Quick Sprout

Have you ever read a story on TechCrunch that talked about how some angel investor made a few million bucks investing in a hot startup like Dropbox or Airbnb? And when you read all of these stories, what does it make you want to do?

Invest, right?

I got into investing years ago because I thought it was sexy and all of the cool kids were doing it. When I first started I lost a lot of money, but eventually I figured out how to make money.

Before you start throwing your cash around, here are a few things you should keep in mind:  [click to continue...]

Do you know what you need if you want to make over $100,000 a year? It doesn’t matter if you are an entrepreneur or a 9 to 5 worker… if you want to climb up the corporate ladder there are 2 things you need to embrace.

Do you know what they are?

No they aren’t ambition or how smart you are. And luck has nothing to do with it.

It’s actually communication skills and how hard you work.

Lets break each of them down…  [click to continue...]

If you’re an entrepreneur long enough, you’ll eventually get burned out. Over the last 10 plus years of being one, I’ve gotten burned out once. It was when I was 21 years old and I lost a million dollars of borrowed money.

I was working a lot of hours, I wasn’t enjoying what I was doing, and I was losing a bit too much cash. Many people felt sorry for me, as I was a burned out 21 year old who was a million bucks in debt, but I feel lucky that I got to experience that.

Why? Because it taught me what I needed in my personal life and in business to avoid burnout while working 24/7. For the last seven years I’ve been able to work 70 hours a week without a vacation… yet I don’t get burned out.

So what’s my secret? Here’s how to avoid burnout while working 70 hours a week:  [click to continue...]

You already know about A/B testing, but have you ever run an A/B test? Sadly, the chances are, you haven’t. Although conversion optimization has been around for years, it didn’t start getting popular until the last few years.

Why?

It’s because people are talking about the results they’re experiencing from conversion optimization. But before you go out there and start running A/B tests, in hopes to get the same results for your business, there are a few things you need to know.

Here are 7 A/B testing blunders you need to avoid:  [click to continue...]

You already know that content marketing is the new SEO, but how do you do it? There are a lot of guides on the Internet that talk about it, but no one breaks it down from A to Z.

Due to this, I decide to write The Advanced Guide to Content Marketing along with the help of our Crazy Egg blog editor, Kathryn Aragon.

Here’s what is covered in this 40,000 word guide:  [click to continue...]