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
Ahhh….. the good old days. Opening a business was as simple as setting up a folding table in your local park. You had a shoebox to collect money and sold the lemonade that your Mom helped you make. If you were particularly on the ball (or had parents who worked in local government), you might
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This post is a finalist in our Ultimate Guides Contest. Show your support for this, or any of the finalists by commenting, sharing and joining the conversation! As a solo myself – web developer, writer, and aspiring novelist – I’m fascinated by the nexus of the solopreneur (I call us “Couch Warriors”) experience and the
