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Posts
Business & Entrepreneurship
- Is BBB Accreditation Worth It For Small Businesses? (Probably Not)
- How To Stop Feeling Overwhelmed As A Solopreneur (6 Strategies That Actually Work)
- The 7 Functions Every Business Has (And Why Most Solopreneurs Neglect At Least One)
- What Is A Productized Service? Should You Start One?
- How I Optimized My WordPress Admin To Turn It Into A Business Command Center
- Smart Survey System: Your Guide To Using Surveys To Grow Your Business
- Branding And Product Names: Changes In My Business And Why
- Is Your Online Business Protected Against The Unexpected? 6 Points Of Online Business Self-Reliance And Digital Sovereignty
- 84 Lessons From 20 Years As An Online Entrepreneur (Updated)
- The Blogger Code Of Monetization
- How To Grow Your Online Business… Especially When You’re Short On Time
- Wreck Diving On A Sunken Boat Wreck – And What It Taught Me About Business
- A Word On Gratitude
- On Being A Problogger… And A Dad
- The Circles Of Life: Which One Are You On?
- Self-Employment Vs. Employee: Which Actually Provides More Financial Security?
Business Systems
- The 7 Functions Every Business Has (And Why Most Solopreneurs Neglect At Least One)
- Website Backup Strategy: The Best Ways To Stay Out Of Trouble With Proper Backups Of Your Website
- How I Optimized My WordPress Admin To Turn It Into A Business Command Center
- FluentBooking Review: Why This Scheduling Plugin Stands Out Above The Competition
- How To Set Up Domain-Based Email For Your Business (And Why I Quit Gmail)
- How To Handle Complainers And Rude Emails To Support
- How To Avoid The Most Common Pitfalls While Growing Your Online Business
- The 3 Metrics I Track Every Day And Use To Predictably Grow My Business
- How Much Time, Effort, And Money Does It Take To Build A Six-Figure Online Business?
- How To Grow Your Online Business… Especially When You’re Short On Time
- Key Performance Indicators: Growing And Managing Your Online Business by The Numbers
- An Open Letter To Those Struggling To Get Started In Online Business
- How To Successfully Grow Your Business, According To An Ancient Chinese Military Strategist
- The 7 Stages of Building An Online Business [Infographic and Guide]
- What Happens When An Online Business Owner Disappears For 3 Weeks?
- How To Handle The Confusion And Overwhelm That Goes With Starting An Online Business
- After 16 Years Of Running A Tech Site, It Is Time To Part Ways
- The “Third Rail” of Internet Marketing And Blogging… That Few Tackle Head On
- Why The “Make Money Blogging” Niche Is Broken
- The Blogger’s Code Of Ethics: 8 Principles That Build Real Trust
Content Creation
- How “Over-Delivering” On My Email Newsletter Secretly Tanked My Open Rate
- How To Write Faster Without Losing Your Voice (10 Tips That Actually Work)
- Power Blogging Tips: 26 Fundamentals That Actually Move The Needle In 2026
- How To Do A Blog Content Audit (Without Nasty Spreadsheets). My Custom System For Managing Content In Wordpress.
- Blog Content Strategy: How To Structure Your Entire Blog (So It Will Actually Work)
- Branding Guide: The Exact Components Of Branding, Personal Brand, And How To Determine Your’s
- Blog Categories Done Smartly: How To Define Your Blog Category Structure To Make More Leads And Sales
- Core Web Vitals: The Dummies Guide To Increasing Your Scores And Satisfying The Google SEO Overlords
- Perfect About Page Formula: Create A Conversion-Focused About Page With This Template
- SEO Optimization: The Ultimate Guide To Search Engine Optimization For Bloggers
- Blog Post Frequency: How Often Should You Post To Your Blog For SEO?
- Content Strategy For Blogs: How The Redwood Strategy Works To Get Massive Traffic To Your Blog With Less Effort
- Content Marketing Strategy: Plan Your Content Calendar In Advance (Plus Template + Worksheet)
- Anatomy Of The Perfect Blog Post: A Complete Guide To Ideal Blog Post Structure And Formatting
- The 6 Core Pages Of Your Blog – And How To Tweak Them To 2X Your Conversions
- 58+ Headline Formulas: The Ultimate Non-Copywriter’s Guide To Writing Headlines That Get The Clicks
- Money Levers #3: Rethinking Traffic And How To Get It
- Categories vs Tags: Actual Conversion-Focused Strategy For Organizing Your Blog Posts
- Help! I Have Nothing To Post To My Blog!
- 10 Hard-Learned Podcasting Lessons I’ve Learned After 3 Years Of Recording (Sorta)
- Stop Brainstorming Blog Topics. Ask This 7-Word Question Instead.
- A Quarterly Editorial Calendar Template (And How To Use It)
- An In-Depth Guide To Developing And Planning Your Quarterly Editorial Calendar For Your Blog
Email List Building
- How “Over-Delivering” On My Email Newsletter Secretly Tanked My Open Rate
- Re-Engagement Emails: How To Create And Execute A Re-Engagement Campaign And Win Back Cold Subscribers
- 7 Things You Can Do In Less Than A Few Hours to Grow Your List More Effectively
- Email Deliverability: The Simple Guide To How To Ensure Your Best Deliverability Metrics
- Subscriber-Only Content: How To Ensure Only Your Subscribers Can Get Your Lead Magnets
- FluentCRM Review Update: Is It Ready For Me To Switch Over?
- RightMessage Versus ConvertFlow: Onsite Retargeting To Personalize The Marketing On Your Blog
- Thrive Leads Vs OptinMonster: A Non-Biased Comparison Based On Real World Use
- What If You Emailed Your List Every Day? (A Different Look At Email Frequency)
- Ultimate Guide To Building An Email List: List Building That Works And Makes You Money
- How To Create 2-Step Opt-ins In Your Blog Posts Using Thrive Leads
- 15 Things About Drip That Made Me Switch From Ontraport Marketing Automation
- How To Increase Your Blog’s Optin Rate Without Creating Any New Content
- 7 Effective Lead Magnet Ideas To Build Your List (That Aren’t “Ebooks”)
- How To Have A Targeted Opt-in Form For Each Blog Category
- The 7 Criteria For An Effective Lead Magnet (And Why You Shouldn’t Make That Big-Ass Ebook)
- How To Deal With Subscribers Who Don’t Confirm Their Email Subscriptions
- Email List Building: Should You Always Offer A Freebie To Build Your Email List?
Getting Started
- How to Choose the Best WordPress Theme in 2025: A Smart Guide (No Developer Needed)
- Why Wordpress? Why Not Wix, Weebly or Squarespace?
- Online Business Startup Costs: How Much Should You Expect To Spend To Start A Money-Making Blog?
- Finding Your Blog Niche: How Exactly Do You Narrow Down Your Niche?
- How To Set Up Domain-Based Email For Your Business (And Why I Quit Gmail)
- How Long Does It Take To Make Money With Your Blog? (My Answer To This Common Question)
- Blog Launch Plan: How To Launch Your Brand New Blog From Scratch, In 14 Steps
- How To Pick Domain Name: Tips, Tools And Strategies (And Common Questions Answered)
- When Is The Right Time To Monetize Your Blog?
