The 7 Circles of Belief that Drive Customers to Your Business

By Rainmaker.FM

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Nearly all of us make decisions based on our beliefs — including decisions about what to buy and which businesses to connect with.

The 7 Circles of Belief are a spiral path that can bring customers or clients ever closer to your business.

Belief binds us together, often creating micro-tribes within our larger communities. And people want to connect with products and services that are aligned with their beliefs.

When you learn how to communicate your values and beliefs, you’ll pull your audience closer to you, along what we’ve identified as a 7-stage spiral path of belief. …read more      

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The Shocking Way to Master Any Book

By Rainmaker.FM

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What Rough Draft host Demian Farnworth is about to say might make you grit your teeth. Clench your fist. Or even pick up a crow bar …

Demian wants to show you why marking in a book is a good thing. And he wants to show you that unless you do this, you’re likely missing out on the best kind of reading.

The point of reading a good book is not to see how many you can get through. The point is to see how many get through to you.

How many you absorb into your blood. …read more      

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How KISSmetrics Grew to 793,858 Visitors a Month by Using One Simple Formula

By Neil Patel

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What if I told you that you can grow a blog to 100,000 plus visitors a month without even blogging.

It sounds crazy, right?

Both the KISSmetrics and Crazy Egg blogs receive well over 100,000 visitors a month each, and I didn’t even have to write one blog post to hit those traffic goals.

Sure, I now blog on both of those properties for fun, but it wasn’t the main source of traffic initially. So, how do you get to 100,000 visitors a month without blogging?

Well, you have to hire writers. Here is the process you should use to find writers who will …read more      

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What You Don’t Know About Copyright Can Hurt You

By Mark Trenner

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As writers, we are very protective of our own creations.

But when we perform research on a topic and come across the perfect passage on a website, or an image that perfectly captures the essence of the point we are trying to make, sometimes it can be tempting to just copy and paste it into our own content.

With that one move, however, you commit copyright infringement — which could cost you your reputation and your business.

Copyright infringement is serious

Since it can be difficult to determine whether or not you’re committing copyright infringement, you may …read more      

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How Sarah Stodola (Author of ‘Process: The Writing Lives of Great Authors’) Writes

By Rainmaker.FM

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Journalist and creative non-fiction author Sarah Stodola shared her writer’s file with host Kelton Reid in this episode of The Writer Files.

Her recent book Process: The Writing Lives of Great Authors is a fascinating collection of the habits and habitats of heralded scribes.

Ms. Stodola is also an accomplished journalist and editor whose work has appeared in the New York Times, Mental Floss, The Daily Beast, The Fiscal Times, Condé Nast Traveler, The Nation, The Wall Street Journal, Storyboard, Slate, and many others.

Take a listen to learn about the process of an author who is a …read more      

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