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This is a no-nonsense show where your host Syed Irfan Ajmal will be revealing success secrets as well as massive mistakes of tech entrepreneurs, digital marketers, speakers, writers, creatives and more from all around the globe. This isn't about working 16 hours a day. This isn't about being unproductive or having unhealthy obsessions while ignoring other important parts of your life. This is about keeping it real and balanced while still growing a business venture that you love so that you ...
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Learn how to quantify backlinks in a better manner so that you can better assign and track goals to your outreach (aka offsite SEO) team members. One reason I prefer this system is that it grants much more points to the higher DR links which are critical considering that the DR range of 1-100 is not a linear scale but a logarithmic scale thus earni…
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Guest Post Pitch Tear Down: Avoid These 11 Mistakes Like the Plague [S04E09]
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We've picked up a guest post pitch we received and we provide a teardown highlighting the 11 mistakes of the pitch. ************************************** VIDEO VERSION OF THE EPISODE: https://youtu.be/RM77dUJAbpU ************************************** FIND MORE ABOUT US: ➡️ AGENCY: https://dmr.agency ➡️ BLOG: https://www.syedirfanajmal.com ➡️ TWIT…
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Boomerang Review - Our Favorite Tool of Our Agency for Pitching and Email Management [S04E08]
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USE THE BOOMERANG TOOL: https://www.boomeranggmail.com/referral_download.html?ref=5k36f ************************************** VIDEO VERSION OF THE EPISODE: https://youtu.be/_UUsBKYgmgM ************************************** FIND MORE ABOUT US: AGENCY: https://dmr.agency BLOG: https://www.syedirfanajmal.com TWITTER: https://twitter.com/syedirfanajm…
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Two Methods for Finding No-Follow Links - And why one of them isn't too good #SEOQuestions [S04E07]
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We typically use these 2 methods to find if the links we earned are do-follow or if they are the less desirable links like no-follow, UGC, or sponsored. ➡️ TOOLS MENTIONED: The Strike Out Nofollow Links Chrome Extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/strike-out-nofollow-links/fkolbdohecbecliihaobiiamdmhhnaei ➡️ SITES MENTIONED IN THE PO…
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Amazon affiliate marketing can be easy to set up - especially if you have a blog already. This is a super simple guide for absolute beginners on how to add Amazon affiliate links to your blog. ************************************** FIND VIDEO VERSION OF THIS EPISODE ON OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwnZ5Ssa5eQ FIND MORE ABOUT…
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While earning backlinks for your website, you should take into consideration several factors of the target website in order to boost your website's SEO as opposed to harming it. FACTORS TO BE CONSIDERED INCLUDE: ✅1. DR ✅2. Traffic ✅3. The ratio of incoming and outgoing backlinks ✅4. Quality of content ✅5. Design/branding ✅6. Is there a real person …
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Building backlinks is an old archaic, low-quality, and ineffective method of getting links for your site. As opposed to that earning backlinks is a more complicated but much more beneficial process for boosting your website's SEO authority, getting free traffic, and conquering the SERPs. ❌ Building/Creating Backlinks CROSS ❌ Posting a blog comment …
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Brendon Burchard's High Performance Planner - My 1 Year Experience [S04E02]
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I started to take self-reflection and planning seriously quite late in my life. However, even when I intentionally wanted to get better at both, I was unable to find good resources. I tried a few journals and planners but each has had a myriad of problems. That’s when I stumbled upon Brendon Burchard’s High-Performance Planner. In this episode, I s…
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Lead Scraping With Ahrefs {Operation: Competitor Spying} [S04E01]
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Your online visibility can be boosted at significantly lower costs with SEO. And SEO depends heavily on backlinks. But how do find backlinks? How to ensure that more of your cold email outreach campaigns get positive replies? This is where Operation Competitor Spying comes in. It's simply about checking your competitors via Ahrefs (or similar softw…
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Our Agency's 3-Step Client Onboarding Process [S03E10]
