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What Does Your Business Stand For? A Guide to Creating Your Own Manifesto

What is it that you really stand for? What are your biggest values that motivate your decisions? What differentiates you from other companies and makes you more than just a seller of a product or service? Why are you doing it all? 

Recently, we published the ActiveGrowth Manifesto to declare our answers to these questions.

In today's podcast episode we explain all the reasons behind publishing this manifesto, why you should do the same regardless of the type of business you have, and the action steps on how you can do it.

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7 Highly Effective People Reveal Their Favorite Productivity Hacks

Warning: if you're always feeling highly productive, know your goals and priorities and not even the combination of crying babies, barking dogs and unreliable internet connection could distract you, this episode is not for you. Everyone else, read on. 

Staying produtive all the time is hard, especially is you don't have a boss and coworkers in the same room to hold you accountable. There's just too much distraction.

The Thrive Themes / ActiveGrowth marketing team is fully remote and has no office. Sounds like a dream, doesn't it? Well, not so much when it comes to productivity. When you can work from whichever timezone and location you want, (my most random location was an Uber in Vegas), without any of your co-workers around you, you have to develop some extreme self-discipline and focus to get shit done. 

In today's episode, we all gathered around to share with you how we keep our habits, stay on top of our duties and get quality work done, even when nothing else is stable in our daily lives.

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9 Examples of Irresistible Offers (and How They Could Have Gone Wrong)

Now you know why you need a good offer and how to create different offers for your product or service. (If you're new here, listen to the first episode in the series here

Let's take it a step further and tear some of the most amazing niche offers into pieces. Learn why these offer work, what makes them stand out and how they could've gone wrong, so that all you have to do is apply the same principles to your own offers.

At the end of the podcast, you'll find a bonus update to Shane's Big Picture Productivity Experiment.


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Irresistible Offers: How to Write Amazing Copy (Even if You Hate Copywriting)

You have the product, the target audience, the offer... But the key tool to selling is still missing. The tool is: words

In the previous episode of our Irresisitible Offers podcast series, you learned how to create different offers for the same product and pick the best one.

In the final episode of the Irresistible Offers series, we'll discover how to find those magic works for presenting your offers that will make people take their credit cards out. 

Stay tuned and you'll also find out to how you can win $100 USD!

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Stealing Done Right – When Copying from Other Businesses is a Good Idea

We all know successful, inspiring people we look up to. And sometimes, we want to be just like them. 

What's their secret? Can we be just as successful as they are if we copy what they do? 

Yes and no. 

While following someone's example and getting inspired by their actions may be a good thing, copying them without filtering can hurt your business. Take it too far and your customers will lose trust and find you unethical.

How to follow someone else's example without crossing the line and still remaining ethical, original and authentic? And how to know what ideas are worth stealing - and what's just a waste of time?

In the newest episode of the ActiveGrowth podcast, we're answering these questions. Listen in!

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Content is Not King

Fiddy says Content ain't King

I have read so many posts on the subject of “Content is King” lately, that I feel I need to chime in on this. Now, don’t worry, RQR will never turn into a “blogging about blogging” blog. Stuff like this will remain the exception and I’ll usually leave it to the blogging-bloggers.

For today, though, I want to shed some much-needed light on the “Content is King” theme. And yes, I’ll also explain why the hell I have a picture of 50 cent up there.

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