How To Manufacture Genuine Belief In Yourself Through Inevitability Thinking

I remember approaching the final year of my university degree thinking about what I was going to do next. I was working a casual job at the local university, the “dot com bubble” of crazy internet company valuations had just burst, and I was about to...

The Critical Importance Of Targeted Mindset Training

I recently released a new E-Guide called – “Master Your Mindset: Productivity And Mindset Training For Professional Bloggers” You can purchase the guide from here – Master Your Mindset Order Page For a long time I’ve wanted to have a...

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, podcasting...

What Technology I Currently Use To Sell Information Products Online

Back in 2006 I began the process of researching which technology systems to use to sell an online teaching course. I had originally planned to release an ebook and was looking at using Clickbank, or even just selling directly with a Paypal link. There were a few other...

My Experiment With The Multi-Author Blog Model, Leslie Samuel Takes Over Become A Blogger, My Bizarre Outsourcing Experience And Why I Left AWeber

This is part 9 of my Business Timeline, you can read all of the previous chapters here. ****** In the last chapter of my business timeline I explained what happened during the four years after I turned 30 in 2009. I covered how I said no to becoming a speaker selling...

What Happens When Your Mother Dies

I don’t know how to start this article other than write the sad news that my mother passed away a month ago. You may remember back in June 2011 she had a fairly significant stroke, which I wrote about in The Day My Life Changed and again in My Most Challenging...

How To Set Up A Stand Up Desk And Why It Could Save Your Life

Sitting Down Is Killing You Recently in the news you may have heard some rather alarming data was released about the impact sitting down for long periods of time can have on your health. When I was younger I’d sit down in front of the TV for entire days...

Why I Deleted Half My Email List

Picture this. You’re logged into your AWeber control panel looking at your different email lists. You’ve spent years building up nearly 80,000 subscribers, but you’re about to do something that seems drastic… You’re about to delete half...

Brain Dumps, Prioritization And Productivity: A Beginners Guide To Getting Things Done

I’ve been thinking a lot about my plans for the coming months and the start of the new year. There’s a lot I want to release next year and it’s all wrapped around a strategy that essentially rests on finally getting myself a proper sales funnel of my...

When It Is Okay To Not Get Things Done

It’s raining, just after lunch time. I’m sitting in a cafe called Blackstar in West End, Brisbane Australia typing this on my macbook pro laptop. I don’t drink coffee, but I love the smell and don’t mind an iced coffee now and then. Blackstar...

What Separates The Million Dollar Information Marketers From The Rest

I was recently given access to the latest version of Jeff Walker’s Product Launch Formula course (Jeff was kind of enough to grant me access as a top affiliate and buyer of a previous version of the course). As is typical for me, I went straight in looking for...

Marketing With Scarcity: How You Can Apply The Most Effective Selling Technique To Your Business

Growing up like everyone living in a Western country, with shopping malls and TV informercials, I was well exposed to the concept of the time limited offer. Whether it was the 24 hours I had to order within to get the extra set of steak knives during the late night...

The Sprint: A Productivity Technique From Software Development Every Entrepreneur Should Know

I recently had a meeting with my CrankyAds team and a friend named Andy who I had not seen in many years. Andy left a software company he founded over ten years ago. He’s one of those guys who can do everything. He wore many hats over the years at his company,...

How Much Can You Achieve By Yourself?

In recent months I’ve interviewed quite a few successful self-starter internet marketers. People like Farnoosh Brock, Brian Moran, Chris Guillebeau, and Adam Baker, all tell stories from the first few years of their online business where they were doing...

The Membership Site Masterplan Original Audio Report

This is the original Membership Site Masterplan in audio version, featuring my voice talking out the report to you. It’s 2 hours and 46 minutes long and was recorded in 2009 after I finished writing the report.

Inevitability Thinking: Why Your Results Are What You Think They Are

Many years ago I was working very hard to achieve certain goals in an area of my life that I had never come close to realizing the kind of outcomes I desired. Because these goals were so foreign to me I had a lot of self doubt, which only increased as I continued to...

How I Created Our Pitch Deck For Investors And Tales From Our First Startup Presentations

As you may know I’ve turned most of my business attention towards a startup called CrankyAds in the past. Our team has been busy with the beta version of our software, ironing out bugs and figuring out what are the most important features to work on. This...

What Is Social Proof And Why Your Business Can Live Or Die By It

When everyone looks up at the sky, do you do the same? If no one is buying a certain flavour of ice cream, do you stay clear of it too? If your friends all wear a certain brand of clothing do you desire to do the same, or the opposite? The force that influences you...

From Iranian Refugee, To Successful But Unfulfilled Corporate Employee, Then Self-Made Info Entrepreneur – The Farnoosh Brock Story

Farnoosh Brock fled with her family from Iran to Turkey when she was eleven years old. They were supposed to leave only for a three-week holiday, but they never came back, choosing to depart from their war torn homeland for a better life.

What Is The REAL Reason People Do NOT Succeed Online?

I was reading an article by David Risley, where he was taking a hard-line look at what he believes are some fundamental flaws regarding the make money online niche. The main question at the heart of David’s article was why people do not actually succeed at...