SPI 155: Inside One of My Weekly Mastermind Meetings
I’m doing something different with today’s episode. No, it’s not another NPR-style epsiode—though you all know how much I love doing those. This time, I’m sharing with you a recording of a phone call. That phone call was with one of my mastermind groups I meet with each week. Consider this a sneak peek into how we run our mastermind group, what questions we ask, and how we push ourselves each week to make improvements to our businesses. This meeting was unique in that we had a special guest join us. Joey Korneman runs SchoolofMotion.com, an online resource for motion designers, and he’s been working hard to grow his business. …
My Monthly Income Report – March 2015
Welcome to my March 2015 monthly income report! As always, each month I write up a detailed report about how my online businesses are progressing. In these reports, you’ll find not only what I’ve been up to and the lessons I’ve learned, but a line-by-line breakdown of my earnings. Some income streams go up, and others go down, but there’s always a lesson involved. Let’s get right into it… What Happened in March? A lot of exciting things…
SPI 156: The Story Behind Abel James and the Success of Fat Burning Man
This week’s guest comes to us from the fitness world. He’s Abel James, who I got to know last year when he won an award for his incredible podcast, Fat Burning Man. Abel didn’t just stop at podcasting—his Fat Burning Man brand also includes a wildly successful book and mobile app. He’s built a multimedia franchise in an extremely saturated field, and he’s done it all without any of the sleaze that plagues so much of the fitness industry. Let’s face it: There are a lot of scammy fitness and nutrition businesses out there. That’s what makes Abel so amazing—he’s used transparency, honesty, and…
It’s About Time! #NMX
It’s early Monday morning, and I’m writing this post from the bed of my hotel room in Las Vegas. I perform my keynote presentation in front of a gigantic crowd tomorrow, and I couldn’t be more excited! Here’s a preview of the room: Woot! I’ve had well over a year to plan for this, and tomorrow – after all of the planning, coordination and rehearsals – all I can say is: It’s about time. Look out for a live stream of my presentation coming on Meerkat or …
SPI 157: The Art of Rejection with Jia Jiang
I first saw today’s guest on a TED Talk. His name is Jia Jiang, and his talk was titled, “Surprising Lessons from 100 Days of Rejection.” It’s one of those TED Talks you start watching and find you can’t stop—it’s that good. In the video, Jia talked a lot about struggling with rejection, particularly as an entrepreneur. He’d faced some hard blows trying to get his business off the ground, and hearing “no” time and time again was affecting his willingness to take risks. Then …
SPI 158: How to Productize Your Service-Based Business
I’ve got a truly special episode this week—one that I hope will be a huge game-changer for a lot of you. This episode is all about productizing. A productized service takes a skill you already provide and allows it to run systematically, growing with or without your direct involvement. It’s what the passive income lifestyle is all about. Productizing your service can free you from the classic freelance model, where you bill by the hour. When you productize, you’re no longer limited by the number of hours you can feasibly work. Exciting…
Back to the Future Again (My Short Film to Open My NMX Keynote)
A lot of you know that I like to go all-out when I get on stage for a presentation. I’ve watched hundreds of talks online and even hired a coach at one point to improve my public speaking skills, and I always try to bring something new, creative and different to the stage. In 2013, during the opening Keynote for the Financial Blogger Conference, I started the presentation by literally tripping and falling on stage, something I got special training for to learn how to do correctly. I tripped because the presentation was all about the power of first impressions, and that you never have a second chance to give one. People still talk about my entrance at…
SPI 159: The Best Practices for Increasing Sales With Your Autoresponder Email Series
This week, we’re talking about a simple thing that can have a huge positive impact on your business: email marketing and the power of an autoresponder series. Remember Steve Chou from Episode 143? Steve introduced me to the guy who helped him triple his revenue by making some small changes to his autoresponder series. That guy is Dan Faggella. When Steve told me I had to bring Dan on the show, I listened—and I couldn’t be more excited for what he’s…
6 New Social Media You Need to Watch
It seems like new social media networks are popping up all over the internet. After quite popular sites like Medium, Tsu and Ello or less known ones as Shots, This, Pheed, and Chirp, now it’s the time to introduce some new social projects I found online. Here are 6 new social media you need to watch. 1. Brabble Brabble is plenty a social media. You can interact by posting multimedia files, sharing them with friends (your followers), with “all the world” (public) or leaving your content private. It’s possible to respond to other content with multimedia files like videos, links, audio, photos…