- Which Comes First: Traffic or Monetization? (How Everything Has Changed)
- Reality Check: A Blog Is Not A Business
- The Danger Of Reading Blogger Income Reports
- How To Build And Monetize A Blog In A Crowded Market (A Strategic Launch Plan)
- How To Avoid The Most Common Pitfalls While Growing Your Online Business
- How To Make Money In The Personal Development Niche (And Why Many Don’t)
- Why Today Is The Day You Should Stop Blogging
- 10 Steps I Would Follow To Start Over And Build My Business From Scratch in 90 Days (Updated)
- Find Your Niche: The Ultimate Guide To Choosing A Profitable Blog Niche That Works For You
- How Much Time, Effort, And Money Does It Take To Build A Six-Figure Online Business?
- 6 Niche Selection Mistakes That Kill Most Online Businesses Before They Start
- Why Following Your Passion Is Bad Advice
Marketing Automation
- Re-Engagement Emails: How To Create And Execute A Re-Engagement Campaign And Win Back Cold Subscribers
- Smart Survey System: Your Guide To Using Surveys To Grow Your Business
- Email Deliverability: The Simple Guide To How To Ensure Your Best Deliverability Metrics
- FluentBooking Review: Why This Scheduling Plugin Stands Out Above The Competition
- How To Increase Your Email Open Rates And Get Your Emails Delivered
- Lead Magnets With BeeHiiv: How To Deliver Them And Set Up Your Automations
- BeeHiiv Integrations: How To Connect Your Own Forms To BeeHiiv (Using The API)
- BeeHiiv Review: Why I Switched To It (And Later Switched Back To FluentCRM)
- Is Your Website Annoying To Your Visitors?
- How To Clean Your Email List And Ensure Good Delivery Rates From A New Sender
- FluentCRM Review Update: Is It Ready For Me To Switch Over?
- Building Your Email List Via A Free Membership: Why You Might Want To (And How)
- FluentCRM Review: A Look At Marketing Email Automation Inside WordPress
- Marketing Automation CRM… Inside Of WordPress? Would It Work?
- ConvertBox Review: The Good And Bad Points Of This Opt-In Software And How It Compares (UPDATED)
- What If You Emailed Your List Every Day? (A Different Look At Email Frequency)
- 15 Things About Drip That Made Me Switch From Ontraport Marketing Automation
- Should You Use Double Opt-In On Your Mailing List? Pros, Cons, And A Potential Better Way
Membership Sites
- How To Convert From BuddyBoss To FluentCommunity
- FluentCommunity Review: Can This Be A Replacement For BuddyBoss?
- WooCommerce Setup: The Settings I Use For Almost Every Site I Build
- BuddyBoss Hosting: What’s The Hosting For A Buddyboss Membership Site
- Should You Offer A Lifetime Membership To Your Membership Site? Don’t Make These Mistakes…
- Video Hosting For Your Membership And Online Courses: How To Securely Embed Videos And Ensure Protected Access
- Membership Site Community: Should You Have One? Best Platform?
- Membership Site Domain: New Domain, Sub-Domain Or Same Site? How To Avoid My Mistakes.
- How I Built A Service Credit System For My Membership Site
- The Ultimate Blueprint To Building Your Membership Site
- When Is The Right Time To Start A Membership Site?
- Thrive Apprentice 4 Review: Thrive Suite Just Grew Up
- How My Membership Site Is Built: The Tools & Plugins I Use To Power My Business
- The Most Powerful Membership Site Plugin For Wordpress That Often Gets Overlooked
- BuddyBoss Blog Layout: How To Easily Create Custom Blog Post Templates
- Presto Player Review: Could This Be The Video Player You Always Wanted For Sales Videos And Online Courses?
- Building Your Email List Via A Free Membership: Why You Might Want To (And How)
- How To Customize Your Login Screen With Thrive Architect
- Why Building A Membership Site Is More Important Than Ever (And It Has Nothing To Do With Monetization)
- LearnDash Review: Is It The Right Solution For Your Online Courses?
- BuddyBoss Theme Review: Could It Be The Perfect Membership Site Theme?
- WP Fusion Review: 7 Cool Things You Can Do With Your Membership Site With This Plug-In
- How To Make Member Announcements And Promotions In Your Membership Site Easily – Using ConvertBox
- Membership Site Setup: The 4 Main Components Of The Membership Site Tech Stack (And What I’m Now Using)
- Why I Am Switching Away From MemberMouse For My Membership Site
- A Fresh 2020 Review Of Wishlist Member: How Does This Membership Site Plugin Stack Up Today?
- Thrive Apprentice Review: What’s It Like To Build An Online Course With This Tool?
- How To Create An Affiliate Program For Your Membership Site With WordPress
- Membership Sites: 6 Reasons Why You Should Turn Your Blog Into A Membership Site To Make Money
- Membership Site Examples: Get Some Ideas From These 10 Membership Sites
- How To Make Money With Udemy (The Right Way)
- How To Sell A Recurring Membership Site Subscription
- MemberMouse Review: The Good and Bad After 5 Years Of Using MemberMouse For My Business
- The Story of My First Membership Site
- Forget This One Thing, And Your Membership Site Will Fail
- Recurring Income: Why You Need (And Want) This For Your Business
No Category
- What It Really Costs to Own a Website (And Whether a Maintenance Service Is Worth It)
- Your Email List Isn’t Too Small. You’re Just Not Using It.
- The AI Hype Is Real… But So Is the Learning Curve
- Blogging in the Age of AI: How Everything Has Changed (And Why I’m More Excited Than Ever)
- An Update On Concierge Services: How It’s Going And What’s Changing
- How To Separate Your Email From Your Web Hosting (For Best Web Hosting)
- Awesome Support From ConvertKit. I Want To Acknowledge Them Publicly.
- Consumer Alert: Tricky and Pushy Marketing In The WordPress Economy
- How To Run Marketing Automations As A Video Is Watched In Wordpress
- WP Social Ninja Pro Review: This Is NOT Just Another Social Media Plugin
- The Most Powerful Membership Site Plugin For Wordpress That Often Gets Overlooked
- Why I Switched From Thrivecart To WooCommerce
- How Many Wordpress Plugins Are Too Many? Surprising Answer…
- AI Copywriting Tools – Why I Just Say No
- Real Talk On Recent Pivots At The Blog Marketing Academy (And Why)
- My (2021) Home Office Setup For Blogging And Content Creation
- How To Cut Your Dependency On Big Tech (And Why You Might Want To)
- ConvertBox Review: 15 Pro Strategies Using ConvertBox To Grow Your Business And Make More Money
- RV Blog Update: Lessons From My First Facebook Boosted Post [10XChallenge]
- How To Use ConvertBox To Engage And Segment Existing Subscribers
- New RV Blog Stats! Update On My Email List Metrics, Blog Traffic, And Epic Bounce Rate Change [10XChallenge]
- Do I Have An Unfair Advantage As I Try To 10X My Blog Traffic?
- First Step: Resurrecting A Dormant Blog From The Dead [10X Blog Traffic Challenge]
- 10X Blog Traffic Challenge: A Long Overdue Update On Starting An RV Blog From Scratch
- How To Make Member Announcements And Promotions In Your Membership Site Easily – Using ConvertBox
- A Fresh 2020 Review Of Wishlist Member: How Does This Membership Site Plugin Stack Up Today?
