If you want to reduce the amount of time it takes to find a profitable niche you could do no worse than to take a look at the example set by big business. Have you ever noticed that when a new Wal Mart opens up in a new area they are quickly followed by smaller stores. or when McDonalds opens up soon after you'll find a new Wendy's close by. When Starbucks open up what happens? Smaller coffee stores spring up in the area. Why do you think this is? The market leaders spend a lot of time and money on researching new locations. Do the smaller stores do the same research? Of course not they … [Read more...]
Why You Should Try a Website Promotion Exercise Today
March 4, 2009 By 1 Comment
If you go into any Internet marketing related forum you will read loads of posts about how best to promote your sites and what SEO you should be doing. Now this may suprise you but 90% of what you read is pure and simply rubbish. People read something in one forum and post it in another without ever testing it out themselves. This is why you should stop what you are doing right now and conduct your own Website Promotion Exercise. So what is a website promotion exercise? Simply put it's selecting a keyword phrase which doesn't have many competing pages and using as many methods as you can … [Read more...]
Under Siege From Mass Control 2
February 17, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Is it safe to open my email yet?? For the past week i've been bombarded with emails about mass control 2.0. Every time I opened my mail program it wasn't nigerian scams or email about lottery wins (hey I won 3 again this week...woohooo) that was flooding my inbox it was pre launch emails about mass Control 2.0. The thing Is these all came from marketers I like and trust as the charlatans have long since been subjected to the unsubscribe button. Something is bothering me about this... Now don't think I am going to complain about Mass Control. I'm not, the original product was excellent and I … [Read more...]
Make More Money Online-Be Ruthless
February 11, 2009 By 1 Comment
Hi, my name is Mark and I am an idiot.... There I said it. It's true, last week I had an epiphony, a proper road to damascus moment..Actually in reality it was the road to the Kudu Bar but why let the facts ruin a good story. I was walking up the hill to the bar thinking about some of my sites and admiring the views across to the Mountains in north Africa when I realised that I have been throwing away thousands of dollars. Normally I build sites then pretty much leave them alone, I'll do the odd bit of promotion once in a while but generally after the first month I'll ignore them and … [Read more...]
Working Smarter
January 30, 2009 By 5 Comments
How would you like to work less and earn more? I am going to assume that the answer to that question is “Of course I do you, Mark, you doofus.” In that case you need to get organised. I don’t really do new year resolutions as my view is why wait until new year to do what you should be doing now. But I did resolve to get more orgainsed and streamline my business. Step one was to stop being chained to my PC. Upto now I’ve spent 99% of the time working on a desktop pc . My first purchase of the new year was a wireless enabled laptop. Small enough to be portable and big enough to … [Read more...]
I’m Back and Raring to Go
January 18, 2009 By Leave a Comment
You'll have seen that the blog updates towards the end of 2008 were a bit irregular. I think I was suffering from a bit of burn out. I had 4 projects on the go, a house move to organise and as a result I wasn't feeling very creative. I've pretty much taken the last 6 weeks off just spending an hour or two a day keeping things ticking over and working with my mentoring students and as a result I am back and the creative juices are flowing again. My plans for the coming year are firming up nicely and I am focussing more on what I really enjoy, the coaching and forum aspects of my business. As a … [Read more...]
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