10,000 Hours in 10 Minutes: Femme Frugality on Strategies for Growing Your Audience

Want to ensure your site not only grows its audience, but also engages it? (That was a trick question – what business owner doesn’t have these goals?) The anonymous voice behind the uber-popular Femme Frugality blog has a few thoughts on what’s made her site so successful. First and foremost, she attributes her readers –Read More…

10,000 Hours in 10 Minutes: Jason Hancock On Mobile Technology

Jason Hancock is Director of Marketing at MyBullfrog.com. His insight on the mobile technology field is valuable in not only choosing the right phone and apps, but also to see where this constantly changing field is going in the future and how this dynamic company is going with it. He recently took the time toRead More…

What are the Four Ps of Content Marketing?

Sure, you’re a busy person. You’ve probably got a dozen items on your to-do list at any given time. So it’s completely understandable why you haven’t taken the time to formulate a cohesive content marketing strategy. You just kept putting it off again and again. Well, guess what? The calendar says that 2014 is done.Read More…

10,000 Hours in 10 Minutes: Geralin Thomas on Organizing Your Business

As business owners and freelancers, we all understand the importance of tending to our digital life – whether it’s through blogging, social media or email. But online tasks have the uncanny ability to take over our days. To manage digital creep, professional organizer and consultant Geralin Thomas suggests asking yourself if you’re contributing or contaminatingRead More…

10,000 Hours in 10 Minutes: Jamie Teasdale on Reaching Your Business Goals

Jamie Teasdale grew up with business on her mind. Her parents were entrepreneurs who started several successful businesses and inspired her to become a business professional. Now, Jamie shares her skill set with business owners of all types to help them reach their goals. Been in business for years? That doesn’t matter; Propel Businessworks hasRead More…

eBooks: Are They Right for Your Company?

Okay, one more time: an eBook is not just your weird cousin’s self-published novel that he couldn’t get a literary agent to look at. When utilized correctly, eBooks can make up a key aspect of a company’s marketing strategy. What’s an eBook? As the name implies, an eBook is simply a book that is publishedRead More…

10,000 Hours in 10 Minutes: Grant Johnson on Digital Marketing

Grant Johnson has studied and applied his theories in marketing for years as the founder and leader of Johnson Direct, a marketing and branding agency. Here, he discusses with us the new frontiers of digital marketing, and how to pick the right marketing technology for your business. What’s new in digital marketing that we needRead More…

10,000 Hours in 10 Minutes: Shawn Collins on the Essentials of Affiliate Marketing

Shawn Collins is the man who brings the marketers together; he and his partner, Missy Ward, run several conferences on online and affiliate marketing a year, which you can book a slot in at their site Affiliate Summit. Shawn spoke with us about what goes into getting a conference up and running, and how marketingRead More…

10,000 Hours in 10 Minutes: Denise Brosseau on Becoming a Thought Leader

One of the surest ways to increase your ability to sell is to increase your strategic visibility – i.e., your visibility and standing with the people who matter, says Denise Brosseau, CEO of Thought Leadership Lab. “I’ve seen thought leaders become rainmakers who attract customers for their products, clients for their services, partners for theirRead More…

10,000 Hours in 10 Munutes: Don Dulin on the Power of Positive Thinking

Don Dulin is the first to admit even he doesn’t feel like a big ball of sunshine all the time, but he says when he puts the effort into staying positive, he reaps the benefits not only in his personal life, but professionally as well. Most of us not only deal with criticism from others,Read More…