CREDIT: Courtesy The Never Settle Show, Mario Armstrong Live video is changing the face of television Sometimes change comes slowly. You hardly notice it. And sometimes it lands like a tornado and if you aren’t watching carefully, one day you look out the window and find that everything has moved. Live video is landing like…
Whenever I teach people about making money with AdSense, I make sure to let them know how easy it is to get started. Once they understand that their original content can translate to a revenue stream, they usually want to know what to do. For someone who has never blogged before, I recommend they set…
This is a fantastic time. I know it might not feel that way. If you’re stuck in a job you hate, if you’re scared you’ll get a call from a boss holding a pink slip, if you’re worried about your pension, college fees, or even paying the mortgage on a house that’s now worth only…
In Twitter Power, I described blogs as one aspect of the social media revolution. I think that might have surprised some people. Blogs, after all, pre-date the kind of interaction that we can see on Facebook and LinkedIn. They’re more like old-fashioned publishing, in which information comes down from a publisher instead of being created…
When I went to my first Internet marketing conference I had a huge surprise. It wasn’t the amount of information that I picked up sitting in the audience. And it wasn’t the fascinating conversations I had sitting in the restaurants and the hotel bar in the evening. It was the fact that people knew me.
I often talk about the different tools that you can use to complement the AdSense units you put on your site. Sure, AdSense is always going to be the most effective ad system on your pages. But you also want to earn for your impressions, and from affiliate links too. A mixture of different revenue…
I’m amazed that there are people out there — somewhere — who aren’t making money from AdSense. It’s not as though you need a doctorate in computer studies and a professorship in literature. You just need a website and an AdSense account. And ever since blogging came along, the website bit has been a breeze….
You’ve probably noticed that I’m often talking about seminars and conferences. That’s not just because I talk at some of them. It’s because I think that they’re essential stepping stones to online business success. I’d like to believe that’s because the information that I and other marketers provide at these seminars is more valuable than…
I’ve been wanting to meet Jason Calacanis face-to-face for some time. For those that don’t know, Jason is the co-creator of Weblogs, Inc., which was sold to AOL for $25 million. I’m at Affiliate Summit in Las Vegas where Jason Calacanis delivered the keynote address this morning. I really didn’t know anything about Jason as…
There are lots of things to enjoy as an online publisher. There’s the thrill of creating content. The pleasure of meeting friends at conferences. The sheer freedom of being your own boss and setting your own schedule. And then there’s publicity. That’s a whole other world of fun. Not every online publisher uses publicity to…