Category: Featured

A Small Gift for Your Dark Days as an Obscure Writer

By Rainmaker.FM

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This episode is personal. Rough Draft host Demian Farnworth offers you something that helped him during one of his most difficult times as an online writer …

It was in late September 2011. Occupy Wall Street was everywhere. And he longed to drop everything and join the movement because what he was doing at the time was killing him.

Then there came out of the dark a life preserver. A 182-year-old piece of content. A dramatic monologue about pushing forward beyond the utmost bound of human thought.

It gave Demian hope. It reminded him of his forgotten dreams. It …read more      

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The Savvy Marketer’s Checklist for Seductive Landing Pages

By Henneke

How to create a seductive landing page

Ever wonder what you could do to stop people from bouncing off your landing pages?

You work hard to polish your sales copy. You’ve even recorded a snazzy demonstration video.

But when you check your site’s analytics? You feel soooo frustrated.

And the worst thing is … you don’t know what else you can do. How can you improve your conversion rates?

Use the 40 tips in our landing page checklist to see where you’ve gone wrong.

Or, use the checklist to create a landing page from scratch. See your email list grow faster, your webinars …read more      

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Should We Fear Content Shock? (Or Could It Actually Be a Good Thing?)

By Rainmaker.FM

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There is far more content available for consumption than time to consume it. That is not up for debate.

But what is up for debate in this episode of The Lede is whether this idea of “content shock” is something to fear … or an opportunity.

In this episode, the fourth in the Hero versus Villain series, hosts Jerod Morris and Demian Farnworth bring in Robert Bruce to discuss how much fear and loathing (if any) should be inspired by content shock.

They view it generally, as well as through the prism of podcasts — where the amount of content is not yet …read more      

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Sunni Brown Explains How to Find Your Entrepreneurial Creative Essence

By Rainmaker.FM

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Today’s guest on Hack the Entrepreneur is an entrepreneur, artist, and the founder of SB Ink, a creative consultancy and agent of social change.

She has worked with companies like Disney, Sharpie, Zappos, and SXSW. Using common sense, experience, and neuroscience, she is proving that to doodle is to ignite your whole mind.

Today’s guest is also an author and aims to teach the world how to master “strategic doodling” in her latest book, The Doodle Revolution.

Don’t miss this brilliant, hilarious conversation.

Now, let’s hack …

Sunni Brown.

In this 29-minute episode of Hack the Entrepreneur, host Jon Nastor and …read more      

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Productivity for Flakes, Head Cases, and Other Natural Disasters

By Rainmaker.FM

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Some people are naturally productive. Naturally organized. Naturally get the important things done, every day.

They have clean desks and rational calendars and earn the admiration of family and peers.

Confessions of a Pink-Haired Marketer host Sonia Simone is not one of those people.

The truth is, she considers herself a natural disaster. Left to her own devices, she’d eat pie and play Minecraft all day.

And yet, somehow she has figured out how to be a grown-up about the things that matter. Here’s how …

In this 29-minute episode of Confessions of a Pink-Haired Marketer, host Sonia Simone …read more      

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