Don’t Do The Hustle: Slow Down, Scale Back, Win More

Do the hustle: You’ll read this everywhere. You’ll listen & watch this everywhere. Is it the right thing to do? David Heinemeier Hansson is the co-author of Rework, creator of Ruby on Rails, Founder and CTO of Basecamp. Recently he wrote a compelling piece titled Let’s Bury the Hustle and I couldn’t help but think and … Read more

Need Help With Digital Marketing? Do This

Before you look out for digital marketing help (or any help whatsoever), make sure that you know exactly what you are looking for. You have no idea how many people are out there who have no idea what they need. If you don’t know what you need, how on earth will you ever get digital … Read more

Flywheel Hosting: 4 Stand Out Features

Flywheel has been our preferred WordPress Managed Hosting solution for several years now. The one huge benefit we get right off the bat by choosing specialty WordPress hosting solutions such as Flywheel is that our involvement with anything to do with hosting, WordPress upgrades, and managing WordPress security is absolute hands off. Flywheel keeps me … Read more

Drip Email Marketing Workflows: Essential Tips

We officially use Drip and Mailchimp as our email marketing tools of choice. You can read up our Mailchimp vs Drip comparison to figure out which one of these works better for your business. If you are using Drip, however, here are a few tips for you: Steal from the community Drip and LeadPages provide you with … Read more

Blogging Generates Leads. Period

Blogging generates leads. Most people just don’t get it though. One of the most frequent questions ever asked, in all my 16 years of doing digital marketing is this: how long before blogging generates leads for your business? The answer (you won’t like it): depends. Before you ask that question, there are many other questions … Read more

How to Make Call to action (CTA) Work

Let’s just say that the Call to action is the hero. It’s the final nudge, the much-needed push, the last mile goodness, and the final torchbearer that completes the work you’ve set out to do. There’s virtually no effort, campaign, and on-ongoing effort today that ever be complete with that call to action. If all … Read more

Mailchimp Can Teach You Marketing

MailChimp can teach you a thing or two about business, branding, and marketing. Why not? It does well for itself. We could learn from it. If you could, you’d be able to pick lessons from absolutely anything in your life. Your own experiences, from others, from the single-minded pursuit of an ant, the slyness of … Read more

Marketing Automation Mistakes You Should Avoid

Marketing automation mistakes spoil all the fun. Imagine your business working by itself (almost)? Which business doesn’t want that? You started your business with the thought that you’ll make money, streamline your business operations, and bring in some sort of a systematic way to continue to bring in cash and keep those elusive profits pouring … Read more

How to Get Traffic For A New Website

Wondering how to get traffic to a new website? There’s good news and bad. The bad news is that there aren’t any shortcuts in this post. There are no magic bullets. The good news is that with hard work, patience, and by sticking to basics, you can get traffic to a new website indeed. Each … Read more

Landing Page Design Flaws To Avoid

You know that landing pages are important. But these landing page design flaws could kill any chances you have. You’ve heard about landing pages and maybe you even use landing pages for absolutely every interaction where you expect a certain action to take place (like sign up for newsletter or sign up for whatever). The … Read more