My advice to Mike
Imagine one of your best mates came to you for some advice.
Imagine it’s in a realm that you genuinely know something about and have skills...
Author: Stephen Pratley
Solving the problem of what to write in your emails.
We’ve all been there, staring at a blinking cursor on a blank screen.
Advice like “the cure for writers block is to just write”...
A Return to Hypefury
This week I ditched my previous posting tool (SmarterQueue) and have gone back in on Hypefury.
I thought it would be useful to know the little detour...
Ikigai. Where motivation and product validation collide.
In my Dropbox account, there’s a whole folder full of online courses I’ve created, that either failed, or never saw the light of day.
They...
A better workflow for writing email campaigns.
I like writing emails, but I hate email editors.
They suck.
All of them. In fact the better the email platform is at managing your automated...
Using Udemy as part of your online course strategy.
How to to use the "Amazon of courses" alongside a premium course strategy.
Trading Places – A tale of 2 Ad Campaigns
How fortunes change for two ad campaigns as we follow the leads on their journey to becoming customers
How to get more Twitter Followers
I write this on the brink of getting Twitter 1,000 followers – putting me in the top 2% of twitter accounts by size. This comes after a couple...
Using quiz funnels for qualified lead generation
I’ve done a few of these and here are a few things we’ve found through testing…
On a more tactical level, here are some other...
The Minimum Viable Funnel
I’ve got 2000 social followers and I’m constantly getting people in my DM’s asking for advice. I can’t sell them though because...
Finding Better Markets
A couple of years back, a course teacher approached me with a major problem.
He had a best-selling product on the biggest course marketplace that he’d...
Positioning Your Product
Let’s start this assuming you’re read my other posts and that we know our market, and the niche within it we’re trying to serve. We...
How it all started.
If anyone under the age of 50 says they can’t figure out how to run an email campaign, they’re just being idle. Here’s why.
My...
My 12 Best Conversion Tips in 2019
There are a million and one things you can tweak and test in any funnel, but from over 2 decades of testing across everything from press ads, direct...
Where I got to last year
A while back, I started working on a new project – Win The Day Back – which was meant to show, from the ground up, how a successful online...
The quickest route to higher conversions I’ve ever seen.
Let’s leave aside all the tricks and tactics, the maze of funnel patterns and all the other grunt-level stuff the gurus will try to sell you....
Nine things that productivity experts write about.
In 2015, Prof Ron Friedman assembled dozens of productivity experts and quizzed them on their best tips for a Harvard Business Review article.
This...
Say no like a pro
Warren Buffet has an excellent saying that explains his success at picking winners.
“The difference between successful people and really successful...
My Morning Routine
Setting a morning routine is one of the biggest productivity boosters for the least effort that I know.
Starting with a familiar pattern, one that...
The Sunday Sort-Out
For years when I was working for other businesses, and for most of my first agency business, Sundays were a living hell.
I’d be stresssed out...
To Do List Mistakes And How To Fix Them
Have you ever seen or completed a “to do,” that ran on forever? Writing a very long list can be compared to taking every thought in your brain and letting...
How To Avoid Disruption And Get Things Done
Disruption is a chronic problem. Endless construction on roads, subways, and buses that breakdown and bad drivers that make you swerve to avoid being...
How To Add More Hours To Your Day
You are stuck. Yes, you are…because you have 24 hours in a day, no more, no less. Talking about adding more hours to your day, means freeing up wasted...
How The Most Successful People Manage Their Time
The ancient wisdom of those who came before us, states in many different ways, that in order to be successful-you must wake up early. This is why almost...
10 Ways To Work Smarter Not Harder
Who wants to do drive themselves into the ground? It’s doubtful that you will get anyone to raise their hand for that idea. We all want to relax and...
9 Ways To Beat Procrastination
Everyone has periods of time where they procrastinate. It becomes a problem when the time they take away from the item they are holding off on and spend...
7 Ways You Are Wasting Time During The Day And How To Stop.
There are many different ways that people waste time. Some are quite evident, while others are hidden and unthought of. We will look at 7 time wasters...
Weapons Against Distraction – My 5 App Computer
The only 5 apps I left on my wifi-free Chromebook
This week I pulled the wifi card out of this Chromebook to help me stay focussed on writing tasks....
Using Scorecard Marketing for Lead Generation
What is scorecard marketing?
I’m guessing you’ve seen one of the hundreds of pseudo-personality-tests out there on Facebook?
What...
Games to become a flexible thinker
Are you flexible?
