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Fabricating Controversy for Publicity and 3 More Powerful Marketing Lessons I learned from Houdini

Fabricating Controversy for Publicity and 3 More Powerful Marketing Lessons I learned from Houdini

I’m at the airport in Houston, waiting for my connecting flight back to Portland (after spending a few days talking about book marketing in Cleveland). Since I can’t get much work done on the road, I just watched the new Houdini mini-series starring Adrien Brody. It shows Houdini in a mostly sympathetic light: he’s a

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