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SPI 031 : Seeds of Opportunity & Pat Goes Hollywood

Pat — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 08:23:19 +0000

In this session of the Smart Passive Income Podcast, to kick of the new year I share something special that happened to me that happened as a result of producing the SPI podcast.

This is session is a little different than the rest in that it’s more inspirational and motivational (as opposed to stuff that you can totally take action with right now), but the message and lessons behind it are still extremely important.

I’ve hinted about this a couple of times in the past, but last year I was hired by a Hollywood Producer to help him with an upcoming film. As a result I was able to fulfill a life long dream of mine, which I talk more about in the show.

Even though I tell a story in this session, I do my best to try to include some tips for your online business or blog, including my overall web and social media strategy to help promote this film.

I’m extremely proud to be a part of this project and share it here with you today !

If you’re at work and cannot listen to the audio or you just aren’t into podcasts, I recommend you open up the transcript at the bottom of this post so you can read through the session instead. The transcript is already available for you.

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Thank you all for your support, and once again, Happy New Year!

Cheers! :)

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SPI 030 : Pat’s Top 30 Tips for Successful Affiliate Marketing

Pat — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 09:47:23 +0000

In this session of the Smart Passive Income Podcast, I go over my top 30 tips for successful affiliate marketing, which involve a wide range of topics – all the way from the approach and mindset of affiliate marketing, to the little details of where links should be placed and how often.

As many of you know, especially if you’ve recently glanced at my monthly income reports, affiliate marketing has become a major portion of my earnings over the past year, which is why I wanted to end the year with a hold-nothing-back type of session that will definitely help you and your online business one way or another – whether you already promote products as an affiliate or not.

There are 30 different tips here – all based on my own experience – so I hope you enjoy!

Oh, and you’ll notice that during the session, my voice starts to “go away” or change a bit. The reason is because I’ve been sick the last few days and I guess my vocal chords were just not ready for an hour long recording session yet. All good though – I got through it and the information is there for you.

If you’re at work and can’t listen to audio or you just aren’t into podcasts, I recommend you open up the transcript at the bottom of this post so you can read through the tips instead. The transcript is already available for you.

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Items mentioned in this podcast include:

GreenExamAcademy
Keyword Research Webinar
SPI Podcast Sessions #10 and #22 (with Chris Guthrie)
SPI Podcast Sessions #08 and #23 (with Corbett Barr)
Affiliate Marketing for Beginner’s Course
Amazon Affiliate Marketing Course
Mark Mason from Masonworld.com
GoToWebinar
Article on FTC regulations and disclosure (from Social Media Examiner)

Please let me know what you think of session #30, and if you enjoyed this episode, please share it!

Thank you all for making the SPI podcast such a major success. It’s just a few downloads away from 1,000,000 downloads since session #1 and the response from you has just been incredible. I couldn’t ask for anything more.

2011 was amazing, but 2012 is going to be even better!

Happy New Year, and look out for a lot more from me in the new year!

Cheers!

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SPI 029 : How to Conduct (and Master) a Webinar with Lewis Howes from LewisHowes.com

Pat — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 17:00:46 +0000

In this session of SPI Podcast I have the privilege of welcoming Lewis Howes from LewisHowes.com to the show, an ex-football player turned entrepreneur who many people know for his success with utilizing LinkedIn to grow his business from scratch. He actually published two books about his success with LinkedIn not too long ago.

This session isn’t about LinkedIn though – it’s all about webinars – what they are, why they work and the best way to approach and conduct one.

Lewis is a master at conducting webinars. This I know because I’ve seen him in action, and he’s amazing – and his results are amazing too. He kindly shares his results and all of the techniques, tips and tricks that he uses during this interview.

I’ve actually conducted a few webinars before with some degree of success, however after chatting with Lewis (and actually jotting notes down during the interview), I realized I wasn’t even scratching the surface of what was possible.

