The Michel Fortin Blog

I'm having the first barbecue of the season on my back porch. And I've got Buddy Guy's raspy vocals and stinging guitar riffs pumping through the speakers... The man's chops are clearly massive, yet oh how he plays… with such exquisite...

No is a very powerful word. It's one too easily spoken, as any parent of a small four-year-old will tell you. It's also detrimental to effective copywriting and sales, because it's an absolute brick wall of resistance. The minute a potential...

Last night while watching TV, my wife and I had an interesting debate on the whole "The Secret" phenomena. And we came to the very same conclusions. I believe in the law of attraction. I also like the premise behind the book, which is largely...

A disgruntled, aspiring copywriter wrote me demanding clarifications. He believes most copywriters lie and exaggerate their claims of wealth. Let's call him "Chuck." I understand where Chuck is coming from. Because I've been where he is. So I...

Michel Fortin: No, I think if you want to look at optimism in the best way is to look at it as an educational process. Learning is part of it... sitting down with people, talking with them, spending time with them, reading books, spending your time...

Here are the worksheets to use when applying Michel Fortin's G.O.A.L. method. You can simply use the tables below as a model to guide you. You can use them on a sheet of paper, in your journal, or on your computer. But if you do prefer the...

"I practiced the art of getting more things done rather than getting the really important things done well." -- Alec MacKenzie "We can no more afford to spend major time on minor things than we can to spend minor time on major things." -- Jim...

I'm up for a challenge. Just recently, my friend and SEO blogging expert Andy Beard posted an article about an interesting case study. After simply rewording the headline of a blog post, John Wesley literally multiplied his traffic to one of...

Takeaway selling, for the uninitiated, is a way to limit the supply of a product or service in some way to increase scarcity of an offer. Because it's a proven fact that scarcity sells. It's that ageless law of supply and demand. The less the...