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9 Surefire Ways You Can Profit During The City Lockdown
At the time I’m writing this, the coronavirus pandemic is raging across the world, and I’ve seen many people share their thoughts and opinions on it. But I haven’t seen information on what someone can do during these difficult times to make money for their family’s food and bills. So in today’s post, I want […]
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How Alex Craig Landed $72,000 in 4 Months Selling Potatoes on the Internet
What do most entrepreneurs sell? Software. Apps. Online courses. Conventional, boring stuff. But Alex Craig had his own set of ideas. He sold potatoes. Yes, you heard me right; it’s POTATOES. Back in 2015, the 24 year-old app developer made a lot of money selling potatoes online. Six months after founding it, he sold the […]
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How Mikael Cho Drove 1 Billion Website Views Without Spending a Dime on PPC and SEO
Sounds unreal? Totally. But it’s also doable. Back in 2015, Mikael Cho had a problem. His startup was running out of cash, and he had to get a ton of users real quick to hang on. He didn’t have the cash to buy traffic. Blogging is also out; it’d take months to get traffic this […]
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How Ed Clay Started His Cleaning Company While Working On His 9-5 and Grew It Into a 2.6 Million Annual Revenue Cash Pumping Machine
It was a day like another other back in 2014 when Ed Clay saw the perfect opportunity while searching for cleaning services online. He was excited because almost all of the local websites on Google were terribly designed. They looked like they were made ten, twenty years ago. Not only that, these sites had needlessly […]
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How to Generate $1200 Monthly Recurring Revenue In 2 Days by Getting on Hacker News Front Page
Hacker news is an influential link aggregation website. The largest crowd there? People in the technology industry and startup companies. If you have a good product appealing to these people, Hacker News is a great place to get your story and product spread and then generate sales by doing it. On this post, I want […]
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1 Man + 29 Hobby Videos = $5 Million Annual Profit. Here is the Best “Make Money on YouTube” Model You Can Apply
The accepted truth is that, to make money on YouTube, you need to produce: #1. Fancy videos #2. Viral content + click-bait titles #3. And that’s not enough… you need to produce a ton of videos – that means you’ll probably need a production team to pump them out at scale. The reality is: No, […]
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Fastest Exit Attempt Ever: How to Sell a 24-Hour-Old Website for $85,000
How to sell a website for lots of money? Website exit attempt theories go like that: #1. Launch a website; #2. SEO it to the top of Google #3. Add a host of other traffic getting efforts to make it profitable #4. Sell for 10x profit on Flippa. That’s the “conventional” way of flipping a […]
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How I Made $12,000 in 10 Days Launching an Online Course to My Blog Readers
I started this blog, Growthtext, as a side project in March of 2016. Every month, I wrote 1-2 blog posts, getting readers to sign up to my list using several lead capture forms I set up. I used it to launch an online course, Rapid 5K Subs. During my 10-days launch, 29 people paid $420 […]
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How to Make $375,000 Selling Products Unique to Your City
Every city is unique. New York is unique. Toronto is unique. Melbourne is unique. The same goes for your city, it’s unique. No matter where you live, in a city or close to one, you can find products that are prized for belonging to that city. And there’s a whole market out there that’s emotionally […]
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200 Free, Genuinely Useful Resources for Digital Marketers (Get them for $0)
We are entering a new year… This made me stop and think about what I can send you as gift for being a loyal Growthtext reader. It had to be something worthwhile, something useful. So, this was what I did: 1. Closed myself in my room for 3 days straight (still ate and slept). 2. […]
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The Ultimate Actionable WordPress Security Guide
Most people use WordPress to run their blog or website. But to most bloggers, WordPress security isn’t a top priority. Why? 1. WordPress security is not an exciting topic. 2. It doesn’t produce positive ROI; adding security to your WordPress site doesn’t grow your traffic; it doesn’t sign up more email subscribers; it doesn’t put […]
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Solopreneur Success Story: One Man, Working Part Time, Draws 1.5 Million Monthly Visitors, Makes $8000/Month
