Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 
30th October 2015, 03:54 PM
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Replies: 99
Views: 6,711 Re: Advice from a million dollar marketer
For me, it was more that I didn't think my future customer was here.
I invest in the communities that build my business. When I reached the point that I was not learning anything new from the...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
7th July 2015, 12:35 PM
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Replies: 19
Views: 1,119 |
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
3rd July 2015, 12:33 PM
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Replies: 19
Views: 951 Re: do you put date of your post on your website?
Same here, but if content is evergreen, having it dated 2011 can make someone feel like it's outdated when it's not.
I think some posts need dates and others don't. I mean, if you write a post...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
3rd July 2015, 12:29 PM
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Replies: 20
Views: 870 Re: Unsolicited PMs for product reviews
Why thank you. Go big or go home, I always say.
Reality IS rubbish, in case you hadn't noticed.
The overwhelming majority of what people pay me for is stuff they already know.
I just...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
3rd July 2015, 12:00 PM
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Replies: 20
Views: 870 Re: Unsolicited PMs for product reviews
More than half of that post is real, actionable advice for getting people with this kind of expertise to view your request more favourably.
If all you take away from it is "oh he thinks he's so...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
21st June 2015, 07:56 PM
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Replies: 56
Views: 1,928 |
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
19th June 2015, 09:31 AM
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Replies: 42
Views: 2,896 Re: Competitive Edge Of A Newbie
You can enter a smaller market.
Here's the fun part. That smaller market might have a whole hell of a lot of money in it.
When you say "smaller market," people usually think some trivial...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
19th June 2015, 09:11 AM
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Replies: 19
Views: 1,119 Re: Tip For People With No Book Budget
It costs nothing to enroll your book. The Kindle Unlimited subscription is $10 a month, and at any given time you can have ten books "checked out" to your Amazon account at no added charge. Authors...
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Forum: Suggestion Forum
18th June 2015, 11:02 PM
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Replies: 56
Views: 4,422 |
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Forum: Suggestion Forum
18th June 2015, 06:52 PM
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Replies: 56
Views: 4,422 |
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
18th June 2015, 01:32 PM
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Replies: 8
Views: 583 Re: How is this even possible?
Clearly either these people are brilliant marketers or Google is corrupt.
The problem cannot possibly be that your SEO analysis is based on incorrect or irrelevant information.
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
18th June 2015, 12:40 PM
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Replies: 59
Views: 2,069  Re: Google - Destroying Your Business?
Google is purposely trying to destroy inaccurately high rankings for crappy websites.
This tends to destroy any crappy website that only really gets traffic from Google.
And that, in turn,...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
18th June 2015, 11:29 AM
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Replies: 19
Views: 1,119 Tip For People With No Book Budget
Kindle Unlimited.
A lot of people don't realise this, but if you go through KDP Select, your book is automatically enrolled in Kindle Unlimited.
That means for $10 a month, you can read ANY...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
18th June 2015, 10:57 AM
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Replies: 33
Views: 1,029 Re: Affiliate Links in Ebooks?
You'd be dumb not to. If you're going to advertise someone else's product or service, and they have an affiliate program where you can get paid for that, GET PAID.
If they don't, then go ahead...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
18th June 2015, 10:17 AM
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Replies: 4
Views: 507 Basic Roadmap for Business
There's really a very simple series of things that go into building any business, and it's pretty constant. I call it a SLOT machine. (Yes, I sell stuff about this. But relax, nothing to buy here,...
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Forum: Warriors For Hire
18th June 2015, 09:36 AM
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Replies: 17
Views: 2,381 |
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
2nd May 2015, 11:52 AM
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Replies: 16
Views: 714 |
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
29th April 2015, 04:24 AM
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Replies: 36
Views: 809 Re: Does this bother you as a buyer?
I started a policy a couple years ago that "prices only go up." I don't put anything on sale. If I want to make a cheaper offer, I'll produce a lower-level product. And every time I update or...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
28th April 2015, 06:30 PM
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Replies: 15
Views: 936 Re: Eight Thousand Posts and Here I Am
It's not the same, but it's not bad. Harlan Ellison used to talk about what he called "the greasy pastiche of nostalgia" - I literally cannot remember a time that people weren't griping about how...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
28th April 2015, 12:46 PM
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Replies: 43
Views: 1,979 Re: Thanked 1000+ means Millionaire?
