12/20/10 by james | Blog, Business Growth, Motivation | View Comments
Today when looking for advice on business opportunities on the internet, you find out that you get mostly the same advice.
- If you want to be an affiliate marketer, go to clickbank.
- If you want to develop a business online, write an eBook.
- If you want to sell a website, go to Flippa.
Stop Running with the Herd
And the list continues. What you get with this mentality is called “running with the herd“. In stock investing, “running with the herd” will only get you somewhere when you are one of the first to find out about that opportunity. After too many people have jumped on the opportunity, the stock becomes “over-bought” and you will not see as much returns from that investment opportunity as the the initial buyers.
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12/13/10 by james | Blog | View Comments
Hello all, today I have a goody for you. It is the first of many monthly workshops where I will cover a topic my email list subscribers choose. This one is called Facebook Marketing for Beginners.
Here you will discover how to use Facebook to supplement your marketing and to make your online business more effective. Facebook is the closest you will get to viral marketing nirvana and in this workshop you will find out how to capitalize on that.
I have also added audio interviews with Facebook marketing experts, people who have… been there, done that. You will get transcripts along with each interview.
So head on over here to get the workshop.
12/12/10 by james | Blog | View Comments
You have a blog, you write posts everyday, or every week. You do the SEO thing, leave comments on blogs. You basically do everything you are told to do to have a successful blog. But somehow it all seems to get you nowhere. The reason for this is, you are trying to figure thing out on your own.
In this world of online marketing where there are so many scams and a 1001 ways to make money blogging, you need someone to help you cut through the crap and show how it should be done. You need a mentor that will help you figure out what you need to do in half the time. What would have taken you 5 days to figure out will be explained to you in one.
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11/15/10 by james | Blog | View Comments
Chris Guthrie released a new plugin for Wordpress called Coupon Code. In this post, I will give one person an opportunity to win a free copy of Viral List which will help you grow your email list.
First of all, let me give you the lowdown on what Coupon Code does for you. If you do any retail affiliate marketing with shops like Amazon and the likes, you can get great conversions by offering coupons to your readers.
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10/28/10 by james | Blog | View Comments
Today we’ve got an interview with David Risley, from www.davidrisley.com. I introduce him at the beginning of the call but I’ll give a quick one now. David is the guy you go to when you need some straight, down-to-earth advice. He knows his stuff and makes a full-time living from his Internet businesses, not from his blog. The blog is just a means to an end. So I am happy he agreed to share some of his insights into Email Marketing and List building.
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10/25/10 by james | Blog, Interviews, email list building | View Comments
Hey people, Today I have an insight-filled interview with Rob Rammuny of RobsWebTips. He is a young entrepreneur taking action and seeing results. In this interview, he takes some time off from launching his new site design to talk to me about email marketing.
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10/04/10 by james | Blog | View Comments
Some weeks ago, I was working on a certain task and it was really giving me a hard time. I was at it for 2 weeks and I actually left it alone for a couple of days to come back it. This was me hoping that attacking it with a fresh approach was going to help. And it does helps sometimes, but not in this case. Did some Googling (crazy how that has become a verb now) but to no avail.
The screamingly simple solution
Then I decided to ask someone about how to go about solving it, the first sentence that came out of his mouth just solved the problem instantly. I was so pissed off that I didn’t think of asking earlier on. This is someone I was working with on a daily basis for those two odd weeks where I was pulling my hair out trying to solve the problem on my own.
This is a problem many of us face, trying to go it alone. Thinking we can find the solutions if we dig in the correct places, and then getting frustrated when we don’t find it. Sometimes all we have to do it just ask. The person you ask might not answer your question directly but he/she can give an idea that sparks a light and nudges you on the correct path.
Get your questions answered
This is the reason why I have decided to do something different on the blog today. I am going to give you the opportunity to ask your questions and get them answered.
We all know that email list building is one of the cornerstones of setting up a successful business. The question is
- Do we know how to do it right?
