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    Why Your Vi­sion Fails My vi­sions failed me. I first read that I must have a big vi­sion for my life or busi­ness in 1987. Guru af­ter guru […]

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    The Es­sen­tial But Rarely Talked About Se­cret To Suc­cess These guys made my day while I was hav­ing a late break­fast at Star­bucks ear­lier to­day. They’re flip-flop­ping their […]

  • How To Write A New Blog Post Every Day

    How To Write A New Blog Post Every Day 7 days. 7 posts. Wow, it’s been a full week now at the new RalfSkirr.com. And, look­ing at my […]

  • Return to accountable marketing.

    Re­turn To Ac­count­able Mar­ket­ing Two days ago I is­sued a death-cer­ti­fi­­cate for SEO. Yes­ter­day I killed a uni­corn and pro­nounced so­cial me­dia mar­ket­ing dead. Why? What’s wrong with […]

  • The Death Of Social Media Marketing (Unicorns and rainbows image)

    So­cial Me­dia Mar­ket­ing Is Dead, Too. One of my Face­book friends has been post­ing sev­eral up­dates a day to her Face­book busi­ness page for more than 2 years. […]

  • Death of SEO

    SEO Is Dead. Re­ally, Now. For the av­er­age small busi­ness SEO isn’t a vi­able mar­ket­ing op­tion any­more. It has been one of the cheap­est ways to bring leads […]

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    Don’t Shoot Your Clients A tar­get is “a per­son, ob­ject, or place se­lected as the aim of an at­tack.” Tar­gets were first used in archery, be­fore they be­came […]

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    How To Out­live Every­one Look­ing at your biz 26 years from now – which of the boats above will be yours? 26 years ago I started my en­tre­pre­neur­ial […]

  • why-lifestyle-entrepreneurs-fail

    Why Lifestyle En­tre­pre­neurs Fail Hun­dreds of thou­sands of peo­ple buy prod­ucts how to build their lifestyle busi­ness, how to work from home, or how to live the lap­top […]

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    Re-In­­ven­t­ing Your­self, Re-In­­ven­t­ing Your Busi­ness Tadaaa! Wel­come to the new RalfSkirr.com. I’ve re­placed the old sta­tic site with a new Word­Press based site. And added a new Blog. […]

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    Guest Blog Fail - The Most Ridicu­lous Guest Post Of­fer You’ve Seen This Year! Since Matt Cutt’s re­cent re­marks, we’re all a bit more self-con­s­cious about guest blog­ging, […]

  • Tony Robbins Quote

    De­ci­sion Is The Ul­ti­mate Power De­ci­sion is the ul­ti­mate power. When we read quotes like this one from Tony Rob­bins, we usu­ally think about the big, life-chang­ing de­ci­sions. […]

  • Cover image for Triberr Group on Facebook

    Lead­ers of Triberr - Brand New Face­book Group for Triberr Mem­bers and Chiefs I’ve cre­ated a new Face­book group „Lead­ers of Triberr” for Triberr mem­bers and tribe lead­ers. […]

  • Klout Offers FREE Social Media Sharing Tool– What’s In It For Klout?

    Klout Of­fers FREE So­cial Me­dia Shar­ing Tool– What’s In It For Klout? Just a few days ago Klout rev­o­lu­tion­ized its pub­lic fac­ing ser­vice. It’s a gi­gan­tic shift; Klout […]

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    Call­ing Out A Fluffer De­f­i­n­i­tion of Fluffer: A writer who in­creases word count by adding le­gions of mean­ing­less or re­dun­dant words . They also em­ploy the tech­nique of […]

  • Futuristic woman looking at The-Age-of-Context book cover.

    The Fu­ture Of Busi­ness And Mar­ket­ing My book re­view of Age of Con­text, by Robert Scoble and Shel Is­rael. In 1973, when I was a kid, our black-and-white […]

  • Title illustration for post 'monster list of social media tools'

    The #SMSS Mon­ster List Of So­cial Me­dia Tools & Ser­vices 44 so­cial me­dia ex­perts pre­sented 33 ses­sions at So­cial Me­dia Suc­cess Sum­mit and high­lighted their fa­vorite so­cial me­dia […]

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    An­other Blow For SEOs Break­ing SEO news. If you’ve fol­lowed my blog, you know I’m on a mis­sion to con­vince you NOT to build your busi­ness on traf­fic […]

  • Science-of-marketing-book-cover

    The Sci­ence Of Mar­ket­ing by Dan Zarrella Hey, it’s time for my first book re­view on RalfSkirr.com! The Sci­ence of Mar­ket­ing by Dan Zarrella is one of my […]

  • Google Plus Circles Tutorial – How To Use Google Plus Circles For Your Business

    Google Plus Cir­cles Tu­to­r­ial – How To Use Cir­cles For Your Busi­ness Up­date Jan­u­ary 2016: This epic ar­ti­cle was first pub­lished in March 2014. I have since given […]