August 2015 - Page 12 of 24

How to Selfishly Build a Successful Business

Today’s guest on Hack the Entrepreneur is a real estate investor, one-time real estate agent, podcaster, web designer, and Internet entrepreneur.

He is the founder and CEO of the online real estate networking platform, BiggerPockets. The platform now has more than 330,000 members.

Today’s guest is also the CEO of BiggerPockets’s publishing division, and has co-written and published two Amazon bestsellers.

He is the co-host of the BiggerPockets podcast — the most highly rated and reviewed real estate podcast on iTunes — which offers both educational content and interviews.

Now, let’s hack…

Joshua Dorkin.

In this 35-minute episode of Hack the Entrepreneur, host Jon Nastor and …read more

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17 AugFeatured
How an Editor-in-Chief Creates Editorial Standards, Part One
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By Rainmaker.FM

Discover how to make your digital business stand out by creating and managing editorial standards that add a superior layer of quality to the work you produce.

Now that we’ve established connection is king, rather than content alone, how do you ensure that your content helps you establish a strong bond with your audience?

In this 20-minute episode of Editor-in-Chief, host Stefanie Flaxman discusses:

A simple solution for many content creation problems

Why editorial standards help you create a superior digital business

How editorial standards differentiate you from your competition

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Editor-in-Chief on iTunes

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17 AugFeatured
4 Writing Lessons from a Depressing Music Project
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By Rainmaker.FM

Hey, because this is episode 90 of Rough Draft, let’s do something a little different today. Let’s talk music.

Do you recognize any of these names?

The Antlers

Real Estate

Tune-Yards

M83

Beirut

Wye Oak

Feist

Tom Waits

The Head and the Heart

James Blake

Radiohead

If you do recognize any of those names, then Demian Farnworth can probably predict this about you: you prefer music on the margin over music in the mainstream.

And you had your ear to the ground in 2011.

If you don’t, and prefer the mainstream over the marginal, then you likely recognize at least two names: Tom Waits and Radiohead. Demian will tell you …read more

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17 AugFeatured
The 8 Underused Components of Compelling Content That Readers Love
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By Neil Patel

Do you wonder why people don’t seem to care about your content?

You’re targeting interesting keywords and sharing your content with the right communities but only get a few hundred views and a couple of comments if you’re lucky.

If you’re in this situation, you’re doing most things right.

But there’s at least one major thing holding you back. Most likely, it’s because your content isn’t quite good enough.

Ouch. I know that stings. But the reason that it isn’t quite at the level it needs to be isn’t because you don’t know your niche or can’t write a good blog post. It’s because …read more

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17 AugFeatured
The Law of (Content) Attraction
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By Sonia Simone

You may have heard of the “Law of Attraction.” This is the idea that if you think about something enough, it will quasi-magically appear in your life.

At its most simplistic, it can get pretty silly — the equivalent of thinking you can click your heels together and repeat “There’s No Place Like Home” to whisk yourself back to Auntie Em.

That’s not what I’m going to talk about today. I’m going to talk about something that’s almost as “spooky,” but much more pragmatic.

It’s the way that content — if you structure it correctly — has a magical-seeming way of …read more

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