If you can do the splits that is great. However, in strategic thinking, we are talking about having a flexible mindset. An assumption...
How To Create Self Esteem to Reach Your Goals
You are probably by now, realize that you require a great overall mindset in order to set and achieve goals. You could create goals with poor self-esteem,...
Decide, Execute and Measure
What is the difference between making a decision and making a plan? Well for starters, plans always seem to change. You plan to get ten new sales this...
How To Achieve Clarity in Your Goals
Achieving clarity in all areas of your life is important. Some people assume that just sitting and starting on a list of goals will give them clarity...
Learn How to Stop Procrastinating and Achieve Your 90-Day Goals
Most people procrastinate from time to time. Some people excel at procrastinating and could win an Olympic medal for their abilities. If you fall into...
How to Eliminate Self-Sabotage to Achieve Your Goals
You’re probably excited to get started writing and achieving your 90-days goals. Time to do a self check. Are you a go getter or does self-sabotage...
How to start journaling
The idea of keeping a journal may be totally new to you. Perhaps you even have an unhealthy mindset about it. Journaling is different than keeping a...
5 Mental Tools For Getting Hyper-Productive Without Working More
Have you ever felt like you could have accomplished more in a day than you actually did?
Or have you piled up your work for the next day unnecessarily...
Productivity Hacks That Will Double Your Output Every Day
With the workload increasing, and the world running at a crazy pace, we are all looking for ways to achieve the optimal level of productivity. As the...
7 Common Habits That Secretly Kill Your Productivity
We are the generation of the “multiple windows open”, or as they call it: multi-taskers. With technology taking over our mind and focus, both our work...
7 Ways To Improve Your Productivity, Before You Get Out Of Bed.
“Failing to plan is planning to fail”
Too many people start their day by checking their emails or social media feeds, sometimes before they’ve...
A copy-editing process for solo writers.
They laughed when I sat down at Hemingway App, but when they saw the edit...
MRR Mistakes of Membership Sites
If you think your membership site runs by the same rules as a SaaS business, you’re in for a shock.
Here’s why….
5 things you need to know about growing a business, that you can learn from riding up the Stelvio Pass.
Just for fun, on Sunday I rode up a 9,000ft tall mountain.
Now, I’m not built for this sort of cycling, but you’d be amazed what you can do when you...
It’s not me, it’s EU.
I’m not even going to mention the “G” word today. It’s my least favourite 4-letter word at the moment.
This isn’t...
4 big things that $million-dollar funnels have in place, that you don’t
Have you ever had a funnel fail?
Have you ever spent days, weeks, even months getting together the moving parts?
You’ve got your...
How to get more people to reengage with your emails
Only one re-engagement email? You could be missing a huge slice of your list.
Are your tests practiced drills, or wild swings?
So you didn’t “hit it out of the park” on your first attempt?
Well surprise surprise.
I’ve just seen a highly influential leader...
What Grant Cardone has misunderstood about his relationship with Facebook.
So Grant Cardone has spent “millions” on growing an audience on Facebook, and he’s threatening to throw it all away and go to YouTube.
He’s...
Online Course Software for Startup Training Businesses in 2018
I seem to be answering questions about this on at least a weekly basis at the moment, so this is my current stack of software for running a successful...
When should you start testing?
Ask a question in any digital marketing group and somewhere in the list of somewhat unhelpful answers you’ll get this one:
“Test it”
Now, for a long...
Offer, List, Creative. Which One Wins?
Offer
List
Creative
Those three words, in that order, used to be drummed into every direct response marketer form the day they were allowed to even...
Why people buy online courses
A while back I used to run a marketing course for a well known training organisation in the UK.
Eager to make as much use of the content they’d paid...
Red Flags and Real Bullets
What a trip to the firing range taught me about client profiling and two essential elements to your discovery calls.
When to make a 1% change
Yesterday I talked about things that go wrong as you scale.
Million to one shots that happen every month, for better or worse.
Today I want to talk...
When the one in a million shot happens every month.
One day a few days after I started a new job a rather irate man turned up at our office carrying the door off a large oven, demanding that he speak...
Royalty, or the girl next door?
A couple of days back I had one of those “can’t believe I’ve never seen this” moments when a friend introduced me to a concept...
Would a fireman give you an ebook?
A lot of copywriters talk about “burning house problems”.
The gist of it is that you want to be targeting people who have a problem that...
The 4 point empathy map of a billion dollar newsletter business
One of my favourite podcasts is Kevin Roger’s The Truth about Marketing, and this has to be my favourite episode of all.
