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Discover How You Can Use Your Existing Content to Expand Your Audience and Set Your Business up for Growth In this week’s episode of the Crazy Dad Life, I walk through the process I recently went through with wiring a side hustle site up with membership features. You’ll learn… What my mindset was when I [...] The post CDL 049 – Using a Membership Site, and Repurposed Instagram Content, to Build Your Online Business appeared first on Crazy Dad Life.

Why You Need to Share Your Online Journey with Those Around You Last week I talked about digging into the details. I provided 4 reasons you should pay attention to the details when you create and consume content. This week I want to talk about our online journeys. In particular, I want to talk about how [...] The post CDL 048 – 8 Reasons Why Your Story Matters appeared first on Crazy Dad Life.

Do Not Lose Track of the Value of the Details On this week’s podcast, I dig into the importance of details. I share 4 reasons you need to pay attention to details when you create content and 4 reasons when you consume content. As an added bonus, you can download the FREE Blog Detail Checklist [...] The post CDL 047 – Why You Need to Pay Attention to the Details in the Content You Create and the Content You Consume appeared first on Crazy Dad Life.

Strategies to Capitalize on Potential Relationships with Influencers In this week’s episode of the Crazy Dad Life podcast I share 7 ways you can engage with influencers and maybe establish a true relationship going forward. I also share my Michael Jordan story! (yes, he had me shook) 7 Things to Do When an Influencer Hits [...] The post CDL 046 – OMG! What Do You Do When an Influencer Reaches Out to You? appeared first on Crazy Dad Life.

A Behind The Scenes View Into a New Business Venture In this week’s episode I update you on the latest happenings with one of my side hustles. You’ll hear some of the organizational items we are working through, the status of our audience building efforts, and how we have been hosting live events using the [...] The post CDL 045 – An Update on One of My Side Hustles appeared first on Crazy Dad Life.

Make Sure You Still Gain Value When You Can Not Attend a Conference in Person Attending conferences can do wonders for your business and your personal network. But, if you are a busy parent, attending conferences can be costly and sometimes impossible due to schedule conflicts. In the past year I have missed multiple conferences that I wanted [...] The post CDL 044 – Will These Virtual Conference Hacks Change the Way You Approach Live Events? appeared first on Crazy Dad Life.

People always talk about taking your offline expertise and applying it in the online space. But, what if you flipped the script? You can use all of the knowledge and skills you have gained building your online platform and apply it to your day job to become a well-rounded, highly respected, and desired employee. In [...] The post CDL 043 – How to Use Your Online Skills to Rock Your Day Job appeared first on Crazy Dad Life.

Podcasting is easy right? Wrong. I recently celebrated my first year of podcasting on February 24, 2014. Yeah me!! I’ve learned a tremendous amount over that year. Some good things, and some bad. In this week’s episode I recap my year and let you know what to expect in your first year of podcasting. What [...] The post CDL 042 – What to Expect in Your First Year of Podcasting appeared first on Crazy Dad Life.

This Week’s Episode Typically, when I post a new podcast episode I provide enough content that it could be considered a blog post. This week I did it a little different. Earlier today I posted a new blog post called 10 Ways I Suck at Being an Entrepreneur. In this week’s podcast I expand on [...] The post CDL 041 – 10 Ways I Suck at Being an Entrepreneur appeared first on Crazy Dad Life.

The Problem with Sitting Too Much You are most likely sitting while you are reading this. Most people are when they are consuming content online. But, do you know the damage it is doing to your body when done for long periods of time? Unfortunately, sitting is slowly killing you. A recent report from the [...] The post CDL 040 – Sitting is Slowly Killing You appeared first on Crazy Dad Life.

Are You Struggling to Find Time to Read Content When You Find It? Do you constantly come across stories or articles in your newsfeed that you’d love to read, but just don’t have the time? As busy parents, we are constantly pressed for time. You are running around for your kids, scrambling at work, and [...] The post CDL 039 – Bookmarks Are So 1997 – Discover How to Save Content More Effectively appeared first on Crazy Dad Life.

Give Your Product Ideas the Best Chance for Success It is safe to assume you have had a number of product ideas over the course of your life. It could have been a massive product that would change the world or a simple enhancement to an existing product. At some point all of us have thought [...] The post CDL 038 – How to Test Your Product Ideas – and How I Tested Mine appeared first on Crazy Dad Life.

What Social Media Platform Should You Dig Into in the Coming Year? We are all constantly looking for ways to build our audience and drive traffic to our wonderful websites. The question is, where should you drive that traffic from? In this week’s episode I discuss my thinking of how I’m planning on using Pinterest [...] The post CDL 037 – The One Social Media Platform I Plan to Use More Than Ever in 2015 appeared first on Crazy Dad Life.

Organizing Your Goals Can Enable Fantastic Success In this episode, I take the show on the road and talk about goals. While I have only recently become a supporter of establishing goals in life and business, I find the practice of setting milestones and markers along your journey fulfilling and empowering. There are 3 distinct segments [...] The post CDL 036 – Are Your Goals Out of Control? appeared first on Crazy Dad Life.

The list of the most popular baby names of 2014 was just released. Names. Ahhh, how important is the name? What’s in a name? This got me thinking about the process of naming and everything that goes into it. Since I’m always looking at things through a budding entrepreneur’s lens, I couldn’t help but bring this [...] The post CDL 035 – A Guide to Picking the Perfect Website Name appeared first on Crazy Dad Life.

Can you maintain your momentum, or even build steam, during your downtime? You are most likely working long hours at the job only to return home to fulfill your responsibilities as a parent. After the stress of the day job, the non-stop commitments of the kids, and dabbling in your side business, a break can be [...] The post CDL 034 – 3 Ways to Stay Motivated During Downtime appeared first on Crazy Dad Life.

You Need Harmony Whether you are just starting out with a side business or have been working on it for years, this episode provides actionable methods to balance your day job and side job. Trying to excel in your career while also pursuing your passion by building your own business can be problematic to say the least. But, [...] The post CDL 033 – 6 Foolproof Ways to Balance Your Day Job and Side Job appeared first on Crazy Dad Life.

Have you wanted to redesign your website for a long, long time? I have. Do you look at your site and wonder why it looks so terrible? I have. If you were a visitor to your site would you have any clue what your site was all about? I wouldn’t…at least before. This past weekend [...] The post CDL 032 – 8 Benefits of Redesigning Your Website and One Killer Tip to Save Your Sanity appeared first on Crazy Dad Life.

If you are engaged online, you might find yourself feeling a little overwhelmed. I know I do. If you are trying to build a business, stand up a personal website, or just grow your social media engagement, there is no doubt you will ultimately come across one (if not all) of the 7 deadly doubts [...] The post CDL 031 – The 7 Deadly Doubts of Building Online, and How You Will Crush Them appeared first on Crazy Dad Life.

The Twitter Feed Is your Twitter feed a mess? Do you constantly miss important tweets you want to see but they simply scroll by too fast? If you are like me, you probably find Twitter frustrating from time to time. While Twitter can be an amazing resource for interacting with people online and for growing [...] The post CDL 030 – Bring Clarity Back to Your Twitter Feed appeared first on Crazy Dad Life.