This covers all the systems and process for an online business. In particular this includes information Wordpress systems and the internet marketing tools needed to create an online business.
If you are starting out in internet marketing, you may be asking ‘what tools do I need to get to $5k per month’. The problem with this question is that just about every marketer will give you a different reply to this question, particularly if they are trying to make money out of you by … Read more
How to finish what you started is the subject of the email that I received from Sean Mize today. I think the essential skill that Sean outlines here is having clarity about what it is we want to achieve and then holding onto the ‘picture’ of what that is for long enough in order to … Read more
This article will help you to research content with Google. We are in the information marketing niche and finding top-quality content to offer to subscribers is vital. Use these tips to find what you need. Top Tip: If you are looking for random content ideas then Stumbleupon is also an excellent tool. How To … Read more
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
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
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
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
In this article I want to discuss the critical importance of systems in business because everything we do in our business needs to be systemised for several very good reasons: we need to provide a consistent customer service experience – without systems their experience and contact with our business would be chaotic and unreliable. we … Read more
In this post I am going to cover what I see as the bare essentials required for internet marketing success. The problem with internet marketing is the number of distractions that wil blow you off course. Once you get onto a few marketers lists you will often find that you are smothered in a blizzard of offers. … Read more
In this article I want to cover why you MUST have analytics data for everything you do in your business. You may already be aware of this at some level but it may seem too time-consuming or complicated to set up. I want to address both these issues in this article because this mindset has … Read more
In internet marketing you often find yourself thinking about the next thing to do. This is a transcript of an email that I received from one of the most productive internet marketers I know – Sean Mize. This is how it starts… I’m gonna share a concept I use in my business to get me … Read more
This article about the law of averages was inspired by a recording by Jim Rohn that randomly cropped up this morning when I was listening to my ipod whilst walking the dog. If you do something often enough a ratio will appear. It’s amazing. Once a ratio starts, it tends to continue. This information is … Read more
In this article I am going to outline the process that I use for creating a website for a client. This is the process that I have used to develop a website for Astles of Nottingham – this is a new florist and greengrocers shop based in Nottingham that also wishes to establish an online … Read more
I’ve just been listening to a podcast by Josh Bartlett in which he revealed his 10-step process for creating his products. Josh is a very successful internet marketer and has created two highly successful products: Easy Video Suite (formerly Easy Video Player) Audello which is podcasting software He was formerly an Ebay Power Seller but … Read more
How do you create lead generation funnels for local businesses? If you are a local business looking to generate leads from the internet or a consultant to local businesses, then you may wish to follow the system that I outline below. These are the components that you will need to assemble in order to get leads: … Read more
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
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
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
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
I recorded a short video showing how I create a video playlist in Easy Video Suite. If you know how to do it, it is easy but if you have never done it before it can seem daunting. Hopefully this video will remove the mystique from this process. The product for which I am creating … Read more
Yesterday I purchased a reseller package of 89 videos called The No Cost Income Stream. These tutorials basically outline 5 models for making money online without investing money. They came supplied with a professionally written sales page and download page. It appealed to me because it is what most people are looking for in the … Read more
I’m preparing for my latest challenge – at least one WSO a week. That’s quite a challenge for me since I have not launched many WSO’s. (Also, I am babysitting my grandchildren for part of the time in April during the Easter break.) I first came across the idea of launching multiple WSO’s from Sean … Read more
I’ve just added a new eBook to my library called ‘Super Simple Whiteboard Presentations’ – this is all about how to do Whiteboard Presentations. It is currently available as a free download at this page: http://mark-salmon.com/whiteboard If you’ve ever wondered how to create whiteboard cartoons like this: Then this eBook will review the current software … Read more
My latest product ‘Honey-Trap Funnels’ is coming soon. Sales funnels are a vital part of an internet marketing business but when you are starting out it can be difficult to work out the technicalities of building a sales funnel. My new product will address this problem by providing flexible sales funnel templates that can simply … Read more
This article will cover the thorny topic of how to be more productive online. The barriers to productivity are many: facebook internet browsing email online chat domestic interruptions telephone calls I’ve discovered that after an interruption it can take on average at least 15 minutes to get back into the flow of working, sometimes longer. … Read more
