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May 20, 2013 By

Are You Balancing Emerging Technology with Effective Strategy?

Last week I was asked at a conference to reflect upon the future of digital and among other things I made a reflection that seemed to resonate with those gathered. It was: Don’t throw out the baby with the bathwater. As online publishers we see a steady stream of articles being written about new and future technologies, companies and trends in the online publishing space. It is certainly an exciting time to be doing what we’re doing with such amazing development happening all around … [Read more...]

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May 20, 2013 By

Are Balancing Emerging Technology with Effective Strategy?

Last week I was asked at a conference to reflect upon the future of digital and among other things I made a reflection that seemed to resonate with those gathered. It was: Don’t throw out the baby with the bathwater. As online publishers we see a steady stream of articles being written about new and future technologies, companies and trends in the online publishing space. It is certainly an exciting time to be doing what we’re doing with such amazing development happening all around … [Read more...]

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May 20, 2013 By

Turn them complaints into a positive.

Good customer service is a staple for any business there is, but it is often times hard to come by. Many companies think they have good customer service when in reality when you ask their customers they tell a different story. According to Brad Tuttle in his book Customer Service Hell 80% of companies say they deliver “superior” customer service, when in reality when they asked their customers only around 8% said the service “superior”. This is a problem… however, it means that there … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Shoemoney
May 18, 2013 By

Why Getting Rich is the Best Way to Help the World

A lot of the most well meaning, good hearted people on this planet suffer from the misconception that their financial success has no bearing on the effect they have on the world. Often times I’ll hear people in the “Lightworker” community say “I am a healer, but I don’t do it for the money, I don’t care about money or getting rich” or “I want to help the world, but I don’t care about money.” Sometimes I’ll even hear people saying … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Pauly Math
May 16, 2013 By

How Much Content Should I Have Ready to Go When I Launch a Blog?

Recently I had opportunity to sit with a small group of Pre-Bloggers – people about to start their first blogs. One of the question I was asked was for advice on how much content to have written before launching a new blog. My answer came in two parts:The Ideal Scenario What I actually have doneThe reality is that what I ‘preach’ isn’t always what I ‘do’ – so let me tell you about both! Note: we give a lot of teaching and some great exercises on this … [Read more...]

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May 7, 2013 By

Is there a POC in Your SEO Audit?

SEO is becoming increasingly difficult by the day. To truly excel with the digital marketing tactic, it's essential to periodically audit the various elements of a website that may influence its ultimate success on the search results - particularly for those highly sought-after keywords (you know, the ones that your prospective visitors would actually use to find your website).There's been a rise over the past few years of agencies offering their clients audits of those clients … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Website Magazine
May 3, 2013 By

How to Get Your First 1,000 Email Subscribers When Nobody Knows You

This is a guest contribution by Marya Jan, blogging coach from Writing Happiness. What’s the biggest excuse you hear from people who are not getting the results they want from their blogging? “I don’t know anyone online.” Not ‘my content might not be good’. Not ‘I don’t a clear idea of what I am doing’. Not ‘I know it takes time and I am learning everything I can’. None of that. It’s always because they don’t have any connections with the big shots. Allow me to put up … [Read more...]

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May 1, 2013 By

Build a Successful Business by Not Acquiring Talent

Sabremetrics is a concept that came about in the mid-20th century from statisticians such as Earnshaw Cook and Bill James. It is the analytical approach to quantifying talent through in-game activity in baseball. The concept was utilized famously by Billy Beane to rebuild the Oakland Athletics, which coined the term Moneyball. The principle is pretty simple. Most big time free-agents get picked up because of concepts like batting average, but this is a completely flawed metric according to … [Read more...]

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April 30, 2013 By

Check out the New Ghost Blogging Platform Kickstarter: Funded in under 12 Hours!

6 months ago I came across a concept article written about by John O’Nolan (web designer and former deputy head of the WordPress User Interface group) that grabbed my attention (and the attention of many others). In the article John dreamed of a new blogging platform – Ghost. In the article John spoke about the changes in WordPress over the year that have seen it evolve from a humble and relatively simple blogging platform into something a lot bigger and more complex – a … [Read more...]

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April 29, 2013 By

Explore Different Ways to Grow Your Hosting Company

For any business, growth is possibly the most important metric of all. By measuring growth, you can be certain your business is always moving forward, always expanding, and always connecting with more customers. Growth brings you more revenue, turning your small to medium business into a large enterprise. At HostingCon 2013, you can take part in several inspiring and informative sessions on the subject of growing your business. Our expert speakers want to help you make your business and its … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Web Hosting Talk
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