One Entrepreneur?s Journey to Selling a Website for $200,000

There are many success stories out there about people who have built websites and have sold them later for a large sum of money. I love these stories because each story is a little different, but the underlying themes are generally the same.� This is a guest post by Patrick Meninga who recently sold his [...]

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How To Win Friends & Influence People

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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 [...]

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Why traditional marketers are at a crossroads

I didn’t go to school for marketing. In fact, I never took as much as a single course in marketing during my college days. And in hindsight, that might have been a good thing. Why? Because with every passing day, I see some of the more traditional, subjective facets of marketing (what some refer to [...]

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Buyology

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My Fall 2012 Speaking Schedule

After taking a bit of a sabbatical this summer following our largest-ever Local University in Austin, Texas at the end of June, my speaking engagements this fall are ramping up in a hurry. �I’ve got five presentations currently scheduled during the six weeks between the end of September and beginning of November, plus a nice [...]

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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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How to use Google Webmaster Tools to check the dark underbelly of your site architecture

Every so often, Google Webmaster Tools adds a new wrinkle that makes life measurably easier for SEO leadership at large organizations. Index Status is one of those wrinkles. This nifty little feature�-�which was released this past summer but has gotten relatively little fanfare considering the profound insights and leverage it can provide – does two [...]

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The counter-intuitive nature of a strong social media strategy

I was going to put together a highly technical article to support my hypothesis, even going as far as to invoke shades of constructor theory, but then it hit me that’s its best to cover a counter-intuitive concept with a simply visual metaphor. Simply put, good social media marketing is a bit of a magic [...]

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Advertising Secrets

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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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20 Things to be Thankful for as an Online Entrepreneur

Every day of the year is a good day to be thankful.

People who feel grateful have ?more energy, more optimism, more social connections and more happiness than those who do not? according to a scientific study in the Wall Street Journal.

On that note, I would like to share with you the 20 things that I?m most thankful for as an online entrepreneur.

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Evergreen Traffic Formula

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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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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.

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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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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 ...

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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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How to use Google Webmaster Tools to check the dark underbelly of your site architecture

Every so often, Google Webmaster Tools adds a new wrinkle that makes life measurably easier for SEO leadership at large organizations. Index Status is one of those wrinkles. This nifty little feature�-�which was released this past summer but has gotten relatively little fanfare considering the profound insights and leverage it can provide – does two [...]

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The Millionaire Mind

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My Monthly Income Report ? October 2012

Welcome to my October 2012 monthly income report! Each month I write a detailed report about my online businesses ? what I?ve been up to, what?s working, what?s not, and how much and where my income is coming from. I create these reports for several reasons. First, they are here to help me keep track [...]

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What Would YOU Like to Ask Tim Ferriss?

I’m really excited to have Tim Ferriss, author of The 4-Hour Work Week, The 4-Hour Body and most recently, The 4-Hour Chef�as a guest on the upcoming session of The Smart Passive Income Podcast! His original book,�The 4-Hour Work Week, was a huge inspiration for me when I first started doing business online and it [...]

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The Sad Truth About Your Half-Finished Projects

Before I start this post, I just wanted to say thank you! The Smart Passive Income Podcast has been nominated in two categories for the 8th Annual Podcast awards! This is a HUGE deal and it would mean the world to me to win this�prestigious�award, but I need your help!!! Voting starts November 1st (today) [...]

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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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A Computer

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How to be More Productive Online ? 5 Proven Tips

The Internet gives us unprecedented power to produce, but it simultaneously offers unprecedented opportunity to distract ourselves.

Slip into the bottomless abyss of email, StumbleUpon, YouTube, and your myriad social feeds... and you may as well throw your goals for the day out the window.

But if you're able to discipline yourself, harness the Internet's power, and get things done efficiently... that means more time for your hobbies, your loved ones, and your passions.

The secret to being more productive online isn't much of a secret at all: it starts and ends with focus and discipline. But there are ways to make this focus and discipline much easier to obtain. I've outlined five proven tips below.

