Down-To-Earth Tips and Advice for Internet Entrepreneurs
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When I started teaching people how to build blogs that could potentially make money, I faced a difficult challenge.
How can I teach people to pick the right blog topic or niche?
It’s the hardest decision to make and the place where everything can wrong right at the beginning.
No one gets this 100% right from day one, … Read the rest of this entry »
A few weeks ago on one of my Yaro.TV daily videos I talked about solving problems by learning how other people have solved the same problem before you.
You can study other people’s solutions and then copy them to solve your problem. Easy.
Here’s the video –
A week later I published another video talking about how you can’t … Read the rest of this entry »
Many years ago I coined the phrase “Pillar Article” or sometimes called, “Pillar Content“, to describe how to create great blog content.
To my surprise, it really caught on in the blogging about blogging community and many thousands of bloggers use it to describe what good blog content is.
If you have never heard … Read the rest of this entry »
Recently in the news you may have heard some rather alarming data was released about the impact sitting down for long periods of time can have on your health.
When I was younger I’d sit down in front of the TV for entire days sometimes, watching TV or playing Nintendo. I noticed if I … 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 … 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 … 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 … 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 … Read the rest of this entry »
A few years ago I was working very hard to achieve certain goals in an area of my life that I had never come close to realizing the kind of outcomes I desired.
Because these goals were so foreign to me I had a lot of self doubt, which only increased as I continued to experience poor results. I … Read the rest of this entry »
When I first started an internet business and began studying online marketing, and in particular lifestyle design and productivity, I came to identify myself with the 80/20 Rule.
You can read my original post explaining how the 80/20 Rule came into my life here – What Is The 80/20 Rule And Why It Will Change Your Life.… Read the rest of this entry »
I was reading an article by David Risley, where he was taking a hard-line look at what he believes are some fundamental flaws regarding the make money online niche.
The main question at the heart of David’s article was why people do not actually succeed at making money online, despite the wealth of information available to do … Read the rest of this entry »
Many years ago I lived in a share house in the inner city suburb of West End in Brisbane, Australia.
Although I prefer to live alone, I appreciated living in a share house with other people because it gave me some kind of socialization during a period of my life when I was largely spending the rest of my … Read the rest of this entry »
On Saturday last weekend as I type this article, I was a guest speaker at a live event on the Gold Coast in Australia.
I spoke in front of 200 people for about an hour. I used 27 slides in my presentation, which were almost all just one picture each slide that I put together the night before I … Read the rest of this entry »
What is more important: quality or quantity?
The easy answer to this long and heated debate is both are very important – and I’ll give you that, they both are, but for free content I am in the quantity camp. Go ahead and paste me and leave 1,000 comments telling me I’m wrong – I don’t care, I will … Read the rest of this entry »
I’ve been involved in internet Marketing since January 18th, 2011.
Since I started, I’ve had the privilege of taking part in a number of online courses that have given me a solid Internet Marketing Education. On the other hand, I’ve also purchased courses that just didn’t live up to the awesome sales page (and trust me, in some … Read the rest of this entry »
I hear a lot of webmasters complain day in and day out about all the changes that Google constantly makes to its algorithm and how they affect our search engine placement.
Let me break it to you: it’s not all about what Google has done and will do to update its algorithm.
It’s about what you SHOULD BE doing.… Read the rest of this entry »
