Rick Butts

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Elizabeth Gilbert talks about nurturing creativity – and explores the whole idea of what you do AFTER you’ve had what may be the most successful thing you’ve ever done in your life. (AKA Eat Pray Love)                    

I’ve been saying for the last 2 years that for speakers, coaches, consultants and others who write non-fiction that the “book deal” is a dead dog. With some of the most creative minds in the world publishing online (much of it free) you have to start seeing that if you are going to print a [...]

The one and only time I was invited, uh, allowed to speak at NSA (the National Speakers Association – not the National Security Agency and Jack Bauer) was at a Winter Workshop in Portland Oregon. This presentation is NOT for the weak at heart – Rated R – but totally for anyone who wants to [...]

While Aweber is the flagship of email marketing and list management, particularly among Internet marketers, there are some peculiarities about their mindset that can make them a very annoying business partner. Here are the two that bug me the most. Long know for their extreme, some say fanatical, adherence to every scintilla of the Can-Spam [...]

Except for 3 years in seminary, my formal education was limited to the lofty pinnacle of a high school degree from the prestigious School of the Osage in Lake Ozark Missouri. After 10 years as a professional musician, rolling around North America in a van playing popular music (read cover band), I got a job [...]

Regular readers (and slightly irregular readers) of this blog will notice that everything has freakin’ changed! Well, you voted for change, right? Choosing a layout for this site has driven me crazy. When I discovered the single column layout for my WordPress theme, it was like Hosanna! Yeah! FREEDOM! I’m sure the cleanliness is jarring [...]

I am writing this post using my iPhone – how awesome is that? No 140 character limit and no laptop just the free app for WordPress for iPhone and a quick admin update to allow XML publishing and I am untethered, bad and nationwide. Transitioning from rare article publications to life-streaming, at least on my [...]

Tonight while talking with a client, I questioned her goal to earn $3-5 Million dollars in the next few years. What was driving her to that number? She mentioned growing up poor, and how she had always felt that a lot of money in the bank would allay the fear that quiet threat might cause. [...]

(scroll down and start the Elvis Costello music video – it makes a good audio backdrop to this story) It’s a quarter til midnight. It’s 18 degrees f and the inch-er-so of snow that fell last night in Denver squeaks and gives just a little under your tennis shoes. Mom and Dad and the SUV [...]