The third edition of my best-selling email marketing book, Email Marketing Demystified, is now available on Amazon. It is available in paperback, Kindle, and audiobook formats. The first edition of Email Marketing Demystified was published almost eight years ago. The social media landscape has shifted dramatically during that time. Some platforms like Vine and Google+ no …
Eight years ago, I made my first angel investment in a company called Tradesy via Tim Ferris’s AngelList syndicate. Within a matter of months, I made several more investments in startup companies via AngelList. I also made a couple of angel investments directly in local companies. I didn’t know what I was doing at the …
Over the past few years, it has become apparent that Sioux Falls needs to rethink how it serves startup businesses if we are to be successful as a state that fosters entrepreneurship. The legacy model of business incubation in a dedicated startup facility simply will not work in an era marked by remote work, ubiquitous …
Over the last fifteen years of running online businesses, I have had the opportunity to test and leverage many different marketing channels, including email, browser notifications, Twitter accounts, Facebook messenger bots, Instagram accounts, YouTube channels, and a few others. Just about every year, some new social media company comes out and encourages businesses and influencers …
During the World Wide Developer Conference earlier in June, Apple announced that its mail client would start blocking tracking pixels which allow email marketers to know when a user has opened their email. Tracking pixels, which are referred to by some as “spy pixels,” are primarily used to determine which subscribers are active and which …
One of the things about MarketBeat that I am most proud of is that we have never had any employee turnover in the company’s 13-year history of incorporation. We have only ever hired 12 people over the last decade, but we never had anyone quit or otherwise leave the company until last week. Our first …
Raising money for a small business or startup is perhaps easier now than it ever has been. There’s still a significant learning curve when it comes to identifying potential angel investors, getting a meeting with them and pitching your startup. Nick Horob from Harvest Profit and I recently did a webinar for Startup Sioux Falls …
During our last Falls Angel Fund meeting, we heard investment pitches from three high-growth startup companies that are based in the Dakota’s. One company was a software and services business that we had invested in an earlier round. One was a new software company seeking capital for the first time. The third was an early-stage …
Every now and then I receive a text, an email or a Facebook message asking me, “Hey, what do you think of [Person], that marketing and business guru that’s all over Facebook/YouTube/Instagram?” It can be difficult to determine if any given business expert or marketing guru is the real deal merely by looking at their …
Beginning this year, Sioux Falls will celebrate Entrepreneurship Day on the first Wednesday of March. For the 2021 celebration taking place on March 3, the general public is invited to join the festivities by participating in a host of events organized by the teams at the Zeal Center for Entrepreneurship (Zeal) and Startup Sioux Falls. …
You are a savvy business owner. Maybe you listen to marketing podcasts and have read some popular business books. You understand that one of your business’s most valuable assets is its customer and prospect lists. You put an email sign-up form on your website to build your audience, perhaps incentivized by a discount coupon, a …
One of my goals for 2020 was to wrap up some entrepreneurial side projects so that MarketBeat is the only company that I have an operating role in. There were a couple of little websites that I got rid of and a real-estate investment club that I was part of that disbanded, but GoGo Photo …
When I was a student at Dakota State University, I paid close attention to the emails that were sent to all students. A lot of the emails were noise from student activities I was not interested in, but every now and then great opportunities were presented that any ambitious student could take advantage of. It …
The setting is Thanksgiving of 2010. Karine and I were engaged at the time and were planning a wedding the following summer. We spent the long weekend at her parents’ farm outside of Emery, South Dakota. The weekend was marked by energetic nieces and nephews, board games, walks on country roads and German chocolate pie. …
A couple of weeks back, I was doing some routine monitoring of MarketBeat’s email engagement metrics and saw an interesting number appear on our dashboard: It turns out that MarketBeat has sent more than one billion emails in 2020 to our 1.75 million email subscribers with an average open rate of 21%. Any spammer can …
2020 has been a year of growth for MarketBeat. Our email list has grown by more than 500,000 subscribers since the first of the year. We brought on two additional employees. We just crossed $10 million in revenue for the year and expect to see 75% year-over-year growth for the year. While we did see …
Every now and then I receive an email from someone that is looking for advice about building a mobile app for their business or non-profit. These conversations usually start along the lines of, “Hey, I have a great idea for an app. Who do I talk to?” or “Do you know any good app developers?” …
For the last twelve years, I have largely worked in solitude in front of a computer screen. First as a remote employee and then later as a business owner, most of my workday as been spent at home or in a small office with minimal human contact during the day. Even today, there are at …
For the longest time, my team did not want to get an office. They instead preferred working out of their homes, coffee shops, and coworking spaces. It was hard to blame them. Many offices are barebones spaces with white walls, fluorescent lighting, industrial carpet and just enough furniture to get work done. Even newly designed …
During the initial wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, we all learned what life would be like with fewer obligations. Business meetings, church services, kids’ activities and other events all got put on hold and we all found ourselves with a lot more free time. Personally, I went from averaging 10-15 in-person meetings per week to …
Looking back at my most recent quarterly update, it’s amazing to see how much the world has changed in such a short period of time. A little over a month ago, we were attending church every Sunday morning and Wednesday night, our children were in school and we had a full travel schedule planned for …
We find ourselves in unprecedented times. Many small businesses have had to close their doors and furlough employees with no idea when they might be able to re-open. Unemployment claims have hit an all-time high and some are predicting that COVID-19 related job losses could reach 47 million. The United States economy is undoubtedly in …
