Some of the most powerful and successful web sites in the world are now run through the power of WordPress. Sure, it’s easy enough to install WordPress on your server and get a blog up and running, but if you want to get anywhere, you will need to take advantage of everything WordPress has to…
Remember a few years back when you may have seen the first advertising and tracking system that promised you the ability to see and spy on your competitors ad campaigns? The first services doing this were specializing in search advertising, then it quickly spread to other outlets and methods of advertising. With so many different…
On Monday I was featured on a segment called “Watters’ World” on The O’Reilly Factor on FOX News. The interview was during my time at BlogWorld in NY where I was speaking about blogging and how to make money online. This was my second appearance on national television, as I was previously on ABC News…
Everyone knows that one of the most powerful methods for generating sales and leads is through user reviews. Now a days everyone is jumping online to search for customer feedback, reviews and even coupon codes and discounts before actually buying a product in store or even online. The use of review based web sites will…
Hello to all of my new and wonderful blog readers, especially those of you from FOX NEWS! Every day I get hundreds of emails from people asking how to make money online and what types of marketing tools and online training courses they should be taking to learn how to make money online. The TRUTH…
I’ve been following the marketing niche for a few years now, and one thing that surprises me is how little attention is paid to psychological process and how they can help a business grow. If you visit your favorite marketing blogs you’ll find various articles telling you what to do, without any behind-the-scenes reasons or…
Creating your own online shopping site and store can make all of the difference in the world. Not only is it important for offline stores to transition their business online, but it’s also an exciting way to create new businesses for people who want to work and sell from home. Sometimes you don’t even need…
Today I will be speaking at the Jacob Javits Center during BlogWorld Expo NY 2012. I’m thrilled to say that I’ve made it to at least one BlogWorld event every year since they went live back in 2007. The event was originally once a year in Vegas, but last year they spread their way over…
The stock market can be an extremely exciting place… though it seems like this is how it works for many people. If you are in the stock market, you hate it and are probably losing money. If you aren’t in the stock market, you feel you are missing out on easy money. I’ve been on…
One of my recent favorite posts on this blog was my guest blogging secrets post, which went into great detail on why guest blogging is an excellent solution for any blogger, along with profiling some of the best sites and guest bloggers in the game today. Keeping with that same traditional, I was talking with…
Over the past several months, the whole world of SEO, search rankings and how we build links to our web sites and blogs has greatly changed. It’s no longer about building as many links as you can, and using the same keyword anchor text for every link, but instead focusing on only high quality links…
It seems like everyone has a book out today. If not in the bookshelves of your local store, then at least a pdf version online. I even have a few books of my own that I’ve written and released over the years. However, with more and more people moving towards digital readers and the demand…
You hear people talking about creating sales funnels and autoresponder series all the time, but the amount of people that actually take the time to set one of them up is few. Why is this? Most likely because it takes time and work to put together a quality autoresponder series, and many blogs and web…
With so much news about the FTC coming after affiliates for their landing pages and ad campaigns, and the same thing happening with ad networks… we continually seeing bad news left and right. With that said, it’s always important to make sure you know who you are working with online. We all know there are…
Twitter is awesome! You can meet new people, keep up to date with old friends, join in Twitter Chats, create your own hashtag, follow celebrities, network, share stories and promote your blog. To top it off, all of this is done in only 140 characters. You may be thinking “What has Twitter got to do…
In the world of social networking, posting pictures and videos online, and anything to do with celebrities… you simply can’t go wrong. So what happens when you combine the power of all three of these mega attractions? Then you get Staree! Staree is the latest project behind the team at Izea, and their goal is…
Over the past few weeks I’ve had the opportunity to stay at a few different hotel locations. Many of them had their gyms, pools and spas. While at the Marriott Newport in Rhode Island this past weekend, I started to think about how the way hotels present and advertise their gyms and spa areas are…
With Google playing mind games with SEO masters, blog owners and webmasters around the world… no one is safe from recent changes in the search results. While we can’t change how Google fluctuates web site rankings, we can make sure that we are ready for future updates and make our web sites and blogs ready…
The almighty Google has released the Penguin and the effect on blogs especially affiliate review blogs are huge. It’s like affiliate marketers are confused. They’ve a lot of questions traveling through their clouded minds what’s Google really up to. How do I position my affiliate niche sites to rank better, generate income and make me…
Running your own blog is easy… creating an authority blog and one that makes money is another! Yes, everyone talks about the power of blogging and how it can make you rich or how it can provide you with exposure to people all over the world and even create a new life and business of…
Is your blog currently in a rut? Are you looking for that one creative way to massively grow your blog and online business this year? Look no further, because the answer is here. And as you’ve probably guessed, mobile is that answer. The rate at which mobile usage is growing every year is stunning, and…
With more and more web sites and blogs getting the axe from Google Adsense, it means there going to be a lot of people looking for new ways to make money with their blogs and traffic. Besides creating your own products and selling your own ad space, writing sponsored reviews is an excellent way to…
Recent changes to Google’s privacy policy were the talk of the town recently could they have anything to do with the de-indexing of many large sites recently? Getting Google to notice your website is a lot of hard work at the best of times and a little like trying to get that enigmatic girl across…
It’s been a few weeks since I first wrote about Google Adsense banning my account and graciously taking the money that I was earning in my account. It wasn’t much, but money is money and it’s always nice to have…. however that isn’t the topic for this post. Instead we will discuss how getting banned…
You can tell people how to start a blog, create an ad campaign or even provide them with a step by step business plan… but in the end, how many people will actually follow through? The answer is, NOT MANY. The majority of people are just too lazy or give up way too fast. Yes,…
For anyone who is active in the online media and social networking world, you probably already know about Klout. In the world of online marketing, having a social media presence and sense of branding and authority around your name is everything. I’ve never been one to take a huge advantage of social media and using…
Let’s face it… no one likes sitting around and working on link building all day. Fortunately there are numerous ways you can generate legitimate links back to your web sites and blogs, and most of them can be outsourced. With Google wiping out all of the link building blog networks and changing their algorithms to…
With the latest Facebook Timeline changes now in effect, I thought it would be a cool idea to feature some of the top names in the industry and see what pictures they are using for their Facebook accounts. As you will see, the majority of images are quite personable, while some are used for branding…
First off, I’d like to wish everyone an excellent and Happy Easter! I thought today would be a fun and creative way to just stress the reminder and importance of not keeping all of your business focused on one traffic or revenue source. As we all know, my Google Adsense account was banned last month…
With all of the affiliate networks out there, it’s always a game in itself to find out which are bests. Ads Direct is a network that has been doing extremely well with running all of their own internal offers and are looking to expand their network of affiliates to drive leads for their network. Unlike…