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The Likeable Expert Podcast — 458 episodes

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It's *Not* in the Knowing

2

Are You Solving the Right Problem?

3

Gym Dandy

4

Give More to Get More

5

Forest Gumped

6

Most Things Don't Matter

7

Bear Necessities

8

Impersonal Personalization

9

I Scream for Ice Cream

10

Nonobvious Pricing

11

Broken Newsletter Stats

12

The Sound of One Hand Marketing (7/11/25)

13

Shake It Up

14

Should I Stay or Should I Go?

15

Late Night Lessons

16

Artificial (Lack Of) Intelligence (5/16/25)

17

Nobody Buys Process

18

Some Guys Have All The Luck

19

Beauty and the Beast

20

Passion Is A Nice-To-Have

21

Lessons From Eleven Newsletters

22

Mind the Gap

23

Lessons From a Dishwasher

24

Give More to Get More

25

Choice Is Overrated

26

Judged By Our Judgement

27

A Simple Writing Fix

28

Total Recall

29

Time Is On My Side

30

A Puzzling Situation

31

Game Time

32

Eye of the Hurricane

33

Very Superstitious

34

AI Denialism

35

Find Your Sweet Spot

36

Solo Rules Are Different Rules

37

At Home On the Range

38

3 Ways You Are Better Than A.I.

39

Freeze Frame

40

Three Wrong Things

41

Color-Coded Marketing

42

Predictable Unpredictability

43

Your Marketing Shortcut

44

Wautomation

45

Off the Beaten Path

46

You're Fixing the Wrong Thing

47

The Sports Bra

48

Be Like Mike

49

In Trust We Trust

50

Chain Gang

51

Free Prize Inside

52

The World According to You

53

Hard Habit to Brake

54

Take Advantage of Your Advantage

55

Stand-Up, and Be Counted

56

Insight Beats Information

57

What a Difference a Difference Makes

58

The 80% Solution

59

In the Summertime

60

Godzilla Wants Your Job

61

Counting Crows

62

Different Rules, Different Tools

63

The Curse of Knowledge

64

Simply *Not* the Best

65

Why Newsletters Fail

66

The Time Is Now

67

Trust-Based Marketing

68

Language Lab Lessons

69

I Hear You Knocking

70

Not So Risky Business

71

Too Small to Fail

72

I *NOT* Robot

73

Reverse Healing

74

Off-Peak Performance

75

One-Armed Bandit

76

Should You Speak For Free?

77

Ice Ice Baby

78

Lessons From King Henry

79

Coffee Shop Marketing

80

What I Learned at the Ballpark

81

Running for Safety

82

Get Off the Marketing Couch

83

3 Ideas for Throwing Shade

84

How Does Your Garden Grow?

85

The Heart of the Matter

86

Hold On to Your Business

87

A Snail Mail Tail

88

A Hard Habit to Break

89

How I Write This Newsletter

90

Simply the Best

91

Lines in the Marketing Sand

92

Add Meat to Your Bones

93

Shower The People

94

Don't Do These 2 Things

95

Crystal Blue Persuasion

96

Profanity in Your Newsletter?

97

The Bigness of Smallness

98

Different is Better Than Better

99

Rekindle Your Newsletter

100

Voices Carry

101

Katz Got Your Tongue

102

Is Your Overlap Lacking?

103

Their Marketing Does Not Apply to You

104

Everything is Marketing

105

Pricing Isn't Just About Price

106

Make Your Stories Better

107

Lessons From 500 Newsletters

108

It's Good To Be King

109

Goldilocks Newsletters

110

What's Your Value Imbalance

111

I Hate You The Least

112

Winning the Content Game

113

Don't Launch That Podcast Yet

114

Lessons From a Toaster

115

It Ain't The Meat, It's The Motion

116

3 Things That are Wrong With Your Newsletter

117

What I Don't Know About Brewing Beer

118

The Cold Truth

119

Big Things, Small Packages

120

Car Talk

121

Communication Complication

122

Rythm Method

123

The Bird Illusion

124

A Close Shave

125

Questions Are The Answer

126

In a Pickle

127

Give Up The Funk

128

Photo Phinish

129

Fire Up Your Business

130

Unearth-a Your Inertia

131

Isn't It Ironic

132

Emotional Rescue

133

What To Say Now

134

Cuo-Mojo

135

Where's the Opportunity?

136

Connecting The Dots

137

Feelings

138

2020 Vision

139

What Stand-Up Comedy Taught Me

140

Juggling Act

141

Three Pieces of Bad Advice

142

Skid Row

143

Hit 'Em Where They Ain't

144

Who's Making Your Rules?

145

Pen-Ultimate Marketing

146

Good Clients Don't Just Happen

147

The Joke's On You

148

It's Not Me, It's You

149

Georgia On My Mind

150

Beantown

151

Lost in Translation

152

Beer Glass Marketing

153

Sleep Your Way to the Top

154

Lessons From a Stand Up

155

All Niches Are Not Created Equal

156

Sell Less, Earn More

157

The Magic of Free Information

158

Food For Thought

159

Big Plans, Small Steps

160

What Are You Waiting For?