- Why And How I Switched My Optins From Thrive Leads To ConvertBox
- ConvertBox Review: The Good And Bad Points Of This Opt-In Software And How It Compares (UPDATED)
- How To Create An Affiliate Program For Your Membership Site With WordPress
- How To Create Beautiful Blog Posts That Will Stand Out From The Crowd (And Convert) With Thrive Architect
- Brave Payments: Could This Be The Future Of Monetization For Content Creators?
- The Danger Of Reading Blogger Income Reports
- How NOT To Deal With Refund Requests (Hint: Don’t Be Like eFax)
- The Future Of Online Business: Cryptocurrencies And Why I Believe You Should Be Accepting Bitcoin.
- Why So Many Bloggers Recommend Bluehost or Hostgator Hosting (And Why I Don’t)
- An Update On My Hobby RV Camping Blog. Full Stat Breakdown. (RV Blog Report #4)
- 7 Weeks In… Status Report On The New RV Blog [RV Blog Report #3]
- 22 Days After Starting A New Blog From Scratch – A Status Report [RV Blog Report #2]
- Follow Along While I Start Up A New Blog From Scratch (RV Blog Report #1)
- 23 Random Observations After A Month On The Road In Our RV
- Hitting The Road! Preparing My Online Business For Life In An RV.
- My Daily Template For More Focus and Higher Productivity
- What’s the Most Important Thing To Test In Your Marketing?
- 4 Factors You Can Use To Close The Sale
- Top 8 Mistakes Way Too Many Blog Owners Make
- When Is The Right Time To Ask For The Sale?
- How To Find and Hire Writers For Your Blog (The Complete Guide)
Productivity
- How To Stop Feeling Overwhelmed As A Solopreneur (6 Strategies That Actually Work)
- Theory Of Constraints For Solopreneurs: How To Find What’s Actually Killing Your Business
- Why Most Online Businesses Fail (The Systems Problem)
- The Reason Why You Work All Day And Nothing Gets Done
- The Myth (And Danger) Of Posting To Your Blog Every Day
- 8 Cold, Hard Facts About The Successful Online Entrepreneur
- The Realities of Blogging For A Living – What Is It Really Like?
- 7 Strategies On Balancing Family Life, Online Business, And Working From Home
- The Simple Secret To Getting More Done In Less Time
- What To Focus On: A Simple, Numerical System For Ranking Your Ideas And Figuring Out What To Do, When
- Focus Mapping: An Exercise I Perform Every Morning Before I Get To Work
- A Productivity Tool That Has Transformed My Work Day (HINT: It Isn’t Software)
- Starting An Online Business: 6 Dangerous Habits That Can Sabotage Your Success
- 101 Productivity Hacks For Online Entrepreneurs (Based on 23 Years Of Experience)
- Why Most Blog Content Goes Unread (And How To Package Yours So It Doesn’t)
- Rant: Is “Lack of Jobs” Really The Problem?
- The Fallacy Of Waiting For The Right Time
- The #1 (Self-Created) Barrier To Entrepreneurship (And How To Solve It)
- How To Get A Big Whiteboard On A Small Budget (Less Than $20)
- This One Simple Calculation And Metric Can Make The Difference Between Success and Failure
- A Word On Gratitude
- The Circles Of Life: Which One Are You On?
Sales & Conversion
- 5 Things People Will Pay The Most Money For
- Fear of Marketing? Here’s Where It Really Comes From
- Privacy Concerns Of Stripe Connect: Can The Developer Of Your WordPress Ecommerce Plugin See Your Store’s Transactions?
- FluentAffiliate Review: Affiliate Program Plugin Without The Messy Bloat
- 8 Reasons Your Product Isn’t Selling (And How to Fix It)
- What Is A Productized Service? Should You Start One?
- 9 Tactics For Autopilot Social Proof: How To Get Testimonials On Automatic
- How I Built A Service Credit System For My Membership Site
- How To Create Powerful Order Forms Simply (Without Needing A Shopping Cart)
- Using Simply Schedule Appointments To Build A Powerful Scheduler Right Inside Wordpress (No Third Party Calendars!)
- Perfect About Page Formula: Create A Conversion-Focused About Page With This Template
- ThriveCart Review: Is It Any Good? Does It Rise Over Other Shopping Cart Alternatives?
- Top 11 Blog Monetization Strategies, Ranked In Order
- How To Use A Blog (Properly) To Market A Local, Offline Business
- Pricing Strategy: The Non-Marketer’s Guide To Figuring Out What To Charge For Your Digital Products
- Conversion Triggers: 15 Psychological Buttons To Help You Get More Customers, More Opt-ins, And Higher Click/Open Rates
- Blog Monetization: The Exact Business Model Proven To Make Money Blogging
- The Web As You Knew It Is Dying – And This Is How It Has Changed Everything For Bloggers and Marketers
- Case Study: How This Mental Health Blog Can Make More Money (By Removing Banner Ads)
- The Fastest (Often Overlooked) Way To Making Money Online
- How To Sell Without Selling: Making Money Without Being A Pushy Salesman
- How To Get Social Proof When You Don’t Have Any Testimonials
- 15 Different Countdown Timer Tools To Drive Urgency On Your Sales Pages And Emails
- The 6 Core Pages Of Your Blog – And How To Tweak Them To 2X Your Conversions
- Increase Your Income By Increasing Your Prices (Money Levers #6)
- How To Execute A Flash Sale (Money Levers #5)
- The Foundation Of Real Blog Monetization: The Blog Profit Funnel (Money Levers #4)
- Money Levers #2: Creating A New Offer Using The Product Idea Checklist (And Selling It Before You Make It)
- Money Levers: The Levers You Can Pull To Generate More Revenue As Needed
- How I Would Market And Sell Web Development Services If I Were Still A Web Developer
- 5 Reasons Why Banner Advertising Is The DUMBEST Way To Monetize Your Blog
- How To Figure Out What Product You Can Build For Your Audience
- 7 Ways To Use Your Autoresponder to Get More Traffic And More Money
- How I Monetized A Technology Blog And Turned It Into A Six Figure Business
- Stop Trying To Make Money Online
- UTM Parameters In Plain English: How To Expertly Track Which Traffic Sources Are Actually Converting
- The Second List: How (And Why) To Set Up Your Blog For Retargeting
- Blog Monetization Case Study – Increasing Revenue From A Fashion Blog Turned Mommy Blog
- Does Ending The Price In 7 Really Matter?
