Skip to content

How to Start

Just Do It: Make a Product

    It wasn’t that difficult, after all.

    Facing a four and a half hour drive during the day annoys me.

    Not the driving itself: the lack of productivity involved is what gets me. There’s not a lot you can do when your hands are glued to the steering wheel and you need to be alert and focused.

    Or is there?

    About an hour into the drive, when I’d exhausted the phone calls I needed to make (thank you Siri!), it struck me…

    I’d seen a video by Peng Joon who was tied to his car for an hour or so driving to a conference. So he rigged up his equipment and punched out a one hour video during the drive.

    Inspired by that, I plugged my iPhone into the phone holder on the windscreen, clicked on the video and switched the lens to record from the front.

    Beautiful!

    I was now in production mode!

    A couple of minutes to gather myRead More »Just Do It: Make a Product

    Creating a Product in 4 Hours or less

      Creating product for the web is really a heap easier than people think. Fear is what stops most. Counter fear with action! Just start and you’ll find it almost creates itself once you get going. Caleb learnt lots of good techniques from Jason Fladlien and shares his methods here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=cylMlZ7bzNI Which one thing will you do right now to implement this information? Go do it!

      Secrets of Online Marketing – Part 1

        There are lots of people who have been working at online marketing (aka internet marketing) and have become jaded by the stories they hear of fabulous riches lying just at the end of your mouse making money while you sleep or play in the sun in Acapulco. 

        020416_1442_0018_nsmsHow true is it that people actually make a good living let alone a millionaire lifestyle from marketing on the internet?

        The secret seems to be that yes, it does happen. But just like every copy boy can not become Rupert Murdoch or every every country girl become a Governor General like Quentin Bryce, not every person on the internet can make it to the top of the earning pyramid.

        What can you do to even get half-way or quarter way up the pyramid?

        Do what they do. Know what they know. Model others who areRead More »Secrets of Online Marketing – Part 1

        Better Ways To Blog

          So I was just checking out the WordPress 2011 Challenge and came across this girl’s post which has some great tips to share for those who are blogging. Check it out for a few brilliant ideas: Original post appeared at http://phdpanacea.wordpress.com/2011/01/19/how-to-find-time-to-blog/ but is no longer available. Here’re excerpts of her post… “ 1. Be realistic Set yourself a target you think you can keep to, say a post a week – but then don’t feel guilty if you miss a week or two. A blog is supposed to be fun and useful, not a chore or something to beat yourself… Read More »Better Ways To Blog

          Free Offer For Opt-Ins – How Do I Do That?

            Building a list really is the first platform or foundational step  in any business – offline or online.  Offline businesses can find various ways to capture people’s details to add to their database – entry forms, competitions, attendance lists, and way more. For online marketing, or internet marketing, your choices are also numerous but fundamentally they boil down to giving the person a reason to give you their details.

            So, yesterday we said that the first step is to have something to offer people. MP900402896 The idea is that you offer something for free. Now, that doesn’t mean you need to buy something but you may. The key thing is, it has to be something that your targeted readers view as being of sufficient value that they are willing to give you their details in exchange for it.  What can you offer? How about …

            Your First Product

              This killer, 4,000+ word guide to creating products that sell will help you learn how to get the money flowing (without the cheeseball “yellow highlighter” stuff you see everywhere else). Grab a beer (or your favorite frosty beverage).  I’m about to take you by the hand for 10 minutes and get you on the path to making money with your own products in the next 3 days. Not 3 months from now, not a year from now, but 3 days from now. Your product can be made, and you can even have sales coming in, even if you have no idea how you’re… Read More »Your First Product