It’s been a while since I’ve done my drive-by book reviews, but I’ve been reading so many great new books, it’s time to bring them back. For those who’ve never experienced a drive-by review, they’re short, sweet and to the point, answering 3 basic questions: what’s is about, what makes it different, who should read it.

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Drive By Book Review: UnMarketing by Scott Stratten

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This post is part of the Friday Q&A section. If you want to ask a question, just write a comment below.

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Does Working Online Isolate You from the World?

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The other day, I had the pleasure of hanging out with a new friend, Ramit Sethi , the author of New York Times bestselling book, I Will Teach You To Be Rich and founder of the wildly popular blog, IWillTeachYouToBeRich.com . We were spinning on all sorts of topics, from personal finance to behavioral change, the psychology of persuasion, marketing, strategy, media, publishing. All common interests we’re both passionate about.

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7 Words That Can Transform Your Business And Life

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Just had to share this with you guys… Career Renegade was just published in Traditional Chinese, which is the main language in Taiwan and Hong Kong (from what I’m told, going on faith, here). Pretty cool, huh?

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Career Renegade Hits Taiwan

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Part of growing and evolving is intentionally testing the boundaries of an experience that’s perceived outwardly as success, but that’s begun to feel inwardly complacent. Doing that means taking a risk, both in ego and ease. It means going from being on top of your game (or, at least the perception) to potentially stumbling, falling down, not knowing which way is up.

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Taking Out The Thrash

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This Friday’s guest contributor is Joel D Canfield. Joel writes about his family’s experiment with a location-independent life at  http://CanfieldOfDreams.com . Because he and his location-independent wife Sue believe everyone should make a great living doing what they love, they mentor and train virtual workers who want to choose where and when they work ++++ Benjamin Franklin was a serial entrepreneur, regularly seeing huge success implementing ideas which others thought were impossible or pointless.

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The Ben Franklin School of Persuasion

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A little over 2 months ago, I interviewed article marketing expert , Elysia Brooker from Pajama Team . She laid bare a lot of myths and truths about article marketing , and opened my eyes to it’s potential impact. But I was still suspect, so I issued her a public challenge to take a site that I owned and get it ranked high up on google for two of the top search terms in the niche using article marketing.

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Article Marketing Challenge Yields Stunning Results

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This is a guest post by Jim Kukral. If you want to guest post on this blog, check out the guidelines here. This is called a unique value proposition, or UVP.

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What Am I Selling That’s Better or Different Than My Competitor?

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Guest post from Peter Shallard, the Shrink for Entrepreneurs. Check out his blog or for mini Jedi-mind-tricks, follow @PeterShallard on Twitter ++++ The idea to write this post started with a twitter conversation Jonathan kicked off with these words of wisdom: Don’t lead with “how’m I gonna make money?” Instead, ask “how’m I gonna blow people away and change lives?” Most of us can agree that this principal is spot on for entrepreneurs with big dreams. When Nathan Hangen added Sometimes internal motivators aren’t aligned with success … I knew he had put his finger on an issue I’ve personally witnessed time and time again.

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Are You Obsessed With Money, Freedom or Impact?

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  FYI – The first picture was taken in Chelsea, NYC. The other three were taken in Santa Monica, CA. Funny how the vibe changes, huh?

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4 Signs You’ll Never See in Big Corporations

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