Alright, call this a Dear Diary post. It’s Saturday which is usually my Niche Site Posts day. And I’ll talk a little about niche sites, but that’s not what this is all about. If You Don’t Like Rants, Skip This Section… See, I’ve had to migrate my sites to a new web host. My old…
Invisible Money The other day I wrote about James Holt’s struggle to find decent freelancers. We won’t go over that again. But it’s tough to come up with topics sometimes, because I go to Reddit and we’ve exhausted every possible permutation of what people actually ask for. Namely boring stuff like: How do I start…
In this article, we’re going to test how many of you have been paying attention to my musings, and how many of you understand where I’m coming from when I talk about business building, using your brain and potentially taking on the task of preparing for the end of the world. And we’re going to…
YouTube Money: The Top Of The Funnel Here’s a quick one today… I saw this tweet when I logged in this morning: Now, I’ve seen people debate this sort of thing before with all their ifs, buts and maybes. But I imagine the reality is that Rob is accurate with the figures. Most YouTubers…
How To Sell A Retainer Without Breaking A Sweat I saw this trainwreck of a title on Reddit’s freelance section today: And here I am to tell you how to sell a retainer. It’s Better For The Client Than You First of all, if you go into the negotiation with the idea that you’re…
Market Research Makes Everything Easier… Here’s How To Do It I watched some videos on market research the other day. As you can imagine, there are some good ones and some bad ones. But on the whole, I’ll say this: my market research processes are a million miles ahead of what anyone is sharing online….
Calling Out James Holt RE: Dropshipping & Niche Sites So the other day, James Holt sent out an email about whether you should combine niche sites and dropshipping. In this article, I will give you my thoughts on this topic. But before we get to that, let’s just address this: The email title, “Don’t try…
Writing Is Not Difficult I had an interesting chat on Twitter today. Long term friend of the project and guy I called out yesterday, James Holt, has been looking for some writers for hire in order to expand his content business empire. And he’s not been having much luck. He hired a couple of writers…
How To Cold Email People With Opportunities This article is an important lesson for folks who are starting out with their SaaS platform, tool, course or otherwise business career. Go on any online business forum and you’ll see tons of threads asking, “Does cold calling/cold emailing even work anymore?” threads. In this article, I’m going…
How To Make Money Online As A Teen – With No Investment I saw a young and budding entrepreneur on Reddit this morning. He’s a teenager, 16 years old, and wants to get started in the dangerous world of making money online. He has no starting capital (as can be expected from a sixteen year…