Shopify Success Stories: How These Entrepreneurs Bounced Back

by Ashwin Satyanarayana | May 16, 2022 | Ecommerce

Take a look at these Shopify success stories to get away from the “this is sooooo easy” nonsense you see on the web and get back to the true stories of grit, determination, and hustle. See how true entrepreneurial spirit looks like. It’s time...

How to Connect Mailchimp and Unbounce

by Ashwin Satyanarayana | May 13, 2022 | Apps

Learn how to connect Mailchimp and Unbounce and you are on your way to deploy landing pages, connected to email marketing. It’s the start of your sales funnels. If and when you do this, you are already ahead of several businesses. Using landing pages and email...

Business Blogging Basics Revisited: You are Overcomplicating It

by Ashwin Satyanarayana | May 11, 2022 | Content Marketing

Another business blogging basics post? Am I out of my mind? No, I am not. But several solo business owners, content creators, businesses (all sizes), marketers, and even those that call themselves “content marketers”, “content strategists”, or “insert any fancy...

How to Do Good Webinars [ + Why Most Webinars Suck. User POV]

by Ashwin Satyanarayana | May 9, 2022 | Video

How to do Good webinars or handle webinars the right way, you ask? TL;DR: Be human. Provide value. Period.  I subconsciously tuned myself out for webinars of any kind, by almost any brand — with the exception of brands like Leadpages, Demio (on the topic of...

Is Social Media a Waste of Time for Business?

by Ashwin Satyanarayana | May 6, 2022 | Social Media

The big question: Is social media a waste of time for business? It’s a tricky question to answer. Being active on social media definitely helps grow your business, give your brand a solid social (and web) presence, improves your personal branding, allows you to...

Monetizing Newsletters: 3 Proven, High-Impact, and Personalized Ways

by Ashwin Satyanarayana | May 2, 2022 | Content Creators

Monetizing newsletters? Just how do you do it? Between Affiliate Marketing and Sponsorships, which is a better way to go about it?  First, the primary purpose of your newsletter should be to enhance your personal branding (brownie points for everything else you...

How to Use Videos For Marketing [To get Results]  

by Ashwin Satyanarayana | Apr 27, 2022 | Video

Learn how to use videos for marketing (with confidence, purpose, and speed) and you have a winner on your hands.  Ask those who suffer from the lack of all of this (that’s me), and you’ll know the pain. There’s no point in asking Gary Vaynerchuck, right? ...

How to Overcome Imposter Syndrome: Poof, Gone Forever

by Ashwin Satyanarayana | Apr 25, 2022 | Content Creators

If you want to know how to gain confidence to make videos, learn how to beat you’d have to go deep and beyond videos themselves.  For once, it’s critical to stop thinking about videos as a content type or how powerful videos are, and so on.  It’s easy enough...

Newsletter Sponsorship Marketplaces: How to Get Sponsorships

by Ashwin Satyanarayana | Apr 22, 2022 | Content Creators

Newsletter Sponsorship Marketplaces are the matchmakers you’d love (unlike other kinds of matchmakers we all love to hate).  Embrace newsletter sponsorship marketplaces —  instead of hustling, sending cold emails, hunting on social media, and sending...

Personal Branding With Newsletters: How to Shine Like a Diamond

by Ashwin Satyanarayana | Apr 20, 2022 | Content Creators

Doing personal branding with newsletters is one of the best things you’d do — regardless of whatever you do. But did you know that you can create and make money with newsletters? That’s on top of personal branding with newsletters. How sweet is that?  You...