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Sunday, September 30, 2012
SPI 046 : Building a Lucrative Business with No Ideas, No Expertise & No Money with Dane Maxwell
In this session of The Smart Passive Income Podcast, I invited Dane Maxwell from The Foundation to come onto the show and chat with us about his approach to building an online business, one that doesn’t include the need to become an expert in any particular niche (what?!), any money or start up funds (double [...]
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How to take your ROI metrics to the next level
I’ve seen a lot of different approaches to measuring the return on marketing investment. Everything from basing it on “gut feeling” (yes, I’ve literally had executives tell me that they’re rather do that as opposed to relying on hard metrics even though the metrics were readily obtainable with a bit of effort and investment) to [...]
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How to use your calendar to boost your marketing productivity
Anyone who’s ever worked with me or for me knows that I’m not particularly fond of meetings. Especially if they’re unproductive. I’m the kind of guy that’s always asking for a few minutes back towards the end of a meeting if we’ve already worked through all of the key agenda items. I also encourage my [...]
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Why I?ll Be Using LeadPlayer to Play ALL of My Videos
Today, I’m going to introduce you to a new WordPress plugin that I’ve been testing here on the blog for the past month called LeadPlayer. It’s one of the most creative and best plugins I’ve had the pleasure of installing on SPI. But before I get to the plugin and exactly what it does, there’s [...]
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Remember that internet marketing is still in its infancy
My first thought as brainstormed ideas for this week’s post was to write a counter-point to the guest post that Branko wrote over at Aaron’s blog. After all, I make no secret of the fact that I’m refusing to jump on the “Google is evil/a monopoly/ the Death Star in disguise” bandwagon. Google has certainly [...]
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SPI 044 : How to Win With Your Email List (Part 1 of 2)
In this session of The Smart Passive Income Podcast, I’ll be sharing my thoughts about email lists – specifically why they are absolutely crucial for any online business or brand to have, how to start building one and what you can do to maximize the number of subscribers who sign-up for your list. This particular [...]
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5 Ways Your Competitors Can Help You Get More Sales
The old school of thought is that you need to beat your competition to succeed. But that very thought may be doing more harm than good to your web business. Why? Because times have changed. ...
Source: http://www.incomediary.com/5-ways-your-competitors-can-help-you-get-more-sales
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Blogger Profile: How Neil Patel Makes Millions with Quick Sprout
For a part-time blogger, Neil Patel is pretty successful.
Patel?s main focus is KISSmetrics, a mid-sized company that helps businesses track important online metrics. His business and marketing blog, Quick Sprout, is really more of a side project.
But that hasn?t stopped Quick Sprout from exploding in popularity and earning Patel recognition as a Top 100 Technorati Blogger. I?ll profile Neil Patel below and explain how Quick Sprout helps him earn a million dollars a year even though turning a profit was never part of the plan.
Patel?s main focus is KISSmetrics, a mid-sized company that helps businesses track important online metrics. His business and marketing blog, Quick Sprout, is really more of a side project.
But that hasn?t stopped Quick Sprout from exploding in popularity and earning Patel recognition as a Top 100 Technorati Blogger. I?ll profile Neil Patel below and explain how Quick Sprout helps him earn a million dollars a year even though turning a profit was never part of the plan.
Source: http://www.incomediary.com/blogger-profile-how-neil-patel-makes-millions-with-quick-sprout
Saturday, September 29, 2012
How to keep your marketing fundamentals sharp by volunteering
One of the few downsides of moving up the ranks in the enterprise marketing space is the gradual distancing that occurs between the more technical aspects of optimization and your day-to-day responsibilities. I don’t get to perform keyword research or craft title tags or adjust bids or A/B test subject lines or suggest ad creative [...]
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Powerpoint is sometimes a marketer?s best friend
If you’ve ever been to a marketing conference – or any major conference or convention for that matter – you already know that not all Powerpoint presentations are made equally. Some are very bland, boring, and by the book. Others come alive with imagery, humor, and a compelling storyline while serving as a springboard for [...]
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My Monthly Income Report ? August 2012
Welcome to my August 2012 Monthly Income Report! This post is special because it’s the first post I’ve published on SPI since becoming a father of two! Our baby daughter was born last week, a couple weeks early, but she and mommy are doing very well. Thank you all for the best wishes and support! [...]
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It Really Is a Google World and We Are All Just Living in It
Aaron Wall has done similar posts for years. But in pulling a couple of screenshots for Local University Advanced on Thursday, this one for "pizza" really struck me.
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A Computer
The brain to technology interface.
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How to take your ROI metrics to the next level
I’ve seen a lot of different approaches to measuring the return on marketing investment. Everything from basing it on “gut feeling” (yes, I’ve literally had executives tell me that they’re rather do that as opposed to relying on hard metrics even though the metrics were readily obtainable with a bit of effort and investment) to [...]
