November 2010

Quick Sprout has been around for 3.5 years and since that time I have built up a nice little audience of 12,329 RSS subscribers. Considering that I have only published 171 blog posts within that time, I am pretty proud of my accomplishment.

When I first started out my feed count was growing at a rapid pace, but what really started killing off my growth rate was my inability to publish new blog posts on a consistent basis. During my peak I was able to publish 2 blog posts a week, and during slow periods I was only publishing 1 blog post every 2 months.

And after I got back into the groove of publishing a blog post every week, my subscription count still remained flat.

Here is how I increased my subscription growth by 243%: [click to continue…]

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stress

It’s been roughly 10 years since I started my entrepreneurial journey. There were definitely good times as well as times where I felt like ripping my hair out. However, looking back to when I first started, even though I made a ton of mistakes, for some reason they always led me into the right direction.

Now, you could say that it’s because I am persistent, but I wouldn’t agree to that being the reason. Scrappiness is another quality that people believe I have, but again I don’t think that’s what got me to where I am either.

So how the heck did I get to where I am today? [click to continue…]

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sinking buisness

Meet Roger. Roger is 24, he loves to party and mess around with his friends. That’s why it took him 2 years more than it should have to graduate from design school. Nonetheless, he managed to get a good job at a well-known interactive agency. Roger’s work was so good that not only did his boss love it, but clients would also praise him.

In the following years Roger gained more experience and was continuously improving his design skills. One day he decided that it was time to leave the company he was working for and start his own business.

That’s when the problems started… [click to continue…]

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