Author: Ask Carlo
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Get rich selling picks and shovels
Last year, I was listening to a business podcast. (I don’t listen to a lot of podcasts because everyone pulls you in different directions.) I only have about three business teachers who I follow religiously and then I also may consume material they recommend. I recommend the same for you, or you’ll get your arms…
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Mistake #2: doing something no one else was doing
Some people start a business because they want to “create” something. They fancy themselves as inventors or even artists. For example, think of those TV shows where people invent crazy contraptions and pitch them to a panel of investors, who usually tell them how worthless their product really is. This is one of the worst…
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Mistake #1: mistaking a website for a business
Let’s talk about 5 of the biggest mistakes I made in my first 4 years of online marketing. The first was mistaking a website for a business. I still see this mistake being made by beginners everywhere. These days, I often have people come to me and ask me to “teach them how to make…
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Internet marketing: career or cop out?
There are two kinds of people who enter the internet marketing industry. The first kind is someone who sees internet marketing as a cop out. A way to make money with little work. They want to quit their job, buy a beachside mansion and live a life of leisure while their business makes them money…
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5 mistakes I made in my first 4 years online
I first became interested in making a living online in January 2011, at the age of 14. Now it’s the end of December 2015, which means I’ve been online 5 years. Did I make some good decisions in those 5 years? Yes. But for every one good decision I made, I would have made about…
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Use the ‘N’ Method to Build Links
This is an excerpt from my ebook, How to Crash People’s Parties. Read the rest of this chapter in the full edition of How to Crash People’s Parties.