Email is a powerful marketing tool and a mailing list is easily an online business' most valuable asset. It makes sense, then, to ask yourself which one of the many email marketing tools available is "the best". Unfortunately, this question is difficult to answer. Email…
A good email marketing automation tool is a complex beast. We want lots of features from something so essential for running our business, but it's also easy to get lost in all the complexity. For today's review, I want to look at one of the…
How good is your offer? What do you offer to visitors on your website, in exchange for their attention, time and money? How good that offer is can make or break a business. A bad offer is almost impossible to move, even if your marketing…
There are many websites you could be visiting and many blogs you could be reading. So why spend your time here, on ActiveGrowth, instead of out there, where hypey content, distraction and funny cat gifs beckon? There are 3 good reasons to be here. ActiveGrowth…
A failure to get shit done is a very common problem among entrepreneurs. We're all better at coming up with ideas than at seeing them through to completion (as we've discovered in various previous posts). When you procrastinate and deliberate instead of finishing and publishing…
There's something magical about dance. When I was a kid, I could spend hours in front of the TV watching world-class dancers effortlessly glide over the dance floor with smile on their face and pride in their eyes. That's how I want to feel! I…
You've been lied to. I'm sorry to be the bearer of such bad news, but you've been lied to. And it gets worse: you've been lied to by some of the people you admire and look up to, the most. Specifically, you've been told that…
If you've got a WordPress website, I'm willing to bet online advertisements from generic hosting services like BlueHost and HostGator have targeted you before. How do I know? These companies have massive advertising budgets and capture large swaths of uninformed and unsuspecting customers as a…
Our minds crave variety all the time. We are always in a hurry: we want it all, we want it fast and we want it now. We want to consume new and exciting information as rapidly as possible as we think this is how we…
We all know successful, inspiring people we look up to. And sometimes, we want to be just like them. What's their secret? Can we be just as successful as they are if we copy what they do? Yes and no. While following someone's example and…
In the past four episodes of the ActiveGrowth podcast, we've dug deep into the topic of entrepreneurial procrastination. From forming highly productive habits to resisting the allure of bright-shiny-object syndrome, we've covered many tools that can help you finish projects (and grow your business) faster.
If you want to make money, you gotta sell something. And that means creating a product of your own. We call this creating a value based business and it's a simple proposition. However, the suggestion to create your own product probably causes a feeling of…
