Below you’ll find an unedited version of a chapter from my new book, Email Marketing Demystified. To get your copy of Email Marketing Demystified, visit www.myemailmarketingbook.com. You should offer your subscribers something of value in exchange for signing up for your email list, such as a discount coupon, a free report or a resource list. In the world of …
I’m writing another book.
I published my first book, 40 Rules for Internet Business Success, last July. Since then, more than 10,000 copies of the book have been downloaded through Amazon. It briefly held the title of being the most downloaded book in Amazon’s small business and entrepreneurship category. The audiobook version of 40 Rules for Internet Business Success …
Business Expenses: How My Company Maintains an 80% Profit Margin, Every Month
When I founded American Consumer News, LLC in 2006, I literally spent no money getting the business up and going. I didn’t really have any money, so I started my online business using a free Blogger blog and zero-cost marketing techniques. After writing for several months on the personal finance blog I created, then called …
Everything You Need to Know about Saving for Retirement (in 1,300 words or less)
Most of us are very bad investors. We put very little effort into deciding what kinds of things we should invest in. We don’t pay much attention to the tax consequences of our investments. We often let ourselves get sold products that primarily serve to enrich the person selling said products to us. We buy …
Introducing MarketBeat.com, the New Analyst Ratings Network
I began using the name Analyst Ratings Network in early 2012 in order to differentiate our coverage of equities research (analyst ratings) from our general financial news that we publish on American Banking and Market News (americanbankingnews.com). When I selected the name, I tried to pick out something that had an available domain name and …
How I Sent My Parents to Las Vegas for Free Using Points and Airline Miles
Last fall, I started listening to a travel hacking podcast called Abroaders after one of the hosts was interviewed on another podcast I listen to. After listening through their back catalog of episodes and reading a few travel hacking blogs, I learned that there is a community of people that regularly travel around the world …
Keep Me Accountable: A Few Steps Forward for Analyst Ratings Network
Three weeks ago, I wrote a post about some of the major changes that need to happen with Analyst Ratings Network as a result what I learned at a conference for self-funded startup entrepreneurs called Microconf. I wrote that I needed to simplify my company’s product offerings, reboot the brand of the company under a …
Juggling 3 Businesses (My BizNow Interview)
I was recently interviewed for BizNow, a Sioux Falls-area magazine that highlights a wide-variety of entrepreneurs and their companies. I’m thankful to Charlotte Hofer, Jessica Newell and the rest of the BizNow team for involving me in this issue. You can pick-up a copy of the magazine at your local HyVee or see the full …
Some Hard Truths About My Business (What I Learned at Microconf 2015)
I had the opportunity to attend Microconf, a conference for self-funded entrepreneurs that run technology businesses, earlier this week. One of the challenges that they gave attendees was to identify three actionable takeaways that you can implement in your business in the next few months. While many attendees came away with tactical strategies they can …
Podcasts I’m Listening To (2015 Update)
A couple of years ago, I published a list of podcasts that I listen to on a regular basis. Of course, podcasts come and go and my interests have evolved over time. I’ve also scaled back on the number of podcasts I listen to (from 31 to 20) because I’ve recently started listening to audiobooks …