I received a message the other day from a high school classmate about what opportunities exist to invest in small businesses and startups when you’re not accredited. There’s no simple and easy way to do this, but I highlight some opportunities in this video. Watch on YouTube (Watch this Video on YouTube) Prefer to read …
At the 2020 Sioux Falls Business Expo, I presented a talk that discussed various ways to raise money for small businesses and startups. Thanks to the help of Joshua Novak and Main St. Media House, I was able to record the presentation so that is can be distributed more widely. Here you will find my …
Fourteen years ago, I made a decision that fundamentally changed my life. I chose to stop living for my own selfish ambitions and recommitted my life to Christ as a sophomore in college at Dakota State University. Through the work of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship and West Center Baptist Church, I recognized that there was a …
For the last seven years, marketers have had the ability to send push notifications to website visitors directly through their web browsers using a technology called web push notifications. A website can issue a prompt to a user in their web browser asking them if they want to receive notifications from that website. If they …
MarketBeat had a successful New Year’s sale that ran from December 26th to January 3rd. We’ve done this for the last few years and the results keep getting better every year. I’m not 100% sure what makes the window between Christmas and the New Year a particularly good time to promote our newsletter and software …
(Watch this Video on YouTube) A couple of weeks ago, I was invited to attend a Christmas party that entrepreneur Kevin Tupy held for his real estate and business development firm, Cresten Capital Holdings. It was held at the new Tavern 180 restaurant and the food was top-notch (try the Chicken Parmesan, you won’t regret …
(Watch this Video on YouTube) Financial author David Bach is famous for teaching a concept called “The Latte Factor,” which is the idea that recurring small purchases like coffee, cigarettes and ordering pizza add up to a ridiculous amount of money over the course of a lifetime. For example, if you were to buy a …
(Watch this Video on YouTube) 2008 was a very bad year for many industries. The financial media space, which MarketBeat operates in, was perhaps the worst hit. Investors took money out of the stock market in droves as the S&P 500 lost 50% of its value during the 18-month bear market that lasted between October …
By the end of 2019, MarketBeat will have sent over 1.5 billion emails since I launched the business in 2011. We’re currently sending out more than 60 million emails per month to our 1.25 million subscribers. Our ability to send large amounts of email to our customers has scaled nicely over the years, but it …
Looking for a creative way to grow your email list for your business or non-profit? This video shows a creative hack that lets you use Facebook and EventBrite to build your mailing list. (Watch this Video on YouTube)
(Watch this Video on YouTube) The topic of hiring has come up a lot recently in the Startup Sioux Falls community and this shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone given our city’s historically-low unemployment rate. Chelsea Giedd, a local boutique owner in Sioux Falls, recently published a series of podcast episodes about hiring and that …
When it comes to email marketing, having a bigger list is not always better. It’s not the marketer with the biggest email list that wins, it’s the marketer that has the most engaged audience that wins. Email service providers are looking at engagement statistics (open rates, clickthrough rates, subscriber replies, spam reports) more than ever …
This simple and underutilized email marketing tactic generated 40% additional clicks on our most recent email campaign at MarketBeat. (Watch this Video on YouTube)
I had the privilege of being on a panel with Ryan Swanstrom from Swanstrom Analytics and Jodi Schwan from SiouxFalls.Business at the South Dakota Technology Showcase event, which is put on by SDN Communications. During the panel, we discussed artificial intelligence initiatives from South Dakota companies, the role that higher education plays in training technology …
Watch this Video on YouTube A couple of years ago, I was facing a significant issue with how my free time was being spent. MarketBeat was growing like a weed and I had become involved in a variety of non-profit volunteer roles. At the same time, I was getting all sorts of requests for …
In some entrepreneurial circles, having sold out of a business is a badge of honor. You created something from nothing. You built a profitable business and your business was so attractive that someone wrote you a big check and bought you out. You’ve got a pile of money in the bank and now you’re free …
We all ascribe ourselves many labels that describe who we are to the world. One label I’ve carried for the last decade is “startup founder”, but I recently realized that MarketBeat is no longer a startup. In this video, I talk about the five signs that your business is no longer in start-up mode. Watch …
For years, I resisted the idea of having an assistant at MarketBeat due to my middle-class mindset. I finally hired an assistant two months ago and that decision has forever benefited my ability to get work done and spend more time with my family. Watch on Facebook (Watch this Video on Facebook) Watch on YouTube …
I’ve been building online businesses since 2006 and I’ve run into some interesting people in circumstances during that time. From the illegal translation of one of my books to the 80-year-old man that threatened to drive to Sioux Falls and beat me up, it’s been a wild ride. (Watch this Video on YouTube) Prefer to …
Two years ago, I wrote a comprehensive article covering the state of co-working in Sioux Falls at the time. The Bakery, which was the largest standalone co-working space in Sioux Falls at the time, was on the verge of closing and Meso, another co-working space, had closed the year earlier. This left the Zeal Center …
You’ve probably heard the idea that “You become the average of the five people you spend the most time with.” There’s a corollary to that saying you might not have heard of. It’s that “You become the content you consume.” I talk about it in this video. (Watch this Video on YouTube) Prefer to read …
Do you want to open a new retail store or local services business in your community? In this video, I talk about what it takes to raise money to launch your business and get it off the ground. (Watch this Video on YouTube) Prefer to read instead of watch? Here’s a rough script I used …
MarketBeat has a unique hybrid remote work environment. We don’t spend all day every day in an office together, but we’re also not completely remote either. We’ve developed a system that we think gives us the benefits of working in an office together, without having to be in an office 40 hours each week. (Watch …
I’m trying an experiment during the summer. I’m setting a hard cap on the number of meetings I’ll take each week to protect my time for my family and my business. (Watch this Video on YouTube) Prefer to read instead of watch? Here’s a rough script I used for this video. Matt Paulson here. In …
