On today’s episode of the podcast, Danny talks to author and blogger Nir Eyal about unconscious behaviors we engage in without even thinking! When you use something all the time, you never think about what really goes into using it. Your actions become habits, and it all becomes automatic. Nir’s research is based around what he […]
Do you ever get up in the morning dreading the day? It’s tough to roll out of bed in the morning when you know you’re not doing as well as you could be. Like if you’re dreading the day because you haven’t reached your revenue goal this month, and you have five days left until
I know how to be ridiculous. I worked on five arias every day for six months to get ready for an audition with an opera company I didn’t want to sing for, only to stand backstage and tell myself, “Just get through this audition and you never have to do it again.” That’s ridiculous. I
It’s been a crazy couple of weeks. Or months. Or years. You’re doing your time, responding to your emails and blog comments, reaching out and building new relationships, and always creating content, thinking about the future and planning what you’ll need to get there. It can be exhausting, and no matter how much you love
Has your website traffic been diminishing recently? Are you struggling to gain visitors, subscribers and sales? It’s natural that in a tough economic climate customers will be looking to buy less ‘stuff” overall, and time-starved consumers are torn in all directions, so more businesses are competing for less customers. Of course it is not the
As entrepreneurs we get in the game because we feel we can offer something (a service, a product, something!) of value. We feel we can serve in a better fashion running our own show than in a corporate environment. We feel we are fulfilling a need in the world. While the motivations above are a
Imagine you have just written an amazing guest post, waves of traffic arrive on your site, hundreds of people subscribe to your email list. You feel great. Your blog is exploding. But without knowing it, you have just made a huge mistake in email list building; a mistake that cost you a lot of money
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Are you still suffering from being ignored by Google and other search engines? Do you want to get higher rankings in Google in order to get a lot of traffic? Tell me if this sounds familiar: You have applied every piece of advice shared on all of the big blogs… …but you still don’t get
OK, so technically wasn’t banned, but I couldn’t send any emails through MailChimp-and without that capability, I might as well have been banned. Here’s how I got into this predicament – without ever sending a single spam email – and how you can avoid the same fate. Building My List… in all the Wrong Ways When
