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Elevating yourself as an entrepreneur puts you in a better position to achieve goals and increase sales. Jake Kelfer joins us to share how we can achieve our dream lives. We’ll discuss strategies to stay productive during less productive hours and checking off your priorities.

About Our Guest

Jake Kelfer is lifestyle entrepreneur, business coach, and life elevator dedicated to helping people create transformational experiences and achieve their true potential through connection. He is a 2x bestselling author of Elevate Beyond and Elevate Your Network, a high-energy motivational speaker, and the founder of the Professional Basketball Combine which has helped 70+ NBA draft prospects turn their dreams of playing pro basketball into their reality. He and his work have been featured on Forbes, Sports Illustrated, ESPN, and many other major media outlets. Connect with Jake on social @jakekelfer!

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Backlinks are the foundation for any successful SEO strategy. Backlinks act as votes of approval. When other websites link back to yours, Google starts to think more favorably towards your website. 

Backlinks only produce higher SEO rankings if they are relevant. When SEO was the Wild West, people would buy hundreds of low-quality backlinks. These purchases artificially inflated their rankings, but Google caught on to these shenanigans. This era is far past us, but some mistakenly believe backlinks are no longer important.

You need backlinks to move up in the algorithm. These strategies will help you get more of them.

1. Write Guest Posts

Some blog owners rely on guest posts to continue providing content to their audiences. Instead of writing the content themselves, they lean towards outside contributors to fill in the gaps.

Guest blogging puts you in front of new audiences. More people will hear about your work. Some of these people will inquire about your services.

Each blog owner has different rules surrounding guest posts. Some guest post rules let you link throughout the article. You can link to relevant articles on your site to draw visitors to your content. 

While rules vary, every blog owner gives contributors a byline. You can use this byline to link to your opt-in or services page. You’ll secure a backlink in the process.

The cool part about guest posts is that you can repurpose the content. You can turn guest posts into podcast episodes and YouTube videos. 

Why stop with a single piece of content when you can incorporate several formats? You’ll reach a larger audience and increase your income potential.

2. Appear on Podcasts

Appearing on podcasts helps you establish credibility. Podcast guests get to talk about themselves and their core topic for an entire conversation. 

It’s important to remember that podcasting is a conversation. Podcast hosts like to engage in a talk instead of hearing your monologue. Make your answers short and to the point. Quick answers allow podcast hosts to ask more questions and further highlight your expertise.

Almost every podcast has a show notes section. In this section, a podcast host includes links mentioned in the episode. Podcast hosts will link to this section of your website. You can also provide a call to action, such as scheduling an appointment or subscribing to your opt-in. These calls to action provide direction and can turn listeners into clients.

3. The Value Backlink

You may read a blog post and feel like something’s missing. Backlinks provide value to readers by expanding the content. Some bloggers do not include many backlinks. It takes extra time to find useful internal and external links.

I’ve received many emails from bloggers about including their links in one of my blog posts. The idea is that if I include their link, it increases the overall value of the blog post. This sounds like a great idea, but naturally, people overused this tactic and sent generic emails.

Here’s the secret about these types of emails. I can tell if someone actually read my blog post or listened to episodes. People will say, “Great job with [insert name of latest podcast episode or blog post]” and think that’s enough to fool me. It’s easier to do it this way. 

The harder approach is to give something extra. You want the blogger to link to your content. Quality content is your only shot at getting the backlinks. You can make your pitch stand out by providing a suggestion for an internal link.

Review the blogger’s previous blog posts and give them an internal linking opportunity. Find an older post on the blogger’s site and explain how it would make a great internal link. Some bloggers crave this information. They want to add more internal links to their content. 

You’ve got a better chance if you give them a viable internal link while presenting your external link. This strategy revolves around sending many cold emails. It’s a numbers game.

You can also provide value by fixing a broken link. Find broken links on other people’s websites and offer your link as the solution. It’s a quick fix to a problem that hurts the user experience.

4. Reach Out to Roundup Post Creators

Roundup posts assemble various experts and ask a few questions. Some roundup posts cover top blogging tools, while others cover marketing tips. Look up roundup blog posts in your niche and reach out to the authors. 

