There is a local guy in Chicago that writes a column for EPRAIRIE that has as strange as point of of view as me. I really enjoy his stuff. For example, this appeared in the latest Bill Snow Newsletter:

Shameless Self-Promotion
While I have half jokingly referred to myself as the king of shameless self-promotion, I am only a mere student compared to the true master, Barry Moltz. Barry, after all, has had his book published by a real publisher. You can go to Borders or Amazon.com and buy a copy of his book. My book was self-published, and you have to go to billsnow.com to obtain a copy. His book costs money and you can put it on your bookshelf. My book has typos and you have to print it on your own printer.

See the differences?

Anyway, Barry chimed in the following…

From: Barry Moltz

To: [email protected]

Subject: RE: Bill Snow Newsletter – August 17, 2004

Love it! Keep it going…can you include a blurb on my upcoming conference?
http://www.moltz.com/CrazySeminar.html

Just so no one misunderstands my use of the term, “shameless self-promotion,” I consider the term to be something positive. In business, especially in the entrepreneurship world, too many of us seem to be afraid of “asking for the business.” To ask for the business means you run the risk of sounding crass. Who the hell cares if the knee biters of the world think of you as crass? I’d rather be rich and crass than poor and polite. As a sage advisor once told me, “no matter what you do in life, you’re probably going to p*** off a quarter of the people you deal with. Don’t worry about it. If you try to get everyone to like you, you’ll probably end up p***ing off more than 25% of them.”