If you can’t see the video, come to the blog to watch it. In this video I talk a little about why I don’t do book reviews and what that has to do with what we decide to do and why. It’s about doing what’s right for you, what resonates with you and screw everybody…
Monthly Archives: March 2011
How I Threatened My Customers and They Loved Me for It
A couple days ago I updated my new ebook already, called How to Write an Ebook that Doesn’t Suck (And How to Sell it from Your Blog). I sent an email to all existing customers, to whom I promised free updates once they bought it. They’ll never have to pay for updates. That’s their reward…
Are You Perfecting Yourself into Poverty?
You have an awesome product or ebook in you, but you’re not selling or making any money from it. It’s in bits and pieces on your hard drive and scattered among the posts of your blog like the brightest stars in the night sky. “Oh, it’s not ready yet,” you say. And just like that,…
Link Journey for March 27, 2011 – The Better Late than Never Edition
Yeah so this was supposed to go out yesterday. Hence the “better late than never” headline concept. For your listening/watching pleasure, I present Beck’s E-Pro, my favorite Beck song, ever. On with the linkage. This is all the cool stuff caught in my nets as I surfed the web last week. Well… not all the…
So You Don’t Have Time to Write an Ebook…
If you can’t see the video in your email or reader, watch it here. In the poll I took yesterday, I asked what was the biggest barrier to writing your own ebook. The number one answer? No time. No time to… make money? Seriously? Are you not running a business? LOL. Anyway, watch the video,…
The Bass Player’s Secret Of Getting Into Your Customers’ Heads
This is a guest post by Paul Wolfe. If you’ve thought about creating a product or service to generate revenue for your online business, you’ve probably heard some version of this advice: create something that there is a demand for and you’re guaranteed to make sales. Michael’s take on it was to create a persona…
New Ebook for Sale: How to Write an Ebook that Doesn’t Suck (and Sell it from Your Blog)
Note: I’ve modified this post now that a new version of the product is available to reflect the new price and features. Boost your income by writing and selling ebooks in almost no time (how? it has to do with your blog). I don’t even know what to say. If any offer on the internet…
Link Journeys for March 19, 2011 – Charging for content, Evil Plans, Blog SEO and More
Let’s rock with the linkage from this past week. This is the best content I ran across during the course of the week. I collected it and saved it for you for a little relaxing and enlightening Saturday reading. Enjoy! 1001 Words On Why You Should Charge People To Read Your Blog – The ever-popular…
The Gamer’s Secret of How to Get Into Your Client’s Head
About the highest praise I can receive for my marketing efforts (other than the virtual ring of the PayPal cash register) is when I hear: “It felt like you were sitting on my shoulder when you wrote this–just for me” (and that’s a real comment I got, by the way). I strive to “become my…
Do You Give Good Link? What Content Curation Is (Done Right)
Curation is the “selection of, care for and presentation of the objects entered into a collection.” As online entrepreneurs, we have to attract the right people to us who will become our clients, and curation is one way we do this. Only in this case, we’re talking about content curation. Content curation is really just…
Blogging for Life Coaches – It’s About Time
If you’re a life coach, executive or business coach or similar, this is for you (kinda gave it all away in the headline, didn’t I?). I’m co-creating a live training program for life coaches with life coach Tim Brownson on how to attract clients via blogging. Let me tell you how this came to be….
Link Journeys for March 12, 2011 – Facebook Comments, LinkedIn’s New Thing, WordPress Galleries and Honey Badgers
Been a busy week, less surfing for me means fewer links for you. Never mind, looks like I had more than I thought! Troll, Reveal Thyself: Why we need to get rid of anonymous comments – A polarizing look at comment anonymity and its effects, sparked by the advent of Facebook comments being made available…
Are You the Only One who Does what You Do?
This is one of my favorite quotes of all time: “You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only ones who do what you do.” ~Jerry Garcia I think about this all the time, and was reminded of it again today because of…
Link Journeys for March 5, 2011 – Multiple Marketing Channels and Writing
This was supposed to go out a lot earlier. My sleeping schedule has been slowly flipping around so that now I’ve become a night owl again, but instead of writing stuff in advance for the next day like I should, I’ve still been creating posts the day of publication, only later in the day. This…
Open Discussion: What Was Your Biggest Online Marketing Mistake? (I’ll Tell You Mine)
I have a confession to make, and it’s by far the biggest online marketing mistake I ever made. I had an email list with thousands of people on it. My email marketing was pretty good: I enjoyed above-average open rates (between 13% and 40%) and click-through rates (up to 26%). But then I had a…
Monkey Brains Don’t Like Change
This is a guest post by Jenny Bones. The decision to kill my blog was not an easy one but one I made swiftly. Swiftly, that is, once I realized there was a decision to be made. Sometimes it’s hard to see the forest for the trees. As my work progressed from freelance writing to…
