13 Daily Activities that Will Double The Size of Your Personal Brand in 6 Months or Less

By Neil Patel

personal brand

How is your personal brand doing?

No really—how’s it doing?

Do you open up your inbox each day to a flood of people talking about how they love being your customer, how you changed their business, health, and life, or about how incredible your message is?

Or do you open up your inbox in the morning only to be showered with upset customers and people complaining about something you said in an article four months ago?

We live in a day and age where there is so much crap out there. People want to buy from and follow a business that has …read more      

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5 Stress-Free Steps for Pricing Your Services

By Beth Hayden

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Why does pricing our services provoke such fear and dread?

Even when we’re certain that we provide an exceptional service and charge what we’re worth, we still worry that clients will view our prices as unreasonable.

Of course, we don’t want to underprice our services, either.

Where does this leave us?

Most of the time, it leaves us paralyzed and stuck. So when it comes time to actually give a prospective client a price estimate, we often just take a wild guess.

That’s a huge mistake.

To help you calculate your service prices accurately, I’m going to share a step-by-step method …read more      

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Does Keyword Research Even Matter Anymore?

By Neil Patel

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Keyword research. I’m sure you’ve done it before.

You probably know what it’s like to use keyword research tools and come up with lists of keywords to track and rank for. I’ve done it dozens of times myself. Why? Because it’s one of those “standard practices” that we do in SEO and online marketing.

But search engines today aren’t looking only at keywords! Search engines are looking at hundreds of different factors. And keywords? They are only a small part of the big picture.

Don’t get me wrong. I think keyword research is still important.

But here’s the thing…

Keyword research isn’t the only aspect …read more      

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Rainmaker Rewind: Microsoft Just Bought LinkedIn. Here’s Everything You Need to Know

By Caroline Early

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This week on Rainmaker Rewind, Sean Jackson, Jabez LeBret, and Mica Gadhia have a conversation about the recent acquisition of LinkedIn by Microsoft for $26.2 billion.

In this up-to-the-minute episode, you’ll hear The Missing Link team share their thoughts about this announcement and what it means for you.

And as always, don’t miss out on other great episodes that were featured on Rainmaker FM.

  1. The Missing Link. The Missing Link team explores Microsoft’s acquisition of LinkedIn and how it affects each of us: Microsoft Just Bought LinkedIn. Here’s Everything You Need to Know …read more      
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The Content Junkyard (and Why So Many Articles Fail)

By Sean D’Souza

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On May 22, 1919, a New York hotel owner named Raymond Orteig announced a prize.

The Orteig Prize, as it came to be known, was the whopping sum of $25,000 (about $340,000 in 2015). It was to be given to the first allied aviators who flew nonstop from New York to Paris or vice versa.

Six aviators died in the pursuit of that prize.

Then an American air mail pilot named Charles Lindbergh took up the challenge. On May 20, 1927, he took off from Roosevelt Field in New York and landed in Paris 33.5 hours later. Many before him had tried …read more      

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