What You Need To Know About Web Design and Development In 2018 You’ve probably read the title and are thinking, “Jamie… you know nothing about web design. Look at this place!” You’d be right on that one. Over the Christmas period, I decided to upgrade this place, and so I’m talking from a place of…
Why You Find Scaling Your Business Impossible… A Halfwit Tells All Let’s talk about how Jamie McSloy is an idiot. For most of the time I’ve been writing this blog, I know I’ve needed to scale, redistribute the work and all manner of things that make my life easier and my business more profitable. And yet progress…
“That Won’t Work On Me” It’s amazing how people think that persuasion and sales don’t work on them. There are a ton of reasons that people will go for – I’ve heard so many I’ve long since lost track of all of them. And back when I was young at the copywriting game, I used…
Pay Per Click Advertising: Where To Start Reader and Twitter buddy Cattaboy asked about PPC advertising the other day. He said he’s rather ask me than go to the untrustworthy world of the internet. Good choice. Because I’m an honest and decent fellow, here’s my disclaimer: I’m far from an expert with PPC. Take all…
Whenever I take a weekend off I come back to some crazy, stupid Internet stuff. In my absence this weekend, it turns out some author has decided to trademark the word “cocky” for use in romance titles. This has caused a storm online and I know of several people who’ve received takedown notices on their…
Any Marketing Exists Within A Wider Context Occasionally, I’ll see someone asking questions like; “What is the best platform to use to make money?” “Which is the best social media site for marketing?” “How do you turn YouTube traffic into sales?” “Should I concentrate on SEO or social media?” Some people say “There are no…
Common Freelance Writing Scams And How To Avoid Them Let’s say you’re getting started in the world of freelance writing. You want to build a portfolio of work and hopefully move outside the fly-by-night SEO copywriting gigs that you’ll find on freelance marketplaces. So you start prospecting companies and checking out job boards and things….
How To Be A Successful Copywriter In 2018 So you want to be a copywriter? It’s as good a New Year’s Resolution as any. I’ve written what feels like hundreds of posts on this topic. Check out the archive for as many copywriting posts as you can handle. In this article, I’ll give you the…
Friend of the blog Kyle has a new venture, and I’m pretty interested in seeing where it goes. He’s starting up an olive oil business with a friend, and they’re going to export from Croatia and import the oil into the US. I’m interested in this because I feel like nobody talks enough about taking…
General Affiliate Programs Revisited Last week’s niche site article was somewhat short due to an unexpected spanner in the works. Let’s go into the same topic again with a little more breathing room. Most topics you’ll write about have crossover. The worst thing about starting a new niche website (r any project really) is not…