There's honestly no correlation. And in my case, at least, the high thanks is because I'd rather help people than make money. I hate it when I have to tell someone "hey, I could help you, but you...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
28th April 2015, 12:27 PM
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Replies: 21
Views: 1,438 Re: $37 vs $47 - Which converts better?
Asking for opinions IS a test. Asking experts for opinions - even self-proclaimed ones - is usually better than asking random people on the street.
Like, for example, that testing is the...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
27th April 2015, 04:51 PM
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Replies: 70
Views: 3,095 |
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
27th April 2015, 03:41 PM
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Replies: 15
Views: 936 Re: Eight Thousand Posts and Here I Am
Do you have trouble making a delicious pizza crust?
I sure did. Let me tell you how terrible my pizza crust used to be...
BUT NOW my pizza comes out perfect every time because I learned this...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
27th April 2015, 03:33 PM
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Replies: 70
Views: 3,095 |
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
27th April 2015, 02:50 PM
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Replies: 70
Views: 3,095 |
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
27th April 2015, 02:20 PM
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Replies: 15
Views: 936 Eight Thousand Posts and Here I Am
I don't know if we still do this - I've been away for a while - but every thousand posts or so the old school Warriors used to do this kind of rollup thing where we come in and say "hey, here's my...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
27th April 2015, 10:48 AM
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Replies: 23
Views: 806 Re: Who agrees with this marketing strategy?
They're the same way.
- Lead magnet convinces them to opt-in
- Email sequence convinces them to buy
Your "new" way is just how to line up those two things and convince in a certain way.
I...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
27th April 2015, 10:40 AM
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Replies: 137
Views: 3,662 Re: Don't be so selfish
That's "your book is crap but we will still publish it if you pay us enough."
They'll invest in your success if you put some skin in the game. Just like anyone else. I'd never invest in a venture...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
26th April 2015, 03:15 PM
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Replies: 137
Views: 3,662 Re: Don't be so selfish
When you ARE in this position, you'll either understand why other people don't, or you'll learn by experience.
I recommend the understanding method. It's cheaper and less stressful.
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
26th April 2015, 09:20 AM
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Replies: 8
Views: 471 |
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
22nd April 2015, 08:06 PM
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Replies: 10
Views: 567 Re: How to find what people are struggling with?
Start trying to do what they want to do.
Like, let's say you want to get into weight loss. You don't have to be a hundred pounds overweight. Just say "okay, I'm going to lose ten pounds." And...
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Forum: Copywriting
22nd April 2015, 03:38 PM
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Replies: 62
Views: 10,048 Re: Gary Bencivenga --- I'm not impressed!
Excuse me, but you get your bottle of olive oil by signing up to his quarterly automatic-bill olive oil club at $139 or $99 a quarter.
There's no obligation because you have 90 days to cancel...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
15th April 2014, 03:54 AM
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Replies: 5
Views: 748 |
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
23rd January 2014, 01:47 PM
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Replies: 13
Views: 3,909 Re: How to hide referral traffic sources
And use a secure connection. When you redirect from an https link, the TLS specification forbids the transfer of referral data. So they don't even know what your external domain is.
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
23rd January 2014, 01:45 PM
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Replies: 37
Views: 1,339 Re: A quick tip for newbies on niche choice
None. I don't care.
As far as I am concerned, none of that is even remotely relevant to my business. People are not going to be searching for my niche and stumbling across my website. They are...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
22nd January 2014, 02:10 PM
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Replies: 37
Views: 1,339 |
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Forum: Off Topic Forum
22nd January 2014, 01:08 PM
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Replies: 38
Views: 1,285 |
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
22nd January 2014, 10:34 AM
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Replies: 37
Views: 1,339 Re: A quick tip for newbies on niche choice
The buyer doesn't really want pretty feet, either, but some kind of thing they can get WITH pretty feet.
Feature -> Benefit -> Advantage.
