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When buying or selling, are you focused on price or cost?

agency-adviceMay 31, 2017

Can I tell you a story about a refrigerator? Years ago I went to a store to help a friend buy a refrigerator. It was, as you might expect, a pretty boring trip. When you compare refrigerators, you look at the features, the capacity and the price. That's about it. The reason I remember it...

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How to use zapier for your hubspot stripe integration

ecommerceMay 30, 2017

Are you using a CRM? A while ago I wrote an article covering the best CRMs for small teams. Some freelancers and agencies wrote me and told me their favorites. But others told me they didn't really want to spend any money on a CRM when it was just them and their clients. They had...

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How do I get free users to subscribe to paid memberships?

agency-adviceMay 29, 2017

How do I get free users to subscribe? It's a question I hear a lot. Just about every time I get into a conversation about membership sites. But before we get into the answer to that, we need to back up just a bit. Increasing your conversion rates is a fantastic topic. It's what we'll...

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Are you using testimonials?

ecommerceMay 28, 2017

Today I just want to ask you some simple questions. Questions that frankly I spent many years not asking myself. It's all about using testimonials. And in case that word is foreign to you, it simply means quotes from other people (normally clients) who brag about you. It's that bragging that often makes us uncomfortable....

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Creating an online course? Don't make this mistake!

online-learningMay 27, 2017

Ever played Monopoly? I don't have a lot of pet peeves. One of them, however, is listening to someone poorly explain a game to someone who has never played it. I don't know why it bothers me so much but it gets under my skin enough that I have to leave a room or take...

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What is your LinkedIn lead generation strategy?

marketing-communicationsMay 26, 2017

If you're not developing a LinkedIn lead generation strategy, but complaining about poor lead volume, this 6-step strategy may help you. When was the last time you looked at LinkedIn? If you're like a lot of my friends, you haven't looked at, or logged into, LinkedIn in years. Your only interactions have been dealing with...

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What is managed hosting? Do you need it?

wordpressMay 25, 2017

If you've heard terms like VPS, Dedicated, Shared, Managed, and more, you might have wondered what they all mean and which one is right for you. Let's see if I can explain it in a way that doesn't immediately drop us into low-level technical details. Remember in your youth when you maybe shared an apartment with...

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How to write a Services Page that works

wordpressMay 24, 2017

Most website services pages suck. We can all agree that there are few things harder than writing about yourself, right? Whether it's your About Page, your Services Page, or anything else where you have to articulate your value, things get really hard, really fast. Right? The problem is that our deepest insecurities crawl out from...

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Five Strategies to grow your online business

coachingMay 22, 2017

Want to grow your online business? If you talk to enough people today, when you want to grow your business, it almost sounds like there's a single strategy--Facebook ads. That just doesn't sound right, does it? But what do you do when you want to grow your online presence? What's the trick? Is there a...

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What does it take to scale WooCommerce?

ecommerceMay 21, 2017

One of the most common questions I hear a lot about WordPress and eCommerce revolves around the notion of WooCommerce and it's ability to scale. \"Can you scale WooCommerce?\" people ask me. And my answer is always yes. But it's never as simple as that, right? People want to know if you're just being nice,...

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