My First Webinar
Ok, dirty little secret time. I absolutely hate learning new things. In fact, I get really anxious when I have to try anything ‘new’ that involves technology. That’s why I still have a Blackberry and just reluctantly switched to a Macbook last Christmas. Unfortunately for me, this past Monday turned…
READ MOREHow to Pick the Best Website Name
Early last week while still in the United States, I received an email on my Blackberry. I was surprised, because only one person has this email address (my contact from Egypt). As I scanned the email, I realized Nicky Parsons, my secret agent SEO expert connection had somehow found my…
READ MOREProduct Launch Sales Tip
This week was a crash course in product launches. I’ve learned enough to fill 3 months (or more) worth of Financial Independence Monthly newsletters. Today, I’ll try to catch up on the two weeks of questions I missed out on. But first, here’s one lesson from the launch. It’s definitely…
READ MOREThe Big Affiliate Question
The Catch-22 to making money online is this… If you don’t have affiliates, it’s tougher to make sales, but if you don’t have sales then it’s tough to convince affiliates to be your first affiliate. You’re stuck. The solution? Scheme up a great answer to this question and you’ll have…
READ MOREDifferentiate or Die Tryin'
Less reading, more thinking for you today. “What makes your site and product better, different, or more valuable than all of your competitor sites?” Don’t answer that. Think about it. Then answer it. Differentiate or die tryin’. I’ll have another question for you on Wednesday. You need great answers to…
READ MOREStorytelling for Fun and Profit
I’m at a Dan Kennedy seminar this weekend hanging out with my best Armenian friend, Pedros Cooleyann, and Kennedy can’t stop talking about the importance of stories. As he said last night, “In three weeks from now, you ain’t gonna remember the facts I give you up here, but you…
READ MOREPush Button to Make Money
Yesterday was a travel day and so I fixed you up something in the airport…the final 6 of Yanik Silver’s hot buttons for making a sale. Push these buttons and you’ll make the real moniezz. Ooops, sorry, I mean moniezzz. Three z’s on the real moniezzz. Can’t forget that. Now…
READ MOREHot Buttons for Selling
One of my earliest mentors, Yanik Silver, once gave me a list of his 11 Hot Buttons For Selling. It’s one of the daily documents that I review everyday. Yanik’s tips will help you write better copy and email messages…in fact, I study one of these tips every morning and…
READ MOREThe Website Traffic Supremacy
Urgent message received from an Internet Independence reader: “2 of my sites seem to have been sandboxed by Google, as a result of the October 14-15 update. What methods do you recommend for getting out of the sand?” (NOTE: According to Wikipedia, “The Sandbox (a.k.a. Sandboxing or the sandbox effect…
READ MOREEmails and Membership Sites
I’m down in Florida this weekend and will be having a secret conversation with SEO secret agent Nicky Parsons…she says I’m in over my head, but if I get out of the meeting alive I’ll report back to you on Monday. So I guess I better make this QnA good…could…
READ MOREThe King of Launches
Earlier this summer I decided to do two massive product launches one week apart from each other. Bright idea. But somehow I made it through all of the prep work and launch time is upon us. On one of the launches I’ve teamed up with my buddy, Joel Marion. He…
READ MOREThe Future of SEO
There are some big changes going on in the world of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) these days, and it’s amazing the level of “investigation” that search engines are doing to stop SEO experts from cheating their system. Recently I was at a seminar talking to an anonymous SEO insider –…
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