I read a scary article about how 50% of the workforce could be freelancers within ten years. Now, being a freelancer and advocate of small businesses everywhere, you might think that I’d be happy about that. I’m not. I think it’s terrifying, and I’ll explain why. Why A Mass-Shift Towards A Freelance Economy Is Not…
Is It More Profitable To Sell On Your Own Website, Or On Amazon? Should you sell on Amazon or your own website? People ask this all the time. There are pros and cons to selling on your own site. There are also pros and cons to shipping your product to a retailer (any retailer, not…
Selling Whilst Being Anti-Consumption Some people have asked me variations on “How do I find niches and buying customers when I don’t really buy anything and live a minimalist life?” A lot of people who are into online business stuff also subscribe to a minimalist philosophy that values experiences over possessions. Firstly; On Adopting An…
How to Deal With Clients Who Don’t Respect Your Time I have received a few questions over the years about high maintenance clients. This article is a summary of my thoughts on the subject. I’ve got a four-step plan to deal with high-maintenance clients which will solve all of your problems in this area. Before…
Bundles For Niche Sites Most niche site articles are straight product reviews. In a lot of articles in the archives, I’ve tried to change this. There are a lot of opportunities to create niche sites that target more keywords and have more content without sacrificing the whole “get them to click and buy” structure. Today’s…
A Quick Guide To Financial Copywriting Financial copywriting is a lucrative copywriting niche. Some of the biggest direct marketing companies are based around financial newsletters. They have millions of subscribers and make tens of millions a year. There are also countless other opportunities and they pop up all the time. It’s an evergreen market and…
Should You Offer Your Services For Free? What If People Aren’t “Buying” That? Quite often, I’ll see variations on the question: “Should I offer my services for free?” The answer is almost always “no.” It doesn’t matter what your service is… free “customers aren’t the right ones to attract, their testimony isn’t valuable and you’re…
Movies And Stereotypical Business Beasts I’ve never really watched any of the “big banker Wall Street” type movies. They don’t really interest me. Sadly I know a lot of the lines from these movies though, because every moron middle management guy who runs to Twitter or Reddit to talk about “what’s good for business” seems…
What’s The Best Way To Learn Online Marketing? I saw a forum thread the other day which asked, “What’s the best way to learn online marketing?” Naturally, the forum thread was filled with stupid answers: “Get Google Certified!” “Buy this book!” “Buy that course!” “Read all of [random blog guy] posts” “Dive right in to…
If You NEED To Find A Business Partner, You Shouldn’t Get One Let’s assume you’ve got the entrepreneur bug in some way or another. This probably isn’t the site for you if you haven’t. If you have, then you might have encountered the, “Let’s be partners” guy. If you haven’t encountered this guy yet but…