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Will Staunton

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1 year

@girdley Classic Girdley, subtweeting his kids

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Will Staunton

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9 months

Turns out this @girdley character knows a ton about buying businesses! So if you're searching, don't start from scratch. We worked really hard on this course. It's great stuff. Zero fluff. Major kudos to Michael, @TyDeemer , and @dlitztv !

Michael Girdley

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9 months

Everyone I know trying to buy a business has this problem: Finding a good business to buy. It’s not surprising. The advice out there now simply doesn’t work in today’s reality. You see it in the results: Many hunt for 12-18 months and never find a deal. It’s sad. – I’ve

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An alternative proposal to the Eiffel Tower was a 900-ft tall guillotine. Key Business Insight: Good branding is forward-looking, not stuck in the past.

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1 year

One of the displays at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair was a gigantic wheel of cheese from the Dominion Experimental Dairy Station in Perth, Ontario. It was so heavy that the floor immediately collapsed when they set it up. Where have all the Experimental Dairy Stations gone?

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1 year

SMB Twitter is always saying: "The French Revolution has no lessons I can use to inform my business measurement strategy!" Guess what! They're totally wrong! The French literally created the metric system. Here are 3 KEY METRIC INSIGHTS we can learn from them:

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Will Staunton

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1 year

In 919, Henry, Duke of Saxony, was made king of East Francia, but was nowhere to be found. It took several days to find him, out in a distant swamp, laying traps for ducks. As such, he is now known to history as "Henry the Fowler". (1/2)

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Will Staunton

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9 months

@girdley @SamShepler Wait, is it still under NDA that you're starring in Dune? I thought the secret was out

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Will Staunton

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11 months

@Molson_Hart @girdley @TyDeemer @haydenjcohen HEY WAIT WHERE AM I ON THIS LIST

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Will Staunton

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10 months

@girdley @jcolesimpson @AustinLinney That's a good summary! We pull content from Michael's Twitter, courses, podcasts, and new ideas that come up all the time. I polish it up into the final product you read. And weekly strategy meetings w/ Girdley Media CEO @TyDeemer ).

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1 year

In 1896, the Love-Me-Littles (the Queen's University women's hockey team) were not allowed to wear pants. So the goalies sewed weights into the hems of their skirts to stop the puck. Key Strategy Insight: Don't wear pants to stop other people achieving their goals.

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Will Staunton

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9 months

@charliewrich @girdley @TyDeemer @dlitztv This went from a "Fearless" day to a "Lover" day

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10 months

@girdley @charliewrich @TyDeemer Quick Michael! Evergreen content is trending right now!

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Will Staunton

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1 year

Two experts outstanding in their fields. Fields that are very far apart. #meticulously #curated #lists

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1 year

From Stephen Budiansky's bio of Sir Francis Walsingham, "Her Majesty's Spymaster". Also how incredibly British for the national archives to have a currency converter that goes back to 1270: £3,000 from 1550:

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Will Staunton

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1 year

Is it a hard and fast rule that first tweets suck? Glad that's out of the way then.

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Will Staunton

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11 months

@girdley Isn't there one... something like, "Tastes Like Chicken", by Michael somebody or other?

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Will Staunton

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9 months

@dklineii @girdley We were hoping to have the time machine download ready too, but no luck, Sorry Dave!

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Will Staunton

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8 months

@girdley @WilsonCompanies @TyDeemer @dlitztv Any video with you laughing for 15 seconds straight is a good one in my books.

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Will Staunton

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1 year

NB: This is not my original research. It’s just that @TheRestHistory ’s episode “The Real Da Vinci Code” was so good I found myself taking notes to keep it straight. I figured I’d share!

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Will Staunton

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9 months

I never understood the whole "most books could be a blog post" idea until I looked at the business section.

