My original title for this post was: The Most Important Thing You Can Do for a Successful Blog (But Probably Won't). Backups are ridiculously important and absurdly overlooked.
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My original title for this post was: The Most Important Thing You Can Do for a Successful Blog (But Probably Won't). Backups are ridiculously important and absurdly overlooked.
One of the questions I hear most is "how do I find a mentor?" Mentorship has always been a strange concept to me. For a long time I thought it was common for people to have "official" mentors, but eventually I realized I had never met anyone with an explicit mentor relationship.
Two weeks ago we first wrote about the launch of our new training platform for online business builders in 5 lessons from a $213,000 launch. Today we have 5 more lessons from our launch to share with you. If you're building an online business or launching a new product, this post is for you.
Two weeks ago our little 3-person company launched a new video training platform and community for online business builders. The launch (which was actually iterated over 3.5 months) was a hit. We exceeded our expectations and brought in a nice chunk of revenue (which I'll detail below).
Today's the big day — Fizzle just officially opened for enrollment! And as a Sparkline reader, try Fizzle for $1 for your first month.
A little over a month ago, we intentionally launched a very unfinished product. Functionality was missing, content was meager and many questions were unanswered, yet we opened the doors to real customers anyway, on a date we had scheduled months in advance.
When I first started working on my own business ideas, I didn't understand how important it was to do something unique. I borrowed other ideas without contributing anything new or noteworthy and then scratched my head when my implementation never took off. "Why is no one paying attention to my idea?"
Today we're announcing something big, and we're going to ask for your help. We believe the Internet has started a revolution in entrepreneurship. It has never been less expensive or more possible to build an online business, to create an honest, innovative, true, fulfilling and valuable business.
Blogging can be an incredible platform to build a business around. Blogging is a perfect way to become recognized as an expert in your field. But blogging can also become a trap that keeps you from your real goals.
We noticed something unacceptable about the articles and interviews we've posted here over the past couple of years: we haven't featured nearly enough successful women bloggers and online entrepreneurs.