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Advertising Secrets

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How to use Google Webmaster Tools to check the dark underbelly of your site architecture

Every so often, Google Webmaster Tools adds a new wrinkle that makes life measurably easier for SEO leadership at large organizations. Index Status is one of those wrinkles. This nifty little feature�-�which was released this past summer but has gotten relatively little fanfare considering the profound insights and leverage it can provide – does two [...]

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How to use Google Webmaster Tools to check the dark underbelly of your site architecture

Every so often, Google Webmaster Tools adds a new wrinkle that makes life measurably easier for SEO leadership at large organizations. Index Status is one of those wrinkles. This nifty little feature�-�which was released this past summer but has gotten relatively little fanfare considering the profound insights and leverage it can provide – does two [...]

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Don?t Ignore these 5 Insights from 5 Big Online Entrepreneurs

I?ve been lucky enough to have in-depth interviews with 20 of the world?s top online entrepreneurs.

Today, I?m sharing five really important and totally exclusive insights from five of these big online entrepreneurs.

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Mastermind Groups and Mentors ? Why You Need Them and How to Find Them

With Thanksgiving just a couple of days away here in the U.S., I wanted to talk about something I’m extremely thankful for – being in a mastermind group. A mastermind group is a small group of people who regularly meet, online or offline, to talk about goals, growth and success and provide support for each [...]

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Mastermind Groups and Mentors – Why You Need Them and How to Find Them
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The 6 Most Disastrous Product Launches Ever ? And What You Can Learn From Them

If you’ve ever created a product only to see it fall flat on its face then take heed. You may think that the big brands like Coke and IBM, with all the resources at their ...

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One Entrepreneur?s Journey to Selling a Website for $200,000

There are many success stories out there about people who have built websites and have sold them later for a large sum of money. I love these stories because each story is a little different, but the underlying themes are generally the same.� This is a guest post by Patrick Meninga who recently sold his [...]

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How To Win Friends & Influence People

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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.

Source: http://www.incomediary.com/blogger-profile-seth-godin-and-the-worlds-weirdest-marketing-blog

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A Computer

The brain to technology interface.

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New Study: The Best Citation Sources By City

I’m really excited to announce a joint study with Darren Shaw of Whitespark that we’ve just published over on GetListed.org: the best citation sources for 93 U.S. cities. The methodology for the study was pretty simple: using�Whitespark’s Local Citation Finder, we looked for some of the most common keywords within�71 local search categories�across 53 large [...]

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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 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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Evergreen Traffic Formula

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The 6 Most Disastrous Product Launches Ever ? And What You Can Learn From Them

If you’ve ever created a product only to see it fall flat on its face then take heed. You may think that the big brands like Coke and IBM, with all the resources at their ...

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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.

Source: http://www.incomediary.com/blogger-profile-seth-godin-and-the-worlds-weirdest-marketing-blog

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My Monthly Income Report ? October 2012

Welcome to my October 2012 monthly income report! Each month I write a detailed report about my online businesses ? what I?ve been up to, what?s working, what?s not, and how much and where my income is coming from. I create these reports for several reasons. First, they are here to help me keep track [...]

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How To Win Friends & Influence People

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A Computer

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SPI 050 : Brand Loyalty and a 19th Century Strategy You Can Use to Get it

Today we celebrate the 50th session of The Smart Passive Income Podcast! Woohoo! It was my goal to have a total of 50 podcast sessions by the end of the year, and we did it! Thank you all for your support, encouragement and constructive criticisms – I appreciate each and every one of you and [...]

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Build your marketing skills with an eye towards the long run

Several months ago, I decided to become a data scientist. It was an easy decision when you consider the impact that algorithm-driven business models are making, but the actual manifestation of the goal is a different manner entirely. It’s been one of the most humbling and downright frustrating experiences in my life. I thought I [...]

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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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I?m Fine, Thanks ? Update!

