This is a guest post from Chris Ducker from VirtualBusinessLifestyle.com. Chris has quite an impressive resume, with 19 years in sales, marketing and PR. He’s a CEO of a total business outsourcing company with a staff of approximately 165 full-time employees. I’ve gotten to know Chris fairly well recently since our recent interview, and he’s got some really exciting stuff planned in regards to generating passive income streams and truly living a super-mobile lifestyle. Enjoy!
As someone that has been involved in the outsourcing industry for almost 10 years, I’ve seen it change a lot over that period of time. It used to be something only the big boys would get involved with, outsourcing scores of customer service and technical support staff over to countries such as India and the Philippines – but, it’s become a whole different animal in the last 3-5 years.
No longer is outsourcing, or utilizing virtual, offshore staff something just for the large companies and corporations of North America. Nowadays scores of entrepreneurs and small to medium-sized business owners from all around the world are catching up by working with virtual employees to be able to grow their businesses, or simply have one-off projects completed quickly and with cost saving benefits in mind, too! Click to continue…
Yesterday, we had another iPhone app approved by Apple (yay!), however this post is not about iPhone apps. It’s about getting people to take action, whether it be new visitors to your site, newsletter subscribers, people reading your sales page, or iPhone owners reading the copy of an ad you created to try and get them to download your new iPhone app.
Immediately after our new app went live in iTunes, we decided to promote it with advertising. Our goal was to break the top 100 in the Paid Utilities category, which is important because once you break 100 in any category, your app will have additional exposure on the top 100 lists on iTunes.
The most popular advertising platform for the iPhone (at the moment) is Admobs. It’s kind of like Google Adsense and Google Adwords all bundled into one: for free you can put code into your own applications that generate ads (and you get paid per click), or you can pay to have your ads shown in applications that have that code in them. Click to continue…
In September of 2009, I wrote a post that you wouldn’t think to find here on the blog, entitled The Top 5 Reasons NOT to Quit Your Job and Work From Home.
I wrote it because:
- I always tell all sides of the story – no fluff or hype here; and
- Working from home is difficult and not for everyone.
With almost two years of working for myself under my belt, I’ve done a lot to adjust to the work-at-home lifestyle. However, there are still a few things that are much more convenient for a person when working for “the man”.
In this post, I’d like to recap those concerns and give you some advice as to what you can do from home to assist with those concerns. Click to continue…
“Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally.”
Does that phrase sound familiar to you? If it does, that’s because our grade school teachers used it over and over again to help us learn how to do math in the proper order.
Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally = Parenthesis, Exponents, Multiplication, Division, Addition, Subtraction.
This is the order of operations. It’s important because it helps us solve our math problems correctly. If you have an equation such as this…
[(2 + 3)^2] – [(6*5-3) / 9] = X
…using the order of operations makes it relatively simple to find that X = 22. Without any particular order, we would never find the correct answer, and the world would end.
For those of us in the online business and blogging world, there’s a specific order of operations that we must follow too. If we don’t, it will be much more difficult to reach our goals.
The Order of Operations for Online Business and Blogging is something I just came up with, but it sums up (pun intended) everything I’ve done since I started doing business online.
Here’s the mnemonic (you can make up your own, but I like this one for obvious reasons): Click to continue…
This is a guest post from Daniel from Daily Blog Tips.
If you are interested in Internet marketing, copywriting or even marketing in general, you’ve probably already heard the saying “benefits sell, features don’t”, right? It basically states that if you want to sell something, your marketing messages should focus on the benefits of your product to potential customers, and not on its features.
Not everyone understands this concept, however, and that is probably the reason why people forget to apply it to their copy or marketing material.
So let’s explain how it all works. Click to continue…
First of all, I’d like to thank Kim Roach for a killer traffic growing guest post last Friday, and I’d also like to thank her tribe. Many of Kim’s loyal followers came by SPI over the weekend, and to all of you I’d like to give you a warm welcome and a big thank you!
Secondly, I’d like to welcome all of the visitors coming from the Internet Business Mastery Blog today, linked here from a guest post that I wrote that went live today about eBooks. Thanks for stopping by!
As many of my long-time followers know, a few months ago I wrote one of my most successful, most widely-spread posts EVER, entitled THE Blogger’s Guide to Facebook. It goes over 2 months of hardcore research about Facebook as a means of traffic generation, including instructions on how to setup everything from scratch and maximize your results.
Since then, I haven’t let up on Facebook one bit. Now with over 1,550 Facebook Fans, I realize even more the power behind Facebook – not only for traffic generation, but for building a long-lasting, deeper relationship with your audience. Besides an email list, I believe a well built Facebook Fan Page is the next best thing in a blogger’s business-building arsenal.
Let’s get into it… Click to continue…
This is a guest post by Kim Roach of BuzzBlogger.com. She provides us with some novel ideas for growing our blogs, some of which I’ll be trying out very soon. Enjoy!
I just finished off a large Starbucks Doubleshot and have now settled into my favorite chair to share with you some of my favorite (largely untapped) traffic strategies.
These aren’t your traditional, run-of-the-mill traffic tactics that you hear all over the web… article marketing, guest blogging, forum marketing, Twitter, etc…
All of those are fine and good, but in this article, I’d like to go outside the box a bit and show you 5 little-known traffic strategies that I’ve been using to grow my blog.
So, without further ado, let’s dive in… Click to continue…
For the last couple of months (as pointed out in my latest income reports), I’ve been working vigorously on creating new iPhone apps. We currently have 4 available in iTunes, which has grossed us a total of $6798.64 during the first quarter of the year. We’re super stoked to have 8 more apps scheduled to be released in less than a month.
Over the past weekend, 3 of our new apps were completed by our developers and are ready to be submitted to Apple for approval. More apps = more potential passive income streams.
Sweet!
Since many of you (and I really do mean many!) have been emailing me and asking me for more info about creating iPhone apps, I’ll be writing more about my experience in individual blog posts, such as this one.
If you want to get into the iPhone (or iPad) app industry, here are 5 things you should know first: Click to continue…
This is a Guest Post by Maren Kate from Escapingthe9to5.com, a friend of mine from the Internet Business Mastery Academy. Maren Kate was recently featured in a success story interview on the Internet Business Mastery Podcast.
Passive income is my goal.
Right now I work entirely too much, though still less than if I had a “real” job, but when I dream, it’s of sugar plum fairies and passive income streams.
When I first escaped the 9 to 5 I did so by starting a social media marketing firm to help brick and mortar businesses get launched into the online realm. I’m glad I did it, but it’s not exactly passive. I have two employees who work for me full time (VAs really) and with that comes writing schedules, checking up, wooing clients…the list goes on. The point is, passive income is the goal, but I’m implementing smart active income to get there… The awesome thing is you can do the exact same thing by following some simple steps to getting smart about your passive and active income goals! Click to continue…
No, I'm not a millionaire, but I am living off of passive income made online. I'm here to show 
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