In this session you’ll hear Lewis describe:

Details from his first webinar experience which generated $6,300 (without a finished product to sell).
Why webinars are the best way to conduct business online.
How to get more people to sign up and attend your webinar, which are two completely different things.
The various types of software that can be used to host a webinar, including some free options that I hadn’t really thought of before.
The structure of a webinar that works best (aka – the 4 Phases of a webinar)
The one thing you should absolutely do with your audience before your webinar even begins.
What to do (and what not to do) if you plan on pitching something.
The top ways to engage with your audience within a webinar.
The things you should do after a webinar is over.
Plus much more…

The recommended paid software to use for webinars that both Lewis and I use is GoToWebinar. You can try it with unlimited use for free for 30-days by clicking on my affiliate link here.

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SPI 028 : How to Be Everywhere – Building a Profitable BRAND by Thinking Outside the Blog

Pat — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 17:34:55 +0000

In this special session of The Smart Passive Income Podcast, I share a re-recording of the presentation I did at Blog World Expo in Los Angeles last week.

I also include a YouTube video that has the slides that I had prepared as well, although if you’re going to listen to the audio you don’t need the slides in order to get the message I’m trying to share.

Again, this is not the actual recording of my session at Blog World Expo. As I mentioned in my last post, and at the beginning of this podcast episode, things didn’t go quite as planned during the live presentation. You can learn more about exactly what happened (and have a nice laugh too) by clicking here to see exactly what went wrong.

My presentation is all about Being Everywhere, expanding outside of the blog to bring new eyes into your brand and business. I share some very compelling data from a survey I did on SPI a few weeks ago, and I also share a ton of tips and strategies for all the platforms I discuss.

If you’ve ever felt like the growth of your blog has hit a plateau, and you’re looking for information about how to get off of that pleateau and get back into growth mode, this presentation is for you.

In this session you’ll hear me talk about:

A homeless man who changed my view on branding and doing business online.
The top three ways that people have found me who are now reading my blog – and it’s not Google, Facebook or Twitter.
Three things that should absolutely be happening on your blog first before reaching out and finding new audiences.
How to tap into untapped resources for bloggers like iTunes and YouTube.
A ton of tips and tricks to make sure you give yourself the best chance to stand out of the crowd and be found.
How social media and your email list play a role in Being Everywhere.
The power of The Content Trifecta.
And a whole lot more…

There is over an hour of content here, and I’m super stoked to still be getting compliments about my presentation from those who attended my session at Blog World Expo. I hope those of you were were unable to make it enjoy it as well.

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Thank you so much for your support!

And lastly, thank you to those of you who voted for the SPI podcast for The Podcast Awards. The results came in and I did not win any awards, but just to be nominated by you was such an honor. Congratulations to the winners, and maybe we’ll get ‘em next year!

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SPI 027 : How to Harness the Power of Social Proof Online

Pat — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 12:00:09 +0000

In this session of the Smart Passive Income Podcast, I talk about social proof, what it is, why it’s extremely important and what we can do online to really take advantage of this incredibly powerful marketing idea.

You’ll hear me talk about all different types of social proof and some exact strategies that you can implement right now.

In this session you’ll hear me talk about:

When and where you’ve seen social proof before and probably didn’t even know it.
How social proof is just a dangerous as it is powerful.
Specific strategies to increase stickiness and awareness to your brand and business.
What you can do if you’re a beginner and you want to use social proof.
Why what I say doesn’t matter.
Breakdancing.
And more…

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Items mentioned in this podcast include:

Internet Business Mastery Podcast
Triberr.com
Podcast Awards
eBooks the Smart Way
Mark from MasonWorld.com
GoToWebinar
Lewis Howes
Pat’s YouTube Channel
Blog World Expo (affiliate link – use discount code BWESPI20 for 20% off!)

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Thank you so much for your support. If you enjoyed this show, please consider voting for the SPI podcast for the Podcast Awards! I’m nominated in two categories: People’s Choice and Business, so please head on over to PodcastAwards.com to place your vote.

Thank you, and please let me know what you think. Or, at least answer this one question: where else have you seen social proof used before?

Cheers!

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SPI 026 : The Two Types of Relationships You Must Develop Online in Order to Succeed

Pat — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 09:36:04 +0000

In this session of the Smart Passive Income Podcast, I talk about the importance of two different types of relationships that we need to develop and why they both play a major role in the success of an online business.

