The headline is king! I have learned that readers are far more likely to click on a headline of “15 Creative Tips for Shooting Sunsets” than a headline of “Sunset Photography Tips for Landscape Photographers.” The best tip for thinking up great headlines is to go to magazines.com and browse the headlines of major magazines, and then repurpose…
Over the last two years, I am fortunate to have grown an audience of over 100,000 fans on the Facebook page for one of my blogs. Along the way, I’ve learned some truly genius tips for building a community on a Facebook fan page. Today, I thought I’d share a few gems with you. 1….
The picture below sums up this post fairly nicely. In the last 60 days, Pinterest has sent 237,806 people to my website, while Facebook has only sent 61,141 people. If you aren’t much of a math whiz, then I’ll break it down and say that Pinterest performed nearly four times better than Facebook. While the…
I recently read a book called The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs. I was very skeptical about buying the book since I didn’t recognize the author Carmine Gallo, but I was intrigued enough to bite. It didn’t take many pages before my head was filled with ideas. Surprisingly, instead of finding ideas on making business…
Before publishing this post, I spent quite a while debating whether or not this was the correct title for the post. I don’t want anyone to skip this post thinking that I’m going to simply tell you not to invest too much of your money into a sinking ship of a business. That’s not what…
I am an avid reader of business books, reading at least one most every week. Since I have read so many, I have become quite picky with business books. Most business books follow the same recipe: Do a survey of a bunch of rich millionaires, pick out some things that they all do similarly, and…
Most people think of coupons as a way to save money at the grocery store, but today I want to share two creative coupon strategies that earn me thousands of dollars each month. Coupon Strategy #1: Hide Your Coupon On most shopping carts, there is a spot on the payment form for customers to enter…
Most Internet Business gurus recommend hiring virtual assistants when your online business gets busy enough that you need help to manage it. However, my experience with virtual assistants was terrible. First of all, I must acknowledge that my opinion is the minority in this space. Many Internet entrepreneurs have found tremendous success in working with…
With the number of website hosting companies springing up all the time, one would think it would be simple to find one that takes care of its customers. Well, I found one, but I went through a horrible experience to realize it. I put my largest website on Storm On Demand servers after the company…
This morning I walked into my office with a full day scheduled. In the morning I would spend a few hours writing a blog post. This particular post would take several days to prepare because I wanted it to be truly excellent. After working on the blog post, I would spend an hour writing emails…