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9 months

One of my early regrets in business: Thinking that non-fiction books were the best way to learn about the way the world is. Specifically, devouring random "pop biz" books by the dozen with some new method or manifesto. Better choice: 10% hardcore biz books, memoirs, and

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Will Staunton

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@Molson_Hart @girdley @TyDeemer @haydenjcohen @girdley if you're flashing people on tiktok we should probably have a company meeting about that

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Will Staunton

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9 months

@girdley As a totally unbiased source, this course looks amazing

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Will Staunton

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1 year

3. Successful measurement needs buy-in It took about 100 years (apt!) for most of France to actually adopt the metric system. From 1812-1840 the gov. compromised with "mesures usuelles" -- metricized versions of existing units. People got used to it. And then it was law.

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Will Staunton

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@girdley "After Dinner Stories", with Michael Girdley. Love it.

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11 months

@dklineii @girdley Must be good conclusions!

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Will Staunton

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1 year

@EverestBrady @girdley @joshuamschultz Thanks! We're having fun with it. And Michael has no shortage of existing material to draw on!

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Will Staunton

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1 year

Today I learned the "Max PSI" on your car tires is NOT what you should inflate them to. Instead check the sticker inside the driver side door. I'm gonna call a mulligan for my last 18 years of driving. KEY BIZ TIP: Even if something looks obvious, you might still be wrong.

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Will Staunton

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1 year

The "real story" of The Da Vinci Code is a hilarious (and surprisingly shallow) historical dive of regular people just trying to make a buck. Dan Brown has said 99% of the history is true. Let's see where it actually comes from. **Spoiler alerts for the Da Vinci Code, I guess?

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Will Staunton

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10 months

Classic literature is full of KEY BUSINESS INSIGHTS, e.g.: If you find yourself in 1850s rural France, do NOT extend a line of credit to any Madames named Bovary. She's NOT good for it.

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Will Staunton

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9 months

In addition to Excalibur, King Arthur carried a lance named Ron. KEY BUSINESS TIP: A cool name is more memorable than "Ron". (Sorry Rons.)

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@girdley "Small Business Owner Providing Employee Services Under Comprehensive & Exclusive Employment Contract" Brilliant

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Will Staunton

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9 months

@WillStern_ @charliewrich Derivative Thought Guy is available

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Will Staunton

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1 year

@girdley @michaelmrush Thanks @michaelmrush ! Good stuff to consider.

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Will Staunton

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1 year

(2/2) Key Business Takeaway: only ever be doing things that will sound cool, in case someone, somewhere, is making you a king. It may become your nickname for the next 1,104 years. (Is "Fowler" cool? I can't decide. The homonym isn't flattering.)

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Will Staunton

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@Patticus I used it to remove timestamps from a video transcript. It seemed frustrated.

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Will Staunton

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1 year

@girdley Looks perfect to me

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Will Staunton

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1 year

Key Biz Tip: Cheese is bad for fish, so best kept out of rivers. This concludes my hard-hitting trilogy of mammoth cheese insights.

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1 year

In the summer of 1976, North Korea killed two US Army officers who were cutting down a tree in the Demilitarized Zone. Three days later, the US & South Korea tried again, this time bringing a "show of force". Here's what they meant by "show of force":

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Will Staunton

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1 year

@girdley @TeffDotTech I'll run your D&D campaign, Girdley!

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1 year

@girdley @SpiritofPines @TyDeemer Oh didn't we mean trillion Michael? Must be a typo

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Will Staunton

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1 year

Key Business Insight: The best time to prune trees is actually between November and March, when trees are less susceptible to insects or disease. If, however, the entity pruning the tree is the US Army, let them go ahead.

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1 year

KMT 6: If it ain't broke... Buckle up, ad world: this market-proven banger of a jingle is in the public domain. I think we'll be hearing a lot of "Tiddy dol, tol drol, tiddy dol, tol dol, tiddy, tiddy dol" in the next few ad cycles.

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@girdley @_robyn_smith @acquanon @BillDA @thegeneralmills We are legion 🇨🇦

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Will Staunton

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8 months

@ClintFiore The big question: are you lip taping after Breath?

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Will Staunton

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1 year

@girdley @AKASpencerScott Excellent! Can I put you down for 1,000 t-shirts a month, Spencer?

