I’ve been procrastinating on getting this private members’ site thing going for about a year now. What I needed is a self-administered kick-in-the-teeth. In other news, James Holt tweeted about an idea for a new niche site the other day. I woke up this morning, and a crazy new scheme had come to me: A…
I saw another Reddit thread the other day where somebody was asking about the most difficult copywriting. They wanted to know whether there was any copywriting that was harder than all the other copywriting. Seeing as I couldn’t think of anything else to write about today, (and I also still can’t type because of injured…
Questions On Niche Site Authenticity A reader writes in to ask the following questions: Jamie, keep bouncing back to your site to read about niche sites, love your content. Is it necessary to own the products your niche site reviews, have a picture of yourself in the about me and use your real name in…
Niche Site Mindmaps I wrote ages ago about mindmapping as a tool. I could have done better with some real world examples. Today, I’ll give you a real world example for setting up a template for niche sites. This is one of those topics I’ll take down eventually because it’s giving the game away, and…
Ramit Sethi’s Copywriting Secrets EXPOSED About an hour ago, Dennis Demori posted a link to a sales letter by Ramit Sethi, and then brought it to my attention. You can read the sales letter here, but I enjoyed reading it and thought I’d break it down on the blog. Why? Two reasons: It’s a…
A Twitter follower asked for help on fiction-writing success. Coming off the back of a niche site tweet about creating assets for passive income, he asked how to approach doing so with fiction. In particular, he wanted to know about writing serials, marketing books and getting people invested in the world he has created. That’s…
New Ways Of Doing Things – And Niche Sites So I started a new niche site recently. Well, I say started a new niche site but it’s not online yet. I bought the domain. I am writing the material in Word and I have an excel document with all the stuff I need to do….
Copying Versus Copywriting It’s common for new copywriters to feel that they aren’t so much writing as they are copying. I saw a guy on Reddit the other day who fit this description. I think that he was working for a copywriting agency but I’m not sure. Anyway, this guy was going about his business…
Freelance Platforms Are Rubbish – 2018 Edition I’ve been hearing rumours from various corners that there’s trouble afoot with a couple of the big freelance platforms. Namely, Upwork and PeoplePerHour. Now, freelance platforms can be a mixed bag at the best of times, which is why I’ve written about this before in What To Do…
How To Decide Your Lead-Magnet I worked on a project a while back with a person who wanted advice on the lead magnets they should use. I made sure she avoided a couple of big errors: Making a lead magnet that’s inconsistent with the rest of the funnel Trying to do too much and be…