Niche Directory Websites Let’s talk about something I am playing around with right now. Instead of doing the traditional niche website with affiliate product reviews as the main source of income, I am going to do something a little different. If you been following along with the weekly niche site posts, then you will know…
Quick Business Idea Alright guys, I don’t have much time this evening, so I’ll make this a short and sweet article. It’ll possibly go private as it’s more suited to something for the email list. Maybe I’ll do that once I’ve had time to sort out a more comprehensive overview. Anyway, today I was searching…
How Most SEO Companies UTTERLY FAIL At Local SEO (And Everything Else) The average Budding SEO Marketing Guru reads a few articles on the internet and thinks that he can become an SEO guru in no time. Becoming an SEO guru seems like an amazing proposition. You get to charge clients loads of money for…
My Early Thoughts on Thrive Optimize. In this article, I’m going to try and convince you not to buy the Thrive Optimize plugin. This might come as a surprise to some of you, because I’ve been honest and upfront about the fact I use and love Thrive’s products before. It’d surprise you even more to…
Market Research In 2018 This is the latest in the series of “thoughts on business subjects for 2018” topics that I’ve been running. Today I’ll talk about where to do market research, how to do it and the pros and cons of various places. Let’s start with my favourite platform for market research. Reddit Reddit…
Can You Work On A Niche Site With Other Projects? A few times recently people have asked me about niche sites and whether you can do them alongside other projects. They’ve asked me this for various reasons. The answer is almost always “yes.” Multiple men have stepped on the moon. But the real answer is…
How To Save $3.4 Million With Self-Publishing I’ve written before about publishing, self-publishing and the like. For the business guys and girls here, this will come as no surprise: Don’t get a publisher. Don’t get an agent. Treat your material like a business and actually become a business. Yet still authors and creatives fail utterly…
Would-be Authors: Check Out This Trainwreck Of A Fail-Article Let’s jump right into some business advice for would-be authors. Check out this massive fail of an article published by the Guardian. In it, we have a writer – decorated Ros Barker, who says she’s going hungry as a writer but wouldn’t consider self-publishing. This…
Increase E-Commerce Store Conversions Someone asked me to critique their ecommerce store a few weeks ago because they were getting a lot of traffic but no sales. Now, it was a basic dropshipping store based on what seemed to be [REDACTED] I gave them a nearly-three thousand word report on what to do next, which was…
Email Marketing 2018 The next in this series of “My thoughts on business in 2018” is email marketing. To address the folks that are coming here straight from Google or Twitter or wherever with the simplest of questions. Yes: Email marketing still works in 2018. It will still work in 2019. It will still work…