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Social Media Posting: Lessons Learned About Authority and Hooks

15 January 2025

"Have I got your attention now?" - Blake, Glenngarry Glen Ross Why is something important to you? Why is a piece of content relevant to the audience? I may have a link, a ...

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How Do I Increase YouTube Watch Time To Get Monetized?

14 January 2025

To get monetized as a YouTuber requires getting four thousand watch hours (within 365 days). As a blogger, podcaster, and freelancer I have some unique opportunities to leverage...

The Type Of Content Management System (CMS) We Need to Grow Our Online Business; Control & Flexibility

13 January 2025

If you don't have the right content management system (CMS) for your website it'll cost you time, money, and frustration in the future. I've worked with countless CMS systems ov...

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Topical Content Domination: How Deep Knowledge Can Bypass the Shallow Competition

08 January 2025

In my first book, Path of the Freelancer, I talk about three things that make us unique: our story, our vision, and doing hard things. Becoming an expert and working as that ex...

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How I Unexpectedly Earned $72,246.98 During My First 9 Months of Freelancing

06 January 2025

2014 was my first year going all in as a freelancer; I ended up earning over $72k by the end of the year, unexpectedly. In the video above, I share what I did that was so eff...

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How To Track Time as a Freelancer: Two Options For Tracking Hours From a Freelancer With Over A Decade of Experience

09 December 2024

Note: I am a paying user of both Harpoon and TimeCamp. I'm also an affiliate of both, so if you sign up, it will financially help me create more content like this. When I beg...

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How to Invoice As a Freelancer: From a Freelancer Who Effectively & Easily Gets Paid

02 December 2024

Note: I'm a paying user of Harpoon (since 2017). I'm also an affiliate partner of Harpoon which means, if you sign up, you can help me create more content for freelancers since ...

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Quick Tips For Interviewing Book Authors On Your Podcast

I've had numerous authors on the Share Life podcast and I've developed a helpful process to prepare for a great interview.

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How Does a Creator (Writer) Create When They Don’t Care For The Topic?

Writing for others about topics that don’t interest us increases the difficulty of sustaining these activities over time.

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How To Framework: SEO Task Priority For Short Term Wins and Long Term Success

One key dynamic for effective search engine optimization campaigns is prioritizing actions so the easiest high-impact work is done first. This prioritization allows us to achie...

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Content Marketing Abandonment: Unsustained SEO Keyword Rankings Leads To Decaying Search Traffic

First, generating large volumes of search traffic requires a lot of work. Second, sustaining that traffic requires a small amount of work. Most people and organizations do the...

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Content Fusion: How Does Merging Articles Affect Search Engine Rankings & Organic Traffic?

Do blog post merges improve search engine rankings for the newly consolidated article? Yes, they do!

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