Writing

Seventeen years of notes, from 2009 to today. The old posts stay up — nothing has been quietly deleted.

Techniques11 July 2010 · 3 min read
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.
Techniques5 July 2010 · 4 min read
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
Productivity27 June 2010 · 2 min read
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
Techniques17 June 2010 · 2 min read
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
Techniques11 June 2010 · 1 min read
The $5 Alternative To Dragon NaturallySpeaking
Suggests paying a human $5 on Fiverr to transcribe audio instead of relying on Dragon NaturallySpeaking voice recognition
Productivity25 May 2010 · 1 min read
Talk, Don’t Type!
The author tries dictating a blog post with Dragon NaturallySpeaking and reports on early accuracy and effort
Techniques18 March 2010 · 2 min read
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
Challenge12 March 2010 · 2 min read
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
video27 February 2010 · 1 min read
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
video25 February 2010 · 1 min read
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
video12 February 2010 · 1 min read
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
Thoughts1 February 2010 · 2 min read
Usenet Marketing – Group Discovery Tactics
Explains how to find active Usenet marketing groups using Newzbot Search and Google Groups
Techniques20 January 2010 · 1 min read
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
Thoughts10 January 2010 · 2 min read
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
Thoughts1 January 2010 · 1 min read
Happy New Year
A New Year reflection on the blog's first year, including the posting frequency the author settled on
Thoughts25 December 2009 · 1 min read
Add Diagrams to Your Posts
A quick method for adding simple sequence diagrams to blog posts using the free FreeMind mind-mapping tool
Thoughts21 December 2009 · 2 min read
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
Thoughts16 December 2009 · 1 min read
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.
Thoughts11 December 2009 · 1 min read
Autoresponder Linking Strategies
Argues that autoresponder emails should each carry a single call-to-action link rather than several competing ones.
Thoughts6 December 2009 · 1 min read
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.