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Dustin’s latest articles about entrepreneurship, business, AI, and other internet things.
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The Biggest Social Media Mistake (and How to Avoid It)
Read More →: The Biggest Social Media Mistake (and How to Avoid It)As the recent fate of Vine shows us, you should never put your audience solely in someone else’s hands. Are you working to grow or build an audience on social media? If so, I want to warn you about a very serious social media mistake that I see a lot of social media stars making. With…
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Instagram Announces Shopping Feature: What You Need to Know
Read More →: Instagram Announces Shopping Feature: What You Need to KnowInstagram is going to jump into the ecommerce ring with its new shopping (a.k.a. product tagging) feature. Today Instagram announced some big news for its retail business users. They’re testing a new feature that will allow retailers to tag products within their photos, just as you would tag another user in a photo. Only these…
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How to Do a Yearly Blog Review
Read More →: How to Do a Yearly Blog ReviewUnderstand how your blog has grown and the fruits of your blogging labor. A lot can be accomplished in 365 days, and unless you take the time to evaluate the last 365 days how can you have a proper perspective of what you can expect in the next 365 days? Do you have a yearly…
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Top 11 Things That Are Killing Your Pinterest Success
Read More →: Top 11 Things That Are Killing Your Pinterest SuccessThese are exactly what you shouldn’t be doing if you want to harness the power of Pinterest. In case you weren’t aware, Pinterest has massive potential for driving blog traffic. And I’m not talking short-lived, low-quality traffic. I’m talking long-term, highly engaged traffic that can be a total game-changer for your blog. The best part…
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How to: Google Analytics Goals Like a Boss
Read More →: How to: Google Analytics Goals Like a BossA simple walkthrough for creating effective Google Analytics Goals to track your progress. Do you have goals as a blogger? I’m not talking about aspirations, hopes and dreams like, “I want to be as cool as Michael Hyatt some day.” I’m talking about the kind of goals you can track through Google Analytics. Not that…
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Don’t Just Boost Social Media Engagement, Scale It
Read More →: Don’t Just Boost Social Media Engagement, Scale ItWiden your gaze: It’s not just about optimizing your posts for highest engagement, that doesn’t scale. I’m going to show you what does. There are approximately 43,235,901 blog posts written about “how to get more engagement on social media” (rough estimate). Some good. Most bad. The good ones will give you solid tactics for optimizing…
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How to Create Optimized Social Media Images Like A Boss
Read More →: How to Create Optimized Social Media Images Like A BossEveryone is doing visual content these days. Follow these image creation tips and leave them in the dust. Smart bloggers, social media stars and marketers alike have caught on to the visual content trend. Have you? It’s clear that visual content allows you to grab more eyeballs, yields more engagement and performs better long-term for…
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Stop Making Excuses: Your Voice Matters More Than You Think
Read More →: Stop Making Excuses: Your Voice Matters More Than You ThinkWe’ve all had the thought at some point, “I don’t have anything to say because it’s all been said before.” Content overload is a real thing. There has never been a time in history where information has been more accessible and knowledgable people have been more prolific. And you may have this same fear that…
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Method to My Madness: Redesign 2016
Read More →: Method to My Madness: Redesign 2016Instead of an all-out redesign, this year I decided to spend time refining. The results are delightful. Every year since the inception of this blog I’ve done a complete redesign, generally launched at the beginning of the year. Until this year. This year, instead of doing a complete overhaul I’ve decided to think big… about…
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How to Write Content That Isn’t Ignored
Read More →: How to Write Content That Isn’t IgnoredWriting for anyone and everyone will often ensure that it resonates with nobody and no one. You probably struggle with this, just as I do, every time you sit down to write. It’s not fun— it may even be painful for you. Or maybe you’ve been ignoring it altogether. We tend to avoid things that…
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How to Boost Your Email Opt-ins by 400% Instantly
Read More →: How to Boost Your Email Opt-ins by 400% InstantlyThis one strategy boosted my email opt-in rate by 400% in a single day. Not bad, eh? Over the past few months, I’ve been experimenting with some email list building strategies to help increase my overall opt-in rate. I’m happy to say, both of these strategies have proven to be a huge success. Today, I…
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How to Get More Traffic Without More Writing (Think Evergreen)
Read More →: How to Get More Traffic Without More Writing (Think Evergreen)Do you have an Evergreen content strategy? Here’s why you should have one, and how to start. If you’ve been blogging for six months or six years, you should have an Evergreen Content Strategy. This type of blog content can drive traffic and conversions for years to come, allowing you to write less frequently but…
