July 6, 2010

• Optimizing Your Checkout Process

  Is Your Shopping Cart or Checkout Process Losing You Sales? I just received an email from a company on whose website I started a purchase last week. The email subject line read: “Is there anything that we can do to help?” They noticed that I had begun the purchase process but did not finish it. [...]

July 30, 2008

• Success Queston: What if you knew you could only win?

  What would you do if you knew you could only win? I receive occasional emails from an NLP Trainer in the U.K. named Michael Carroll. (Not to be confused with Micheal Beale another excellent NLP Trainer.) I have traveled to London several times to take training from both these men, and they are never far [...]

June 2, 2008

• Selling Your Published Book as an Ebook

  In a previous post, I mentioned doing some search engine optimization for Gregg Cochlan on the website for his book, Love Leadership: What the World Needs Now. Gregg is a Canadian author who not only sells domestically, but also to the U.S. and international market. The problem that Gregg was having, similar that of another [...]

May 5, 2008

• Passive Income, PayPal Debit Card and INSTANT Gratification

  I am surprised by how motivating it is to have a PayPal debit card attached to my PayPal account. It’s great being able to buy a cup of coffee, or a meal, or gas, with money that comes directly from my passive income streams. Someone in France, the U.K, the U.S or god knows where [...]

April 14, 2008

• How to Fail Online.

  I took a few minutes this morning to think about my many “failures” online. One failure is an audio mp3 series, based on the Feldenkrais Method of Somatic Education. It is designed to help eliminate back pain. I initially envisioned it as a $97 download that would sell dozens of times per month and create [...]

February 14, 2008

• E-Junkie Video Tutorial: Learn E-Junkie in 3-Easy Steps

  With the brief, but lovely mentioning of Ejunkie, on CNN Money, I though now might be a good time to remind everyone of the quickest, easiest, and simplest way to get up and running on E-Junkie: Quick Start Videos for selling your products on E-Junkie Over 30 minutes of step-by-step video tutorials – everything you [...]

January 2, 2008

• Getting Banned by Google: Does Google Penalize “Sales Letter” Landing Pages?

  Are you someone who sells products via a 1-page sales letter website? Or perhaps you are (more likely) someone who instantly clicks AWAY from a 1-page sales letter any time you see one?! Ever wonder if Google penalizes 1-page sales websites? Wonder no more: Google penalizes one-page landing pages. I have a 1-page website that [...]

August 23, 2007

• Passive and Residual Income: Design Your Life of Freedom

  The last several years have seen a revolution in how the internet can be used to create passive and residual income streams via downloadable audio, video, and ebooks, in addition to the services that automatically deliver the products AND collect the revenue. Let me guide you through the process of creating a financial life that [...]

July 19, 2007

• Is E-junkie’s $5 per month ecommerce solution worth anything?

  Can a $5 per month ecommerce system be worth a darn? That’s the question that I asked myself 3 months ago when looking at E-junkie’s all-in-one service (commonly misspelled as ejunkie). They will host your digital downloads (audio, video, software, ebooks and more) and take care of all the back end work. Someone buys your [...]

June 7, 2007

• The Four Hour Work Week by Timothy Ferriss

  The Four Hour Work Week by Timothy Ferris is one of the most important books that I have read this year. I like it so much that I am reading it again and have also bought it as an audio book from audible. Why? Ferriss pulls together multiple threads and multiple ideas from dozens of [...]

April 2, 2007

• Podcasters – Don’t quit your day job??

  There is a brilliant article in business week online regarding podcasting. Highly recommended: Don’t Quit Your Day Job Podcasters I do not agree with their all of conclusions as there are plenty of ways to “monetize” podcasts. For intance, product-tie ins can bring in revenue. On one of my podcasts, I am about to start [...]

October 31, 2006

• Ryan Nagy and Bill O’Hanlon: The Web Whisperers

  Bill O’Hanlon and myself (Ryan Nagy) are now live and ready to blow your mind – Get ready for the Web Whisperer’s 5-day digital product creation and online marketing bootcamp – April 27-May 1, 2007, in Santa Fe, New Mexico. We all know that there is plenty of great material out there about the internet [...]