Posts Tagged as ‘book’

September 27, 2008

The Best Compliment A Bad Writer Can Get

I got one of the best compliments for my writing that I could possibly get a couple of days ago.  Not this blog (that hardly anyone reads anyway), but for my real book, the snappily titled Propertastic’s Complete Guide to Hurghada Property and Egypt’s Red Sea Real Estate.
I gave a copy away to a really [...]

September 26, 2008

Marketing Is Bollocks – How to Blag a Job in Marketing (Part Two)

This is, sadly, the last part of my half-arsed attempt at writing my first book – the second part of how to get ino the field of marketing.
I know, it’s pretty pathetic that I gave up after less than 5000 words.  But here it is anyway …
The route I used was by pretending that I [...]

September 25, 2008

Marketing Is Bollocks – How to Blag a Job in Marketing (Part One)

Finally you get to read a bit of the content from my half-arsed attempt at writing my first book, which didn’t even get as far as halfway through the first chapter before I completely lost interest in it.  Hopefully my boredom threshhold has grown a little wider since then.
So here is the first half of [...]

September 24, 2008

Marketing Is Bollocks – (A Little Too) Foreward

Some more from my book that never was too be (becaue I was just too lazy to get more than halfway through the first chapter).
This time it’s the Foreward.  In most cases, I don’t know why people write them.  I feel that, as if to get my money’s worth from a book, I should read [...]

September 23, 2008

Marketing Is Bollocks – The Ego Has Landed

Another (small) piece from the book I started about marketing.
After writing the blurb, I went straight on to write about my favorite subject – me.
A decade ago, this wasn’t half as interesting following the madness that happened over the next ten years, but this is what I wrote anyway…
About The Author
Having the attention span of a [...]