- The Only Way To Test A Product Idea Is To Charge Money For It
- Case Study: How This Nutrition Blog Increased Revenue 10X (And How To Take It Even Further)
- The Blog Monetization Business Model [VIDEO]
- Naming Products, And The Introduction Of The Monetization Lab
- Monetization Case Study – How This Food And Nutrition Blog Can Get More Opt-Ins And Sales
- 8 Strategies To Improve Conversion Rates From Your Blog Posts
- 8 Months Into Your Blogging, And Still No Idea How To Monetize? (And Why I’m Pissed Off)
- This ONE Little Shift In Your Blogging Approach Can Make The Difference Between $19 and $5982
- The Story of My First Membership Site
- Forget This One Thing, And Your Membership Site Will Fail
- Recurring Income: Why You Need (And Want) This For Your Business
- Lessons From XXX: What Porn Can Teach Us As Bloggers, Marketers And Business Owners
Site Building
- How To Run A Site-Wide Search & Replace On Wordpress
- Why Most WordPress Homepages Fail (And How To Build One That Actually Works)
- How I Protect WordPress Sites Against Bots (Using Free Tools)
- 2026 Official Hosting Recommendation: How to Beat Premium WordPress Hosts on Speed and Price
- Website Backup Strategy: The Best Ways To Stay Out Of Trouble With Proper Backups Of Your Website
- How To Convert From BuddyBoss To FluentCommunity
- Privacy Concerns Of Stripe Connect: Can The Developer Of Your WordPress Ecommerce Plugin See Your Store’s Transactions?
- The Difference Between GPL And Nulled WordPress Plugins (And Why You Should Care)
- AnalyticsWP Review: Does It Make Sense To Track Your Site Traffic Using A WordPress Plugin?
- Have You Created A WordPress Frankenstein Site That Breaks All The Time?
- How to Choose the Best WordPress Theme in 2025: A Smart Guide (No Developer Needed)
- How To Host Your WordPress Blog In A Sub-Folder, Hosted Separately
- My (Unfortunate) Experience With WP Grid Builder
- 9 Tactics For Autopilot Social Proof: How To Get Testimonials On Automatic
- WooCommerce Setup: The Settings I Use For Almost Every Site I Build
- How To Clean Your Options Table For Better WordPress Performance
- xCloud Hosting Review: Good Enough To Switch From Cloudways?
- BuddyBoss Hosting: What’s The Hosting For A Buddyboss Membership Site
- Why Wordpress? Why Not Wix, Weebly or Squarespace?
- Rocket.Net Hosting Review: I Switched And Here’s What I Think
- Web Hosting Change: Moving From Cloudways To Rocket And Here’s Why
- Video Hosting For Your Membership And Online Courses: How To Securely Embed Videos And Ensure Protected Access
- FluentBooking Review: Why This Scheduling Plugin Stands Out Above The Competition
- Stop Using Thrive Suite. This Sucks.
- BeeHiiv Integrations: How To Connect Your Own Forms To BeeHiiv (Using The API)
- How To Automatically Import Posts From Multiple Sources Into One Site
- How To Create Online Courses On WordPress Without An LMS Plug-in
- How To Show Your Site Analytics Inside WordPress (Without Big Tech)
- How To Build A Calculator Form Easily Without Any Coding
- Choosing An Ecommerce Platform For Your Online Business (And My Only Recommendation)
- Blog Bounce Rate: What Is It And How Do You Reduce Your Bounce Rate?
- The Challenge Of Converting From A Page Builder To Gutenberg Blocks For Your Whole Site
- Page Builders Vs Gutenberg Blocks: Why I’m Switching Away From BuddyBoss To Kadence Theme
- Why I Stopped Using Google Analytics (And What I Use Instead)
- How To Reduce WordPress Block Editor Bloat For A Faster Editor
- How To Organize Your WordPress Media Library Into Folders
- How To Create Powerful Order Forms Simply (Without Needing A Shopping Cart)
- Premium WordPress Themes & Plugins For Free: What is a WordPress GPL Club? Are They Legit?
- 4 Core Principles For Choosing Software and Plug-ins For Your Site
- Using Simply Schedule Appointments To Build A Powerful Scheduler Right Inside Wordpress (No Third Party Calendars!)
- How To Easily Accept Crypto Payments On Your WooCommerce Site (Coinbase Commerce Versus Crypto.com)
- Thrive Automator Is Out Of Beta. And Here’s Why That Matters…
- Elementor Cloud: Worth A Look? And Why Are They Launching This?
- Thrive Apprentice 4 Review: Thrive Suite Just Grew Up
- How To Clean A Bloated WordPress Media Library
- Fluent Support Review: First Look At An Integrated Customer Helpdesk Solution For Wordpress
- How To Delete Custom Field Data From Wordpress (Without PHPMyAdmin)
- Switching To FluentCRM: Here’s The Process I Used To Switch From Drip
- First Look At Thrive Automator: Will This Solve The Long-Standing Issue With Thrive Suite?
- Wordpress Document Library: How To Cleanly Embed PDF Files And Create A PDF Library
- Wordpress Security Plugins: Is It Really Necessary To Use Security, Malware, Or Spam Plugins?
- Cloudways Migration Tutorial: How To Migrate Your Sites To Cloudways Hosting (Step-by-Step)
- Building Your Online Business Platform: Taking Payments On Your WordPress Site Versus Third-Party Platforms
- How To Set Up Custom Post Templates (No Coding Required)
- Gravity Forms Vs WP Fluent Forms: Which Is The Better WordPress Forms Plugin?
- How To Integrate ConvertBox With FluentCRM
- Thrive Suite Review: Real Talk About Thrive Themes And How It Compares To Competitors
- FluentCRM Review: A Look At Marketing Email Automation Inside WordPress
- Cloudways Hosting Review: Is It The Best Host For Your Money?
- Why I Switched My Wordpress Hosting From WPX Hosting To Cloudways
- Blog Sidebars Are Dead: 310% Better Conversion Rate Without A Sidebar
- I Have Officially Switched To Thrive Theme Builder. Here’s What You Need To Know…
- Converting An Established Site To Thrive Theme Builder. Here’s How It Went…
- Thrive Theme Builder Review: Hands On With The Brand New Visual Theme Builder From Thrive Themes
- Google Analytics For WordPress: Best Plugin Recommendations And The Hype Of Paid Pro Versions
- Divi Builder Review: A Brutally Honest Look At This WordPress Theme Builder
- ThriveCart Review: Is It Any Good? Does It Rise Over Other Shopping Cart Alternatives?
- Thrive Architect Vs Elementor: A Hands-On Comparison From A Long-Time Architect User
- Do You Really Need Cookie Consent Notices On Your Blog?
- Why I Switched Hosting Away From WP Engine… To WPX Hosting
- How To Change The Domain Name Of Your Wordpress Blog (Without Hurting SEO)
- How To Create A ‘Contact Us’ Page That Invites Conversions And Generates Sales
- How To Use A Global Header And Footer On Thrive Architect Landing Pages
- Blog Layouts: Is YOUR Blog Designed According To These Conversion Blueprints?
- Profits Through Simplicity, How I’ve Simplified My Online Business, And When To Buy New Business Tools
- Why I Can No Longer Recommend Bluehost Web Hosting (I Owe An Explanation)
- 5 Reasons Why Banner Advertising Is The DUMBEST Way To Monetize Your Blog
- How I Build My Sales Letters And Landing Pages Using OptimizePress [VIDEO]
- How To Set Up A One-Stop Dashboard For All Your Important Metrics
- UTM Parameters In Plain English: How To Expertly Track Which Traffic Sources Are Actually Converting
- The Marketer’s Guide To How To Leverage Your Blog Categories
- The Tech Center, Specifically For Bloggers And Online Marketers
- Which Landing Page Creator Is Best For You?