161

People Are Strange When You're a Stranger

162

Bear Necessities

163

The NO Big Bang Theory

164

Happy Birthday to NAME

165

Closing Is Not Selling

166

A Blast From The Past

167

*NOT* Free Falling

168

Park Yourself in Harvard Yard

169

The Friendship Illusion

170

Right Question, Wrong People

171

(Hand) Shake Up Your Presentations

172

Rocky Mountain Low

173

Information Underload

174

Almost Heaven

175

Reduce the Fear of Buying

176

Demand, To Be Heard

177

I Got That Sunshine In My Pocket

178

Squashing the Intangibles

179

Is Your Cart Before Your Horse?

180

Does Your Difference Make a Difference?

181

One Day At A Time

182

Wrestling With Reality

183

Who's Got The Power

184

My Achy Breaky Back

185

Are you a Bank or a Gas Station?

186

What's Your Super Power?

187

What Are You Banking On?

188

The World's Greatest Marketing Tool

189

You Delight Up My Life

190

For What Do You Stand?

191

Hiding in Plain Sight

192

Do Your Rules Still Make Sense?

193

The Nature of the Beast

194

Remarkable You

195

Happy Birthday To Me

196

Going Postal

197

Blurred Lines

198

To Xfinity and Beyond

199

Cover of the Rolling Stone

200

What LeBron James Can't Teach You

201

The Heart of the Matter

202

How Ample Is Your Sample

203

I Can See Clearly Now

204

Be More Likeable, Get More Clients

205

The Benefits of Going Off Script

206

Icemaker, Icemaker, Make Me Some Ice

207

Bio-Luminescence

208

Weather, Or Not?

209

Expert Is, As Expert Does

210

The Year's At Its End; It's Time To Push Send

211

Silver Bullet Blues

212

Are You Solving The Wrong Problem?

213

Are You Making It Hard For Me To Hire You?

214

Aeration Complication

215

Do Your Prospects Trust You? Try This.

216

Stand-Up, And Be Remembered

217

Is Your Writing Evergreen? I hope not.

218

Are You Running on Empty?

219

Roomba Has It

220

The Sound of 1,000 Golfers

221

Rinse And Repeat

222

Are You White House Bound?

223

The Iceman Winith

224

Schmuck-Based Marketing

225

Can You Hear Me Now?

226

Familiarity Breeds Profit

227

Write Once; Share Often

228

You Talking To Me?

229

How to Avoid the Delete Key

230

Hunger Games

231

It's Marketing, Not Reality

232

Chocolate Covered Marketing

233

Dog Day Afternoon

234

Why The Things You Write Have No Impact

235

Simple Simon Says, Do This

236

Leader Of The Pack

237

Rules of Engagement

238

What I Learned At the Supermarket

239

Be Of Good Cheer

240

Fly The Friendly Skies

241

Is Your Bang Too Big?

242

Tell More To Sell More

243

3 Ice Cream Lessons

244

3 Pretty Good Marketing Ideas

245

Why Your Business Needs to Repeat. To Repeat.

246

Look Who's Talking (About You)

247

How Much Is Too Much

248

Waiter or Doctor... Which One Are You?

249

Good Enough For Good Enough

250

Care To Make It Interesting?

251

In The Mood

252

Acing The Negative Stress Test

253

Are You Afraid of the Wrong Thing?

254

What Kind of Work Do You Do?

255

What's Your Secret Weapon

256

Who's Your Perfect Client?

257

Timing Is Everything

258

Tall Tales of Marketing

259

Bagel and Goliath

260

Why Your Writing Gets No Traction

261

I'm All About That Pace

262

Every Little Thing You Do Is Magic

263

Two Holes in Your Marketing

264

Small Is The New Big

265

There's No "Q" in Penguin

266

Niche Craft

267

What Problem Do You Solve?

268

Are You Hiding In Your House?

269

Ask And You Shall Receive

270

To Click or Not To Click

271

Dancing the Marketing 4-Step

272

Less is Less

273

Staying Alive, Staying Alive

274

Are You Wasting Your Competitive Advantage?

275

Hooked on Profits

276

It's Good to be King

277

Solo Professionals, Start Your Engines

278

Let It Snow

279

Why Your Selling Isn't Working

280

How to be More POPE-ular

281

Media Schmedia

282

Dependently Wealthy

283

Gaming The System

284

Random Acts of Clients

285

If You're Within the Sound of My Voice

286

That's The Way You Do It

287

A Hairy Adventure

288

Does Whatever a Spyder Can

289

Blinded by the Right

290

Hoop Dreams

291

Every Story Tells a Picture

292

Water World

293

Marathon Man

294

In the Nick of Time

295

Remember The Alamo

296

Boogie Nights

297

Are You Smarter Than a Golden Retriever?

298

What's in Your Tool Chest?

299

Give The Gift of You

300

Is Your Ice Too Nice?

301

Raise Some Panda-Monium

302

Let's Get Physical (Therapy)

303

Running on Empty

304

Anywhere But Inbetween

305

Low Cost + High Value = Good News

306

Call Me Maybe

307

A Life Sentence

308

Blinded By The (Technology) Light

309

Are You Playing the Wrong Game?

