Don’t Use GoDaddy

Why so many people end up doing business with GoDaddy, I have no idea.

But, of course, I must look in the mirror. As I used to use GoDaddy for my domains. Well, not anymore.

Like many who’ve been in online business for awhile, I owned a lot of domains. Close to 90 of them, actually. I have been meaning to ditch some of them that I realized I’d never use. But, in the process, I’ve decided to transfer the ones I’m keeping away from GoDaddy.

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Reality: Click-Through Rates On Banners Suck. What To Do?

Banner ads continue to be the de facto way to make money with a blog – or so it seems. But, the headline says it all: click-through rates on banners are typically pretty horrible.

This has an effect on everybody involved.

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Why Periodically Deleting Email Subscribers Makes Sense [Subscriber Re-Engagement]

What if I told you it might make sense to delete a bunch of email subscribers from your email list?

Would you think I was nuts?

Well, let me explain why it isn’t nuts. And, in fact, it might be something you want to do on an annual basis.

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Weekly Round Up: Google Hates Your Blog?

As I do each Friday, I’ll share some of the cool stuff I came across around the blogosphere in the last week.

This week, we have the 10 commandments, Google hatin’, one HUGE list post from handome Chris Brogan, and some of what’s happening over on Pinterest. Let’s get going…

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6 Uncommon Techniques For List Building

We all want to build up our email lists and get more subscribers.

And the common way to go about that is to offer an “ethical bribe”, or “free giveaway”. And, in almost all cases, this ends up being an ebook.

In some niches, an ebook is still a rather novel idea. However, in a growing portion of the Internet, free ebook giveaways are getting so common that the effectiveness of the offer has dropped a lot.

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20 Questions: Send Me Your Blogging/Marketing Question, I’ll Answer It On A Webinar

Several months ago, I did an open, public Q&A event on GotoWebinar. The idea was simple…

Take 20 questions beforehand, and prepare an entire presentation where I do nothing but answer those 20 questions.

The questions can be anything related to blogging, social media, marketing, copywriting, videos, tech stuff – whatever.

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