If you want roundup posts around investing, just search “investing roundup post” in Google. Some authors write multiple roundup posts. These posts take more work, but you’ve got a bunch of people eager to share them. People are more likely to share content that features them.

Roundup post creators understand this perk and write more roundups. You can pitch yourself as an expert source for future roundup articles and get backlinks in the process.

5. Use HARO

The major theme with backlinks is that people need help. You provide the solution while getting an extra backlink. HARO fits this rule. 

Journalists need sources for their stories. They turn to sites like HARO to get sources. You can pitch to several journalists each day. Some stories provide significant exposure for your brand. However, they all give you a backlink. 

Journalists have tight deadlines. Only look at a HARO email if you can respond to pitches right away. If you wait a few hours, the journalist may already have a viable source for their story.

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These backlink strategies help you increase your SEO ranking. Your business will appear higher in search results and get more leads. 

Some business owners don’t have enough time to produce content for their brands. Get in touch today if you want someone else to create optimized, results-oriented content for your brand.

How can you start a million dollar company? It’s always fascinating to learn about these stories. Side hustlers can use these strategies to scale their operations and get closer to their income goals. GreenPal solves a significant problem in the marketplace. Bryan saw this and scaled it into a colossal business. We’ll talk about how he did it in this episode.

About Our Guest

Bryan Clayton is CEO and cofounder of GreenPal an online marketplace that connects homeowners with Local lawn care professionals. GreenPal has been called the “Uber for lawn care” by Entrepreneur magazine and has over 200,000 active users completing thousands of transactions per day.

Before starting GreenPal Bryan Clayton founded Peachtree Inc. one of the largest landscaping companies in the state of Tennessee growing it to over $10 million a year in annual revenue before it was acquired by Lusa holdings in 2013.

Bryan‘s interest and expertise are related to entrepreneurialism, small business growth, marketing and bootstrapping businesses from zero revenue to profitability and exit.

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Affirmations raise your vibration. They put you in a better mental state to achieve your goals. How can you strategically use affirmative power to accomplish your objectives? We’ll share the details in this episode.

About Our Guest

Michele Blood created positive Affirmation Songs after a near fatal car accident. These songs helped heal her body and took her to worldwide success. These Affirmation songs affect the left and right hemispheres of the brain. Lyrics, the left hemisphere, and melody and music, the right hemisphere so the new, positive messages go straight to the subconscious mind.

Millions of people worldwide have downloaded her Affirmation Power songs. These songs cover healing, success, money, joy, confidence and they uplift listeners immediately. Her Mystical Success Events have been held in over 26 countries. Michele has co-written and created over 80 books, music CDs, audio programs, TV shows, and videos on positive thought, mind transformation, and meditation.

She also produced the new intro we’ll be playing for Breakthrough Success. We hope you enjoy it.

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Michele’s website

My Divine Success — special deal for Breakthrough Success listeners

As an 11-year-old, Eva La Cúz dreamed of being a fashion designer and she sat drawing sketches in a notebook in her home in Puerto Rico. Little did she know that in 2017, at age 57, after facing hurdles as a cancer survivor, a single mother of four and acclimating to life in the United States, her fashion line for little girls would make its debut on the runway at the New York Fashion Week, right beside dresses made by more established clothing designers.

Eva La Cúz runs the Minnesota company that bears her name with her daughter, Jennifer Ladd, with the same attention to detail that her grandmother, Paula, and mother Bertha, relied on their hand-stitched clothes. The clothing line featuring special occasion dresses for newborns through eight-year-olds is handcrafted in the U.S. and the designs are named after family members. What started out as the only way to clothe their children, has morphed into a family-owned business that provides specialty and custom dresses for families all over the world.

Here are the key links from the episode:

Eva’s website

Connect with Eva on social media — Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Pinterest

Dave Combs is a songwriter and photographer with four decades of experience writing over 120 songs and creating fourteen albums of soothing, relaxing instrumental piano music. His songwriting began with the now popular standard, Rachel’s Song. His soothing, relaxing music has been played millions of times worldwide on radio, satellite, and all internet streaming media.

Here are the key links from the episode:

Get Dave’s book — Touched by the Music

Dave’s site — Combs Music