- How do you get new subscribers?
- How can you profit from the subscribers on your email list?
Well, I am not here to guess your questions, please let me know what questions you have on email marketing or starting up your business in general and I will setup a Q&A call where I will go into detail to answer your questions.
Special guests on this call
I will also invite two special guests to join in to answer your questions.
David Risley is a six-figure pro-blogger. He makes a full-time living off his blog and he knows this stuff.
Rob Rammuny from Rob’s Web Tips is a young, prolific blogger that knows email marketing inside out. He has personally worked with Aweber one-on-one.
So head on over to this link and ask your questions on this simple, 2 question-survey.
The deadline for sending in your questions is Thursday 7th October at 6pm EST.
So I can’t wait and I am looking forward to seeing your questions.
09/17/10 by james | Blog | View Comments
There are two main obstacles that stop us from succeeding as entrepreneurs. The ironic fact is that these obstacles are actually generated by two talents/strenghts that entrepreneurs tend to posess. If only we saw things differently, we would understand why these obstacles come up and know how to crush them once and for all so we can go on to achieve the success we so deserve from our efforts. This post is to help you do exactly that i.e. see things differently.
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09/01/10 by james | Blog, Motivation | View Comments
If you are checking out my blog due to my guest post on The Smart Passive Income blog, you are welcome. I really had fun writing the post on the SPI blog and I hope you could get some value in it.
I want to share a post with you here which I title, Ignore the Real World (thanks to the book Rework by 37 signals). As an entrepreneur, the chances are you have great ideas bursting out of your brain but the moment you share it with someone, they reply you with, “That won’t work in the real world”
- In the real world, you are meant to go to work for someone else.
- In the real world, you are meant to work 40 hours a week doing what you are told and your creativity doesn’t matter
- In the real world, you move up the ladder when you help “The company” achieve their goals and all you get is a pat on the back. “Thank you, because of your work, the company has made a profit of $10 million this year”, while you earn $20,000 a year.
- In the real world, you will be crazy to do what you love and earn money doing it.
- In the real world, entrepreneurs are crazy risk-takers in a cut-throat environment and only the top 5% succeed so you had better stay with your safe and secure “job”.
Screw that.
If Bill Gates had listened to the people in the real world, he would have thrown away his dream of seeing a personal computer on every desk. We would have been stuck in a time where computers were the size of warehouses and we had to type our letters on those noisy, ink-based typewriters.
If Pat Flynn has listened to the people in the real world, he would have gone looking for another Architectural job after being laid off during a recession while his new family suffered the consequences.
The truth is, we are not cut out for the real world, the only reason we stick with the real world is that we feel it is a safe and secure place to be. My problem with the real world is that I am not able to do what I love, what keeps me up at night, stuff I can think about for hours without getting bored, stuff like developing solutions to real problems and seeing people get value out of it.
The great thing about the world we live in today is that the middle man has been left out of the equation. The only pre-requisite to being successful is how much work you are willing to put into your passion.
If you are really passionate about what you do, it won’t feel like work at all. You can pretty much do it all with a laptop and an internet connection. You can post a video to the web that millions have access to without paying money to a TV network.
There is no excuse for having to waste my life for “The Boss”, that is why I have decided to get on the journey to the other world, where I can create freely, live, love and matter.
In my research, I have discovered that there are 7 pillars you need to implement to start a successful business as an entreprenuer and if you sign up to my newsletter, I will send you 7 free reports that outline these pillars. Thank you for taking the time to read this, I appreciate it.
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08/16/10 by james | Blog, Business Growth | View Comments
Is it frustrating that although you have followed the recommended steps to develop a product to sell, your sales still look disappointing? You have built a large enough list to survey about your upcoming product, you have developed a minimum viable version of that and released it to the public, your sales are trickling in but that is all it ever does… trickle in. How do you break that glass ceiling and get a flood of sales and not just a trickle.
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