Can you publish too much content to your social media channels? Will people unfollow you for being a prolific content creator? I have some thoughts. (Watch this Video on YouTube) Prefer to read instead of watch? Here’s a rough script I used for this video. Matt Paulson here. In this video, I want to discuss …
The principle I discuss in this video was something I discovered in 2013 when my business was beginning to get some traction. I don’t claim to be the first person to discover this principle, but when I applied it in my life, my business’s revenue and my personal income doubled every year for three consecutive …
There are many different reasons small businesses and startups fail, but there are four traits that I’ve seen in every successful entrepreneur I’ve ever met. I talk about them in this video. #startups #business #business #marketing #entrepreneurship #startup #souxfalls (Watch this Video on YouTube) Prefer to read instead of watch? Here’s a rough script I …
In this video, I argue why you should unsubscribe from all of the business podcasts that you listen to. It’s not the reason that you think. (Watch this Video on YouTube) Prefer to read instead of watch? Here’s a rough script I used for this video. Matt Paulson here. In this video, I am going …
In this video, I discuss the experience I’ve had with my local chamber of commerce and whether or not you should join your local chamber of commerce. (Watch this Video on YouTube) Prefer to read instead of watch? Here’s a rough script I used for this video. For a long time, I thought being part …
The 1 Million Cups community in Fargo, North Dakota invited Andy Jorgensen from Firebrothers Fireworks and myself to speak at their weekly event. We had the opportunity to travel to Fargo last week and talk about our businesses. The team at Forum Communications was kind enough to record our talks and the Q&A for posterity. …
Do you plan on being successful? You will almost certainly attract a small group of haters that speak poorly of you, minimize your success and talk about you behind your back. Every successful person I know has a few haters. It comes with the territory. People will project their own insecurities on you and use …
Have you tried and failed to get your business covered by the local newspaper, television stations or local radio stations? It’s not hard to get featured in the local press, but there are three rules you must follow to get your business media coverage. (Watch this Video on YouTube) Here’s some of the media coverage …
The second edition of my best-selling email marketing book, Email Marketing Demystified, is now available on Amazon. It is currently available in paperback and Kindle formats and will be available as an audiobook soon. —– Last fall, I was teaching a class on email marketing at the Zeal Center for Entrepreneurship in my hometown of …
I can’t count the number of times that I have explained to people what service MarketBeat provides to stock investors. I’ve tried communicating our business model in several different ways, such as saying it’s a financial news service or a stock portfolio monitoring tool. I’m still not sure people really fully understand what our business …
Falls Angel Fund just made its 10th and final investment. In this video, I provide some unscripted thoughts and retrospective about the fund and what I learned in the process. (Watch this Video on YouTube)
Building a business is an inherently risky proposition, so much so that 70% of companies fail within the first ten years of operations. How do you build a business that stands the test of time? Here are four key ideas that will help your business make it to ten years or more. (Watch this Video …
BREAKING: The second edition of Email Marketing Demystified is coming out on March 25th! Last fall, I was teaching a class on email marketing at the Zeal Center for Entrepreneurship in my hometown of Sioux Falls, South Dakota. During the question and answer section of my talk, a friend noted that Email Marketing Demystified was …
(Watch this Video on YouTube) Prefer to read instead of watch? Here’s a rough script I used for this video. Whenever you’re going into business, your goal at the end of the day is to be able to take money home from your business so that you have an income to provide for your family, …
Given the sheer number of online scams, consumers will be naturally skeptical when they visit your website for the first time. In this video, I show nine different ways that you can foster trust with the people visiting your website, making them more likely to trust your brand and purchase from your company. (Watch this …
Are you looking to help grow the startup community or ecosystem in your city? There are three key things that you can do to help bring more startups to your city. (Watch this Video on YouTube) Want to read instead of watch? Here’s a rough script I used for this video. I live in Sioux …
Having your business name trademarked can be an incredibly valuable thing for your business, because it prevents other businesses in your category from using your name. Learn why you might want a trademark and why trying to file a trademark yourself might be a bad idea. Watch this Video on YouTube Here’s a rough script …
What should you do when someone copies your business? Your first inclination will be to get mad at them for stealing your idea, but that may not be the most helpful thing for your business. (Watch this Video on YouTube) Here’s a rough script if you prefer to read instead of watch: In this video, …
If you’re looking to raise money to start a business, your first course of action might to go seek out angel investors to fund your business. This works if you’re running a business that has the opportunity to reach national scale, but there are other financing options you should consider if you are developing a …
Totally unplugging from your business isn’t easy, especially if you run an online business that’s generating cash every hour of every day of the year. I’ve made a personal commitment to unplug from my business more this year and here’s what I’m doing to make it happen. (Watch This Video on YouTube) Want to read …
MarketBeat has created seven-figure revenue streams with email and web push notifications, now we’re going to try it with SMS. I believe SMS could be the next big marketing channel for our business, and maybe yours as well. Watch this Video on YouTube Here’s a rough script if you prefer to read instead of watch: …
Watch this video on YouTube. Last fall, I was teaching a free class on email marketing at a local entrepreneurship center in my hometown of Sioux Falls, South Dakota. During the question and answer section of my talk, a friend noted that Email Marketing Demystified was written in 2015 and wondered if there was any …
Last fall, we had a speaker cancellation at 1 Million Cups and John Meyer suggested we experiment with an “ask me anything” format where the speaker didn’t have a prepared talk and the audience could ask the speaker anything they wanted to. I agreed to be the guinea pig for this format and you can …
