My 2 cents:

When the student is ready, the teacher appears. The teacher may have
been there all the time - but her/ his revealed seeds of knowledge can
only grow once the soil is ready - until then it may well look like a stumbling stone…truth and value are results more than causes.

Snobby, cryptic nonsense?

Here’s what I mean:

You don’t even need to know Gina to stay far away from mistaking
her to be asking anyone to become arrogant or a snobby.

So the question that remains is whether Gina is (from my perspective)
wrong in really believing you have to write “snobby” to achieve you
goal (call it money for now) - or if she’s being the great teacher (that
she is) in creating the necessary verbal opposite to our minds out of
their dusty, small rooms of littleness and allow for a re-definition of
our voice.

Doesn’t the mind compare to a pendulum, in that the only way for it
to find it’s way from one unhealthy extreme to it’s own balanced middle,
the only chance it has is to first swing openly towards the other extreme?

It’s our choice. We’re the students in this instance. We’re choosing
whether we are facing a great teacher or just someone we disagree with.

This for a fact is true - unless I’m wrong

Happy day!

Raam

Take it from someone whose blog is aptly named,

Sam Freedom’s Internet

Marketing Controversy Blog.

It is going to be so very important to make a clear distinction between the

snobbishness mentioned in your original post and the “controversy” referred

to by Terry Dean in the follow up comment.

I agree with Terry.

No heat; no cake. Friction can be both profitable, but most importantly it

has to be fun. The controversy has to take on an air of light cockiness but

an EMBRACING kind that Terry aptly describes as “confident” - not arrogant.

But arrogance is what I think of when I hear the word “snobby” or read some

of the names you mentioned in the original post.

Take a few minutes and read my “cocky” article where I refer to Gary

Ambrose’s “Picklemania” - we both know the guy could probably use a little

kick in the pants sometimes but, in 1994-ish, I learned, at a “Rainbow

Gathering”, that you don’t cut off your foot because it stinks….

…all these guys, snobby or not, have contributed something marvelous, and

of value, to the internet marketing community. It’s really all like one big

happy, growing family - even if it is a bit dysfunctional at times!

Cocky/Confident/Lightly Controversial - YES.
Snobby/Arrogant - NO.

Your friend,
Sam
ps. Good post! Good topic!;-)

Sam