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  The Mercenary’s Guide to Building Your Internet Marketing Empire

  2040 readersI don’t kill people for money (I do that for free). I’m not wanted in 17 countries. And I don’t ride on a steel horse. But by many standards, I’m somewhat of a mercenary. It started a few years ago, when I cut my teeth online by playing around in the internet marketing game. Before I’d heard of Brian Clark,

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  2939 readersWhen I talk with “normal” businesspeople (you know, the kind who have actual physical addresses, not just IP ones), they always ask me the same thing. “I can see the appeal of that Twitter stuff for my teenage daughter — but how is it supposed to help my business?” Of course, you know the answer to this

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  Actually, Blogging *is* Dead

  4120 readersHow many times have your heard them say that? They said it in 2007. They said it in 2008, 2009, and 2010. Maybe they’re right. When you’re promoting a business, or a cause, or an idea with online content … It’s content marketing. Blogging? That’s just a hobby, right? So go ahead and ramp up

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  Why Content Marketing Doesn’t Suck

  9107 readers Can regularly publishing relevant, useful, entertaining and valuable information online actually build a business over time? Or, is this whole content marketing thing just a massive waste of energy? You can probably guess where we stand on these questions, but in this episode we lay it all out anyway. You, of course, can make your own decisions. Also,

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  How to Consistently Attract High-Quality Traffic to Your Site

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