- How To Create Real Scarcity With Wordpress Sales Pages, with Scarcity Samurai
- How to Migrate Your WordPress Blog to a New Host Using Migrate Guru
- Why I’m Switching From Aweber To Ontraport Office AutoPilot
- Godaddy Review: Why I Recommend That You Don’t Use GoDaddy
Strategy
- Independent Analytics Review: A Better Way to Own Your Website Analytics
- What Is A Productized Service? Should You Start One?
- Smart Survey System: Your Guide To Using Surveys To Grow Your Business
- Top 11 Blog Monetization Strategies, Ranked In Order
- How To Use A Blog (Properly) To Market A Local, Offline Business
- Our Businesses Don’t Exist In A Bubble. Some Thoughts On Money, Our Economy, And The Bigger Picture
- Case Study: How This Mental Health Blog Can Make More Money (By Removing Banner Ads)
- Online Marketing 101: Do You Need A Blog In Order To Make Money Online?
Traffic & Conversion
- How I Protect WordPress Sites Against Bots (Using Free Tools)
- Independent Analytics Review: A Better Way to Own Your Website Analytics
- FluentAffiliate Review: Affiliate Program Plugin Without The Messy Bloat
- Growing Your Blog In 30 Minutes: 10 High Impact Tasks You Can Do To Impact Your Blog In Only 30 Minutes Per Day
- SEO Optimization: The Ultimate Guide To Search Engine Optimization For Bloggers
- Blog Post Frequency: How Often Should You Post To Your Blog For SEO?
- Instant Authority: 5 Simple Strategies To Becoming A Leader In Your Niche (Without Depending On Others)
- Blog Traffic: The Ultimate Guide To Increasing Your Blog Traffic
- Blog Monetization: The Exact Business Model Proven To Make Money Blogging
- The Blogger Code Of Monetization
- Ultimate Blog Promotion Guide: 10 Smartest Things You Can Do to Promote Your New Blog (UPDATED)
Traffic Growth
- X Traffic (Formerly Twitter): What Actually Works In 2026
- AnalyticsWP Review: Does It Make Sense To Track Your Site Traffic Using A WordPress Plugin?
- How To Do A Blog Content Audit (Without Nasty Spreadsheets). My Custom System For Managing Content In Wordpress.
- Ultimate Guide To Blog Comments: Best Practices For Handling Comments On Your Blog
- Core Web Vitals: The Dummies Guide To Increasing Your Scores And Satisfying The Google SEO Overlords
- SEO Optimization: The Ultimate Guide To Search Engine Optimization For Bloggers
- How Do I Get My Blog Noticed On Google?
- Which Comes First: Traffic or Monetization? (How Everything Has Changed)
- Blog Traffic: The Ultimate Guide To Increasing Your Blog Traffic
- The Web As You Knew It Is Dying – And This Is How It Has Changed Everything For Bloggers and Marketers
- Ultimate Blog Promotion Guide: 10 Smartest Things You Can Do to Promote Your New Blog (UPDATED)
- How NOT To Ask For A Guest Post On Somebody’s Blog (6 Fun Examples)
- The Second List: How (And Why) To Set Up Your Blog For Retargeting
- 10 Hard-Learned Podcasting Lessons I’ve Learned After 3 Years Of Recording (Sorta)
- Focusing On SEO and Social To Get More Blog Traffic? Here’s Why You’re Wasting Your Time.
- Monetization Case Study – How This Food And Nutrition Blog Can Get More Opt-Ins And Sales
- How To Make Your Interview-Style Podcast Blend Into the Scenery And Get Noticed By Nobody
- The “Deadly Quartet” For Rapid Audience Growth And More Traffic
- The Traffic Building Formula
- How To Get Bloggers (And Other Creators) To Actually Promote Your Product
Issues
- 600 Issues. Still Written by a Human.
- I Left WordPress (On One Site)
- Great At The Work, Broke Anyway
- Meet My New Hires (They’re Not Human)
- Nobody Made Me Write This
- Me? Starting A Vlog? 😜
- The WordPress of AI
- The Million-Dollar Prompt (And A 5-Hour Hack Window)
- Nobody Buys Book #12 For The Plot
- 85% Traffic Loss Due To AI
- Built My Own AI. It Sucks. 😜
- A Video Per DAY?
- Why So Many Membership Sites Die
- Riding The Revenue Rollercoaster
- Gmail Was Eating My Newsletter (and My Open Rate)
- I’m Only 42% to Last Year’s Revenue
- Online Courses Almost Killed My Business
- Be the Steak in a Boring Inbox
- Systems, WordPress 7, and a Mac Mini
- What Happened to Kadence? + My Business Framework
- Sometimes the Kill Switch Is the Right Move
- Why Your AI Content Sounds Generic
- You’re Not As Behind With AI As You Might Think
- 112 Blog Posts… Trashed.
- You’re A Media Company. Own It.
- OMG! WordPress Is Dying! 😜
- A Smarter WordPress
- The AI Content Balancing Act
- Your Last Moat (And Why Site Features Don’t Matter So Much Anymore)
- ‘Tis the Season… For A Spring Cleaning
- When AI Screws Up
- “Just Add A Plugin”, They Said
- An AI Secretary for Your Website
- The Shift That Makes Automation (and AI) Actually Work
- Train Your AI Like A Team Member
- How To Survive Solopreneurship
- Ship Quickly. Break Things.
- The Online Course Model Is Broken
- Up Your Game With AI
- The Final Issue (of the year)
- New Optin Strategy + Fixing WP’s Search
- FluentCommunity + How I Make Videos
- The 8 Principles of Digital Sovereignty
- Your Email Open Rates + Huge Cloudflare Outage
- Engineering Authority + Spotting Slow Plugins
- Saying No (To Yourself) + Why You Should Use Cloudflare
- The issue on hosting… and slow admin panels
- The Cutthroat World of Plugin Competition
- Privacy Concerns With Stripe? + Vibe Coding? 😜
- The Worst Plugins (For Performance)
- The Power of a Nerd Hug 🤗
- Launching A Membership? It’s Kinda Different.
- Your Website: A Tool Or A Crutch?
- Cold, Dead Email Lists
- 404 error page… strategy?
- Did Your Traffic Drop? + Rocket Joins Hosting.com
- Plugin Lockout: Consume Alert
- If You Can Dream It Up, We Can Build It
- AI As Your Content Wingman
- Most Online Course Plugins Suck
- Not Everything Should Be Automated
- Failure to launch + 10 Design Tips For Your Site
- Misleading Speed Tests
- Improving Your Conversion Rates
- You Should Have A Newsletter, Too.
- I Would Have Screwed It Up…
- Gurus
- Some Surprises + Overcomplication
- Owner or Renter? + One Page Business Plan
- Build a “Smart” Contact Form + Event Calendar That Doesn’t Suck
- Security & Plugin Conflicts. Exciting Stuff.
- Fixing WordPress Search + Plugin Licenses
- Your Site’s TRUE Cost
- How To Survive AI
- The Most Troublesome Plugins – Fighting Spambots
- My Credit System + Me Being Dumb 🤣
- Using AI As a Turbo Boost
- Using WordPress To Sell My RV?
- I’m Deleting My Content
- Money Levers + Unbulking WordPress
- How Are You Using AI?