In January of 2012, I was asked to be interviewed for a documentary that my good friend Adam Baker was producing. In March, Adam and a camera crew arrived at my home in San Diego to film me and my family for a day. In May, the film crew created a Kickstarter campaign to raise [...]

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How to be More Productive Online ? 5 Proven Tips

The Internet gives us unprecedented power to produce, but it simultaneously offers unprecedented opportunity to distract ourselves.

Slip into the bottomless abyss of email, StumbleUpon, YouTube, and your myriad social feeds... and you may as well throw your goals for the day out the window.

But if you're able to discipline yourself, harness the Internet's power, and get things done efficiently... that means more time for your hobbies, your loved ones, and your passions.

The secret to being more productive online isn't much of a secret at all: it starts and ends with focus and discipline. But there are ways to make this focus and discipline much easier to obtain. I've outlined five proven tips below.

Source: http://www.incomediary.com/how-to-be-more-productive-online-5-proven-tips

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10 Traffic Tips Straight from Michael Dunlop

Michael Dunlop was a teenager when he started a website called WebDesignDev.com. Over four years, he grew it to nearly 200,000 monthly visitors. Then he sold the site for $22,000 so that he could move out of his parents? house.

Michael agreed to sit down with me for a half hour and discuss his top ten traffic tips.

Source: http://www.incomediary.com/10-traffic-tips-for-blogs-michael-dunlop

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20 Things to be Thankful for as an Online Entrepreneur

Every day of the year is a good day to be thankful.

People who feel grateful have ?more energy, more optimism, more social connections and more happiness than those who do not? according to a scientific study in the Wall Street Journal.

On that note, I would like to share with you the 20 things that I?m most thankful for as an online entrepreneur.

Source: http://www.incomediary.com/things-to-be-thankful-for-online-entrepreneur

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The 6 Most Disastrous Product Launches Ever ? And What You Can Learn From Them

If you’ve ever created a product only to see it fall flat on its face then take heed. You may think that the big brands like Coke and IBM, with all the resources at their ...

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Top Grading

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I?m Fine, Thanks ? Update!

In January of 2012, I was asked to be interviewed for a documentary that my good friend Adam Baker was producing. In March, Adam and a camera crew arrived at my home in San Diego to film me and my family for a day. In May, the film crew created a Kickstarter campaign to raise [...]

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The Millionaire Mind

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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.

Source: http://www.incomediary.com/blogger-profile-seth-godin-and-the-worlds-weirdest-marketing-blog

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8 Lessons Pinterest can Teach You about Online Business

No web startup has made a bigger splash in 2012 than Pinterest.
I?ve got 8 business lessons from the amazing story of Pinterest below.

Source: http://www.incomediary.com/pinterest-lessons-online-business

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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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Build your marketing skills with an eye towards the long run

Several months ago, I decided to become a data scientist. It was an easy decision when you consider the impact that algorithm-driven business models are making, but the actual manifestation of the goal is a different manner entirely. It’s been one of the most humbling and downright frustrating experiences in my life. I thought I [...]

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Top 10 YouTube Channels

Each year, YouTube videos receive more than one trillion views.

Each month, YouTube is visited by over 800 million unique users.

Each day, 4 billion videos are viewed on YouTube.

And while 60 hours of video are uploaded every minute, there?s a select group of people uploading YouTube videos whose videos have risen above the rest. As they gain millions of subscribers, they also earn millions of dollars ? all for maintaining a YouTube channel.

Source: http://www.incomediary.com/top-10-youtube-channels

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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 be More Productive Online ? 5 Proven Tips

The Internet gives us unprecedented power to produce, but it simultaneously offers unprecedented opportunity to distract ourselves.

Slip into the bottomless abyss of email, StumbleUpon, YouTube, and your myriad social feeds... and you may as well throw your goals for the day out the window.

But if you're able to discipline yourself, harness the Internet's power, and get things done efficiently... that means more time for your hobbies, your loved ones, and your passions.