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10 Business Lessons From Some Of Historys Greatest Criminal Entrepreneurs
Many criminals are also entrepreneurs. They work in some of the most competitive and high pressure trades where the opportunities for profit are immense but so too are the risks. So what can we learn ...
Source: http://www.incomediary.com/10-business-lessons-from-some-of-historys-greatest-criminal-entrepreneurs
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How to trim the long-tail fat from your paid search program
Let’s face it. Enterprise paid search advertising is a big mess of big data. A lot of the manual techniques that can be used to optimize small to medium-sized paid search programs are simply not scalable when you’re dealing with thousands upon thousands of individual keywords and ad groups. This is especially true when it [...]
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Powerpoint is sometimes a marketer?s best friend
If you’ve ever been to a marketing conference – or any major conference or convention for that matter – you already know that not all Powerpoint presentations are made equally. Some are very bland, boring, and by the book. Others come alive with imagery, humor, and a compelling storyline while serving as a springboard for [...]
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Friday, September 28, 2012
Why I?ll Be Using LeadPlayer to Play ALL of My Videos
Today, I’m going to introduce you to a new WordPress plugin that I’ve been testing here on the blog for the past month called LeadPlayer. It’s one of the most creative and best plugins I’ve had the pleasure of installing on SPI. But before I get to the plugin and exactly what it does, there’s [...]
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The revolution of enterprise marketing leadership will not be televised
Something that has always amazed me over the past half-decade or so is the obvious disparity between the makeup of marketing thought leadership on social networks and blogs versus the makeup of marketing executive leadership at enterprise brands. If I had to guess, I’ve probably interacted closely with hundreds of enterprise brands, and more often [...]
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Why search is about a heck of a lot more than just marketing
I never cease to be amazed by search marketers that: a) complain about the Powers That Be (e.g. Google, etc.) b) chase algorithms c) operate in utter and complete search vacuum (or worse yet an “SEO only” or “paid search only” vacuum) The first one freaks me out because there are so many other moral/ethical [...]
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Reader Challenge Round Up: Interviews and the Next Challenge
Part of my�responsibility�here on SPI is to not only give you the best information possible, but to encourage you to take action as well. One of the ways I love to do that is through my�reader challenges, where I challenge you to do something specific that I know will help you and your online business. [...]
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Reader Challenge Round Up: Interviews and the Next Challenge
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Blogger Profile: Seth Godin and The World?s Weirdest Marketing Blog
How do you know when you?ve made it big online?
Here's one answer: when you search your first name on Google and you?re the top result.
It?s no surprise that the #1 result for ?seth? is the Seth Godin?s marketing blog. The site receives about 600,000 visitors per month and consistently ranks near the top of Ad Age?s Power 150 (a daily ranking of marketing blogs).
Godin?s blog is successful because it?s weird. It?s a ?purple cow? ? a term he popularized that describes ?something phenomenal, something counterintuitive and exciting and flat out unbelievable.?
Below, I?ll break down what Godin?s doing that?s so phenomenal, counterintuitive, and flat out unbelievable.
Here's one answer: when you search your first name on Google and you?re the top result.
It?s no surprise that the #1 result for ?seth? is the Seth Godin?s marketing blog. The site receives about 600,000 visitors per month and consistently ranks near the top of Ad Age?s Power 150 (a daily ranking of marketing blogs).
Godin?s blog is successful because it?s weird. It?s a ?purple cow? ? a term he popularized that describes ?something phenomenal, something counterintuitive and exciting and flat out unbelievable.?
Below, I?ll break down what Godin?s doing that?s so phenomenal, counterintuitive, and flat out unbelievable.
Source: http://www.incomediary.com/blogger-profile-seth-godin-and-the-worlds-weirdest-marketing-blog
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SPI 046 : Building a Lucrative Business with No Ideas, No Expertise & No Money with Dane Maxwell
In this session of The Smart Passive Income Podcast, I invited Dane Maxwell from The Foundation to come onto the show and chat with us about his approach to building an online business, one that doesn’t include the need to become an expert in any particular niche (what?!), any money or start up funds (double [...]
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Think of social media influencers as your customers
With every passing year, the topic of “social media influencers” gains momentum. Back in the day – as in back before the phrase “social media” even existed – reaching out and subsequently building a network of relationships with key influencers like bloggers, fan site owners, and forum administrators was almost exclusively the domain of niche [...]
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10 Questions from Distilled SearchLove
As you’ll see in a future post this week, I’ll be speaking at two Distilled events this coming fall–SearchLove London and SearchLove Boston. �As a unique part of their “initiation process,” they had a pretty extensive questionnaire. �Given how sparse my posting has been this summer & the fact that there aren’t any tremendous secrets [...]
Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mihmorandum/~3/0rHnxwvqaac/
Reader Challenge Round Up: Interviews and the Next Challenge
Part of my�responsibility�here on SPI is to not only give you the best information possible, but to encourage you to take action as well. One of the ways I love to do that is through my�reader challenges, where I challenge you to do something specific that I know will help you and your online business. [...]
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Reader Challenge Round Up: Interviews and the Next Challenge
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The revolution of enterprise marketing leadership will not be televised
Something that has always amazed me over the past half-decade or so is the obvious disparity between the makeup of marketing thought leadership on social networks and blogs versus the makeup of marketing executive leadership at enterprise brands. If I had to guess, I’ve probably interacted closely with hundreds of enterprise brands, and more often [...]
Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/hugoguzman/~3/6cLRjzExy78/
Advanced Pinterest Marketing Strategies for Dominating Web Traffic
Pinterest has been the best source of traffic for my website in a very long time, and I’m completely in love with it. In this post, I’m going to walk you through the process I ...
Source: http://www.incomediary.com/advanced-pinterest-marketing-strategies-for-dominating-web-traffic
Thursday, September 27, 2012
Why search is about a heck of a lot more than just marketing
I never cease to be amazed by search marketers that: a) complain about the Powers That Be (e.g. Google, etc.) b) chase algorithms c) operate in utter and complete search vacuum (or worse yet an “SEO only” or “paid search only” vacuum) The first one freaks me out because there are so many other moral/ethical [...]
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Reader Challenge Round Up: Interviews and the Next Challenge
Part of my�responsibility�here on SPI is to not only give you the best information possible, but to encourage you to take action as well. One of the ways I love to do that is through my�reader challenges, where I challenge you to do something specific that I know will help you and your online business. [...]
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Reader Challenge Round Up: Interviews and the Next Challenge
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Think of social media influencers as your customers
With every passing year, the topic of “social media influencers” gains momentum. Back in the day – as in back before the phrase “social media” even existed – reaching out and subsequently building a network of relationships with key influencers like bloggers, fan site owners, and forum administrators was almost exclusively the domain of niche [...]
Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/hugoguzman/~3/3T3KtEfKa0c/
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How to trim the long-tail fat from your paid search program
Let’s face it. Enterprise paid search advertising is a big mess of big data. A lot of the manual techniques that can be used to optimize small to medium-sized paid search programs are simply not scalable when you’re dealing with thousands upon thousands of individual keywords and ad groups. This is especially true when it [...]
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Local Search Ecosystem: Fall 2012 Update
Obviously this space changes pretty quickly…all that work I put into updating this graphic earlier in the Spring�had a gaping hole in it by the time summer rolled around, thanks to the impending arrival of Apple Maps. �Whether Apple knows what it’s getting into with Local�remains to be seen…hopefully they’ve got a pretty flexible database [...]
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It Really Is a Google World and We Are All Just Living in It
Aaron Wall has done similar posts for years. But in pulling a couple of screenshots for Local University Advanced on Thursday, this one for "pizza" really struck me.
Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mihmorandum/~3/a-PyD8ain_A/
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5 Ways Your Competitors Can Help You Get More Sales
The old school of thought is that you need to beat your competition to succeed. But that very thought may be doing more harm than good to your web business. Why? Because times have changed. ...
Source: http://www.incomediary.com/5-ways-your-competitors-can-help-you-get-more-sales
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10 Reasons Why You Suck at Social Media
Writing about how to dominate your social media, and pointing out where you’re going wrong, are two very different subjects altogether. There’s plenty of information on this website that will help your with your social ...
Source: http://www.incomediary.com/10-reasons-why-you-suck-at-social-media
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Learn how to test and reject your own marketing intuition
I had an interesting experience at the office today. My SEO lead was working with my paid search lead to pull together some paid search keyword conversion data that we plan on leveraging to prioritize SEO efforts. One of the keywords that showed up on this particular report was “epilator.” I’d never heard of this [...]
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Local Search Ranking Factors, Vol. 5
Welcome to Year Five of the Local Search Ranking Factors survey. It's always a total thrill to compile the opinions of the world's top experts in Local Search Marketing and be the first one to see these experts' collective opinions about what's working and what's not in the world of Local Search.
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My Monthly Income Report ? August 2012
Welcome to my August 2012 Monthly Income Report! This post is special because it’s the first post I’ve published on SPI since becoming a father of two! Our baby daughter was born last week, a couple weeks early, but she and mommy are doing very well. Thank you all for the best wishes and support! [...]
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Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Why You Shouldn?t Get Bent Out of Shape About Siri Rankings (Yet)
Siri, and by extension Apple Maps, is a hot topic these days. With good reason. But I think it's important to take a step back and not fall victim to "shiny object syndrome," as SEO's (including your humble author) so often do. But the number of questions I get, and chatter that I see, about Siri seems to be way out of proportion. What should that proportion be?