6 Basic Rules of a Good Blogger – Are You Following Them?
Professional bloggers know that to bring traffic to their site, they need to do more than just creating some blog posts. A successful blogger must write content that strikes a chord with people and gets them to react. Your website can be a source of great income, but you need to do more than simply create a large amounts of articles. You must write content that provides your readers with valuable, useful and entertaining information. In a few words, added value! There are lots …
15 Solid Tips About Creating Great Content for Your Blog
Have you ever wondered how to create great content for your blog? This is a 2000 words guide with 15 steps to help you writing articles with real added value for your readers. 1. Plan What You Want to Achieve with an Article This point is essential. Planning is very important not only in your daily or business life. Before you start writing you have to know what you want. So, ask yourself some questions: Should it be a promotional article? Or maybe you want to share your experience about something? Is it a simple story for your readers…
How to Make Money With Infolinks – Best Adsense Alternative
Internet is full of opportunities and making money online has become the dream of many people. Blogging is still a very popular way to earn an income, as there are different methods to monetize a website and its traffic. While Adsense seems to be the most common choice, in this post I want to write about a valid alternative: Infolinks. How to Join Infolinks Registering to Infolinks is very easy. Just visit the website homepage and at top left, click on “Join us“. After entering your website in the first field, you can simply sign up with your Facebook credentials or add your full name and email. The application process …
Lucky Orange – The Most Complete Heatmap, Visitor Recording, and Chat Tool I Have Ever Used
Using the right tools in your blogging journey will definitely influence whether your success or failure. Have you ever wondered what actions take your visitors when landed on your website, checking exactly which pages they visit, even monitoring their mouse movement? Well, with Lucky Orange you can get this, plus many other interesting features, like live chat and polling system. How to Start Monitoring Your Site With Lucky Orange Registering is easy and you can run a completely free 7 days trial, without adding your credit card information. Just add your language, name, email and password to create your account. Confirm your password and start the guided tour. You can personalize your LuckyOrange dashboard depending on your…
Don’t Miss These 20 Sites to Get Free Images For Your Content
Finding the right media (while complying with the legal rules) is one of the most difficult parts of the creation of an article. You have to choose the right subject, identify a picture free of copyrights (otherwise citing the source or the author), verify that the image has sufficient pixels size (I go for 600 px within my blog posts, and a little more for the featured one) or even resize the image if needed. And despite all the time you spend on this process, sometimes the results are mediocre (well, it always depends on your expectations). Photography is the only language that can be understood anywhere in the world – Bruno Barbey A beautiful picture can make the difference between getting clicks and…
Join BuildPath and Learn How to Create a Profitable Business
In the last two years, I have participated in many interviews for different websites in the blogosphere. Frequently, the question was: “If you could go back when you started blogging, what would you have done differently?” My answer was always the same: “I would have hired a professional to teach me the right path since the beginning. This would have saved me a lot of time and money in the following years”. In this post…
Secure Your Website and Hard Work Online with Defencely
The security of your website should be among your first priorities. You don’t want to waste all the hard work you put into your online business and have it hacked, for example. This is even more a necessity if your income comes from working online. There are a few steps you can take to secure your WordPress blog. I can suggest some important tips: – use a ultra-safe password (using letters, numbers, uppercase, lowercase and special characters); – erase the “admin&#…
4 Tools to Quickly Increase Your Mailing List
Have you ever wondered how many active readers you have on your blog? Do your visitors just open and close your website without letting you know if they will return? If your stats show that you attract more new visitors rather than entice old ones to return, then you must recognize that you need to focus on working harder on your audience, instead of thinking about just getting more traffic. To generate more traffic you can make use of social media, guest posts and forums, but users who return on your web pages usually need to have a good reason to do so. If your website is already popular and you have invested your time to create a community around your blog, then the problem of having…
