
At some point, if you're doing things right, you go from "solopreneur" to "solopreneur with helpers." Part of the reason that people start businesses, and one of the major reasons that I did, is to gain freedom. But you soon realize that freedom has a price. And that price is lack of freedom. At least in terms of ...

I spent the whole of 2011 blogging, tweaking and learning. I learned quite a lot… How to write blog posts that get noticed (content that gets shared). How to reach out and conduct group interviews with experts (content marketing mistakes). How to organize my content using a content inventory (content inventory). How to get more…
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Note: This post is part of the January Word Carnival — a monthly group blogging event specifically for small business owners. (It’s the most fun you’ll have all month!) Check out the rest of the fabulous carney work here. And don’t forget to join us for our Twitter Chat on Thursday (Jan 26) at noon (Pacific). We’ll…
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Being creative is a essential for any entrepreneur. The need for creativity is even higher in the online world because the competition is so high. If you plan on employing content marketing, you need to get really creative because the internet is overflowing with content (and exponentially growing). So how can you stand out of…
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On November 25th, the great people at Headway Themes will be releasing Headway 3.0. After seeing some of the features, I am excited! Standard Headway Features Let’s begin with three features that made me absolutely fall in love with the Headway theme: SEO Optimization: I used to be a huge fan of All-In-One SEO Pack….
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For those of you who may be following along in my journey to build up a business site from scratch, you may know that I now have a site called Content Strategy Hub. Within one month of launching the site, I had thousands of visitors, triple digit subscribers (opt-in not RSS) and a Google page…
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It has been a month and 10 days since I launched Content Strategy Hub. The results have been amazing, and thank you to all of you who have been supporting me over there. One of the main highlights I’d like to point out is that the site reached PR4 in just over a month. I…
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Have you ever participated in a chain mail? Today I’m going to do something along those lines. Last week Paul Wolfe nominated me to participate in a bit of blogosphere chain-mail
. I really liked this idea, so I can’t say no. Plus it feels good to be nominated by someone whom I respect as…
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