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Tim Ferriss just announced that his third book, entitled ‘The 4-Hour Chef’ will be available early next year via Amazon’s Publishing New York Imprint. Is he still ‘the man’ in the Lifestyle Design space, or just clinging onto his 15mins? Perhaps he’s just being a VERY smart entrepreneur and author..? Lets discuss things…
I’ve been getting lots of emails and tweets on the subject of blogging for business. Mostly entrepreneurs that are thinking of starting a blog, particularly with the idea of using a blog to help support, market and promote a business. So, I thought I would put together this simple, digestible guide on the subject. Enjoy…
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 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!
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…
When it comes to designing a personal brand online it does, a lot of the time, come down to the real DESIGN aspects of the entire process, as to whether or not you get a good start. James Chartrand from ‘Men With Pens’ is one of the web’s foremost experts on this subject and I caught up with her for this great chit-chat…
I’ve spent hundreds of hours going over logo designs for everything from business cards to letterheads; websites to online products; retail packaging to TV commercials – all in search of the perfect logo that ‘says it all’. Here I discuss the importance of logo design and implementation for growing your business…
This is Guest Post by Jacob Sokol. “If you can tell me who your heroes are, I can tell you how you’re going to turn out in life.” -Warren Buffet I’ve been interested in what my future will look like for a mighty long time. From fulfilling relationships to personal finances, the spectrums of potential circumstances that interest [...]
We have grown accustomed to all things digital, just take notice at the “Everything iPad” world we are marketed to everyday. Even Amazon has recently jumped into “Cloud Overdrive” with their new promotion to give away 20G of cloud storage if you buy a music album…
Timothy Sykes exudes confidence. Couple that together with the fact that he turned $12,000 of gift money into over $2,000,000 trading stocks and that last year he made well over $1,000,000 (yes, thats 6 zeros there!) online, then you’ll probably agree that he is more than just confident. He’s damn SMART…!
Here’s the deal… I’ve experimented a lot on this blog. Written posts, audio / podcast posts, I’ve shot videos from all over the world and posted articles from more cities than I can remember! And I’ve had a blast doing it all. However, the is one very important, very BIG change on the horizon for the VBL Blog…
The final installment to this 3-part series on how to create an eBook to give away for free to help build your brand online. Today I present to you my Top 10 List of additional things you can do to help promote and market your eBook to make sure that as many people as possible download it, by subscribing to your blog…
Today we’re going to be focusing on the reason behind WHY we have created an eBook to give away for free in the first place – to build our brand. We’re going to look at our email list provider, a simple tool that will increase our sign-up’s by over 200%, and how we can actually make money with our free eBook after all…!
Today we start our 3-part series on how to create a kick-ass free eBook which you can use to help build your brand and promote your blog. We begin with taking a look at Creating the Concept of your eBook, the time-honored question of ‘Quality, or Quantity’ and how important the Design and Layout of your eBook is to the reader…
Following on from one of last weeks posts, a lot of you seemed to resonate with the idea of putting together an eBook to give away for free to help build a brand, or promote and market a blog, website or product/service. So, today I talk a little about my plans for a 3-Part series, next week, on this exact subject matter…
Business growth is one of those terms that is thrown around a lot nowadays. For me, this used to simply mean increasing revenue. I’m focused. My eyes are ‘on the prize’, as they say. However, in my pursuit to continue to grow my own businesses, and start-up new ones – I have come to a [...]
Blogger, author, consultant and new media expert, Chris Garrett has certainly made a name for himself over the time that he’s been online. Plus, his humble and down to earth approach when it comes to teaching and coaching has made him one of the most sought after speakers in the online space. He’s a river of knowledge…!
The art of creating a brand from scratch is something that a lot of those aspiring to embrace the Virtual Business Lifestyle need to come to grips with. In this latest episode my guest, Jordan Cooper, has done exactly that, and in a way that is not only educational, but also entertaining and at times, down right hilarious…
When it comes to blogging there are a few names that just about everyone involved in the industry knows – Leo Babauta is one of them. His background as a journalist is the perfect platform for a potential successful blogger, however, even Leo himself says that blogging has been way kinder to him than journalism was…
We all need a little inspiration and motivation from time to time – especially us entrepreneurs. This inspiration can literally come from anywhere nowadays. Books, magazines, TV, radio, podcasts, mastermind groups – you name it. Recently I’ve been turning to the internet more and more for my daily dose of entrepreneurial…
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