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Over the last couple of months I’ve been working on my new book. I haven’t talked much about it until today, purely because it’s a project that’s not wholly related to online business.

The title of the book is “WordPress 3.7 Complete,” and it’s been released with Packt Publishing just a couple of days ago (available on Amazon and in all major bookstores).

In short, it teaches how to build a site on WordPress and get it online in minutes (without losing your shirt along the way). Suitable for both beginners to site building, as well as folks with some experience under their belts already.

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35 Great Resources on Becoming Productive as an Online Business Owner

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Productivity was always my topic. I enjoyed the fact that you could take a man who once wasn’t able to get crap done in a day – me – and turn him into someone who’s pretty organized and knows exactly what is there to do, when it needs to be done, why it needs to be done, and how to do it.

Studying productivity has done a lot for me. Without it, I would achieve nothing. Fact.

So today, I wanted to publish a post that would be a way of saying thanks to all the great publishers around the web who share their productivity advice on a regular basis. Here, you’ll find 35 great resources that are sure to make you more productive and thus more effective as an online business owner.

(Okay, I did include some links of my own here too.)

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9 Minutes of Inspiration That Will Change Your Life

Big title, right? How can I possibly deliver on such a statement?Well today, I bring you Rocky. Or Sylvester Stallone if you prefer to use his real name.

Sly is one of THE action film heroes. He seems to have been around since forever. My entire childhood was filled with his movies. I saw all the Rocky movies, all the Rambo movies, and now I’m enjoying the new Expendables movies probably more than I should.

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How to Learn SEO Online If You’re a Beginner (and an Online Business Owner)?

At first, the topic of how to learn SEO online seems like something that’s been fairly well-covered on the web.

I mean, there are sites like Moz.com, Search Engine Journal and so on. But as it turns out, they are more about the in-the-trenches practices and advice for people who are already deep into SEO.

But what if you’re just starting out? There surely has to be something for the beginner on a site like Moz, right? Well, not really.

Here’s why. Granted, Moz has their beginner’s guide to SEO (link), but that thing is 10 friggin’ chapters. Again, 10 chapters. In total, that’s probably in the 30,000+ word range. And 30,000 words is a mid-sized book.

What’s wrong with it? Let me quote the classic:

Ain’t nobody got time fo’ dat!

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“Damn It, I Forgot How to Online Business!”

i-forgot-how-to-dogIt’s easier than we think to get sidetracked and lose the flow of running our businesses…

It’s those moments when you sit in front of the computer, doing some work (so you think), and realizing that you’re probably just wasting your time writing yet another piece of content (or promoting something, or emailing people, etc.) and that there are a thousand other activities that can bring you more results and more satisfaction at the same time.

So you start searching for new opportunities, reading blogs, tuning into forums, checking out new product reviews, getting into this new thing, and so on.

This makes you feel good for a while, but then after, say, a month or two the situation repeats itself and makes you question your online business greatness pursuit. In the end, the question likely to appear in your mind, provided you’re familiar with various online memes, is “have I forgotten how to online business?” [Continue Reading]

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