Learned that from Colin Theriot. He's freakin'...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
22nd January 2014, 08:04 AM
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Replies: 37
Views: 1,339 Re: A quick tip for newbies on niche choice
You are absolutely right.
Do you know how many kinds of shoes you CAN'T WEAR when you have horrible embarrassing toe fungus and ugly nails?
Target WOMEN with toe fungus. Then sell them toenail...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
22nd January 2014, 05:09 AM
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Replies: 37
Views: 1,339 Re: A quick tip for newbies on niche choice
Every community of a certain size is really a series of subcommunities. Like in Andy's example:
Golf
Driving
Hazards
Putting
So if you decide to specialise in putting, then you have:
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
22nd January 2014, 04:49 AM
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Replies: 37
Views: 1,339 Re: A quick tip for newbies on niche choice
Choosing a niche in three steps:
- You think about it every day
- Your customers think about it every day
- You know what your customers think
The best way to get these three things is to...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
23rd August 2013, 04:17 AM
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Replies: 11
Views: 514 |
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
16th August 2013, 11:27 AM
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Replies: 37
Views: 1,308 Re: How do you build a list quickly and cheaply?
That kind of IS the step by step plan.
1. Make an email followup series promoting affiliate products
2. Make a squeeze page and put the list opt-in form on it
3. Send traffic to the squeeze...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
16th August 2013, 11:23 AM
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Replies: 13
Views: 542 Re: Blogging Daily
Seven times the power of blogging valuable content weekly, and thirty times the power of blogging valuable content monthly.
Obviously.
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Forum: Mind Warriors
16th August 2013, 11:21 AM
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Replies: 6
Views: 1,001 The Badass Manifesto
This is a rework of something I posted on my blog a couple weeks ago. The Warrior Forum has been a central part of my marketing education and efforts, so after letting my readers have the first look,...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
16th August 2013, 11:01 AM
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Replies: 62
Views: 3,574 |
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
16th August 2013, 10:52 AM
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Replies: 62
Views: 3,574 Re: Solo Ads Are The Great Big Guru Secret
Wrong. The secret is buying hyper-targeted solo ads.
You can't just buy a solo ad and automatically get hyper-targeted traffic. You have to buy the right solo ad from the right person with the...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
16th August 2013, 12:49 AM
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Replies: 60
Views: 2,522 |
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
14th August 2013, 01:09 AM
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Replies: 18
Views: 620 Re: Everyone preaches list-building
Making money 101:
1. Find a thing you can sell.
2. Find a person to whom you can sell it.
3. Sell it.
Step 2 is kind of hard. Let's break it down.
Listbuilding 101:
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
14th August 2013, 12:06 AM
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Replies: 13
Views: 465 |
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
13th August 2013, 11:17 PM
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Replies: 18
Views: 481 Re: Forum Marketing
The key words there are "your website." You can advertise your website all day long in this forum. We have no problem with your username and avatar being promotional crap, either, as you can clearly...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
13th August 2013, 11:05 PM
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Replies: 47
Views: 2,038 Re: Empower Network! NEED ANSWER ASAP
Have we learned something?
Empower Network will let you sell five products for a $25 fee.
Clickbank will let you sell fifty thousand products for free.
Over time, you will start to see...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
8th July 2013, 03:34 PM
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Replies: 65
Views: 4,207 Re: Novel Writing Software
This was mentioned earlier: "novel writing software" doesn't write the novel any more than a screwdriver drives the screws. It's just a tool.
Some of them have plot generators, but those are...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
8th July 2013, 03:05 PM
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Replies: 12
Views: 640 Re: Domain Extensions
"Domain extensions are tools."
If you do not understand the comment, it is not the comment that is ignorant.
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
8th July 2013, 01:43 AM
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Replies: 26
Views: 927 Re: Warning to warrior newbies...
And if you go anywhere that product vendors hang out, you'll see a similarly countless number of complaints about the poor quality of many customers.
Reality check: people suck.
WSOs are made...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
8th July 2013, 01:31 AM
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Replies: 44
Views: 1,161 Re: 7, 17, 27, 37 - Why the 7's???
It appears to stem from a weird little bit of brain science: the rational part of the brain thinks in tens, but the emotional part of the brain thinks in fives.
So the logic goes like this. You...
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