Anyone who has ever worked in sales knows the struggle of facing price objections. It's up to you to identify those objections and find the best way to overcome them, while still acknowledging your customer’s concerns.

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Backlinks are an essential part of your online reputation and search engine optimization (SEO) efforts. Unfortunately, some links can harm your reputation and cause you to incur penalties.

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Learn how to create a sound strategy for your social media so you can attract and convert more leads rather than just racking up empty views and likes.

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Here are a few of the best digital marketing, social media and graphic design tools for busy freelancers that won't break your budget.

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Now’s the time to eliminate all strategies that land you low-quality backlinks, and instead focus on the ones that land you the best links only.

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Growing your online business can be a slow process at times. Even once you’ve nailed your niche, built up a carefully segmented mailing list, and developed a robust social media presence, it’s all too easy to hit a plateau.

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The easiest path to success for a new blogger is one-on-one blog coaching and mentoring. It’s the fastest way to grow your new blog and make money.

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There are free ways to grow your email list into the thousands. It’s just that sometimes — if your budget is small — you have to be a little... unorthodox.

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I found Tom Dupuis’s website, Online Media Masters, like most people do: I Googled a little problem I was having with my blog caching plugin. Sitting at the top of the search results was a post he’d written that had exactly the answer I was looking for. Problem solved! Tom’s whole site is devoted to identifying problems that almost every blogger faces and he’s written tutorial posts on his site to help you solve them. He doesn’t launch into a sales pitch or plaster his posts with a dozen affiliate banners. Instead he creates step-by-step guides outlining the little fixes people

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Becoming a ninja at affiliate marketing is no mean feat. From high-power SEOs, to successful bloggers — loads of talented people are jumping on the affiliate bandwagon. But how do you make a real, sustainable income as an affiliate marketer? Is this really your exit strategy come true? If you want to make the most of your affiliate venture, take note of these tried and tested methods championed by some of the industry’s very best. Invest in quality software The need for good affiliate software cannot be overstated. No one who has made it as an affiliate manages their tracking

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Online marketers are creating more video content than ever. Whether it’s for a video blog post, webinar, online course, or interview, the “talking head” video has become one of the most popular formats. They’re easy to produce, effective, and familiar but consider a few common mistakes you’ll want to avoid when creating your next one. 1. Reading from a script “If you’re reading off of a script from your computer or a teleprompter, people can tell,” says Jill Schiefelbein, business communication expert and author of Dynamic Communication: 27 Strategies to Grow, Lead, and Manage Your Business. Instead, she says, use an

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Have you ever pulled up a list of the top podcasts on iTunes and noticed how poorly they’re edited and produced? You know, lots of mismatched audio levels, odd pauses, background noise – that sort of thing? That’s right, you haven’t. The reason is that the vast majority of the top podcasts are professionally edited. If podcasting is going to be a major part of your business strategy – or if your online business is primarily the podcast itself – you need to invest in making it sound absolutely fantastic. Here’s the choice: you can make that investment in self-education, or you

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If you had told Jacques Hopkins five years ago that his online piano course business would allow him to leave his full-time job, he never would have believed you. But after eight years of being an engineer, he quit on New Year’s Eve, 2015. “My daughter just turned one so it’s been amazing working from home and watching her grow up,” he says. “Another cool thing this has allowed us to do is spend three months in France. We rented an apartment to see what it was like. And, of course, I was able to work from there.” Here’s how he did

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If you’re unfamiliar with the major benefits of Snagit, let me catch you up quickly. Sometimes it’s much quicker (and easier!) to send a picture than words. With Snagit, you can take a screenshot or a short screen video, mark it up with notes and explanatory graphics, and paste it into an e-mail or instant message. If you’re a blogger, you can grab a screen shot, edit it, add arrows or text, and post it to your blog without firing up Photoshop or importing it into Canva or PicMonkey. That’s just what Snagit does – and it does it very, very

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If you’re not familiar with PushCrew, you’re going to be hearing a whole lot more about it. It’s a free service (for up to 500 subscribers) that allows you to send browser push notifications directly to website visitors who have opted-in to receive them. When a visitor lands on your website, they see a small notification pop-up window asking if they’d like to allow you to push messages directly in their web browser. To send a message to people who have opted-in, you log into the PushCrew dashboard and create a short tweet-sized message that gets “pushed” to your subscriber’s browser whether they’re on

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Have you ever wanted to create one of those cool round profile pictures? Those circular headshots that you see on expert roundups and other kinds of blog posts? Well, if you’re a Photoshop genius, it’s easy! But what if you’re “graphically challenged”? Even if you don’t have fancy image editing software and you’re not a graphic designer, there’s a quick and easy way to make a round crop of a photo (and even add some cool effects, too). In this mini-tutorial we’ll use the website CutMyPic.com, a free online app that does just one thing: crop and add effects to photos. But the good

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Getting started with any online business is complicated. You have to have a working understanding of literally dozens of different topics including web design and hosting, social media, email marketing, affiliate marketing, lead conversion, and much (much!) more. Hiring an online business coach is a potential shortcut to success. By leveraging their knowledge and experience, you can save yourself a great deal of time — and maybe even some money, depending on how much “catch up” training you’ll be able to avoid. Choosing an online business coach is a big decision. Picking the right one can help keep you heading down the

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Getting a good screenshot of a YouTube video is harder than it sounds. I’m excited to report that I’ve found an online tool that makes it super-easy. But first, some background…. Sometimes you need a still-shot image of someone and one of the best sources can be a screen capture from YouTube. Most professionally shot video is very high quality, well-lit and in-focus. Not as perfect as a professionally staged photograph, but often pretty close. I use Techsmith’s SnagIt all day long to grab screen images for blog posts and other projects. SnagIt works great if I just want a small

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LeadPages is one of the most popular landing page creators, but at $25 to nearly $200 per month, it can be out of reach for many online marketers on a budget. The good news is that there are a few great alternatives. While not all of them are significantly cheaper than LeadPages, some provide different feature sets which may be more attractive depending on your needs. We asked the CEOs of five popular LeadPages alternatives to each make their case why their landing page creator is the best choice: James Dyson, creator of OptimizePress OptimizePress | $97 – $297 (one-time cost) OptimizePress offers

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For many bloggers, creating a blog post involves just opening the WordPress editor and typing. But organizing your blog posts as you’re writing them is a challenge for most bloggers. By helping you centralize your research and fragmented ideas in one place, Scrivener can help you manage the entire process of creating your blog content. Scrivener has long been the “go-to” choice for novelists, but now other writers are discovering its advantages. If you’re writing long, comprehensive blog posts — and you should be — Scrivener can help you streamline your content creation workflow. By making it easier to write in smaller chunks

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You’ve worked hard to grow your Twitter followers. But there are some easy-to-make mistakes that can get you “unfollowed” or even worse – “muted.” When an unusual number of users “unfollow” you, it’s a sign that you should reevalute what you’re doing. These early “unfollowers” can give you a heads-up that there’s a problem. But in some cases, if they don’t want to offend you by “unfollowing,” they may opt to “mute” you instead. When a follower “mutes” your account, they aren’t seeing your Tweets at all. And while they still will see mentions in their notifications tab, you’ll never know you’ve

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Google used to have a great feature called Blog Search that allowed you to limit your search results to just blog posts. Unfortunately, Google discontinued it in May, 2014. The good news is that although it’s completely hidden, you can still do a blog post search by following this link: https://www.google.com/?tbm=blg You may want to bookmark that — you won’t find a way to activate it anywhere on Google’s search results pages. While searches from the link above will show the most “relevant” results from all dates first, I prefer to use this modified version that sorts the results by date: https://www.google.com/?tbm=blg&tbs=sbd:1 I

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Travis Marziani started an e-commerce store, BDancewear.com, with his mom selling premium handmade dancewear. He also co-hosts the popular podcast Build My Online Store with fellow e-commerce entrepreneur, Terry Lin. “I got into ecommerce after working the corporate world for about two years. I was pretty sick of it and I wanted an escape,” he says. BDancewear’s dream customers are dance studio owners. Unlike individual dancers who might buy dancewear just a few times, dance studio owners buy their products and influence purchase decisions year after year. He experimented with different promotion methods, but reaching his target customers effectively proved to

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If you know how to solve a problem that someone else has in their business, they will happily pay you money to tell them exactly how to figure it out. While books, courses, and YouTube videos are helpful, sometimes clients need advice tailored specifically to their situation. If you’re thinking about turning your experience into extra money by offering coaching or consulting, one service that makes it easy is Clarity. The Clarity marketplace consists of over 10,000 independent experts who offer one-on-one telephone consulting by the minute. And it’s not just for full-time, self-employed consultants. Many experts in the marketplace

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Everywhere you look online, you see reviews and recommendations for web hosting companies. But do you ever wonder which web hosting services the top online marketers use to host their own sites? After all, these folks depend on their websites. They need to be fast and reliable. If their sites aren’t loading quickly, they’re losing visitors and sales. And if they aren’t selling, they’re not eating. I put together an alphabetical list of the top 75 online marketing experts you should follow — and where each of them hosts their site: Harsh Agrawal (ShoutMeLoud) — Hosted by Kinsta Online marketing and WordPress. John Paul Aguiar

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