Can Your Business Make You Rich?

Many years ago I wrote a blog post that looked at the reality of how much money you actually make when you run your own business. You can read the article here – Do You Want to Run Your Own Business? Read this First! My premise back then was that most business...

Are Blog Comments A Trustworthy Source Of Feedback?

I’ve done a lot of online launches – about eight all up if you include closing down and reopening promotions – and each one included heavy support from affiliates, some of whom run popular blogs, including Problogger, John Chow, Shoemoney,...

Advanced Affiliate Marketing Strategies For Bloggers

Affiliate marketing is, and will likely always remain, my favorite method for making money online. At the risk of repeating myself, here’s why every blogger should get into the affiliate marketing game – You make a margin per product sale that is often as...

How To Make Money Online

I was at the World Internet Summit (WIS) a couple of Sundays ago when it was held on the Gold Coast, an hours drive away from Brisbane (my home), on the coast of Australia. Brett McFall, co-host of the WIS, was up on stage doing the last formal presentation of the...

How To Work Less and Earn More By Leveraging The Synergy Between People And Technology

When I was managing BetterEdit, my proofreading company that I sold in 2007, I was knee deep learning from Rich Schefren, taking his Business Growth System course. Rich launched that program on the back of his most successful report to date, the Internet Business...

How To Master The Inner Game Of Business And Life

I remember a year or so ago I was trawling a popular Internet marketing forum. This particular forum has some successful marketers, but mostly the members are opportunity seeking newbies, including lots of young guys who are looking to make money online quick and care...

The 7 Secrets To A Successful Podcast

This is a guest post from Mwangi, as I know him from the Blog Mastermind program. He is by far one of my best students and an extreme-action taker. He came away from Blog Mastermind with a new love for Podcasting and has put together this guide for us on how to create...

Podcast: How Leslie Samuel Makes Money Online By Giving Away Freebies

[ Download MP3 | [ Transcript | iTunes | Soundcloud | Raw RSS ] This is the third in a series of case-study podcast interviews with successful Blog Mastermind students, where we look at what they do right in order to achieve above-average results. First it was Mitch,...

How To Establish Cash Flow When Starting A New Business

If you have not done so already, please read the first part of this two part article series on business outsourcing here – When Is The Right Time To Begin Outsourcing?. In the previous article I discussed the importance of understanding your strategy for...

When Is The Right Time To Begin Outsourcing?

There was an interesting discussion in the Blog Mastermind forums that began with a question about when you should start outsourcing. The impression this particular student had was that outsourcing is the key for success, and it is something that I emphasize over and...

7 Pitfalls To Prepare For When Traveling With Your Business

As many of you know I’ve been traveling for most of 2008, having left my home in Brisbane Australia back in April. As I type this I’m on the European leg of a worldwide journey, sitting in an apartment in Amsterdam. My European travels have really...

Alborz Fallah: The Million Dollar Car Blogger

Alborz Fallah is the founder of CarAdvice.com.au, one of the top blogs in all of Australia in any category and competes right along with some of the biggest media companies in the world for the car enthusiast market in the land down under. His blog gets phenomenal...

How To Find A Good Customer Support Person (Or Any Outsourced Staff)

In this final piece of a four part article series on customer service we look at one of the key components of a successful Internet business – a good customer support person. If you have been following along this journey you will remember how Starbucks taught us...

Growing Pains: How To Manage Customer Service As A One Person Enterprise

In my previous post about Starbucks reputation management we looked at how a few good customer service systems can be used as a marketing strategy to encourage word of mouth and result in a competitive advantage. In the case of people like me and many of you, my...

How To Invest In Websites In Your Spare Time

I remember my first website sale. I made $13,000 Australian dollars selling a website that I had built from scratch myself. That sale was a big windfall for me and a moment I won’t forget because it was the first time I saw the real potential of online property...

Life Portability: Mixing Travel, Business and Pleasure In One Seamless Lifestyle

Recently I was the willing target of several audio interviews. The topic of course, was blogging, however as is customary, most interviews begin with a little background study of the person in question. As a result of telling my recent business history I found myself...

Free Report – How To Start An Internet Business

We’ve almost nutted out the bugs with the new design and I must say I’m very happy with how everything looks. I’ll talk more about the design process (and reveal who did my blog design) in a later post, now I want to tell you about a little free...

How To Build Traffic Without Marketing

There’s something I’ve come to realize about most of my fellow bloggers – you guys and girls are not great at marketing. Don’t take offense, marketing is not something that comes naturally and most people enter the blogging world as writers or...

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...

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...