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Ep. 459: Tucker Max Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

Posted on by Michael Covel
Tucker Max
Tucker Max

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My guest today is Tucker Max, an American author and public speaker. He chronicles his drinking and sexual encounters in the form of short stories on his website TuckerMax.com, which has received millions of visitors since Max launched it as the result of a bet in 2000.

The topic is writing a book.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio:

  • Marketing positioning
  • Selling to your audience
  • Finding your niche
  • Writing a book

“If you just want to make crap to sell crap then you are not for us.” – Tucker Max

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Ep. 343: Ryan Holiday Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

Posted on by Michael Covel
Ryan Holiday
Ryan Holiday

My guest today is Ryan Holiday, an American author, writer, and marketer. He is the media strategist behind authors Tucker Max and Robert Greene, the former Director of Marketing for American Apparel and an editor-at-large for the New York Observer.

The topic is writing a book.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

  • Always being in a research mindset
  • Why some people don’t take advantage of standing on the shoulders of the giants that came before them
  • To know where you’re going and to have a plan when it comes to writing; why it’s “all material”
  • The idea of listening to the same song over and over again
  • The “flow” state and its importance in writing
  • The importance of having a purpose in your writing
  • Discipline and commitments
  • Outsourcing and hiring experts for your writing project

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Ep. 232: Tucker Max Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

Posted on by Michael Covel
Tucker Max
Tucker Max

My guest today is Tucker Max, an American author and public speaker. He chronicles his drinking and sexual encounters in the form of short stories on his website TuckerMax.com, which has received millions of visitors since Max launched it as the result of a bet in 2000.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

  • Covel and Max talk about their first meeting, and Max’s brutally honest advice to Covel
  • Diet and nutrition
  • The NCAA, college athletics, exploitation, the media, and having to ‘beat’ the system
  • Marginal cost and marginal product
  • Entrepreneurial thinking and Max’s early career
  • Max’s experience in marketing
  • Protecting your independence
  • Christopher Hitchens
  • Facing rejection in publishing, and how rejection is part of success
  • How success only teaches you to repeat what you did before, and failure forces you to think
  • What drives Max today
  • How the landscape has changed in regards to authors
  • The fight for authority and trust in the publishing world
  • What motivates Tucker Max today–the quality of relationships you have with other people, and what you do that matters to others

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