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Neil Patel polled 483 companies to figure out the value of 100 followers on each social media platform. Among the findings: Overall, I come away from that article with a much better impression of LinkedIn – it ranks #1 or #2 in every category! Is your business active on LinkedIn? If so, how is it working…

Using a website slider can be a BAD IDEA. But if you have good reason, here are some QUICK and EASY ways to add a slider to your website.

Eight years, apparently. Also: On average the world’s richest earned their first million at age 36 with most making their fortune through their own business ventures. Shit, I’m 37 already. What have I been doing with my life? Oh yeah… traveling the world and stuff 😜 If you’ve also spent more than 36 years on this rock…

I stumbled across a website called Testlio yesterday and did some quick research. They basically hire people to test software for clients like Microsoft, Lyft, Salesforce, and GoDaddy. Here’s what a couple of folks on Reddit have said about it: “I was recommended testlio by this subreddit, and they seriously delivered on their 24 dollars an hour.…

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.