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The Apple Maps Ecosystem
I was so excited by my sneak preview of Mat Siltala‘s “Yelp and Siri Optimization” presentation for Local University Advanced at SMX East today that I was inspired to put this infographic together.� Incidentally, we are down to only five seats remaining for that session, so if you have been on the fence, today’s a [...]
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10 Questions from Distilled SearchLove
As you’ll see in a future post this week, I’ll be speaking at two Distilled events this coming fall–SearchLove London and SearchLove Boston. �As a unique part of their “initiation process,” they had a pretty extensive questionnaire. �Given how sparse my posting has been this summer & the fact that there aren’t any tremendous secrets [...]
Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mihmorandum/~3/0rHnxwvqaac/
Why You Shouldn?t Get Bent Out of Shape About Siri Rankings (Yet)
Siri, and by extension Apple Maps, is a hot topic these days. With good reason. But I think it's important to take a step back and not fall victim to "shiny object syndrome," as SEO's (including your humble author) so often do. But the number of questions I get, and chatter that I see, about Siri seems to be way out of proportion. What should that proportion be?
Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mihmorandum/~3/Wh2blXNsox0/
Blogger Profile: How Matt Inman of The Oatmeal Built a $500k Blog
Some bloggers toil for years trying to get noticed. Others, like Matthew Inman of The Oatmeal, attract five million monthly readers before their blog?s first birthday.
Below, I?ll profile Matthew Inman, tell the story of how he started The Oatmeal, and how he?s turned it into a $500,000 per year online business.
Below, I?ll profile Matthew Inman, tell the story of how he started The Oatmeal, and how he?s turned it into a $500,000 per year online business.
Source: http://www.incomediary.com/blogger-profile-how-matt-inman-the-oatmeal-built-500k-blog
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It Really Is a Google World and We Are All Just Living in It
Aaron Wall has done similar posts for years. But in pulling a couple of screenshots for Local University Advanced on Thursday, this one for "pizza" really struck me.
Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mihmorandum/~3/a-PyD8ain_A/
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Ultimate Guide: How to Make a Successful Kickstarter Campaign
How do artists, inventors, and entrepreneurs raise money for their big ideas?
Increasingly, the answer is crowdfunding. As the Internet becomes a faster, friendlier, and better-connected place, it has never been easier to raise large amounts of money online.
Kickstarter is the website leading the pack. Since launching in April 2009, 26 million people have joined Kickstarter, together pledging over $328 million dollars to 28,000 projects. Though it?s only available in The United States so far, Kickstarter recently announced that they?ll be expanding to the UK in fall 2012.
Increasingly, the answer is crowdfunding. As the Internet becomes a faster, friendlier, and better-connected place, it has never been easier to raise large amounts of money online.
Kickstarter is the website leading the pack. Since launching in April 2009, 26 million people have joined Kickstarter, together pledging over $328 million dollars to 28,000 projects. Though it?s only available in The United States so far, Kickstarter recently announced that they?ll be expanding to the UK in fall 2012.
Source: http://www.incomediary.com/ultimate-guide-how-to-make-successful-kickstarter-campaign
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SPI 046 : Building a Lucrative Business with No Ideas, No Expertise & No Money with Dane Maxwell
In this session of The Smart Passive Income Podcast, I invited Dane Maxwell from The Foundation to come onto the show and chat with us about his approach to building an online business, one that doesn’t include the need to become an expert in any particular niche (what?!), any money or start up funds (double [...]
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My Monthly Income Report ? August 2012
Welcome to my August 2012 Monthly Income Report! This post is special because it’s the first post I’ve published on SPI since becoming a father of two! Our baby daughter was born last week, a couple weeks early, but she and mommy are doing very well. Thank you all for the best wishes and support! [...]
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Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Blogger Profile: Seth Godin and The World?s Weirdest Marketing Blog
How do you know when you?ve made it big online?
Here's one answer: when you search your first name on Google and you?re the top result.
It?s no surprise that the #1 result for ?seth? is the Seth Godin?s marketing blog. The site receives about 600,000 visitors per month and consistently ranks near the top of Ad Age?s Power 150 (a daily ranking of marketing blogs).
Godin?s blog is successful because it?s weird. It?s a ?purple cow? ? a term he popularized that describes ?something phenomenal, something counterintuitive and exciting and flat out unbelievable.?
Below, I?ll break down what Godin?s doing that?s so phenomenal, counterintuitive, and flat out unbelievable.
Here's one answer: when you search your first name on Google and you?re the top result.
It?s no surprise that the #1 result for ?seth? is the Seth Godin?s marketing blog. The site receives about 600,000 visitors per month and consistently ranks near the top of Ad Age?s Power 150 (a daily ranking of marketing blogs).