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Will Staunton

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9 months

@girdley @mikemcln @businessbarista Official Girdley Media affiliate link →

Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business

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Will Staunton

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@Molson_Hart @girdley Appreciate it Molson. Thanks for the insights. We're definitely chewing on this stuff for website 2.0 I'm going to be that 2nd guy on some interviews soon. It also gives me time to warm up my psionic powers and mindread them

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Will Staunton

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1 year

@_robyn_smith Thanks! I know we were all thinking it, I just decided to finally speak up

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Will Staunton

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1 year

I am concerned I may have accidentally created non-stupid business insights instead of stupid ones. Apologies.

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1 year

(2/2) Business insight: Don't appear to die in front of your investors — they might see an opportunity. From Peter Ackroyd's "London: the Concise Biography" (the "concise" may be misleading).

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9 months

@girdley Go team! Thanks Michael!

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10 months

@AustinLinney @girdley Glad you're into them you sicko

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Will Staunton

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11 months

@KirkNewcombe @girdley @thepifdaddy From May 2nd to Oct 2nd, it was only 2.18%! Seems like more, but that could just be their generous portion size.

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Will Staunton

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1 year

@JonathanDrake @girdley Thanks Jonathan!

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Will Staunton

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1 year

@girdley @DenconMedia Title of your book Michael!

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Will Staunton

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9 months

@chrissundberg @MainStSummit @EverestBrady Interested! I hope this will be Actionable Fiction with only stories about Growth Hacking and Repeatable Playbooks.

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1 year

@JadenFeddock @girdley Yep, WP plus Elementor.

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Will Staunton

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1 year

In 612BC, attackers destroyed Nineveh and burned the palace, wanting to wipe it from history. Instead, the flames baked the clay tablets inside, making them "among the best preserved documents from thousands of years of Mesopotamian history." Key Biz Tip: Keep clay records

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Will Staunton

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1 year

Key Branding Tip: To advertise to olden-times people, just add more words. Modern, efficient (gross): @StephenKing , On Writing (2000): "Kill your darlings." Old-timey, loquacious (splendiferous): @SirArthurQuiller_Couch , On the Art of Writing (1916):

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Will Staunton

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@EverestBrady At least this Ron has magical powers! (Also in the book I read it was just "Ron", Rhongomyniad is objectively cooler.)

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1 year

@girdley @JonathanDrake Yep! This one, with the narrow focus, is one of our best-converting landing pages. Some people will sign up and unsubscribe right away, but if they get value from the guide, that's great! (And maybe they'll come back later...)

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Key Marketing Tip: Use novelty sizing. In 1866, dairy farmers in Ingersoll, Ontario, made a colossal 7,000lb wheel of cheese and toured it across North America and Europe. It was a huge success. The next year, they got 300,000 orders from Britain alone.

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Will Staunton

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1 year

Oh is Sir Arthur not on Twitter? Shoot.

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Will Staunton

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1 year

@girdley @therobertleonar @franchisewolf @krokitHQ Right!

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On New Year's Day, 1802, Thomas Jefferson was presented with a "Mammoth cheese" by a Baptist congregation from Massachusetts. As of March 1804, the cheese was still uneaten and described as "very far from being good". Some say it was later dumped in the Potomac river.

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Will Staunton

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9 months

@reggaj @girdley 100%, grandmas are the perfect target demo for this course Also tailored for nanas, babas, and omas

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Thomas Edison was so into concrete he sabotaged himself. He designed concrete chairs, cupboards, pianos, and "a mold of a complete house ... not just walls and floors, but every interior structure—baths, toilets, sinks, cabinets, door jambs, even picture frames." 1/3

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@mdpatrick @girdley It might behave differently if you've already used the form? I'll take another look. Appreciate you flagging it!

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1 year

@GregKamradt @girdley @TyDeemer Thanks for the insights, Greg!

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Happy Saturday! Here are 4 Key Business Insights from the life and gruesome end of Charles the Bad, King of Navarre (1332-1387) 🧵

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@p_millerd @AlexAndBooks_ Wait, is the popular consensus now that he writes bad books? I'm out of date!

