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Instant Product System
A method for quickly creating low-ticket products by packaging your own working process as a System product or your results as a Case Study.
Four Steps To Success With Giveaway Events
A four-step guide to using Giveaway Events for list building, from picking a high-value gift to setting up your offer
Three Summer Productivity Secrets
Reflects on why summer boosts the author's marketing productivity and how to try to keep that boost going year round
What Is The Best Way To Learn Online Marketing?
Compares college courses, e-books, and personal coaching as ways to learn online marketing, and argues coaching wins
The $5 Alternative To Dragon NaturallySpeaking
Suggests paying a human $5 on Fiverr to transcribe audio instead of relying on Dragon NaturallySpeaking voice recognition
Talk, Don’t Type!
The author tries dictating a blog post with Dragon NaturallySpeaking and reports on early accuracy and effort
The $1 WSO – Does It Work?
Reports the views, sales, and costs from a real $1 Warrior Special Offer test to judge whether the tactic works
The Forum Challenge
A quick challenge to add a personal link to your forum signature and retroactively backlink every post you've ever made there
Local Adwords Search Secrets – Part 2
A short video showing how to use the Google Global Firefox plugin to check search results as seen from a chosen location
Local Adword Search Secrets – Part 1
A short video on making Google believe you're searching from a different location to check local search results
The Three Biggest Mistakes In List Building
The author's first video blog post, expanding on a guest post about the three biggest mistakes people make when building an email list
Usenet Marketing – Group Discovery Tactics
Explains how to find active Usenet marketing groups using Newzbot Search and Google Groups
Become An Expert Quickly
Argues that presenting yourself confidently as an expert matters more than prior knowledge, and shows a shortcut for building it fast
Are You Aiming at a World Market?
Warns email marketers against assuming subscribers everywhere share the same holidays, using Thanksgiving and Father's Day as examples
Happy New Year
A New Year reflection on the blog's first year, including the posting frequency the author settled on
Add Diagrams to Your Posts
A quick method for adding simple sequence diagrams to blog posts using the free FreeMind mind-mapping tool
The Four Hour Work Week is Realistic!
Describes a batch-production method for running a niche site on autopilot for a month using just four hours of work
Five Ways to Fill Your Autoresponder
Sets out five simple types of content to send in autoresponder follow-ups so a list gets regular, useful email.
Autoresponder Linking Strategies
Argues that autoresponder emails should each carry a single call-to-action link rather than several competing ones.
Super Successful Kids and Internet Marketing
Reflects on why some young people excel at internet marketing and how older marketers can compensate by working smarter.