Godin?s blog is successful because it?s weird. It?s a ?purple cow? ? a term he popularized that describes ?something phenomenal, something counterintuitive and exciting and flat out unbelievable.?
Below, I?ll break down what Godin?s doing that?s so phenomenal, counterintuitive, and flat out unbelievable.
Source: http://www.incomediary.com/blogger-profile-seth-godin-and-the-worlds-weirdest-marketing-blog
Ultimate Guide: How to Make a Successful Kickstarter Campaign
How do artists, inventors, and entrepreneurs raise money for their big ideas?
Increasingly, the answer is crowdfunding. As the Internet becomes a faster, friendlier, and better-connected place, it has never been easier to raise large amounts of money online.
Kickstarter is the website leading the pack. Since launching in April 2009, 26 million people have joined Kickstarter, together pledging over $328 million dollars to 28,000 projects. Though it?s only available in The United States so far, Kickstarter recently announced that they?ll be expanding to the UK in fall 2012.
Increasingly, the answer is crowdfunding. As the Internet becomes a faster, friendlier, and better-connected place, it has never been easier to raise large amounts of money online.
Kickstarter is the website leading the pack. Since launching in April 2009, 26 million people have joined Kickstarter, together pledging over $328 million dollars to 28,000 projects. Though it?s only available in The United States so far, Kickstarter recently announced that they?ll be expanding to the UK in fall 2012.
Source: http://www.incomediary.com/ultimate-guide-how-to-make-successful-kickstarter-campaign
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How to take your ROI metrics to the next level
I’ve seen a lot of different approaches to measuring the return on marketing investment. Everything from basing it on “gut feeling” (yes, I’ve literally had executives tell me that they’re rather do that as opposed to relying on hard metrics even though the metrics were readily obtainable with a bit of effort and investment) to [...]
Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/hugoguzman/~3/0bIMcZM36bc/
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A Computer
The brain to technology interface.
Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Cliconomics/~3/hHewYE7PgHQ/
traffic generation online business models adsense placement keyword generating tool
5 Ways Your Competitors Can Help You Get More Sales
The old school of thought is that you need to beat your competition to succeed. But that very thought may be doing more harm than good to your web business. Why? Because times have changed. ...
Source: http://www.incomediary.com/5-ways-your-competitors-can-help-you-get-more-sales
The revolution of enterprise marketing leadership will not be televised
Something that has always amazed me over the past half-decade or so is the obvious disparity between the makeup of marketing thought leadership on social networks and blogs versus the makeup of marketing executive leadership at enterprise brands. If I had to guess, I’ve probably interacted closely with hundreds of enterprise brands, and more often [...]
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It Really Is a Google World and We Are All Just Living in It
Aaron Wall has done similar posts for years. But in pulling a couple of screenshots for Local University Advanced on Thursday, this one for "pizza" really struck me.
Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mihmorandum/~3/a-PyD8ain_A/
How to keep your marketing fundamentals sharp by volunteering
One of the few downsides of moving up the ranks in the enterprise marketing space is the gradual distancing that occurs between the more technical aspects of optimization and your day-to-day responsibilities. I don’t get to perform keyword research or craft title tags or adjust bids or A/B test subject lines or suggest ad creative [...]
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Syncing Your Google Plus and +Local Pages: Plusses and Minuses
I’m not necessarily saying anyone�should do this right now, as the implications of syncing / switching over completely to a Google +Local page are still unclear. �But, since I have virtually stopped taking on new clients for my consulting business in order to focus the vast majority of my time on GetListed, I decided to [...]
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How to keep your marketing fundamentals sharp by volunteering
One of the few downsides of moving up the ranks in the enterprise marketing space is the gradual distancing that occurs between the more technical aspects of optimization and your day-to-day responsibilities. I don’t get to perform keyword research or craft title tags or adjust bids or A/B test subject lines or suggest ad creative [...]
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10 Business Lessons From Some Of Historys Greatest Criminal Entrepreneurs
Many criminals are also entrepreneurs. They work in some of the most competitive and high pressure trades where the opportunities for profit are immense but so too are the risks. So what can we learn ...
Source: http://www.incomediary.com/10-business-lessons-from-some-of-historys-greatest-criminal-entrepreneurs
Monday, September 24, 2012
How To Sleep Deeper, Wake Up Earlier & Become Superhuman
“Mom? 5 more minutes” sound familiar? I love to sleep. In fact, I love to sleep so much I think this is the main reason I got out of the military and eventually started my own business. I am one of those people that set their alarms earlier just so I can hit snooze three or four times? at least I was. Is Snooze Slowly Killing You? Maybe “kill” is too strong of a word, or maybe it’s not. But let’s define killing you. Have you ever noticed when you hit snooze you wake up more tired, get less done, have a foul attitude towards life, and are generally just not at your peak performance? Have you noticed this effects your business, fitness, and most importantly your relationships? Or the fact that you get the recommended allowance of 7 to 9 hours recommended by just about everyone? but never feel [...]
