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...
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...
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...
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...
Disruption is a chronic problem. Endless construction on roads, subways, and buses that breakdown and bad drivers that make you swerve to avoid being...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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,...
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...
An incredibly tightly packed presentation on an affiliate marketing funnel. Most of the theory of Todd’s MarketingFunnelAutomation.com courses are in...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
This huge survey of over 1,000 marketing automation software users brings back some surprising insights into how marketing automation is really deployed...
(Originally published on the Shine Marketing website)
Personas are a simple but powerful tool to aid better ecommerce website design. In this article...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
…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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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’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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
2007 saw the art of blogging really hit the mainstream, to the extent that traditional and ‘respectable’ journalists started to sit up, take notice,...
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...
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,...
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...
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...