TV. He is the author of The 8 Qualities of Drama Free Teams: Do More. Stress Less. Zero Drama.

If you ever feel like you get one area of your life working well, only to find a fire breaking out in some other part of your life… if you feel you are “doing okay” but still don't feel that sense of happiness, or success, or fulfillment you're after… this episodes is just for you!

We spend our lives trying to “get things done”, thinking that will make us happy/fulfilled/significant/complete. (Or maybe it's just me that suffers from this illusion. I don't mean to presume.)

These are my “Six Links for Saturday”. Interesting and fun stuff I like to share. These posts take a surprising amount of work to assemble, so if you appreciate this, please comment, share, or in some other way let me know it's worth the effort.

“What do I do if I don't have a product to sell?” This is a very common question we hear, and today we'll answer it. In fact, it's possible to go from idea to income in less than a week. During this episode you'll also discover:

Have you heard of this thing called FOMO? It's a popular buzzword with entrepreneurs these days, and it stands for the “Fear Of Missing Out”. The idea behind FOMO is that we say yes to everything that comes our way, because we're afraid if we say no to something we will miss out on an opportunity.

I've been enjoying Tim Ferriss's “5-Bullet Friday” emails. If you don't receive that weekly email, you should sign up for it here.

Mike Kim is a specialist in personal branding, a marketing expert, and an extraordinarily talented copywriter. He's also a member of my private Regency Mastermind – a remarkable, small group of people doing Big Things. ~ Ray Edwards

There are 5 Murderous “Profit Poachers” that are on a merciless mission: to kill your business. The good news? Simply knowing about them can stop the cash-killers in their tracks. During this episode you'll discover:

In the copywriting class I’m currently teaching (the now-closed Copywriting Academy), one question has come up several times during our Q&A sessions. The question is posed a little differently each time, but is accurately summarized this way: “Is it morally wrong to sell based on fear as a motivation?”

It can be hard to say “NO”. Here are 3 powerful ways to say “NO” pleasantly.

It seems like that's the kind of spectacle the media would give us, if they could. But the upcoming US Presidential Election is not a game, and it is not entertainment.