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  • Amber Weinberg: Conquer your freelance career; become a professional WordPress developer

    Amber Weinberg: Conquer your freelance career; become a professional WordPress developer

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    Think freelancing is a tough gig? Try moving half way around the world and rebuilding your business from the ground up. In this amazing interview with Amber Weinberg, she’s going to share that story with us. We’re going to discuss the journey of selling WordPress sites to anyone that wanted one, to now working strictly…

  • WTF interns?!

    WTF interns?!

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    As I write this post, the intern I’m suppose to meet for a kickoff meeting is now 20 minutes late. I just shot her an e-mail and still have yet to receive a response. Benefit of the doubt, it’s the holiday season and the traffic is insane. But this isn’t the first time it’s happened.…

  • 3 Amazing interviews with people who make a living using WordPress

    3 Amazing interviews with people who make a living using WordPress

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    I’ve started a new journey that I hope can help others. I’m pivoting with MattReport. I’m going to build a web show based around interviewing folks who make a living using WordPress. They are designers, developers, marketers, SaaS leaders, and even small business owners that have a WordPress powered site. If WordPress helps you earn…

  • Facebook and Twitter play catch up to Google+

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    The social space is quickly coming to an interesting fork in the road. Facebook’s IPO didn’t just shine light on bloated tech company valuation, but also on the social giant’s lack of innovation. The void of improving our online social experience is filled with attempts of injecting new ads in mobile as an attempt create…

  • Listening to your gut could save your ass

    Listening to your gut could save your ass

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    For better or for worse, I make a lot of my decision based off of gut feeling. There are times when you’re making the wrong decision and you can feel it in your gut. You read all the facts, hypothesis, reviews, and hear all the feedback. Can you think back to when you should have listened to your…

  • 55 Actions you can’t afford to stop or start in 2012

    55 Actions you can’t afford to stop or start in 2012

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    You can’t afford: To stop… 1. Caring. 2. Innovating. 3. Focusing on delivery. 4. Understanding the real problems. 5. Producing quality work. 6. Shipping. 7. Listening. 8. Being passionate. 9. Working hard. 10. Failing. 11. Succeeding. 12. Networking. 13. Getting leaner. 14. Sharing. 15. Creating. 16. Thinking. 17. Talking. 18. Dominating. 19. Growing. 20. Teaching.…

  • We Are The 99% (Of Startups)

    We Are The 99% (Of Startups)

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    For the last year I’ve been running a company while building a software as a service product within the same ecosystem. I listen to interviews on Mixergy and ThisWeekIn Startups that inspire me, educate me, and piss me off. Why? Because it seems that only the 1% in Silicon Valley are really going to make…

  • The Free Fall Of A Startup Entrepreneur

    The Free Fall Of A Startup Entrepreneur

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    You know the dream where you’re free falling from the the sky? Your whole body weightless as gravity pushes you to the earth. A massive knot in your stomach wrenching in fear. Panic sets in as you scramble for the parachute. Grasping and tugging at your vest to find the right one. There is no…

  • Google Analytics Slams SEO. Hides Organic Keywords.

    Google Analytics Slams SEO. Hides Organic Keywords.

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    Uh, what the hell? So in an effort to make search more secure, Google is really dropping a bomb on SEO. As internet entrepreneurs we really live and die by our Google Analytics reports. We want to track the keywords people use to find us and the referring websites that sent them here. We all…