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8 Ways Prompt engineering Becomes Your New Superpower

If you’ve been curious about how to stop guessing and start getting reliable results from AI, this article is for you. In a recent conversation with Dawn Jordan Jones, CEO of 29Eleven Media and a 35-year marketing veteran, we walked through practical, down-to-earth strategies for using Prompt engineering to change how you run your business. I’ll share her experience, examples, and step-by-step advice so you can train your AI like an employee and unlock serious time savings.

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Raise Your Company’s Valuations in 3 Years

By Zivko D. / 11 minutes of reading

Table of Contents You want higher valuations. You want an exit that actually pays what you deserve. I’ve raised valuations and sold 17 companies, and

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The Complete Guide to LinkedIn Campaign Manager

By Zivko D. / 7 minutes of reading

Master LinkedIn Campaign Manager in 2025 with this complete guide to LinkedIn Ads, B2B advertising, campaign optimization, and paid strategy for maximum ROI.

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Why MOST Innovations FAIL: and How You Can Make Innovations Stick

By Zivko D. / 9 minutes of reading

In my conversation on the DoneMaker Podcast with DoneMaker’s host, we dug into the messy truth behind Innovations: why most of them fail, what the real failure modes are, and what you can do differently starting today. You’ll get practical tactics, emotional-first strategies, and examples that range from stand-up comedy to Fortune 500 labs — because innovations are as human as they are technical.

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10 Ways Canadian Business Owners Miss Millions in Free Government Money: How AI Fixes It

By Zivko D. / 8 minutes of reading

If you run a Canadian Business and you think government funding is too confusing or unavailable, you’re not alone. In this post I walk you through the exact problems most Canadian Business owners face when hunting for grants, tax credits, wage subsidies, and loans, and how modern AI tools can cut what used to take 20–30 hours down to a couple of hours or less. I’m sharing what I learned building Grant Fund Pro, how the legacy process fails you, and step-by-step tactics you can use right now to increase your chances of getting funding.

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SEO That Actually Grows Your Business (and Why 90% of Companies Get It Wrong)

By Zivko D. / 10 minutes of reading

If you want to stop throwing money at paid channels and start building durable, profitable marketing, this guide is for you. In a recent conversation with DoneMaker, Maggie Swift, CEO and co‑founder of Unframed Digital, walked through the practical, data‑first approach that turned our agency into a team managing over $3 million in SEO value for niche brands. This article distills those insights into a step‑by‑step list you can use to rethink how SEO fits into your growth stack.

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LinkedIn For Entrepreneurs: Stop Chasing Tactics and Start Getting Paid

By Zivko D. / 9 minutes of reading

On the DoneMaker podcast I sat down with Priscilla McKinney to dig into what most people are getting wrong about LinkedIn For Entrepreneurs. If you want a real way to turn your presence into revenue, without feeding the ad machines, you need to change how you think about the platform, pick the right home base, and structure your marketing like a business, not a hobby. In this article I lay out ten practical rules you can apply right now, pulled from that conversation and expanded so you can take action today.

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How to Choose the Right B2B Lead Generation Agency

By Zivko D. / 7 minutes of reading

Boost your B2B business growth with the right lead generation agency. Discover proven strategies for B2B lead generation services and business success.

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7 Steps to Make B2B Sales Repeatable as a Founder

By Zivko D. / 11 minutes of reading

If you watched the DoneMaker interview with Brendan McAdams, you already know the conversation is full of clear, no-nonsense advice about how founders should approach B2B Sales. In this article I break down Brendan’s most actionable ideas and translate them into a step-by-step playbook you can apply right away. You’ll learn how to turn early conversations into paying customers, how to price based on value, how to coach reps to run discovery calls like trusted advisors, and how to build a sales pipeline that actually scales.

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5 Reasons Your Initiatives Become a To-Do List (And How to Turn Them into Business Impact)

By Zivko D. / 10 minutes of reading

“If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.” You may have heard that line from Henry Ford — it rings true when initiatives actually succeed. I’m Cesar Flores, founder and CEO of Coach What Matters, and I want to walk you through why most new initiatives collapse into a To-Do List circus and how you can flip the model so your work actually delivers measurable business value.

This article distills decades of experience running organizational transformations and coaching teams to move from checklists to outcomes. You’ll learn why starting with techniques or frameworks (agile, OKRs, SAFe) without aligning to your company’s core value is a trap, how to design pivot points that save money and time, and how to set meaningful OKRs and SMART goals that don’t degrade into a To-Do List.

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