Can You Apply The Minimum Viable Product Principle To Information Products?
I recently listened to the audiobook version of the Lean Startup by Eric Ries. My motivation for "reading" it is to help with the development of CrankyAds, my software startup. Lean startup principles are particularly good for a software company because of the...
How To Value Your Startup Company When Looking For Investment
This was a post I wrote about regarding the process of looking for funding for CrankyAds. This has been a completely new experience for me, which is fantastic, I'm enjoying the challenge and the process of learning how another aspect of entrepreneurship works. I've...
My Tech Startup Journey: Learning How To Fund A New Software Company
Note: This was a post I wrote about a company I started, CrankyAds. This blog has always been a sounding board for my own use as an entrepreneur. From the day I started blogging I wrote about what I was up to with whatever business I was focused on at the time....
The 3 Pillars To Create A Successful Information Product
Frank Kern kicked off back in 2012 with his State of The Internet address. This is a speech where Frank talks to the Internet marketing community and discusses where he thinks things will be headed for in the upcoming year. This year was a simple speech, but I believe...
How I Overcame My Fear Of Public Speaking
I was recently a guest speaker at a live event on the Gold Coast in Australia. I spoke in front of 200 people for about an hour. I used 27 slides in my presentation, which were almost all just one picture each slide that I put together the night before I was due to...
How To Sell More Ads On Your Blog
I previously explained my simple formula for pricing ads on your website. If you missed the article, please read it first here - How Much Should You Charge For Advertising On Your Blog? Now you know how much to charge, the next step is exactly where to place the ads...
The Challenge Of Developing A Software Startup
This was a post I made back when I was running my startup, CrankyAds. I've been working on CrankyAds.com now for over a year, although there have been a few start-stop sessions, so it hasn't been exactly all-steam ahead during that time. Developing software is a lot...
How Much Should You Charge For Advertising On Your Blog?
So you have decided to sell ads directly to sponsors on your website or blog. Great idea. I've made money using this method since the early 2000s. It started off as a trickle - my first ad sale was direct to a small business for $50 a month for one banner on my card...
7 Insights Every Blogger Should Know
What is more important: quality or quantity? The easy answer to this long and heated debate is both are very important - and I’ll give you that, they both are, but for free content I am in the quantity camp. Go ahead and paste me and leave 1,000 comments telling me...
My Most Challenging Year Part 2: A New Business Is Born
If you haven't read part one, you can do so here - My Most Challenging Year Part 1: When Family Tragedy Strikes At the start of 2011 I set up this blog to run as automatically as possible. A stay at home mum friend, Steph, from my city Brisbane came on board as editor...