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@girdley @LION_Seller @MehtabKarta This took me my whole two weeks so far

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9 months

@AnthonyVicino So THAT's why nobody at work wants to hear my D&D campaign recaps...

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@girdley @BoozeBreath @Molson_Hart Good call Molson. Here's a bunch, we can use these later: 🧵🧵🧵🧵🧵🧵🧵🧵🧵🧵🧵🧵🧵🧵🧵🧵🧵🧵🧵🧵🧵🧵🧵🧵🧵🧵🧵🧵

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@Capital4Value @girdley Michael, I think we need to talk about the riffraff in your Twitter audience

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@itstylermcgee @girdley @X Love to hear that! We're just under 30k!

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David Ogilvy said, “You aren’t advertising to a standing army; you are advertising to a moving parade.” But it seems like you should let those old-timey guys focus on riding their enormous bicycles?

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@NeelBParekh @girdley I guess we have minimum viable product then! Thanks for subscribing.

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@girdley Course guarantee: "Hair grows back or you get a refund!"

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"If you build it, they will come" - ❌False! These Roman camps have been sitting in plain sight since about 106AD. But with $0 in marketing spend, it took archaeologists nearly two thousand years to find them. Key Biz Tip: Always invest in promotion.

Researchers identify three Roman camps in Arabia

Oxford archaeologists make a "spectacular" new find of Roman military camps in Arabian desert.

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@achtera @girdley Yep!

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@deepakvenkatesh @girdley @Steele_Jake On the flip side, sometimes it meant he was writing just to fill words... Like many of the books on that shelf above!

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We’d better wrap this up with some KEY BIZ TIPS 1. Don’t sell masses you don’t say—you might get rich 2. Buried treasure gets customers in the door 3. It’s easier to sneak things INTO an archive than out 4. Don’t believe everything you read 5. The Da Vinci Code is 100% true

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@girdley @asmartbear @TyDeemer @WillStaunton Yeah this is one we may revisit as we develop our game plan further! Great thoughts Jason, thanks!

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@girdley Does the opposite work when you're underwhelmed?

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@girdley ""If you want to improve, you must be content to be thought foolish and stupid. - Epictetus" - Ryan Holiday's daily quote app

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@girdley @RobertMSterling Definitely!

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In 18th C London, a man collapsed in a gentlemen's club. "The club immediately made bets whether he was dead or not, and when they were going to bleed [try to revive] him, the wagerers for his death interposed, and said it would affect the fairness of the bet." (1/2)

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@bradford_hardin @girdley I guess we're done then? Pool time, Girdley?

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@girdley @TyDeemer @dlitztv Go team! Couldn't ask for a better crew.

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@Capital4Value @girdley Us St_ntons have to stick together

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KBI 4: Context is everything. It's usually fine for a seamstress to burn off loose threads with a candle. But if your doctor orders you "wrapped up from head to foot, in a linen cloth impregnated with brandy"... Consider alternatives.

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@p_millerd @AlexAndBooks_ Oh, too bad - I was enjoying thinking about one day reading Moneyball (but never actually doing it) Maybe I'll catch him on the next cycle

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@buccocapital Serious Monty Python vibes

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At the Battle of Crécy (1346), a sudden rainstorm soaked the bowstrings of the French and they couldn't shoot. Instead of trying to shoot, the English unstrung their bows and put the strings under their hats until the rain stopped. (1/2)

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@msmeganweiss @girdley @msmeganweiss DM me and I can send it to you!

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Layer 9: A fortune a-massed The priest of Rennes-le-Chateau got hold of a directory of clergymen. He wrote offering to say masses for them, and got so much business he stopped bothering to say them at all (but still got paid). He was defrocked for “trafficking in masses”.

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So he spices things up. (Layer 6) He rebrands the priory as an ancient order founded by a crusading knight in 1099. He forges historical documents and sneaks them into the national archives. And, surprise surprise, he makes the destined Emperor of Europe… Himself.

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@girdley Sorry boss, I'll include the Chili's coupons next time

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Sourced from @TheRestHistory 's great series on the 100 Years' War, Barbara Tuchman, and, of course, Wikipedia.

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