Category: Tools

  • 7 Tips for Creating Great Affiliate Tools That Boost Your Sales

    One way to boost your sales is to recruit affiliate marketers. There are a number of factors that will influence an affiliate’s decision to promote a product, including level of commissions, their familiarity with the target audience, and the promotional tools available. Most affiliates are going to be less likely to promote products that don’t…

  • Solve Big Problems And Test New Ideas With A Quick Sprint

    Sprint by Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky and Braden Kowitz reveals a process that focuses on making very rapid design and product improvements by focusing on a specific project for a period of one week. The book says it is a method “to solve big problems, test new ideas, get more done, and do it faster.”…

  • Finding It Hard To Take Action? Try The 10 X Rule

    The basic premise of the 10 X Rule by Grant Cardone is if you multiply by ten times what you believe is possible in your life and consequently multiply by ten the actions you are willing to take you are more likely to make that vision a reality. Cardone suggests there are four ways we…

  • The Pitfalls of a Free WordPress Theme

    If you’re thinking of starting a blog or website on a budget WordPress is probably your best free option. As it’s WordPress you’ll have the choice of a number of free themes that you can use. There are even free responsive design themes to choose from. However a free theme may not be the best…

  • How to grow blog traffic with efficient blog hopping

    Blog hopping (also known as blog commenting)is a traffic generating method where a blog owner visits other blogs in their niche, leaving comments on blog posts and getting links back to their own blog. The idea is to increase the links to their blog and get an increase in traffic. The great thing about this…

  • 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…

  • Choose Yourself – A Review

    Choose Yourself by James Altucher was written shortly after the recession and it shows. The impact of that economic event is seen as the point where the middle class start to die out, technology begins replacing you and it becomes obvious your employer never wanted you anyway. Essentially he is saying that a job is…

  • Who needs willpower when you have Google Chrome?

    Ever wished you had more time to get work done? Ever sat at the end of a working day and struggled to list your achievements since you fired up your computer that morning? For those of us who work online it’s often not a lack of time that holds us back but a lack of…

  • 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.

  • 4 Resources for Clear, Readable Blog Posts

    This week I’m going to outline some resources that may make it easier to produce clear, readable blog posts. All of these are free. I hope you find them useful. 1. Blog Topics If you’re stuck for ideas for your next blog posts take a look at Hubspot’s Blog Topic Generator. Enter some nouns that…