In it, Mark Ford, founder...
An orangutan’s lesson in pitching
My mother was a teacher, and then a college principal. Her college was in the same small town where I went to school and most days I would walk up the...
Discover the tools I used to create a lead campaign with curated content
No time for content? Daft sense of humour? You can still get leads with ease.
Building a successful Facebook Campaign
Are you actually ready to find someone to run your ads yet?
The greatest story ever…
The greatest marketing stories don't have your brand as the star.
Monday morning and the blank page awaits
I have a little routine on Mondays that helps me ease my way into the week.
Sunday night I do a little brain dump of the things I’d like to get...
The worst headline in the world
The great David Ogilvy once wrote:
“When you have written your headline, you have spent eighty cents out of your dollar.”
i.e. 80% of your effort...
How to use bonuses in your online course sales
Most online course marketers recommend using bonuses to push up the financial value of your product.
But there’s a strategy behind using bonuses...
How I survived the attack of the marketing zombies
Last week I witnessed the marketing equivalent of a zombie attack.
A well-meaning chiropracter appeared in a free Facebook group asking about what text...
I’m going to take away your favourite toys.
If your’re a parent, or you’ve ever had a parent (I guess that’s most bases covered?) you’ll recognise this threat.
Well I’m...
Buyers are your hottest prospects. How to keep them that way.
If there are two big opportunities to sell that most businesses miss, one of them is after you’ve just got a result for them.
We know that. Most businesses...
Discover competition, demand and revenues for your online course, before you create it.
The biggest reason for failure I see with people launching online courses is that they hit the wrong point on what economists call “supply & demand”.
The...
Udemy releases insights tool to help course creators predict competition & demand.
Discover demand, competition, and typical earnings for your video course - before you create it.
How an 18 year old barman discovered split testing before the internet was even invented.
Way back in 1989 – a full year before the invention of the World Wide Web, a lanky 18 year-old walked into a bar and landed himself a job for...
How to get your customers to empty their pockets without blinking
See that receipt?
That’s a £3.39 coffee.
Trapped at a motorway service station with no option other than the bitter, scalding cups of tar served...
Why your SEO is leaving you in a sticky mess, and how to fix it.
If website traffic was cake, SEO would be like the cherry on the cake. Not the cake itself.
The “cake” is traffic that you can control, that you can...
What selling rubber willies taught me about conversion principles
Way back in the early 2000’s I had one of the best initiations into learning about online conversion that there is, running a 7 figure business...
Get off the fence and start buying customers.
Another question from one of my Foundation Funnel customers.
“My funnel is in place, thanks to your help, and I have a product that is making a bit...
On Pricing…
How much should you charge for services, and when?
How to become a Grand Master, or throw it all away
After the high of Wednesday night’s event I needed a bit of downtime last night, so I treated myself to a binge-watch of Billions.
There’s a great scene...
All MAPPED out
Last night I gave a talk to about 40 up and coming digital marketers in London, all about increasing conversion rates when you’re selling online.
I...
Back to the scene of the crime…
On Wednesday night I’m giving a talk at ASOS, the UK-based online fashion retailer, which is fairly decent of them considering..
The chaos I...
Why You Should A/B Test Everything
The reason why the extra effort to run A/B tests is better, and safer than just making changes "on a hunch".
Draw one line through it
On being proud of your mistakes...
Raising the bar on Facebook video
This John Cleese video shows some real mastery of video on Facebook
Rapid product research techniques
How to find out if you have a viable paying market, a product with a point of difference, and where to scout for copy ideas that your target market...
Optimising for feedback
Before and after your product launch there's one thing you should be focussing on.
And it's not money...
Are you ready to teach what you know?
Here's how you can measure up to the leaders in your industry and start passing on your skills and knowledge to people who follow you.
Chris Batcheller webinar sign-up critique
Watch my live critique of this webinar sign-up landing page.
ActiveCampaign’s Ecommerce Integration with Shopify & Woocommerce – A first Look
ActiveCampaign lifted the lid on it's long-promised ecommerce integrations this week, and as a reseller of both Shopify and ActiveCampaign services...
How can I use affiliate marketing in my business?
Written from the point of view of promoting products as an advertiser, rather than as the merchant - this is worth a watch if you think you could add...
Without data you’re just another person with an opinion.
My favourite business quotes tend to be of the arse kicking variety :-)
This one by Deming distills the difference between marketers who know what...
