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In the Web World, It’s Content! Content! Content!

29. November 2008

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If it’s Location! Location! Location! for the real estate world, it’s Content! Content! Content! for the virtual world.  But, if you want to be effective, it has to be the right content. Here’s the formula that I’m using right now for my blogs.  If you’ve done a daily blog for awhile, I’m sure you can appreciate [...]

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Keep Trying

28. November 2008

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I think one of the most powerful personality traits of a successful entrepreneur in any business is the ability to get up, one more time.  If it doesn’t work, try again.  And if that doesn’t work, try again.  Of course, if you keep trying the same thing, that doesn’t make sense.  (The old adage:  Insanity [...]

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Being an Affiliate of Yourself

26. November 2008

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My last post was about one of our TaxLoopholes Community members who had just ventured into Affiliate Marketing and on her second attempt, hit paydirt!  She got a 60% ROI (which is huge).  Then last night she sent me an email and told me that they’d shut her down as an affiliate. I still don’t know [...]

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Real Life Affiliate Marketing Success Story

24. November 2008

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A year ago, I was one of those who thought all you had to do was “build it and they will come” when it came to websites.  Then we hit a big economic downturn and credit crunch and everything just changed.  And along the way, I discovered the “easy money” of affiliate marketing became easy [...]

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What is Your Highest Paid Skill/Ability/Talent?

23. November 2008

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Megan is down in San Diego for a few days for some intensive “let’s set goals” brainstorming sessions for both of us. Last night we got to talking about the various skills you use in a business that you wouldn’t think you would need.  For example, I started out as a CPA with a CPA practice. [...]

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What Comes First: the SEO or the Website?

20. November 2008

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Every Wednesday I have a conference call with my DKTaxServices clients.  I try to keep it at a half hour or less so that busy business owners can still have a life.    One of the experts on the call last night posed a question about SEO that really got me thinking.  But, first, here’s [...]

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Getting Started in an Internet Business

19. November 2008

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If you have a business and a website, chances are one of your goals is figuring out how to get people to your site.  There are two ways to get traffic:  organic (people find you) and paid traffic.    I came into my online tax education business (TaxLoopholes) almost as an after thought.  I wrote a [...]

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Back to Blogging - Here’s the first report of what’s working

18. November 2008

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Well, two comments/emails in as many days about “What happened?” and I moved blogging on this site as a priority.  I’m back! There has been so much going on behind the scenes that I just kindof forgot about memoralizing it along the way.   So, here’s the plan.  I’m going to go through the many moving pieces, [...]

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Are Successful Entrepreneurs Often Bi-Polar?

4. October 2008

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In another post, we discussed a study that showed that many CEOs of large companies were sociopaths.  Interestingly enough, since we talked about that, I’ve watched for evidence.  I’ve run into some people that have their own businesses that I’d now categorize as sociopathic.  In every case, the company doesn’t last long.  There is about [...]

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What Stops You is Not What You Think

3. October 2008

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It’s almost been a year since a partnership dissolution pushed me out of my safe, secure little shell.  In the meantime, our family has moved to the beach and at times, it has felt like we’re surviving more than thriving, but at least we’re not diving.  LOL   The struggle, like most struggles, has been [...]

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