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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.

It's one of the most common questions we hear from entrepreneurs: how do I get more stuff done? Why do I keep procrastinating!? Productivity is about more than just how you organize your sticky notes (though, let’s be honest, that is pretty important) and in this course Chase shares the essentials of productivity specifically for online business builders.

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.

Launching a podcast is an extremely complex and sometimes frustrating process. In this course you'll learn the different types of equipment and software you should use, how to properly record, edit, and tag your podcasts, how you use the best tools and services for hosting and publishing a podcast, and get your podcast launched.

Nathan Barry is an experience designer for both the web and iOS apps. He also recently published The App Design Handbook, a guide to designing beautiful iOS applications. In this interview Nathan explains why he left college early to freelance, how working at a startup in Boise took him from being a designer to being an iOS programmer, and how he successfully grossed $12,000 in one day of eBook sales with less than a thousand subscribers to his blog.

There are lots of ways to accept payments online, and it can be confusing trying to choose the best way for your situation. In this special comparison series, you'll learn about several popular payment processing services and how to choose the best for your business.