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How To Write Great Blog Content – The Pillar Article
I was writing an article the other day and I needed a reference to what is good blog content. I realized despite being (I think) the blogger to coin the phrase "Pillar Article" I've never actually published a definition of it to my blog. Time for that to change. The...
Understanding Affiliate Marketing From The Perspective Of A Blogger
I've been affiliate marketer for almost as long as I have been a blogger and it's amazing how much you learn as you go along. I was very frustrated by nearly all of the affiliate promotions run on my blog during the first two years or so. Each time I published a blog...
How To Start A Business On A Budget
When I first started a "real" business I was already in a position of positive cash flow, but it wasn't because I had inherited money or because my parents had funded my business project, it was because of two reasons... I had successfully generated a few hundred...
Don’t Wait As Long As I Did To Learn This Business Building Lesson
It's Monday morning in Australia and I'm about to have a group meeting at my house with my team to begin work on something new. For most of my Internet business career I worked solo - and I really mean solo. I built my website myself, created marketing materials like...
Do You Really Need A Unique Niche?
I was thinking the other day about the niche of Internet marketing. It's one of the most crowded niches on the Internet, yet so many people generate an income selling products related to making money on the world wide web. The reason is obvious - there's a hungry...
How I Made Six Figures In One Day – 2007 Year In Review Part 1
As per Blaine Moore's instructions, many bloggers are completing a year in review blog post recapping their blogging for the year before it rolls over into 2008. Instead of highlighting my best articles from this blog during 2007 I'm going to do something a bit...
The Power Of Personal Contact
This is going to sound somewhat contradictory to my advice to "ignore your email" in my article 4 Tips For Becoming A More Productive Entrepreneur - but hear me out, this is a very important point and so many businesses get it wrong. If you think about it, it's...
Blog Mastermind Reviews and Program Outline
This post is from back in 2008 and refers to the Blog Mastermind 1.0 course, which is now included as a bonus with the much more current program, Blog Mastermind 2.0. You can find out more about the current program and current pricing options here -...
How To Market Your Blog With Conversations – A Free Sample Lesson From Blog Mastermind
It's been a crazy last few days. I sent out a lesson to Blog Mastermind students about direct advertising and it was a huge lesson, more than 5,000 words, plus an extra video and audio - there is so much to teach about making money with blogs! In between finishing...
4 Tips For Becoming A More Productive Entrepreneur
These tips will make you a better human being in my opinion, but you have to stay on topic, so let's focus on business. Over the past few months I've experimented with some lifestyle changes. Not all of these changes were specifically about improving my business or...