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How Do You Come Up With Great Ideas

Reverse engineer them.

Look at your competitors: what are they doing well, what are they failing at? Pick ideas from that. Then look at sites that are doing great at content in general, see what they are doing well, and try some of that.

Don't be a genius, just get results.

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Blogging His Way To $9M in Cash - Ramon Van Meer ·

My First Million

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  1. How Did Ramon van Meer Make His First Million DollarsRamon started a news blog about soap operas. He used Facebook Groups to drive traffic to the blog, making revenue off advertising.
  2. What Is Perhaps One of the Most Unusual Ways to Pick a Business IdeaRamon knew how to drive Facebook traffic to a page, and he knew that traffic could be converted into money. So what did he do?
  3. How Do I Find the Right Business Idea to Work onLaunch and iterate fast. Don't waste time coding, or picking the right logo.
  4. How Do You Write About a Topic You Know Nothing AboutYou hire someone who does! Ramon went to oDesk and hired a freelancer who knew exactly how to write his type of content.
  5. How Do You Pick the Right Content When Building a Media CompanyTry everything and see what yields most engagement with your target audience.
  6. What Can Web Entrepreneurs Learn From Real Estate BusinessesMuch like real estate agents compare similar properties to determine the value of a house, startup founders can look at similar web properties to figure out…
  7. How Do You Sell a Content BusinessUsually you can sell a content business for a multiple of your revenue, depending on your broker and your market.

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