Month: April 2021

Side Hustle Spark 250: Content Marketing Course (Free)

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This is a two hour course on YouTube provided by Simplilearn.

Show notes include the following information:

Below are the links to each of the topics.

00:00:00​ What is content marketing

00:14​ 13 Content marketing tutorial

00:19:19​ Content marketing strategies

00:52:16​ Content Marketing And SEO

00:59:09​ How to rank # on Google

01:16:55​ How to rank on Youtube

01:32:55​ Beginners Guide To Content Marketing 2020

01:44:20​ Content marketing Interview Q and A

02:02:42​ Introduction to Content Marketing Certification Training

Here also is the link to simplilearn’s free digital marketing course.

Side Hustle Spark 249: High Ticket Affiliate Summit

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May 3-7, 2021

30 high ticket experts, including

  • Ryan Levesque
  • Jordan Harbinger
  • Jason Fladlien
  • Todd Snively
  • Laura Betterly
  • Devon Brown
  • Chris Baden
  • Daven Michaels
  • Derek Doepker
  • Matt McWilliams

Sample topics:

  1. How to add revenue to your book without creating something new
  2. Booking celebrities on your podcast
  3. Why higher prices equals better customers
  4. Creating deal structures that make you 10x more money
  5. The Simple Secrets To Selling Your Products Without Being Salesy  

Here is the link to the free ticket.

Here is the link to the schedule.

There are offers for a $67 Premium Pass and a $97 High Ticket Power Pack.

This is where ‘Hey, a few valuable tips could easily pay for the added cost’ reflex kicks in…

But for now, I just wanted to point you to some potentially helpful stuff.

Forge ahead, side hustlers!

And now, time for my book recommendations…

These seven titles are go-to sources of inspiration and valued experience. These are affiliate links which, if you use to preview and buy the product, won’t raise the product’s price and will earn me a commission. At that point, I’ll be that much closer to buying that unclaimed island in the Caribbean. Please don’t ask for the island’s coordinates. It is mine and you can’t have it. ;->

This list cuts across so many lines of productivity and accomplishment. Whether you use my links or go elsewhere, get your hands on these.

Side Hustle Spark 248: One-topic Series, Content-Locked Post and other blogging ideas

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Bloggingwizard.com shares this lengthy infographic of 60 Blog Post Ideas For Entrepreneurs, Marketers, And Businesses.

*DO* scroll below the image as Elna Cain comments and includes relevant examples for each suggestion. She also encourages visitors to save and reuse this helpful graphic.

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Question: So, SideHustleCurator, you’ve already offered other lists of blog post ideas. Why repeat this topic?

Answer: Every resource resonates differently with each visitor. Each list includes at the very least a few notions unique from the others. Each of these posts most likely shows up on varying results pages.

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I hope this helps!

Forge ahead!

 

Side Hustle Spark 247: Rules for Success– Power words to convert–Start from zero

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A few more of our more popular posts…

Start from Zero
Topics from this Side Hustle Nation-related post:
— How to Make $1,000 in 24 Hours
— The Two Metrics to Pick a Niche

Evan Carmichael: Curator Extraordinaire
Highlighted topic: 10 Top Rules for Success

700 Power Words to Boost Conversions
A deep dive into humans’ basic weaknesses…
Greed words, curiosity words, sloth words, vanity words…and more!

The author, T. Haag, is now 240+ sidehustlecurator posts into this little hunt-and-share project. As he works on his own stuff, he likes learning:

— what others are doing to create additional income for themselves

— side hustlers’ successful strategies

— solo entrepreneurs’ favorite tools

Hoping that you find something useful among these posts.

Side Hustle Spark #246: Practice makes you less sucky (Free chart from Austin Kleon)

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Austin Kleon, one of my favorite authors and inspiration to keep making stuff, recently issued a challenge to suck less.

His words: “

Something small, every day, adds up to something big over time.

What should you practice? Whatever you want to suck less at.”

Go to his 30-Day ‘Practice and Suck Less’ challenge page and download his PDF. Two copies are printing out as I’m writing this…assuming my printer is on…then again, maybe it’s not printing out because I’m too lazy to get up from my standard morning ergonomically-challenging, splayed-across-the-bed work position…

You might be asking, ‘so what do I practice?’.

