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Affiliate Marketing

Can You Do Affiliate Marketing Without Social Media?

Affiliate marketing is often presented as a social media game. Scroll through YouTube, Instagram, or TikTok and you’ll see the same message repeated over and over: post daily, build a following, go viral, then monetize. That narrative stops a lot of people before they even begin. Not everyone wants to Read more

By Rodney Graham, 3 weeksFebruary 7, 2026 ago
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Affiliate Marketing

How Long Does Affiliate Marketing Really Take to Work?

One of the first questions people ask when they discover affiliate marketing is also the most uncomfortable one. How long does this actually take to work? Not how long until someone else made money. Not how long until a guru screenshot looks impressive. But how long until a normal person, Read more

By Rodney Graham, 1 monthJanuary 27, 2026 ago
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Email Marketing

Email Automation Secrets: Save Time While Building Stronger Relationships

Email marketing has been around for decades, but the way we use it has changed dramatically. What started as simple newsletters sent to everyone on a list has now evolved into smart, personalized conversations powered by automation. If you are building an online business, chances are you have already felt Read more

By Rodney Graham, 5 monthsOctober 4, 2025 ago
Clarity beats hustle, start affiliate marketing the right way.
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How do I start in Affiliate Marketing

How do I start in Affiliate Marketing You ever feel like everyone has a blueprint for affiliate marketing success, except you? Like there’s some magic formula passed around in secret Facebook groups or hidden behind $997 courses with countdown timers that never really reach zero. The truth? It’s not that Read more

By Rodney Graham, 8 monthsJuly 14, 2025 ago
Strategic quitting in email marketing
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Sometimes Quitting Is the Bravest Marketing Move You Can Make

You ever stick with something too long just because, well, quitting felt like failure? Me too. More times than I care to admit. Especially in email marketing, there’s this weird pressure, like if you’re not churning out content, launching new things, tweaking funnels at midnight, then you’re somehow not doing Read more

By Rodney Graham, 8 monthsJuly 10, 2025 ago
Email Marketing
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The Absurd, Glorious World of Email Marketing Promises (And Why You Should Laugh More)

Alright. So quick confession: I’ve been in the email marketing game long enough that I should probably own a dusty “world’s okayest marketer” mug. I’ve seen all the webinars, slid into questionable FB groups, bought way too many $27 “secret swipe file” bundles that now rot in my Google Drive. Read more

By Rodney Graham, 8 monthsJuly 4, 2025 ago
Upgrade Your Emails or Get Left Behind.
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How Email Evolved: Outdated vs. Modern Strategies

Change isn’t polite. It’s… well, kind of rude, actually. It crashes your dinner party uninvited, rearranges the furniture, then helps itself to dessert while you’re still trying to figure out how it even got in. That’s marketing. Especially email. I used to think, stubbornly, embarrassingly, that I could get away Read more

By Rodney Graham, 8 monthsJune 29, 2025 ago
List Building in Affiliate Marketing
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Why Your List Feels Empty (and How to Fix It)

Here’s the thing about questions, they can mess with you. Not the surface-level, motivational quote type. I mean the kind of question that crawls into your brain at 2:17am, wedges itself between your doubts and your dreams, and then refuses to shut up. Those questions? They change you. Or break Read more

By Rodney Graham, 8 monthsJune 17, 2025 ago
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The Clock Is Lying to You: Why “Later” Is Killing Your Email Marketing Dreams

The Clock Is Lying to You: Why “Later” Is Killing Your Email Marketing Dreams Okay, look. I know you think you’ve got time.We all do. It’s this cozy, delicious little lie we tell ourselves: “I’ll start next week,” or “I just need to tweak my lead magnet,” or the classic: Read more

By Rodney Graham, 9 monthsJune 9, 2025 ago
List Building
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Stop Wrecking Your List: 5 Email Mistakes to Avoid

List Building Mistakes: What Not to Do (and Why It Hurts More Than You Think) Let’s be honest for a second. Sometimes it’s not about what you should be doing, it’s about all the stuff you should have stopped doing yesterday. List building, everyone says it’s the golden ticket, right? Read more

By Rodney Graham, 10 monthsMay 14, 2025 ago

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