What’s your most burning question about building an online business?
What would you ask me and the Think Traffic team if you had our undivided attention for a few minutes?
It can be about tech, marketing, networking, finance, something behind-the-scenes, something “taboo,” or whatever you’re dying to know the answer to.
Take a minute to think about it. Really. [Continue reading…]
You know the rush. A guest post you’ve written goes live on a huge site, you finally launch the product you’ve been working on for months, or an older article of yours gets Gizmodo’d.
You watch your traffic spike and you can’t peel yourself away from the analytics for the whole day.
“Look at all those visitors!” you yell to your significant other as they feign interest.
But what really matters during these big days?
What metrics and stats should you actually be tracking and which don’t mean jack squat? (Hint: Traffic doesn’t matter as much as you may think.)
In this post we’ll make sure you know the difference between vanity and actionable metrics, which ones you should track, which stats really matter to the bottom line of your business, and share a few of our most important metrics. [Continue reading…]
We’ve been busy over at Fizzle in the past couple of months and I wanted to share some exciting news with you.
If you haven’t heard about Fizzle yet, we call it “Honest Online Business Training.” We think it’s the best training library and community for online business builders anywhere.
And now, it’s available at a new simplified price.
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Fear is something every entrepreneur has to deal with from time to time.
For me it recently came in the form of interviewing a hero of mine. (Not in the superpowers from Krypton sense of the word, but in the successful online entrepreneur kind of way.)
When it comes to fear you can do one of two things.
In this post I’ll walk through how I almost gave in to fear and let a big opportunity slip through my hands. I’ll also cover a simple exercise you can do each time you’re afraid of doing something.
Last week I had the honor of interviewing Gary Vaynerchuk for my podcast, but it almost didn’t happen because I almost gave into fear.
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Article by Gregory Ciotti.
Never half-ass two things, whole-ass one thing.”
Ron Swanson
Don’t get me wrong, I totally understand the importance of Being Everywhere and I’m not knocking that advice, but I will warn you that spreading yourself too thin (especially during your blog’s early stages) is your one-way ticket to failure.
Take Twitter for example. I use the service and it sends me some decent traffic, but I could really give a damn about my Twitter account. I have no desire to share 20 things a day like most people recommend, because I’ve seen the numbers: it’s not worth my time.
In fact, in all of my time doing content strategy (for startups, for personal projects, even for local clients), I’ve yet to come across any ‘tactic’ that actually works that doesn’t somehow involve creating epic shit or doing some sort of promotion on another big blog/website.
In short, to maximize the ROI of your blogging efforts, spending most of your time researching how to create outstanding, unique content will give you far better results than learning that “one simple YouTube trick” that will end up doing jack squat for your bottom line.
As for that title up there? I’m going to show you how it went down, along with 2 other traffic tactics that are actually worth your time. [Continue reading…]
In my first couple of startups, I built things in the traditional order: product first, then audience.
With Think Traffic, I started blogging first, then figured out which products and services to deliver to the audience that gathered here.
Which approach is better? Is it better to build an audience first, and then a product/service, or should you build a product first and find the audience later?