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Only 2 reasons you clicked on this description: 1. You are wondering if our onboarding process can be replicated by your company (go ahead; do it) 2. You are considering to use your agency's services (yayy!) Either way, you will learn a big deal. So tighten your seatbelts and facemasks, as I ain't going to disappoint you! 😀 RELATED RESOURCES: • INF…
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🔗Discussing HARO Outreach, SEO Agency Business, and Backlinks Management with Greg Heilers [S03E09]
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#seoagency #harooutreach #backlinking This is a more interactive episode of the show where your host Syed Irfan Ajmal (that's me speaking about myself in 3rd person) had a fellow SEO agency co-founder Greg Heilers on the show to discuss: how they started HARO outreac their team size and dynamics their pitching process links management (and how the …
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#seobacklinkstutorial #backlinktypes #thirdbucket Types of links that fall in the 3rd bucket of links. These include: 3. (a) Original 3. (b) Duplicate 3. (c) Republished 4. (d) Scraper ************************************** NOTE: LINKS TO OTHER 2 TYPES OF LINK BUCKETS Type 1: https://youtu.be/Z_2FeHjvDXY Type 2: https://youtu.be/ZDq9jZxK0lk *******…
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#seobacklinks #contextualbacklinks #authorbiobacklinks Types of links that fall in the 2nd bucket of links. These include: 2.(a) Contextual 2. (b) Author Bio 2. (c) Image 2. (d) PDF ************************************** NOTE: LINKS TO OTHER 2 TYPES OF LINK BUCKETS Type 1: https://youtu.be/Z_2FeHjvDXY Type 3: https://youtu.be/__UauayC64k **********…
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#seobacklinkstutorial #dofollow #nofollow Types of links that fall in the 1st bucket of links. These include: 1. (a) Do-Follow 1. (b) No Follow 1. (c) Mention Only 1. (d) Sponsored/UGC ************************************** NOTE: LINKS TO OTHER 2 TYPES OF LINK BUCKETS Type 2: https://youtu.be/ZDq9jZxK0lk Type 3: https://youtu.be/__UauayC64k *******…
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#seoprojectmanagement #googlesheetsprojectmanagement #seooutreach If you've been earing backlinks at scale, you got to have a good system for organizing your backlinks. We started using Google Sheets to keep track of our outreach. The Google Sheet you see in the video is used in combination with other tools like Slack, Trello, etc. We also use a po…
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🔅HARO Outreach vs Conventional Outreach for Quality Backlinks [S03E04]
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#backlinking #seo #haro We've used both HARO outreach and Conventional outreach to earn quality links for our own sites and the sites of our clients. In this episode, I share how both differ from each other along with which one may be more ideal for you in a given situation. I also share the pros and cons of both along with some examples of links w…
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🛠 Faisal Khan on Remote Team Management, Getting Inbound Leads, Working Smarter & More [S03E03]
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Faisal Khan is “an independent banking, payments and fintech consultant”. He helps companies all around the globe “solve their complex banking & payments-related issues.” His primary expertise is in “cross-border transfers, payment processing, mobile payments, and licensing/regulatory issues”. I first came to know Faisal via his Quora profile befor…
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👨🔧 Remote Work Productivity - Our Top 7 Tools [S03E02]
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Our agency DMR has been a remote-first company since its inception in 2013. With a team that's spread over multiple cities, countries, and continents, we use the following 7 types of tools to ensure that we maximize efficiency, boost productivity, and ensure seamless communication. OUR TOP 7 TOOLS FOR REMOTE WORK PRODUCTIVITY ➡️ 1. TIME TRACKING • …
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🎯 Fighting the Corona Recession: Our 7-Pronged Business Plan [S03E01]
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The 3rd season of the SIA Business Podcast is here. And currently, we've been quarantined for several weeks while witnessing how COVID-19 is impacting businesses all around the globe. When this video was being published, millions have had applied for social security benefits within the US. Several entrepreneur friends of ours have had reported list…
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⤴️Unleashing Your Inner Sales Warrior With Jason Forrest
