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269 days ago
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Produced by Brandon Corbin
How does someone with almost no cash start a business that in less than 2 years serves companies in virtually every country?
Listen to DK New Media's founder Douglas Karr tell his story of jumping the corporate ship to create a new world digital agency.
Doug also shares his tales of: Working for the Newspaper industry, Building MarketingTechBlog.com, Writing Corporate Blogging for Dummies, and helping / motivating people to start their own business.
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373 days ago
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Produced by Brandon Corbin
Let me ask you this, how much more money would you be able to make if you had 1,000 sales and online marketing people working for you? And what if they required no benefits, no salary, no expense account and no training? And, what if you only had to pay them every time they actually made a sale? Wouldn't that be awesome?
My friends, this is exactly why you need to consider starting an affiliate program for your products, services or online store. Affiliate programs make it possible for hundre...
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382 days ago
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Produced by Brandon Corbin
Today on the 8iFY Podast we talk with Doug Rowe the founder of ProfyleTracker an Indianapolis based Recruiting company and the first sponsor of the 8iFY Podcast! Doug is not only a great friend, but one of the most agreesive and relentless recruiting guys in the US. During the podcast we talk about how Doug got started building ProfyleTracker, how candidates can increase their chances at getting hired and how companies can ensure they don't get a bad rep for their hiring practices.
Also, ...
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385 days ago
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Produced by Brandon Corbin
Last November was my first StartupWeekend in Indianapolis. I'm happy to say my crew StatsSquared won in Indy, won in the US and came in 2nd globally. Not bad for a 32 hour blitz. If you're planning on doing StartupWeekend this April; then this post is to offer how I'd do things a little differently, knowing what I know now.
1. Come prepared with a pitch, a plan and a foundation.
Virtually everyone who pitches has only given a few hours of thought to their idea. And while many of the idea...
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386 days ago
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Produced by Brandon Corbin
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387 days ago
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Produced by Brandon Corbin
Last month we covered how to create a Zombie Blog that pissed off a whole lot of people, and this month we'll cover how to setup an Automated Zombie Twitter Account. However, unlike the Zombie Blog, this Twitter Account actually has some real value to it's followers. In essence this tutorial will show you how to "combine" a ton of different blogs in to a single Twitter account. Unlike the Zombie blog, this Zombie will send traffic to the original blog posts, thus giving the authors more traf...
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394 days ago
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Produced by Brandon Corbin
In our world of anonymity, it's extremely tempting to be dishonest to make money online - and truth be told, you can make money by being dishonest and inauthentic, but it doesn't sustain and will bite you in the ass in the long run.
In this Guest Post, Jesse Kurth covers 3 lessons about being authentic.
There aren't many things that scare me, but one of them is non-dairy creamer, by Jesse Kurth.
Another is tofu. Soy burgers and soy milk too... or soy anything really, because we all know th...
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405 days ago
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Produced by Brandon Corbin
The following is an excerpt from my eBook Whore It Up that you can get for free by signing up for the 8iFY Newsletter (look right).
"I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle
in my ear to wake me up and get going,
rather than retreat." - Sylvester Stallone
"Through my illness I learned rejection.
I was written off.
That was the moment I thought,
Okay, game on.
No prisoners.
Everybody's going down." - Lance Armstrong
Rejection is part of the game of life, it happens at work, in l...
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405 days ago
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Produced by Brandon Corbin
Here's my first take at a podcast by myself. I hope that this helps people get to know a little more about me, or at least help my ego grow a little bit. This short podcast is basically me rambling about my life and why I built 8iFY. Love it or leave it, but be aware that as usual may rambling isn't safe for work.
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In this talk I ramble about:
How I started, grew and failed on my first business.
How much I charged for a podcast sponsorship, and how I "closed" it.
My b...
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