Case Study on a $1.99 Trial Membership

Do you sell a monthly membership? If not, you might want to consider it. Here’s 3 reasons to start a membership site: 1. Monthly memberships mean residual income. You sell a membership once and you get paid for it month after month until the customer cancels. 2. Selling a membership generally isn’t any harder than … Read more

Think You’re Not ‘Expert’ Material? I Do…

When you’re an expert, you command respect in your niche. People listen to you, they pay attention to what you say and most of all they buy your products. Being the expert in your own niche is like writing your own ticket to freedom. Granted, you’re never going to become “The Expert” in a massive … Read more

7.5 Steps to Getting ANYTHING You Want

You’ve heard of the Law of Attraction. If you’re like most marketers, you’ve also belittled the Law of Attraction, too. After all, it’s just new age hocus pocus malarkey, right? You can’t sit on your duff and attract a new television to yourself. (Well, actually you can, with the help of your credit card, Amazon … Read more

Tiny Niches = Big Profits?

What about HUGE Niches and MASSIVE Profits? There is a ton of marketing advice online about niching things down until you get to a small, fanatical group of people who will buy anything and everything in that niche. And this is great advice – I offer it myself and follow it all the time. But… … Read more

Why List Building Is Really So Important

At this point I’ve mentioned over and over that you should be building a list with just about every action you take in your business. But, why is it so important? There are several reasons — some include: Frequent, easy contact with list members Relationship building Future-proofing Scalability Passive income Multiple points of income Let’s … Read more

Simple Trick Increases Product Sales

This one is so simple, yet diabolically effective… When you first introduce a new product to your list or your blog readers, do you simply pop a link on there with a line of text and hope they click? Of course not. You introduce the product. You tell them what’s good about it, how you … Read more

Are You Overwhelming Your Visitors?

I just visited the site of an EXCELLENT marketer who knows his stuff. But… Here’s what happened. I’d clicked over to one of his blog posts. Black background, BIG long hard to read headline. Okay, it’s a little much, but I can handle that. Wait, there’s a banner across the bottom in bright blue. Hmmm, … Read more

How to Make More Sales Being Contrary

Here’s something I’ve been playing with, and my results have been pretty good, too. Do the opposite of what everyone else is doing… A few months ago a friend was launching a big product with lots of cash prizes for the top affiliates. I knew there would be tons of affiliate competition, with every affiliate … Read more