It’s A Race… Online marketing is tough. You can try to outspend, or outplay your competition, however you have to realize that Google owns 70-80% of all online searches. So you really only have two ways to play the game … Pay Google through AdWords, or deliver such great content that Google has no choice but to index…
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Have you ever received a call from Google wanting to talk with you to make sure your Google Business listing is up to date? These automated phone calls say, “Our records show you have not updated your free Google (business) listing.” Even if you are registered with the ‘Do Not Call’ list, they keep calling. This type of call is a scam to get…
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I just recently delivered the 100th episode of the Bacon Podcast. That is an achievement and milestone I am very proud of. So far, there have been over 16,000 downloads (averaging around 1500 per month). I have also had almost 8,000 visits to the www.BaconPodcast.com website. This has been accomplished in less than a year. As a solopreneur,…
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Have you ever been on a rollercoaster? They can be fun and exciting. As a small business owner, have you ever been on the cash flow rollercoaster? That, my friends, can be scary! What is the cash flow rollercoaster you ask? It is the cycle of feast or famine that plagues many small businesses (especially solopreneurs). How…
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I was sitting on a plane last night on a flight coming back from giving a speech in LA, and I thought to myself, how much space do I have to work here? I boarded the plane with the best intentions of getting some work done, but I found it hard to be productive while on the plane. There were so many interruptions, like…
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One of my favorite movies is Monty Python and the Holy Grail. The Knights of the Round Table and King Arthur are on a quest to find the cup that Jesus used at the Last Supper (the Holy Grail). Wikipedia says – According to legend, it has special powers, and is designed to provide happiness, eternal youth and food…
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People have a love/hate relationship with Twitter. I can tell you that kids left Facebook in droves and headed to Twitter, because their mothers were logging on to Facebook. The people who love Twitter are tech savvy and like the quick messaging platforms. The people who hate it just don’t understand how the platform works. With the…
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I don’t know about you, but I am time zone challenged. I live in Chicago so we are in Central Daylight Savings Time, which is -5 Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), and not to be confused with Universal Time (UT). On top of that, some states in the U.S. don’t adhere to Daylight Savings. It gives me a…
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Back in the old days (1980’s and 1990’s), producing a video took a lot of technology and talent. Today, it still takes talent (maybe you and a guest), but the technology thing has gotten a whole lot easier. YouTube brought personal video into the mainstream, to the point that people have their own channels today. These people…
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Do you remember the movie “The Truman Show“? It’s a movie starring Jim Carrey as an insurance salesman whose entire life is actually a live TV show. At the time it seemed so far fetched, but today it’s the new reality TV! With mobile, phones, tablets and computers having better than average built-in video cameras, people have…
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