Good to Great Copywriting in 24 Hours
David Ogilvy, the godfather of advertising once wrote, “Never send a memo or a letter on the day you write it. Read it aloud the next morning – and then edit it.” David Ogilvy: One of the greatest ‘Mad Men’ that ever lived. We may have abandoned the letter, but we shouldn’t abandon common sense. Before sending an …
These 5 Moonlighting Tips Will Rescue Your Sanity
The fastest way to change career is to quit one job and start another. If you intend to work for yourself – and have no prior experience – this path is also stupendously reckless. The smartest way is to moonlight. Moonlighting — v. The act of balancing one job on top of another, often in the dirtiest recess of the night while mere mortals are sleeping. Many Internet Marketers grow in to their jobs by slowly increasing their online earnings until they can afford to work without a secured pay cheque. Another great number of Internet Marketers …
How to Become a Guru (and Dominate Any Market!)
Anybody can be a Guru on the Internet. And unfortunately, nearly everybody tries. The Internet Guru has become a caricature figure tainted by laughable self-promotion, boundless ego and really poor end product. Some of the ill-sentiment is driven by jealousy, and most of it is entirely justified. It’s depressing for a new blogger…
A Memorable September
September has been one of the more memorable months of the year, and to a certain degree, my life. I started the month by getting engaged. Pop culture suggests that ‘if you like it then you should put a ring on it‘. Well, I like her. So I tried to put a ring on her. And thankfully, she didn’…
Neuromarketing: Social Proofing on Landing Pages (Part 1)
Neuromarketing is one of those buzz terms used to describe a recent infatuation with new technology. It’s promise is simple. Consumers make buying decisions based on unconscious factors that are out of their control. The purpose of neuromarketing is to anticipate unconscious reactions and provide the ultimate sales platform: an emotional and logical boot in the direction of your checkout cart. It is a…
Neuromarketing: The Weapons of Mass Conversion (Part 2)
Note: This is the second of a two-part series on Neuromarketing. Read the first part here. Previously we looked at how social proof can lead to more conversions, more sales and more money in your bank account. Social proof is a cornerstone of neuromarketing. But it’s not the only child. In this post, we’re going to look at three of the most powerful selling techniques known to man. Some might call them the twisted twins…
Change of Plans: I’m Moving to America
By now, you are surely familiar with Finch’s twice-a-year, “I’m Moving to…” post. I change plans faster than a badger in a honey maze. The latest twist should therefore come as no surprise. Only a few months ago, I revealed that I was trading London for Bangkok (where I lived in 2010/11). Much has changed since then. For a start, I got engaged to an American girl. Engagement raises a lot of ‘life questions’. Questions such as: Should I houseban Pinterest until the vows are exchanged? Does she really think …
Banners Broker Scam – Don’t Let It Affect You
Banners Broker is one of the most popular MLM programs of recent times. It also happens to be one of the most sophisticated and bloodsucking ponzi schemes I have ever come across. Banners Broker is based around an industry we know a lot about – online advertising. Before I continue, let me point out the obvious. …
How to Learn by Osmosis: The Traits of a Successful Affiliate
There are many blogs, forums and ebooks where you can learn the intricacies of online marketing. Some are great, some are poor, but nearly all are inferior to the process of learning by osmosis. Osmosis is the art of unconscious learning. It is where we stop studying materials, and start absorbing them. 1) Park balls on knowledge 2) … 3) Profit $$$ Learning the Facts …
Build your own offer in 5 easy steps
Creating your own product / offer is a crucial step to long term success and financial freedom. Wouldn’t it be great to have a digital product which requires no shipping, no handling and you can sell it over and over again? I will show you exactly how to do that! We don’t have to lower our standards and become a sneaky low life selling ebooks on clickbank. That has nothing to do with running your own business. If clickbank goes down, you go down too …
$1,000 Profit per day Adult Campaign Guide
Like most affiliate marketers you are probably stuck with facebook ads, plenty of fish and maybe some pay per view traffic. Don’t get me wrong, those sources are great and I love to work with them but what if I would show you a traffic source that is cheap, has huge …
Get paid 300{57b8cc37fd24bce1cf64c8b05d9407ce9171516056c1f5e762677747187a0de4} more for your leads – Why API leads are the future
In recent years, API leads have become more popular and more widely accepted amongst advertisers. Smart affiliates are taking advantage of API’s for years to monetize their leads over and over again. Before I got into detail why API leads are so important, you need to understand what an API actually…
Incorporation as an Affiliate – Tax havens where are you?
LLC, Limited, Holding or should I just forget about it? A lot of affiliates keep asking me for advice and how they should structure their business but there is no simple solution that suits everyone out there. US citizens have a lot of advantages in the affiliate game (fast payouts, low thresholds and easy access to credit cards) but when it comes to taxes and tax optimization they have the toughest nut…
How to scale from $100 to $1,000 per day
The last few weeks we talked a lot about setting up campaigns and how to get started but we didn’t really focus on stabilizing our efforts and scaling them up! A few fellow affiliate marketers told me that their campaigns would be doing 200{57b8cc37fd24bce1cf64c8b05d9407ce9171516056c1f5e762677747187a0de4} ROI today but would be losing money …
8 Bad Decisions When Starting a New Website
A lot of new bloggers want to just dive right in and get started blogging. They figure they’ll learn from their mistakes as they go. In some cases, that’s fine. Too many bloggers are so afraid of making mistakes they never get started. Chances are you’re going to set up more than one blog anyway, before you really start understanding the business. But what if your first blog is a hit? Avoid these 8 …
Want To Write a Guest Post For A Blog?
More and more bloggers are finding out that they can often get better results with one well-placed guest blog post than they can with 10 or 12 articles placed in those cluttered article directories. As a result, owners of high-ranking blogs are being bombarded with email, asking if they’ll accept guest blog posts and what are their requirements. If you really want to write a guest post for…
Try The Sermon Structure For Your Blog Posts
I’m a huge advocate of using templates to help give structure to your blog posts and speed up the writing process, and what better template than one that’s been used for hundreds of years – the sermon template. If you think about it, it makes perfect sense. When you hear a sermon, you sit up and pay attention to the …
How To Make Money Online Writing Poetry
It used to be that the only way you could make money with your poetry was to go through the long and arduous process of finding an agent and then wait for that agent to find a publishing house willing to promote your book. The path was littered with rejection slips and to even consider self-publication was literary suicide. These days though, you don’t have to cow-tow to the publishers anymore. Now you can make money online writing poetry. Self-publication no longer has the negative stigma …
Two Building Blocks of Successful Blogging
Someone recently asked me what I thought it took to be a successful blogger. As I sat pondering my answer all sorts of things ran through my mind: They must be committed, they must be an expert on some topic, they must be able to communicate well, they must be engaging, able to run a business, and so much more. But then it occurred to me – these are all skills you can acquire along …
10 Things Your Blog Doesn’t Need
Surfing around the blogosphere you’re likely to see just about anything on a blog – flashing neon banners, hip-hop or rap music, prizes, awards, badges, Twitter widgets and a zoo full of animated critters. When you see that cute little baby bouncing across the bottom of the page or that fire breathing dragon in the sidebar …