  1. Writing copy
  2. Sketching
  3. Brainstorming
  4. Researching online with a five-minute constraint
  5. Speed reading
  6. Scanning/copy/pasting from a web resource into a document you can use
  7. Text-to-speech [Your blog posts/sales copy into audio.]
  8. Audio creation
  9. Video creation
  10. Editing/paring down your copy
  11. Making your creative/side hustle tasks a bit more fun.

Keep your sessions short and snappy.

Go ahead and suck less!

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And now, time for my book recommendations…

These seven titles are go-to sources of inspiration and valued experience. These are affiliate links which, if you use to preview and buy the product, won’t raise the product’s price and will earn me a commission. At that point, I’ll be that much closer to buying that unclaimed island in the Caribbean. Please don’t ask for the island’s coordinates. It is mine and you can’t have it. ;->

This list cuts across so many lines of productivity and accomplishment. Whether you use my links or go elsewhere, get your hands on these.

Side Hustle Spark 245: Seth Godin’s ShipIt Journal (freebie)

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The Shipit Journal–another valuable free resource from Seth Godin.

Get it here.

It’s an easy read. But don’t tell him you just read it.

Quote from the blog post: Here’s the thing: If all you do is read this on the screen, IT WON’T WORK.

This book feels like Seth is either looking over your shoulder or holding up a mirror for you to face yourself (and the book’s questions.)

One of my favorite pages asks three questions in the above word cloud.

Another favorite page:

What does failure look like?
List every outcome or event you’re anxious about
happening.
(Really? That’s it?)
Try again.

Enjoy and forge ahead!

Side Hustle Spark 244: HubSpot’s Free Business and Marketing Resources

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Click the screenshot above for a 90-second preview of some of the 611 items for download from HubSpot.

I downloaded free ebook templates and, as the video shows, a digital advertising workbook.

Other resources that caught my interest:

  • How Topic Clusters Generate Search Engine Interest
  • How to Build a Brand ebook
  • Content Marketing Workbook

Note: Some items are provided by business partners, so those will require a separate sign-up.

The author, T. Haag, is now 240+ sidehustlecurator posts into this little hunt-and-share project. As he works on his own stuff, he likes learning:

— what others are doing to create additional income for themselves

— side hustlers’ successful strategies

— solo entrepreneurs’ favorite tools

Hoping that you find something useful among these posts.

Side Hustle Spark 243: Blog Topic Generator from webfx.com

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CLICK THE SCREENSHOT ABOVE FOR A 2-MINUTE DEMO
OF WEBFX.COM’S TOPIC GENERATOR

I know there are other blog topic generators out there, but I really preferred this one over the others.

It didn’t limit me to a single week’s worth of possible titles and it was seamless in its delivery.

The ‘Google This Idea’ button is another plus.

And think of it…you don’t have to limit yourself to your side hustle topics.

Use it to come up with new product and service ideas.

If you dabble in fiction, why not enter ‘Big Bad Wolf’ and see what ideas emerge?

Side Hustle Spark 242: What you/your boss needs YOU to know about copywriting

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CLICK THE SCREENSHOT FOR A 45-SECOND TOUR

Bravo to writer Gabe Arnold for generating this helpful resource for side hustlers who are working on their own copywriting skills–whether emails, blogs, or other promotional content.

Some other titles not shown in the video:

10 Quick Tips To Improve Your Copywriting Skills

Do You Know What’s Right? 10 Wrong Answers to Common Copywriting Questions

Five Laws Widely Accepted in the Copywriting Industry

Side Hustle Spark 241: This Is Marketing (Seth Godin)

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Click the above word cloud for an excerpt to:
Seth Godin’s This Is Marketing: You Can’t Be Seen Until You Learn to See

Along with the notions in the word cloud, three favorite points:

“Marketing doesn’t have to be selfish.”

“It’s easier to make products and services for the customers you seek to serve than it is to find customers for your products and services.”

This excerpt closes with: “Time to stop looking for shortcuts, and time to start insisting on a long, viable path instead.”

For a number of other related resources, click:

To Seth’s blog.

For a subject-by-subject look at sidehustlecurator,
check out my Posts Organized by Topic page.

Forge ahead, side hustlers!