Blog Marketing Academy

It is Monday. And that means, its GO TIME! I exercised this morning early. Ready to hit the week hard. And this week is a big one for the Academy. Tomorrow, I'll be starting the first live delivery of the Membership Sites Master Class. It starts at 3PM Eastern tomorrow (Tuesday, the 18th). My intention is to answer every question and blast through every confusion - and help you set up a membership site from start to finish. In fact, you'll be watching me set one up during the course of … [Read more...]

Answer me this… Which do you think is easier? Selling a single thing, over and over again, all to different people? Or… Selling something once and the same person pays you over and over again? It should be obvious, but the second option is much better for your business. That is called "continuity income". Continuity simply means that the payments come in on a continuous basis. One of the most common ways to do this is via a membership site. It used to be that a lot of … [Read more...]

Lots of Academy readers are looking to make money from their websites. A lot of people realize the power of continuity income… making money via monthly renewal payments. And, so, starting up a membership site is something which is on a lot of people's lists. But, how? How does one go about actually setting up a membership site? How do you set up the content protection, the various pages? How do you manage your members? How do you process recurring payments? Or perhaps you've done a … [Read more...]

One of the most common pieces of advice you hear about internet business is… Take Action. Nothing new here. Of course, that doesn't mean you're making a habit of it, but still, you've heard this before. You can spend time thinking about things, or you could spend time doing. Well, I thought I would share a quick story of a time I spent simply… doing. I'm not here to say that I'm always a model of taking action, but this particular story is one where I got it right. See, I had an … [Read more...]

What you're about to read is important. If you want to have a successful business - online or offline - then do not simply scan this article and move on in a fit of ADD. Understand it fully and apply it. I don't say this to float my own boat. Not at all. I say it because... it needs to be said. We need to come back to business basics. And most people in the online business world gloss over the importance of it. Here we go... … [Read more...]

Are you a blogger with a smaller blog... looking to grow your revenue into something worth your time? Then consider this... When you spend your time chasing "chump change", then chances are that's all you'll ever make. Chump change is basically some amount of money which is insignificant. A situation arose recently where somebody was trying to increase clicks to a certain merchant on a blog. The idea was that it was being monetized by VigLink, that this particular merchant seemed to be … [Read more...]

Let's call a spade a spade… There are a ton of internet marketing products out there to buy. A "shit ton" of them (that's an official number, as of now). Some of them are good. Some of them suck. Many of them contain the same information as another. As a person looking to get some guidance and considering buying one of these products, it is harder than EVER to tell the difference. And all too often, you just end up erring on the side of "Meh, they're all the same, they're all shit, and … [Read more...]