In this post, I’m going to show you how a 27-year old entrepreneur from Brisbane, Australia, is making $5000-$8000 a month growing his movie and TV soundtrack website, What-Song.com Let’s meet Tom Andrew. When Tom set out to build his now successful movie and TV music website, he had no clue about most of the […]
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How to Make 5 Figures in 36 Hours by Gaming Reddit Algorithm
Today, I’m going to show you how a growth hacker gamed the Reddit algorithm and made herself 5 figures within 3 days launching her natural soap business. I promise, this post is going to open your mind to new possibilities. So, keep on reading… First, let’s meet Chloe Alpert. Chloe is a growth hacker and […]
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The Top 5 Tools to Create Stunning Social Media Visuals
“Hey Verena, how do I create social media visuals like these?” “They just look amazingly done. Any graphics tool you can recommend?” Nick, my client who just ordered his second website from me, was planning his new Facebook fan page. He’s on the hunt for tools he can use to create high quality social media […]
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The Only Social Media Marketing Blog Post You Ever Need to Bookmark
“After so much that I’ve read… I’m still getting stuck with social media marketing” “Jon Loomer seems to be a go-to-guy on Facebook ads, but I’m still trying to figure out how his Lookalike audience technique can work for my little blog… maybe his stuff is just too advance for me? Thought? Here is the […]
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How I Doubled My Email Open Rate in 1 Minute
Want to 2X your email open rate? In this post, I’m going to show you how I doubled my email open rate. The best part is: I spent less than 1 minute to do it. Please read on… Side note: I grew this blog from nothing to a blog with 10,000 monthly visitors, working part […]
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Reddit Traffic Guide: How to Drive 1,000+ Visitors to Your Blog from Reddit in Less Than 30 Days
Today, I’m going to show you how one marketer cracked Reddit traffic. First, let’s meet Ryan Stewart. Ryan is the founder of Webris- one of the top seo agencies in Miami. Today, his blog averages 200K monthly visitors. When he first launched his blog back in 2015, the numbers weren’t that promising. SEO takes time […]
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How to Kill Procrastination – Apply This Technique and You Can Increase Your Website Traffic 10X
Want to increase your website traffic? In this post I’m going to show you a quick solution for killing your procrastination and taking immediate action to start driving traffic to your site. You see… I’ve shown people how I got 10,000 visitors to this blog within just a few months. I grew this blog from […]
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10 Things I’ve Learned to Grow My Blog Traffic from 0 to 10,000 Monthly Visitors
I’ve successfully reached the goal I set for myself 5 months ago: getting 10,000 monthly visitors to this blog. Here are 10 things I’ve learned: I grew this blog from nothing to a blog with 10,000 monthly visitors, working part time and without using SEO. Want to know how I made it happen? I’ll show […]
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Case Study: How I Drive 10,131 Unique Visitors to My Blog in 30 Days Part Time While I Run My Web Design Business
I have hit 10,131 monthly unique visitors to this blog! If you have been following my blog for the past few months, you know I started GrowthText 5 months back with a mission to grow it from nothing to 10,000 monthly visitors without relying on SEO. I just wrapped up the 5th month and hit […]
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10 Must-Have WordPress Plugins for Internet Marketers
If you Google “best WordPress plugins for internet marketers” or “top WordPress plugins for internet marketers”, you’ll be overwhelmed by all the available options. Yes, there are many great plugins around… but do you really need that many of them for your blog? No, you don’t. In fact, installing too many plugins makes for a […]
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How I Made It to the Hacker News Front Page and Landed 765 Visits to My Blog Within 24 Hours
Hacker News is a link aggregation website where anyone can submit their link. The majority of their readers are in the technology arena. But as stated on their submission guideline, they welcome any submissions as long as it’s something that “gratifies one’s intellectual curiosity”. Hacker News monthly traffic is now hovering between 10 -15 million […]
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Freelance Marketing Technique: How I Convert an Extra 30% Leads Into Customers Just By Sending This Simple Follow-up Email