It’s early January and you’re setting your business and personal goals for the year. Your first inclination might be to set a big financial goal, but achieving that goal may be a hollow victory. Watch This Video on YouTube Here’s a rough script I used for this video if you prefer to read than watch: …
A lot of people have built 7-figure and 8-figure online businesses by selling through Amazon FBA, but does that opportunity still exist in 2019? I wouldn’t try to start a new Amazon business in 2019 and here’s why. Watch the Video on YouTube here Want to read instead of watch? Here’s a rough script I …
Every now and then, someone asks me what digital marketing and entrepreneurship conferences I’ll be attending in 2019. In this video, I discuss which conferences I’m attending and why I attend each one year after year. (Watch this video on YouTube)
Depending on the type of business you run and who your customers , you should look to find social proof from different places. In this video, I discuss what types of businesses should seek accreditation from the Better Business Bureau and which should focus on Facebook and Google reviews. Watch this video on YouTube
Mike Vetter (CEO of DataSync), Tom Eitreim (Manager of Angel Funds and Market Research at The Enterprise Institute), Dwaine Chapel (Executive Director of The Research Park at South Dakota State University) and I sat down with Jackelyn Severin from South Dakota Public Broadcasting for their Making a Living program to discuss the start of venture …
Whenever I run into someone I haven’t seen in a while, they invariable ask me, “What are you working on next?” I hear this question at least twice per week from people that I run into in the community. I don’t always have a great answer to that question, because if I thought something was …
When you’re bringing on a new member to your team, it’s important to set them up for success. You want employees to be informed about your business, inspired to do great work and equipped with the tools they need to do their job well. We just brought on two new employees to MarketBeat. In this …
Watch this video on YouTube. For the last several years, MarketBeat has been a small team of four. We had written down some core values in 2013. I wanted to pull them up because we had a couple of new employees and wanted to instill them into our employees. The problem was I couldn’t find …
MarketBeat had significant growth in 2018, but a lot of that growth sat on my shoulders. I have been at my work capacity for a while now, and my goal for 2019 is to build a business that can thrive without me and stand the test of time. To help achieve this goal, we have …
As the public face of Falls Angel Fund, I receive a lot of inquiries from entrepreneurs and would-be business owners that are looking to raise money to get their businesses off the ground. In the past couple of weeks, I have received inquiries from an entrepreneur running a medical devices startup, an entrepreneur running a …
Black Friday, Christmas and New Years are just around the corner. If you have an email list for your business, the holiday season is the best time of year to leverage your mailing list to generate sales. I recorded a live webinar on this subject. On the webinar, we talked talk about sequencing of messages, …
If you’re a business owner, hiring other entrepreneurs to work for you can be a double-edged sword. They can provide a significant contribution to your business, but may ultimately be unhappy working for someone else. I recorded a short video that has discusses the considerations if you’re thinking about hiring an entrepreneur to work for …
Some entrepreneurs believe they can’t compete with other players in an existing market and should try to invent a brand new business idea from the ground up. You should be able to corner a market and build a profitable business with no competitors, right? Turns out, that’s not usually the case. Existing competition in a …
I recently recorded a webinar on the basics of Email Marketing, including email service providers, list building, copy-writing, list monetization and list maintenance. You can also view the recording on YouTube here.
Each month, I meet with five to ten business owners that want to raise money for their startups. Since I’m the chair of a community angel investment fund, there are a lot of people that are told “go talk to Matt” when they ask around about raising capital to grow their business. I take as …
As the chair of a community-based angel investment fund, I receive a lot of meeting requests from business owners that want to have a conversation about raising money for their business. These entrepreneurs usually have minimal business development and fundraising experience and are looking for a way to fund their future growth. I rarely get much out …
Every successful community has a central hub for the sharing of ideas the facilitation of random social interactions. Churches have Sunday worship. Service clubs like Rotary and Kiwanis have weekly meetings. Geeks have game nights at local comic shops. These regular places of meeting provide members of a community a forum to engage other people …
In 2012, a group of seven of my friends decided to purchase a rental home together. We found a nice undervalued property, fixed it up using our own labor, and rented it to one of our friends’ parents for a fair market rate. After a few years, we were able to pay off the house …
Over the last 100 years, marketers have pushed the promises they make to consumers to the limit to generate sales in an increasingly competitive world. They have used sex, action, greed and urgency to capture the increasingly fickle attention of consumers. They have made outrageous claims and guarantees about their products that simply don’t stand …
I recently recorded a webinar on how MarketBeat has leveraged web push notifications, email marketing and Facebook Messenger to grow our business from $500,000 per year in 2013 to over $4 million per year in 2018. We go over several practical tips in this hour long recording (and there’s no sales pitch at the end!). …
One of the best ways to build a business in this decade is to capture the attention of an audience and then rent that attention to advertisers that want to talk to your audience. We have done this with MarketBeat by earning the attention of 575,000 individual investors that have subscribed to our daily email …
The following is a guest post by Victoria Greene. Victoria Greene is a branding consultant and freelance writer. On her blog, VictoriaEcommerce, you’ll find a wealth of articles covering how new business owners can get their brand off the ground. She is passionate about using her experience to help fellow entrepreneurs succeed. As anyone who has …
“What’s the first step to starting a business?” Common answers to this question include coming up with a name, figuring out who your target market is, identifying the products and services you want to sell, identifying a location for your business or setting up an LLC. These tasks are all important, but I would argue …
It’s been a few months since I last sent out a monthly update, but here’s what’s been going on that you might find interesting. – Earlier this year, I made a significant pivot to focus less on side projects and more on my core business (MarketBeat). I decided to stop publishing new books for the …
