List Building – Why Do So Many Get it Wrong?

It's just over a year now that i've been consciously been building a list , I've made lots of mistakes along the way but i still can't believe some of the crap people talk about list building. I read several products about list building and they all said  The money is in the List, so build a big list. Wrong wrong wrong.  (I may have even said it myself once!) When will people stop repeating such bad advice and actually think about what they are saying. I was reading a thread about list building recently in a well known forum and someone asked about how best to build a list. There were … [Read more...]

Isn’t it Time You Google Proofed Your Business?

Another month another algo change. Sometimes I feel like getting all my sites and placing them in a basket pinning a note to them and placing them on Googles doorstep. The note would say... "I can't cope any more...you look after them" I remember when google used to use the mantra "Do No Evil" now it seems to just do what it wants. The latest changes were supposed to weed out content farms, the end result is that good quality content has been replaced by piles of derivative crap and more shopping sites at the top of the rankings. The only way to avoid all these google changes is to … [Read more...]

Internet Myths #346 – The Money Is In The List

You are being Misled! That’s not some marketing trick to get your attention it’s the truth. Every day you are getting emails from marketers and they are misleading you. Some of it is deliberate some of it is just misguided ignorance. Whether it’s telling you about some great new product that will make you millions of dollars…that they haven’t even seen or Just telling you that you that Guru x just did a million dollar launch most of its bull. In fact next time someone tells you about a million dollar launch do the math and take off affiliate commissions, taxes and refunds … [Read more...]