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Traffic GrowthThe “Deadly Quartet” For Rapid Audience Growth And More TrafficWhen it comes to growing blog traffic, we need to think bigger than just blogging. Today, you have to think bigger and play a bigger game to really gain any traction when it comes to traffic and the size of your audience. I believe this “deadly quartet” is the required answer.
Email List BuildingHow To Deal With Subscribers Who Don’t Confirm Their Email SubscriptionsOne of the drawbacks of double confirmation is that a decent number of people just don’t subscribe. And not all of them are invalid. Here’s a way to deal with it if you use an email provider which supports it. I call it “hybrid confirmation”.
Email List BuildingEmail List Building: Should You Always Offer A Freebie To Build Your Email List?Do you always need to give away something for free to get people to join your email list? Perhaps not. We talk about that in this video, as well as a tactic you can use to get more BUYERS on your email list.
Business SystemsAfter 16 Years Of Running A Tech Site, It Is Time To Part WaysAfter a lot of thought, as well as denial, I have come to the conclusion that it is time to walk away from my original website. Here’s the story of PCMech.com, how it got started, where it stands today… and why I’ve decided now is the time to sell.
What’s the Most Important Thing To Test In Your Marketing?With all the talk about the need to test everything and run thousands of split-tests, I think in the beginning you can throw all of that stuff right out the window. In this video, I talk about what the MOST important thing to test is.
ProductivityWhy Most Blog Content Goes Unread (And How To Package Yours So It Doesn’t)Great content gets skipped all the time. Most blog readers are scanners, not readers… they glance at headlines, sub-headlines, bullets, and images, then decide in seconds whether your post is worth their time. Packaging is what wins or loses that decision. Here’s how to package your content so it actually gets read.
Getting Started6 Niche Selection Mistakes That Kill Most Online Businesses Before They StartPicking the wrong niche means months of effort that won’t add up to a business. Most aspiring bloggers commit one or more of six specific mistakes that doom the choice before it begins. Here are all six, what they look like, and what to do instead… plus how to use AI to pressure-test a niche before you commit.
Content CreationStop Brainstorming Blog Topics. Ask This 7-Word Question Instead.Most bloggers brainstorm content ideas from their own brain. That’s why they run out, and that’s why what they produce often misses. There’s a better approach… start with a 7-word question. Here’s the question, how to ask it, and what to actually do with the answers.
Traffic GrowthThe Traffic Building FormulaEvery traffic tactic on the internet — SEO, paid ads, social, AI search, you name it — is just a specific way of executing the same underlying formula. Six steps. Once you understand them, traffic stops feeling complicated.
Content CreationA Quarterly Editorial Calendar Template (And How To Use It)I personally use a spreadsheet to manage my editorial calendar. My spreadsheet is hosted on Google Drive that way it is shareable with others. And the nature of a spreadsheet means that I can have columns for any field I want. And, here are the fields which I personally use.
Content CreationAn In-Depth Guide To Developing And Planning Your Quarterly Editorial Calendar For Your BlogI have been blogging for a long time now and during that time, I’ve had many different styles of content planning. I’ve tried the “no planning” approach, where I’ve sat down knowing I needed to write something but had no idea what the hell to write. Been there, done that. 🙂 I’ve done the “mini planning”…
Site BuildingHow To Create Real Scarcity With Wordpress Sales Pages, with Scarcity SamuraiToday’s plug-in was one that, when I found it… I was excited. This was something I was wanting to do on this blog, but thought I would need to manually code it. But, alas… there was no need.
ProductivityRant: Is “Lack of Jobs” Really The Problem?Is the economy, or lack of jobs, really to blame for people’s economic woes? Perhaps there is something more – something college students need to realize.
ProductivityThe Fallacy Of Waiting For The Right TimeThe right time doesn’t arrive on its own. Here’s why waiting is costing you more than you think.
4 Factors You Can Use To Close The SaleYou might have a product which is perfect for your prospect, but getting them to actually hit the Buy button can still be a little difficult. Human beings are naturally averse to risk, averse to confronting new things… and let’s face it, most people have a core emotional attachment to their money and it takes…
Site BuildingHow to Migrate Your WordPress Blog to a New Host Using Migrate GuruI find that Migrate Guru is the easiest and most reliable way to migrate (or move) your WordPress blog to a new web host. It is also free. Here’s how to do it.
Top 8 Mistakes Way Too Many Blog Owners MakeMost blog owners are making the same handful of mistakes — and most of them come down to not thinking about the site from the visitor’s perspective. Here are the top 8 I see over and over.
When Is The Right Time To Ask For The Sale?As you’re building your blog or online business, are you afraid to ask for money? Be honest. 🙂 One of the biggest barriers I see when I’m helping people generate revenue from their blogging – primarily when they’re in the beginning phases – is simply the willingness to ask for a sale. The fear of…
Getting StartedWhy Following Your Passion Is Bad AdviceIn this business of blogging, one of the most common pieces of advice that you probably hear is that of following your passion. And usually, when people are talking about starting up an online business, it usually starts out with the idea of brainstorming what your passion is and starting out with your passion. Basically…
Site BuildingWhy I’m Switching From Aweber To Ontraport Office AutoPilotThere probably isn’t anything in the world of online business that causes as many discussions, confusions and opinions than talking about different platforms. Which cart do we use? Which email service should we use? Which plug-ins do we use? It is easy to get so focused on the software that we become paralyzed by the…
Membership SitesThe Story of My First Membership SiteMembership sites come in a lot of different flavors. Some of them do recurring billing while others are just a delivery vehicle for a one-off product. There are a bunch of different reasons why you’d probably want (or need) to set up a membership site in order to jump start your online business. In fact, this is why I currently have six different membership sites in operation. Only two of them are recurring and the other four are traditional products where I simply used a membership site as the delivery vehicle. But, there’s always that story of the first one. 🙂
Membership SitesForget This One Thing, And Your Membership Site Will FailWe know that continuity income is a great idea. And we know that membership sites are a great way to do it. But, this leads into the next natural step here: Determining what exactly to do inside your membership site. After talking with a lot of people via email, via consulting calls, via Academy mastermind calls… I see that membership sites are on people’s minds. But, the “why” for it usually goes something like this…
Membership SitesRecurring Income: Why You Need (And Want) This For Your BusinessAnswer 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.
Business SystemsThe “Third Rail” of Internet Marketing And Blogging… That Few Tackle Head OnIf I asked you what the #1 problem is for you when it comes to your blog or internet business, what would you say? Now, obviously everybody reading this will have their own answer. But, odds are, I can guess. 🙂 I’ve been helping bloggers online for 4 years now – was a tech blogger for 10 years before that – so I have a pretty good feeling that I can peg it for a good majority of you. And that problem is…