Marketing vs Manipulation
Don't want to promote your products because it feels like you're being "manipulative"?
Stop being so British and read on...
The Foundation Funnel – Course testers needed
Good morning my caffeinated friends,
I’m close to putting up a new online course about building a simple, but scalable first funnel using WordPress,...
What to sell next
Leveraging product and market knowledge to expand your business
End-To-End funnel tracking using Amplitude.com
Track from first contact with your funnel, through to lifetime value.
Using a fight between a duck and a horse to get better Youtube rankings
An entertaining tactic to increase video engagement...
What is a marketing funnel?
What is a marketing funnel? What are the components of a good marketing funnel? When do I need to use a long funnel? I answer all these questions in...
5 Emails To Boost Online Course Sales
Selling online courses needs great email follow-up. These are 5 essential emails to send that will boost sales of your online courses.
Websites vs Funnels
Transcript:
Hi, this is Stephen Pratley, and today I’m going to help you understand the difference between a website and a funnel.
This was brought...
4 Steps To Grow An Automated Business
Four steps from an under-performing website to high-performing sales funnel.
What can our Olympians teach us about marketing automation?
The world of sport is plundered for analogies to help us in creating an automatic business
New Course Preview: Marketing Automation with Mautic
Mautic is a new, open source, marketing automation platform that offers both self-hosted and cloud hosted versions. We're pretty excited to be trying...
5 Email Campaigns To Boost Online Course Sales
Selling online courses needs great email follow-up. These are 5 essential emails to send that will boost sales of your online courses.
How to choose a small business email marketing system
I’ve heard, and tried to answer the same question more times than I’ve had haircuts:
“What’s the best email marketing system...
Testing your best headlines with Google Analytics Experiments
Testing your best headlines with Google Analytics Experiments
Pushing data from our Forge landing page into an ActiveCampaign email autoresponder.
A follow on to our course at thefreefunnelformula.com
We teach you about webhooks and how to use them to push data form your landing page into Ac...
How to evaluate your website
Want to know if your website is any good before you launch? Here's how.
BJ Fogg’s Process for Habit Design
Alongside Dr Cialdini, BJ Fogg is probably the greatest thinker on persuasion of our era.
And by greatest, I mean the one whose theories have most impact,...
Creating A Survey Funnel With Gravity Forms
Create ASK style surveys using a $39 Wordpress plugin
Authority building for geniuses and why you should get your first clients from Moe’s Tavern
There seems to be a common narrative in a lot of online marketing at the moment. The “rags to riches, you can do it too” type story, but...
Bond Halbert’s 5 Step Launch Campaign Formula
Most of what I wrote is emails giving tips, and usually showing the way to a product, workshop or service that will help solve the same problem in more...
Email Marketing 101 Workshop with Kingston Chamber of Commerce
Book On Eventbrite.
On 23rd February I’ll be leading a workshop with Kingston Chamber of Commerce on Email Marketing.
Are you tired of wracking...
Email Marketing Primer
Presented to Kingston University BA in Digital Marketing students, January 28th 2016
How I Produce Daily Email Campaigns in Under 20 Minutes
The creative process to produce daily emails that keep customers engaged, entertained and informed.
Three Questions You Must Answer About Your Product
How even the best marketers can et wrapped up inside their own product.
Why the worst place to sell a book is in a bookshop
Tim Ferris was talking to me today about a major catastrophe that almost scuppered his second book – The Four Hour Body.
Tim’s first book...
Questions to ask in your first emails
Buck the trend of how to get feedback from your prospects in your email autoresponders
Creating email campaigns using WordPress and ActiveCampaign
Speed up your workflow by using your existing content, and 5 other reasons not to use your email software for design.
What two “adult” websites taught me about traffic that converts, and sites that don’t.
What I learned about websites that convert, from a naughty SEO experiment
5 places to spread your videos for more reach
Video is a real must-have part of any information business’ arsenal these days. I know it can take some getting to grips with especially with...
Todd Brown’s Funnel Training for Russell Brunson
An incredibly tightly packed presentation on an affiliate marketing funnel. Most of the theory of Todd’s MarketingFunnelAutomation.com courses are in...
Traffic Hacking – Using SimilarWeb.com to uncover new niches and potential traffic sources
Watch me as I find the traffic sources for a big internet marketing website, uncover potential new niches, and show you how to identify potential traffic...
5 priceless minutes with Russell Brunson
I’ve spent the morning at the Success Summit at Earl’s Court. Up on stage and one of the most popular speakers was funnel hacker extraordinaire...
