A Reality Check About Who Really Owns Your Business And What You Can Do To Protect Yourself

If you think that you are a proud owner of your own online business, think again.

We are often ignorant of this harsh truth, yet it’s there – lurking behind like a thief at night.

This truth hit me on the head a few weeks back when Twitter shut down my empire of some 130K followers.

Then, as… Read the rest of this entry »

How I Generated 100,000+ New Email Subscribers In Under One Year

Impossible? I did it in 11 months and 9 days with a niche site that solved a problem, but didn’t get a ton of traffic.

The traffic I did get, subscribed, purchased, and told their friends that were looking for similar information. Magic? No. Marketing.

Due to a non-disclosure agreement I signed after I sold the site, I… Read the rest of this entry »

How To Sell More By Appealing To Fewer Customers

In my first post I talked about validating your niche, this post will talk about narrowing your niche and defining your unique selling proposition (USP).

These two factors are critical if you want to really appeal to people. If you want your product or service to really stand out, you must differentiate what you have to offer from… Read the rest of this entry »

From Video Games To Netbooks: How Chris Guthrie Made $150,000 Online After Losing His Job

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Chris Guthrie is like your every day guy. He’s into video games, he likes computers, he studied marketing at Western Washington University, worked… Read the rest of this entry »

My Notes From The Ed Dale Internet Marketing Seminar

Over the weekend I attended Ed Dale’s 30DC Coming Home three day event in Melbourne.

Ed Dale, if you don’t know him, is one of Australia’s most well known and likable Internet marketers, who adds a uniquely Australian flavour to the industry. Currently he is most well known as one of the founders of the 30 Day Challenge,… Read the rest of this entry »

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The Secret Tactic Of The Worlds Best Marketers: Become Obsessed

I have a confession to make – I’m obsessed.

With what I hear you ask?

With cars.

I’ve officially become one of those men I never previously understood. Why devote so much of your brain space to knowing the ins and outs of every car ever made? Surely there are better ways to spend your time and more… 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 »

Podcast: How To Profit From Niche Websites By Adam Short – Part 1

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How To Profit From Niche Websites By Adam Short – Part 2

I’ve been asked many times whether… Read the rest of this entry »

What Topic Should You Blog About?

I spent some time yesterday manning the live chat interface we have running on the Become A Blogger Premium sales page.

The live chat is a little innovation Gideon and I came up with to help any person who is reviewing our sales page by making ourselves available to answer any questions live.

At any given point in… Read the rest of this entry »

Do You Really Need A Unique Niche?

I was thinking the other day about the niche of Internet marketing. It’s one of the most crowded niches on the Internet, yet so many people generate an income selling products related to making money on the world wide web. The reason is obvious – there’s a hungry crowd out there eager to make money and more and more budding… Read the rest of this entry »

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8 Pitfalls To Avoid When Starting An Internet Business

I’ve been thinking lately about starting another Internet business. I’m not actually going to (right now), but I was considering my future and also what I might do hypothetically if today I decided to dedicate myself to a new project.

Over the past years of running an Internet business and studying information marketing and strategic business development I’ve come to… Read the rest of this entry »