A funny thing happened to me the other day. I got an invoice from 1and1, the ISP I first started using for my online business. Payment had been set to automatically charge my credit card, but I had recently replaced that credit card, and so the invoice wasn’t paid automatically. It seems that I had [...]
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Build An “Annuity” Of Websites
January 17th, 2009 · 6 Comments
Tags: Tags: Adsense, clickbank, domain-names, ezinearticles, plr
Excellent Niche Research Sites You Should Know About
January 7th, 2009 · 1 Comment
Niche research is one of the most important skills you can master as an Internet marketer. Whether you’re creating your own products, marketing as an affiliate, or simply creating content sites for ad revenue, narrow, targeted niches are your best bet.
Would you rather be a small fish in a giant lake, or a big fish [...]
Tags: Tags: market research, niche market research, niche marketing
Creating Your Own Products
October 28th, 2008 · 6 Comments
One of the best avenues to building an Internet Marketing business is with “your own” products. But how do you go about creating your own product?
There are 3 basic methods: creating something from scratch, modifying an existing product such as PLR (Private Label Rights) or public domain, or building on top of something, such as [...]
Tags: Tags: create your own products, open source
Easily Test Your Product & Niche
September 13th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Many Internet Marketers put the “cart before the horse”, jumping into a niche, even creating a product before they know whether people will buy.
Here’s a really simple, quick, and easy way to test: run a brief Adwords campaign.
Create just a single ad targeted to the niche you’re considering, mention a product, and INCLUDE A PRICE. [...]
Tags: Tags: adwords, affiliate-marketing, google-adwords, market research, niche marketing, pay-per-click, ppc
Sales Page Strategies For Better Conversions
September 5th, 2008 · 2 Comments
If you’re selling something directly, be it your own info-product, membership, or service, your sales page is arguably the most important thing there is. A great product is worthless if no one buys it. Traffic? Useless if it doesn’t convert.
Creating a good sales page can be difficult, tedious, even costly, and we’re usually all too [...]
Tags: Tags: copywriting, sales-page
The Fallacy Of High Pagerank Blog Links
August 30th, 2008 · 24 Comments
One of the ways to get backlinks that many of us are familiar with is blog commenting. The idea is that you find high Pagerank blogs that don’t use the “no-follow” tag, and comment on them. It is often taught as an “easy” way to get high-value backlinks for SEO purposes.
There is even some very [...]
Tags: Tags: google pagerank, ibl, linking, pagerank, pr, seo, traffic
How To Insure Successful Outsourcing
August 17th, 2008 · No Comments
Let me start by saying, plain and simple: If you’re not outsourcing, you should be. And if you are, you should be outsourcing more.
One of the issues I hear a lot from my newsletter subscribers is a general “fear of outsourcing” - concerns work won’t be done “right”, meaning the way you want it to [...]
Tags: Tags: freelance, outsourcing, screen-capture-video