The secret to being more productive online isn't much of a secret at all: it starts and ends with focus and discipline. But there are ways to make this focus and discipline much easier to obtain. I've outlined five proven tips below.

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I?m Fine, Thanks ? Update!

In January of 2012, I was asked to be interviewed for a documentary that my good friend Adam Baker was producing. In March, Adam and a camera crew arrived at my home in San Diego to film me and my family for a day. In May, the film crew created a Kickstarter campaign to raise [...]

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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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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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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 [...]

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Managing By The Numbers

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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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Top Grading

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Advertising Secrets

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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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How To Win Friends & Influence People

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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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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 050 : Brand Loyalty and a 19th Century Strategy You Can Use to Get it

Today we celebrate the 50th session of The Smart Passive Income Podcast! Woohoo! It was my goal to have a total of 50 podcast sessions by the end of the year, and we did it! Thank you all for your support, encouragement and constructive criticisms – I appreciate each and every one of you and [...]

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How to Hand Out Flyers Online (Old School and New School Techniques)

I love evergreen content. My blogs and businesses thrive on it. They rely on it. They survive because of it. It’s the kind of content that you can publish today that will be relevant and useful to those who will find it tomorrow, next month or next year. It’s the kind of content that will [...]

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9 Amazingly Simple Life Lessons from Timothy Ferriss

Timothy Ferriss is an American entrepreneur and the world?s leading expert on ?lifestyle design?. His best-selling book The 4-Hour Workweek promises to help people escape the 9-5 grind, live anywhere they want, and get rich.

Do his methods work? The 25,000+ subscribers on Tim?s blog certainly seem to think so.

By the time you get to the bottom of this page, you?ll be able to judge for yourself.

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The Millionaire Mind

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A truly great marketer is capable of admitting that they?re dead wrong sometimes

I’m reading a fascinating book on the evolution of math and statistics over the past 100 years, and its impact on the scientific method of inquiry. This particular passage really caught my eye: “A scientific career is peculiar in some ways. Its reason d’etre is the increase of natural knowledge. Occasionally, therefore, an increase of [...]

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The 6 Most Disastrous Product Launches Ever ? And What You Can Learn From Them

If you’ve ever created a product only to see it fall flat on its face then take heed. You may think that the big brands like Coke and IBM, with all the resources at their ...

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New Study: The Best Citation Sources By City

I’m really excited to announce a joint study with Darren Shaw of Whitespark that we’ve just published over on GetListed.org: the best citation sources for 93 U.S. cities. The methodology for the study was pretty simple: using�Whitespark’s Local Citation Finder, we looked for some of the most common keywords within�71 local search categories�across 53 large [...]

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My Monthly Income Report ? October 2012

Welcome to my October 2012 monthly income report! Each month I write a detailed report about my online businesses ? what I?ve been up to, what?s working, what?s not, and how much and where my income is coming from. I create these reports for several reasons. First, they are here to help me keep track [...]

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The Sad Truth About Your Half-Finished Projects

Before I start this post, I just wanted to say thank you! The Smart Passive Income Podcast has been nominated in two categories for the 8th Annual Podcast awards! This is a HUGE deal and it would mean the world to me to win this�prestigious�award, but I need your help!!! Voting starts November 1st (today) [...]

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A Computer

The brain to technology interface.

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Managing By The Numbers

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Evergreen Traffic Formula

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9 Amazingly Simple Life Lessons from Timothy Ferriss

Timothy Ferriss is an American entrepreneur and the world?s leading expert on ?lifestyle design?. His best-selling book The 4-Hour Workweek promises to help people escape the 9-5 grind, live anywhere they want, and get rich.

Do his methods work? The 25,000+ subscribers on Tim?s blog certainly seem to think so.

By the time you get to the bottom of this page, you?ll be able to judge for yourself.

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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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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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One Entrepreneur?s Journey to Selling a Website for $200,000

There are many success stories out there about people who have built websites and have sold them later for a large sum of money. I love these stories because each story is a little different, but the underlying themes are generally the same.� This is a guest post by Patrick Meninga who recently sold his [...]

