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7 Ways to Create Websites That Convert
Every business owner or entrepreneur needs a web presence. Today, that means a lot more than a simple website. There are so many ways that you can promote your business online, and “working the levers” requires knowledge beyond WordPress or even basic SEO. When done right, a good digital strategy will put your business in
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7 Biohacks for Healthy Entrepreneurs
Around four years ago, doctors found a cantaloupe-sized cyst on my left ovary after I asked them to check my fertility … I was 36. When I heard their prognosis, I didn’t really know what to make it mean. I would need outpatient surgery, it was routine, and I’d be back to my life by
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7 Key Shifts in Thinking from the Entrepreneurial Trenches (Pt 2)
In part one of this series, I talked about how important failure is to success, and ended by saying If you haven’t failed, you haven’t been taking big-enough risks! In this , I want to take things a step further and share with you 7 key lessons I’ve learned along my own entrepreneurial journey. From
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5 Strategies for Building a Website That Is a Lead Generating Machine
Everyone needs a website. For those of us building a platform, a website is our storefront. There are a lot of ways you can leverage your website to drive revenue in your business if you know what you’re doing. I’ve been helping my clients build websites for the last 15 years, and a LOT has
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The Secret Strategy to Building Your Platform and Selling More
When I was a kid, my sisters and I LOVED Super Mario Brothers. I had the prestigious honor of being the first one in the family to conquer the last world (8-4) to win the entire game. In this dungeon, you had to jump over bad guys, squat down pipes and eat coins, all in
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5 Oft-Unspoken Keys to a Successful 20+ Year Business
I just called my awesome friend, Karen McCullough, to pick her brain about the business of speaking.
Karen is a brilliant speaker who has been in the speaking business for a long time. I’m doing some profiling right now for the MarketectU Mastermind project I’ve been telling you guys about lately, and I wanted to get a fresh perspective from Karen. As it turns out, she’s just returning from the national convention for the National Speaker’s Association and she was a full cup!
Karen and I always have the most stimulating conversations. I have a tremendous amount of respect for her because she’s a true artist when it comes to the business of speaking: in every way, she hones her craft, reinvents herself and her message over and over again and is always getting better! Creating longevity as a speaker (especially when speaking is your primary form of income) is no easy feat: the marketplace is changing so rapidly and you have to constantly be reinventing yourself. She and I groked some awesome gems that I’m incorporating into this new program, but I couldn’t make you wait a couple more months to hear about them!
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5 Strategies for Building an In-House, Virtual Team of Contractors
In 2008, I plunged into the “virtual assistant” world by hiring my first virtual assistant. She was in Detroit, and I barely knew what I needed. This wasn’t my first time hiring a contractor to help me take care of my clients … for the previous four years, I’d worked with local talent and offshore
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How Web Hosting is Like a Free Puppy
Without getting too deep, I want to share with you a few “secrets” I’ve learned along the way to avoid 95% of the issues that typically come with having a site live on the internet.
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Facing the Sting: Why Solopreneurs are destined to stay that way forever
I just found my way to a post that stopped me dead in my tracks and lit my bottlerocket to the moon. This guy is bananas – as a bit of a marketing snob and wordsmither myself, I’m mesmerized by Peter Shallard’s (@PeterShallard) poignant way of communicating the honest-to-God truth about what it takes to succeed as an entrepreneur.
In his post, “The Truth – Why Solopreneurs are destined to stay that way forever,” Peter cuts right to the soul of what is keeping so many independent professionals stuck
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The Heroic Secret of Successful Entrepreneurs – part 1
I talked to a long-time friend and colleague today about his experiences as a first-time entrepreneur; like many of our experiences, it’s been full of highs and lows. The thrill of starting a new venture often leaves in its wake a tattered battlefield of failed experiments, expended-effort-to-no-avail, frustration and disappointment. Then, we’re thrilled by the wins again.
It’s easy to drop into dark periods of second-guessing oneself when the going gets tough. We wish we would have done certain things differently, “if only” and “why didn’t I” thoughts racing through our minds as we tried to figure out what we should have done, and should do now, spinning ruthlessly around the why-didn’t-I.