12 Essential Tools for Your Startup Business
Updated April 2, 2020. While much of the content remains mostly the same, most of the tool recommendations have changed. When I first wrote this, I’d just begun my online business journey. Now I’ve been in the world of online entrepreneurship for almost 7 years. If you’re like me, you didn’t go to business school. […]
How I Grew CigarScore from Scratch to Profit in 45 Days
Speed. Building a business is all about speed of implementation and speed of delivery. Whenever you have a solid idea for a new business or product, the key to success is how fast you can deliver. Want to listen? There’s an audio version below In the fall of 2018, my wife, Ashley, and I were […]
5 Ways to Track, Analyze, and Prioritize Your Ideas
I bet you’ve got some really good ideas for your business. I’d even bet that many of them are great ideas! So, with so many, how do prioritize your ideas and know which ones to pursue, which ones to save for later, and which ideas deserve to be taken out back behind the shed and […]
5 Reasons You Need a Website
Do you have a website for your business? Why? Why not? Your website, if designed properly, can be one of the most powerful tools you could have in your business. Want to listen? There’s an audio version below The greatest invention of our time, possibly in the last 100 years, is the internet. It’s everywhere […]
Email Automation Basics [VIDEO]
Email marketing is one of the best ways to build and grow your business and make more sales. Also, sending emails is another way you can create a good customer experience and provide amazing customer service. But all of that means nothing if you don’t have an email automation. In this video, we’ll talk about […]
How to Build an Email List
If you don’t have an email list for your business, you’ve got a huge gap in your efforts to build a community, update your customers, and generate revenue. But if an email list is so important, how do you build one? Want to listen? There’s an audio version below In a recent post called 3 […]
3 Reasons to Email Your List
In the world of online marketing, we talk about email lists all the time. But if you’re not an online business, or if most of your revenue comes from offline sources, you might be wondering why you should email the people who’ve given you their email address. Want to listen? There’s an audio version below […]
My Small Business Tech Stack
The hardware and software you choose to power your business tech stack are a big deal. Choose right, and you’re set up for future growth and expansion and scalability. Choose wrong, and, at best, you’re out a bit of money and a few weeks of time and energy. At worst, you’re out thousands of dollars, […]
How $2,081.39 in Software Allows Me to Run My Business From Anywhere
It wasn’t all that long ago when I got a call from one of my mastermind clients urging me to make some upgrades to my landing page software. Back then, the thought of spending $97 on a WordPress plugin was ludicrous.Want to listen? There’s an audio version below Now, nearly four years later, my business is […]
The Entrepreneur’s Dictionary of Terms
Have you heard a term or a phrase mentioned on a podcast or during a conference and wondered what it meant? The purpose of this page is to keep a running list of popular terms you might come across while on your journey of entrepreneurship and online business. Want to listen? There’s an audio version […]
I’m Sorry. Plus, I Return with the Tools I Used to Build My Business [EWS13]
I made a mistake. I let my community, and specifically my podcast listeners, down. I need to apologize for letting you down, for not fulfilling my promise to do everything possible to help you live a life of passion, for not equipping you to build your business, and for not empowering you to leave a […]
How to Get Better Results with Your Email Marketing Campaigns
Writing a successful email campaign, one with emails that get opened and clicked (ie results), ones that convert prospects into buyers and which communicate effectively and clearly, is an art. It can take a lot of time and effort to write emails that get engagement. Just because you can write an email doesn’t mean you […]
How to Combine Online Strategies with Your Brick and Mortar Business to Increase Sales and Boost Revenue
The business world is divided. Online businesses are considered, by some, to not be real businesses. Brick and mortar businesses, though they have may have more direct access to their customers, are loosing the revenue war to their more easily-accessed online counterparts. For a while now, I’ve suspected that physical businesses, if they could implement […]
Self-Created Prisons, Comfortably Uncomfortable, and Sales Funnel Snapchat [EWS3]
Today on the Ellory Wells Show, we start with a clip about the future from a movie way in the past. We’ll talk about how to take control of the situation and change the world. Plus, we’ll talk about the dangers of being comfortably uncomfortable, and how to create a sales funnel that converts. In this […]
2015: The Year in Review
This will be the third year I’ve done a community survey and the second year I’ve recorded a video while going through the survey results. I really enjoy a look back over the prior eleven and a half months. Want to listen? There’s an audio version below We all should pause, often, to examine not only […]
