Welcome to the Fire, Ready, Aim Network!

March 8, 2010

FireReadyAim.Net is the new home of the members and subscribers of The 4-Hour Guru. All are welcome here. Feel free to poke around. Make yourself at home. If you are interested in getting into action with your business, you have come to the right place. I look forward to getting to know you and seeing [...]

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Fast Company Science on Twitter

October 31, 2009

Fast Company recently published an article on Twitter, Report: Nine Scientifically Proven Ways to Get Retweeted on Twitter. The article presents science on which Twitter updates get re-tweeted more often, and why. Here’s what the data say: Use links in tweets, but use shorter URL shorteners Pleading for re-tweets works Idle conversation doesn’t Use $5 [...]

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Not My Passion = Not My Job

September 29, 2009
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The Magic of RSS

September 4, 2009

I am writing an e-book, and would very much appreciate your input, so that I can answer your questions and make sure that the book meets your needs. The book will cover maximizing the use of RSS feeds to build your audience and your reach. I will do a basic overview, and then go in [...]

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Creating Your Product

August 26, 2009

Creating your first information product can be a challenge, if you don’t have an experienced guide to show you the way. For me, that guide has been Brian McElroy. I have been using Brian’s systems since I first met him and have had great success with them. I can’t recommend him highly enough. I know [...]

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Perfecting Keyword Targeting & On-Page Optimization

August 17, 2009

There are few holy grails in web design and internet marketing, and the perfection of on-page SEO is one of them. In an inspired and exhaustive post to SEOmozBlog, radfish shows us how to create a ” ‘Perfectly’ Optimized Page.”

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Ask and You Will Succeed

July 1, 2009

When I first heard the title of KennethFoster‘s book, Ask and You Will Succeed, I thought it would be something like Jack Canfield’s The Aladdin Factor, where you the reader is encouraged to ask FOR what is desired. I was pleasantly surprised to find that what is being asked is a series of questions to [...]

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Twiche (Twitter Niche) Yourself

May 11, 2009

There are many free web services available to support Twitterers with building a following, too many to list here. A novel service has appeared on the Twitter stage, a personal Twitter concierge that does everything for you, with the important exception of submitting your updates. Twiche Yourself adds niched followers based on keywords that you [...]

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Turbo-Charge Your WordPress Blog

May 3, 2009

I have assembled a list of the very best WordPress plugins, some of which I use on my own blogs (*), and some of which I don’t. Try them out yourself, and see if they work with and improve your blog. Optimizing Your Blog Site Ultimate Google Analytics* Google Analytics is an amazing free web [...]

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Twitterfy Yourself

April 10, 2009

I have been getting some amazing business results with Twitter. This has partly to do with what I’m tweeting about, mostly Beachbody, TurboJam, P90X, Hip Hop Abs, Shakeology, raw food, and social media. It also has a lot to do with how many people are receiving my tweets, about 13,000. I’ve been using Hummingbird to [...]

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