Archive for May, 2008
« Previous EntriesWhy Aren’t Some Affiliates Promoting You?
Friday, May 30th, 2008Everybody loves affiliate sales, they’re risk-free because you don’t have to pay a commission until after a sale is made, as opposed to spending money on paid advertising.
If making sales from affiliates is an important part of your online business, it makes sense to create your sales letter & sales process to be attractive to [...]
Unsolicited Testimonial / Feedback
Monday, May 26th, 2008 Here’s an email I just received yesterday, it’s always nice to hear that I’m helping. He’s referring to my free Internet Marketing Course video training (InternetMarketingCourse.com) website. If you haven’t checked it out yet, well… Why not??!
Hi Tim, it is Sunday afternoon here and I just came across your site. (God does answer our prayers) I have [...]
How Much Is Luck A Factor In Success?
Saturday, May 24th, 2008It seems like a lot of unsuccessful people think luck plays a huge part in success… Not so coincidentally, some successful people see to think that luck plays no part in success (that success is nothing but hard work and determination).
Here’s my take:
Persistence, determination, and hard work mitigate luck, but that doesn’t mean “luck” doesn’t exist…
If there are [...]
I Almost Killed Harrison Ford
Friday, May 23rd, 2008…and Calista Flockhart
About 2 years ago, I was in Brentwood driving my scary-looking Hummer H2 (yeah yeah, I’m trying to sell it, get off my back) and started to make a quick left into a driveway on a residential street. Two people stepped in front of me (they weren’t visible behind some foliage before) and [...]
The TRUTH About The Quickest Way To Make Money Online
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008An online marketer was recently asked, “What is the quickest way to make money online?”, and his answer was: Go to a seminar in your niche to network. Fair enough…
But The problem with short simple answers of course, is that they only apply in some cases.
What if you accidentally go to a crummy low-level seminar?
What [...]
Branding Yourself Online (I’m Son Of The Mother Of The Year!)
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008John Reese just announced that the days of Anonymous Marketing online is dead. I’m going to qualify his statement by saying that it’s dead if you want to use any emerging Social Networking methods online.
When it comes to participating in discussion forums, Facebook, Twitter, and other avenues directly related to your business it’s [...]
I’m A Songwriter As Well, Here’s A Song To Download…
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008“And now for something completely different…”
I’m a musician and songwriter in addition to running Internet businesses, going way back… I paid my way through college in Santa Barbara playing in bars/nightclubs on the weekends, and I made a living playing music full-time for many years.
If you’re at all curious about the other side to my [...]
InternetMarketingCourse.com Cracked Google’s Top 10
Monday, May 5th, 2008Not that it really matters, but I just noticed that my InternetMarketingCourse.com site is now coming up in the top 10 results for Google searches of the term Internet Marketing Course.
That site is definitely not set up to maximize SEO results, there are a dozen+ training videos on single pages as opposed to being spread [...]
Musings On Blog Comments
Monday, May 5th, 2008 Leaving blog comments helps everybody:
Leaving a blog comment lets the writer know that what they wrote was of interest, and can help them decide what to write about in future posts, as well as possibly motivate them to keep blogging
When you post and leave your website URL in the post, you get [...]
URGENT: Don’t Confuse Creating Urgency With Dishonesty
Saturday, May 3rd, 2008There was a “complaint thread” on an online business forum today, with marketers complaining about other online marketers who constantly say, “Urgent!” in their email subject lines, etc.
The comments were quite derogatory, basically saying:
Are Internet Marketers that stupid to fall for these ‘Urgent’ hyped emails? When will they figure out these marketers are only after [...]