VBL Discussion: Traditional Media vs ‘New’ Media – Is there REALLY a Battle Going On?

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Newspapers, magazines, radio and TV are quickly engulfing themselves in the new media world of blogging, social media, podcasts and online video. Whats happening on the ‘media’ horizon do you think? Is there REALLY a battle going on? Or are they living in harmony…? Let’s have a discussion, right here, right now!

Niche Site Building, Post Panda and the Importance of Consistent Execution!

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Google’s Panda has had a dramatic effect on the ranking of many websites. Before, it was possible to place 100 related longtail keywords on a page, throw some links at things and rank for many of them. In fact I had such a page getting 15,000 visitors a month, which is now down to just 140 a month. How things have changed…

Starting a Niche Site: Ideas, Inexperience, and Doing All the Work!

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This post by Benjamin Spall, is part of ‘VBL Guest Post Season 2′. I have a huge respect for entrepreneurs. Making it is tough. Real tough. Like so many other things, it’s not until you try it out yourself that you can really appreciate the difficulty of the game. Take professional sports stars. They often [...]

VBL049 – From TV Show, to Blog… to Book, with David Siteman Garland!

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In this episode of the VBL Podcast I speak with good friend, web TV host, and new author, David Siteman Garland on how he got ‘published’ in just 7 days! We also delve into the world of Web TV shows, discussing ‘The Rise to the Top’ and building your brand online using video, plus much, much more!

Word to the Wise: 3 Things You Shouldn’t Outsource – Ever!

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This post by Timo Kiander, is part of ‘VBL Guest Post Season 2′. Outsourcing is an evergreen topic in the world of online entrepreneurs. This is quite understandable. Any business requires our efforts (whether when starting up or running it) and quite soon we may feel stressed out because of our workload. Especially if you [...]

How to Totally, Miserably, Completely and Utterly FAIL… at Outsourcing!

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This post by Sarah Russel, is part of ‘VBL Guest Post Season 2′. Coming to Chris’s “Virtual Business Lifestyle” site always makes me feel happy.  From the smiling pictures of the virtual assistants working for his companies to the positive advice on how outsourcing tasks can revolutionize your business, it’s hard not to leave his [...]

Passive Income: 7 Membership Site Tips From A Long-Time Professional Blogger!

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This post by David Risley, is part of ‘VBL Guest Post Season 2′. Membership sites are pretty popular in the internet business arena these days. Passive income, baby! But, let’s leave the realm of the obvious and move into something practical. Membership sites have been my focus for some time now. I’ve learned some things [...]

Online Business 101: How To Dominate Google Without Lifting A Finger

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This post by Dan Norris, is part of ‘VBL Guest Post Season 2′. The whole point of engaging a virtual assistant is to free you up to focus on the things that matter. So does this mean getting your VA to do all of the little things that aren’t important enough for you to do [...]

10 Things I Learned Working With a Virtual Assistant for the First Time!

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This post by Craig Jarrow, is part of ‘VBL Guest Post Season 2′. While growing my site for the past 2 years, at some point I realized that I personally could not do all the work. As things started to take off, I faced the dilemma that many successful online entrepreneurs experience: Simply too much work for one [...]

How to Outsource Your Membership Course the Right Way, the First Time!

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This post by Ainslie Hunter, is part of ‘VBL Guest Post Season 2′. So you want to create an online course.  Excellent.  How long do you think it will take?  10 hours?  A month?  Maybe you will presell the idea and then scramble to complete the course. Whoa Nelly.  Before you put the sales page [...]

How Living a Virtual Business Lifestyle Can Get You a Six Pack!

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This post by Rob Murhatroyd, is part of ‘VBL Guest Post Season 2′. That’s me above. Before and After my workouts began!!! Look down at your belly. Go ahead. I’ll wait. Do you like what you see? If yes, stop reading. If no, please keep reading. We are all knee deep in the Virtual Business [...]

How to Outsource… The Hassle Free Way to Train Your Virtual Staff!

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This post by Matt Hooper, is part of ‘VBL Guest Post Season 2′. As an outsourcing master, Chris will probably be the first person to tell you that achieving success with your virtual staff depends on you as much as it does on your virtual staff. When you are adding virtual staff to your business, [...]

Can’t Manage the 4-Hour Work Week..? Why Not Try The 4 Year Vacation!!!

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This post by Michelle Dale, is part of ‘VBL Guest Post Season 2′. Many of you would have heard about the “4 Hour Work Week,” and for many it’s pretty much impossible to keep on top of personal email and general business in 4 hours a week, let alone making that the extent of the [...]

3 Different Types of Virtual Businesses and My Experience With Each of Them!

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This post by Diggy, is part of ‘VBL Guest Post Season 2′. I was introduced to the concept of virtual business (making money on the internet) 3 years ago. In the last 3 years I’ve spent a lot of time, money and effort experimenting with different virtual business models. Needless to say, I wasted a [...]

Get Busy: Top Tips For Choosing The Right Format For Your Web TV Show, or Podcast!

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This post by David Siteman Garland, is part of ‘VBL Guest Post Season 2′. When it comes to building a virtual business of your dreams there are of course many routes you can go and as you probably know it is definitely not a “one size fits all” model like The Snuggie. In my bias [...]

Top 10 ‘No BS’ Tips to Creating & Launching Your First Virtual Business! (Part 2)

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I recently published the first part of this two-part series, and was pleasantly surprised with the feedback, emails, comments and social interaction that it got. In the first post we went over the initial set-up of getting ready to create and launch your first virtual business. Today its all about launching the sucker..!

Getting Gary Vaynerchuk, Rallying the Tribe and VBL Guest Post Season 2!

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In this post, I call on the help and support of the VBL Tribe, to help me bag the one guest that has eluded me more than any other on the VBL Podcast – the one and only… Gary Vaynerchuk. What do I need – just a simple tweet. Thats all! I also announce the submission period for the second VBL Guest Post Season, too!

From ‘Nothing’ to ‘App of the Week’ on iTunes, and Several $$$’s in My Pocket!

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In this incredibly inspirational Guest Post, VBL Tribe member, Benny Hsu tells us his unbelievable iPhone App story. How he went from being a struggling online entrepreneur, trying to create is ideal lifestyle, to developing the ‘App of the Week’ and making thousands of dollars, overnight! Check out his remarkable story…

How To Enforce Online Stranger Danger – Remember What Your Mum Used To Say!?

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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?

How to Embrace Skype to be a True-Blue, Mobile Entrepreneur!

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This is a Guest Post from Phil Montero Creating an effective virtual or mobile office is not as easy as choosing one service or “software” that makes your business mobile.  It requires choosing different services to handle your needs and finding ways to integrate them into your workflow. Phone, mail, fax, online document storage, sharing [...]

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