In the online world, if you try to go at it alone you’re going to be left behind. Here, I provide you with some helpful strategies, tips and examples that you can use to develop strong relationships with both your audience and your peers, which will help take your business to the next level.

In this session, I cover:

How relationships can increase your bottom line.
Why offline relationships matter online too.
How to love your readers and make them love you back.
What the acronym R.A.O.K. stands for, and why it’s important.
What I really think about “Networking”.
How to find a mastermind group.
Sock Knitting (lol!)
And more…

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Enjoy the show!

Cheers!

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SPI 025 : More Online Business Success Stories from People Who Don’t Teach People How to Make Money Online – Part 2

Pat — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 09:19:47 +0000

In this session of the Smart Passive Income Podcast, we continue what we started in SPI Session #24 and bring in 4 more fantastic and inspiring success stories from people who are making a living online and generating a passive income without having to teach others how to make money online.

As I mentioned before, many people think that the only way to really make a living online is to talk about making money online, but these interviews prove that you don’t need to do that.

This Session’s Success Stories Feature:

Jordan Cooper of FM Britain - Some of you might already know Jordan Cooper. He has a blog at NotAProBlog.com and you may have read his guest posts on Problogger or Copyblogger. What you probably didn’t know about Jordan (I didn’t!) is that he generates significant passive income from a website in a niche totally outside of the blogging world that involves a video game that I’m sure most of us in the United States have never heard of before. He’s a stand-up guy (and comedian!) who offers some golden advice in this interview.

Cara Faus of Health Home Happy - Cara’s success story is definitely one to admire. She’s not making millions, but she’s changing several lives and is able to support her family while doing so. In this interview Cara shares how GAPS (Gut and Psychology Syndrome) and her daughter inspired her to create a membership site that is helping hundreds of people – primarily through her own grain free meal plans.

David Risley from PCMech.com – I’m sure many of you know who David Risley is. His website at DavidRisley.com consistently provides some of the most useful blogging and make money online advice on the web.

“But Pat! I thought this session was about people who make money outside of that industry! What’s the deal?!”

The reason I included David in this series is because like myself, like Darren Rowse from Problogger.net, and like most of the other people I know who run successful websites that teach people how to blog and make money online – he first had success (and built proof) outside of this niche, and I recommend that anyone who wants to teach people how to make money online to do the same first.

David shares his journey from the beginning which eventually led him to his very profitable blog at PCMech.com, a technology-based website for normal people.

David being David, he shares some awesome advice for those of us who are just starting to get our feet wet online.

Cornelius Fichtner from Cornelius-Fichner.com (among other things!) – I met Cornelius right when I was first starting to do business online. We are both members of the Internet Business Mastery Academy and I’ve been hooked on his story ever since. It’s been long overdue, but I’m really happy to have Cornelius on the SPI Podcast because he’s doing extremely well online. In the interview, he also shares a HUGE mistake that he made when he first started out that he cannot undo. Those of us doing business online, even if we have a business already, should definitely not miss what he says.

In each of these interviews, we talk about:

What they were all doing before they started their online businesses, and when and why they decided to go online.
Monetization techniques.
The stuggles they experienced while building their online businesses.
What they each love most about doing business online and earning a passive income.
And more…

A big thank you to all of the guests on today’s session for their stories and inspiration!

Oh, and just for fun, there’s a surprise guest appearance during this session – a 5th guest – someone who is a very very very special to me.

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Cheers!

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SPI 024 : Online Business Success Stories from People Who Don’t Teach People How to Make Money Online – Part 1

Pat — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 17:26:25 +0000

In this session of the Smart Passive Income Podcast, I’m happy to showcase 3 success stories from people who are making a living online and generating a passive income without having to teach others how to make money online.

Many people think that the only way to really make money online is to talk about making money online, and this session (and the next, which will feature 3 more success stories) is here to show you that you don’t need to do that. In fact, I wouldn’t recommend it because the make money online industry is very competitive and the techniques that are a little out of date in this industry are still crushing it in others.

This Session’s Success Stories Feature:

Keith Snow of HarvestEating.com - The cooking and food niche is extremely competitive, but Keith shares with us exactly how he found a niche within a niche (Local and Seasonal Foods) and is utilizing the power of giving away information for free to drive people into a membership site and increase product sales. What I love about Keith’s story is his attitude towards his customers and also how he’s utilizing the power of the internet to grow his business even further.

Raffael Schulz of Hochzeitsportal24.de - Raffael has an interesting story for a number of different reasons. He has one of the top wedding websites in Germany (I know a lot of you are from outside the U.S. so this story will definitely be one to listen to), he quit his job in order to work on it and he knew nothing about weddings before. Raffael shares how he got into this business and exactly what kinds of monetization strategies (there’s a bunch!) he’s using and which ones perform the best.

Daniel Himel of EnduranceNation.us and MarathonNation.us – Daniel Himel quit his well paying corporate job to build a business around something he was very passionate about – endurance training for the Ironman race. He then applied what he learned to marathon training and he crushed it even more. We’re talking 7 figures a year here and some fantastic business strategies that you can apply to your own online businesses and membership sites too.

In each of these interviews, we talk about:

What they were all doing before they started their online businesses, and when and why they decided to go online.
Monetization techniques.
The stuggles they experienced while building their online businesses.
What they each love most about doing business online and earning a passive income.
And more…

Thanks to all of the guests on the show today and look out for 3 more success stories in session #25.

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SPI 023 : More Traffic, More Engagement and More Action with Corbett Barr from ThinkTraffic.net

Pat — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 08:37:05 +0000

In this session of the Smart Passive Income Podcast, I’m honored to have back Corbett Barr from ThinkTraffic.net, who was our special guest in Session #8 – the most popular podcast I’ve had to date.

In Session #8, we discussed How to Get More Traffic, and today we expand on that topic, going deeper into the process and touching on several key points that are absolutely necessary for any blogger or online business owner to understand in order to build a long-term, sustainable brand online.

It’s not just about traffic generation either – it’s about how to keep those visitors on your site and how to get them to take action.

We cover all of this.

Just scan through the bullet points below to see exactly what Corbett and I talk about:

The fundamentals of traffic building that most people overlook.
The one question that you must be able to answer if you want to become successful online.
What the thriving audience framework is and how it can drive massive amounts of traffic to your site.
How one should really approach being different.
The must-follow rules for a content-based traffic strategy.
How I was able to sell a profitable 6-figure eBook when most of the content could already be found on my blog for free.
The technical aspects of epic content that you must include.
How to get inspired by other bloggers to write content that crushes!
What to do if you want to write epic content to drive traffic to your site, but you don’t already have an existing audience.
How to jumpstart your traffic building when you’re a newbie.
Why engagement is important and how to measure it.
What to do when it feels like you’re writing for nobody.
Why comments on blog posts are more important than you think.
What to do with the very first email you get from a reader.
The best practices to take when it comes to eventually wanting to sell a product on your site.
The key to building a long-term, sustainable online business.
Plus a lot more…

I’m positive that listening to this session will be time well-invested for your online business or blog.

Also, I’m very happy to recommend Corbett’s course that he’s reopening later this week – Traffic School, which had some amazing results during the first go-around for his students. He explains more about what his course is all about at the end of the podcast.

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SPI 022 : Affiliate Marketing Strategies, Tips and Techniques From Real Life Experiences with Chris Guthrie

Pat — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 17:50:01 +0000

In this session of the Smart Passive Income Podcast, special guest Chris Guthrie and I discuss several affiliate marketing strategies, tips and techniques drawing from real life examples from our own websites and experiences.

Affiliate marketing has been huge for me lately. Last month, I earned $18,638.24 from affiliate marketing and Chris has pushed over 1.5 million dollars in product sales from Amazon.com alone, which is out of this world.

You may remember Chris from Session #10 of the SPI Podcast, which was more of an interview style type podcast. This time around we do more of a “round-table” type discussion about affiliate marketing and throw tips back and forth that have worked for us in the past. There’s a lot of little golden nuggets in this session, so whether you’re just getting started with affiliate marketing, or you’re already experienced with it and want to increase your conversions, there should be something here for you.

