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My Traffic Has Flatlined!
Traffic was always a major problem when I was running blogs before and it’s still a major challenge. I knew that I was going to have to address this issue, but till now I’ve been concentrating on completing my product and building my list with giveaway events. Then I received this weeks analytics for the…
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Director’s Cut or Blooper Reel?
I can understand why there’s so much hype in internet marketing. The need to stand out from the crowd has become greater and harder to do and this has lead to claims getting wilder and more exaggerated. But understanding it doesn’t mean I agree it’s the best way to go. Unfortunately I seem to be…
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Profit Hacks – An Opportunity to Learn to Launch
If you don’t recognise the diagram here it may be time to stand back and take a good look at your business. It comes from the Internet Business Manifesto, a report issued some years ago by Rich Schefren. It essentially shows how the majority of internet businesses are organized, with too many tasks being handled…
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What Use Is Unmeasured Failure?
See what I’m doing with the title here? Most internet marketers put a positive spin on everything and give the impression that their efforts always go to plan. Every product makes their customers thousands, all of their email campaigns get excellent responses and their productivity and income are on a continual upward trend. Meanwhile in…
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Strive for progress, not perfection
I get the impression many trying to build their business online spend too much time learning when they should be acting. Too much effort goes into learning multiple traffic techniques instead of implementing the steps as they are learned. Too much thought goes into wondering if their product is going to be good enough instead…
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My First Video Online!
A small step that many other online marketers have made, but a giant leap forward for my own online business. The product I’m working on includes video based training, so this is an important step. But it wasn’t a straightforward one. Now I know recording videos and making them accessible online is a lot easier…
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An Important Business Lesson From a Cooker
Is your online business hiding an Achilles’ Heel? A weakness buried deep in its setup that can bring the whole thing to a grinding halt? I’m asking because after 16 years of loyal service our cooker finally died this week. In all that time we only had to replace one oven thermostat. You’d think it…