Tag Archives: Online

JoinUniverse.com: A Lesson in Flexibility

JoinUniverse.com: A Lesson in Flexibility

Posted on 18. Jan, 2012 by .

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Determination is often a good thing, but if you’re so focused on executing your original vision that you fail to adjust your plans when necessary, it can mean failure in short order. So one of the most important traits an entrepreneur can have is flexibility. True flexibility means being able to quickly adapt to the [...]

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How is Gen-Y Using Facebook? Survey Results Might Surprise You

How is Gen-Y Using Facebook? Survey Results Might Surprise You

Posted on 10. Jan, 2012 by .

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If you’re between the ages of 18 and 29, you’re part of “Gen-Y.” And as part of that generation, you make up a large part of the 750 million+ Facebook community. A new study, conducted by Millennial Branding, looked at more than 50 million Facebook data points from Identified.com, and the results were very interesting – to say the [...]

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Optimize This! What You Need to Know About Search Engine Optimization

Optimize This! What You Need to Know About Search Engine Optimization

Posted on 03. Jan, 2012 by .

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As an entrepreneur, you probably operate at lightning-fast speed.  You’re trying to cram so many things into one day that you barely have time to breathe, let alone eat.  In fact, you’re pretty sure you forgot to wear underwear last Wednesday. At some point, each entrepreneur comes to the realization that he/she doesn’t have the [...]

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How to Make an AdWords Friendly Squeeze Page

How to Make an AdWords Friendly Squeeze Page

Posted on 29. Nov, 2011 by .

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“Sign up now to get your FREE money making success kit!” You’ll see less and less of these headlines on squeeze pages which attempt to gather emails through hype-like offers. Gone are the days of content-less squeeze pages, whose only options upon entering the landing page are the “sign up” and back button. If you [...]

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Dealing with Negative Feedback on Your Site

Dealing with Negative Feedback on Your Site

Posted on 30. Sep, 2011 by .

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In today’s market, businesses are no longer dictating to, but rather listening to and conversing with their customer base.  By opening your company up for this type of conversation, you’re also leaving the ability for unhappy customers to complain. And they will often do so very loudly and publicly.  In cases like this, what should [...]

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3 Common SEO Mistakes to Avoid

3 Common SEO Mistakes to Avoid

Posted on 20. Apr, 2011 by .

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Optimizing your website to gain search engine positioning can be a process that takes a lot of time and focus. It’s no wonder a lot of entrepreneurs hire SEO firms to handle this for them. But that can be very expensive, and it’s hard to know which firms are the best. While many stick to [...]

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Transparency in the Internet Marketing World? Yanik Silver & Derek Gehl are Making it a Reality

Transparency in the Internet Marketing World? Yanik Silver & Derek Gehl are Making it a Reality

Posted on 26. Jan, 2011 by .

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Yanik Silver has been one of my favorite online marketers for a long time.  Over the past couple of years, Yanik has also become a good friend. We met when I had the opportunity to attend one of his Maverick Business Adventures, and I also interviewed Yanik a while back, over at YoungEntrepreneur.com (read interview). [...]

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Derek Johnson

10 Inspiring Young Online Entrepreneurs

Posted on 27. Aug, 2010 by .

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One really awesome thing about the Internet is that there’s no such thing as age discrimination when it comes to being successful.  It doesn’t matter if you’re 12 or 72 – you have just as much chance as anyone of becoming rich and famous through an online business.  To illustrate the point, here, in no [...]

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What Time Google

Coming Soon to a Device Near You: Web 3.0

Posted on 23. Jul, 2010 by .

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Hold on… aren’t we still figuring out what Web 2.0 is?  Well, yes.  But those on the cutting edge have been dreaming of Web 3.0 for quite some time already.  In fact, the oldest reference we can find to Web 3.0 was when Google CEO, Eric Schmidt, was asked about it at a conference back [...]

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How to Stalk Your Customers Like a Pro

Posted on 23. Jun, 2010 by .

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Imagine going into your local electronics store, Joe’s Electronics, to look at a new flat-screen TV.  You check out the various models, talk with a sales person, and decide to think it over.  You’ve heard Best Buy has some good deals, and maybe you’ll head over there tomorrow to see what they’ve got.  As you [...]

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Affiliate Network Review: EWA Private Network

Affiliate Network Review: EWA Private Network

Posted on 26. May, 2010 by .

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Every now and then, a product, service or program comes along that really needs to be reviewed and promoted – not because it’s a paid review or affiliated site, but because it’s just outstanding.  Even though this is a paid review, that’s definitely the case with EWA Private Network.  EWA, which stands for Eagle Web [...]

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How to Make Your Facebook Page Work!

Posted on 21. May, 2010 by .

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Getting visitors to your Facebook page isn’t that hard.  Using basic Social Media techniques, connecting with people – on Facebook as well as Twitter and anywhere else you can – will get people visiting your page.  Once they get there though, the trick is to get them to keep coming back.  Facebook, like all social [...]

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Bad Online Reputation

How to Deal with a Damaged Online Rep

Posted on 07. May, 2010 by .

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If you have any kind of online presence, customers, readers, followers, or whatever you call them, are talking about you.  Whether it’s comments on your blog, tweets about your business, or reviews and feedback on sites like Yelp or Epinions, the Internet has made it easy for everyone to make their views known.  And that’s [...]

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Keeping it Together – Dropbox Brings Sanity to Your Devices

Posted on 20. Apr, 2010 by .

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If you’re like a lot of people, you have a desktop, laptop, smartphone, and maybe even an iPad.  So what do you do when you have a brilliant idea while sitting at Starbucks working on your laptop or in your car with just your iPhone or Blackberry handy, and you want to recall the document [...]

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