- Infobesity & Fat Sites
- AI Killing Your Traffic?
- Automate & Optimize
- Productivity Apps & SureCart Vs. Woo
- Your WordPress Dashboard A Waste Of Space?
- Is Your Site A Frankenstein?
- 7 Work-At-Home Strategies + End Of WordPress?
- Your Website Has “Departments”?
- Well, Hello 2025.
- 2024 Year In Review
- When Selling Feels Too Hard
- Why You NEED Stats
- Why I Don’t Do SEO
- Black Friday Hoopla
- FluentCommunity – And Goodbye RankMath
- Alternative To BuddyBoss?
- CommandUI Launch, Membership Site Shortcut
- Why WooCommerce?
- Starting From Scratch
- Matt Takes Over ACF + Is WordPress Future Threatened?
- Oh, The Drama!
- WordCamp Drama: Is WP Engine A “Cancer”?
- Removed This Plugin. Site Got Faster.
- Productivity Systems
- A Duct-Taped Mess Of Tech?
- Course Building Mistakes
- New Video Library (and how it was built)
- 5 WordPress Admin Hacks
- Web Hosts To Avoid
- Too Much Data
- Is Selling Content Dead?
- How To Make More Per Hour
- Your Effective Hourly Rate?
- Other Uses For WordPress?
- Best Business Model?
- Having Money. Can You?
- The Need For Speed
- Defeating Spam Bots
- Defeating Perfectionism
- Instant Lead Magnets (Easy Peasy)
- Info Marketing Is Dead
- Stop Overcomplicating
- X Marks The Spot
- Google Is Killing Sites?
- When Gamification Backfires
- That ONE Plugin
- April Fools 🤪
- Are Sidebars Dumb?
- The TikTok Ban
- The Forgotten Page Of Your Site
- Productizing A Service?
- Images Make Your Site Fat
- Infobesity
- A Code Of Monetization?
- Giving It All Away?
- Plugins I Always Avoid
- Productivity + Email Deliverability
- While Others Zig in 2024, You Zag
- 2023 Review… And Looking Ahead To 2024.
- Things You Should Never Do With WordPress
- This Could Change How You Write Content
- I Shouldn’t Have Switched Email Platforms.
- I’m skipping Black Friday (and here’s why)
- It’s like I can’t make up my mind or something 😉
- Leaving Cloudways & Call Out The BS
- Hosting Your Big Files + More Money By Giving Less
- Instead of Blog Comments…
- The Site Performance Issue
- Thrive Themes is dead to me
- The Email Marketing Triangle
- Google’s “Helpful Content” Update = Lots Of Traffic Changes
- Drama in the WordPress Community
- Simple paid traffic strategy for bloggers
- Paid Traffic Is A Fact Of Life + Sync User Profiles Between Sites
- Email list on autopilot (The Email Flywheel) | Protect your lead magnets
- Building backwards | Sidebar or no sidebar? | AI headshots?
- Making more by giving less | WordPress taxonomies 101 | Cool tools I found
- How To Sell More Services On Your Website (Simple Conversion Enhancement)
- Things Change (big announcements)
- Question everything + Is Thrivecart Broken?
- The Economics of AppSumo – Just Be Careful
- BeeHiiv versus Substack (my reasoning)
- My Hobby + A Shift In Strategy
- I Was Banned From Facebook
- A New Renaissance of Email Marketing?
- A Technique For Laser-Like Focus On Your Goals
- Every Single Plugin I Use – Listed
- Do Online Courses Need To Be Big And Fancy?
- Cloudways Silently Drops Support For Vultr (Let’s Look At Options)
- Recession Incoming. What To Do About It…
- When Using AI Just Tells Your Customers You Find Them Annoying
- Just ship it!
- 5 Ways To Create Value In Your Offers (And 5 Ways To Sell For More)
- I’m Cancelling Dropbox (And All The Others). Here’s How I’m Doing It.
- 19 Time Management Tactics That Are Stupidly Powerful
- 6 Things I Wish I Knew Earlier In My Business
- Are Page Builders Dead?
- The Power Of Simplicity
- The Blogger Code of Monetization
- You Don’t Necessarily Need An Online Course Plugin To Do Online Courses
- How Might ChatGPT Change SEO And Blogging?
- The Perfect Toolset For A Membership Site (In My Opinion)
- The Opportunity Ahead In Values-Based Business
- Let’s Talk About ChatGPT
- A Cyber-Pandemic And The Importance of OWNERSHIP
- Blog Content Strategy & How To Plan The Big Picture
- Why I’m Deleting Blog Posts In 2023
- The Most Effective List Building Strategy For Blogs – By Far
- My Pivot To Tech Services. How Has It Been?
- AI Copywriting Tools – Why I Just Say No
- Want To Get Noticed Today? Then Do This…
- It’s Deal Week. A Heads Up…
- Costs of Wordpress-Based Software Versus Hosted Apps
- My Direct Experiences With Web Hosting For My Clients
- How Twitter Could Dominate Social Media
- Why You Need (And Want) THIS For Your Business
- Let’s Talk About Paypal Alternatives
- PayPal Shows Why I Don’t Like Being A Tech Dependent
- Wreck Diving On A Sunken Boat Wreck – And How It Helped My Business
- Are You Practicing “Spray And Pray” Affiliate Marketing?
- The Circles Of Life – Which Are You On?
- The Shallow Pride Of Being Overwhelmed
- Time To Reconsider Your Email List Hosting
- Can They Shut You Down?
- Learning From People You Hate
- Time For Some Business Minimalism?
- 5 Strategies To Craft Your Authority
- The Secret Trick To Hack Everything Faster
- Motivation After An Unproductive Day
- 7 Strategies For Working From Home
(Based On Experience) - 10 Realities of Blogging In 2022
- Annoying Your Site Visitors?
- A Story Of One Of My Failures
- Failure To Execute
- Is Wordpress Going Extinct?
- Changing Your Stance
- Elon’s Quest To Buy Twitter
- The Key To Raising Your Income
- Building A One-Legged Stool?
- Stop Creating Content?
- Less Is More. And Clients, Not Students.
- Many Forms Of The Membership Site
- Good Time To Be A Digital Prepper
- Wordpress killing off page builders?
- That famous QR code from the Super Bowl
- The thing about experts
- Inflation. You Should Do This…
- $8K For A Wordpress Site?!
- Business lessons from dealing with home contractors
- The invisible blog (and why it might work)
- Getting and Staying Motivated
- 3 Tips On Setting Your Price
- Creating Online Business Habits
- The Costs Of Email Marketing
- Metaverse, NFTs, and… Blogging?
- Adapting To Massive Change
- Time To Rethink Selling Content?
- What is Your Brand Story (And Personal Brand)?
- The Art Of Being Repetitive
- Generational Shifts And How Online Business Changes
- Managing The Money Your Online Business Makes
- Creating A High-Value Offer (For Dummies)
- Growing Without Paying For Ads
- The sovereign business.
- My traffic dropped.
- Trust Versus Experience
- Everything Is A Product
- Self help distractions
- How To Structure You Day
- You’re Distracted Right Now, Aren’t You?
- When the time is right
- The Times We’re In
- The Curse Of Perfection
- Pivoting From Members To Clients
- 5 Blog Design Changes (And Why)
- The Symptoms of “Maybe”
- “Time For Money”. Is it a Bad Thing?