Toward the end of last year, I was seriously considering selling MarketBeat and moving on to my next project. The company did not see much growth in 2016 and I thought I had grown the business as large as I could with my current skill set. The work had become mundane and I just wasn’t …
I have been involved in the Sioux Falls entrepreneurial ecosystem for about four years now. During that time, I’ve seen many people get interested in entrepreneurship, make plans to start a company and give up when their business isn’t an immediate hit or they realize how much work it really is to start a company. …
For the last several years, I’ve tried to make a name for myself in the internet business education space in the same vein that Pat Flynn, John Lee Dumas, Jaime Tardy and many others have. The idea is that by branding oneself as an expert in the space, one can build an audience, sell digital …
For every dollar that I have available to invest in start-up businesses, there are at least twenty people that would happily take that dollar and promise me big returns in the future. Since the vast majority of start-up businesses fail, I have the overwhelming task of determining which entrepreneurs that want my money will be …
A couple of weeks ago, I had the opportunity to participate in the God as CEO breakfast lead by Paul TenHaken. More than 300 local business leaders attended the event. Paul challenged us to stop compartmentalizing our lives and to live out our Christian faith in the workplace. He shared examples of local companies that …
A couple of weeks ago, I highlighted four things that I believe Sioux Falls will need if it wants to follow the footsteps of Austin, Boulder and other startup communities and become a city that regularly spawns startups that create new jobs, attract investment capital and foster economic growth. We will need opportunities for collaboration …
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Over the last several months, the business community in Sioux Falls has taken a renewed interest in the role that entrepreneurship plays in bettering the city. The Zeal Center for Entrepreneurship has become more prominent in the community with their recent rebrand and remodel, as well as their launch of an accelerator program. The closure …
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Last week, we received word that The Bakery, a co-working space and entrepreneurial community in Sioux Falls, will be giving up its physical space at the end of April and will become an online community of entrepreneurs that has in-person meetups and events at other locations. The Bakery is now the second co-working space to …
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Below, you will find an unedited excerpt from my new book about building Internet-based businesses, Online Business from Scratch. To receive updates about the book, visit www.fromscratchbook.com. You might think that you don’t have enough work to keep an employee or contractor busy or that you can’t afford to bring on a team member right …
Online Business from Scratch, my most recent business book, is now available on Amazon. Many of my friends and readers would like to start a business and make money online, but they know it can’t be as easy as some online gurus make it sound. Would you like a realistic strategy that actually works for real people? …
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Below, you will find an unedited excerpt from my new book about building Internet-based businesses, Online Business from Scratch. To receive updates about the book, visit www.fromscratchbook.com. There are several other creative strategies that you can use to make money in your business that don’t fall neatly into the broad categories of display advertising, affiliate …
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Below, you will find an unedited excerpt from my new book about building Internet-based businesses, Online Business from Scratch. To receive updates about the book, visit www.fromscratchbook.com. After your business is more established and you have begun to develop your own products and services, you can experiment with doing paid advertising to grow your email …
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Below, you will find an unedited excerpt from my new book about building Internet-based businesses, Online Business from Scratch. To receive updates about the book, visit www.fromscratchbook.com. A standard operating procedures (SOP) is a written document that explains how people working at your company should complete a specific task and why they should complete it …
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Below, you will find an unedited excerpt from my new book about building Internet-based businesses, Online Business from Scratch. To receive updates about the book, visit www.fromscratchbook.com. Many people think that managing others isn’t hard and that they would be a pretty good boss given the opportunity, but creating an environment with good communication and …
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Below, you will find an unedited excerpt from my new book about building Internet-based businesses, Online Business from Scratch. To receive updates about the book, visit www.fromscratchbook.com. I have probably hired about two dozen people between employees and contractors over the course of the last decade. I have never created a single job posting or …
In 2014, I set a personal goal to publish a 200+ page non-fiction book. My friend, Andy Traub, had published a book on Amazon and I figured if he could do it, I could do it too. That effort culminated about four months after it began, with the launch of 40 Rules for Internet Business …
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Below, you will find an unedited excerpt from my new book about building Internet-based businesses, Online Business from Scratch. To receive updates about the book, visit www.fromscratchbook.com. If you are at your maximum workload capacity and are looking to bring someone on to lighten your load, make a list of your current work-related responsibilities and …
Below, you will find an unedited excerpt from my new book about building Internet-based businesses, Online Business from Scratch. To receive updates about the book, visit www.fromscratchbook.com. In the United States, there are two broad categories of workers—employees and independent contractors. Employees tend to work for a single company and contractors tend to do a …
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“So, Matt, what are you working on next?” This is by far the number one question that I get when I run into friends and business acquaintances. I hear this question at least twice per week from people that I run into at coffee shops and networking events. I usually don’t have a great answer …
Below, you will find an unedited excerpt from my new book about building Internet-based businesses, Online Business from Scratch. To receive updates about the book, visit www.fromscratchbook.com. There are two broad categories of work related to your business—working on your business and working in your business. If you have read the book E-Myth by Michael …
