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One of our reads this month in the Freedom Business Builder book club is Jay Abraham’s Getting Everything You Can Out Of All You’ve Got. It’s a bit dated and oversimplified in places, but still a treasure trove of ideas for boosting your business. The following cold calling story from the book is a great example of how…

I’m not a huge fan of Gary Vaynerchuk – criticized him a bit in this video last year – but his $1.80 strategy for growing your business or brand on Instagram (or Twitter) sounds legit… In a nutshell: [Leave] your personal .02 cents on the top 9 trending Instagram posts for 10 different hashtags that are relevant to your…

How would you respond to a prospective client who says: “Your quote is too high. You told me X hours to get the job done. Other freelancers have told me they could do the job in Y hours max.” A member of our private Freedom Business Builder group responded along these lines: “Yes, I imagine my quote…

Here’s a great article discussing five lessons from history. At least three of them are applicable to business, especially #4: Progress happens too slowly for people to notice; setbacks happen too fast for people to ignore. For example, did you know that nobody really took notice of the Wright brothers and their flying machines until more…

Some fascinating insights in this 2019 podcast report from Andreessen Horowitz. They note that it’s notoriously difficult to make money from podcasts. The average podcast apparently monetizes at only $0.01 per active user per hour. That’s 10x less than radio, 23x less than the rest of the web, and 71x less than newspapers. That said, there are…

Imagine this: That’s the promise of Helium, “a startup that uses a blockchain to facilitate wireless connections.” Buying a hotspot will cost you $495 – US only – but there’s no info available on how much you’d earn, just that payment would be in the form of a new cryptocurrency. Worth keeping an eye on.

Solid advice posted on Reddit: In looking back at all of my failed business ideas, there’s a common theme: I tricked myself into thinking they were potentially profitable businesses. My flawed logic always was some version of this: “I’ll build this app, and then people will use it and like it, and then I’ll charge money…

After hearing good things about Quora marketing we spent 3.4 hours writing awesome answers to 18 questions on there. Our conclusion: Quora sucks for content marketing.

One of the most important things nobody really teaches us growing up: how to ask and answer the question, “How do I know this is true?” The ability to discern fact from fiction is crucial to success in business, and this 12-minute video by Smarter Every Day will help you hone it… The three steps covered in…

This question was asked on Hacker News last week. My favorite answer: I’ve been freelancing for 7 years, and the market has never been better for reliable web developers. A knowledgeable full-stack dev can earn above SV-level salary as a remote freelancer. However, if you’re marketing yourself purely as a “web developer”, you’re already commoditizing your skills. Instead,…

On Reddit, referring to UserTesting.com: I recently got back into it and was easily getting approved for some pretty great offers. I did 2 60 minute sessions today for $60 a piece and a few more tests for $10 a piece. In total this took me under 3 hours of my time. FYI, when testing websites on…