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  • Entrepreneurship

Why Canadians Need To Love Fall In Love With Capitalism

Canada is losing its entrepreneurial soul. The country has 100,000 fewer entrepreneurs than two decades ago despite adding 10 million people, its provinces rank below all 50 U.S. states on economic freedom, and the middle class is drowning in record...

  • Reddit Marketing

How Reddit Became the Dark Funnel for Enterprise Software

The enterprise software deal your team just lost? There’s a good chance the winning vendor was chosen in a Reddit thread six months ago. Nothing in your Salesforce instance recorded it. Your attribution model didn’t flag it. Your SDRs never...

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  • Entrepreneurship

40 Signs You Have What It Takes To Be An Entrepreneur

There are two types of people in the world. Entrepreneurs and everyone else. Entrepreneurs are folks who create things. Entrepreneurs are folks who live on their own terms. Entrepreneurs are a special group of people who have a passion for...

  • Content Marketing, Entrepreneurship, Marketing, Social Media, Storytelling

How to Make Money from Your Blog

When I tell people that they can make thousands of dollars a month by blogging, they typically respond in one of two ways; complete disbelief or curiosity. Sometimes both. But the truth is, your blog can be a lucrative business....

  • Just Business

How to Stop Caring About Haters and Critics

Would you like to hear how I found a flawless immunization that helps me from beating myself up after receiving negative comments or feedback from haters and critics? Consider this to be your lucky day… …Why? Because today, I’m going...

  • Entrepreneurship

How to Deal with Copycats in Business

How do you deal with people who copy your work? How do you deal with people who steal your idea? How do you approach a copycat? I know, it’s likely you want to take them out back and reenact a...

  • Marketing, Social Media

Four Creative Examples of Brands Killing It on Instagram

There are tons of examples of brands that are killing it on Instagram. When you look at the brands killing it on Instagram, you can’t help but wonder what they’re doing differently that has allowed them to be successful. Is...

  • Content Marketing, Marketing

How to Build a Stronger Connection with Your Blogging Audience

I was working with a client a few days ago and they expressed a challenge that businesses have been encountering since the industrial revolution. That is, the challenge of building long lasting and meaningful relationships with customers. Once upon a...

  • Entrepreneurship, Inspiration

Just Write Something: How To Get Over The “Newbie” Jitters

Stop second guessing yourself. Stop making excuses. Stop being afraid. Sure, it’s easy for me to say, I wrote more than 500,000 words last year. But do you really think I was never in your shoes? I’m still fairly new...

  • Content Marketing, Marketing

Why Content Really Isn’t King and What Actually Is…

Ever come across a great blog post or slideshare and be surprised that it only has a handful of retweets or shares? Maybe you’ve created great content before and found similar results. Don’t be discouraged. It’s not because the content...

  • Marketing, Startups

5 Must-Read Articles to Ramp Up Your Startup Marketing Campaigns

First and foremost, I should start this by saying every startup is going to require a different toolkit for their marketing efforts. For some startups, they will be able to leverage press to drive meaningful sign ups while others will...