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18 MarFeatured

Scott Oldford on Becoming Transparent and Finding Authenticity

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By Rainmaker.FM

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Today’s guest on Hack the Entrepreneur is a young entrepreneur that has spent half of his life in technology, marketing, and business.

By the age of 21, he had three catastrophic business failures and found himself hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt.

Now, at the age of 23, he is the founder of Infinitus Marketing and Technology, a company he has been building for nearly two years.

He was the recipient of the 2013 American Express Innovator award and was also named as one of Youth In Motion’s “Top 20 under 20 in Canada.”

He is also a …read more      

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18 MarFeatured

How to Strengthen Your Talents

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By Rainmaker.FM

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At five years old, nearly everyone is an artist. At 10, nearly none of us is.

What happened? And how can we become more talented at the things that interest us, so we can have richer, more successful lives?

Entrepreneur and business teacher Sean D’Souza of Psychotactics has thought a lot about talent — how to get it, and what keeps us from developing it.

In this 25-minute episode of Confessions of a Pink-Haired Marketer, host Sonia Simone talks with Sean D’Souza about:

  • The misunderstandings about talent that keeps us imprisoned in mediocrity
  • Why you don’t need 10,000 hours …read more      
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18 MarFeatured

How Search Engines Work, Part Two

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By Rainmaker.FM

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Imagine you love jaguars. You have a blog about jaguars. You publish seven times a week about jaguars. On your site, it’s jaguars all day and all night.

But Google doesn’t seem to know you exist. What gives?

The problem is Google can’t tell if you are an authority on the car, the animal, or the older-woman variety — because you write about all three.

Not good.

In this 4-minute episode of Rough Draft with Demian Farnworth, you’ll discover:

  • The conversation search bots have with each other while they crawl over your content
  • Writing advice for people who love …read more      
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18 MarFeatured

What I Learned About Content Marketing by Analyzing 614 Posts

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By Neil Patel

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Can you believe that I’ve published 614 posts on Quick Sprout? I published my first post on April 16 back in 2007.

Today, nearly eight years later, the blog gets well over 700,000 visitors a month. However, considering how long I’ve been blogging, I should have more visitors and ideally a quicker growth rate.

For fun, I decided to analyze all of my posts in order to figure out what is causing the blog to grow so that I can do more of it.

Here’s what I learned:

Infographics do extremely well

Infographics tend to get shared 42.4% more times than an average blog post. …read more      

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18 MarFeatured

Why You Need to Become a Rainmaker Before It’s Too Late

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By Jeff Goins

The portfolio life approach to your career

In his 1989 book, The Age of Unreason, Irish author Charles Handy made a startling prediction about the future of organizations.

He argued that businesses would soon be smaller and the workforce would be comprised of “portfolio people.”

And what is a portfolio person?

Handy describes a portfolio as a multifaceted career, comprised of different types of work that include fee work, salary work, and gift work. And soon, this is how we will all describe what we do — not as a job, but as a portfolio.

The 40-year career is dead

And for most of …read more      

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