In this session, you’ll learn:

The first experiences that both Chris and I had with affiliate marketing.
How to find the perfect products to sell as an affiliate on your site.
Our thoughts on promoting a product that you haven’t used yourself yet.
How to get products for free from companies to review and promote on your site.
Rules for long-term success with affiliate marketing – especially if you have an existing audience or following.
The best tips for affiliate marketing if you have a product-based niche site.
Detailed information about one of Chris’s niche sites that he recently sold for a lot of money.
The mindset that you need to really crush it with affiliate marketing.
The most important factor that determines your success with niche site affiliate marketing.
Why and when you should become a “sales rep” for a specific product.
Interesting and unique places to add affiliate links to increase sales and conversions.
Specific types of posts that work best for affiliate marketing.
Websites that we built that totally failed, and why.
How podcasts, videos and webinars can be the best way to promote products as an affiliate.
Where the affiliate links on your blog or website should really be.
Plus a lot more…

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SPI 021 : Q&A Session – Domain Names, Do You Need an Audience, YouTube Blackboards and Adsense Earnings

Pat — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 18:39:15 +0000

In this session of the Smart Passive Income Podcast, I do something a little different and give detailed answers to some of most commonly asked questions. I’m doing this for a number of reasons:

First, I’ll be able to help more people who may have these very same questions. Instead of answering each person individually, I can address everybody, including those who have yet to ask the same questions, or those who may be too shy or scared to do so.

Secondly, as a result, it’ll help me save time because it may reduce the number of emails I get, and if I do get these questions in my inbox, I can just reference this podcast session.

And lastly, these are just some really good questions that provide excellent content for the podcast.

The Questions

Actually, I was only able to get to 4 out of the 10 questions I originally wanted to cover in the session, which means I get pretty detailed with some of the answers. Here are the questions that I talk about today:

Question #1:

(02:05) Hey Pat! I hope you can answer this one for me. I have read and listened to everything I can get my hands on for the past few months… and the more I know, the more apparent it is to me that I don’t understand some of this stuff. For example: I want to purchase my domain names for my new businesses online and all of the formulas I have read about it are confusing and scary to me even though I have dived in and tried to figure it out. Is there a super simple formula that a newbie can use for finding the “perfect” domain name?

Question #2:

(17:20) Pat – I have an eBook idea but I don’t have a blog or any type of online presence yet. What can I do to make my eBook successful?

Question #3:

(25:01) Pat – how do you make YouTube videos with the blackboard with your logo on it, and you writing live on top of it?

Question #4:

(29:38) How do I increase my Adsense earnings?

Some of my answers include:

The formulas for the perfect domain name for the different types of websites one might create, along with examples that do and don’t work.
5 rules you should always consider before you choose a domain name.
Why I believe my first eBook launch, which generated $8000.00 in the first month, was so successful.
How you can test the success of your product idea before you even create it.
Exactly how I create my “blackboard” YouTube videos, and why they are so effective.
Why I love Google Adsense and why it’s working for me.
3 of the most important things you can do to increase your Adsense earnings.
Why some sites with a ton of daily visitors earn less than sites with less traffic.
How to wrap text around an Adsense advertisement.
The changes that I’ve made with my Adsense ads that have dramatically increased (and decreased) my income.

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Items Mentioned in this Session:

The 4-Hour Work Week (2nd Edition)
How to Test Your Product Before it’s Even Made – Part 1
Google Adwords
SPI Session #19 – Everything You Need to Know About YouTube for Online Business and Blogging
Google Adsense
Cam Studio (free screen capture software)
Gimp (free graphic design software)
Advertisement Management WordPress Plugin
Niche Pursuits
Pat On Facebook

And here is the code you can use to wrap text around an Google Adsense advertisement:

<div style="float:right;">ADSENSE CODE GOES HEREdiv>

You can change “right” to “left” if you want the ad to be on the left-hand side instead.

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SPI 020 : All About Virtual Assistants and Outsourcing with Chris Ducker from VirtualBusinessLifestyle.com

Pat — Fri, 20 May 2011 16:42:48 +0000

In this session of the Smart Passive Income Podcast, my good friend Chris Ducker from Virtual Business Lifestyle joins us and shares his expertise and wisdom in the world of virtual assistants and outsourcing.

Hiring help for your online business, whether it’s just for one task you’d like to complete or on a more full-time basis, can definitely take your business to the next level and at the same time make your business a lot more passive and automated – as long as you know how to find the right help and work and communicate with your hired help in an efficient manner.

