Internet Marketing should always be about building a long term sustainable business not short term profits. Following these 7 Rules should help you achieve that long term sustainable business. Firstly I have to admit that there aren’t just 7 rules of Internet marketing, Internet marketing is relatively new and as such you should discard all the rules and find what works for you. When I say discard the rules obviously stay within the law! So this is 7 guidelines that will help you succeed at Internet marketing but that title sucked! Many of these guidelines are closely linked, for … [Read more...]
How To Write An Article In Under 10 Minutes
April 9, 2009 By 20 Comments
The recent Article Marketing Video Series I did For wordpress Goldmine stretched to over 3 hours. However one of the most enjoyable ones for me was when I wrote an article in under 10 minutes. I have decided to repeat the feat here and write another article in under 10 minutes. In fact it is 8 minutes 25 seconds. The secret to writing these articles is to start with the main body and afterwards write the first and last paragraphs. You'll see what i mean in the Video below. Another keypoint is to keep your articles at around 300 words. Any more than 300 words and most peple start to lose … [Read more...]
Monday Tips – 3 Things You Need To Know
April 6, 2009 By 3 Comments
Here we are with another Monday Tips posts. These aren't strictly tips today but 3 things you should know that might change the way you do business. As with all good things I'll save the best until last and trust me you will want to see that. The first thing you need to know is that Amazon have changed their TOS and they are now stopping anyone from using PPC to drive traffic to Amazon sales pages. In the space of a few minutes people who have built their business on this model are without an income unless they have been sensible and diversified. On the other hand those of us who use … [Read more...]
Make April Getting Back to Basics Month
April 1, 2009 By 2 Comments
This Isn't some sort of Aprils fools joke, I am deadly serious. We are all trying to be too clever with out Internet Marketing Businesses. I want to make April the month where we all get back to basics and use the methods we know work. This has all been brought on by the February Step by Step I did in The Wordpress goldmine Forum. Over 14 days I researched a niche and built a site and did some very simple promotion. I created the videos over 14 days but the actual time taken to research build and promote the site was under 3 hours. Yes a whole 3 hours of my life. I did nothing fancy just … [Read more...]
Is There Really No Such Thing As A Free Lunch
March 25, 2009 By 3 Comments
If you have been keeping up with the latest IM promotions you could well be forgiven for thinking that The definition of free has changed. To me A Free product means exactly that it's free, it costs nothing , there is no payment needed. If you tried to access the Free Butterfly marketing promotion yesterday you would no doubt have seen that Free means different things to Guru's as it does to us humbler marketers. In the case of BFM 2.0 free meant a $29.95 postage and packing fee.. Wow How expensive is postage in the US?? I got a router and an Ipod fedexed over night from New York To Spain … [Read more...]
Advanced Article Marketing
March 20, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Nothing Will Promote your site better or Drive traffic to your site as well a Article Marketing. Unfortunatly most people make basic mistakes when they submit their articles. I recently checked 100 random articles that were listed on ezine articles and 0ver 75% of them had basic errors that if changed would increase the traffic from their articles. Over the next two weeks I am going to be Running an Advanced Article Marketing course for the members of Wordpress Goldmine. Believe me you won't have seen anything like this before. Check out the Video below and feel free to grab … [Read more...]
The 3 Stages of Site Promotion
March 17, 2009 By 1 Comment
The following is an article I just posted on ezine articles, normally I never cross post but on this occassion I think it is worth while. If you just promote a site without thinking about exactlky what you are doing then this post is for you.. "Would you walk into a restaurant hand the waiter $100 and then walk out?? Would you go to Wal Mart pay for your weeks shopping and then leave it in the store? Of course you wouldn't but why do you do the same thing with your websites? For some reason people seem to think nothing of building a website then moving onto the next one before they've … [Read more...]
