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…
Creating An Offer For Niche Site Products Earlier on in the week, I wrote an email about creating offers for high-ticket affiliate sales. I sent this out to my list, and people seemed to like it. (If you’re not on the list, frankly, you’re missing out on many great business lessons that’ll help you build…
This Industry Is Too Competitive: Dropshipping Edition Literally every entrepreneur forum and subreddit and everyone you talk to about online business in every single form says, “The golden days are over! It’s too competitive now!” And I know that there’s a gold rush period for everything. I know guys who made thousands a day selling…
Blog reader Al sent in a comment today which I thought I’d answer in an article as opposed to a comment. I imagine many of you come to this site looking for the answers to this same question: To reiterate: Al doesn’t like working for someone else and wants to do something else. Making money…
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 Stupid Negotiation That Freelancers Are Forced Into Let’s talk about a terrible situation freelance writers (and other variations of freelancer) find themselves in that can be completely avoided. This situation is as follows: Freelancer approaches or is approached to do work for a client. The project is large in size, so the freelancer agrees…
Direct Response Copywriting In The Internet Age Have you read great books like The Boron Letters because somebody told you that those books were the key to learning direct response copywriting? When you finished them, did you think, “That’s great and I get it, but who uses actual envelopes anymore? How does this work on…
Let’s talk about Flippa and buying websites. Now if you’re a regular member of the blog, you know we’ve done this before. In fact, most of the articles about this are private, password protected posts. And so, if you know what’s in them, you’re probably thinking, “Jamie… you’re not going to give away the goods…
Let’s talk about transitioning a niche site into something else. At some point, you’re going to have a project where you think, “Should I make a niche site or should I take the idea and do something more with it?” After reading this article, you won’t have to worry about this question. I’ll show you…
If You’re A One-Man Business, Stop Thinking Like One Every time I’ve tried to scale, I’ve hit a metaphorical brick wall. The problem is that I started with no money, no skills, no experience and no book of contacts. So I learned to do everything myself. And I mean everything. Photoshop, copywriting, web design, emails,…