I’ve used sites like Elance and Odesk before to do a number of “one-off” projects, from designing WordPress themes to transcription work and even article writing, however recently I hired my first full time VA, a programmer who is designing a number of websites for me and clients of mine, and the experience so far has really blown me away.

Like you’ll hear me say in the podcast session with Chris, it’s like I’ve been able to clone myself and get twice as much done.

My only regret is that I wish I had hired someone to help me leverage my time sooner.

In this session, you’ll hear Chris and I discuss:

What exactly a Virtual Assistant is, and exactly what they can do for your online business.
How a Virtual Assistant can pretty much automate your entire niche site marketing process.
Why it took me 2 and a half months to write an eBook that was already 95% written.
Where exactly one can go to find a good Virtual Assistant.
How to make sure you find quality hired help when searching for Virtual Assistants to work for you.
How to get a birthday message for you from a guy dressed in a banana.
Why the Philippines is the most talked about country for finding Virtual Assistants.
How much it may cost you to have someone work for you full time for 40 hours a week.
The kinds of things I have my own full-time virtual assistant do for me.
The 4 tools that you need to make sure you’re getting the most out of your VA experience.

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SPI 019 : Everything You Need to Know About YouTube for Blogging and Online Business

Pat — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 09:53:26 +0000

In this session of the Smart Passive Income Podcast, I explore the world of video and start from scratch with YouTube to show you exactly how I make sure I give myself the best chance to get the most views and have the most impact for my business and blog.

As I mentioned in a previous article, Are YouTube and Podcasting Worth the Effort?, YouTube has been huge for me not only for traffic, but for engaging my existing audience and reaching brand new ones. I still get emails every day from people who say they have found me through YouTube, and it’s no wonder because 2 billion videos are viewed on YouTube every single day.

Whether you’re on YouTube already, or have yet to create your first video, make sure you listen to this session to get the most out of your efforts.

In this session, I discuss:

How 30 videos of mine have been viewed nearly half a million times.
How I overcame the fear I had when I first started uploading videos.
Why the first video I uploaded to YouTube still embarrasses me, yet continues to earn money.
The one question you should ask yourself if you ever get scared of doing anything.
How to piggy back the success of already highly viewed videos on YouTube.
How I record my “blackboard” instructional YouTube videos.
A recommended free piece of screen recording / capturing software.
The “sweet spot” time limit for videos.
Example calls to action to include with your videos.
What your Title, Description and Tag should really be.
How to Make Money on YouTube

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SPI 018 : The Truth About Getting Rich Quick With MJ DeMarco – Author of The Millionaire Fastlane

Pat — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 16:09:35 +0000

In this session of the Smart Passive Income Podcast, I have the pleasure of interviewing multi-millionaire entrepreneur and recent author MJ DeMarco, who recently published a fantastic book entitled The Millionaire Fastlane.

I was asked by a number of SPI readers to get MJ on the show for an interview. I’m really glad I did because he and his book totally blew me away.

As you’ll hear in the podcast, I was actually a little hesitant to bring him on the show at first because he talks a lot about getting rich quick, which we all know is an instant warning for something scammy or fishy. However, you have to listen to the podcast to really get a feel for where he’s coming from and you’ll realize that there is such a thing.

I’m a perfect example, because although I don’t consider myself to be extremely rich, I know I am fairly well-off thanks to my online businesses, and it was only a little over 2 years ago that I was brand new to this industry. 2 years is definitely quick in the grand scheme of things.

Whether you’re still stuck in the grind or you’re already working for yourself and want to get in the right mindset to take things to the next level, this session is for you.

Here are some of the things MJ and I discuss in our session together:

Exactly how MJ got started as an entrepreneur and the one moment in his teenage life that changed his whole mindset about who can become extremely successful.
How he landed on a multi-million dollar idea while working in one of his dead-end jobs.
Why he sold his company, twice.
Why MJ calls himself “The Get Rich Slowly Anti-Guru”.
An explanation of “The Sidewalk”, “The Slow Lane”, and “The Fastlane”.
What a person needs to do, and the avenues that one can take to get into “The Fastlane”.
What to do when you feel like you don’t have time to work on your own businesses.
The difference between being interested, and being committed.
How time plays a role in the mindset we need to find success.
The law that one must implement in their own businesses to make sure they give themselves the best chance to accelerate their wealth.
What to do when you are met with opposition when trying to build your business and succeed in life.
MJ’s thoughts on selecting the right market to get into if you want to start your own business.

