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July 6, 2015
11 Periscope tips for becoming a better participant
In case you haven’t noticed, I’m a little bit excited about Periscope. Think webinars but for busy people, via your phone and with loads more interaction – “one with many” instead of “one to many” I heard someone describe it as. In this post, I’ve put together a few Periscope tips, specifically for participants. I’ve been ...
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July 1, 2015
17 epic opportunities for reaching influencers (influencer outreach on periscope)
I have a confession to make. I think I’m addicted to Periscope! It’s an amazing way to get useful content out quickly and build a whole new level of trust with your community. But there’s also an insane opportunity for influencer outreach on periscope. So much so that I just did a periscope about that ...
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June 30, 2015
Applying billionaire investor Chris Sacca’s investment advice to starting companies
Chris Sacca is known as the world’s most successful startup angel investor. With early investments in companies like Twitter, Uber, Instagram & Kickstarter, his fund is on its way to become the most successful VC fund of all time, returning somewhere around 250X. He’s also a bit of a podcast guest rockstar. His episode on This Week In ...
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March 29, 2015
10 things bootstrapped founders can learn from Startups (live presentation)
Here is a video of me speaking at the recent Super Fast Business Live event in Sydney. If you have any questions, feel free to ask them below. Here are some links to the projects mentioned: WP Curve – Unlimited WordPress small fixes. Helloify – Contact form and live chat website button. Black Hops Brewing ...
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February 4, 2015
January update on my 2015 goals
After a great year in 2014, I came up with 4 fairly ambitious goals for 2015. Turn WP Curve into a $2m annual business Start a physical brewery on the Gold Coast Build Helloify into a business growing by 10% month on month by the end of the year Release another best selling book and ...
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The ultimate guide to understanding and improving customer retention
For all of my businesses, I’m focused on one main thing. How do we provide a great product (or service) and keep people coming back again and again. For some things that means focusing obsessively on the product. For example with Black Hops brewing we have only put one commercial beer out but we have ...
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Book Review: Zero to One by Peter Thiel and Blake Masters
I have a love-hate relationship with Zero to One by Peter Thiel and Blake Masters. When I launched my book, The 7 Day Startup, it got as high as #2 in the Startups category on Amazon. I couldn’t get passed the book at #1, Zero to One. Not that I’m suggesting I deserved to be ...
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How to write 10,000 words in one day
As part of my upcoming book Content Machine, I’ve started a Facebook group where I’m doing a weekly challenge. This week’s challenge is to create as much content as possible in one day. That day is today! In this post I’ll explain how I plan on creating that much content in one day, and provide ...
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December 16, 2014
2014 results and 2015 goals
2014 has been an amazing year for me in business. Last year things started taking off with WP Curve, but even in December 2013 we were still doing less than $10,000 in monthly revenue with a team of 5 people including 2 co-founders. It was going in the right direction but it was hardly a ...
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October 27, 2014
7 tricks to help you think big
Donald Trump said: “If you’re going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big.” But how? Here are a few practical things you can do to start thinking like a high growth startup, as opposed to someone who works for themselves. Stop thinking local A lot of people will tell you to find ...
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