Yakezie Challenge Carnival

by CJ Bowker on March 7, 2010

Yakezie Challenge

Welcome to the 2nd edition of the Yakezie Challenge Carnival.

The Yakezie Challenge all started with The Samurai – Creating Powerful Friends: Samurai’s Alexa Ranking Challenge.  The Yakezie continued to evolve with the official Yakezie Alexa Rankings, the official Yakezie Twitter List and the official Yakezie Badge.

Last week marked the first official Yakezie Challenge Carnival hosted by Deliver Away Debt.  Next week’s host will be Daniel at Sweating The Big Stuff.

I’ve broken the carnival up by each blog’s goals and listed the blogger farthest from their goal first.  I’ve done my best to include their most recent posts (excluding roundups and reviews).  Enjoy!

The 200,000 Club

The 100,000 Club

The 50,000 Club

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What do you do?

by CJ Bowker on March 1, 2010

Open for Business

Seems like an easy enough question doesn’t it?

How do you answer that?  You might have a few different ways depending on who you are talking to.  Some people have their networking answer.  Usually referred to as an ‘elevator speech’ we all have our short answer for when you are asked at a networking event.

For me, I tell people I help business owners find, keep and enjoy their money.

That is what I do for the people I have a business relationship with but it isn’t the core of my business.  What is your business at it’s core.

Mine is attracting, servicing and developing loyal clients.

Think about that for a second.  It says nothing about how or what I really do but without those three things I have no business, no matter what my business is.

Chances are we’re more alike than you think.

A lot of small business owners focus too much on the features and benefits of their products and/or services that they provide.  When in fact their business is based on the clients.  The business is dependent on attracting, servicing and developing loyal clients more than it will ever be on the product and/or services they offer.

When you get the size of Walmart you might not have to worry about your clients as much.  Then again even they have some brand loyalty.

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Empathy is all I wanted

22 February 2010
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I went to Not Your Average Joe’s on Route 9 in Westborough the other night. If you’ve never been I definitely recommend the place if not for their bread alone.  They have some of the best bread I’ve ever had at any restaurant.  The funny thing is the bread by itself isn’t that good, [...]

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Wonder Wheel it!

19 February 2010

I guess that doesn’t work as well as “Google it.”
I was reading, Duct Tape Marketing’s 3 Ways to Use the Google Wonder Wheel for Visiual SEO.
I had never heard of wonder wheel for Google so I went to check it out.
Here’s my wheel. What does yours look like?
What do you think this says about [...]

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Verizon Phone Adventure

8 February 2010
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My current Treo is too old, it’s mostly the battery.  I’ve been struggling with getting a new phone ever since the iPhone came out.  My struggle is it’s the best phone and I’ve been waiting for it to come to Verizon.  I’m still waiting but I’m really sick of waiting.  I like the Palm Pre [...]

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A Little Extra

6 February 2010
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I was reading Life Insurance Breakpoints and I thought I would share a story with you.
The other day I got great news back on an insurance policy that I submitted on a husband.  He came back the best underwriting class possible.  Wasn’t that great?  Well when I submitted the application, price was a deciding factor [...]

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Your Circles

31 January 2010
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I play basketball every Thursday night and Sunday morning.  This past Thursday night I heard that one of the guys, probably the most dominant guys there, won’t be playing on Thursday nights anymore.  My initial reaction was, that makes sense.  This morning he was there and I found out he is playing in a couple [...]

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Uneducated vs Miseducated

30 January 2010
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What do you think is worse?
Too many things go on in our lives.  You can’t know everything.  Can you accept that?  Can you admit that you are uneducated in regards to a certain area of your life?  Because you are.  The worst part might be that you don’t know you are.
Who do you turn to? [...]

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A different dofollow plugin

26 January 2010
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I haven’t written too much about the way I set up or designed my website.  I’m thinking I’ll just give you some pieces as I go.  As I come across things that can be useful to other bloggers and my readers, I’ll share them with you.
I’m trying something new.
I was reading DoFollow, Keyword Luv & [...]

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I’m Only Human

24 January 2010
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Guess what? Apparently I’m human. I made two big mistakes that I want to fix.  I’ve been putting off the fix and I know I need to do it so I’m going to stop procrastinating.  Before I tell you what they are, isn’t it amazing how easy it is to be responsive and [...]

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