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44 essays on web, automation, brand, and the long game of building a business that works without you.
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The Internet is swarming with information—some great, some not. With a few keywords and a click of the mouse, a reader can easily compel the search engine to display thousands of results related to th
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Surfing through Fiverr the other day looking for logo design gigs, a $5 blog writing gig caught my attention. I couldn’t believe it. As I curiously opened the gig, the one thought zipping around in my
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More than 50% of young people want to become an entrepreneur. That’s according a 2015 survey by EYhttps://webforms.ey.com/Publication/vwLUAssets/EY_global_job_creation_and_youth_entrpreneurship_survey
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Are you thinking of setting up a website or landing page for your business? Among the first set of things you need to do is register a domain name for your business. The problem is that when you are n
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Quality web design is the building block of great websites and thus is an invaluable investment for any company looking to establish its online presence. An excellent design will cost between a few th
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In this digital age, there are a lot of individuals and businesses on the Internet offering services for building your website. For someone new to the idea of setting up a website, the sheer number of
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With the number of blogs crowding the internet, it can be difficult to find your footing much less stand out in the content marketing world. However, with a simple set of rules, you can get your conte
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Expertise doesn’t happen overnight. While it’s possible for a talk, course, content, or project you gave or created to go viral overnight, that doesn’t make you an expert. Expertise is not about givin
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Recent trends and reports show that millennials don't start new businesses as their baby boomer counterparts. This trend make it seem as though starting a business at a young age is a prerequisite for
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With many businesspeople desperate to grow their companies on the internet, the number of options on generating leads and sales online has escalated. Worse, most of them amount to nothing. Of course,
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When running a website whether a personal or business website, the main goals are usually lead generation, conversion, and sales. However, whatever leads your site manages to generate would translate
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Opening a local bank account for your business in another country is so darn difficult, it borders on an impossibility. If you have ever found yourself in such a frustrating situation, then you know i
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Every serious content marketer knows this truth. It’s getting harder to conceptualize original ideas pertaining to content marketing. This makes regular blog updates a Herculean Task. The truth is: th
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When choosing a domain name for your business, you obviously want to get it right. A great domain name can make a big difference in your quest to make your business an online success. How then do you
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Well, I will show you how. First, let’s talk about what catchall routing is and why you need it. A catchall, also called a wildcard email address, refers to your chosen G Suite mailbox for catching al
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Last time, we talked about what brand identity is and isn’t. You can/whatbrandidentityisandisnt read the post here/whatbrandidentityisandisnt. Talking about brand identity without mentioning ‘design’
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Many businesses incorporate email marketing in their promotional and marketing strategy. But very few are seeing tangible results. _Why is that?_ The simplest and most reasonable answer is that your t
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An email alias is basically an alternative email address whether already assigned to a mailbox or not that you can use to send out or reply to emails via your mail mailbox. Last time, I talked about h
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Conversational commerce is the future of customer engagement. That’s what the experts tell us. Problem is that many small and medium businesses probably have no idea what conversational commerce means
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Mental Health for Entrepreneurs Mental Health for Entrepreneurs There’s this saying about sports, that they are 90% physical and 10% mental. The same can be said about being an entrepreneur. Today, I’
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Okay, I’m not going to drone about the usual stuff you are likely to find online when you Google this topic. You know, points like “failing to customize your theme”, “forgetting to make your business
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Trust will always play an important role in the purchase decisions of consumers. The questions are: How reliable are you? Do your prospective customers trust you? What does you track record say about
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Employee Retention: Happy Employees Are Good for Business People are the engine that powers businesses. Of course, this isn’t breaking news. The problem is that we all talk about it more often than we
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The way we do business is rapidly shifting from physical to online presence. So it can be tempting to launch a website with the intention to make money overshadowing the need for quality content or se
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_This peertopeer fintech industry disruptor is on a mission to save businesses and individuals time and money when it comes to secured international money transfer._ Overview Launched in 2011, Wise, f
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What’s the most important aspect of a business? No doubt, some people might say the _product_. Some others might say _money_. And there are even those that might say _the manufacturing process_. Grant
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Gone are the days when business owners and corporations are the only entities faced with protecting their online brands. That’s a truth that can’t be disputed. Individuals now need to protect their pe
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Over the years, social media has grown to become a vital aspect of online marketing. It’s no longer just a place for people to make friends, share ideas, talk about what they ate the previous night, a
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Slack ranks among the hottest nextgeneration communication and collaboration tools out there. You can most certainly say that the mission of the people behind the app is to change the way people commu
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When people say they need a domain name, the first thought that comes to mind is, “they want to set up a website”. While that may be appropriate, a domain name can do much more. Are you holding off on
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Any business person who wants his or her business to remain competitive among its peers has to channel a lot of effort into improving its operational efficiency. This is especially true for small and
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Stripe Chargebacks: How to Protect Your Business and Win Disputes Introduction: Stripe chargebacks are a nightmare for small businesses — draining your revenue, disrupting cash flow, and eating up tim
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Noone goes into a business knowing everything to expect. Business has a learning curve. There are things you learn through research or mentorship and there are things you only learn through experience
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Thousands of people launch their businesses every day. Unfortunately, many of them have little or no idea of what to expect and they end up falling into the same pitfalls that brought down a lot of st
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Business is never easy. There are ups and downs along the way, and many entrepreneurs fail simply because they gave up at a difficult moment. To see yours through, you need a healthy dose of motivatio
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Experts have said it time and time again that in this digital age social media marketing is a vital aspect of marketing for businesses. The question is: why are many businesses not seeing tangible res
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So you found this awesome freelancer online. They are everything. They have the experience and are cheap. And the difference in time zones means they can help you execute tasks even when your local em
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It’s no longer breaking news. Millions of businesses have been selling stuff through their Instagram since 2016 when the Instagram business was launched. Think about it. Instagram is where both consum
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Automating Team Birthday Celebrations with Airtable: A StepbyStep Guide Celebrating team birthdays in the workplace is more than just a fun tradition – it's a fantastic way to boost morale, foster a s
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Before we dive into the topic brand identity, let’s try a more familiar question: what makes up your public image? A typical answer can entail a host of things, from your sense of fashion to how you b
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To understand the question, you first need to understand what web presence actually means. This isn’t the time to go consulting Wikipedia because, for some absurd reason, they have the definition of w
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Every successful business started somewhere. In fact, most started small. Think Twitter, Airbnb, Foursquare, and so on. When these businesses were launched, they weren’t as grand or multifeatured as t
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A Landing page is simply a web page for capturing the information of visitors that land on the page. It typically does this through a conversion form, also known as a leadcapture form. A good landing
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Why Your Team Needs SubEmails: Streamline, Secure, and Scale Your Communication Introduction: Ever find yourself drowning in a shared inbox chaos where “info@” receives everything from job application
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