- Are you too serious?
- Are you creating… or coasting?
- Are you hiding?
- Entrepreneurial ADHD – Solutions?
- Not Following My Own Advice
- What’s Needed In A Facebook Alternative
- I’ve Used A Mac For Over 14 Years. Can I Run My Business On A PC?
- Facebook. A Necessary Evil?
- Changes to THE EDGE Moving Forward
- Something On My Mind Today…
- No expertise. No money. What to do?
- My Content Strategy For 2020
- The Simple Secret To Getting More Done In Less Time
- Does Twitter work anymore? Should you have retweet buttons on your blog?
- Blocking browser tracking cookies. How will this affect bloggers?
- Marketing Isn’t A Formula
- Are Online Courses Still A Great Business Model For 2020?
- Why We Love Buying Tools (And the lesson)
- In The Personal Development Niche? This Is For You…
- This one time… in Jamaica…
- How a million-dollar sale blew up in my face
- The Secret To Affiliate Marketing
- The Secret Trick To Hack Everything Faster
- Think there’s a recession coming? What to do…
- A summer slump in sales? How to handle it…
- A simple system for improving your business over time
- The truth about Mailchimp
- Too Many Courses!
- Are You In Hiding?
- Posting Food Recipes To Your Blog. Does It Work?
- This is something I look at every single morning..
- I don’t know how you do it! (Writing speed)
- Crappy Lead Magnets (and what to do instead)
- You don’t FIND a Niche. 🙂
- How to sabotage your own website’s growth
- An 8-Figure Newsletter (And The Take-Away)
- The invisible blog (and why it might work)
- A way to create a 6-figure business… with only a 4-page website
- 5 Important Trends For Bloggers (And You Need To Adapt)
- The Web As You Knew It Is Dying
- Building Your Blog Traffic, Predictably And Reliably
- Is Lack Of Traffic The Problem?
- “I need more information”
- The Fool-Proof Way To Come Up With Your First Offer
- The Simple Secret To Getting More Done In Less Time
- 20 (More) Lessons From 20 Years As An Online Entrepreneur
- 84 Lessons From 20 Years As An Online Entrepreneur (Updated)
- This simple blog strategy could make SEO freakin’ easy
- One Trait I’ve Noticed In Rapid Growth Entrepreneurs
- THIS has had a major positive impact so far in 2019
- The ONE Thing I Recommend You Do For Every Blog Post
- If I could go back in time, I would do this…
- 3 High ROI things you can be doing right now
- Making blog logos (very simply)
- Upgrade your blog posts (I shoulda done this sooner)
- How I manage my finances
- We Had A Big Idea…
- Do You Have To Blog A Lot?
- The Perfect Blog Blueprint
- Quick SEO Improvement To Your Blog
- Starting Up Your Business… For Free?
- The Lead Magnet Mistake I See Far Too Often
- How to engineer authority
- Personal development blogging?
- Marketing Lessons From The Caribbean?
- 2 questions to ask people who DON’T buy from you
- The problem with most conferences (and my idea)
- Remember that RV blog I started? (An update)
- How to stay motivated
- An optimized list building strategy for your blog (details)
- Is there really a duplicate content penalty?
- How following internet marketers screws you up 😉
- Using Your Blog Posts To Sell Stuff
- Important Subscriber Survey
- SEO plug-in better than Yoast?
- Prices ending in 7
- How Blog Marketing Is Changing
- A realization I didn’t expect from an RV conference…
- Maybe?
- They’re Dying. Why Copy Them?
- The Art Of Being Repetitive
- Cutting the social media cord (sorta)
- Addiction
- What’s the POINT of making all that content?
- How Trump got elected (and how you can apply it)
- Will others be interested in what you have to say?
- Something I realized about my business…
- The Most Valuable Marketing Skill…
- Some Problems Are Easier To Sell
- The Edge #254
- An online business that doesn’t require marketing?
- How long it took ME to make a living online (reader question)
- The dark side of high ticket coaching
- Going to the gym sucks, but…
- Think there’s a recession coming?
- The danger of the hidden standard
- Snoozebowl? 😉
- Should we continue?
- Need more social proof?
- Chatbots as part of our blog marketing stack?
- Tools to drive engagement
- Our tech stack (part 7)
- The evolving design of our tech stack…
- Thrive Leads vs OptinMonster?
- Managing online courses with Wordpress
- Our tech stack (part 3)
- Stripe or Paypal?
- Time to change my email list recommendation?
- The Perfect Blog Marketing Tech Stack?
- One of my own big realizations…
- 6 Trends For Bloggers To Know for 2019
- A new approach to banner ad revenue
- Google Chrome drops the hammer on abusive experiences
- Starting a new business without spending money?
- Should you have a blog sidebar?
- Doing a content audit – part 4
- How to find how much your blog posts got shared
- How to export all your blog post data
- I’ve deleted 35% of my blog posts
- All those salesy emails last week
- Doing a Content Audit (and deleting blog posts)
- A Word on Gratitude
- Ready for Gutenberg?
- Lack of tech skills? (part 2)
- Lack of tech skills?
- Shiny objects
- Let’s meet Bob
- What you pay attention to
- Behind the scenes
- Prison rules
- Re-thinking podcast norms
- Selling from your heels?
- Using Twitter
- List Building Challenge #10 – Building a quiz
- List Building Challenge #9 – Special treatment for mobile
- List Building Challenge #8 – Opt-in form placement
- List Building Challenge #7 – Giving them a second chance to opt-in
- List Building Challenge #6 – Real campaign, real metrics
- List Building Challenge #5
- List Building Challenge #4 – 10X Better Conversions
- List Building Challenge – Action #3
- List Building Challenge – Action #2
- List Building Challenge – Action #1
- A list building challenge
- Apple’s death blow to Facebook?
- When things didn’t work…
- Real talk about recurring revenue
- Traveling for 5 months… and business…
- Nike and that ad
- Are you too serious?
- Niche difficulties?
- Avoiding tech hell
- How to make a logo for your site (the easy way)
- How to use white space on your blog layout
- Your blog colors and what it says about you…
- How to craft your unique value proposition
- What makes up your blog branding?
- When branding conflicts
- How to start branding yourself
- More on branding… and Frank Kern
- What is a brand?
- No-pitch money-makers to your list
- Overpriced offers and scams
- Are you being perfectionist?
- Garbage in, garbage out
- How best to manage your promotional time
- Strategically using blog content in promos
- What you do after you hit publish
- How to directly influence your SEO without luck
- Blog security… and SEO
- Taking my business on the road
- Does your site work on mobile?
- Your site’s speed
- Grammar crazies… and SEO?
- How to get more backlinks
- Make em’ SHARE
- Make em’ STICK (for more traffic)
- Make em’ SCROLL
- Tweaking for Google
- Google is watching
- What if you don’t have much of an audience yet?
- I hate keyword research
- How SEO has evolved (and why your rankings dropped)
- Struggling with Google rankings?
- The 7 word question
- I’m a fake
- Just ship it
- Being disagreeable
- Finally, they built it
- More than one lead magnet? Yes.
