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The post What Time of Day is Best to Publish to Your Blog? appeared first on ProBlogger.

This post is based on episode 130 of the ProBlogger podcast. When I started blogging (back in 2005, when RSS feeds were really big), I paid a lot of attention to when I published my posts because it seemed to affect how many people saw them. These days their visibility seems ...more

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A nearly $5,000  invoice from a life insurance company sits on my desk. But I haven’t paid it yet. Because I’m considering cancelling it. Which is a good thing to ponder. Life insurance policies, often bought and then renewed on the basis of emotion, can become a fantastic waste of money. But cancelling life insurance […]

The post Cancelling Life Insurance: Three Rules for Pulling Plug appeared first on Evergreen Small Business.

The post How to Write Great Blog Post Titles appeared first on ProBlogger.

This post is based on Episode 156 of the ProBlogger podcast. The title of your blog post can completely change its destiny. People often decide whether to read your post – and ultimately take action – based on the title alone. It may also determine whether or not they share your ...more

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The post Six First Income Streams Recommended for Bloggers appeared first on ProBlogger.

This post is based on episode 198 of the ProBlogger podcast. If you’ve been blogging for a while but haven’t started monetizing your blog, you might be wondering what income stream you should add first. This can be a sticking point, whether you’re a new blogger or have been blogging for ...more

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I’ve got some bad news, unfortunately. The IRS may have destroyed or dramatically reduced your Section 199A deduction. At least if you’re a typical small business owner. But let’s review the Section 199A deduction’s calculations. And then I can walk you through the nonsensical logic the IRS used to eliminate or dramatically reduce the Section […]

The post How the IRS Destroyed the Section 199A Deduction for Small Business S Corporations and Partnerships appeared first on Evergreen Small Business.

I spent last weekend in eastern Montana with a handful of third and fourth generation farmers and ranchers, relatives of my wife. Truly beautiful country. Awesome. At one point, I stood on bluff overlooking the land that Sitting Bull and his followers traveled through after the Battle of Little Big Horn. At the foot of […]

The post Small Business Succession Planning Secrets appeared first on Evergreen Small Business.

True marketing helps people make the right decision. So the marketer must escape the negative connotation of the role and embrace the power of marketing as a force for positive change in our world

The post The Marketer as Philosopher: 3 ways to achieve excellence in yourself and in your marketing appeared first on MarketingExperiments.

A look at the wireframing process we use for our websites at MECLABS Institute (MarketingSherpa.com, MarketingExperiments.com, and MECLABS.com)

The post How to Wireframe a Landing Page: 6 steps appeared first on MarketingExperiments.

(This article was originally published in the MarketingExperiments email newsletter.) Marketer, you know you have a good product. In fact, it’s exceptional. And you need to get this message out to as many people as possible in the most effective way. So, you have a message you are trying to communicate with prospective customers. But determining exactly […]

The post How to Create a Model of Your Customer’s Mind appeared first on MarketingExperiments.

Many investors know about geometric growth, which is what compound interest is. Investors, for example, know that if you earn an annual 5 percent return on some investment, over time the investment grows large. Every retirement savings plan employs geometric growth. But small business owners want to know about another sort of growth, arithmetic growth. […]

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