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New Year, New Timeframe?
So as we rush toward the new year in only a couple of weeks it’s likely your mind has turned to resolutions, if only briefly. I’ve mentioned my resolution reservations before and suggested an alternative. Today I want to suggest yet another approach. Missing targets is a source of disappointment for many, myself included. In…
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Quick Start Challenge Review
The Quick Start Challenge started four weeks ago (see my post Quick Start Challenge – Is it too challenging?) and finished in the early hours of this morning with a bonus webinar. As promised here is a review. The Challenge Each week consisted of a webinar that ran for at least 90 minutes. If you…
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Quick Start Challenge – Is it too challenging?
I decided it was time to hit the restart button on my online business. In last week’s post I mentioned that when we fail we should Fail Fast and Fail Forward. I had planned to take six months to a year to rebuild my online business, but I’ve seen an opportunity to possibly start that…
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A mid year review
Time for a mid year review. It’s tempting to make a sweeping statement like ‘no progress’ and quickly hurry on, but if the next six months are to see real improvement I’ll need to come up with something more useful than that. At one point during the last six months I considered abandoning this blog.…
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Mastermind Meetings – The Advantages
It always helps to get a fresh pair of eyes on your plans, business and products. A different perspective can stop you making mistakes, under or over valuing your offer, or give you new options to consider. This weekend I had the pleasure of joining a group of people with varying degrees of internet marketing…
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Making Promotion Easier for Affiliates
I’ve been working on the webpages aimed at helping affiliates promote a product. They had been set up for a while, but as you’ll see below I decided they could be improved. You’ll find WP Affiliate Builder here.
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Deja Vu and the Sound of Success
A quick update this week. Recently I’ve been looking further ahead and trying to identify good topics for Kindle books. I purchased a course related to choosing Kindle niches and found that I already had access to a software that the course recommended: Ebook Niche Explorer. You put a keyword that’s related to a niche…
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Marketing Summit UK2
I spent this past weekend in Manchester at the Marketing Summit UK 2. Having attended the very first one last year I had high hopes for this event and it didn’t let me down. Over the two days the presentations ranged from applying NLP to marketing and mindset, to the opportunities of Bitcoin. We were…
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Overcoming Setbacks
In light of my hoped-for launch date being abandoned it’s rather easy to fall into a deep well of despair. Hard work, opportunity and the chance to connect with others in this niche seem to have been wasted. At times like this it’s always helpful to look for some inspiration, some rays of hope that…
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Launch Aborted
One of the reasons I started this blog was to serve as some measure of inspiration for those trying to start their own online business. If you believe everything the so-called gurus tell you then starting online is an easy, unchallenging process that involves a minimum of work, creativity and discipline, and leads in a…