Marketing Mockups
Marketing mock-ups are great for branding businesses. These are graphics that enable us to quickly and easily brand our businesses by placing our own logo or branding material into the image. Here are a few examples for a potential new customer I am working on:
Work For Yourself First
Work for yourself first is a mindset that feels totally wrong. Usually the advice is to concentrate on giving your customers the best product or service and success will surely follow. However, in my consulting business I learnt a valuable lesson that may help you. I found my consulting income fluctuating wildly simply because I … Read more
5 Vital Parts
There are 5 vital parts to your information marketing business, regardless of the income level to which you aspire, and the skill you teach your clients, members, buyers, and subscribers. 1) The thing that you teach that changes lives, that solves problems, or relieves challenges. 2) Traffic – A way to get people who have the … Read more
What Does Monetisation Look Like in YOUR Business?
What does monetization look like in YOUR business? This is the topic in Sean Mize’s latest email to me and he went on to say: Sometimes I feel like when I see folks working on their business . . . they don’t know WHY they are doing what they are doing. They don’t have … Read more
Mans Search For Meaning
I have been reading ‘Mans Search For Meaning’ by Victor Frankl. Victor Frankl was a survivor of Auschwitz and also a psychologist. Here is my favourite passage from the book – I will cover how this is relevant to internet marketing and running your own business afterwards: The experiences of camp life show that man … Read more
Start Small – End Big
How to start small and end big Part 1 – Starting Small Seriously, I see people so focused on making a million dollars tomorrow or their next big $10,000 campaign . . but they haven’t made a penny in the last 30 days. If that’s the case with you, the question is: ‘what are you doing … Read more
I Believe in YOU
I Believe In You – the message that Frank Kern sent to me!!! He went on to say… Let me tell you something about YOU. YOU can do anything you want. YOU are in control. YOU can achieve as much success as you want to. YOU can and will pick yourself up when life knocks you down. I … Read more
No Products = Nothing to Sell = No Revenue
No Products = Nothing to Sell = No Revenue – I received a email from Sean Mize with this headline. Frankly, that subject line says a lot . . .not all, but a lot! So often I see folks who are struggling to get their business going online and make money and I see them doing … Read more
Are You Marketing or Teaching Your Passion?
So . . . are you marketing or teaching your passion or craft? This is a copy of an email sent to me by Sean Mize and I think it is great advice. So many folks I talk with are spending hours each day trying to “market” or “sell” or something like that. … Read more
Get Good Enough At Anything…
I was watching a video about selling art and the presenter said ‘Get good enough at anything and someone will pay you to do it.‘ Examine that sentence for a second and feel the truth of it. This is a profound and liberating truth. It means that you can either pick something you are already … Read more
Envato Graphics Competition – My Entry
I have entered the Envato graphics competition where there is $2,000 in prizes up for grabs. The competition is based around the Flex Photoshop Action. Here are my entries: [before-after viewer_position=”center” is_wiggle=”true”] [/before-after] [before-after viewer_position=”center” is_wiggle=”true”] [/before-after]
Why I Want To Leave The EU on 23rd June
Here are some of the reasons why I want to leave the EU on 23rd June: Institutional Fraud The EU has not had an audit signed off since inception. Each year billions of euros wash through the hands of the bureaucrats in the EU. In my previous experience in the banking industry, any time that … Read more
Act Like Who You Are – Sean Mize
(This is an email that I received from Sean Mize entitled ‘Act Like Who You Are’ – I am copying it to my blog because this is a great strategy.) There’s a fallacy floating around in the im space that says you have to be a “marketer” and learn to “market” and “sell” and “write copy” … Read more
How To Create An Irresistible Offer
In order to create an irresistible offer you first have to understand the true value of what you are offering. It’s NOT the e-book, audio video or even coaching or any of the products or services that you have to offer! The core value is how what you offer will change the life of your customer i.e. … Read more
How to Build a Buyers List
In this article about how to build a buyers list, I want to show you how to build a buyers list by using other people’s product promotions. Why should we want to build a buyers list rather than a list created by offering a free offer? The simple answer is that a buyers list will generate more … Read more
Print on Demand With Redbubble.com
I’ve found a good print on demand site at Redbubble.com and I am selling my graphics through this site. Below are a sample of a few of my products: Although I tried to set up a print-on-demand shop through Photobox I did not like their solution. They then decided to outsource their solution to a … Read more
My Website Has Been Hacked!
My website has been hacked! This realisation hit me just a couple of days a go and it made me sick to my stomach. I found that I couldn’t login to my site and then I noticed that the hackers had changed the favicon on my login page. My immediate reaction was panic and to … Read more
What is a good Squeeze Page Conversion Rate?
You may be asking yourself what is a good squeeze page conversion rate? The truth is that this is a bit like asking ‘how long is a piece of string’ because there are a number of critical factors that will influence the conversion rate of any particular squeeze page: Quality of the traffic The ‘quality’ … Read more
#1 Market Research: Using Facebook
In this post I want to cover how to do market research using Facebook. Facebook currently has 1.6 billion monthly active users worldwide and they are busy gathering data on all their users. You can access some of the data through Facebook Audience Insights. Go to your Facebook account and search for ‘Audience Insights’. Simply … Read more
The Internet Marketing Lifestyle
In this article I want to discuss the internet marketing lifestyle and specifically what it means to me and how anyone can achieve it. There is a lot of hype about making vast sums of money from internet marketing – some do but many don’t. In fact the failure rate in internet marketing is high … Read more
Here’s What Internet Marketing REALLY Is
I started internet marketing full-time in April 2009 but it has always been difficult to explain to others what internet marketing really is. I’ve struggled to come up with a simple explanation but I recently had a moment of epiphany. I was watching the introduction to one of Eban Pagan’s courses and he suddenly asked … Read more
Graphics Review 2015: My 2015 Graphics Review
This is my graphics review 2015. In 2015, I took a different direction with my business. It started with my interest in creating better graphics for my websites but gradually the process of creating art-work from any photograph took me over with a passion. Sometimes in life you just have to follow your passion and … Read more
The Systems Mindset
I’ve just read a ebook called ‘The Systems Mindset’ by Sam Carpenter. This is his second book – his first book was called ‘Work The System’. Both books are well worth reading. As I read The Systems Mindset. I decided to note down a few quotations from this 164 page book to give you a … Read more
Playing The Ball Where It Lies
‘Playing the ball where it lies’ is a golfing term and the story told in this video extract struck a chord with me, particularly as I used to play golf. Listen in for 4 minutes to the video below because I think that resistance to ‘playing the ball where it lies’ both in business and … Read more
Improving The Life Of My Customers
I have been looking for a new way to improve the life of my customers because I pretty much became disillusioned with the value I was offering my clients in the highly competitive niche of internet marketing. I needed to find a new way of progressing my business and in order to do that I … Read more
Internet Marketing Explained
‘Internet Marketing Explained’ is my attempt to explain internet marketing as simply and with as much clarity as I can from the perspective of over 6 years of internet marketing experience. It is easy to lose sight of the simplicity of the internet marketing model because there are so many distractions and offers that confuse … Read more
Website Planning Questions
I have set out some website planning questions on a mind map. These are questions that I need to cover to scope a website design project before quoting a price. I thought that I would add this to my blog because I am certain that I will think of additional things to add to this … Read more
