I am going to share with you the major insights and take­aways I had from read­ing the book The Prime Movers.  I will also share with you how you can cul­ti­vate these “virtues” to become one of the major dri­ving forces in your market.

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This arti­cle is going to show you a sim­ple plug-in that will stop you from pulling your hair out when the “Redi­rect Loop” hap­pens to you.

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Some peo­ple have com­pared Twit­ter Friends to Google Ana­lyt­ics in terms of track­ing what you do, even if you don’t know what you do. The aim of this post is to intro­duce you to a tool writ­ten by Benedikt Koehler.  This tool is Twit­ter Friends.

It’s goal is to point out who really mat­ters to you on Twit­ter, as well as show­ing you what you do when you are on Twit­ter.  How often you post, what kind of posts you post, and how often you reply to your followers.

The point of this arti­cle is to show you how you can use this infor­ma­tion to improve your­self, as well the expe­ri­ence of your followers.

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Before you go and start adding adsense to your web­site, you should under­stand that the thou­sand to 10 thou­sand dol­lar pay­check days from adsense are over. You will no longer be sit­ting around, wait­ing on fed-ex to come over and deliver your huge Adsense checks. Today, you will be more likely to earn about $20 to $200 dol­lars a month, if you’re lucky. So the choice is yours if you want to sub­ject your cus­tomers to ads on your web­site that result in poten­tially lit­tle to no income.

Another thing to con­sider is, you could be send­ing peo­ple away from your web­site to other com­peti­tors, and as such this could drive peo­ple away from your site, and away from your prod­ucts and ser­vices.  Not to men­tion that you could turn off your read­ers who hate see­ing ads. If you’re using another ad net­work on your web­site, or cur­rently charge adver­tis­ers to adver­tise on your web­site, they might not like see­ing Google ads on your site.  Not only that, but why would the adver­tis­ers want to pay you 500‑1000 dol­lars a month to adver­tise on your web­site, when they can pay Google to adver­tise on your web­site for 20–30 cents a click?

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In this arti­cle I’m going to show you how to claim your blog with Tech­no­rati.  The rea­son you want to do this is so your blog gets addi­tional traf­fic from Tech­no­rati.  When we “claim our blog” the next thing we do is put in some tags and a brief descrip­tion about our blog, that way oth­ers can find us on the web. I cre­ated a video that cov­ers the process which is located at the bot­tom of this post.

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