Mike's Life Posts of the Week 10th July 2009

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Here are my favorite posts from around the web this week:

How do you let folks know what you do without pitching them

By Liz Strauss on Successful Blog

Good advice from Liz about pitching (or not!) about your business.

Talk about Transparency!

By Scott Monty on Scottmonty.com

Cracking video from Air New Zealand – I love it!

What are the odds that your blog or website will fail?

By Roman on How This Website Makes Money

I find Roman’s posts a little depressing, but you can fault him when it comes to research and statistics, and this makes for some very interesting reading.

The five people who secretly control your life

By Dave Navarro on Rockyourday.com

Dave talks about external programming and the key influencers in each of our lives. Interesting and thought provoking

How to have more self discipline

By Penelope Trunk on Brazen Careerist

It’s a great post, but you can’t fail to see the irony in Penelope helping us to have more self discipline!

The problem with guest posts

By Nathan Hangen on Nathanhangen.com

I’d already picked up that Nathan seemed to be popping up everywhere guest posting, and this one on his own blog questions the wisdom of doing so.

An insider look at my spambox

By Andrea Yager on Andreayager.com

Andrea shares the cheesy email titles from her inbox. Some are truly horrific. My favorite? “Andrea, you WILL make money with this….”

Old school marketing no longer working? Blame Canada

By James Chartrand on Copyblogger

Slightly tongue in cheek, but one of those which is funny and informative at the same time.

Tim Ferris’ tricks and tools you should know

By Gordie Rogers on Gordierogers.com

Have reviewed Tim’s book, Gordie has done an amazing job in providing us with the links to easier ways of working from the book. Bookmark this one.

And that’s it for this week. Don’t forget to let me know if I should be reading your blog – juts leave a comment. Are there any you would add to this list? Or take off?