And you really must have juxtaposed another blog with mine – I have mentioned Benjamin Franklin exactly once in the last year, and it was to merely mention his personal networking skills in a review of the book “Never Eat Alone,” which discusses him. It kind of undermines your attack on me as being bizarre and unresearched.

OK — you hate marketing. After your last, truly bizarre, unresearched post on marketing & I believe on Benjamin Franklin, I thought, ok, bad research– no problem, one less blog to read. By the way, marketing has taken place since the first printing press. Start counting those centuries.

I regretted my decision. I’ve found numerous, valuable things on your blog. I thought to myself… I’ve overreacted to an instance of bad research. We’re all fallible. I’ll go back. This is my bad. It’s an enjoyable blog. Not a big deal.

But, wait a minute…
How did you buy that Wii?
How did you buy…well, anything?
How do you sell space on your site? (Though your readers seem unable to tell that you have ads on your site.)
Not only do you use marketing, you react to marketing. There’s no problem there. So, quit being putting your head in the sand & admit you use marketing. Don’t you talk w/ msn? Is that not marketing?

Marketing makes you aware of a product. Also, marketing can be very persuasive. That’s its nature. That’s WHAT IT IS. But just like every author on earth, you proclaim marketing is from the antichrist, but, as an author, you don’t leave me alone for one second until you’ve been ASSURED that you’re getting more than your fair share of marketing. (Can you tell I work in publishing?) See, as an impartial observer, if I woul’ve thought you made ANY sense, I’d be all over you for the acquisitions editors. Because–guess what… all publishing cares about is MONEY.

Hmmmm. Marketing is really convienient when you’re the person selling the product. Marketing, all of the sudden, is essential, when you’re the author.

Do you want the capitalist economy to collapse? Just take away marketing. Believe it or not, even in a frugal economy, you still have to choose between the things you buy.

I think, deep down, you’re a very smart guy. And, take out the hypocrisy. I think you understand marketing far better than you think. Or, you’re just another person that wants to & repeatedly has said make money, but hates marketing = you’ll never make any money!! How do you pay all those debts w/o money?

Keep up the good work!

I’ve got to agree with how he divides the values espoused in Canfield’s writings from those like The Secret. Canfield may be cheesy at times, but his fundamental values match those of ‘hard work shapes your feelsings’; The Secret espouses that ‘our feelings shape everything’.

I was simply comparing January 2008 with January 1991 since it was the last time the market got off to such a rough start.

I roll my eyes with you. I think you are entitled to make money from this site in whatever manner you choose. You put a lot of hard work and effort into this site. It’s ridiculous that some people think they should be able to partake of your service (reading this blog) for free.

Doesn’t anyone realize that stock market history has not been just a single progression upward, with only minor downward ticks?

While doom and gloom may not be good, it is also dangerous to ignore other wider ranges that could hit the market. Can a market only go up? Tell that to people in 1929. It too a couple of decades (and lots of government bungling) before it started up again.

In some people’s eyes it’s “unethical” to make money. In other words, you can’t please everyone so DON’T even try. Do what you do best, which is obviously working, and forget about the rest. If you lose a reader or two, so be it. It’s their loss, not yours.

Finally, thanks for the link. I love writing about the stuff nobody else wants to cover.

One: I, too, like this site, or else I’d leave and not come back.

Two: Trent saw no problem with the ad. I did, and since he says he likes to talk to us I told him so. He met his standards, not my standards. That’s how disagreements start.

Three: How do disagreements end? One guy’s forced to give up. This time he’s me.