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My Head Has Been in a Social Media Fog
Picture this. You are walking your online biz journey. But in the middle of your trip, a mysterious fog approaches and clouds your path. The fog is not some ugly gray smoke; no, it’s beautiful, shiny...
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Three Pros and Cons of Using Bitcoin For Your Business
Imagine if you could have 100% control over your money, pay every person on the planet in seconds, even if they don’t own a bank account, with almost zero fees and absolute freedom? Sounds like a...
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5 Lessons to Build a Business That I Learned From My Clients
Whenever the end of a year comes nigh, I reflect on the past 12 months. And as think about 2013, I realize that I learned five important lessons from my clients. I hope you can learn from my...
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How to Avoid the Self-Help Blahs and Blast Off in 2014
A lot of us commit to New Year resolutions. We set ambitious, larger-than-life goals like, “I’m going to build an online empire this year!” and crash land straight into the rut a month later. Our...
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Facing Tough Choices — Paid Versus Organic Reach
In an eye-opening post, Francisco Rosales demonstrated how the organic reach of his content on Facebook dropped 90 percent in one week, a trend he fears will portend a future where businesses are...
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How to Be Useful, Despite Your Smartphone Addiction
Here’s a secret. I’m an online illustrator / designer and work with clients from around the planet. American, Canadian, German, British, Australian, French, Jamaican, South Africa, and more. Sometimes...
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Learn From my Mistakes: Use Internetiquette to Win Online Business!
Today I am going to help you learn from my mistakes by teaching you a valuable lesson in Internetiquette. No need to thank me. Internetiquette is like real English, except it’s adjusted for the web....
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One Million Words Later, I Still Fear Publishing
He said, “At some point in your life, you have to ask yourself: are you a doer, or are you a talker? Because nothing is cheaper than talk, and nothing more priceless than action.” It’s the beginning...
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The Future of Blogging: Stranger than Science Fiction?
I’m currently writing a somewhat sarcastic sci-fi novel about bloggers in the future. It thrills me and makes my spine tingle. The story is about the influence bloggers exert over their society, and...
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Business Lessons from Bruce Lee and the World Cup
Bruce Lee once said something so profound, it’s stayed with me ever since I first heard it: You must be shapeless, formless, like water. When you pour water in a cup, it becomes the cup. When you pour...
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Does Blogging Still Matter in 2014?
Five years ago, I wrote my first blog post. I was all — yay, a digital crusader entering the exciting realm of the blogosphere. It was like the Wild West — nobody knew what kind of article attracted...
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What’s Really Killing Your Online Career? Sitting All Day.
Everyone I know is killing their online career and they’re not even aware of it. It’s not because they are using the wrong social media strategy. It’s not because they don’t have a strong enough call...
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Gamergate and the Great Twitter Debate
If you haven’t been living in a cave for the last few weeks, you’ve probably heard of a Twitter hashtag that has set vast portions of the Web on fire: Enter #gamergate It’s a hashtag that’s either...
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Shut Up or Speak Your Mind? The Struggle in Today’s Hyper-Sensitive World
When I started blogging, I wrote whatever came to mind, dropping F-bombs and S-grenades as if I was a cursing armory with an unlimited supply of ammo. I was clueless about how clueless I was. Like an...
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3 Lessons Spammers Taught Me About Marketing to Strangers
I get lots of spam mail. So much, I could open a spam factory, sell it back online, and make a profit. But what do those spam trolls want? They’re usually trying to sell something. They want me to...
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Adventures in Analogia: How to Find Customers in the Offline World
I’ve done the unspeakable. I’ve pushed myself away from my iMac screen, neglected my internet connection, and stepped into that strange realm they call the analog world. Maybe you’ve heard of it; it’s...
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Why The Economics Of Blogging Are Diminishing
When I started blogging about five years ago (back when we felt smart with dumb phones), I devoured every blog post about how to write epic blog posts. I stalked the usual suspects online, e.g....
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The Marketing Conference Guide for Socially Awkward People
You know what’s more awkward than being a socially awkward person? Going to a conference filled with socially awkward persons. Last weekend I returned from the DNX, Europe’s only Digital Nomad...
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Should You Create Different Social Media Posts for International Clients?
I recently read a revealing interview with Netflix’s CEO in Der Spiegel, one of Germany’s biggest news magazines. The CEO said he was proud of the global success of their in-house productions like...
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Communist Customer Service: 3 Lessons I Learned on My Vacation.
I did something crazy. I took my life offline (gasp!) and took a family trip to the East Sea of Germany. In case you don’t remember, more than 20 years ago, the East part of Germany was under Soviet...
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Three Uncomfortable Lessons About Criticism I Learned From Publishing My Book
I have a new baby. It’s about two months old, has a compelling name and is loved by me, my family, and close friends. Of course I’m talking about the new sci-fi novel: Fear The Liberator: A Space...
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How To Write 3,000 Words Every Day When You Don’t Feel Like It
Every month, I meet up with a group of content creators and onlinepreneurs in some raunchy Berlin cafe. We drink overpriced hipster lemonade, discuss marketing tactics, email-list building (drooling...
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Is Your Online Presence Too Safe for Your Own Good?
I open my browser bookmarks, read through my daily news blogs and find a common theme nowadays: offended people everywhere. Someone said or did something on the net that someone else finds “deeply...
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3 Tips for Future-Proofing Your Digital Career
As an illustrating blogger and sci-fi author, I both fantasize and worry about the future. On the one hand, I’m looking forward to 3D printers that recreate my limbs from DNA samples, nanomedicine...
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Personal Business Lessons from 2015 and What You can Learn from Them
The end is nigh for 2015, which has been an interesting year for the online world, to say the least. Blogging has been declared dead, before it was revived, after it has been dubbed micro-blogging,...
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