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Below, you will find an unedited excerpt from my new book about building Internet-based businesses, Online Business from Scratch. To receive updates about the book, visit www.fromscratchbook.com. You might generate a large number of sales during your initial launch period only to find that sales taper off after the promotional efforts for your launch conclude. …
Below, you will find an unedited excerpt from my new book about building Internet-based businesses, Online Business from Scratch. To receive updates about the book, visit www.fromscratchbook.com. There are several companies that produce software and services geared toward people selling digital products. Here are some software packages and services you might consider using as part …
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Below, you will find an unedited excerpt from my new book about building Internet-based businesses, Online Business from Scratch. To receive updates about the book, visit www.fromscratchbook.com. In order to successfully launch a product to your audience, you need to make a really big deal about your launch and give your audience incentives to buy …
Below, you will find an unedited excerpt from my new book about building Internet-based businesses, Online Business from Scratch. To receive updates about the book, visit www.fromscratchbook.com. Before you begin creating an outline, writing or recording videos, the first step to creating your digital product is writing the marketing copy you plan on using to …
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Automatic Income, my first book specifically about investing, is now available. In my role as the founder of MarketBeat.com, and as an investor myself, I learn about a lot of different investment strategies. There are so many voices making recommendations in this space that it’s hard for most investors to sort it all out. I …
The same strategies that you use to identify what kind of content to create on your website can be used to identify what kind of digital products to create. You can create products based on what your competitors are doing, build products around the issues that people in your niche are talking about on Quora …
(Note from Matt: Startup Q&A is an experimental video show that I am working on. It is in “beta” and production values will steadily improve from week to week.) Links: Watch on YouTube Watch on Facebook Download Audio (MP3) Subscribe to Audio Podcast Subscribe on Stitcher Subscribe on Google Play Growth Hack of the Week: …
Below, you will find an unedited excerpt from my new book about building Internet-based businesses, Online Business from Scratch. To receive updates about the book, visit www.fromscratchbook.com. Launching an online business requires an incredible amount of work over a long period of time and there’s never quite enough time to get everything done that you …
Below, you will find an unedited excerpt from my new book about building Internet-based businesses, Online Business from Scratch. To receive updates about the book, visit www.fromscratchbook.com. You might think that you won’t be able to sell a digital product to your audience because there are people that know more than you that are already …
(Note from Matt: Startup Q&A is an experimental video show that I am working on. It is in “beta” and production values will steadily improve from week to week.) Links: Watch on YouTube Watch on Facebook Download Audio (MP3) Subscribe to Audio Podcast Subscribe on Stitcher Subscribe on Google Play This Week’s Questions #1 – …
Below, you will find an unedited excerpt from my new book about building Internet-based businesses, Online Business from Scratch. To receive updates about the book, visit www.fromscratchbook.com. When you promote other people’s products and services on your website through display ads and affiliate offers, you only get to keep a small fraction of the revenue …
Have you ever been trolling around Facebook and seen someone whose profile suggested they had their life all together? They have well-behaved children, have adorable pets, have lots of friends and regularly go on exotic vacations. You might compare what’s happening in your day-to-day life to the things that they share on their Facebook profile …
Below, you will find an unedited excerpt from my new book about building Internet-based businesses, Online Business from Scratch. To receive updates about the book, visit www.fromscratchbook.com. Your email list can be an incredibly powerful way to generate revenue from your audience. After you have built a sizable email list, you may find that you …
Below, you will find an unedited excerpt from my new book about building Internet-based businesses, Online Business from Scratch. To receive updates about the book, visit www.fromscratchbook.com. Affiliate marketing is a type of online advertising that pays publishers and marketers a flat fee or a percentage of a sale when a user takes a specific …
Below, you will find an unedited excerpt from my new book about building Internet-based businesses, Online Business from Scratch. To receive updates about the book, visit www.fromscratchbook.com. Google AdSense is not the only game in town. There are hundreds of other ad networks that you can use in addition to or in place of Google …
Below, you will find an unedited excerpt from my new book about building Internet-based businesses, Online Business from Scratch. To receive updates about the book, visit www.fromscratchbook.com. Google AdSense (www.google.com/adsense) is the 800-pound gorilla in the display advertising world. Google AdSense enables publishers to access inventory from Google’s own advertiser network, Google AdWords, and from …
Below, you will find an unedited excerpt from my new book about building Internet-based businesses, Online Business from Scratch. To receive updates about the book, visit www.fromscratchbook.com. As I mentioned, placing display advertisements on your website will almost certainly be how you make your first dollar online. If your website is up and going, you …
Below, you will find an unedited excerpt from my new book about building Internet-based businesses, Online Business from Scratch. To receive updates about the book, visit www.fromscratchbook.com. One of the best ways to identify missed marketing opportunities is to study what your competitors are doing. If a competitor of yours is consistently running a Facebook …
You probably regularly receive notifications on your smartphone for things like calendar items, Facebook posts and emails, but did you know that a similar technology exists for desktop web browsers? Web push notifications are a relatively new technology that allows a website owner to send notifications to people that subscribe to notifications on their website. …
Below, you will find an unedited excerpt from my new book about building Internet-based businesses, Online Business from Scratch. To receive updates about the book, visit www.fromscratchbook.com. Writing guest posts for other people’s blogs is another effective way to leverage other people’s audiences. Just like a podcast tour, you have the direct opportunity to promote …
