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Website Essentials for Books and Authors

About a year ago I did some work for an author (Robert Medley) to build a website and generate traffic to his site. Because I was an expensive option, he eventually decided to let me go. He has since hired someone new to revamp his website at http://www.successforyourchildren.com. It’s not a bad looking redesign, except […]

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Kickstarter's 100,000 Project

Kickstarter Has Funded 100,000 Projects

Late on February 7, 2016, Kickstarter celebrated it’s 100,000th project being funded. To celebrate, Kickstarter shared 100 facts about crowdfunding. Below are a few of them. 1. Number of successfully funded Kickstarter projects from their launch on April 28, 2009 to February 7, 2016: 100,000. 2. Number of creative categories and subcategories in Kickstarter — from Architecture […]

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Broken Wing by John Graves

Twitter Marketing: A Few Observations

During the past few days, I’ve been working on a new website for one of my clients, John Graves, as well as creating some social media profiles for him. While doing this, I discovered that Twitter actually produces results for some book authors. Personally, I haven’t found that Twitter sends that much traffic to my various […]

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Jessica Alba on Entrepreneurship

Jessica Alba on Entrepreneurship

A lot of people give up at the first roadblock. But for entrepreneurs, if there isn’t another road, we create it. We break concrete; we throw dynamite; we figure it out. — Jessica Alba, CEO of The Honest Co. and actress A lot of people give up at the first roadblock. But for entrepreneurs, if […]

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