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Recently Glen Allsopp wrote a follow-up blog post to his announcement that he was writing a “For Dummies” book.
His new announcement? He was NOT writing the book anymore.
You can read all the reasons why Glen said no to a book deal in his blog post.
To put it simply, he didn’t like the format that the “Dummies” … Read the rest of this entry »
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Last week I presented at the Web Strategy Summit in Brisbane. The organisers of the event, Adam and Toby, invited me to come in and do a short presentation of 18 minutes, then a 10 minute question and answer session.
The event featured panel discussions for about 45 minutes and several 18 minute “keynotes”, so they could get through … Read the rest of this entry »
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This is a good interview. Trust me. You’re not going to want to miss this. Just hit play now. Then grab a copy of Tim’s latest book – The 4-Hour Chef.
Timothy Ferriss needs no introduction. I interviewed him previously about his 4-Hour Workweek book, a runaway … Read the rest of this entry »
One of EJ’s most popular guest columnists, Dr. Mani, has popped back in to submit this article. Take it away Dr. Mani…
Picture me sitting in front of my computer, writing this article.
The phone rings. I answer. It’s my friend. He’s moving, and wants some advice. For 5 minutes, we discuss his plans. Then I hang up, and return … Read the rest of this entry »
Before I tell you the background story and my own results so far with video ads, if you haven’t yet tried out CrankyAds, I recommend you give it a go.
It’s a free WordPress plugin you can use to handle all advertising on your blog, and that includes offering video ads to your sponsors. This means an advertiser can … Read the rest of this entry »
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Pete Williams is a long time Aussie friend, who lives in Melbourne, and is co-founder of three bricks and mortar businesses, all of which use online marketing to get customers.
Pete’s first big business success was a telecommunications company that sells things like phone systems, which Pete and his partners grew initially without having … Read the rest of this entry »
I’ve been thinking a lot about my plans for the coming months and the start of the new year.
There’s a lot I want to release next year and it’s all wrapped around a strategy that essentially rests on finally getting myself a proper sales funnel of my own products (if you’re new to the Sales Funnel concept, read my … Read the rest of this entry »
I’ve been listening to Dan Ariely’s “The Upside of Irrationality“, which is the follow-on book to his very popular “Predictably Irrational” that I listened to earlier in the year.
One of the chapters I just finished takes a look at our desire for revenge when we feel hard done by. Dan illustrated with plenty of examples, … Read the rest of this entry »
A few months ago Walter, Mick and myself were at one of our regular Wednesday team meetings for CrankyAds, the advertising management tool for blogs that we have been working on together for over a year.
This particular meeting, I have to say, was not fun. We reached a point in our development process that was forcing … Read the rest of this entry »
It’s raining, just after lunch time. I’m sitting in a cafe called Blackstar in West End, Brisbane Australia typing this on my macbook pro laptop.
I don’t drink coffee, but I love the smell and don’t mind an iced coffee now and then. Blackstar brew cold pressed iced drinks, including one called “Full Creamy”, which comes in what looks like … Read the rest of this entry »
I was on the bus the other day, but it was no ordinary bus. The driver, who was certainly not your typical Brisbane city bus driver, had dubbed his bus the “happy bus”.
To help ensure the happy bus maintained the appropriate vibe, he made an announcement as we left the city station.
He explained how if you were having … Read the rest of this entry »
I was recently given access to the latest version of Jeff Walker’s Product Launch Formula course (Jeff was kind of enough to grant me access as a top affiliate and buyer of a previous version of the course).
As is typical for me, I went straight in looking for any audios I could download and stick on my phone (I’m … Read the rest of this entry »
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Todd Garland is the founder of BuySellAds.com, an advertising management platform and ad selling service that I have to say I am quite jealous of.
Why am I jealous?
Because Todd has built a company – a company doing over $10 million a year in revenue – with the same idea I had. … Read the rest of this entry »
I did an interview with Jeff Walker last week for a product I’m working on. If you have never heard of Jeff, he is the father of the Product Launch Formula, a proven model for launching virtually anything online.
I interviewed Jeff to learn his entrepreneur’s journey, like most of my interviews, so it wasn’t specifically about the … Read the rest of this entry »
During my early twenties I was introduced to the author Paulo Coelho, beginning with his book The Pilgrimage and then his most famous book, The Alchemist. I then went on a bit of a Coelho binge, reading everything I could find by him.
Most of his books I loved and still do. His writing style has always had … Read the rest of this entry »
Growing up like everyone living in a Western country, with shopping malls and TV informercials, I was well exposed to the concept of the time limited offer.
Whether it was the 24 hours I had to order within to get the extra set of steak knives during the late night commercial, or the “Christmas Special” with discounted prices until … Read the rest of this entry »
There are blogs on personal finance, then there are blogs on various forms of entrepreneurship, but very rarely do you find blogs that discuss both topics.
I can understand the desire to laser focus in on one’s target reader, but because I don’t see much of a blend of the two topics in the blogosphere, I (hopefully wrongly) … Read the rest of this entry »
I recently had a meeting with my CrankyAds team and a friend named Andy who I had not seen in many years.
Andy left a software company he founded over ten years ago. He’s one of those guys who can do everything. He wore many hats over the years at his company, including programmer, head of hiring and firing, … Read the rest of this entry »
Video three in our Become A Blogger 2.0 series has gone live. This is the practical video, the one where we teach you the “how” our system works.
Leslie presents five steps that make up our system for building a profitable blog based business. They are -
Mitch Wilson was one of the very first students of my blog coaching programs. He was also one of the most proactive, attending nearly every live coaching call I did.
Mitch followed the system and took it to a whole new level, building a massive sports blog that is now in the top 1% of websites online – and that’s … Read the rest of this entry »
I’m happy to announce that we have just opened up access to the first video in a three-part brand new video series on how to make money with blogs, without the complicated geek talk.
This series is part of the opening celebration for Become A Blogger 2.0. Yee-hah!
Leslie Samuel, the new addition to the team with … Read the rest of this entry »
I’ve been asked many times over the last year or so where my affiliate program is. Since I closed down all my coaching programs, my affiliate program was shut too.
I’m happy to say with the imminent opening of Become A Blogger 2.0 (Gideon, Leslie and I start the launch this week), the affiliate program is open too!
I’ve emailed … Read the rest of this entry »
In recent months I’ve interviewed quite a few successful self-starter internet marketers. People like Farnoosh Brock, Brian Moran, Chris Guillebeau, and Adam Baker, all tell stories from the first few years of their online business where they were doing everything by themselves.
Tim Ferriss popularized the concept of outsourcing your entire life to other people so … Read the rest of this entry »
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This is the original Membership Site Masterplan in audio version, featuring my voice talking out the report to you. It’s 2 hours and 46 … Read the rest of this entry »