Below, you will find an unedited excerpt from my new book about building Internet-based businesses, Online Business from Scratch. To receive updates about the book, visit www.fromscratchbook.com. A creative way to promote your brand and leverage other people’s audience is by getting yourself booked on podcasts that are relevant to your niche. A great time …
Below, you will find an unedited excerpt from my new book about building Internet-based businesses, Online Business from Scratch. To receive updates about the book, visit www.fromscratchbook.com. When you commit to creating content on an ongoing basis, one of the biggest challenges you will face on a week-to-week basis is figuring out what to write …
Below, you will find an unedited excerpt from my new book about building Internet-based businesses, Online Business from Scratch. To receive updates about the book, visit www.fromscratchbook.com. When you have decided which publishing channels you want to use in your business, the next step is creating a content schedule. A content schedule is simply a …
Below, you will find an unedited excerpt from my new book about building Internet-based businesses, Online Business from Scratch. To receive updates about the book, visit www.fromscratchbook.com. Every business should have a presence on Facebook and Twitter because they are currently the two most broadly used social media platforms. A study from the Pew Research …
Below, you will find an unedited excerpt from my new book about building Internet-based businesses, Online Business from Scratch. To receive updates about the book, visit www.fromscratchbook.com. When developing your content strategy, your first task will be to determine what platforms you want to publish content on. Your website will serve as the hub for …
Below, you will find an unedited excerpt from my new book about building Internet-based businesses, Online Business from Scratch. To receive updates about the book, visit www.fromscratchbook.com. By now, you’re probably either saying “I already know all of this stuff, let’s get on to the good part!” or “This is overwhelming. I have no idea …
Below, you will find an unedited excerpt from my new book about building Internet-based businesses, Online Business from Scratch. To receive updates about the book, visit www.fromscratchbook.com. After you get your web hosting account setup, the first order of business is to install WordPress into your hosting account. Almost every major web hosting service will …
Below, you will find an unedited excerpt from my new book about building Internet-based businesses, Online Business from Scratch. To receive updates about the book, visit www.fromscratchbook.com. In order to launch your website, you will need a basic web hosting account that will provide the technology and infrastructure needed to serve your website up to …
Below, you will find an unedited excerpt from my new book about building Internet-based businesses, Online Business from Scratch. To receive updates about the book, visit www.fromscratchbook.com. Before you launch your business, you will probably want to have a logo made for your brand. You should have some kind of logo in place when you …
Simple Savings, a new book I put together with Toi Williams, one of my long-time freelance writers, is now available. We wrote this book for people who are tired of having too much month left at the end of their money. Many people feel that there is just never enough money to go around, and …
Below, you will find an unedited excerpt from my new book about building Internet-based businesses, Online Business from Scratch. To receive updates about the book, visit www.fromscratchbook.com. When I first launched MarketBeat.com in 2011, the business was called Analyst Ratings Network. I chose that name because I wanted to highlight the fact that we offered …
Below, you will find an unedited excerpt from my new book about building Internet-based businesses, Online Business from Scratch. To receive updates about the book, visit www.fromscratchbook.com. Some online entrepreneurs actively work to build a brand around their name. They portray themselves as subject matter experts and teach their readers about relevant topics through blog …
Below, you will find an unedited excerpt from my new book about building Internet-based businesses, Online Business from Scratch. To receive updates about the book, visit www.fromscratchbook.com. All of the good dot com domain names are already taken. Domain squatters have gone through and registered every dictionary word, almost every combination of dictionary words and …
Below, you will find an unedited excerpt from my new book about building Internet-based businesses, Online Business from Scratch. To receive updates about the book, visit www.fromscratchbook.com. There are two schools of thought for choosing a name. First, you can choose a name that represents what your business does. Businesses like Bank of America, Ford …
Below, you will find an unedited excerpt from my new book about building Internet-based businesses, Online Business from Scratch. To receive updates about the book, visit www.fromscratchbook.com. If you’re having trouble coming up with ideas for potential niches, there are several strategies you can use to come up with ideas for your niche: Consider Your …
Below, you will find an unedited excerpt from my new book about building Internet-based businesses, Online Business from Scratch. To receive updates about the book, visit www.fromscratchbook.com. Many other resources that talk about niche selection suggest that you choose a niche based on whether or not you can rank in Google for keywords in that …
Below, you will find an unedited excerpt from my new book about building Internet-based businesses, Online Business from Scratch. To receive updates about the book, visit www.fromscratchbook.com. Not all niches are created equally. Readers will have a much higher propensity to buy products and services in some niches than others. In some niches, customers might …
Below, you will find an unedited excerpt from my new book about building Internet-based businesses, Online Business from Scratch. To receive updates about the book, visit www.fromscratchbook.com As you begin to evaluate different niches, you will immediately notice that there are already people creating content and selling products and services in just about every market …
Below, you will find an unedited excerpt from my new book about building Internet-based businesses, Online Business from Scratch. To receive updates about the book, visit www.fromscratchbook.com A common piece of advice given by Internet business gurus is that you should “niche down until it hurts.” The idea is that you should pick a small …
Below, you will find an unedited excerpt from my new book about building Internet-based businesses, Online Business from Scratch. To receive updates about the book, visit www.fromscratchbook.com In 2015, I attended a conference for software entrepreneurs called Microconf (www.microconf.com). One of the speakers, Patrick McKenzie (www.kalzumeus.com), told the story about how he launched his online …
