Internet Marketing - Mark Thompson

It’s The Small Things That Will Kill Your Business

May 14, 2013 by Mark 2 Comments

I crashed my helicopter last week, one minute everything was fine then next minute the rotor blade decided to make a break for freedom, The result was inevitable...carnage. Before you get too concerned I should point out that luckily it was a remote controlled helicopter and no passers by were injured although the cat has taken to living in a cardboard box. The terminal failure was cause by a very small screw working itself loose. I suspect that it was the cheapest part of the whole helicopter, yet it turned out it was one of the most important and something I’d … [Read more...]

Affiliate Marketing – Earning Commission From Free Reports

December 11, 2012 by Mark 2 Comments

For a long time I've wanted to reward affiliates for giving away free reports. The usual way of doing it is to set up separate reports with separate affiliate links and separate squeeze pages. Even after all that hard work the affiliate won't make any commission on future sales. However that has now changed. My ideal scenario is... The affiliate sends his subscribers or readers to my free report. They then join my list and somewhere down the line after they have seen the value in what I teach and show them they buy a product. The original affiliate then earns … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Affiliate Marketing, Income Generation, Internet Marketing, Site Promotion Tagged With: affiliate marketing, email marketing, Internet Marketing

Is The Internet Marketing Niche Stagnating?

October 30, 2012 by Mark 6 Comments

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...]

Filed Under: Free Thinking, Income Generation, Internet Marketing Tagged With: Internet Marketing, marketing, wso's

Internet Marketing – The New Wild West

August 7, 2012 by Mark 14 Comments

Welcome to the Wild West. There was a time in America's history when the west opened up and thousands of family's who had a relatively good life on the east coast headed west to seek a new life. They went from a place where there was law and order, rules and regulation to a place where there was pretty much no law, and it was every man woman and child for themselves. It was sink or swim time… (That's enough of the mixed metaphors for today) The guys with the most guns generally won and also set the rules and regulations if they then decided that they didn't like them they just … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Internet Marketing, Make Money Online Tagged With: ed dale, facebook, Google, Internet Marketing

What I’ve Learned Online – 5 Important Lessons

June 28, 2012 by Mark 35 Comments

In last Mondays post I said that I wanted to do a mega post for my 50th birthday which is on Sunday July 1st and asked for suggestions, I had a couple of really good ones and I'll try to merge them together in this post. This post will hopefully give you some background about how I got to where I am am today and where I see myself and IM a few years down the line and what I've learned along the way… Grab a coffee sit back and enjoy! When I first started in the IM Business my aim was just to make an income from creating Adsense sites, I quickly realized that that is a pretty medium term … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Income Generation, Internet Marketing, Make Money Online, Mentoring Tagged With: advice, Internet Marketing, tips, what i've learned

Looking at Internet Marketing With a Fresh Pair Of Eyes

August 20, 2011 by Mark Leave a Comment

There is a big difference between the way people go about their IM Businesses. At each end of the spectrum you have completely different styles, Some sit down and research a niche obsessively for weeks before they even attempt to build a site. Others will see a site on flippa or while doing a bit of browsing and immediately build a similar site. In between those two are the majority of us. However we still differ widely in our approaches. some of us start by analyzing what we know about the niche we've chosen others will see a hot product and just dive in and create a … [Read more...]

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Monday Tip – Stickibility – Now Is Not The Time To Give Up

July 11, 2011 by Mark 37 Comments

Over the past few months I've heard lots of people start to get very disillusioned with Internet Marketing. Rampaging Panda's, Google Slaps, Customers who think that it's acceptable to ask for a refund no matter how much they like the product. (Hi Mark Loved the product, but I'm not going to have time to do anything for a few weeks as I am going on Vacation so can I have a refund… yes seriously I got an email like that!). I've heard people say "Internet marketing is just a scam, the only people who make money are the guru's " There are a whole lot of reasons why people are getting … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Internet Marketing, Make Money Online, Monday Tips Tagged With: Internet Marketing, Make Money Online, never give up