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How To Sleep Deeper, Wake Up Earlier & Become Superhuman
“Mom? 5 more minutes” sound familiar? I love to sleep. In fact, I love to sleep so much I think this is the main reason I got out of the military and eventually started my own business. I am one of those people that set their alarms earlier just so I can hit snooze three or four times? at least I was. Is Snooze Slowly Killing You? Maybe “kill” is too strong of a word, or maybe it’s not. But let’s define killing you. Have you ever noticed when you hit snooze you wake up more tired, get less done, have a foul attitude towards life, and are generally just not at your peak performance? Have you noticed this effects your business, fitness, and most importantly your relationships? Or the fact that you get the recommended allowance of 7 to 9 hours recommended by just about everyone? but never feel [...]
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SPI 045 : How to Win With Your Email List (Part 2 of 2)
In this session of The Smart Passive Income Podcast we continue the discussion about email lists and how to win with them. In about 2 years, I’ve been able to quickly grow a list of 35,000 subscribers, encourage an email open rate of 50 and 70% (the industry standard is typically 20% or less) and [...]
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SPI 045 : How to Win With Your Email List (Part 2 of 2)
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Reader Challenge Round Up: Interviews and the Next Challenge
Part of my�responsibility�here on SPI is to not only give you the best information possible, but to encourage you to take action as well. One of the ways I love to do that is through my�reader challenges, where I challenge you to do something specific that I know will help you and your online business. [...]
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How to Write Epic Blog Posts that Rank Well
I started writing for Income Diary one year ago.
Through 34 posts, I?ve learned a lot about writing great online content ? particularly content that ranks well with search engines. I?m proud to say that many of my articles show up on Google?s front page (for terms like ?great thoughts? and ?Steve Jobs life lessons?).
I?m here to share with you what I know about doing just that. You too can write epic blog posts that rank on Google?s front page for popular keywords.
Through 34 posts, I?ve learned a lot about writing great online content ? particularly content that ranks well with search engines. I?m proud to say that many of my articles show up on Google?s front page (for terms like ?great thoughts? and ?Steve Jobs life lessons?).
I?m here to share with you what I know about doing just that. You too can write epic blog posts that rank on Google?s front page for popular keywords.
Source: http://www.incomediary.com/how-to-write-epic-blog-posts-that-rank-well
Think of social media influencers as your customers
With every passing year, the topic of “social media influencers” gains momentum. Back in the day – as in back before the phrase “social media” even existed – reaching out and subsequently building a network of relationships with key influencers like bloggers, fan site owners, and forum administrators was almost exclusively the domain of niche [...]
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Ultimate Guide: How to Make a Successful Kickstarter Campaign
How do artists, inventors, and entrepreneurs raise money for their big ideas?
Increasingly, the answer is crowdfunding. As the Internet becomes a faster, friendlier, and better-connected place, it has never been easier to raise large amounts of money online.
Kickstarter is the website leading the pack. Since launching in April 2009, 26 million people have joined Kickstarter, together pledging over $328 million dollars to 28,000 projects. Though it?s only available in The United States so far, Kickstarter recently announced that they?ll be expanding to the UK in fall 2012.
Increasingly, the answer is crowdfunding. As the Internet becomes a faster, friendlier, and better-connected place, it has never been easier to raise large amounts of money online.
Kickstarter is the website leading the pack. Since launching in April 2009, 26 million people have joined Kickstarter, together pledging over $328 million dollars to 28,000 projects. Though it?s only available in The United States so far, Kickstarter recently announced that they?ll be expanding to the UK in fall 2012.
Source: http://www.incomediary.com/ultimate-guide-how-to-make-successful-kickstarter-campaign
Follow-up Study: The Best Citation Sources by Category
I'm excited to announce a follow-up to the last GetListed.org/Whitespark.ca study (Best Citation Sources by City) this morning: the Best Citation Sources by Category for U.S. businesses. As with the previous study, Darren and I used his Local Citation Finder tool and looked at some of the most common keywords within 70 local search categories across 53 large US cities, 20 medium-sized cities, and 20 smaller cities. We then scored the sites inversely based on ranking position combined with overall number of occurrences. The sites that appeared most often and with the highest rankings were deemed ?best? within each category.
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Blogger Profile: How Neil Patel Makes Millions with Quick Sprout
For a part-time blogger, Neil Patel is pretty successful.
Patel?s main focus is KISSmetrics, a mid-sized company that helps businesses track important online metrics. His business and marketing blog, Quick Sprout, is really more of a side project.
