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These are my best articles, arranged in the order you’d need them in if you were planning to start a business through starting it and on to growing it.

Thinking of Starting a Business?

How to discover your business, where to start, and what to do to get your idea nailed down and your website launched.

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Entrepreneurs: Don’t Quit Your Day Job. Yet.

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 Warning! Are Small Business Failure Stories Getting You down?

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100 Days of Productivity From a Simple Goal Setting Worksheet?

Bush League Tactic #1: Hustle Harder

 Start With an Audience Not a Product If You Want to Win

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 Advice for Awesome Business Names

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Beware of Web Services: Are You the Cow Or the Rancher?

First Blog Post: How to Become a Blogger With Easy Examples

 

Need to Grow Your Website Traffic?

Be sure you understand what stage of the lifecycle your site is in and which strategies work at each stage.  Then check out some of the specific strategies you can test.  Lastly, understand how the Master Marketers do it.

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 Blueprint for Growing Traffic Each Stage of a Website’s Life

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11 Instant Traffic Hacks to Build Your Business

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How Quora Launched My Website Traffic

 Top 15 Master Marketers of the Digital World

Best Analytics of the Marketing Masters

Re-Publish Old Blog Posts to Grow Traffic

Need to Convert More Visitors to Customers?

Just because you’ve got a growing Tribe doesn’t mean they’re buying your products yet.  Let’s work on that with these articles:

How to Fix Your Biggest Problem Converting Visitors to Customers [Lead Nurturing]

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Better Than Mailchimp? [Learn When to Upgrade]

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Facebook Pixel Tips & Tricks