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Before you begin the journey to find a set of keywords that’ll bring in a swarm of traffic, you’ll need to get your hands on a decent keyword research tool. Without a keyword research tool, it will be incredibly difficult to find good keywords to target.

No worries, I’m not going to send you on a wild goose chase, I’ll save you hours of searching and testing out various tools. There’s one keyword tool that’ll provide all the features a person needs to create a successful online business. It’s one of the most comprehensive and powerful research tools on the internet.

What is it called?

The name of this beautiful keyword research tool is Jaxxy. I don’t know about you, but when I see a list of keywords that can be targeted, I think that’s beautiful. You can test out the tool for free. The first 30 search terms are free, then it costs $19 a month for the PRO version and $49 a month for the ENTERPRISE version.

Would you invest in something that has the potential to quadruple the amount of money that your website is generating? I think that’s a smart investment.

So you understand how search engines work and you have the best keyword research tool available. What’s missing? Well, we need to learn how to use the tool in order to discover keywords to implement into our website content.

I wrote about the potential results of being on the first page of Google’s search engine results. You may want to check out this page about the only CSS layout you need to do it well. Especially in 1 on 1 marketing, this may be crucial.

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When you’re working in the publishing world, be it old school or for some fancy online publisher, you’ll, unavoidably, be confronted with the world of business whether you like it or not. After all, you’re probably more like a creative type.

It might help, though, to sharpen your business-minded brain a bit and become more successful, not only for your employer but also in your personal life. Well, I had my online business education. Now it’s up to you. So let’s look at some free online options to get ahead.

If you’re interested in taking business classes, or in earning a business degree, check out this post with a lot of useful advice. Start today and get ahead in your business career, also when you’re originally a designer. So go ahead and take business classes or earn a certificate, a Bachelors’s degree, or Masters degree in business.

There is a multitude of online business degree programs with an assortment of specialties and levels of difficulty for you to choose from. You may be the next Donald Trump (though I doubt you really would like to… would you?). You could be the next Sam Walton. Who knows? You’re only limited by how far and wide your dream. Don’t underestimate what you can accomplish.

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So you’ve started your brand new blog huh? Well, here are 7 tactics to increase your influence.

The excitement may not last long. After a few weeks or months, perhaps you’ve begun to experience burnout. Perhaps you like the feeling to be able to post your opinion on the Web, but writing becomes a chore rather than something fun to do on a regular basis.

Well, you may learn a great deal if you check out the following video where Gary Vaynerchuk is talking about how you can produce up to one hundred content pieces per day and start dominating the social media:

Readership may not grow at the rate that you think the blog is worth the effort. Sounds familiar? I guess it is too many of us. It happens to some of my blogs too, many times.

As with any other venture, it takes an effort to succeed. While a blog turns web publishing into a very easy and convenient task, actually writing great content and building readerships — and later relationships — are the real challenges.

When it comes to your design, keep in mind that you need a well-though CSS layout strategy as well but let’s first see how to attract more readers. Below are my own 7 strategies to find, build and grow our blog readership:

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