How To Gain Access To Inner Circle Top Affiliates

If you plotted the growth of my business the chart would look like a steadily increasing line, punctuated by a handful of spikes a couple of times a year.

The first big spike in growth occurred in 2007, which was the first launch I ever did of the Blog Mastermind coaching program. Every aspect of my business grew during… Read the rest of this entry »

Do Your Belief Structures And Behavior Patterns Block Your Success?

Are You Aware Of Your Blind Spots?

I’m a fence sitter. This can at times be a hindrance, but if balanced well, it’s an advantage.

What I mean by this is I don’t 100% commit to a point of view. I have a point of view, but it’s not so rigid that I will default to it without being capable… Read the rest of this entry »

When Is The Right Time To Launch Your Product?

During the last coaching call I did with my members the question of when is the right time to launch your product online came up repeatedly from different people.

The question isn’t about timing in terms of day or night, or what day of the week, or time of the year you should launch, rather what conditions need to be… Read the rest of this entry »

How To Avoid Hype When You Sell

There’s an interesting challenge I’ve come up against many times, which I think most professional bloggers know well.

The challenge is how to sell something without using all that horrible “hype” that Internet marketers use.

But wait a second. Hype actually works, or at least good “sales copy” works if you call convincing people to buy what you sell your… Read the rest of this entry »

Why Creating The Change You Want Is All About You

Welcome to part three in this series on creating positive change in your life. Before you begin reading this article, I recommend you review the first two parts –

Is It Really Possible To Create The Change You Want In Your Life?

What I Can Teach You About Getting What You Want

Next we’re going to continue to build… Read the rest of this entry »

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What I Can Teach You About Getting What You Want

This is the second part in my series on creating positive change in your life. If you missed the first part, please read it before reading this. You can find part one here – Is It Really Possible To Create The Change You Want In Your Life?.

Next up we begin a look at what I’ve learned and… Read the rest of this entry »

Is It Really Possible To Create The Change You Want In Your Life?

This is part one of a series on how to create positive change in your life based on what has worked for me, what hasn’t, and what I’m currently learning. Rather than write one of my usual 4000+ word monster articles I’m breaking it down for you into more manageable chunks.

This is going to be a very important… Read the rest of this entry »

Is A Partnership Right For You?

How My Partnership With Gideon Shalwick Generated A Quarter Of A Million Dollars In Under 12 Months

When I first started this blog the Internet was younger and many of the current big success story online companies had only recently risen to dominance.

I was fascinated with the background history behind the companies that featured heavily during the… Read the rest of this entry »

Social Media Mistakes: Are You Forgetting Your Fundamentals?

It’s interesting as a marketer to watch how the Internet has changed over the last ten years, especially what has changed for solo entrepreneurs and small business owners.

When I started investigating how to make money online in the late nineties, most strategies were e-commerce focused, or built specifically to take advantage of the dot-com bubble.

You either set… Read the rest of this entry »

How Can You Make Passive Income Online?

I had a meeting with a friend and his business partner last week. The request was to “pick my brain” on the best way to move forward to generate some passive income streams online.

These two particular people are like a lot of people I know. They’ve got tech skills, they know the Internet well and they have lots of… Read the rest of this entry »

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Ten Tips To Ramp Up The Success Of Your Online Forum

Leslie is a Freebie Trader and blogger who teaches people to make money with Freebie Trading and beyond on his blog at TheFreebieGuy.net and on his new forum at www.CaliStyle101.com. Leslie is a member of all my programs and recently left some great posts in our members forum about his success with monetizing a forum, so I askedRead the rest of this entry »

Living The 2-Hour Workday: How To Create Event Independent Income Streams

In the previous article on living the 2-hour workday I introduced the concept of travel buffers, cash created either through saving or selling assets that is designed to give you a buffer of capital you can comfortably spend if you need to while you travel.

Travel buffers are mostly for piece of mind so you can relax while you… Read the rest of this entry »

Living The 2-Hour Workday: What Is A Travel Buffer & How Can You Create One

Towards the end of my trip around the world in 2008 I started to lose interest in seeing the typical tourist spots, even if the destinations were exotic countries or ancient monuments from cultures long passed.

After visiting many amazing buildings and sites in cities like Edinburgh, London, Brussels, Paris, Rome and Athens, I was feeling a little tired.… Read the rest of this entry »

A Day In The Life Of An Internet Entrepreneur 2009 Edition

Back in August of 2005 I wrote an article that outlined what a typical day in my life was like. I linked to the post in my about page as I see it as a subject people are very interested in – what’s it like to live each day when you make money from the Internet?

You can read… Read the rest of this entry »

How Well Do You Know Your Customer?

I’m not 100% sure, but I believe the very first email list I subscribed to was David DeAngelo’s Double Your Dating free newsletter. At the time I didn’t realize David D. was a nom de plume (fake name) and that the real person behind the newsletter was Eben Pagan, who I would later come to know as a leading… Read the rest of this entry »

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How You Can Become A Dominant Affiliate

The last week if you’ve been reading this blog you know I’ve recommended two courses, both of which I am an affiliate for. In this situation both products I’ve promoted before, so they’ve proven successful, however they are very different in many respects, for example…

  • One product offers a $1 trial and then is $67 a month with 50%

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7 Eating Habits That Sabotage Your Productivity As An Entrepreneur

This is a guest post from Krizia from Eat Smart Age Smart, who is also a graduate of Blog Mastermind and Membership Site Mastermind (reopening soon!). Krizia’s expertise is food and health and she’s written some advice for us entrepreneurs. Enjoy this tasty article…

I still remember being quite surprised when I read Yaro’s August 8,Read the rest of this entry »

How To Become Comfortable With Yourself

Reflections On My 30th Birthday

As I type this I just turned 30 years old and if you’re reading this and it’s still Sunday July 19 where you are, make sure you wish me a happy birthday .

I had a conversation leading up to my 30th birthday with a fellow 29 year old who was heading towards her 30th… Read the rest of this entry »

Can Your Business Make You Rich?

Many years ago I wrote a blog post that looked at the reality of how much money you actually make when you run your own business.

You can read the article here – Do You Want to Run Your Own Business? Read this First!

My premise back then was that most business owners don’t make a whole lot of… Read the rest of this entry »

Are Blog Comments A Trustworthy Source Of Feedback?

I’ve done a lot of online launches – about eight all up if you include closing down and reopening promotions – and each one included heavy support from affiliates, some of whom run popular blogs, including Problogger, John Chow, Shoemoney, Copyblogger and DailyBlogTips.

During a launch, to get a feel for the pulse of how… Read the rest of this entry »

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