Disclosure
Harbinger asks Apple which guests secure iTunes homepage placement
“I call Apple and I go, hey, who would you like to see me interview? I've got these ideas and who can you, who would you put on the front page of iTunes? And they give me a list out of that list. And then I call those people's PR or have my, I have my people ca…”
Opinion
Harbinger: North Korea is safe from crime for tourists, but not politically safe
“It's a very safe place for tourists because all the criminals are dead. They're breaking rocks and gulags somewhere. It's not safe politically”
Insight
Harbinger: Technical knowledge is a commodity compared to high-value networks
“Knowledge is essentially a commodity, even at the highest levels. I mean, some of it's esoteric, some of it's harder to gain than others, and some of it's gained through experience. But at the end of the day, there's always going to be a larger pool of those p…”
Insight
Harbinger: Unwritten social rules allow interrupting someone mid-sentence to introduce yourself
“We have this sort of weird societal unwritten rule that introductions kind of always trump anything else that's going on in a conversation, because If you don't introduce yourself, it's weird, and if you don't know who you're talking to, it's also weird. So yo…”
Opinion
Harbinger: 99% of the pickup artist industry is cynical internet marketing
“Once you meet those guys in real life and you find out that 99% of what they do is internet marketing and they don't really care about helping people, it pisses you off.”
Insight
Harbinger: Bad Podcasting Harms Authors Rather Than Helping Their Book Sales
“If you're an author and you start a podcast and you freaking suck at it, like a lot of them do, all the editing in the world is not going to make you more interesting, unfortunately, and there's a lot of authors that are not that interesting other than when th…”
Opinion
Harbinger: Tim Ferriss works at least 40 hours a week
“The guy who wrote the four hour work week works at least 40 hours a week, I would say.”
Insight
Harbinger: Those claiming abundant passive income are coasting, broke, or lying
“People who tell you they're doing that are either not making that much money, they've made money, then they're costing on it, or they're full of crap, and usually it's some mix of those three things.”
Assertion Supported
Harbinger: Obtaining North Korean visas for Americans is easy and completely legal
“It's easy for me to get an American, a visa to North Korea. It's a snap. It's a snap, and it's completely legal.”
Insight
Harbinger: First impressions happen upon entering a room, not introducing oneself
“Your first impressions were made when you walked into the room, not when you decided to introduce yourself.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Harbinger: The Art of Charm invested $30,000 into stolen digital IP
“Oh, the guys stole it for, and it was worth that much. We had invested 30 grand.”
Disclosure
Harbinger: The Art of Charm generates multiple seven figures in revenue
“I'm going to pull a Ramit Sethi and not tell you the exact number, but I will say multi, multi, multi, seven figures.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Harbinger: The Art of Charm is booked out four to six months
“Now it's eight guys every single week, seven or eight guys every single week, For four months, six months in advance, depending on the season, were booked out completely.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Harbinger: The Art of Charm has 800k downloads, ranks among top iTunes shows
“Yeah, we, right now, I think we've got like, 800,000. We're one of the largest shows in iTunes.”
Disclosure
Harbinger: Art of Charm Live Bootcamps Cost $4,000 to $8,000
“They range from four to 8000. And we're raising prices this summer, but yeah.”
Disclosure
Harbinger built his initial audience by pitching blogs nightly for four months
“I stayed up till five a.m., probably for four straight months, during a summer, and I emailed every single blog I could find. And probably low double digits or low or high double digits, low three digit number of blogs were like, sure. And they linked to us an…”
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