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5 Key Takeaways From Reading Alex Hormozi And Russell Brunson’s Books On Traffic

Late last year my lead generation methods started to fail. We had solid growth in 2023 and throughout the start of 2024 focusing on Google search ads and LinkedIn video ads. They both started to decline late 2024. Nothing I did changed the results. I can't...

I Live In A Bubble. You Live In A Bubble. Why As Entrepreneurs We Must Must Look Beyond The Bubble

You live in a bubble. I live in a bubble too. Today I really got a reminder of this… I've been planning a marketing experiment for my company. The short version of this plan is to go after larger clients. Right now our positioning is focused on the...

What The Most Effective Entrepreneurs Do Differently

Once on a podcast Tim Ferriss was asked to describe what his day is like. His answer was deceptively simple… ”I spend most of my time thinking.” I'm paraphrasing here, but this was the general message. He didn't talk about tasks...

The Two Numbers In Your Company That Decide How Big It Can Get

I recently came to terms with a brutal truth about scaling a business. We did an analysis of our company churn rate (client subscription cancelations) and the numbers came up pretty good. The data showed 2.5% to 3% churn on average (we lose 3% of our clients...

My Girlfriend Said: Are You Lazy?

When I was in high school I was forced to get up at 6:30am to do a 1.5 hour commute to school. I hated it. I especially hated my alarm clock. I promised myself that when I was older I’d never need an alarm again. I kept that promise. I’ve slept-in for the...

Why Your Company Needs A Clear Differentiation Strategy Now More Than Evern

Differentiation. It’s one of the most powerful marketing tools. To be different is a perception, which means it is malleable. It can be influenced – this is why we study marketing, to learn how to influence people to purchase our products and services. The...

The Recurring Income Myth

A true ‘recurring income' product or service doesn't exist. I say this even as right now I have several customers who have been paying a subscription to my company for over six years. A long time ago I got real excited about having a subscription...

3 Steps To Reach New Income Levels With Your Business

I remember the first time I made $1,000 in a month from my website. It felt like a breakthrough moment. At that time I was selling Magic: The Gathering cards and I was 20 years old. Five years later, with a different website, this time an agency selling...

2023 Year In Review: I Became Co-Founder Of A Million Dollar Company

Let's start with the big win for 2023… At the start of the year my company InboxDone.com finally surpassed the benchmark $83,333/month in revenue. This is the number that means your company is a ‘7-figure business' because you're doing a million...

Here’s A List Of The Marketing Tactics I’ve Used To Grow All My Companies

This is a (not exhaustive) list of marketing techniques I've used to grow audiences and attract customers to my companies in the last 25 years. Posting in forums and newsgroups (back in the early early days) Putting up posters on university campuses...

My 25th Anniversary As An Online Entrepreneur

In 1998 I registered my first domain name. It was MTGParadise.com, a website about the Magic: The Gathering card game I still played back then as a teenager. This was the first website I built that made money. I learned so much during this period, probably...

My 2022 Year In Review: Growth, Consolidation, War, Net Worth Crash, Passive Income Dividends!

Back when my full-time job was blogging and writing my email newsletter, I would always complete an end of year recap post in December. I enjoyed doing them because I could think back, month by month, and remember what I was focusing on with my business and...

Free Video Workshop: What Topic Should You Cover (3 Questions You Need To Answer)

I have a short video for you today, taken from my members-only Laptop Lifestyle Academy. The topic of this presentation is How To Position Your First Offer. It was created for people who struggle with conviction due to having too many directions to take with...

My 10 Best Marketing Strategies When It Seems Like Nothing Else Is Working

I recommend before you read the following list of 10 tactics for growing your audience with content, you read the ‘prequel' to this article – What I Learned From 10 Years Writing A Blog. In that post I highlighted many of the changed conditions...

How To Position Your Product Offer So People Choose To Buy From You

One of the first marketing concepts I learned about in business school is called positioning. This concept is particularly important when it comes to selling your own product or service. I was taught about positioning in the context of competition. You...

How To Use Content To Attract Google Search Traffic And Sell To Niche Markets

Today I'm going to explain how you can use one content strategy to attract traffic from Google and use that same content to sell to specific sub-niches within your industry. I'll show you how we are currently doing this with InboxDone.com using a content...

Paul Biggar Co-Founder Of $1.7 Billion Tech Unicorn CircleCI.com, DarkLang.com, PhD In Compilers (VC EP16)

Paul Biggar got started as a computer engineer early in life. He became a specialist in the field of compilers (software engineers use compilers to test code to see if it works or not). He liked compilers so much he completed a PhD on the topic. Paul had a...

Advice For New Entrepreneurs, Nick’s Latest Property Investment, Yaro Invests In ConvertKit, Mani And Gideon Business Updates (VCM2)

In the second episode of the Vested Capital Mastermind, featuring Yaro and his three friends – Nick, Mani and Gideon – we answer a listener question about how to get started as an entrepreneur, Nick talks about his latest property investment,...

Bryan M Clayton, Founder Green Pal – ‘Uber For Lawncare’ – $20 Million A Year Run Rate (VC EP12)

Bryan M Clayton is the co-founder of Green Pal, an ‘Uber for lawncare' technology platform, connecting lawn mowing providers to customers all over the United States. Bryan got his start as a teenager when his father forced him to cut a neighbours lawn...

The Vested Capital Mastermind: Introducing Nick, Mani & Gideon (VCM1)

Introducing a new experiment on the Vested Capital podcast – a group show with some of my best friends. Meet Nick, Mani (Focus Blocks) and Gideon (Splasheo.com). Three guys I've known for years who I speak to on a regular basis. Through our friendship...

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5 Key Takeaways From Reading Alex Hormozi And Russell Brunson’s Books On Traffic

I Live In A Bubble. You Live In A Bubble. Why As Entrepreneurs We Must Must Look Beyond The Bubble

What The Most Effective Entrepreneurs Do Differently

The Two Numbers In Your Company That Decide How Big It Can Get

My Girlfriend Said: Are You Lazy?

Why Your Company Needs A Clear Differentiation Strategy Now More Than Evern

The Recurring Income Myth

3 Steps To Reach New Income Levels With Your Business

2023 Year In Review: I Became Co-Founder Of A Million Dollar Company

Here’s A List Of The Marketing Tactics I’ve Used To Grow All My Companies

My 25th Anniversary As An Online Entrepreneur

My 2022 Year In Review: Growth, Consolidation, War, Net Worth Crash, Passive Income Dividends!

Free Video Workshop: What Topic Should You Cover (3 Questions You Need To Answer)

My 10 Best Marketing Strategies When It Seems Like Nothing Else Is Working

How To Position Your Product Offer So People Choose To Buy From You

How To Use Content To Attract Google Search Traffic And Sell To Niche Markets

Paul Biggar Co-Founder Of $1.7 Billion Tech Unicorn CircleCI.com, DarkLang.com, PhD In Compilers (VC EP16)

Advice For New Entrepreneurs, Nick’s Latest Property Investment, Yaro Invests In ConvertKit, Mani And Gideon Business Updates (VCM2)

Bryan M Clayton, Founder Green Pal – ‘Uber For Lawncare’ – $20 Million A Year Run Rate (VC EP12)

The Vested Capital Mastermind: Introducing Nick, Mani & Gideon (VCM1)

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