If you’ve been at all curious about signing up for Teaching Sells now is the time. Brian Clark and Tony Clark are closing the doors to new members at the end of July, a little more than a week from now.
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A few Decembers ago I was feeling the holiday spirit and decided to wish all my clients a happy holiday season. One day after Christmas and before New Year’s I sent each a short, personal email offering some season greetings. It was my first year in business so my client list wasn’t exactly huge and in less than an hour I had sent out some holiday cheer.

A funny thing happened.
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Baseball is an allegorical play about America, a poetic, complex, and subtle play of courage, fear, good luck, mistakes, patience about fate, and sober self-esteem.
—Saul Steinberg

Watching Major League Baseball’s All Star game last night I couldn’t help but think about all the lessons baseball teaches us that can be applied to blogging, marketing, business, and life in general. No other game (at least none I’m aware of) truly translates its teachings beyond the game.
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Legally, the registrant of a domain owns it. If you’re listed as your domain’s registrant you do own your domain. However for all practical purposes it’s the person listed as the domain’s admin who has all the control. A quick story will illustrate the point and show the danger of not being listed as your domain’s administrative contact.
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• Anything worth remarking upon.
• Remarkable is better, different, unique, opposed, original – to the nth degree.
• The further away you get from the standard, from the accepted, from the norm, from the status quo, from the ordinary, the more remarkable you are.
• You can be remarkably good and you can be remarkably bad.
• Remarkable doesn’t mean success. Success doesn’t require remarkable. But both often come hand in hand.
• Remarkable is not easy. Remarkable is not safe.
• Remarkable gathers attention to itself.
• Remarkable stands out, stands in front of, and stands apart from.
• If no one is talking about it, it isn’t remarkable.
• Remarkable is only remarkable in comparison to that which is not remarkable.
• A black and white cow is not remarkable. A purple cow is remarkable. A purple cow in a field of purple cows is not remarkable. A black and white cow in a field of purple cows is remarkable.

Are you remarkable? Is your blog remarkable? Can you become remarkable? What do you find remarkable? What does remarkable mean to you?