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How To: Taking My Twitter Community From 1 To 40,000


I want to talk about how I built, support and grow my Twitter account @JohnAguiar and how I use it to send 100 – 300 people to my Money Dummy Blog daily.
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I’m sure by now you know how important it is to bring your blogging [...]

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Posted : 15 January 2010

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How designers get web traffic


If you’re into web or graphic design, or any other form of digital creation including animation and photography, then getting web traffic to your home site can seem like a challenge. It doesn’t have to be though.
Content really is key. Having a portfolio with a blog implemented into it, or vice versa, is a [...]

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Posted : 07 January 2010

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Succeed online by learning to fail faster


Fail faster is a buzz phrase that is used with impunity and regularity by the kind of self appointed gurus who write the books that regularly jump to the top of the best seller lists all over the world.
Not because they are good books. But because they marketed by good marketers. And because the market [...]

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Posted : 21 August 2009

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How to handle criticism online


I had a very busy day yesterday. It started early with a reasonable drive to the studio where my pianist and I worked on tunes for my forthcoming album for many, many hours. It was rewarding day, only punctuated by the inevitable break for lunch, and we accomplished a lot.
Upon my return home I checked [...]

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Posted : 15 August 2009

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Increase your blogging productivity with zero tolerance grudge holding


I’m in the middle of a productivity drive. I know I can be more productive, and ultimately make more money, but I am slowed down by a number of things that are, surprisingly enough, completely within my control.
Recently I explained how I handle incoming email. A Gmail domain account takes care of spam ensuring that [...]

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Posted : 18 May 2009

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Powerful custom built Inbox Zero implementation


My recent Twitter success, which saw my account go from zero to over two thousand followers in under a week, has highlighted my ongoing need for a better email system. My audience is growing faster than ever before and my incoming email volume reflects this. Achieving Inbox Zero is, according to an ever growing number [...]

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Posted : 11 May 2009

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GTD for bloggers


There are three groups of people who use, or try to use, Getting Things Done, David Allen’s cult like time management system. The first group are those who follow every single step of the book religiously. The second group are those who start to read the book, get a little scared by the all or [...]

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Posted : 24 February 2009

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