We are shortly going to launch a sales funnel training product because the importance of having a sales funnel in your business cannot be under-estimated. If you do not have a well-designed sales funnel in your business then you will be leaving a lot of money on the table. However, it is one thing to … Read more
Email Swipe Generator is a new product that is being launched shortly by two of my fellow coaching students – Daniel Madeira and Scrembo. Their expertise is in solo ads and email marketing. They commissioned me to set up a membership site for them and to integrate the site with JVZoo so you can look … Read more
When I take our dog for a walk, I slip a small camera into my pocket and simply snap the scenes of Stratford-upon-Avon that I see. When I return home, I quickly upload the pictures to my computer and process them through Photoshop. I use a combination of Photoshop Actions and ‘play’ with the images … Read more
Kevin Fahey is launching Solo Ad Escape today and we have received an advance copy to review it. Solo Ad Escape recounts how Kevin Fahey transitioned out of his solo ad business into the product creation business model. He was earning about $5,000 per month from solo ads but he was watching his conversions decline as … Read more
WP Profit Builder is a new WordPress plugin that incorporates: a drag and drop page editor with tonnes of features including live updates as you make changes to the page in the editor around 55 pre-made page template designs that you can simply plug your own content into This post is a review of the … Read more
I think that I have discovered a graphic artist in myself. I have always been interested in pictures and art. My house walls are covered in other people’s art that I have acquired over the years! Also, when I was much younger, I used to enjoy drawing but I gave it up as it did … Read more
Productivity Made Simple was launched last Friday and whilst the sales letter and upsell offer converted very well, the product simply failed to attract a lot of traffic or attention in the market place. The product was about the fact that knowledge doesn’t change results unless you take action on it. We show our customers … Read more
The video below features Daniel Pink who is talking about the surprising truth about what motivates us. He talks about how the traditional ‘carrot and stick’ incentives don’t work for any task that requires even rudimentary cognitive or creative skills. If the task is purely mechanical then the carrot and stick incentive scheme will work. He … Read more
Eric Thomas is a motivational speaker, educator, author, preacher and activist. He was born in Chicago, IL and grew up on the streets of Detroit, MI. He proclaimed that he had very difficult childhood experiences that pushed him to leave home and drop out of school. Instead, he met a pastor and started to build … Read more
Here is a brief summary of the new products in the pipeline for the next month or so. These are new products that Chris Cole and I are creating. After our success with The Hangout Cash, and our effort to provide tremendous value to our members through follow-up webinars, we have decided that we really … Read more
I hope that you will find these 50 quotations about success inspiring and uplifting. They certainly are for me, which is why I have added them as a permanent record to my blog! 1. “We become what we think about most of the time, and that’s the strangest secret.” Earl Nightingale 2. “There are two … Read more
I think this could be the ultimate key to your branding success and, by association, your business and monetary success (and mine!) Please don’t read this and move on before you have taken some time out to think about how this applies to you and your business. I had a kind of epiphany last night … Read more
I have created a logo reveal with Adobe After Effects. You can see the results of my first project below. I have never used Adobe After Effects prior to creating this logo reveal so I am pretty pleased with the results (particularly because the training video was created by someone with a foreign accent who … Read more
The difference between success and failure is often extremely small. I was thinking about our recent product launch – The Hangout Cash Code. It’s a good product and we’ve made well over 450 sales in the first 2 weeks of our launch, and sales keep rolling in every day. But I’ve got products that are … Read more
I came across the image below in Carl Picot’s Copywriting Forum with the headline – Life’s Big Question – How Can I Make More Money? I thought that this was a terrific headline that made me stop and ponder a second… Because this IS an important ‘life question’ that we all ask ourselves from time to … Read more
We have been awarded JVZoo Product of the Day for Hangout Cash Code which is a massive achievement for us. It sort of marks a ‘coming of age’ for me in particular because it is recognition from my peers that we have created some value in our community. However, my belief in the product goes … Read more
In the pre-launch phase of Hangout Cash Code, we have also been interviewed by Mike Thomas, also known as Mike From Maine. Mike runs a very popular video interview business via Skype and we were flattered to be asked for an interview. As I said to him, ‘I almost feel that I know you’ even … Read more
Yesterday I was interviewed by James Knight & Kristie Chiles about The Hangout Cash Code. You can see the interview below and as you will see they are gracious interviewers. I was thrilled to meet them as I have bought some of their video products in the past and their training will no doubt have … Read more
Han Fan (the internet man) is promoting Hangout Cash Code which launches on 1st August 2014 at 3 p.m. EST. The interview took place at around 2 a.m. in the morning so if Chris Cole and I look a little tired and our mind is wandering from time to time, you know why! Chris is … Read more
Marketing and branding is enhanced by design skills, so I have been quietly developing my Photoshop skills – particularly using Photoshop Actions to create engaging graphics. Creating graphics is a very desirable skill in website design and it can be expensive and frustrating to outsource. My coach advocates that we should outsource of graphics because we … Read more
I’m pitching to a business, CCL Group, which runs a digital forensics course here in Stratford-upon-Avon. I had the crazy idea that rather than telling them that I knew a little bit about SEO and video marketing, why don’t I just make a 2 minute video and rank it. So this is just a test … Read more
Why is is important to build your database? This is an important question because unless you have a good reason to build a database, then nothing will happen. After all, database management is a really mundane and boring task so we need to be highly motivated to do it. Like many small and mundane tasks, … Read more
The Fisherman Analogy: I am currently going through The IM System by Kenster – this is a comprehensive training on the art and science of internet marketing with a heavy emphasis on the importance of mindset. One of the interesting articles in THE IM System makes the analogy between internet entrepreneurs and the fisherman who … Read more
I have just acquired the Sonic Reply plugin which is a new piece of software for creating a branded help desk. The plugin was launched on 23rd July 2014 and I am one of the first customers to test it out. The video below gives you a review of the plugin and you can see my new … Read more
For several weeks now I have been working on a product entitled Hangout Cash Code in partnership with Chris Cole. At the beginning of the year, I set myself the goal of really mastering Google Hangouts as part of my 2014 business plan. So when Chris Cole approached me to help him to build out … Read more
Business Storyboards is a product that covers the topic of business strategy and planning. This information has been distilled from my experience in banking, consulting and, latterly, internet marketing. It includes a number of high-level business strategy trainings. To get further details about Business Storyboards click here.
This diagram lays out the basic internet marketing model that applies to all online businesses. There are nuances to this model that will impact on your success but this is the core model. Nuances could be things like: creating content in multiple modalities to encourage consumption exit pop-ups on squeeze and sales pages viral … Read more
My website was suspended by my hosting company for CPU abuse for 24 hours. I did have a warning a couple of weeks ago and thought that I had addressed the problem by caching my site and deleting a plugin that was causing problems. It turns out that that plugin was not properly deleted??!!! and … Read more
Today I updated my resume using Photoshop and then converted it to a PDF – if you are interested, you can download it by clicking on the image below:
I’ve just added the ability to make sketch videos to the video formats that I can create. Here is the first test video that I made: This is a very rough and ready test but I think it shows the potential of this format where it is possible to spend a lot of money to … Read more