Have you ever sat down to write an article, only to stare at a blank screen? I know I have, but I’ve found a pretty simple solution that lets me write a lot of material, quickly and simply. After I find a topic I know about, I just ask myself a few questions and I answer them.
Find A Topic
Consider your reader for a moment. What is he looking for? What’s bugging him? Go to his favorite online hang outs and look for questions. Fire up keyword tool and find out …
To make money from your list, you’ll need to build relationships with your readers. If they like you, they’ll do business with you. Find out how to go from an unknown to a trusted authority via email.
This is the beginning of all marketing. To succeed, you absolutely must zero in on a profitable target. But if you skip this step or treat it casually, you will almost certainly fail.
A recent post on the Warrior Forum asks the question, “Why Am I Not Seeing Any Money?” Inside, the poster says he wrote an article, set up a squeeze page, submitted to Ezine Articles, submitted to ArticleBase, set up a blog, etc.
He ended up on the number two spot for his article’s main keyword, but isn’t seeing any traffic.
He wrote a couple more articles, but hasn’t done any back linking. Then he asks why he should do more, since he’s number two on Google. As if he’s reached the pinnacle …
Everyone is creative. But how many people actually end up shipping a product or service? If you’ve ever set out to complete a project and have seen it fall apart, just what is that mysterious force that causes it to crumble?
Seth Godin discusses his ideas about the sabotaging influence of the lizard brain. The lizard brain is the oldest part of our brains and is responsible for basic, instinctual reactions such as revenge, fear, and the desire to escape danger.
We still carry these instincts into our online marketing efforts and …
Writing in flow is hard enough without facing temptations of email, Twitter, FaceBook, World of Warcraft, or any other shiny online object. To get your mind fully into the game of writing, you can shed these distractions by using a minimalist text editor.
Essentially, these kinds of text editors strip away all of the distractions on your desktop by making them temporarily invisible. When you fire up one of these programs, it’s just you and the words on the screen. There are minimal formatting options also, so you won’t get lost …
I’ve been rethinking the direction I want to take this site. It will remain my flagship website, but I think I’ll make most of the content free. Even the stuff I was going to put in the Private Journal. (The Private Journal is now gone…)
So, if you read the first post in the sneak previews section, you’ll see some of my early plans. I wanted to charge a hundred bucks a month for access to my private business ideas and actions. Well, I’m still going to post those details, but …
