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How Amazon Founder Jeff Bezos Creates ‘Closed Ecosystems’ To Dominate Markets (And You Can Too)

A few years ago I read the Amazon/Jeff Bezos bio – The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon. In the book, the author highlighted how much Bezos was impacted by Jim Collin’s book ‘Good To Great’, and in particular the...

Why Adding A ‘Live Chat’ To My Website Turned Into The Best Business Decision I Made In The Last 12 Months

In the last few years, I finally reached a point in my business where I could begin testing new tools that in the past I ignored because I lacked the capacity to make them work. I’m sure you resonate with me when I tell you that I frequently get...

3 Different Marketing Experiments I Used To Grow My Online Editing Business During The Early Days

Note from Yaro: This blog post was originally a two-part series I wrote in January 2005, shortly after this blog was first created. I combined the two parts into this one article, which details how I started and grew my online editing business, BetterEdit. I...

Why Having Money To Spend On Growing My Business Led To A Rookie Mistake

Many years ago I went through a ‘rebirth’ phase of my business. I was in a unique situation. All my products had been taken off the market, so I had nothing for sale. However I still had my blog and my email list, which I continued to nurture...

What If There Was Only One Right Thing To Do In Any Given Moment?

Timing is everything. In my Blog Traffic Fundamentals trilogy (Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3) you learned that focusing on ONE traffic technique is the smart first step. Master one thing rather than fail at many. The reason why this is the case comes down to...

How Much Traffic Does Your Blog Need To Make $100,000 A Year?

In the first two lessons I explained how you don’t need as much traffic as you think you do and revealed a smarter, more advanced model of making money from a blog. If you have not read this series from the start, I recommend you catch up here first:...

You Don’t Need As Much Traffic As You Think

In the previous lesson I debunked the myth that you need to be everywhere, on many different platforms, to succeed with a blogging business. If you have not read it, begin here: Part 1: The Myth Of “Being Everywhere” And The Smarter Path To...

The Myth Of “Being Everywhere” And The Smarter Path To Traffic

I may make enemies of some of my fellow bloggers by saying this, but it has to be said… The current best-practice idea that you need to “be everywhere” in order to build traffic is bad advice. It’s bad advice because most people...

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...

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...

If Product Is The New Marketing, How Can We Apply This As Bloggers?

In 2013, I attended a networking event in Melbourne, one of the regular “Lean Startup” meetups. The feature guest for the night was Jonathan Teo, a Singapore born, Aussie raised guy, who moved to the US, worked for Google and eventually found...

Why Facebook Might Beat Google At The Online Advertising Game

During the few years I was running CrankyAds, an advertising management tool for bloggers, I spent quite a bit of time researching the online advertising space. One of my primary goals for this research was to find a way to deal with two issues –...

Blog Traffic Fundamentals: What Are Communication Channels?

It’s been a long time overdue but I have finally released an update of the Blog Profits Blueprint, my ground-breaking report from – and you won’t believe this – 2007! Yep, that’s right, it’s now more than a decade since I...

A Day Spent With Noah Kagan Founder Of Appsumo

A couple of weeks ago I booked myself into a startup event in Melbourne. The main speaker I was keen to hear from was Noah Kagan, founder of Appsumo and early employee at Facebook and Mint. Noah has popped up on my radar a lot recently, frequently mentioned...

Is Email Going To Die?

What is the one tool that every marketer recommends and uses no matter their specialty? It’s email. If you teach facebook, podcasting, youtube videos, blogging, twitter, pinterest, linkedin, or media buys, PPC, joint ventures – whatever the...

Is New Social Media Internet Marketing Better Than Direct Response Internet Marketing

A Gmail Warning, Plus A Reader Asks Which Is Better – Old Or New Media Internet Marketing? If you are a Gmail user you have may have noticed that Google updated the interface to include some new tabs. The scary thing about this is they are...

Which Is Better: New Media Marketing Or Old School Internet Marketing?

I received an email recently from one my newsletter subscribers named Zsolt, who is from Hungary. He had a really great question regarding what business models still work online. Specifically he was referring to the more social web 2.0 world of blogging,...

What Is The Halo Effect And Why You Need To Understand How It Influences You

The Halo Effect, as per the Wikipedia definition is… The halo effect or halo error is a cognitive bias in which one’s judgments of a person’s character can be influenced by one’s overall impression of him or her. We judge a person’s...

Why Following In The Footsteps Of Other Bloggers Can Be A Treacherous Path

A few weeks ago on one of my Yaro.TV daily videos I talked about solving problems by learning how other people have solved the same problem before you. You can study other people’s solutions and then copy them to solve your problem. Easy. Here’s...

I Have Been Seduced By Online Video

Every year I attend a massive sci-fi and pop culture expo called Supanova. There are events all around Australia and for anyone who is even slightly geeky, such as myself (well maybe more than slightly), they are awesome. Whether you are into comics or anime...

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How Amazon Founder Jeff Bezos Creates ‘Closed Ecosystems’ To Dominate Markets (And You Can Too)

Why Adding A ‘Live Chat’ To My Website Turned Into The Best Business Decision I Made In The Last 12 Months

3 Different Marketing Experiments I Used To Grow My Online Editing Business During The Early Days

Why Having Money To Spend On Growing My Business Led To A Rookie Mistake

What If There Was Only One Right Thing To Do In Any Given Moment?

How Much Traffic Does Your Blog Need To Make $100,000 A Year?

You Don’t Need As Much Traffic As You Think

The Myth Of “Being Everywhere” And The Smarter Path To Traffic

The Common Email Newsletter Mistake I Made And You Probably Do Too

The Smart Step To Make When You Do Not Know What To Sell Yet

If Product Is The New Marketing, How Can We Apply This As Bloggers?

Blog Traffic Fundamentals: What Are Communication Channels?

A Day Spent With Noah Kagan Founder Of Appsumo

Is New Social Media Internet Marketing Better Than Direct Response Internet Marketing

What Is The Halo Effect And Why You Need To Understand How It Influences You

Why Following In The Footsteps Of Other Bloggers Can Be A Treacherous Path

I Have Been Seduced By Online Video

How Much Traffic Do You Really Need To
Make $100,000/Year From Your Blog?

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How Much Traffic Do You Really Need To Make $100,000/Year From Your Blog?

How Much Traffic Do You Really Need To
Make $100,000/Year From Your Blog?