Technology for Inbound Marketing Funnels
A walk-through of the different options to build your inbound marketing funnel from all-in-one packages to combining best-of-breed components.
Technology for Inbound Marketing Funnels
A walk-through of the different options to build your inbound marketing funnel from all-in-one packages to combining best-of-breed components.
How to squeeze more leads from your advertising campaigns
Wasn’t this easier a few years back?
Not so long ago you could easily throw up a landing page, do some rough and ready SEO, or point some cheap...
What’s going on in your prospect’s head?
A powerful, 5 word sentence that can unlock what your prospect is looking for and get them to talk without thinking first.
How many leads do your campaigns leave behind?
Stephen Pratley goes through the strategies that brought the cost per lead on a recent campaign from over £20 to under £5
WorldVision A/B test shows the power of a story in landing page design.
Using powerful narrative techniques to drive persuasion
21 Ways to grow your email list (infographic)
A nice visual checklist by the folks at Eliv8
Google leaks new “custom audiences” for better targetting
Google follows Facebook's lead in allowing targeting based on existing customer data, and creation of lookalike audiences.
A surprising split test on mobile page design
For anyone who doubts the worth of testing new designs on their website or emails, take a look at this test from “Which Test Won”
I’m...
Spare some change sir?
A sad, and unfortunately common question in most major cities, but one that misses a principle that you as a marketer are probably making as well.
If...
How to use the Net Promoter Review Scores to drive more business.
How a pro-active reviews strategy can help grow sales
The Art of Cold Email
Don’t confuse cold email approaches with spam. A well-researched contact with a good reason that the recipient should respond is a great door...
The Psychology Of Cold Email Prospecting
Cold emails are an absolute no-no in bulk email marketing, but in B2B sales they can be as much of a necessity as cold-calling, and when used correctly,...
How Office 365’s Clutter Tab will affect B2B email marketing
Microsoft have followed in Gmail’s footsteps by moving their users promotional emails into a separate folder, away from their day-to-day personal...
Zapier on Automating Lead Generation
This is a great post form Zapier on automating your lead generation processes:
https://zapier.com/blog/automate-lead-generation-sales/
Zapier is a great...
Reactivation email campaigns – Bringing customers back legally & profitably
This morning I got a rather naughty email campaign from Cordings – a respectable country clothing outfitter based in Picadilly.
The campaign was...
ActiveCampaign announce campaign sharing
ActiveCampaign have just announced that you can now share automations between accounts, so what does that mean for your business ?
The idea is not...
Great “Under The Hood” Email Campaign by Vertical Leap
Search agencies have something of a reputation problem.
It’s an industry that is frankly overrun with cowboys. People promising the earth, then...
How to squeeze more leads from your advertising campaigns
Wasn’t this easier a few years back?
Not so long ago you could easily throw up a landing page, do some rough and ready SEO, or point some cheap...
VB Index report: Top 10 Marketing Automation companies
This huge survey of over 1,000 marketing automation software users brings back some surprising insights into how marketing automation is really deployed...
Using Personas In Ecommerce Website Design
(Originally published on the Shine Marketing website)
Personas are a simple but powerful tool to aid better ecommerce website design. In this article...
Using standard ad blocks in website designs
Having just splashed out on a ‘professional’ site design for a new reviews blog, I’ve just spent the best part of half a day re-jigging it to allow...
What to do if someone nicks your blog content
Blogs and their ability to syndicate out content are a double-edged sword.
On the one hand it means your blog can be shown on other sites and get to...
How to use Video with an email campaign
Using video online is an excellent way to capture the imagination of your readers and get your message across. I first used it on a Britsh Heart Foundation...
Building your email marketing list
It might seem like we’re approaching the process of email marketing somewhat arse-about-face, but there is a method in it.
Last week we identified the...
Don’t like writing? Try hands-free blogging
Lots of times at events I meet people who are obviously very knowledgeable about their subject and can speak well and enthusiastically. When I talk...
Get Camtasia 3 for free and make your own video demos
First off, thanks to Jason Dale for pointing this neat little tool out to me.
Camtasia records video of what’s happening on your computer screen, and...
The alternative to throwing out your affiliates
There have been plenty of instances this year of ill-advised merchants clearing out inactive affiliates from their programme, so I was pleased this...
Useful WordPress plugins for discount code and competition sites
An ongoing problem for owners of discount code websites and competition sites, is merchants who don’t set end dates properly, then decide to end them...