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One Entrepreneur’s Journey to Selling a Website for $200,000
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SPI 050 : Brand Loyalty and a 19th Century Strategy You Can Use to Get it

Today we celebrate the 50th session of The Smart Passive Income Podcast! Woohoo! It was my goal to have a total of 50 podcast sessions by the end of the year, and we did it! Thank you all for your support, encouragement and constructive criticisms – I appreciate each and every one of you and [...]

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Buyology

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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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Build your marketing skills with an eye towards the long run

Several months ago, I decided to become a data scientist. It was an easy decision when you consider the impact that algorithm-driven business models are making, but the actual manifestation of the goal is a different manner entirely. It’s been one of the most humbling and downright frustrating experiences in my life. I thought I [...]

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How to use Google Webmaster Tools to check the dark underbelly of your site architecture

Every so often, Google Webmaster Tools adds a new wrinkle that makes life measurably easier for SEO leadership at large organizations. Index Status is one of those wrinkles. This nifty little feature�-�which was released this past summer but has gotten relatively little fanfare considering the profound insights and leverage it can provide – does two [...]

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9 Amazingly Simple Life Lessons from Timothy Ferriss

Timothy Ferriss is an American entrepreneur and the world?s leading expert on ?lifestyle design?. His best-selling book The 4-Hour Workweek promises to help people escape the 9-5 grind, live anywhere they want, and get rich.

Do his methods work? The 25,000+ subscribers on Tim?s blog certainly seem to think so.

By the time you get to the bottom of this page, you?ll be able to judge for yourself.

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An Internet Connection

Used to jack into the matrix.

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9 Amazingly Simple Life Lessons from Timothy Ferriss

Timothy Ferriss is an American entrepreneur and the world?s leading expert on ?lifestyle design?. His best-selling book The 4-Hour Workweek promises to help people escape the 9-5 grind, live anywhere they want, and get rich.

Do his methods work? The 25,000+ subscribers on Tim?s blog certainly seem to think so.

By the time you get to the bottom of this page, you?ll be able to judge for yourself.

Source: http://www.incomediary.com/9-amazingly-simple-life-lessons-from-timothy-ferriss

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New Study: The Best Citation Sources By City

I’m really excited to announce a joint study with Darren Shaw of Whitespark that we’ve just published over on GetListed.org: the best citation sources for 93 U.S. cities. The methodology for the study was pretty simple: using�Whitespark’s Local Citation Finder, we looked for some of the most common keywords within�71 local search categories�across 53 large [...]

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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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Stuff I?ve Been Reading, Watching and Listening to Lately

I’m currently working on a hardcore, start to finish podcasting tutorial! I’ve already put in over 15 hours of work into writing and recording this tutorial, but I have much more to do so it’s going to take a while before it’s published. You can, however, watch the first video in the series of videos [...]

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SPI 050 : Brand Loyalty and a 19th Century Strategy You Can Use to Get it

Today we celebrate the 50th session of The Smart Passive Income Podcast! Woohoo! It was my goal to have a total of 50 podcast sessions by the end of the year, and we did it! Thank you all for your support, encouragement and constructive criticisms – I appreciate each and every one of you and [...]

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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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I?m Fine, Thanks ? Update!

In January of 2012, I was asked to be interviewed for a documentary that my good friend Adam Baker was producing. In March, Adam and a camera crew arrived at my home in San Diego to film me and my family for a day. In May, the film crew created a Kickstarter campaign to raise [...]

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Mastermind Groups and Mentors ? Why You Need Them and How to Find Them

With Thanksgiving just a couple of days away here in the U.S., I wanted to talk about something I’m extremely thankful for – being in a mastermind group. A mastermind group is a small group of people who regularly meet, online or offline, to talk about goals, growth and success and provide support for each [...]

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Mastermind Groups and Mentors – Why You Need Them and How to Find Them
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