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From the monthly archives:

March 2009

How To Get A Great Coach

30 March 2009

I recently interview Action Coach Rich Allen about coaching.  Rich is a coach has he shares some great tips on what to look for in a coach.

You can also get this as a podcast for free in your favorite podcast application.
Running time: 25 minutes

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How To Get A Great Coach

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Best Ways To Keep Social In Social Media Marketing And Still Make Money

24 March 2009

With social media you have to resist the opportunity to “hard sell”.  It’s like used car sales people selling during a funeral.  Instead of getting clients, you just made sure that these people will never buy from you ever.  Why?  Because it is a against etiquette to do this during social occasions.  Social media is [...]

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My SXSW experience

17 March 2009

I had a lot of fun experiencing SXSW here in Austin.  I like parties and socializing and the long winded talks bore me.  Last night I did one and was falling asleep.  Had to get up and grab a late dinner.  So I stick to parties.
I first went to Freshbooks dinner.  Freshbooks is the invoicing [...]

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Email frequency: can you increase it safely?

9 March 2009

It’s not very well known that even big online email marketers are having their email subscription numbers staying pretty flat.  Not much growth.
This excellent article about 1) how much email you send compared to how much money you make, 2) what consumers say is too much email and 3) how frequency is tied to value [...]

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Number 1 Excuse For Failure By Far

4 March 2009

I consult with many business owners every week, doing their websites and guiding them in the right direction.  And by far the number one excuse for the people that fail is not doing anything. They don’t blog.  They don’t market.  I take all of that back, many actually do something, they tweak their sidebars, their [...]

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Open Source vs Hosted Application, What is best?

3 March 2009

Open source used to be term only very technical people understood.  Now it is becoming more mainstream.  I’m working on a real estate website right now and their existing website is all custom, something I wouldn’t do.  Everything about it is custom proprietary software.  One advantage of this is you can custom tailor it for [...]

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