There's a sucker born every minute - Blog article written by Ted Prodromou

Years ago, Joe Vitale wrote There’s a Customer Born Every Minute.  The book is based on P.T. Barnum who turned a struggling circus into the most successful circus ever.  P.T. Barnum is perhaps best known today for having said, “There’s a sucker born every minute” but Barnum never said such a thing.  He believed that there was a More…


The $100 billion live demo fail

Did you see Google’s big announcement?  Bard is Google’s AI tool which will compete with ChatGPT so of course, I wanted to see how it stacks up.  Google did a live demo yesterday and it failed miserably.  In the demo, a user asks Bard: “What new discoveries from the James Webb Space Telescope can I tell my 9-year-old More…


What should I call you? Blog article written by Ted Prodromou. Rapid Results Academy.

My crystal ball is honing in on you.  Not like the Chinese spy balloon. I digress but when you are spying on someone aren’t you supposed to be invisible or undercover? Back to the crystal ball…  Yesterday, I teased you about my crystal ball that’s showing me the phrases and keywords you are responding to.  Not the phrases More…


This is better than a crystal ball - Blog article written by Ted Prodromou

My sister is deep into the woo woo world.  Growing up, she had a Ouija board and a crystal ball.  Today, she loves to visit psychics to get a reading.  The sad part is she makes life decisions based on what the psychic tells her.  Needless to say, she struggles.  Imagine making life decisions based on the Magic 8 Ball toy.  Some More…


Do you trust me? Blog article written by Ted Prodromou

People buy from you when they know, like, and trust you. How do you earn their trust?  How long does it take for them to trust you enough to invest in your offer?  I’m reading Joe Polish’s new book, What’s in it for Them? which happens to be the book of the month in our Mastermind Book Club.  Joe More…


My first death threat on LinkedIn - Blog article written by Ted Prodromou

A Facebook memory popped up yesterday that I have to share with you.  This guy said he does Amazon SEO.  I wanted to learn more since Ultimate Guide to LinkedIn for Business Third Edition was about to be released.   Here’s our unedited conversation (sorry for the offensive content).  Him: I can tell that being 36 years old…I have the More…


How much is your brain worth? Blog article written by Ted Prodromou

Here’s a fun valuation exercise to start your day.  In 2002, I was on a family ski trip and decided to learn how to snowboard.  After a few falls, I started to get the hang of it.  It was time to go to the top of the mountain at Squaw Valley (now Palisades Tahoe).  As I started down the More…


On this day in 1961... Blog article written by Ted Prodromou. Backwards Day

Ready for some useless trivia?  Today is National Backwards Day.  Backwards Day was created by two farmers, Sarah Nicole Miller and Megan Emily Scott in 1961.  The idea came to them while they were milking their cows.  They were talking about arts and crafts which somehow turned into ideas for Backwards Day.  Today is the day when you do More…


You suck at writing - blog article written by Ted Prodromou

Don’t worry, this is not another post about AI. I was never a big fan of English class. Learning about nouns, verbs, predicate verbs, conjunctions, and gerunds made my head spin. Who cares about diagraming sentences? I remember the homework assignments to write a 500-word essay about a topic the teacher chose. Usually, I had little interest or knowledge More…


Are you sharing too much? Blog article written by Ted Prodromou

How far do you go? What I mean is, how much should you share on social media? Many people share TMI (have you seen what Brittney Spears was posting on Instagram before she abruptly deleted her account yesterday?)  It can be tempting to post as much content as possible in an effort to break through the noise.  There’s nothing More…