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How I Leveraged My Job To Start An Online Business

October 18th, 2010 | No Comments

As an entrepreneur, I have somewhat of a “problem”. I tend to see opportunities wherever I look. A few weeks ago, I started learning to bake a New York Cheesecake. It turned out very well and all of my friends were very impressed. When I saw how successful my cheesecake making venture was, I immediately [...]

How To Make Money With Your Blog (With Case Studies As Proof)

September 3rd, 2010 | No Comments

People often come to me as an expert at monetizing blogs. Although my experience making money online is not limited only to blogs, I’ve been able to extract a lot of income from not necessarily a lot of traffic. For example, my proofreading business was able to generate a salary level income – sometimes as [...]

How To Market With Blog Comments The Right Way

August 23rd, 2010 | No Comments

What’s the most common and simplest marketing advice for attracting traffic to your blog? Leave comments on other blogs. Yep, it’s easy, it’s quick, and because of that, nearly everyone does it wrong. However because so many use blog comments to pretty much just leave spam, if you use blog comment marketing the right way, [...]

How Blogger Darren Rowse Leverages His Content For Targeted Traffic

August 10th, 2010 | No Comments

I recorded this video for you from the Botanic Gardens in the Brisbane CBD for a change of scenery. The video starts with a brief chat about how I can easily pack up my video recording equipment and head to the park to record a video like this, all thanks to Gideon’s Rapid Video Blogging [...]

How Fran Kerr Turned Her Acne Prone Skin Into A Profitable Blogging Empire

June 22nd, 2010 | No Comments

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This interview is one of the most exciting successful blog case studies I have ever shared with you. This is the story of Fran Kerr, who created [...]

Figure Out What Works For You And Then Stick To It

May 22nd, 2010 | No Comments

Jonathan Beebe recently contacted me asking to submit a guest article. Normally I say no because it is tough to find good writers with good content, but Jonathan did a few things right that convinced me to give him a shot. His email was short, to the point and he came across as a nice [...]

Bloggers: Are You Writing In Your True Voice?

April 19th, 2010 | No Comments

I’ve been working with a private client recently to help with her blog (hello Pat from GolfGurls.com), and through our time together she reminded me of a common challenge many new bloggers face.
Perhaps this is not so much a mistake as an adjustment that needs to be made as you begin the process of [...]

Why I Tweaked My Blog Design

April 1st, 2010 | No Comments

My blog designer Nate Whitehill, one of the mad geniuses behind UniqueBlogDesigns.com, has enjoyed the experience of working with me on a few tweaks to my blog design during the last few days.
I can be a bit pedantic with changes, so I have to thank Nate for his patience. Here’s a snapshot of my blog [...]

Do You Want A Copy Of My Definitive Guide To SEO For Bloggers?

March 10th, 2010 | No Comments

It was early 2006. I had been blogging for over a year and felt I had achieved something.
My blog had recently surpassed 1,000 RSS subscribers (what is RSS), making it at the time the most popular website I had ever built. The income was solid – up to $2,000 a month at best – and [...]

10 Tactics To Make Your Blog Stand Out

February 9th, 2010 | No Comments

One of the things I enjoy the most about blogs, especially blogs that are run by one individual, is analyzing why the blog is successful.
What is the magic ingredient that makes this blog succeed, when so many others fail?
Based on my observations, here are some of the elements you can apply to make your [...]

Video: How To Rapidly Grow Your Blog Traffic

February 4th, 2010 | No Comments

Update: We just switched on the $1 Trial for Become A Blogger Premium, so you can create your account right at this page -
www.becomeablogger.com/signup/
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(Yaro’s Presentation On Impact Marketing Techniques.)

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X-Factor Video: Gideon Reveals The $13,000 Webinar Formula

February 3rd, 2010 | No Comments

The “X-Factor” is a term Gideon and I applied to blogging, where you use multimedia and/or social media to enhance your blog’s growth.
The idea is that “standard” blogging practices may not be enough to make your blog stand out, and since it’s so easy today to make use of multimedia and social media, why not [...]

Become A Blogger Premium Opening This Week

February 2nd, 2010 | No Comments

Gideon Shalwick and I are opening our very popular Become A Blogger Premium video training program this week.
We’ve had over 2,000 people take this course during the past year, so it is by far the most successful program I run in terms of raw number of people who have joined.
If you’ve not participated before, then [...]

Personal Theme Review: A WordPress Theme For Bloggers Who Get Personal

January 30th, 2010 | No Comments

Joel from BlogTechGuy.com is fast becoming one of the best WordPress experts around. He has already reviewed two premium WordPress themes on my blog, so when Kevin Muldoon offered a review copy of his theme, Joel was happy to check it out and then write this review. Here’s what Joel thinks of the “Personal Theme” [...]

Headway Theme Review â€“ This Makes Changing Your Blog Design Easy

December 7th, 2009 | No Comments

This is a review of the Headway WordPress theme, written by Joel Williams from BlogTechGuy.com.
Joel is the person I refer to the most when people need technical changes done to their WordPress blogs. Given Joel’s strong knowledge of the WordPress platform he’s perfect to review this premium theme.
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Squeeze Theme Review â€“ The Ultimate Email List Building WordPress Theme

November 24th, 2009 | No Comments

Squeeze Theme is the latest blog theme from the guys at Unique Blog Designs, who are the designers of some of the top blogs in the world, including the one you are reading right now.
Squeeze Theme is a premium theme for the WordPress blogging platform. Its purpose is to add significant additional functionality and scope [...]

Who Makes More Money â€“ Authors, Bloggers or Internet Marketers?

November 17th, 2009 | No Comments

I suspect after reading the headline of this article one of the first things that crossed your mind is how can I possibly distinguish the difference between an author, blogger and Internet marketer?
Nowadays most published authors have blogs, and bloggers use Internet marketing techniques and write books too. Internet marketers also publish books and use [...]

How Pat Flynn Lost His Job Then Made $203,219.04 In His First Year Online

November 5th, 2009 | No Comments

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Pat Flynn has an inspiring story that you must listen to if you are like many people around the world who recently lost their job and want [...]

How To Avoid Hype When You Sell

November 2nd, 2009 | No Comments

There’s an interesting challenge I’ve come up against many times, which I think most professional bloggers know well.
The challenge is how to sell something without using all that horrible “hype” that Internet marketers use.
But wait a second. Hype actually works, or at least good “sales copy” works if you call convincing people to buy what [...]

Fast Action Bonuses If You Join Membership Site Mastermind Today

October 27th, 2009 | No Comments

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Membership Site Mastermind, my coaching course on how to successfully plan, build and launch a membership site or information product is now open for the final class of 2009. You can join here -

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