310

Bieber Madness

311

Share Your Way to More Sales

312

Must Love Movies

313

Play To Your Audience

314

No Things Being Equal

315

Match Point

316

Bark In The Dark

317

You Better Shop Around

318

Reach Out and Touch Someone

319

Play In Your Sweet Spot

320

What's On Your Menu?

321

Eyes Wide Shut

322

Try Not To Do This

323

Embrace Your Inner Springsteen

324

A Random Writing Recipe

325

My Unfair Advantage

326

Singing In The Rain

327

Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?

328

Do You Seem Familiar

329

What A Difference A Difference Makes

330

Unwritten Rule of E-Newsletters

331

No Way Out

332

To Baldly Go Where No Man Has Gone Before

333

You've Got a Friend

334

What's This About?

335

Share Your Backstory

336

Taken To The Cleaners

337

Failure to Launch

338

Hairy Party To You

339

Yawn Care

340

Bank Job

341

Claim Your Oscar

342

A Get Rich Slow Scheme

343

Reptile Dysfunction

344

Play To The Referee

345

Bold In The Cold

346

Cones In The Road

347

Be More Arnold

348

Knock, Knock, Knockin' on Readers' Doors

349

Truth or Marketing?

350

Running From Safety

351

School Daze

352

The Value Of Repetition. Repetition.

353

The Story Behind The Story

354

(Star)Bucking The Trend

355

Capture And Release

356

Mundane Marketing Magic

357

Got To Be There

358

Surviving The E-Newsletter Jungle

359

You Can Shake This World

360

Time Is On Your Side

361

Publish or Perish

362

Mom Likes Me Better

363

Are You College Material?

364

Loving Mr. Fix-It

365

Are You Too Impressive?

366

4 Elements of Better Writing

367

Life On The Rocks

368

Got Passion?

369

Oversimplified Marketing (12/04/09)

370

It Was Twenty Years Ago Today

371

Nowhere To Run, Nowhere To Hide

372

Barefoot Marketing

373

Tie-Shy Guy

374

How I Raised Open Rates By 25%

375

Kick Open Your Front Door

376

Panama Banal

377

Things That Go Thud in The Night

378

Stress Test Your E-Newsletter

379

Sister Act

380

Dirt Cheap Marketing

381

Is Your Visibility Visible?

382

Drive to Survive

383

Fix Your Biggest Problem

384

Toast of the Town

385

Ice Cream Marketing

386

Is Your Newsletter Tone Deaf?

387

What Problem Do You Solve?

388

Give-It-Away Marketing

389

The Iceman Leave-ith

390

Take a Chance on You

391

And The Winner Is...

392

Familiarity Breeds Clients

393

Apples and No Pie

394

3 Good Reasons To Publish Now

395

Return to Sender

396

Just a Little Human Touch

397

A Clean Shave

398

Born to Walk

399

Hanging by a Thread

400

Great Stories Make Great Newsletters

401

Happy Anniversary To Me

402

Writing to Win

403

Sold From The Start

404

Put Your Newsletter On "Shuffle"

405

Float Like A Butterfly

406

Curse of the Me-Newsletter

407

Almost Famous

408

I've Got A Crutch On You

409

Confidence Man

410

And The Oscar Goes To...

411

Follow The (Not) Bouncing Ball

412

Put Me In Coach

413

Good Marketing Means Having to Say You're Sorry

414

What Steve Martin Knows About E-Newsletters

415

Old Guy Marketing

416

Unleashing Your Kitchen Magician

417

3 Tips To Make Writing Easier

418

Make The Water Wetter

419

Starting at the Finish Line

420

Take Me Out Of The Ball Game

421

My Old School

422

Piercing the Truth

423

Night of the Living Newsletter

424

The Noise of Summer

425

3 Ideas for Helping Your Readers

426

Is Your E-Newsletter E-ssential?

427

I Need You To Need Me

428

Say 'No' To The Wrong Clients

429

Speak Now, Or Forever Be Deleted

430

Is My Sister Smarter Than A Monkey?

431

The Client is in The Details

432

Shout Softly to Gain Attention

433

Plan Less, Connect More

434

Why Newsletter Layout Matters

435

A Convenient Truth

436

Eyes On The Prize

437

Michael Jordan's Got Nothing On You

438

Can Your Business Come Out To Play?

439

Stray The Course

440

Are You Being (Self) Served?

441

Simply Put. . . Simple Sells

442

Want More Clients?… Get More Vision

443

4 Must Haves for an Effective E-Newsletter

444

Lose the Act; Gain the Client

445

If I Had a Million Readers

446

Flash Your Insight

447

Sweet Home On The Market

448

Why I Like Country Music

449

Handling Negative Reader Feedback

450

American Idle

451

Running To The Finish Line

452

I Walk The Line

453

The Road(s) To Success

454

Lost In Translation

455

Signal Your Intentions

456

An Unexpected Gift Goes A Long Way

457

Take Your Foot Out Of Your Word Of Mouth

458

Take Me To The River