Pro-Business Tip: Help People Save Money There are a lot more people that want to be entrepreneurs than ever will be entrepreneurs. It’s a sad fact. There’s no one issue that keeps people from achieving the dream – it tends to be a mix of different factors. Maybe you’ve got a full-time job, a couple…
Niche Site Challenge Week 28 It is week twenty-eight of the Niche Site Challenge. For those of you who do not know, the niche site challenge is an informal little challenge that I run on my website and post about every week. The challenge is as follows; You build multiple little websites with the idea…
Pay Attention to your Business Idea Blind Spots If you’re running an online business, then chances are you’ll spend a lot of money. You’ll buy software, memberships, courses, more software, software as a service, more software, WordPress themes, Photoshop templates and more software… the list goes on. When you think of the above things as…
The Basics Of Online Course Creation I’ve been working on an online course recently. There’s a lot of terrible information out there and there are a lot of good articles. I’ve broken down the success of an online course into two constituent parts, with a third little addendum to those two as well. Read below…
Perceived Value: It’s All Relative and Subjective Here’s one of those super-secret sales truths that scientists/experts/salesmen/politicians don’t want you to know. If you harness this knowledge, then you’ll be better at copywriting, sales and business. The secret knowledge is that most of sales, especially of premium products, is about creating perceived value. Sure, when we…
How to Sell a Paid Item When There Is A Free Option Most great things in life are free. However, human beings love their shiny items and complex solutions to simple problems. That’s terrible for the average consumer, but for the super evil salesman it’s a great thing. At least, you’d think it would be….
Working On Your Writing Weaknesses Today’s article is going to be about something that we can all do as writers. It’s my process for getting better at writing aspects which I am pretty flawed in. It’s in five steps: Recognise the flaw. Find good examples and hand copy them. Backwards engineer to create your own….
Post-Modern Pulp Fiction This week, I’ve been writing topics which really spell out some fundamental aspects of my writing process. I’ve been doing this because I’ll often have an idea for an article, and then realise that it references something I simply haven’t talked about before. Today, I wanted to write about something I may…
The Low Barrier To Entry For Writers Nearly everyone who has considered being a writer has heard some variation on the phrase, “Everyone wants to be a writer.” It could come in a thousand different forms. Here are a few I’ve personally heard: “If making money writing were that easy, everyone would do it!” “Everyone…
Thrive Content Builder Review I’m a design amateur. I simply don’t have a natural ability to see things in my mind and then translate them onto page or screen so that they look good. Since taking up photography and trying to design landing pages, I’ve gotten a lot better. However, I’m nowhere near great at…