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    Email Marketing... going back to the classic Direct Marketing tactics.

    MARKETING 
    So... are your emails double opt-in, single opt-in or scraped? And can you prove opt-in for each address? If your email list is clean and at that size, I would advise against selling access. You can make an unlimited amount of money with a list of that size as long as you play your cards right.
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    GREAT Place to BUY Pre-made ebook Covers

    PUBLISHING 
    We're moving into offering full eBook production this month and this is pretty much exactly what our team was looking for. Thanks!
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    Let's Create Entrepreneurial Haven To Build Business

    Something like Crushpath? http://crushpath.com http://integrated-marketing-effect.crushpath.me/philip Whatever it is, good luck. I'd be very set on a monetization strategy before you get started or you may find that you are your own best customer.
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    When You Hired Your First Freelancer, What Kind of Problems Do You Get Into

    WEB/DIGITAL 
    Ouch, sounds like you've had some terrible results working with freelancers. This is one of the reasons I started my content development company - solving this pain point. OP: just realize that you will inevitably have to deal with some bad apples and you'll be fine. We have dozens of...
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    The death of the nuclear family

    PEOPLE HOT! 
    In my experience, if history is repeating itself over and over you can eliminate the variables and start concerning yourself with the constants.
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    What's your job ? What do you do?

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    I own a content development company, 1/3 of an app development venture and am finishing the last year of a pharmacy degree starting tomorrow. Once that is done? No idea. Future looks bright enough though.
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    Gmails inbox change and email marketing conversion rates

    MARKETING 
    Hi Curt - we didn't notice much on either our prospecting or current client email blasting. Our prospect emails are sent from our company gmail accounts; our current list is maintained by MailCheat(Chimp). Here's MailCheat(Chimp)'s take on it, which you may find answers your questions: How Gmail’s New Inbox...
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    Let's talk about Twitter & marketing

    MARKETING 
    It's very real and it's very measurable. If it wasn't real, you wouldn't see stuff like this: HootSuite Raises $165M Series B Round From Insight, Accel And OMERS To Go Large On Enterprise Social Media Monitoring | TechCrunch Use Google. According to Email Is Crushing Twitter, Facebook for...
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    Thinking about outsourcing my SEO

    MARKETING 
    Here's my suggestion: think of this another way. What you really want is traffic, right? I mean who cares where it comes from; in the end, as long as it converts for you and provides a positive ROI, it's all good. If that's the case - why SEO? Organic SEO can be an unpredictable mess and is...
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    Business owner trying to get away from the dreaded "day job"

    It sounds like you definitely have a lot on your plate. Step 1: Sit down, take out a pen and write these four things down: Family, Career, Business, Self Step 2: Prioritize them in order of importance to you Step 3: Consider your lifestyle and goals in comparison to your priorities...
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    *2* My Profitable Proposal For Those that Can Think In The FAST LANE *2*

    INVESTING HOT! 
    You're still here eh, OP? Not bad. Guess begging on TalkGold didn't work out either. You still have a few more forums to burn through though, good luck!
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    Last month I had 86,000 visitors to my new site and I could use your help

    Blog looks great OP, simple but effective theme. A couple things: 1) Post more often... there's a zillion content ideas in this niche. We do work for a client in your space and we do a post a day on various topics. The longtail traffic alone makes this worth it. 2) Go in and tag a post with...
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    *2* My Profitable Proposal For Those that Can Think In The FAST LANE *2*

    INVESTING HOT! 
    Ohhhhh, right! Got it then. My mistake, you know when you said "SEO" I assumed you meant "Search Engine Optimization". Obviously I was way off base. Oh? Oh. Well that explains why you either won't list them or we've never heard of them... since you just said what you're doing has never...
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    *2* My Profitable Proposal For Those that Can Think In The FAST LANE *2*

    INVESTING HOT! 
    This is a terrible idea - don't ever (ever) borrow money to start a business. On top of this being a terrible idea, even if you did get the $14k you're spending it in the wrong place(s). From your original thread: 1) "Custom SEO marketing software" is useless. I own a content marketing company...
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    Where can I find students?

    WEB/DIGITAL 
    Congratulations... that's quite the skill! :) Facebook ads would be my go-to for something in the "personal instruction" niche. You can do this via webinar so you can bring in a bunch of people, or you can do it with each client solo. Doing webinars will be more cost and time-effective, and...
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    Landing pages that convert. I need help!

    MARKETING 
    You just identified some of your problems here... It sounds like you either know very little about this niche, you have no passion for it, or both. You shouldn't be doing something like this if you're not expert-level. I wouldn't trust a surgeon with no degree or experience; why should I trust...
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    Social Media Consulting

    SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING 
    Yes. This is what we would call the "minimum essentials" for a dedicated social media brand enhancement campaign. Although "building their online brand" is somewhat broad and I would never use this terminology with a client as it's too non-specific. It depends on what you're doing, and how...
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    How to Make Money on Your Blog

    MARKETING 
    Okay, you've asked a lot of questions throughout here. My experience: The only things you should be concentrating on: 1) Creating great content 2) Spreading the word that you're creating great content #1 is rather easily accomplished and given how many posts you have on there, it doesn't...
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    My Fastlane Journey & $100,000/Month Sales 4 Months After Start-Up

    NOTABLE! EXECUTION FTE 
    You don't need to throw down thousands. You don't even need to throw down hundreds. Buy a few themes here: eCommerce | ThemeForest ...and split test them. You'll find out what works soon enough, and if you still need to you can have a custom theme developed. Easy!
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    27 Year Old CEO Of $1.2 Billion Company, Box

    EXECUTION 
    Call me crazy, but I dislike when people refer to companies' paper valuations. "27 Year Old CEO Of $1.2 Billion Company, Box" Not taking anything away from what the guy has done; he's a genius for sure, and going to exit with a fat stack. But this isn't a $1.2 billion company. From Hot...
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