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Everything we do requires some kind of sales. Anytime a kid convinces his parents to let him watch his favorite cartoon for another 30 minutes is sales in action. Anytime you persuade a team member to take on a project which she wasn't too excited about initially, is sales. Then there's, of course, the more conventional sales. And I was keen to dis…
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🎯Finding Your Unfair Advantage With Ash Ali & Hasan Kubba [S02E09]
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When things go wrong… We, sometimes, blame OTHERS. At other times, we decide that there is something inherently wrong with us, and hence we will never become successful. But what if I tell you, that each one of us has a unique unfair advantage, leveraging which will make us successful. ACTUALLY, rather than me telling you about it, why don’t we spe…
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〽️Automated Outreach: Why I (Kind of) Changed My Mind About It? #AskIrfan [S02E08]
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I always thought of automated outreach as downright insulting, bad, and useless. I and our team send customized pitches via HARO (Help a reporter out) which I talk in S01E06 and S01E07 of this podcast. And our results speak for themselves: just got cited on HBR (Harvard Business Review)!> Even when we did guest post outreach, we always did our best…
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🆒Standing Out in the Crowd With This Simple Hack I'd Used in Denmark[S02E07]
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🗣Time for a true story from my personal life. It's in 2008. I'm broke, ill, unemployed, and depressed. 🤒 I've just moved from Stockholm to Copenhagen. I am on the verge of being homeless (and NOT for the first time). And I already feel like a loser and a lost cause.Then, I started doing something different to find a job.My roommates and everyone el…
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There is a unique link building strategy that has earned us some excellent results in the past. It’s different than guest posting, guestographic outreach, and broken link building, etc. Colab Building (a term coined by us at SIA Enterprises) means finding companies within your niche or shoulder niches that cater to the same audience as you but that…
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☣️Digital PR Vs SEO: Key Similarities & Differences [S02E05]
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Our boutique agency's biggest skill is earning backlinks at scale, and in turn, getting our clients to 7 figure yearly revenues along with millions of monthly UVs (unique visitors). However, for the last couple of years, we've been working on leveraging Digital PR by learning more about the art of publicity from PR resources & experts. It turns out…
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📰Leveraging Newsjacking for Content Promotion [S02E04]
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Since the Internet started till about 2009, it was much easier for an unknown blogger or a brand to become popular without spending anything (or much) on marketing. 🔝 The primary reason for that was that there were few content producers and too many content consumers. ❗️Todays’ internet, however, is a different world. Today, everyone and their gran…
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🏋️♀️Ron Carucci on Power, Leadership, and Persuasion [S02E03]
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Ron Carucci brings transformational change within organizations by working with their CEOs & other executives. His company Navalent has worked with the likes of CitiBank, Gates Corporation, McDonald's Corporation, Starbucks, Microsoft and others. Last but not least, Ron has authored 8 books (including Rising to Power), apart from being a HBR column…
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🀄️Top 3 Mistakes of My ~6 Year Speaking Career [S02E02]
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I went into speaking without much of a plan or a vision way back in the summer of 2013 when, frankly, I had hit rock bottom after having said farewell to company I was running with multiple co-founders. It turned out that not only did I enjoy speaking, but it was a good way to position myself as an expert and authority which contributed to a decent…
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✴️ Recap of Season 1 + Introduction of Season 2 [S02E01]
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Let's take a look at what we did during Season 1 of this podcast, followed by what you should expect to learn and listen in Season 2 which we are kicking off with the publishing of this very episode! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/syedirfanajmal/message
