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If you haven’t heard, Google recently announced this Disavow tool inside the Webmaster Tools system and it basically allows you to make it so that Google does not count incoming links to your site from certain places. The idea is that when low quality links are affecting your rankings, you have the ability to get…
Sometimes it’s good to think outside the box and question some of the assumptions that we make. This especially goes in the world of blogging and online marketing. There are a lot of things out there that everybody does and the thing is… if everybody does it maybe you need to go a different direction….
Lately, I’ve been looking for a good CRM for my business. Now, first of all, what is a CRM? CRM basically stand for Customer Relationship Manager. Essentially, I look at it as a glorified customer database. Now, a true blue enterprise level CRM does a lot of things, many of which I’m not interested in. You…
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We’ve all been there… We’re surfing around the net looking for something – or perhaps just checking up on some of our favorite sites. You click onto a website which looks promising and – BAM! You’re greeted with a big-ass popup asking for your email address. And odds are that I can guess your next…
Membership 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. 🙂
We 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…
Answer me this…
Which do you think is easier?
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.
The online marketing space is a funny place. And the story of the rise of Pinterest marketing courses lay it bare for all to see.
It is the ultimate demonstration of the shiny object syndrome which this market creates for people.
And it leads a lot of people – many whom are probably still trying to make their first buck online – to flock to Pinterest thinking that it is the next big thing, the meal ticket, the next trend, the latest tactic.
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.
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…
Do you spend your time tweeting, sharing, liking and pinning? All the “social media gurus” will tell you how important it is. But, then you’re sitting there looking at your old dusty blog and see that not much is happening. Traffic isn’t much to speak of. You have no time to create offers or products. You don’t have anything to build your list with. In fact, your email list building remains on your “Things I know I should do but don’t have the time” list.
Oh, but TWEETING… that shit is important!
Or so they’ll tell you.
There are two facets to growing your blog: (a) getting more traffic, and (b) keeping the traffic and making it convert well. Today, we’re going to talk about (b).
How do you fine tune a blog to keep more of the visitors who arrive? How to you make sure the message the site communicates “jives”?
The world of business is based on the idea of exchange. And…
… bloggers who want to make money on the Internet need to focus less on tweets and comments, and more on what they’re actually producing that can be exchanged with others for money.
I don’t think anybody will contest that Apple is freakin’ awesome at marketing.
They are masters of the product launch. They have fostered a community who falls all over themselves to speculate on what the next product release will be, who will put their work days on pause to watch a “live blog” of a product launch, and who will stand in line in order to pay them large sums of money for hardware they likely don’t even need.
If 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…
Since when did internet business or internet marketing become a different kind of thing from what people have been doing for hundreds of years?
The Internet is a new medium, yes. But, on that medium, we conduct BUSINESS. And we conduct MARKETING.
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.
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.
I have been a heavy user of Evernote for over a year now. Today, I use Evernote as a digital extension of my own brain. I also use it as a digital filing system, complete with a scanner.
Many people I talk to, however, are still in that stage of wondering exactly what to do with Evernote. In some ways, it seems as if Evernote is a little like the initial days of using Twitter. We all go through that stage of wondering exactly what the hell to do with it. Then, if you persist, something eventually “clicks” and you “get it”.
The day is young and you have big plans.
Today, you’re going to be productive. You’re going to make the world your biatch.
By lunch, you realize that things have been a little delayed. But, you’ve still got a shot. So, after lunch, you’re really going to buckle down. This time you mean it.
Except, by the end of the day, you’re feeling a little disappointed in yourself. Because, once again…
It happens. Sometimes I get an email from a reader which sparks a bit of a rant. And that’s what happened this morning.
This person (who shall rename nameless, of course) was apparently on the verge of giving up on the entire notion of an online business. They said…
If you’re reading this post, chances are you’ve signed up to David’s email list and are gaining a wealth of knowledge from his 30 Day Blog Transformation Challenge. If you’re not, you’re missing out!
However, whether or not you’re signed up, this is going to benefit everyone.
One of David’s modules of The Challenge talks about how to get readers to subscribe to your email list. He talks about key placements of your opt in forms…
There is a plug-in that I have installed on every single site that I operate. And that plug-in is Gravity Forms.
In a nutshell, this plug-in will allow you to make web forms on your blog. At first glance, it seems a bit boring and unrelated. The only form you think you might want is a contact form – and there are several free contact form plug-ins out there already.
But, let me tell you a little about Gravity Forms…
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