Why The Lifestyle Blogger Business Model Is Broken Tons of people want to start travel sites or become the next great lifestyle blogger. Sadly, like all of the glamorous new occupations – like being a YouTube star or fitness meme – there’s a broken business model behind the whole thing. It’s a pyramid where…
Broken Business Models: Selling To The Unlearned Leading on from yesterday’s post on a broken business model, here’s another topic inspired by the weird folks at Reddit. (Bear in mind whenever you ask for help on an entrepreneur forum, these are the sorts of people who’ll drop advice on you.) Essentially, you’ve got a guy…
New Business? Take The Path Of Least Resistance Today, I spent a couple of hours watching a video course. It was ostensibly about email marketing/list building, but really it was a set of four minute videos about how email marketing works and why you should do it. The product wasn’t very good, and that’s an…
Amazon announced changes to its affiliate program sometime either yesterday or overnight or something. Predictably, certain haunts are proclaiming that this is the literal end of the world and affiliate marketing as we know it. It’s not… the fundamental nature of affiliate marketing hasn’t changed. Despite Amazon’s size and power, it won’t change. This is…
Seven Stages Of A Business Idea I’ve been putting together a business plan over the past couple of days. During this time, I’ve been making notes and trying to understand and optimise the entire process. Anyone who is into business stuff will know that there’s a ton of inefficiency when it comes to starting a…
Where To Put Testimonials (Reader Question) Yesterday on Twitter, a reader asked about the structure and flow of copy. The specific example he asked about was where to put testimonials without interrupting the flow the copy. This is a good question, and it’s not something that’s talked about anywhere that I’ve seen. I’ve never really…
How You Can Build a Niche Website In One Day I’ve been building and writing for niche sites for a while now. I’m doing a niche site challenge – the goal, to create 28 niche sites in a year and earn a huge amount of money. I won’t clog up this article with more of…
Niche Site Sales Letters: Other Things You’ll Add This is going to be a relatively quick post. Yesterday I wrote an update for the niche site challenge, and I was struggling for things to write. Naturally, the minute I hit “Publish” and went on with other stuff, a thought for a post came to me….
Why Writing Books Is An Incredible Investment For some reason, secondary school didn’t completely kill my interest in arithmetic. This article is going to be a basic guide to the arithmetic of being a writer. A lot of people think that you have to starve if you’re a writer. A lot of people assume that…
Business Ideas: Information Arbitrage Here’s a quick idea for all you future business emperors out there. Let’s Talk About Arbitrage In the digital nomad era, we’re used to hearing about arbitrage. In its most common form, arbitrage is generally referred to in terms of earning in one currency and living in a place where you…