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Matt Giovanisci has used SEO to drive millions of monthly visitors to sites across several niches from pool care to beer brewing to coffee. In this course, Matt breaks down his easy-to-follow and proven SEO strategy into a step-by-step process. Oh, and Matt's a long-time Fizzle member as well!

In this course, Caleb and Wistia walk through the essentials of what you need to know to start shooting and editing videos as well as how we create our videos here at Fizzle. Whether you're just getting started with recording your screen and talking over it or you're ready to invest in some equipment, this course will teach you what you need to know.

So you already have a podcast (or have at least been through our Getting Started With Podcasting course) and you want to know how to take your podcasting to the next level. That's what this course is for. In it you'll learn from John Lee Dumas, founder of the Entrepreneur On Fire podcast, a consistent #1 Business podcast, about podcast sponsorships, growing your audience, and tips for landing and conducting interviews with high quality guests.

Launches are important and shouldn’t be taken lightly. In this course we'll cover why planning a launch is so much better than just "putting it out there", we'll develop a launch plan that builds pre-launch buzz, we'll discuss what types of content to create before during and after your launch, how you should invest the majority of your time, and set the date for your launch. In the later lessons we'll get into specific tips if you are launching something people will pay for, like a product or service, and we will even walk through a couple case studies of blogs we've launched or helped re-launched.

Video is one of the strongest trends in online communication. It can be the essential catalyst for your business or play a killer supporting role alongside other materials. But making videos can be an exhausting, all-encompassing task. It's easy to get bogged down in questions, confusion and doubt and, ultimately, end up making something that works against.

Affiliate marketing can be an extremely powerful & profitable strategy for your business. In this special Fizzle course Pat Flynn of Smart Passive Income breaks down his strategy for affiliate marketing.

In this step-by-step course, you’ll learn exactly how to set up your email list, how to grow your list the fastest, what to email your list, and lots of advanced techniques. The formula for building a big email list is actually fairly simple and consistent, whether you have 10 subscribers or 10,000 or more.