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Free Traffic: Why Your Course Marketing Sucks

Information doesn't sell anymore. In the age of Wikipedia, Google and Quora available at the click of the finger, anyone can expand their knowledge for free - Tom Libelt points out. Yet, he believes that online courses are one of the greatest ways to make money and most people fail simply because they lack marketing skills to promote them. Tom helps people market their courses, and in today's episode, he revealed why many struggle with selling their courses, how to find your ideal ...

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The Only Way You Can Get Rich Overnight

Entrepreneurs are all about growth, grinding and hustle. We want to get more done, faster. Work harder than anyone we know. We're inspired by mentors, gurus and influencers who "made it" and want to model exactly what they do to be even more productive and grow even faster. It's pretty hard to get more than 24 hours in a day, so we look for ways to use even more of those 24 hours for hustling. Because that's what an entrepreneur ...

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Let Your Customers Do The Marketing For You

You can run countless ads. You can tell people about how awesome your products are. You can talk about the features and benefits for hours.A single happy customer's recommendation to their friends is still going to be more powerful.Think back of your last ten purchases. How many times did you pull the trigger because you read a great review, you heard your favorite YouTuber talk about it, or your friend randomly mentioned it over dinner? You may not even be ...

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Free Traffic: The Hero Outreach Method

In our previous ActiveGrowth podcast episode, we had a chat with Tim Soulo from Ahrefs about the importance of SEO and knowing your potential customers to increase your website traffic without spending much on it. You learned that SEO doesn't exclusively happen on your own website: to get quality backlinks and reach more people, you should get featured on other channels. And to make it happen, you need to start doing outreach.Today, we brought to you Colin Shipp, networking, PR and ...

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The Bootstrapper’s Guide to SEO

As much as we advocate the Customer First Approach, once you have a solid product and paying customers, you want to get more of them by increasing your website traffic.But getting just any sort of traffic won't cut it.If I send a thousands of middle-aged men to your local lingerie store, some might buy something, but most of them would leave empty-handed. It's the same online.No, you want quality traffic. People who are actually interested in your services and want to ...

Build Your Audience

How to Get Free Traffic to Your Website – The Big List

Everybody wants more traffic. And free traffic, especially.We've previously covered why you should forget about traffic when you start out. Instead, focus on getting paying customers, right away. If you follow the advice on this site, you'll soon find yourself with a solid business and a small number of customers or clients... but what then?At some point, traffic generation becomes the logical next step to focus on. That's what this post and our next series of podcast episodes is about.To start ...

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You Shouldn’t Be An Entrepreneur

"If you don't build your dream... someone will hire youto help build theirs." /Tony Gaskins/We don't think so. Here's what we think: If you agree with the quote above, you're never gonna be a successful entrepreneur.In today's episode, we continue the gentle but kind discouragement we started last time and discuss all the reasons why running your own business might not be your path after all. Being an employee, an entrepreneur, a freelancer or an intrapreneur can be equally cool depending on ...

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Don’t Be A Startup!

When you think of great entrepreneurial role models, who comes to mind?Probably über wealthy startup founders, CEOs and angel investors who's books on entrepreneurship are hailed as the modern day blueprints to business success.These entrepreneurship icons often tell us that growth at all costs is key. Get enough early investment capital and you can even operate your business at a loss from the very beginning until you find a way to dominate your market. Of the tiny startup minority that finds ...

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Are You Creating Value or Just Advertising Space?

You don't have to be a celebrity anymore to take high-quality pictures with branded products and get paid for it. In fact, all you need is a large enough audience, and sponsorship deals will come to you and pay your bills.That's what everyone seems to think these days anyway.In this episode, you'll hear about the ActiveGrowth take on influencer marketing and getting a large number of following on social media or high traffic on your website, so that you can ...

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Goals Worth Pursuing vs. Endlessly Grasping for More

We all want to be successful. Whether it means becoming a millionaire, making enough money to travel the world, gaining recognition, popularity or making a difference in the lives of others... the entrepreneurial-mind usually wants more. We like to think of success as a shiny place with cherries on the top where only great things happen. Yet, the news is full of highly successful celebrities who somehow end up taking their own lives. Money and fame just aren't enough to ...