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How To Really Get Your IM Business Rocking

    A lot of the time, people at the starting or bottom end of the internet marketing online business chain are not doing much but learning. Some of us become professional learners.

    We’re stuck in a state of mad desire to get a business happening and complete inertia – the more you learn the more confused you become and the more you realise there is to learn. We flick from forum to website to article in search of the Holy Grail that will lead us to internet riches.

    Well, here’s the news folks.

    The riches are right in front of you. What you need to do (and I’m talking to myself here as well!) is to buckle down, have a plan and stick to it until you get results. Then continue working it.

    Doesn’t matter whether it’s Article Marketing, Video Marketing, Information Product Creation, Freelancing, Google Adwords or whatever. Every system works. There are people whoRead More »How To Really Get Your IM Business Rocking

    How Do You Keep Going?

      Today, I’m tired. When I’m tired, everything seems so hard. Trying to juggle my normal business, my compliance issues, my health issues, my web assets and building my online systems … it’s hard to keep all the balls in the air. And I don’t even have a family I need to look after! How do you pick yourself up? How do you maintain momentum in getting things done for your online business? What systems or processes make it easier for you?

      How To Write a Book: Eat an Elephant (Pt 2)

        Great, so we have chapter one underway and indeed published!  Read on for the next instalment of this clever plan to finalise your book and build your business.

        Now to phase two.

        1. Write the next 10-20 pages by choosing another sub-topic.
        2. When complete, email it to your list of 10 customers as a bonus for buying the first chapter.
        3. Update your sales page to include benefits from the second chapter,
        4. Sell the new chapter at $11 and promote the offer.
        5. Limit sales to 10 buyers (they will be different to your first ten buyers because they alreadyRead More »How To Write a Book: Eat an Elephant (Pt 2)

        How To Quit Your Day Job

          I was on a webinar with Robert Plank recently and he had some great advice using his own experience for how to transition from paid employment to doing business online. Here’s my take of what he had to say…

          9 Ways To Get Ready For Quitting

          1. make sure you pay down your bills so the debt doesn’t hold you back and automate whatever bill paying you can to save time and energy
          2. learn while you earn … there are probably training courses you can do at work that will help you with your future online business. For example if you’re a policy writer, find out how you can legitimately learn copywriting generally or for the web
          3. look for things you do at work that you could teach others eg a systematic approach to something or do a videoRead More »How To Quit Your Day Job

          “I’m Going To Make Millions”

            How many conversations have I had with start-ups and budding entrepreneurs who think they have the NBT (next big thing) that will slay Google and Facebook and make them millions in a minute? This short animated vid is a priceless commentary on the ‘idea virus’ that people get caught up in. No one wants to rain on your parade if you have a brilliant idea. Just make sure you have a clear and logical plan that will get people to your site and will increase their desire to buy. Just sayin’