If you’re providing services online, this freelance marketing technique will convert more leads and grow your business. If you’re not following up with your leads, you’re leaving a lot of money on the table. Marketers talk a lot about setting up follow-up emails to convert leads into buyers. In forums, discussion groups, blog posts, and […]
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Website Traffic Experiment: What I Learned by Experimenting with 10 Different Traffic Sources on the Internet
I just wrapped up the 4th month of my journey to 10,000 blog visitors. In this website traffic report, I’ll share what happen in both April and May. I was suppose to post my April report last month but didn’t do it as there wasn’t much to report on. So, I’ve decided to skip one […]
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Ultimate List Building Guide: 90+ Actionable Techniques to Build Monstrous Email List
Want to build a sustainable online business? Email is the foundation. Not Facebook likes. Not Twitter followers. Not #hashgtags. Quick stat: Email- According to Silverpop, the average email open rate is 20.2% Facebook- Facebook organic reach runs around 6% for brand pages and 2% for pages with more than 500,000 likes. Twitter- Only 8-10% of […]
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List Building: How I Get Over 40% Conversion Rates with My Lead Capture Page
What’s the most important thing to grow your online business? To me, it’s list building. Yes, traffic is important. But if we’re not turning traffic into leads, we don’t own an audience. Simply put: Audience = asset From the first day I launched Growth Text, list building was my primary goal. I grew this blog […]
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Why Evening is the Best Time to Email Your Subscribers
What’s the best time to email your subscribers? The ultimate answer- send when people are reading emails. Unless your subscribers are corporate readers, don’t send out emails in the morning or in the afternoon. Send out emails in the evening (I’ll explain why later). How do you know if your readers are not corporate readers? […]
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Influencer Marketing Case Study: How I Got the #2 Global Digital Influencer to Share My Content with His Audience
What is Influencer Marketing? Influencer Marketing engages key leaders in your niche to drive your name to their larger market. Rather than shouting your name to the world by yourself, you approach key leaders in your niche to leverage their influence. Get them to get out the word for you. I grew this blog from […]
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Ultimate Traffic Guide: 90+ Actionable Tips to Increase Your Web Traffic
I wasted so much time on trying to learn how to increase web traffic… I spent years subscribing to marketing blogs; most of the time… I was disappointed. I usually find little to no actionable traffic tips I can implement in my business. Good content is rare, actionable content is even rarer. I know that […]
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How I Increase Website Traffic By 380% In 30 Days Without Spending a Dime on Advertising
I’m on my journey to 10,000 monthly visitors. Every month I post a traffic report summarizing my traffic progress. March is our second month since we started Growth Text and we had a lot of fun growing our traffic this month. My blog traffic increased 380% in March over February numbers. I’m going to share […]
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Twitter Marketing Case Study: How I Got Mari Smith to Tweet My Blog Post, and Grew My Traffic 330%
The same old Twitter marketing techniques tell us to: Engage with your followers; Use hashtags; Tweet on Sunday afternoon; And a host of others tips and tricks. But what about using Twitter to drive real visitors to your website? Now, those tips might help you add a couple more Twitter followers, but there will certainly […]
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18 Free Stock Photos Websites That Professional Web Designers Won’t Tell You About
“Hey, Verena, where can I get high quality free stock photos for my site?” Cynthia dropped me a line after I completed her new website. “Are there any places online where I can find quality free stock photos?” she asked. I build websites for a living, and yes, I have a list of websites up […]
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How to Get Traffic to Your Blog When You Have Absolutely No Audience
Welcome to my first traffic report! Every month I’m posting a traffic report summarizing my progress. I’ll also show you what traffic strategies I use during the month that make the difference in the amount of traffic and the number of opt-ins this blog accumulates. February 2016 Traffic Report The blog was launched on […]