Hello, Steppers! IN today’s post I interview Dinesh Agarwal, the “Head Dude” and founder at Flippiness.com. Flippiness is dedicated to helping people make thousands of dollars every month in their spare time by “flipping”; buying and selling used books. Dinesh started Flippiness with a whopping, TWO dollar investment (gulp! that’s a LOT 😉 ) and […]
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How to Game Starbucks for Free Drinks and Other Stuff
Hello, Steppers! In today’s grande-nonfat-sugar-free-vanilla-triple-shot post, we depart from the regular talk about marketing your business with low dough… today it’s about How to Get FREE DRINKS (and Other Stuff) from Starbucks. Stick with me, toward the end I’ll show how I effectively got an Iced Venti (20 oz) Caramel Macchiato, a blueberry scone, PLUS a […]
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7 Ways to Hack Local Search SEO for a Free Front Page Listing
How I Got Listed Seven Times on the Front Page of Google If you’re a small biz owner interested in using guerrilla tactics to beat out your competitors while not spending a DIME, you landed on the right page. Today I show you seven ways to hack local search results on Google with zero cost. […]
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Why Should I Advertise When Word of Mouth is Working So Well?
Words: ’bout 1500 AWESOME ones, yo. Take ya six minutes. What They’re About: Why it’s important to have an ongoing marketing campaign in place, even when it doesn’t seem necessary. Also, how to keep costs for this campaign really, REALLY low. SMALL BIZ MARKETING DEATH MATCH: Word-of-Mouth vs. Paid Advertising I recently had a conversation […]
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How I Leveraged 64 Postage Stamps into a Six Figure Business
IN today’s enlightening post of ultimate marketing wisdom… 😉 1399 awesome, zero-calorie words. Take ya about five minutes. Subject: Effective Marketing on a Shoestring Budget. Penetrate… and then DOMINATE a market with ridiculously low advertising costs. The year was 1990. I was 22 years young and had been running a martial arts school for just over […]
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Walk The Shoestring Steps With Me This Week: Measure Everything You Do
Today’s Way Awesome Blog Post: Thursday, Measure Everything Ya Do Day Length: Aww, take ya about four point two, well invested minutes About: The Shoestring Step I had to take before making Five Figures (!) a month Shoestring Step FOUR: Measure Everything You Do Welcome back to the five-part series where I bare all about […]
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Walk The Shoestring Steps With Me This Week: Learn To CREATE Value
Today’s Post covers Step THREE: Learn to CREATE Value Words: Hmm, ’bout 1200. Lotsa pictures. Take ya five minutes. Contents: AMAZING! Plus, gluten-free. SO, Steppers. Sorry to have an interruption in posts plus “radio silence” over the last week or so. I had an opportunity to go visit my Dad in a foreign nation known […]
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Walk the Shoestring Steps with Me this Week: Find Out Some W’s
Today’s EPIC Blog Post: Tuesday, Find Out The W’s Day Length: Hmm, ’bout 450 Awesomely Jaw-Droppin’ Words Content: It’s about Target Marketing, yo. Hi again Steppers! Quick, let me apologize if this post seems abrupt and unpolished. It’s because today’s mah berfday and friends and family have quite a few other things planned for me […]
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Walk the Shoestring Steps With Me This Week: Get OFF Your ASS!
Length: About 700 Words Read Time: 2-3 minutes Content: AWESOME, duh. Greetings Steppers! Today, a perfect business idea. QUICK! Can you think of a product that has no production cost, weighs nothing, takes up very little space, can be delivered around the world with almost zero shipping costs, and once you’ve sold it to one customer… […]
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Just Because You Don’t Own Something Doesn’t Mean You Can’t Sell It
Today’s entry is about selling something you don’t have, which sounds suspiciously like creating value out of thin air. Guess what? BOTH are possible. Nay, I daresay it’s NECESSARY in Bizness… to be good enough that you can sell something that you don’t own. Now before we move on..! It’s important that I mention that, […]
