I remember being on a date with a girl, sitting in my car, working through the usual date questions and chit chat. This particular girl I had met over a year prior, who I attempted to meet again numerous times but somehow we never managed to catch-up. For a while I thought she just wasn’t [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Marketing, Business & Entrepreneurship’
5 Tips For Building A Profitable Online Business When You Still Have A Job
October 6th, 2010 |
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Leslie Samuel has contributed this article on a topic I know nothing about because I’ve never had a full time job in my life. Leslie on the other hand has been an incredibly productive guy, starting up an Internet business on the side while he maintains his full time job. Here’s his advice on how [...]
Can You Master The 3 Levels Of Business Success?
September 14th, 2010 |
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I just returned from Sydney were I attended James Schramko’s Fast Web Formula 2 seminar. I recorded this video for you that explains some of the biggest lessons I took away from the event. One of the things that made this event unique to me was the caliber of the attendees and the number of [...]
7 Tips To Help You Become A Millionaire
August 27th, 2010 |
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Income Report: I’m A Million Dollar Blogger Back during the early days of this blog I used to write income reports on a semi-regular basis. John Chow made the idea of reporting your blogging income popular, and before him guys like Darren Rowse and Shoemoney would show pictures of checks they had received from advertising [...]
Why Small Businesses Fail & How You Can Be One Of The Rare Success Stories
August 17th, 2010 |
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In a previous articles I discussed the importance of having a thorough understanding of your customer psychology. Knowing why your customers are motivated to do what they do on an emotional level means you can intimately communicate with them, demonstrating you know their problems better than they do. In another article I explained the distinction [...]
Strategies And Tactics: Do You Know Why You Are Doing What You Do?
August 4th, 2010 |
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Inside the Blog Profits Blueprint I talk about a key distinction, the difference between strategies and tactics when it comes to online marketing and building a blog-based business. Here’s a relevant quote from the Blueprint: Strategies are in place to educate your mind about why things happen. Strategy helps you understand outcomes and helps predict [...]
How To Develop A Crystal Clear Understanding Of Your Customer
July 28th, 2010 |
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I recently published a video on why it is important to develop a deep understanding of your customer. In that video I covered a brief overview of the different psychological elements that relate to you understanding your customer and how you fit in as a service or product provider, fulfilling their needs. After reading the [...]
From Zero To Six Figures Online In Under A Year – The Tyrone Shum Story
June 11th, 2010 |
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Click here to download the audio-only MP3 [ 54 MB ] This interview features Tyrone Shum, a serial entrepreneur from Sydney, who as you will hear considers himself a “generalist”. I can tell you though, he’s good at one thing – copying me! I’ve had to laugh a few times when I’ve received emails from [...]
How To Build Trust In A Skeptical Online World
June 4th, 2010 |
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At first, this email made me laugh, but then I realized a very important business lesson was presenting itself that we should be reminded of as often as possible. It’s so important, you’re probably losing potential customers right now because of it. Here’s the story… Fran Kerr from the blog High On Health forwarded me [...]
How I Started My Online Business – Full Live Presentation From The Hive Event
May 27th, 2010 |
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Last Tuesday I spoke at the monthly HIVE entrepreneur networking event in Brisbane (there’s also a Sydney and Melbourne branch).
My talk was recorded by the organizers (hi to Mike, Walter and Nick – thanks for another great event!), and you can now find the videos on YouTube, which I will embed here.
Make sure you [...]
How To Maximize Profit From Every Product You Create
March 18th, 2010 |
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In 2007 I launched a program called Blog Mastermind, which as far as I could tell at the time, was the first blog training program created by someone who had a profitable blog.
Of course there were many other bloggers out there at the time who made money blogging – many who made more than I [...]
Horizontal Or Vertical Business Models: Which Is Right For You?
March 12th, 2010 |
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I recently received this unsolicited email from Craig Shinney (slightly edited to protect identities) –
I just wanted to write to tell you that about one year ago, I started getting into Internet marketing and experimenting with all sorts of different methods of the various types of blogs and tools that all the different marketers [...]
Industry Shift: What The Armada Music Label Can Teach Us About New Media Marketing
February 15th, 2010 |
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You may not know this about me (unless you follow me on Twitter where I tweet music video clips from time to time), but I’m a huge fan of the progressive and vocal trance scene. That’s dance music for the uninitiated, although the genre of dance is massive in terms of all the categories and [...]
Private Coaching With Yaro Now Available
January 27th, 2010 |
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In case you are not on my email list or missed the message I sent out about my new private coaching program, here’s the link you need to visit –
Elite Entrepreneur Coaching Program
All the details are on that page, and it’s a long one, so please make sure you read it from start to [...]
How To Find Focus When Drowning In Opportunity
January 19th, 2010 |
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It was post-lunch, and I was sitting on my couch trying to find my productive energy, with the air-conditioning on during a particularly hot Australian summer day (35 Celsius to be exact). Sitting opposite me was Gideon Shalwick, my partner in crime in the Become A Blogger Premium program, equally struggling to find his mojo [...]
The Secret Tactic Of The Worlds Best Marketers: Become Obsessed
November 10th, 2009 |
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I have a confession to make – I’m obsessed.
With what I hear you ask?
With cars.
I’ve officially become one of those men I never previously understood. Why devote so much of your brain space to knowing the ins and outs of every car ever made? Surely there are better ways to spend your time [...]
Is A Partnership Right For You?
September 29th, 2009 |
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How My Partnership With Gideon Shalwick Generated A Quarter Of A Million Dollars In Under 12 Months
When I first started this blog the Internet was younger and many of the current big success story online companies had only recently risen to dominance.
I was fascinated with the background history behind the companies that featured heavily [...]