How to Get Your First 1000 Facebook Fans

By Neil Patel

How to Get Your First 1000 Facebook Fans

Have you ever wondered how you can get your Facebook fan page going? It used to be easy years ago, but now ad costs are rising, and you have to make sure you avoid fake fans or those that don’t engage.

So, what are the right steps you need to take to grow your Facebook fan base? Well, to guide you in accomplishing this goal, I’ve created an infographic that outlines those steps.

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Conclusion

If you don’t have a Facebook fan page, you …read more      

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The Traffic Light Revision Technique for Meticulously Editing Your Own Writing

By Stefanie Flaxman

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As a Los Angeles native, I know a thing or two about sitting in traffic.

I’m talking about physically sitting in your car while stopped in traffic on the way to your destination — not the traffic you talk about when people visit your website.

But the two different types of traffic may not be as unrelated as you think.

A lack of objectivity

One of my favorite observations about traffic jams is that sometimes you’re the one accidentally blocking an intersection with your car — making it difficult for other drivers to move forward on the …read more      

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How to Deliver a Better Audio Experience to Your Audience

By Rainmaker.FM

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The podcasting gods sure had fun with this one.

Jerod Morris and Jon Nastor set out to create an episode about delivering a more remarkable audio experience to your audience … and then had to unexpectedly jump through every possible hoop to actually do it.

The end result is an episode that is ironic, meta, and immensely useful.

Over the course of about 20 minutes during the main topic of this episode of The Showrunner, Jerod and Jon discuss the following:

  • How Jon’s family trip to Vancouver started the audio misadventure — and gave him his first taste of the real-world audio …read more      
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Bounce Rate, High Bounce Rate, Conversion Rate, And Landing Pages

If you?ve been struggling to increase search traffic to your site, improve email signups, get more leads, and acquire more clients, it?s possible that your bounce rate is too high.
In other words, visitors and customers who visit your landing page bounce off before they even give you a chance to con…

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What You Don’t Know about Your Product Can Kill Your Copy

By Rainmaker.FM

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Your product has two identities. But your customer buys your product because of just one of these identities. Oops.

See, when you pay $5,000 for your son’s braces, you aren’t buying a middle-aged man to follow you around in a white coat … nor are you buying stainless-steel rods to stick in your son’s mouth.

What you are buying are straight teeth. But not even that. You are buying what those straight teeth mean: beauty over bullying.

And I don’t run out to Lowe’s and drop $100 because I woke up dreaming about cordless drills.

I …read more      

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