But that hasn?t stopped Quick Sprout from exploding in popularity and earning Patel recognition as a Top 100 Technorati Blogger. I?ll profile Neil Patel below and explain how Quick Sprout helps him earn a million dollars a year even though turning a profit was never part of the plan.
Patel?s main focus is KISSmetrics, a mid-sized company that helps businesses track important online metrics. His business and marketing blog, Quick Sprout, is really more of a side project.
But that hasn?t stopped Quick Sprout from exploding in popularity and earning Patel recognition as a Top 100 Technorati Blogger. I?ll profile Neil Patel below and explain how Quick Sprout helps him earn a million dollars a year even though turning a profit was never part of the plan.
Source: http://www.incomediary.com/blogger-profile-how-neil-patel-makes-millions-with-quick-sprout
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10 Business Lessons From Some Of Historys Greatest Criminal Entrepreneurs
Many criminals are also entrepreneurs. They work in some of the most competitive and high pressure trades where the opportunities for profit are immense but so too are the risks. So what can we learn ...
Source: http://www.incomediary.com/10-business-lessons-from-some-of-historys-greatest-criminal-entrepreneurs
Think of social media influencers as your customers
With every passing year, the topic of “social media influencers” gains momentum. Back in the day – as in back before the phrase “social media” even existed – reaching out and subsequently building a network of relationships with key influencers like bloggers, fan site owners, and forum administrators was almost exclusively the domain of niche [...]
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Sunday, September 23, 2012
How to ?Evolve? Your Income and Build Your Business the Charles Darwin Way
One of the principle ideas of Smart Passive Income is that small changes can add up to big wins. For example�adding an opt-in form to your About Page�or simply finding the optimal price for your product.� These smart changes take just a few minutes but can lead to big time results.� Identifying the small tweaks [...]
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How to “Evolve” Your Income and Build Your Business the Charles Darwin Way
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How to trim the long-tail fat from your paid search program
Let’s face it. Enterprise paid search advertising is a big mess of big data. A lot of the manual techniques that can be used to optimize small to medium-sized paid search programs are simply not scalable when you’re dealing with thousands upon thousands of individual keywords and ad groups. This is especially true when it [...]
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Why I?ll Be Using LeadPlayer to Play ALL of My Videos
Today, I’m going to introduce you to a new WordPress plugin that I’ve been testing here on the blog for the past month called LeadPlayer. It’s one of the most creative and best plugins I’ve had the pleasure of installing on SPI. But before I get to the plugin and exactly what it does, there’s [...]
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Why I’ll Be Using LeadPlayer to Play ALL of My Videos
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Think of social media influencers as your customers
With every passing year, the topic of “social media influencers” gains momentum. Back in the day – as in back before the phrase “social media” even existed – reaching out and subsequently building a network of relationships with key influencers like bloggers, fan site owners, and forum administrators was almost exclusively the domain of niche [...]
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It Really Is a Google World and We Are All Just Living in It
Aaron Wall has done similar posts for years. But in pulling a couple of screenshots for Local University Advanced on Thursday, this one for "pizza" really struck me.
Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mihmorandum/~3/a-PyD8ain_A/
How to Get Your Business to Work for You Instead
Since posting my latest income report a week ago, I’ve been enjoying life offline, taking a bit of time off from my usual posting schedule to celebrate and spend time with the new addition to our family, our daughter, who entered this world only 10 days ago. She’s amazing. I’ve even taken some time off [...]
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How to Get Your Business to Work for You Instead
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The Road to 50,000 Subscribers
Last week, the Smart Passive Income Blog passed the 50,000 subscriber mark, a milestone that I never thought was possible when I started it back in 2008. It has truly been an amazing and humbling journey and I only have you to thank for it. I realize that there are several sites that have grown [...]
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The Road to 50,000 Subscribers
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My Monthly Income Report ? August 2012
Welcome to my August 2012 Monthly Income Report! This post is special because it’s the first post I’ve published on SPI since becoming a father of two! Our baby daughter was born last week, a couple weeks early, but she and mommy are doing very well. Thank you all for the best wishes and support! [...]
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My Monthly Income Report – August 2012
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Reader Challenge Round Up: Interviews and the Next Challenge
Part of my�responsibility�here on SPI is to not only give you the best information possible, but to encourage you to take action as well. One of the ways I love to do that is through my�reader challenges, where I challenge you to do something specific that I know will help you and your online business. [...]
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Reader Challenge Round Up: Interviews and the Next Challenge
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Blogger Profile: How Matt Inman of The Oatmeal Built a $500k Blog
Some bloggers toil for years trying to get noticed. Others, like Matthew Inman of The Oatmeal, attract five million monthly readers before their blog?s first birthday.
Below, I?ll profile Matthew Inman, tell the story of how he started The Oatmeal, and how he?s turned it into a $500,000 per year online business.