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Consider This: We've spent several weeks doing HARO Outreach for a client. We've zero results to show. I first assumed this isn't going to work, and I should stop sending any more pitches. But Then I Tried Something Different: First off, I changed my mindset, by letting go of my fears, my ego, and my presumptions. THE POWER OF MINDSET + MASSIVE AC…
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🗣[SOLO Episode]: I started doing something different in 2018. 🚫First off, I realized (by reviewing some data; more on that in another episode) that being busy is NOT always akin to being productive. 🚫 Then, using 2 simple hacks (a bullet journal and a POMODORO app), I was able to: ⚡️minimize distractions ⚡️ maximize focus ⚡️boost my productivity ⚡️…
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PR Expert Melanie Marten Speaks About a $2.3 Million ROI Publicity Stunt & More [S01E08]
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400 media mentions & press clippings in 4 weeks, along with the artwork being bought for $2.3 million. ⚡️Not a bad result for a controversial publicity stunt (or should we call it an art project) right? German 🇩🇪 Public Relations expert and entrepreneur Melanie Marten shares what Die Guillotine (The Guillotine in German) was, what was its main purp…
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Unique Twist to HARO Outreach for Better & Improved Backlinks #AskIrfan [S01E07]
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THE BACKGROUND: Experts like Neil Patel suggest that (most) companies should (for the most part) avoid homepage links as these are not going to increase conversions. This is because the home page isn't usually focused on a single or particular product, service, or keyword. THE PROBLEM: Keeping this in mind, how beneficial is it for you to earn back…
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How to Earn Publicity & Backlinks With HARO? #ASKIrfan [S01E06]
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In this solo #ASKIrfan episode I share:• what HARO is• How we increased our HARO success rate from 0% to 47.06%• the one Chrome extension which will make your HARO campaign 10X betterSHOW NOTES & OTHER DETAILS AT ➔ https://www.syedirfanajmal.com/podcast/publicity-backlinks-haro-s01e06/--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/…
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Top 3 SEO Myths of Today? #ASKIrfan [S01E05]
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In this episode, I answer a commonly asked question, "What are the top SEO myths of today?"IMHO, the top 3 SEO myths of today include: 1. SEO is D.E.A.D.2. SEO is all about writing search engine optimized content. Yep, stuffing your article and its meta description with commercial keywords won't get you ranked (unless, perhaps, if you are working o…
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Elvin Zhang on 6 Figure Exits, Pitching to VCs, & Blockchain Technology [S01E04]
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Elvin Zhang is a Singapore-based polymath and #startupfounder with his interests ranging from Quantum Physics to #Blockchain and #Fintech. He also has won an award for playing a unique Chinese musical instrument. In this episode he speaks about: • Why his family moved him from China to Singapore • Why he spends 70% of his social media time on Faceb…
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Lisa Zahran on Million Dollar Campaigns, Copywriting, & Email Marketing [S01E03]
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From being a biotechnologist in New Zealand to an entrepreneurial and “spiritual” #copywriter in Malaysia, Lisa Zahran has a pretty interesting story. Listen to her speak about:• The first #milliondollar campaign she helped launch at #Mindvalley• Exponential growth through a combination of functional and cross-functional teams• The key ingredients …
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Liam Martin on Productivity, Remote Employee Management, & Fighting the Distraction Economy [S01E02]
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A shocking failure led Liam to ditch his Ph.D., and he then went on to create Staff.com and Time Doctor both of which improve productivity through #timeanalytics & #timetracking. Managing 80 employees #workingremotely from 27 countries, Liam has spent the last 10 years working measuring & improving productivity. Liam talks about:• How productivity …
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Peter Gould on Design Thinking, Branding, and Productivity [S01E01]
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From designing kids apps to games, and from creating a clothing range to multiple online creative platforms to getting an award from the ruler of Dubai, Aussie entrepreneur Peter Gould has done it all. His Islamic Design Thinking company has worked with governments, a Prime Minister, and brands like Etihad Airways, Thomson Reuters, and more. In thi…
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