I have no idea what I’m doing. I know, I’m supposed to be the expert, right? I’m the guy who wrote a best-selling book on earning money with AdSense, and another top-seller on Twitter. I’ve built a gaming site that was sold to Yahoo! and put together content sites that each deliver five-figure incomes in…
You’ve heard of the “paralysis of analysis.” It happens when you think too much. That’s not something that many people have accused me of doing very often (the opposite does tends to crop up quite a bit though) but it is something that I know afflicts many entrepreneurs, especially new ones.
The people behind Twitter were incredibly lucky. They weren’t lucky because they had a great idea. They weren’t even lucky that no one else had thought of their idea before them. They were lucky that the system took just two weeks to build. My staff and I get together for regular brainstorming sessions. We toss…
Many of the people who turn to Internet marketing do it because they feel that their career ladder has got stuck. They work hard, they’re ambitious, they know they’ve got drive, skills and talent but their boss isn’t giving them the breaks they need or their company just doesn’t have anywhere higher for them to…
AdSense has a weakness. It’s not very good at handling images. Fill your blog or your website with pictures of your cat, your family or your vacation in Yosemite and you might please your readers, but Google won’t know what to make of it. Unless you have a sizeable amount of text on your Web…
It’s one of the biggest challenges of building a profitable online publishing business. It’s also one of the most important. Generating traffic. There’s no easy way to do it. Yes, you have to have good content. Without that, you’re never going to get the sort of traffic that arrives naturally, comes back and gives you…
One of the challenges of building pages for AdSense is that until the page is up and running, you can’t really tell which ads you’re going to get. And that’s vital information. Apart from the fact that you can’t know which ads to filter out if you don’t even know which are going to show…
Survivor. The Apprentice. American Idol. We are drawn to reality television like a moth to the flame. We watch… and we watch some more, intrigued by the characters, the challenges and the inevitable prizes. Let’s face it. Secretly, many of us wish that we could be a contestant on one of these shows. Now imagine…
Did you know that just about anyone can make money online? With knowledge, discipline and persistence, the Internet can be a pot of gold for anyone willing to pursue their dream. Let’s face it. Even though the world wide web is about ten years old, it is still in its infancy. And it is NOT…