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When buying or selling, are you focused on price or cost?
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...
How to write a Services Page that works
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...
Five Strategies to grow your online business
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...
How to Hire Amazing People
I believe anyone can hire amazing people--recruiting takes time and effort but I don't think it's an exclusive skill that only few people have. How to Hire Amazing People In the last few months I've been recruiting and hiring a lot of really incredible people. If you don't know, last December I joined Liquid Web...
If you need a new WordPress site, skip the middle man
Are you looking to get a new WordPress site built? Have you seen the television show, The Wire? It's an incredible show - great visuals, great story, great everything. And it's intense. But mostly, what stood out to me when watching was that there was so much stuff that was regularly hidden from so many people. That...
New year planning: Four things to get right
When it comes to new year planning, most people make resolutions. Resolutions that frankly fail within the first few weeks of the new year. So if you want to do new year planning the right way, I suggest you steer clear of resolutions and instead focus on these four things: Relationships Every year I create...
Are you registering a new domain?
If you are, then maybe you've been doing what I've been doing forever—using GoDaddy. For years I've been buying domains from GoDaddy. And before you start thinking about all the negative feelings you have about the company, you should know that I've rarely had any issues with their domain registration services. Additionally, I've gotten to...
Lies that stop us from breaking into WordPress
Tomorrow I'll be speaking at the Digital Commerce Summit—put on by Rainmaker Digital, the folks that created the Rainmaker Platform that hosts this site. My talk is titled, \"Breaking into WordPress.\" Have you thought about breaking into WordPress? When I set out to create this talk, I knew that my focus was going to be...
Learning to leverage insecurity
Can we talk about insecurity for a second? What's the secret to your success? When I was speaking at the Double Your Freelancing Conference, I had lunch and dinner with several great freelancers. One of them, over the course of the meal, asked what my secret to success was. Now to be clear, I consider...
How to announce pricing changes (without ruining everything)
Especially in the world of startups, the need to change business models is common. How you announce those pricing changes can help or kill your business. Five Tips on Announcing Pricing Changes It's no shock to you, if you've read some of my posts, that I think the need to tell the right story when...
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