My newest book, Business Growth Day by Day, is now available on Amazon in Kindle e-book, paperback and audiobook formats. Get your copy here. —- Want to start or grow a business, but aren’t getting any traction? Worried that you chose the wrong business idea? Entrepreneurship is a hard game to play, but it doesn’t …
As you might know, I read a lot of business books. There was a good five-year stretch where I was reading anywhere from 3-5 business books per month. By now, I’ve pretty much read every best-selling business and entrepreneurship book that’s been released in the last 15 years. A lot of people ask me what …
Three years ago, the name “Matthew Paulson” meant almost nothing to anyone in the Sioux Falls business community. I didn’t go to any business networking events. I rarely made it a point to meet with other entrepreneurs and business owners. My name never made it into the Sioux Falls Business Journal or any other local …
There’s an old idea that if we pretend that we already are what we want to become, that our appearance of success will become a self-fulfilling prophecy. The thinking is that if we present ourselves as successful, then other people will also see us as successful and we’ll have the confidence and the appearance necessary …
When I published my first book in 2014 through Amazon, I figured I would never make any meaningful amount of royalties. I figured that my friends, family and the people that read my blog would buy my books and that would be pretty much be the end of it. I wrote my book understanding …
My newest book, The Ten-Year Turnaround, is now available on Amazon. In 2004, I was flat broke. My bank account balance never had more than three digits and I had to sell my DVD and video game collection on eBay and Half.com in order to pay off my credit card bill. I could barely make tuition …
Below, you will find an unedited chapter from my new book about wealth building, investing and personal finance, The Ten Year Turnaround. To get your copy of the book, visit www.tenyearturnaround.com “Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.” ~ Albert Einstein There are only so many different things that you can do with …
Below, you will find an unedited chapter from my new book about wealth building, investing and personal finance, The Ten Year Turnaround. To get your copy of the book, visit www.tenyearturnaround.com “The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that carries any reward.” – John Maynard Keynes While much of this book has been devoted …
Below, you will find an unedited chapter from my new book about wealth building, investing and personal finance, The Ten Year Turnaround. To get your copy of the book, visit www.tenyearturnaround.com Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas. –Paul Samuelson …
Below, you will find an unedited chapter from my new book about wealth building, investing and personal finance, The Ten Year Turnaround. To get your copy of the book, visit www.tenyearturnaround.com Every time you borrow money, you’re robbing your future self. –Nathan W. Morris If there’s a topic that divides personal finance authors more than anything, …
Below, you will find an unedited chapter from my new book about wealth building, investing and personal finance, The Ten Year Turnaround. To get your copy of the book, visit www.tenyearturnaround.com You must gain control over your money or the lack of it will forever control you. –Dave Ramsey Let’s face it. Nobody likes budgeting. Budgets …
Below, you will find an unedited chapter from my new book about wealth building, investing and personal finance, The Ten Year Turnaround. To get your copy of the book, visit www.tenyearturnaround.com If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is …
Below, you will find an unedited chapter from my new book about wealth building, investing and personal finance, The Ten Year Turnaround. To get your copy of the book, visit www.tenyearturnaround.com I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. –Thomas Jefferson There is an intangible quality …
Below, you will find an unedited chapter from my new book about wealth building, investing and personal finance, The Ten Year Turnaround. To get your copy of the book, visit www.tenyearturnaround.com “A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.” – Jane Austen For several years, I had the privilege of teaching …
Below, you will find an unedited chapter from my new book about wealth building, investing and personal finance, The Ten Year Turnaround. To get your copy of the book, visit www.tenyearturnaround.com “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.” ― Benjamin Franklin There are very few people in the world that wouldn’t like to be …
Below, you will find an unedited chapter from my new book about wealth building, investing and personal finance, The Ten Year Turnaround. To get your copy of the book, visit www.tenyearturnaround.com It was August of 2004. I would be starting my first year of college in a few short weeks. My new school, Dakota State University, …
I got “the author’s itch” again early this year. While it had only been a few months since Email Marketing Demystified came out, I knew that I wanted to write another book. I have something to communicate the world and would be disappointed in myself if I didn’t publish my third book this year. Since …
There is a computer repair business in the city of Sioux Falls called Craig Computer Service that is run by my good friend Craig Jurczewsky. I have been helping Craig with some of his marketing efforts off and on for the last six months. We worked on a wide variety of marketing strategies in order …
“What kind of products do you sell on Amazon?” asked one conference attendee to another at a lunch I attended while at Freedom Fastlane Live. Before the other attendee could answer, someone else chimed in and said “You don’t ask that question to another Amazon seller. Do your own market research.” There’s an unspoken rule that …
MarketBeat recently crossed the 300,000 subscriber mark. We now send 24 newsletters per month and five-to-ten marketing emails per month to more than 300,000 people at a time. We also have a secondary list of 180,000 subscribers that receive a weekly newsletter. In total, we send out more than 13 million emails each and every …
I used to believe that the best way to be an online entrepreneur was to have a portfolio of 5-7 different online businesses. Each business would be responsible for a portion of your income and there would be some level of protection if any one of those businesses took a nose dive. This is the …
When I finally got around to quitting my day job two years ago, my business was already generating significantly more revenue than what I was making at my day job. Frankly, I waited too long to quit my day job. I recently had lunch with an entrepreneur that has an e-commerce business who is currently …
Why is it that some people peak and can’t get past a certain level of success when others continue to grow and reach new highs? You might hit a certain level of income, build an audience of a certain size or attain a certain job title. When you try to move up to the next …