What kind of website is yours? This site has, for a long time, been purely about delivering information and building an audience. Now, however, its purpose is changing to building a list in readiness for products that I’m planning. In the next couple of months you’ll see a move towards emphasising what I call my [...]
I finished the first draft of The Absolute Beginner’s Guide to Setting up a Business Online today and tried to convert it into a PDF so I could pass it out to my reviewers. Unfortunately Windows 7, Office 2010 and Adobe Acrobat Standard 8 don’t work together (at least not on my machine) and Adobe [...]
I recently tried to register on eBay – and the user experience was ghastly. The same when I tried to set up a Hangout on Google+ a few weeks ago. Why do these (and other) big sites think they’re so clever by presenting me with a Chinese user interface just because my IP address indicates [...]
I was asked last week to write something on branding, and I remembered a branding article I wrote back in 2007, which you can find here. A lot of what I said in that article still holds true, but this article contains the benefit of 4 more years of online experience! Branding is about creating [...]
I’ve struggled with this problem for a long time: how to attract targetted readers to this site and, as a result, make money from it. I’ve read books, joined forums and tried a whole bunch of different things, and nothing really worked. I stumbled along doing the best I could, not really getting the results [...]
Building up the traffic levels to a new website is the biggest job you face once you’ve got it launched. The temptation is to throw money at the problem and, in certain areas, this works well: buying traffic through PPC or other paid advertising channels, for example. But in a few areas it’s folly: directory [...]
Interesting question in the Warrior Forum from someone who had recently set up a new website and was worried because it had disappeared from the search results. So here’s the thing: initially, new sites often do appear quickly in the natural search results. But then they bounce up and down a bit, going from maybe [...]
So you want to start making money on the Internet? Then you’d better learn how to sell online. Luckily, a friend of mine has just released an online course that would be well worth a look. Selling Online Basics is aimed at people who are interested in setting up a small online business to make [...]