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The James Altucher Show

James Altucher and Ryan Holiday: Let’s Make the News Up

The James Altucher Show

James Altucher

Education, Business

4.62.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2014

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

This week, James Altucher interviews the bestselling author of Trust Me I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator Ryan Holiday., James and Ryan talk about what makes a book a best-seller, and how to market yourself and your work. Ryan tells us what it means to be a media manipulator. In a world where blogs control and distort the news, his job was to control blogs - as much as any one person can. And he does this better than anyone else... ------------What do YOU think of the show? Head to JamesAltucherShow.com/listeners and fill out a short survey that will help us better tailor the podcast to our audience!Are you interested in getting direct answers from James about your question on a podcast? Go to JamesAltucherShow.com/AskAltucher and send in your questions to be answered on the air!------------Visit Notepd.com to read our idea lists & sign up to create your own!My new book, Skip the Line, is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever books are sold!Join the You Should Run for President 2.0 Facebook Group, where we discuss why you should run for President.I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltuchershow.com------------Thank you so much for listening! If you like this episode, please rate, review, and subscribe to "The James Altucher Show" wherever you get your podcasts: Apple PodcastsiHeart RadioSpotifyFollow me on social media:YouTubeTwitterFacebookLinkedIn See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0

I somehow managed to get James Altature to co-host again, James, how you doing today?

0:17.1

Great, Aaron.

0:18.1

I'm always excited to co-host here whenever poor is out of town.

0:22.4

Just give me a call and I'm ready to go.

0:24.6

Well, we appreciate it and I know our listeners do as well.

0:26.6

We always receive rave reviews whenever you're on.

0:30.4

Today we'll be interviewing Ryan Holiday.

0:32.2

I know he's one of your friends.

0:33.5

Many of our listeners may not recognize the name,

0:35.8

but anyone familiar with the internet will know his work.

0:39.0

James, tell us a little bit about Ryan.

0:42.0

Well, first off, Ryan is like eight years old.

0:45.6

He's like one of the youngest marketing experts I've ever met.

0:49.2

And seriously, he's somewhere in his mid to young 20s.

0:53.2

But he was the head of marketing for American apparel

0:56.2

when he was like 19 years old.

0:58.0

He's done all the marketing for Tucker Maxx's books.

1:00.6

I don't know if you know Tucker Maxx, he wrote.

1:02.4

Of course.

1:03.4

I hope they serve beer and hell, which was the best seller.

1:06.0

Ryan's done the marketing for Tim Ferriss's books.

1:08.6

So Tim Ferriss wrote the four hour week body.

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