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How a Simple Site About Green Beans Sold for 5 Times it’s Annual Earnings.

June 27th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Pontification, Search Engine Stuff

Approximately 2 years ago, I made this post
“How a complete novice took a site from scratch to over 1500000 annual unique visitors in 2 short years”
That site was launched in the autumn of 2007
The site has continued to perform at the levels described in the article.
Fresh content has been added on an ongoing basis.
Incoming search [...]

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What’s in a Name?

October 12th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Pontification, Search Engine Stuff

Well, for someone who was born in the UK, I guess my knowledge of current English slang is a bit lacking. 
Apparantly according to some of the comments and many emails I received, the word ‘bonk’ means something quite different in the UK than it does in the US. Actually it really doesn’t mean [...]

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One of my Pet Peeves..

January 29th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Pontification

If you sell anything online, how often does this happen to you.
Someone buys one of your products, your system sends the buyer their login info etc..

Five hours later you receive an email from this person stating they never received their login details.  fine, happens all the time.
So you rpely, with their login info again, then [...]

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Which Is the More Likely Path to Success?

December 21st, 2009 · 9 Comments · Mindless Blathering, Pontification

One of the biggest impediments to success in business is lack of focus.
So what do I mean specifically?
Consider this..
Which of these scenarios is likely to give you the best chance of success?
You have 10,000 projects and you repeat each 1 time
or
You have 10 projects and repeat each of those projects 1000 times.
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Internet Marketing is Great But…

October 20th, 2009 · 10 Comments · Pontification

Ok, this is going to be a bit of a rant, well maybe it will be, we’ll see..
Having been in this business for over 14 years I have seen pretty much everything from every angle. I have dealt with all kinds of people and about 98% of those experiences have been positive.
I can’t even begin [...]

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Are you throwing away valuable info every day?

August 31st, 2009 · 3 Comments · Pontification, Tutorials

If you’re daily email experience is anything like mine, then you
receive about 3000 pieces of email each day. Of course the vast
majority of this finds it’s way directly into my junk folder, but
I also subscribe to a lot of newsletters. Many never make it out
of the junk bin, but a good number are filtered into [...]

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Are you really getting the full value of article marketing?

August 26th, 2009 · 28 Comments · Pontification, Search Engine Stuff

There are a lot of ways to drive traffic to your site, some more effective than others.
But probably one of the easiest and most reliable ways to get traffic is through the creation and submission of articles to article directories.
This me seem really simplistic and your first reaction might be, yea, tell me something I [...]

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Are You Addicted to Your Email Client? I Am..

August 14th, 2009 · 12 Comments · Pontification

I admit it, I’m addicted to my email client. Yep, I’m finding it hard to let go.
I’ve been using Eudora for longer than I care to remember, probably at least 12 years, maybe more.
I’ve been updating through the years but stopped at version 6.2 which I thought was about as rock solid as they could [...]

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Are You Throwing Away Great Ideas?

August 10th, 2009 · 14 Comments · Pontification

Ideas are the foundation upon which we all make money.
I don’t care if you are an affiliate marketer or someone who creates their own products and services.
Without a good or great idea you’re really dead in the water.
I never had a problem coming up with ideas for products or ways that I thought I could [...]

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Customer Service Sucks, But it Doesn’t Have to..

August 6th, 2009 · 5 Comments · Pontification

Let’s look at a couple things that are as certain as death tself.
If you sell a product online, specifically one that you own, you’re going to have to deal with customer support issues.
I don’t care how great your product, how good the materials you’ve provided your customers ahead of time, you’re going to get a [...]

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