YouTube Money: The Top Of The Funnel Here’s a quick one today… I saw this tweet when I logged in this morning: Now, I’ve seen people debate this sort of thing before with all their ifs, buts and maybes. But I imagine the reality is that Rob is accurate with the figures. Most YouTubers…
Invisible Money The other day I wrote about James Holt’s struggle to find decent freelancers. We won’t go over that again. But it’s tough to come up with topics sometimes, because I go to Reddit and we’ve exhausted every possible permutation of what people actually ask for. Namely boring stuff like: How do I start…
Why You Might Think Twice About Going Into Affiliate Marketing Affiliate marketing is a business model that a lot of people find when they search for ways to make money online. Because of its high visibility, many people mistakenly assume that it is the only form of online business. Add to that the sexy allure…
Alternatives To Affiliate Marketing As A Business Model Yesterday I posted about the downsides of affiliate marketing as a business model. Reader Leo left a good comment: I mean, it seems contradictory that the guy with hundreds of articles on affiliate marketing-related subjects is telling you to think twice about affiliate marketing. Am I contradicting…
3 Weird Funnel/Sales Mistakes You don’t want to make these weird funnel mistakes. Yesterday, I took the day off. So when I logged back in this morning, I had a ton of emails trying to sell me stuff. Such is life when you sign up for mailing lists just to see what’s going on. Anyway,…
A Big Problem With Online Marketing Advice There’s a big problem with a lot of online marketing advice. With online marketing, you can take each element of your sales funnel and offer, and optimise it. This is where the problem comes in. The most common example of this that I see in copywriting circles is…
Why You Shouldn’t Mind Unsubscribers Despite inevitable protestations to the contrary, if you provide high quality information that’s exclusive and original, you won’t get many unsubscribers. Despite people being swamped with content, there’s a lack of good content and you can provide content that nobody else can if you put your mind to it. Keep…
How To Build Your Own Content Marketing Blueprint Today I was working on a scheme that’d simplify my content marketing. I recommend you do the same, and instead of telling you what to do, I’m going to tell you how to do it. Over the course of several years, there are things that pop up…
Black hat marketers continue to be a source of fascination for me. In general, I find it hilarious that so many people miss out on the obvious in an effort to “hack the system.” Take today for instance. I was looking for advice on how to get around constant phone verification on a social media…
Thrive Themes have released a new plugin to members called Thrive Optimize. It’s an A/B testing plugin, where you can create clones of web pages using Thrive Architect and then change elements and send a mixture of traffic to those pages, testing the elements against each other. The aim is to find which sales page…