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While most online companies struggle to get hits to their sites, Chance Barnett is attracting customers and racking up sales.

Most people don’t know Chance. Direct marketers like him aren’t covered by the cool bloggers because their businesses aren’t as sexy as Twitter’s. But spend a few minutes with Chance and you’ll see that he’s refined a system for dependably launching online products — profitably.

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When: Wednesday, May 20 at 11:00 AM Pacific

Aren’t you tired of chasing “hits” to your site? Wouldn’t you rather learn how to get paying customers?

Watch this live interview and learn how.

A few people have started to call what I’m doing on Mixergy a “show,” like I’m Larry King or something.

I’m not upset. But to get the most out of my work, you need to understand it’s a mission.

If you read the recent announcement that UserVoice raised $800,000, this program will help you learn the small changes that allowed them to do it.

Marcus Nelson, the company’s co-founder, came to Mixergy to talk about the changes so his experience could help you if decide to raise money.

I asked Adarsh of Pallian Creative to set up a section on Mixergy where I can post ideas that don’t fit on the main site.

Are you infectious? As a startup you can’t outspend established competitors, but you can out-evangelize them. You can infect people with your sense of mission and inspire them to join your crusade to change the world.

I invited Roy M. Spence, Jr on Mixergy to help you learn how and why you can find your purpose and inspiring people.

Sleeping in the office is one way to save money in the beginning days of a startup.

Lea Woodward introduced me to another. She and her husband decided to travel so they could take advantage of the lower cost of living in other parts of the world. She came on Mixergy to tell her story and to teach you how to be location independent.

You know that much of what you learned about how businesses were built is bull, right? It’s a collection of anecdotes created by PR people whose job is to promote their clients–not to give us an honest business education.

To help get at the truth, I invited Owen Byrne, the man who built the original Digg site, to talk candidly about how that great success story was built.

When I look at the before and after pictures of the world that Pallian Creative did on Mixergy, I can’t believe I’m looking at the same site.

But I’d like to hear your opinion. What do you think of their work?

According to CrunchBase, Owen Byrne was hired by Digg founder Kevin Rose on Elance to create the PHP code behind the original Digg site for a cost of $200. Digg went on to become one of the most successful site in history.

Now that story has been frustrating startups everywhere. It leaves us wondering, “If Owen and Kevin can build a top site for a few hundred bucks, why are we struggling for so long and spending so much money just getting our site launched?!”

I want to tell you this story of how I foolishly spent a million bucks so you can save yourself from making a similar mistake. In the early 90′s, I was running a profitable business, we were doing several million dollars a year in sales and profits and I said, “I need an office space [...]