Ramblings
It’s an old adage that keeps coming around for me, applicable to so many aspects of everyday life. If you keep doing what everyone else is doing, you can only hope to get what everyone else is getting. Meanwhile, only 40 percent of Americans have enough income to completely pay off their credit card balance each month. The average American […]
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It’s said that it’s not what you know but you who you know that matters in life and work. Today, this can be applied to online businesses as well. An estimated 2 billion people access the internet via their smartphones from a base of 3.9 billion mobile users. There are also an estimated 2.65 billion people on social media and […]
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Blogging
I know I’ve been guilty of this on several occasions, and I’ll probably do it again. The first step, of course, is recognizing that this is a problem in the first place. As it turns out, an overwhelming number of content creators — Instgrammers, bloggers, YouTubers, podcasters, and all the rest of it — go about doing this completely backwards […]
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If you have a website, you need to have an email list. Whether it’s an eCommerce site, a blog, an online forum, or any other type of website, building an email list will allow you to directly message your customers, your leads, and your biggest fans any time you have something to say. You won’t have to wonder if they […]
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Business Dot Com Lifestyle
The grass is always greener. For a lot of people who are more traditionally employed, working from home can sound awfully alluring. Even if you don’t want to quit your day job just yet, the prospect of telecommuting rather than actually making the physical trip to the office each day sounds pretty great. And don’t get me wrong, working from […]
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There were a lot of supercars with a lot of carbon fiber at this week’s South OC Cars and Coffee. I checked out a few carbon loaded exotics, including a McLaren 720S Spider with nearly $100K of carbon options. It’s insane! You can spend $100K on carbon fiber or a new Porsche 911. Which would you choose?
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In addition to the fact that it’s an important ranking factor in Google, time on site is just an important metric that every site owner — bloggers in particular — needs to keep on his or her radar. Not every visit or page view on your site is made alike, because someone spends several minutes reading through your blog posts […]
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When it comes down to it, it’s not the credit card that is bad, it’s the person using the credit card. If you’re financially irresponsible, then it doesn’t matter if you live on cash or credit. You’re going to be a mess either way. You need to stop blaming the credit cards and look in the mirror. While credit cards […]
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