Using your blog post to sell products.

It’s funny how a text ladenned front page of a website is said to be a “no no”. The reason for this is that you probably skim website content, you rarely read every word, yet if you came across a blog post that interests you then you are likely to take it all in, even referring to it later. A great way to make money with your blog is to blog with a product in mind. This kind of blogging is becoming...

7 Tips on writing good web copy.

1). So what are the best attention grabbing headlines? A good one has words relating to price for example: “Get Three for Only £3” and then there’s the special incentive headline, “Buy now before the price goes up!” Another of the tried and tested headlines are specific questions that can relieve the reader’s “pain”: “Do You Need To Make More Money?” or “Are you...

Escaping The Box – Even With Bars On The Windows

By Barry Maher ____________________________________________________________ One of my favorite ways of generating innovative thinking is to list several possible solutions to a problem, then consider the exact opposite of each. Do any of the opposites make sense? How good a case could you make for any of them if you had to convince someone else? Do any of them sound better than the first group? What about combining...

Email Marketing using Auto Responders.

Sales letters through your letter box are hated by everyone. It’s unwanted, uninvited and fills your re-cycling bin. But it’s pretty clear that it’s also incredibly popular with advertisers. Why? Because while most potential customers throw away their junk letters with barely a glance, enough take action to make it all worthwhile. They do buy—and in high enough numbers to more than cover the cost of those...

The best affiliates for your blog.

A lot of people ask me to suggest affiliates. They want to know which ones are the most effective at monetising their blog. I suppose it would be safe to say that I have done a hell of a lot of research on this subject as bad choices can make the difference between a profitable blogging business and bad choices can mean no business at all. It is a difficult one because it all depends on your target...

How To Plan The Perfect Website!

According to Wikipedia – The Internet actually started in 1969, (yes, only 1969!), as the ARPANET, a Defense Department system designed to let survivors share files after a nuclear attack. From being available on just a handful of top secret computers, it’s grown to millions and millions of users. And it’s still growing. According to a recent survey, the volume of Internet traffic is expected to double...

So why should you have an official blog?

Did you know that blogging is the new “BLACK”? A blog can be uploaded to networking sites to spread the word about your business – that’s free advertising! A blog gives you the chance to voice your opinions to the world. A good blog can generate subscribers and we all know how important they are! A blog with the right keywords will help the search engines to find you. An informative blog can...

How to market your website so that people buy from you!

It doesn’t matter what kind of business you have and how benevolent you are, you can give things away for free, you can raise money for great causes, you can hold people’s hands but everyone at sometime needs to make a living. The baker puts bread on your table, not to feed your family but to feed his own! I am sure, if you own a bakery or a grocers then online marketing is not so important but if you have a...

Retweet – What does it mean and how important is it!

A Retweet allows Twitter users to share their favourite tweets with their own followers. So if someone has 10,000 followers and they like one of your tweets and they retweet it, then it will go out to all of their followers, good eh! It is done by copying and pasting the original tweet and sending it out. It’s usual to put “RT” plus the originator’s username at the beginning of the tweet. Here’s an...

How to really monetise your blog

In my previous blog “6 steps closer to monetising your blog” I said that you need: 1. Patience 2. Resilience. 3. A great imagination. 4. Knowledge. 5. The discipline to learn. 6. Multiple Income streams? Today I am going to tell you about the next 6 items you need: 1. Products that sell well. 2. A great mailing list. 3. An easy to use e-mail marketing system. 4. To be seen on the first page of Google. 5....