What’s In It For Me
On New Year’s Eve one of my little cousins got married. Good times had by all, especially when the speeches were over and they opened up the candy bar…where they had licorice, M&M’s, mini peanut butter cups, and candy galore for the kids. Yeah, ahem, for “the kids”. Hopefully my…
READ MORE7 Steps to Establishing Yourself as an Expert and Industry Leader
In the summer of 2000 I was finishing up my master’s thesis in Exercise Physiology at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario (Canada’s ‘steeltown’). At the time, I lived with two buddies, and the only computer with Internet access in our house was in my friend’s room in his basement apartment.…
READ MORECold Hard Truth QnA
Apologies. This was a record week of emails received in ol’ Craiggy’s world, and I didn’t get around to emailing everyone back or doing everything I had planned. So if you’re waiting to hear from me, please have patience…I’ll get to you ASAP. That said, I just finished off this…
READ MOREMake Your Predictions
If you are a leader in your industry you should be writing a “State of the Industry” or a “2012 Predictions” report for your readers. It’s instant credibility for you, plus it is fun to create and your readers will love it. And it’s not too late to do this.…
READ MOREMake Money on Vacation by Selling Photos
They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder. The same holds true for pictures. Any image can represent many different ideas to different viewers. A successful stock photographer has to learn that the hard way. Often when we’re composing a shot, we have a specific idea in our…
READ MORE3 Step Email Marketing for this ONE Thing
When I was seventeen (sing it), I played on an elite soccer team that traveled two hours each week to play (that is, to get whipped by) a team from the big city of Toronto. One day, my coach said to me, “When you have the ball, your job is…
READ MORE5 Internet Marketing Questions Remain
Today marks the 1-Year Anniversary of InternetIndependence.com, but some internet marketing questions remain. You can read the first post – about a scary family incident inspired me to put a deadline on one of my goals – here: You’ll also get encouragement to set 3 big deadlines for your business…
READ MOREMake 2012 the Year Of Giving Excessively
Over the Christmas break I watched a fascinating presentation by the inimitable Gary Vaynerchuk. As mentioned in a past Early to Rise American Dream feature, Gary was born in the former Soviet Union and his father brought their family to America where nine family members lived in a studio apartment…
READ MOREWhen Innovation Doesn’t Matter
A client of mine came to me very excited about how she had improved her website. She had spent several months and about ten thousand dollars making it “easier to navigate.” “What good is that?” I asked her. She looked at me, dumbfounded. “Everyone knows that sites that are easier…
READ MOREInternet Marketing for Beginners
A big thank you to today…it’s been almost one year since I started InternetIndependence.com and Internet Marketing for Beginners and this year has been a roller coaster ride of chasing my dream… …which was accomplished in July after an urgent trip down to Florida to seal-the-deal on the EarlytoRise.com purchase.…
READ MORENapster Affiliate Marketing Plan
In a perfect world, we’d all have websites that sold every visitor who landed on the page. This would allow us to go out and buy ads on other sites, plus TV commercials, radio commercials, and maybe even a Superbowl ad. However, this is not the case for 99.9% of…
READ MOREDebunking the Original Idea Myth
Do you want to start an online business but don’t have an idea for a product? Or maybe you need to add products to your current line-up, or have an idea that is just not fully formed yet. Well, you are not alone. Many entrepreneurs get caught up in feeling…
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