Hello and welcome to the world of YouTube. Where internet money is 24/7 ESPECIALLY when it's on the world's 2nd largest search engine. Vision: To create 1 YouTube channel that each averages 1 million+ views per week. Goal: $100k/mo (combined from AdSense, physical product offers, and...

Hi Fastlaners! I've been growing my business for 5 years and haven't done much content marketing. I'm now starting to develop the content side of things. There are many business people who advise me to DIY content at least to get started, and their reason is that nobody would be able to write...

Hello I’m Charly The Rabbit and this is my journey as an Indie Maker. Indie Maker: Person building a software idea that can generate revenue. The Project (Work in progress) Viral Quotes (viral-quotes.com) will allows small business owners to viralize their brands without paying ads What...

While working on marketing for my startup idea, I've come across some phenomenal resources for content marketing, specifically blogging. Some of you working on promotion through blogging will find this useful. Here is an e-book written by Priceonomics, a company that started blogging to promote...

Ok I've been planning this challenge for the last 3 weeks and I'm finally doing it. @Fox pointed me in the right direction with a course on Youtube SEO and now I'm taking the dive. Here's a summary of it before I get into the details: Post a piece of content every single day for 120 days (in...

Are you looking for a new, lesser-known but potentially very lucrative source of leads to your business? Would you like to build authority in your niche, develop new relationships, get press mentions, paid speaking gigs, or consulting contracts? Do you want to have a high-value gift for your...

I've been working seriously for about 4 months on my business, which is in the Computer Science education space. Apart from probably tangentially helping me to land a bit of work by providing authority in the eyes of prospective clients, I have yet to see much tangible progress. I have written...

Ok let’s get started. I’ve been a member of this forum as far back as I can remember. High school in-fact (2011). And I’m happy to say that there's a reason I’m still here - the principles and frameworks I’ve learned here have molded me. Shoutout MJ. Now, there’s a dichotomy in me saying this...

Hey guys, not sure if anyone remembers me around here. It's been awhile. Docu-series for freelancers, agency owners, and anyone in the creative biz. View: https://youtu.be/xzEmZsRZIBY Also, a special challenge for those wanting to step up their content marketing game. Let me know if the...

Hi all, in this thread, I am going to track progress towards my 2019 goal: Increasing my agency revenue from currently 3k (average of last quarter 2018) to 15k. In my model calculations, this number should result in sufficient profits for me to give up personal freelancing and live off of my...

Hello everyone, It is said that trust is the highest form of motivation. Customers won't really click the affiliate link until they trust the website. I make sure that I put in as much as possible quality in my articles and I am honest about whatever I write(3 up, working on the 4th. Average...

Hi, I've started a website with content-based affiliate marketing as the goal. Very bare bones as of now, only have 2 articles published. The first thing I'm aiming for is to get enough content there in the first place. Once I get traffic I'll add affiliate links. Please give me some feedback...

I manage a newly launched, but growing travel/community site and I am looking for someone who is good at social media marketing and content writing to join me in my aim to create a successful, lucrative business out of it. As I am just getting the site off the ground, the budget is very limited...

Is your content marketing strategy booming? If not this simple shift could make a huge difference!

I coined this phrase from TMF: "Content-based models are online news magazines and blogs that disseminate information to a particular niche or industry. These services provide content for free consumption and sell advertising to parties who want to reach those eyeballs. My Fastlane Forum can be...

I am a little sad after finishing the book. Maybe it's because the book is aimed at younger people and I am already close to 50. I am a family doctor in Florida. About two years ago, I quit my two jobs and dropped out of traditional medicine. By traditional, I mean the typical busy clinic where...

Hi everyone, I really know this topic is overtalked, however, I'd like to ask for the help of experienced business owners in this. I'm starting my content marketing agency now (thebudaimedia.com > my apologies if it's not allowed to share this here) and want to get my first clients (my first...

Hello, I'm looking to hire a content writer for a website I'm releasing soon and was wondering if any members here had suggestions on sites other than the usual freelancing websites (ie upwork, writersaccess.com) which act as a middle man. I'd prefer to work directly with the freelancer and...

AndyTalks with @srtricky about "Give them what they want. Sell them what they need." Growing a Done-For-You Service by Giving Away Free Content. Ricky PM'd me asking to be coached in Lead Generation. I said I provided a done-for-you service and don't do coaching. Ricky wouldn't take no for...