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...]
Monday Tip – Stickibility – Now Is Not The Time To Give Up
July 11, 2011 By 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...]
Monday Tip – The 5 Whys & Internet Marketing
May 30, 2011 By 4 Comments
Sakichi Toyoda was a Japanese inventor and and engineer, he also happened to found a small company called Toyota , which has reputedly been quite successful. Along the way he developed a method of problem solving called the 5 whys. The premise of this is if you ask your self 5 questions starting with Why? you will get to the root cause of any problem. The process is still used in many businesses throughout the world and can be very useful in internet marketing. I can guarantee that if you ask any marketer why their site isn't making any money then you will get an answer like… "It's … [Read more...]
Internet Marketing Products – Who Will Buy My Magic Beans
February 23, 2011 By 20 Comments
I hope that I am preaching to the choir with this post! If not I hope that I have at least a few new choir members at the end of it. I did have a post planned about how taking baby steps are the way forward with your business but that can wait. This is more important, if it resonates with just 1 person then it 's a worthwhile post. Do you believe in fairies? Do you believe in Unicorns? Do you think that Jack In the Beanstalk is a true story? No I guess that 99% of you will answer no to that...magic beans yeah right Mark, pull the other one ( The missing 1%...it's the Internet, … [Read more...]
Monday Tip: Follow Up To Do The Stuff That makes You Money
February 14, 2011 By 3 Comments
Following on from my post last Monday (Lets not mention the Friday post I seemed to have hit a nerve with that one!!) I thought it would be useful to show just how focusing on what is actually making you money can change your business around totally. It’s often very easy to create a blog post and not follow it up with actual examples of what the topic means in the real world. So today I’ll look at what analysing my income meant to me and why I did it. There is one rule of business that seems to always be apt in situations like this it’s called 80/20 rule or Pareto's principle. … [Read more...]
Internet Marketers – How much Is your Soul Worth?
February 11, 2011 By 20 Comments
Today I was going to write a post that follows up from last Mondays Post and talked about exactly how much my business has changed in the last year soley because of working on the part of my business that was profitable...but that can wait. I am angry, really angry, you know that anger when you want to smash a cup off the wall or scream really loudly, that's how angry I am and it's been buIlding up for the past 12 hours. So hopefully this post will help me calm down. I thought I'd seen it all in IM, unwritten products selling for $2000 then being rolled out over 10 weeks to give the … [Read more...]
Monday Tip – Do The Things That Make You Money
February 7, 2011 By 8 Comments
So here we are at the start of another week, it's a week full of great opportunities and possibilities. The decisions you make for the next 5 days (lets take saturday and sunday off!) have the possibility to change your life forever... No Pressure then! So what are you going to do this week? just do what you do every week or change it up a gear and make decisions that are laser targeted and will help advance your earning potential. It was this time last year that I sat down and had a long hard look at my online business and decided to focus on a few areas. Those areas were the ones … [Read more...]
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