How to Become Futureproof – Opening Keynote NMX ’15 (SPI TV, Ep. 13)
It is my absolute pleasure to share the full version of my opening keynote at New Media Expo 2015. The theme is future proofing your business and brand. What does that mean? It means to be able to survive what’s ahead – to absorb the shock of the inevitable stresses that will test all of us from this point forward. Whether you like it or not, the future is coming, and to be able to survive and thrive in the new business environments that are ahead, we must go back to the past and analyze what has always worked…
Pension investments: Never too early to plan for the future
If you are a worker in your twenties or thirties, working at a job you love, or simply the job you need, retirement is probably the furthest thing from your mind right now. Retirement can sneak up on you though, so starting to invest for the future early on, including pension investments and other types of private investments, is wise. Professional investment firms, such as Fortress Investments, are completely focused on the financial world and, more specifically, on investing. They have the training and experience…
Join ProOpinion and Earn While Sharing Your Professional Expertise
Do you want to earn while sharing your professional expertise? Rewards include payment via PayPal, Amazon or iTunes gift card (you may also want to donate your earnings to American Red Cross). Introducing ProOpinion ProOpinion is a free online community you can join to expand your knowledge and earn while sharing your expertise. In order to join, you must be an 18+ business professional who lives in the USA. Registration is free and you can select the email form, or an easier way, via your Facebook, Google+ or LinkedIn account. After creating your account, be sure to fill in your profile, by adding generalities like address and…
SAMSUNG GALAXY MEGA
SAMSUNG GALAXY MEGA Samsung terus saja melakukan berbagai terobosan baru untuk menghadapi persaingan yang terjadi di pasaran gadget. Tiap tahun bahkan beberapa bulan sekali, Samsung hampir selalu mengeluarkan produk baru. Tentu saja dengan kualitas yang tidak diragukan. Smartphone ini tampil elegan dengan layar sebesar 6.3 inch, membuat para pengguna menjadi lebih mudah dalam mengoperasikannya. Didukung dengan kamera primer sebesar 8 MP, semakin membuat performanya menawan. kelebiha dan kelemahan dari Samsung Galaxy Mega :KELEBIHAN :- Sudah mendukung jaringan 3G, sehingga memungkinkan untuk melakukan koneksi internet yang cepat. Dan juga tidak perlu khawatir, jika anda sedang berada di daerah yang terpencil, smarphone ini juga mendukung …
What Would Happen to My Online Business if I Died?
This is a guest post by Chris Huntley, a good friend of mine who works in life insurance. We’ve had lunch together quite a few times and we usually discuss topics like blogging and the joy (and challenge) of being parents, but at one particular lunch we started talking about how more and more people are becoming solo entrepreneurs and that because it’s happening so fast, most of those business owners probably don’t have a “business continuation plan” that determines what would happen to their business if they were to die. Although I have some of the basics in place, this discussion was a big wake up call for me, especially because my online businesses are the primary source of income …
Fuel bills are rising, what can you do?
Now that much of the country has been covered in a blanket of snow and temperatures have dropped below zero, most of us will be keen to turn the thermostat up on heating systems. But with the cost of energy being as high as it is, thousands of households will find that having a little warmth can have seriously detrimental effects on the state of their finances. According to MoneySupermarket, 40 per cent of annual energy use occurs during the winter months so it’s far from surprising that people are often hit with more expensive bills than they expected. Indeed, the price comparison website believes that the average family will receive a quarterly bill of around £530 in …
How to Get More Subscribers for Your Email List
This is a guest post by Amit Shaw of iTechCode.A powerful Email marketing is deficient without a good big subscriber list. But, this isn’t a problem anymore as many ways are available today to get more subscribers for Email list.Generally, website owners make use of their own websites to bring together various Email addresses to enlarge their email list.Moreover, some of the website owners create different websites just to fetch more …