Category: Featured

How Online Courses Accelerate Any Business Model

By Rainmaker.FM

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The online education industry will rake in $107 billion in 2015. And with the sale of Lynda.com to LinkedIn for $1.5 billion, the commercial sector is leading and pulling away from traditional institutions in the “just in time” education market.

People want online courses, and they’ll clearly pay for them.

And if great content marketing is giving away information worth paying for, then it seems smart to offer online courses as an audience-building and lead generation strategy.

In this 25-minute episode of New Rainmaker with Brian Clark, Brian and Robert Bruce discuss:

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One Simple Step to Attracting More Business Opportunities

By Rainmaker.FM

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In 2009, today’s guest on Hack the Entrepreneur co-founded Loudpixel, a successful social analytics company, where she was also Director of Analytics. After many successful years, she realized it wasn’t quite what she wanted to be doing, so she made a change.

Currently, she is an independent wedding and lifestyle photographer. In a market that most people struggle to start a business in, she has managed to build one to the point where she works part-time and makes a full-time income. This allows her to spend time with her one-year-old daughter.

She also runs an interview podcast series for …read more      

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‘Try It from a Different Angle’ and 2 Other Game-Changing Editing Lessons from a Shoddy Vacuum

By Rainmaker.FM

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What are you refraining from doing that could dramatically change your content?

For your online business to produce your desired results, you may need rethink your strategy to provide the best experience for your target audience.

If you think a task is too difficult, this might be the time to try it anyway.

In this 8-minute episode of Editor-in-Chief, host Stefanie Flaxman discusses:

  • Why she owns a terrible vacuum
  • Why the first idea you have for creating digital media is likely not the idea that will lead to real breakthroughs
  • How to evaluate and edit your digital media choices
  • …read more      

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The Best Articles Always Have This (and a Great Headline)

By Rainmaker.FM

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Everything up to now — all these markers that flag a reader to come in for a landing — traded in words.

But not the next element. And curiously enough, it’s probably as important and powerful as the headline.

Remember the episode of Rough Draft about the headline experiment involving Google Reader?

Remember how host Demian Farnworth said he learned that trick from Robert Scoble, who claimed to be able to “read” 1,000 blog posts in a very short period of time?

Well, it was the headline and the image that got him to stop and …read more      

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How to Grow Your Blog Traffic by 20,000 Visitors a Month

By Neil Patel

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Around eight months ago, I started a new blog in the marketing realm. When I first started out, my traffic was flat.

But around four months ago, I figured out a process that has allowed me to grow my traffic consistently—a process I could replicate. I am now at a point where I am adding about 20,000 new visitors each month.

Best of all, I’ve been doing it without spending a dollar on marketing.

The tactics I’ve been using will work for anyone. They work so well that the results I’m experiencing with my nutrition blog are even better, which is …read more      

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