- A strategy to help you NAIL your lead magnet
- Brainstorming awesome lead magnets
- 7 Criteria For An Awesome List Giveaway
- Bad lead magnets (the top 2)
- Perhaps I can sell this for $7 (bad idea)
- Killing your business by accident
- When you sell ~ The Daily x
- Custom Awareness (Part 3 of 5) ~ The Daily x
- Stage 2, where our work usually begins
- The hardest people to reach
- Swiped from a $279 book
- I messed up the name of my business?
- Getting started. Don’t think about the blog.
- Stop following gurus, think for yourself
- Announcing new pilot program
- Are you creating… or coasting?
- Saying no to good ideas (and it’s OK!)
- Productivity “hack” (counter-intuitive)
- Finally, my opinion on the GDPR
- People can view/delete their data? (GDPR)
- Does your list building change in a GDPR world?
- That dreaded privacy policy and GDPR
- Doing a data inventory (for GDPR)
- Do’s and don’ts for GDPR compliance
- Let’s talk about the GDPR
- When’s the right time to start a membership site?
- About the personal development niche
- Choosing your niche (important)
- One of my BIGGEST frustrations
- So, did you do it? 🙂
- Do this over the weekend
- The symptoms of “maybe”
- We’re basically like a computer program…
- One of my top productivity secrets…
- Those doors were about to close…
- The Future of Monetization (10 of 10)
- The NEW Internet (9 of 10)
- It’s getting harder to cheat (8 of 10)
- Use this while you still can (7 of 10)
- Facebook immunity (6 of 11)
- The new fog of war (5 of 11)
- Cambridge Analytica and… you (4 of 11)
- Careful with Facebook (3 of 11)
- Google kills the internet? (2 of 11)
- How things have changed (1 of 11)
- Are you using a slider on your homepage? Stop.
- Do you need managed Wordpress hosting?
- Managing your WP plugins (3 rules + a hack)
- Another easy speed BOOST for your Wordpress site
- Is your Wordpress jammed up with old plugin trash?
- My top 5 productivity tools I use constantly
- The lessons from my first “challenge”
- So much to do! Where to start?
- Look at that!
- What’s in YOUR sidebar?
- Getting a job?
- THE DAILY #97
- THE DAILY #96
- How to choose what to focus on
- A personal request
- A little hack for your blog posts (and SEO)
- Facebook kills a website
- How to quickly test a new product idea
- Why I skipped the Traffic & Conversion Summit this year
- When a subscriber gets mad at you for promoting
- Affiliate marketing – not a REAL business?
- How to help save the world
- A conversion-focused Contact Us page [Part 3]
- A conversion-focused Contact Us page [Part 2]
- A conversion-focused Contact Us page [Part 1]
- Blog posts that sell
- Don’t cut. Promote!
- The Blue Ocean Strategy
- No money in the RV niche? (RV BLOG REPORT)
- But, you’re not an expert on anything! How the hell…
- My new sushi restaurant (and a lesson)
- Why blogs will never die – and the ad wars
- Is cussing on your blog (or email) bad?
- So, what happened to my RV blog?
- Stopped blogging for 30 days. Here’s what happened…
- Blogging in Facebook’s world
- You get more of what you measure
- Does all your content have to be original?
- Blogging vs content marketing
- If you read one book all year…
- Pure gold!
- Tool shopping?
- Buh-bye blog sidebar (again)
- How to do blog post feature images
- Taking inventory of your blog content
- Do your blog post headlines kinda… suck?
- A (new) way to think of blog categories
- Do you even need a blog?
- Clean your closet (seriously)
- Still my favorite productivity tool
- How I use Google Calendar
- The Focus Map
- The simplest productivity tool I have
- 6 steps in 2018 (not your normal new year’s email)
- The FINAL Daily
- Can you HAVE money?
- Failure to execute
- Morning routines for 2018
- A year-end review for 2017
- The UDE Matrix and finding the hidden “why”
- That DIDN’T work out well.
- That worked out well
- I broke my office
- AHHH! Information Overload!
- What if you have a J-O-B?
- Increasing your effective hourly rate
- What’s your effective hourly rate?
- The power of simple
- Keeping your business small on purpose?
- A cool tool that makes life easier
- My business income “hack”
- Breakdown of my recent mini ad campaign on Facebook
- Treating people like people, not numbers
- Black Friday and how to play it smart
- Happy Thanksgiving – and a personal note
- A word on gratitude
- [GROW-16] How to do an 80/20 Content Analysis
- [GROW-15] Boring as snot, but useful as hell
- [GROW-14] Making something out of nothing
- [GROW-13] Here’s some crazy talk…
- [GROW-12] Better than guest posting…
- [GROW-11] Chutes and Ladders (we’re building the ladders)
- [GROW-10] Write that email once, use it over and over
- [GROW-9] Taking yesterday’s email to the next level…
- [GROW-8] Just sharing on Facebook and stopping there?
- [GROW-7] Not all content is created equal
- [GROW-6] Do THIS instead of writing another blog post
- [GROW-5] Making progress by NOT working
- [GROW-4] My dirty little secret about this very email
- [GROW-3] How to MAKE more time
- [GROW-2] About “time management”
- [GROW-1] Perfectionism kills growth
- NEW SERIES: Growing Your Blog And Business in 30 Minutes
- Fear of failure? Holding yourself back?
- Email subscribers stopped opening. Now what?
- Facebook changes = death to small business?
- Is trying to make a bigger email list costing you money?
- I deleted 2,785 email subscribers
- He was dreaming of the same idea – FOR YEARS
- Why I turned off blog comments – again
- Repurposing content. Will anybody notice?
- The importance of guarantees (crazier the better?)
- Copying gurus
- My favorite new productivity tool (and it’s free)
- Rewards and sushi
- Crack addict?
- 3 factors for standing out in a noisy market
- Emailing every day? When the HELL?
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- My Thoughts On Awesome Motive Acquiring BuddyBoss
- The Core Tools I Use To Build Every Membership Site
- Introduction To Building A Membership Site
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- How To Clean Your Options Table For Better WordPress Performance
- Don’t Get STUCK With Your Email List Host: Here’s How
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- Case Study: How I Increased The Performance Metrics For A BuddyBoss Membership Site With 50 Plugins
- WooCommerce Setup: The Settings I Use For Almost Every Site I Build
- Should You Offer A Lifetime Membership To Your Membership Site? Don’t Make My Mistakes…
- Fluent Snippets: Brand New Code Snippets Plugin With A Twist
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- KnownHost Review: Quick Review and General Comments
- Chemicloud Hosting: Quick Review And General Comments
- Leaving Cloudways – Switching To Rocket (Here’s My Thoughts)
- Speed Up Your WooCommerce Store: Quick Look At High-Performance Storage
- Presto Player Playlists: Real World Usage And How It Can Improve
- FluentBooking Review: Why It Stands Out Over The Competition
- Thrive Themes Vs. Kadence Theme: Site Performance Metrics Before/After
- How To Ensure Only Your Subscribers Can Get Your Lead Magnets
- Stop Using Thrive Suite. This Is Bad.
- Membership Site Community: Should You Have One? Best Platform?
- Why I No Longer Recommend Thrive Themes
- How To Build Online Courses On WordPress Without An LMS Plug-in
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