
A young man asked an old rich man how he made his money.
The old guy fingered his expensive wool vest and said,
“Well, son, it was 1932. The depth of the Great Depression.
I was down to my last nickel.
MARKETING was the key to my success.
I invested that nickel in an apple.
I spent the entire day polishing [...]
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As I am surveying my blog trying to get the overall picture of where I am at right now and where I’d like to be, one thing becomes clear.
I need to get more traffic.
I’ve been working hard to increase reader engagement on my blog, i.e. researched how my readers interacted with TGC, where the obvious [...]
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Do we really want to have strangers come into our house and point out everything they don’t like about it?
I know I don’t.
However, sometimes it’s the necessary evil to endure on our quest for fame and glory.
Or to make money from our online businesses. Same difference.
We do want to make more money with less traffic, [...]
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You have but a few seconds to convince new visitors to stick around. That's why I use Thesis theme.
Not only does it give me the professional look I want, but is also great for attracting SEO traffic.

Not too long ago, I was checking on my blog stats and realized that, although Traffic Generation Cafe was only about 18 months old and published over 300 posts, my comment numbers were through the roof.
Getting close to 27,000 comments.
You might be thinking right now “Wow, can’t wait to get to those numbers!”.
I understand the [...]
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You don’t want to think about it.
(But you will after reading this post.)
What exactly is in our drinking water?
Think about it.
All our drinking water comes from rivers.
All our sewers lead to rivers.
No wonder they say that by the time a Louisiana resident takes a sip of his/her water, it’s gone through the bodies of 5 [...]
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According to a quick search with Google Keywords Tool, the words “review” and “reviews” are some of the most searched words online.
No surprise there, right?
Naturally, we want to make sure we have at least some idea whether what we are looking to buy is worth our buck before we cough it up.
Last year, I wrote [...]
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How Cheapskates Build a Quality Comment System
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