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My Family Life Is Suffering Because Of My Business. Now What?

My Family Life Is Suffering Because Of My Business. Now What? A Discussion With Ryan Hanley.

By Podcast, With Guests

Ryan Hanley is no stranger to the Web.Search.Social Podcast and for good reason: whenever he’s on we walk away inspired and ready to take action.

As the host of the Content Warfare podcast and author of our new favorite business book by the same name, Ryan makes every conversation a fluff-free zone. He is also notorious for his love of tangents which may be why we started out thinking we were going to talk about content marketing but ended up talking about balancing entrepreneurship and family.

Success for Ryan is simple math. It’s 90% showing up, 9% doing the work and 1% talent. It’s worth repeating: you have to want to succeed.

If you’ve ever struggled to get things done, spend time with your family and still have time to sleep, this is the perfect episode.

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Better Sex Makes For Better Business

Better Sex Makes For Better Business

By Podcast, With Guests

Fair warning folks, this is our first official and very NOT Safe For Work episode. First there’s the subject matter: sex and the marketing of it. Then there are the F-words sprinkled liberally throughout so if you feel weird and uncomfortable about this stuff, you may want to skip ahead to episode 100.

But I hope you don’t because as weird and uncomfortable as the whole thing sounds there are some really great takeaways about entrepreneurship, creativity, doing what you love and being fearless about it. Plus it was just loads of fun.

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Embrace Your Messy Space: Your Creativity Depends On It

Embrace Your Messy Space: Your Creativity Depends On It

By Marketing Insights & Strategy, Podcast, Readings

Do you sometimes sit and stare at the blank page of a Word document and wonder what on earth to put on it that might resemble your next blog post? Or look at your Instagram or Pinterest account and wish you could think of something to post that isn’t your cat or the last thing you ate for dinner?

I hope so because otherwise I’m going to feel pretty lonely over here in what-the-hell-happened-to-my-creativity land. But the good news is that something as simple as messing up a few papers on your desk can get your creative juices flowing. Join me in throwing out all those plastic containers and embracing mess… science itself proves that it’s better for creativity and innovation!

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Marriage And Business: A Love Letter

Marriage And Business: A Love Letter

By Podcast, Readings, True Stories

Today is Word Carnival day, that once-monthly event where a bunch of business bloggers get together to write on a theme. This month’s topic: the secret to my success.

Rather than talk about tools or tricks or mindsets or practices, I decided to have a little fun and turn this into a love letter because there really is only one thing I can’t live without: my business partner, husband and love of my life. I hope you know someone like this, too, because you really can’t succeed alone.

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Put Some Fun Into Your Day: Your Business Depends On It

Put Some Fun Into Your Day: Your Business Depends On It

By Podcast, Readings, True Stories

It’s Thanksgiving week here in the U.S. which means if you’re not planning the turkey or cooking the turkey then you’re certainly thinking about eating the turkey – or whatever favorite Thanksgiving treat you eat enough of to put you into a weekend-long food coma.

So rather than give you a lesson in my marketing processes, social media management plans or how I segment email lists (we’ll save those for January after the hangovers have worn off), today I’d like to share a little fun – because when we’re down in the trenches of business and marketing it can be very easy to forget that there is such a thing.

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