All Your Results In One Window 14 Aug 2013 | 07:40 am

Thinking Out Loud Here… 23 Jul 2013 | 05:50 am

I just wanted to “think” out loud for a second. Would you like to be a fly on the wall in my office? Overhear my thinking? So I started thinking about how desperate I was for money when I first star...

The Power of Story 28 Jun 2013 | 10:01 pm

“Once upon a time…” How powerful are those words? Everyone loves a good story. Good stories resonate with us and communicate in ways nothing else can. When you tell someone a good story you are abl...

Mini-Course In List Building 4 Jun 2013 | 11:33 pm

Ok, so you want to build a list. Here’s a mini-course that will get you started in the right direction: If you think about the last few “Internet marketing” related purchases you’ve made I bet you’ll...

insert subject line here (yes, that is the title) 1 Jun 2013 | 11:05 pm

Today we are talking about email newsletter subject lines. As a test today I used the subject line “insert subject line here”. The best ‘open’ rate on my newsletter has been when I used the subject ...

Goo-Roos Forget To Teach This 31 May 2013 | 08:59 pm

“Are you too busy making a living to make any real money?” That was a headline for an ad I saw years ago. It struck a cord with me because it was so true. I was too busy working – in the 9-5 job – t...

What I Learned From Old PDF’s 31 May 2013 | 08:42 pm

In 1996 when I started online there were only two companies that allowed you to create automated email “training” – what we now call “autoresponders”. One was aweber.com the other was called eTrainer...

Email Marketing Is Alive and Well 29 May 2013 | 09:23 pm

A few years ago I was with my bookkeeper standing in line at Panera’s cafe. We were going to have lunch and go over my numbers for the previous year so I asked her how I did. I knew I was close to br...

Is the Internet Broken? 29 May 2013 | 03:26 am

I had to laugh at this video – well actually both the video and the comments to the video. Matt Cutts goes on video and talks about porn sites and how bad it is for your site if they link to your sit...

Are you playing it safe? 18 May 2013 | 05:40 pm

One of my mentors told me I was not “playing it safe”, in fact what I was doing was extremely risky. This was before I decided to start my online business and he could see I was hesitating. Actually...