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It seems like it never fails that most of us go looking for help too late. If this is you, you’re not alone. I think this is due to a couple of reasons. One, when something is not in our area of expertise, we grossly underestimate how much time it will take. Check out this…
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So far, we’ve discussed reasons why you hire an expert. Specifically, the first blog was about hiring an expert because you don’t know what you don’t know, and the second was about when you know things so well that you’re overlooking all the holes into which everyone else is going fall. But what about why…
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Have you ever done that annoying exercise where you have to instruct someone else how to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich using only words? It’s a reliable way to frustrate people. Okay, so that’s not the actual point of the exercise. But you already know the point of the experiment here: no one…
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Here’s the news: On May 1, 2021, Google will start factoring in Core Web Vitals as part of how Google decides what pages show up where in search results. And as my friend Stacey might say, “Those are all words and all English, but I don’t know what you are saying.” Feeling a bit like…
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The idea of paying for leads is a hard one to swallow when you start a business. But once you have some cash flow, it can seem to be an easy way to acquire new customers. That’s only true, though, if you can turn those eyeballs into email addresses and those email addresses into money…
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Are you at a crossroads in your business? If you’re stuck and looking to gain confidence on the path to achieving the business growth you desire, you may be considering getting a business coach. I say: Forget coaching. Use data instead. There’s no doubt about it: Growing a business is nerve racking, anxiety inducing, and…
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Growth is messy. It just is. As much as we (and I’m clearly projecting here) want to make it planned, predictable, and an exponential curve up and to the right, that isn’t the reality. If you want to track growth, that can get even messier. Thankfully, it doesn’t have to be. There are many quotable…
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Google Analytics is a powerful tool with a lot of information in there. But if you don’t use it all the time, it’s not really clear what matters and what’s important for your business. At the end of the day, it just might be worthwhile to get some analytics help. Listen to Season 1: Episode…
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As business owners, we have plenty of ideas. I don’t know about you, but I can’t even stand in line at a coffee shop without having thoughts about how they could improve the customer experience. I think that’s just the nature of the entrepreneurial brain (or maybe it’s just me?). So why in tarnation do…
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Do you get excited about website reports? Does anyone? Let me put it this way: Do you sprint to the mailbox and excitedly tear open your retirement account statement when it arrives every quarter? No? What about regularly checking in on the status of your other assets: equity in your home, real estate holdings? Still…
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