• 3 questions to ask when you see a shortcut to profits

    3 questions to ask when you see a shortcut to profits

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    As as developer, I’ve written lots of code for clients, and many of those pieces of code can be reused for new projects. Where clients think we’re building something totally new, I can see how under the hood we’re building a new UI on a similar idea from a previous client. When I see these

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  • If you’re scared of charging more, you need to see these 3 questions

    If you’re scared of charging more, you need to see these 3 questions

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    The piece of advice I give to my coaching clients most often, and the one that remains unheeded, is that they need to charge more. Far too many of you are charging well below what you’re worth because you believe the wrong facts about your business and your own value. [Tweet “Are you basing your

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  • Moving to retainers with Mario Peshev

    Moving to retainers with Mario Peshev

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    Mario and I talk about how he moved his company DevriX to retainers from one off work. The hurdles he hit in selling it and the benefits of retainers for clients. Links WordPress Retainers and the Future of Recurring Revenue WordPress Development Retainers Digital Growth @no_fear_inc DevriX

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  • The 10 Books I Read in 2016 You Should Read in 2017

    The 10 Books I Read in 2016 You Should Read in 2017

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    I think if you want to be a leader in your field you need to read. Nothings beats books for getting access to the best business thought leaders for a small financial investment. Because of that, I read around sixty books a year, with about forty-five of them being focused on business or personal improvement.

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  • How to turn leads into amazing clients

    How to turn leads into amazing clients

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    The question I get asked most often by you fine people who run your own business is… How do I get more leads for my business? That’s a good question, but that’s not really what you want. If I send 10,000 unqualified leads to you but you convert none of them to clients, then those

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  • Matt Medeiros on Marketing and the WordPress industry ‘dip’

    Matt Medeiros on Marketing and the WordPress industry ‘dip’

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    Had a great conversation with Matt Medeiros. We talked about what it was like to move from small clients to larger clients and then maybe to a spot that he doesn’t want to be with even larger clients. Matt also talks about the ‘dip’ he sees in the WordPress world and what you may do

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  • The 7 questions you need to ask to write an effective case study

    The 7 questions you need to ask to write an effective case study

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    Case studies are one of the most powerful things you can add to your site to really get prospects motivated to work with you. But few people utilize them. Even fewer have good ones, because writing good case studies can be hard. I did say ‘write,’ and while written case studies are good, I think

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  • Marketing is…hard. And you never signed up for it.

    Marketing is…hard. And you never signed up for it.

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    There you were, working away building sites, and one day you realized you were pretty good. Good enough that you should be doing this for yourself instead of letting someone else enjoy all the profits. So you started a business, and then reality hit. Running a business meant you needed to convince people to pay

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  • How to follow up with prospects with Donald Kelly

    How to follow up with prospects with Donald Kelly

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    You can’t just leave prospects out in the cold. You need to have a great follow up process for them. Today Donald Kelly and I talk about what a good follow up process looks like. Donalds show on follow up

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  • Here are 4 ways to make offline marketing easy

    Here are 4 ways to make offline marketing easy

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    I’m totally a digital person. Right now I’m writing at my kitchen table while my kids watch some TV. I’ve spent months travelling to see family for Christmas or spent the summer in other parts of the country, with no real change in my business. I’m able to keep my business going because most of

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