Below, I?ll profile Matthew Inman, tell the story of how he started The Oatmeal, and how he?s turned it into a $500,000 per year online business.
Source: http://www.incomediary.com/blogger-profile-how-matt-inman-the-oatmeal-built-500k-blog
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Internet Prophets, Social Media Marketing Podcast and More!
I’ve been working hard on my new book this week and I’m really excited to be making some good progress. I still have a long road ahead of me but I’m hoping to get the first draft finished before our baby daughter arrives sometime at the end of next month. Our firstborn was a month [...]
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Saturday, September 22, 2012
How to Write Epic Blog Posts that Rank Well
I started writing for Income Diary one year ago.
Through 34 posts, I?ve learned a lot about writing great online content ? particularly content that ranks well with search engines. I?m proud to say that many of my articles show up on Google?s front page (for terms like ?great thoughts? and ?Steve Jobs life lessons?).
I?m here to share with you what I know about doing just that. You too can write epic blog posts that rank on Google?s front page for popular keywords.
Through 34 posts, I?ve learned a lot about writing great online content ? particularly content that ranks well with search engines. I?m proud to say that many of my articles show up on Google?s front page (for terms like ?great thoughts? and ?Steve Jobs life lessons?).
I?m here to share with you what I know about doing just that. You too can write epic blog posts that rank on Google?s front page for popular keywords.
Source: http://www.incomediary.com/how-to-write-epic-blog-posts-that-rank-well
20% Local Intent Number Is 50% Too Low
Mike Blumenthal pointed me to a Wall Street Journal article this morning which mentions the oft-cited stat that 20% of all PC searches have Local Intent. I just have a quick comment that I've made to several people in meetings recently but don't think I've blogged about.
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Advanced Pinterest Marketing Strategies for Dominating Web Traffic
Pinterest has been the best source of traffic for my website in a very long time, and I’m completely in love with it. In this post, I’m going to walk you through the process I ...
Source: http://www.incomediary.com/advanced-pinterest-marketing-strategies-for-dominating-web-traffic
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How many enterprise marketers does it take to screw in a light bulb?
I decided to title this post using a cheesy old joke cliche, but the topic I want to discuss today is no laughing manner, especially if you’re work focuses around executing digital marketing strategy for a large brand. One of the nice things about working for (or owning) a start-up or mom-and-pop business is that [...]
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The revolution of enterprise marketing leadership will not be televised
Something that has always amazed me over the past half-decade or so is the obvious disparity between the makeup of marketing thought leadership on social networks and blogs versus the makeup of marketing executive leadership at enterprise brands. If I had to guess, I’ve probably interacted closely with hundreds of enterprise brands, and more often [...]
Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/hugoguzman/~3/6cLRjzExy78/
How To Sleep Deeper, Wake Up Earlier & Become Superhuman
“Mom? 5 more minutes” sound familiar? I love to sleep. In fact, I love to sleep so much I think this is the main reason I got out of the military and eventually started my own business. I am one of those people that set their alarms earlier just so I can hit snooze three or four times? at least I was. Is Snooze Slowly Killing You? Maybe “kill” is too strong of a word, or maybe it’s not. But let’s define killing you. Have you ever noticed when you hit snooze you wake up more tired, get less done, have a foul attitude towards life, and are generally just not at your peak performance? Have you noticed this effects your business, fitness, and most importantly your relationships? Or the fact that you get the recommended allowance of 7 to 9 hours recommended by just about everyone? but never feel [...]
Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Cliconomics/~3/yV1WJBknWVA/
Why I?ll Be Using LeadPlayer to Play ALL of My Videos
Today, I’m going to introduce you to a new WordPress plugin that I’ve been testing here on the blog for the past month called LeadPlayer. It’s one of the most creative and best plugins I’ve had the pleasure of installing on SPI. But before I get to the plugin and exactly what it does, there’s [...]
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Remember that internet marketing is still in its infancy
My first thought as brainstormed ideas for this week’s post was to write a counter-point to the guest post that Branko wrote over at Aaron’s blog. After all, I make no secret of the fact that I’m refusing to jump on the “Google is evil/a monopoly/ the Death Star in disguise” bandwagon. Google has certainly [...]
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10 Business Lessons From Some Of Historys Greatest Criminal Entrepreneurs
Many criminals are also entrepreneurs. They work in some of the most competitive and high pressure trades where the opportunities for profit are immense but so too are the risks. So what can we learn ...
Source: http://www.incomediary.com/10-business-lessons-from-some-of-historys-greatest-criminal-entrepreneurs
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Syncing Your Google Plus and +Local Pages: Plusses and Minuses
I’m not necessarily saying anyone�should do this right now, as the implications of syncing / switching over completely to a Google +Local page are still unclear. �But, since I have virtually stopped taking on new clients for my consulting business in order to focus the vast majority of my time on GetListed, I decided to [...]
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