How to attract affiliates in retail
This isn’t just a pretty picture to get my blog readership up, this is part of the fashion show that Tights Please organised for last weekend’s Affiliate...
Getting the best out of cashback sites
The growth of the cashback sector in UK affiliate marketing has caused a few ripples, and a lot of false assumptions about this method of marketing,...
Thank You’s for the Webgains Golf Day
A big thanks to Webgains for organising the affiliate golf day that went on yesterday.
I’ve never done a ‘corporate’ golf day before and have always...
TradeTracker launches affiliate network into UK
In the last few weeks Shine Marketing has begun working with Shoestring.co.uk – a long haul adventure holidays operator – on the launch...
Million Dollar ideas
This is quite old, but so worth sharing…
I just found this blog post about a guy who bought some pixels on the Million Dollar Homepage. Nothing special...
Malcolm Cowley talks about Buy.at’s move into the US
Mal has given an interview to Webmaster Radio which you can listen to online.
The interview talks about Buy.at’s expansion in to the US market, and...
Blog tagged! 8 Things you didn’t know about me
…and probably don’t care
Kieron tagged me in an ongoing game that seems to be expanding, last time I saw it it was just 5 things, so I’ll have to put...
Affiliate Marketing or Merchant Marketing?
At last week’s Affiliate Summit in Miami, David Hall – Communications Director of Affiliate Window – stood up in front of a room full of...
Back from Affiliate Summit Miami 2007
Now I’ve had a chance to get over the jetlag, read through my notes and make some sense of it all I thought I’d jot down a few points that might help...
Affiliate Summit Miami – Day 1, part 1
Ok, this will be pretty short as it’s a pretty crammed day, and going to a be a crammed night also, it’s 6pm and there are 2 networking events and a...
Get more money out of Directtrack networks.
I’ve just read through another post about network payment problems, this time by John Lammerton. It seems to be a particular problem with Directtrack...
Creating affiliate sites using Joomla
I’ve just a really great article by Kieron Donoghue about the evolution of PPC landing pages from single page gateways into fully fledged content sites...
Redesigning your blog? 5 things to consider.
I just saw a post on Kieron Donoghue’s affiliate marketing blog that he’s going through a redesign at the same time as moving from Blogger to WordPress.
Kieron’s...
I found the key to $400 CPM from AdSense Revenues
I’ve been looking at some new ways of building very niche, often local, sites that convert well in less competitive areas of SEO and PPC.
The original...
London 2012, I won’t be buying the T-shirt
This is the monstrosity that has just been unveiled as the London 2012 logo, a fragmented bit of chaos with no discernible meaning to it.
The BBC announcement...
Google to buy Feedburner
Google is reportedly looking at buying Feedburner for a reputed $100m dollar as an route to get in on the growing RSS feed advertising business.
RSS...
A newly revamped PR blog
I’ve just launched a new online PR blog for immediate future, my first totally custom WordPress template.
The template is loosely based on the functionality...
Google Optimiser – Rubbish
This has to be the most useless service Google have come up with yet.
Google offers an ‘Optimized’ option for its PPC campaigns which claims to get...
WP text ads on trial
Thought I’d have a bit of a play with this plugin for selling ads off my blog. It’s just an experiment and if anyone signs up between now and end of...
New Google Analytics Interface is Launched
Google Analytics has had an overhaul and it’s looking pretty smooth.
First off, the trend of visits is a lot easier to read. I was a bit miffed that...
7 Email marketing tips.
Email marketing seems to be a much overlooked tool for affiliates in the UK compared to the US where affiliate marketers seem to have it somehow embedded...
WordPress Magazine Themes – Hot for 2008
2007 saw the art of blogging really hit the mainstream, to the extent that traditional and ‘respectable’ journalists started to sit up, take notice,...
Buying Domain Names
Over the last few weeks I’ve been picking up a few domain names. Some to buy for my own projects, and a couple that I just chanced upon that I’m hoping...
Google Alerts for Bedroom Bloggers
For a while now I’ve been using Google alerts to keep tabs on the PR generated about clients and competitors. Whilst there were a few flaky results,...
Micro-Payments for articles – a viable proposition
I was extremely sceptical a few weeks back when told about an articles site selling articles on an individual basis.
I think that opinion has just been...
Using article marketing to promote your site
Article Marketing is becoming hot activity for promoting your site. Led as always by the affiliate community, this tactic can help you to:
Get articles...
The art of developing advocates
Last night I heard a great talk at an ecademy networking event. It was by Richard White a sales trainer who has developed some great techniques for...