In this edition of the VBL Podcast I sit down to talk with one of my all-time favorite authors, bloggers and entrepreneurs. I reached out to Chris Brogan with the idea to talk to him about beginning, growing and capitalizing on relationships. What I got was a full blown, hands-down business lesson that I’ll never forget…
Last month exactly 125 people unsubscribed from my Aweber email list. This shocked me quite a bit, I have to be honest. But, as a businessman, it’s intrigued me even more. You see, I’m a firm believer that we are not ‘perfect’ in any way, shape or form. We all have our flaws. But, I believe I’ve built a pretty solid blog here…
As some of you may already know, a few weeks ago I announced my niche and domain for the VBL Community Niche Site Project, which went into full swing on July 11th. Along with monthly reports containing traffic numbers, adsense earnings, etc., I’ll be doing a few additional posts. Today I discuss my content creation strategy…
Last week I sat down with Derek Halpern, who has been making big waves recently online with his Social Triggers blog. I got on a video call with Derek for him to give me and the VBL Blog a good old fashioned marketing grillin’, on what I’m doing right, and wrong when it comes to converting visitors into subscribers on the blog!
Do you remember when you were young, when your parents and often your school would teach you about “stranger danger?” This would be something along the lines of… Don’t accept anything from strangers… Don’t go with or follow strangers… Don’t trust strangers, etc… When we grow up we easily forget. Question is… Should we?
One in a while you get the opportunity to have a free-for-all type of conversation with someone you’ve never met before, that you KNOW full-well, you will NEVER forget! This was the case when I got the chance to interview Peter Shankman – Founder of HARO, author of two super successful books and highly sought-after speaker…
Today we kick-off my ‘How to Outsource…’ series with a video post outlining some of the cultural differences experienced between overseas employers and Filipino virtual assistants when working together. I’ve invited my Virtual Staff Finder project manager, Stephanie (herself a Filipina) to help me out… Enjoy!
Just a couple of short weeks ago I published a VBL Discussion Post on the subject of niche sites, where I mentioned that I was challenging myself to start my first ‘true’ niche site online, a ton of VBLer’s said they wanted to join in… It’s not a competition, its a Community Project. Here’s the low-down…
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