Whether you value your Alexa traffic ranking or not there are definite advantages to having a high AlexRank. Many webmasters and business folk look at the AlexaRank as a reasonable representation of a site’s traffic. If you are selling advertising from your site the more “proof” you can demonstrate of your traffic – and in AlexaRank’s case it is an independent valuation of your traffic, which adds credibility – the more likely advertisers will come knocking at your door willing to give you some of their ad budget.
An AlexaRank Experiment
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This is your chance to list what, in your opinion, are the most important attributes required by an internet entrepreneur…
Please share with the community your thoughts and your top 7 by commenting below and starting the discussion.
These are the words of my original post on this subject, but unfortunately after 100 viewings, nobody has suggested their own 7 best attributes of an entrepreneur. This leads me to believe that the subject is popular, but that people are looking for the definition of the attributes.
It therefore falls to me to help …

At some point we all set some sort of goal. Whether it’s a New Year’s resolution, to quit smoking, or to lose weight we all have expressed to ourselves that we’d like to accomplish something or another. The problem is that promising that you’ll actually do it is often times a lot easier said than done.
For the most part we all have many things we’d like to accomplish at any given time and so we make them goals, but are you really defining these goals as well as you should …

Photo by Majicdolphin“Your career is what you’re paid for, purpose is what you’re made for” – Krish Dhanam
Last week I went to a business seminar with a couple of my business buddies and we heard from some of the most successful minds in the world all in one afternoon.
The above quote stuck out to me for various reasons. It created a clear cut distinction between your career and your purpose. Your purpose being what you were put on this planet to do and your career being what pays the bills.
The …

Last night I was searching Google for information on Getting ‘Fast Traffic’ to a Blog for CircleOneConnect.com. While searching I had a revelation while reading an interview over at Problogger with Darren Rowse. Honestly, it was not what I was searching for, but at the same it was everything I needed to hear.
See, for years I’ve been developing sites and jumping from one strategy to the next looking for the magic bullet that sends thousands of fresh connections my way. I’ve tried everything.
None of it works.
But this isn’t neccessarily about …

“Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.” – Robert H. Schuller
What do you hope to gain from the future?
Wouldn’t it be great to make more money to pay off your expenses – to put a little to the side for a rainy day?
or…
How about working your dream job and being able to live the life that makes your passions erupt?
On the surface these two questions may seems pretty similar. Almost like I’m asking you the same thing, but the difference is that the second questions is emphasizing your …

“The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake – you can’t learn anything from being perfect.” – Adam Osborn

Are you one of the countless people who needs everything to be ‘Just Right’ before you can get started on something? I know I sure used to be. My problem wasn’t lack of motivation or ability. My biggest issue was paralysis by analysis.
When starting Circle One my blog design had to be perfect, my widgets in place, all the cool new plugins activated, my theme had to be SEO (don’t …

I’d like to welcome everyone to “An Entrepreneur’s Advice vol. #0001. Today is the beginning of an ongoing theme you’ll notice around here. Starting today I’ll be sharing daily quotables  from entrepreneurs from the past and the present.
Along with choosing a particular quote to feature each day, I’ll be briefly exploring the interpretations of these powerful little nuggets of information with you.
I find this first quote by E. Joseph Cossman a perfect way to began things so here we go.

“Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes …