The Importance Of Long Term Traffic

Making Choices

To succeed in Internet Marketing takes time.  (yep you read it here first, you won't make $10K by next Tuesday if you are just starting today) It takes time because you need to master several skills, some are obvious such as technical skills, some less obvious such as a bit of psychology.  (what makes your client tick?) Every skill you master pales into insignificance compared the skill of driving traffic to your site. The worst looking site in the world will eventually make money if you send enough traffic to it. The best site in the world offering 24 Carat gold bars at $1 per kilo … [Read more...]

Tearing up The Box.

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You hear a lot about thinking outside the box, or blue sky thinking.. Today I want to talk a little about tearing that box into little pieces and throwing it away.   It doesn't matter what you do online why do what every else does?   Why not find your own way why not take what everyone else does and think how you can do it differently, how you can make creativity and uniqueness fit into your systems, how you can stand out from the crowd.   It's not as difficult as you think.   Easy Video Suite launched last week and got about 14 emails all saying … [Read more...]

Is The Internet Marketing Niche Stagnating?

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I thought for todays blog post i'd try to give you some food for though..Why is the IM niche still selling products at the same prices and in the same way as they have been doing for the past few years which other types of marketing are evolving? I was recently reading an article about how Nathan Barry and Sacha Grief sold $39,000 worth of eBooks (The article is actually an transcript of a podcast so you can load it onto your phone and listen if you wish) either way it's a really great listen/read. What struck me is the sales page Nathan used was the complete opposite of what we are used … [Read more...]

The Future of Internet Marketing?

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Have you ever had one of those moments when the light bulb does not so much come on but it's like a set of stadium floodlights blinding you? I had that on wednesday morning 16th May at 10.53 Central European Time. A germ of an idea had always been there niggling away at me I just couldn't get it to blossom into anything tangible. Then slowly at the London Warrior Gathering seminar over the weekend the idea was nurtured and started to grow. The London Warrior Gathering was the "Perfect Storm" of ideas and circumstances. Peter Garety spoke about building a group of rabid fans by … [Read more...]

Google Algo Changes – Is SEO Dead?

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Another week another Algo change , at least that's what it seems  like. It seems that yesterday google instigated some major changes to the algorithm which targeted Build My Rank (BMR) and possibly other private blog networks. However there are also plans in place for Google to target "overly optimized sites" You read that right, google are planning on targeting sites that are obviously seo'd. I haven't bothered to check how bmr has affected me yet as google choose to instigate these changes while I was flying to Barcelona . So much for me having a few days away from IM! I can't … [Read more...]

When Did You Start Being Afraid?

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I was doing a few small updates to an e-book I give to my subscribers today about How to be Successful in Internet Marketing, it's not one of those …Do this and do that type books it's more a ..this is the mindset you need to succeed type books. (If you are a subscriber you'll get a link to the .pdf version , If not you can buy it on amazon). One of the sections talks about how people are afraid to actually try things. What puzzles me is when do people start to get scared of failure? In the book I tell a story about the first …and only airplane I ever built. It must have taken … [Read more...]

Product Pricing- Is it Time For a Change?

Isn't it about time that we as Internet Marketers took our heads out of the sand and started to think like Apple arguably the worlds most successful company? For years companies like Microsoft and Apple have charged premium prices for software, I think Windows 7 is about $119 - $219 depending on version and Mac OSX 10 Snow leopard will cost $129 as an upgrade. These prices have been justified because of the cost of producing CD's and distribution. However since I switched to an iMac 2 months ago i've noticed a trend. Apple are unbundling their applications and charging much less for them … [Read more...]