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The Common Email Newsletter Mistake I Made And You Probably Do Too
I grabbed my iPhone and recorded a quick video for you in my house in Melbourne. No professional microphone, no professional lighting, just a little bit of post-production editing to keep things interesting. In this less than 5-minute video I talk about the subject I...
Blind Faith Does Not Apply To Business
One of the challenges of trying to do something you have never done before is dealing with a lack of results. While I am not religious, this is the one area of life where I think faith becomes critically important. If you don't believe you can achieve something then...
What Tennis Player Stanislas Wawrinka's Story Of Redemption Can Teach Entrepreneurs About Perseverance
I love January. Besides the start of the new year, the fresh ambition and motivation (and finishing all those pesky holidays)... something very important happens. It's tennis month in Australia. During January there is tennis on all day and most nights on TV. It's the...
How To Relax A Sleep Deprived Mind And Get Back To Sleep
What Happens When Your Mind Turns Against You... It's 5am and I'm lying in bed. I've been awake for an hour and I just can't fall back to sleep. Sometimes I wake up from a dream, sometimes a noise from the neighbourhood, or Ramses my cat decides he wants...
How To Apply The Same Powerful Selling Techniques Big Retailers Use During The Holidays
Yesterday was Boxing Day in Australia, the day after Christmas. For you non-commonwealth country readers, here is how Wikipedia defines boxing day - Boxing Day is traditionally the day following Christmas Day, when servants and tradesmen would receive gifts, known as...
The Smart Step To Make When You Do Not Know What To Sell Yet
In the last few years I have paid a lot of attention to the world of startups, in particular technology companies. During this time two concepts popped up as mantras of every new tech entrepreneur - "Lean" and "Minimum Viable Product". Eric Ries, author of the Lean...
How I Sold My Website For $100,000
This is the third blog post in a trilogy about buying and selling blogs and websites for big profits. If you have not read the first two parts, do so here: Part 1: How You Can Own A Money Making Blog By The End Of This Week Part 2: A Rarely Talked About Blog Growth...
A Rarely Talked About Blog Growth Strategy Almost No One Uses That Can Double Your Traffic And Income In Less Than A Week
If you missed the first part of this three-part series on how to buy and sell blogs and websites for big profits, make sure you go back and start here - How You Can Own A Money Making Blog By The End Of This Week Now continue on to part two... ****** It was 2006. I...
Tired Of The Slow Start, Why Not Buy A Blog To Speed Up The Process
Many many years ago I was on skype talking to a friend in the USA. My friend had a blog, one that was similar in audience size to my own, about small business branding. We were chatting away, and my friend says to me he is thinking of selling his blog. I don't say...
How You Can Own A Money Making Blog By The End Of This Week
Welcome to part one in my series on how to buy and sell blogs and websites for big profits. Let's dive straight and look at why buying a blog or website is such a good strategy, especially given the challenges of starting something new from scratch today. It's Hardest...