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on Sep 11, 2008 - 7:40 AM PST
The full program This is an audio program. Listen and/or download here. A few lessons from this program I didn’t interview him because he won the Apprentice’s second season and got to work for Donald Trump. I interviewed Kelly Perdew because people who work for him or heard him speak since he became CEO of [...]
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on Sep 10, 2008 - 11:00 AM PST
The full program This is an audio program. Listen and/or download it here: A few lessons from this program Have you ever asked yourself this question: In a world dominated by MySpace and full of other social networks, how did Facebook become a multi-billion dollar business when others failed? To answer that question, I called [...]
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on Sep 9, 2008 - 4:00 PM PST
The full program This is an audio program. Listen and/or download here. A few lessons from this program Want an example of the power of an online community? In a past interview, I heard that ToolsToLife.com won twiistup partially because the its community rallied and voted for it. So I called up the site’s founder, [...]
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on Sep 5, 2008 - 5:38 AM PST
The full program This is an audio program. Listen and/or download it here: A few lessons from this program Imagine having your site spread online like a benevolent virus. To learn how to do that, I spoke with Hiten Shah, Partner at ACS SEO. His company has helped grow online traffic for big brands like [...]
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on Sep 2, 2008 - 7:00 AM PST
The full program This is an audio program. Listen and/or download it here: A few lessons from this program To learn how to negotiate and close a deal, I interviewed Clinton Swaine, founder of Frontier Trainings. Here are a few notes from the conversation. (You can download the conversation to listen to the full interview.) [...]
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on Aug 29, 2008 - 3:00 PM PST
The full program This is an audio program. Listen and/or download here. A few lessons from this program Andrew Carnegie, who came to the US with nothing and became the richest man in the country, advised people who wanted to follow in his footsteps to create master mind groups. To learn how to do that, [...]
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on Aug 28, 2008 - 8:12 PM PST
The full program This is an audio program. Listen and/or download here. A few lessons from this program Have you noticed that most people can’t get more than a few hundred readers to their sites, let alone get their audience to pay money to buy something? Ever wonder how some politicians, like John McCain and [...]
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on Aug 25, 2008 - 8:42 PM PST
The full program This is an audio program. Listen and/or download here. A few lessons from this program Sean Percival seems to be a social media ninja. You don’t see some of the techniques he uses, but you feel their impact. In our interview, he told me about how he uses social media for his [...]
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on Aug 21, 2008 - 7:51 AM PST
The full program This is an audio program. Listen and/or download here. A few lessons from this program I used to think that Frank Warren had it easy. I didn’t think he had to do any work at all to grow his site: PostSecret. PostSecret is a collection of secrets that people write on postcards [...]
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on Aug 18, 2008 - 8:09 PM PST
I interviewed Tony Hsieh, the CEO of Zappos, to find out how he took a little online shoe company and made it into a billion dollar a year online retail success story. Here are some of the things I learned from our conversation. Download the full interview to learn more directly from Tony. Shocking customers [...]
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on Aug 13, 2008 - 2:32 PM PST
The full program This is an audio program. Listen and/or download here. A few lessons from this program Timothy Sykes says he took about $12,000 in bar mitzvah money and turned it into about $2 million. That’s obviously impressive, but the list of people who’ve made fortunes is long and growing daily. What I’m more [...]
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on Aug 12, 2008 - 6:51 PM PST
The full program This is an audio program. Listen and/or download it here: A few lessons from this program Don’t you love web sites that just seem to “get you”? Everything on them seems to be placed exactly where you want them. That’s not an easy experience to create, but Eric Stephens showed me how [...]
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