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SPI 017 : Types of Passive Income Generated Online and What to Expect From Each – Part 3

Pat — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 07:10:23 +0000

In this session of the Smart Passive Income Podcast, I finish off a 3-part series about the different types of passive income streams that can be generated online and what you can expect from each. I discuss the potential costs that are involved, how one might get started, what kind of results are typical and how long it might take to see those results.

In this particular installment, I go over some of the more “advanced” types of passive income streams, ones that are typically (but not always!) created after some type of success or growth with some of the other types of passive income products and platforms that I talked about in session 15 and 16. If this is your first time coming across this podcast series, and especially if this is your first time on the blog, I recommend you check out the two sessions first:

During part 3 of this series, I talk about:

The most attractive passive income business model ever.
How you can double your income with no changes to your site.
3 things that I wish were included in all membership websites.
The harsh truth about software development, including why I still have yet to release the wordpress plugin that I’ve been talking about for way too long!
The absolute best thing you can do if you’re outsourcing anything.
A little more information about iPhone apps.
How podcasts and passive income relate.
And a twist to make consulting and coaching give you more money for your time.

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I hope you enjoy this podcast and have enjoyed this particular series in whole. Like I mentioned in the first part, this series will be featured (along with some other resources) in a “getting started” or “start here” area that will soon be placed onto the blog, so look out for that in the near future.

Thanks again for all of your undying support. I’ll keep doing what I can to inform, educate and inspire, as long as you’re still here listening.

Cheers!

p.s. I’d love to hear your comments and thoughts about this series after you’ve completed listening or reading! Thanks!

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SPI 016 : Types of Passive Income Generated Online and What to Expect From Each – Part 2

Pat — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 15:34:51 +0000

In this session of the Smart Passive Income Podcast, I continue to investigate the different types of passive income streams that can be generated online and what you can expect from each. I discuss the potential costs that are involved, how one might get started, what kind of results are typical and how long it might take to see those results.

During part 2 of this series, I talk about:

Two reasons why I believe blogging is a form of passive income.
The common formula that is used by bloggers to generate an income online.
The one thing we should do differently than Seth Godin.
A trick when naming your blog that could make things a lot easier for you.
How you can create a new blog, pick a theme and write your first post in less than 4 minutes, even if you’ve never done it before.
Two things that I wish I had done immediately when I started blogging that I didn’t do (and it’s not about building a email list).
The typical progression of bloggers, from excitement to failure and how to overcome it.
How to make an eBook that writes itself.
The differences between E-Junkie and Clickbank to sell and deliver an eBook to your customers.
How throwing away 25 pages worth of audio that I recorded turned into $1400 in two days.

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SPI 015 : Types of Passive Income Generated Online and What to Expect From Each – Part 1

Pat — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 09:39:10 +0000

In this session of the Smart Passive Income Podcast, I investigate the different types of passive income streams that can be generated online, and what you can expect from each.

When I say “what you can expect”, I mean:

the costs that are involved
how one might get started
what kind of results are typical; and
how long it might take to see those results

A lot of people have been emailing me and sending me message that this blog doesn’t have a good starting point for newcomers.

Well – they’re right.

I don’t.

This podcast session, along with the other parts that go with it, will become that starting point – a place to give you an idea about what you can do and how you can begin to work towards earning a passive income online.

During this particular segment of this series, I talk about:

What I believe is the fastest and easiest way to make money online. You might be surprised!
An example of a totally passive, 100% hands-off income stream that continues to grow.
How I totally failed in my first experience with affiliate marketing.
Why affiliates are important and why 99% of the work is already done for you.
What you can do to get started, even if you don’t have any money at all.

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As I mention at the end of this session, Cliff Ravenscraft from PodcastAnswerMan.com, a dear friend and frequent guest on my podcast, will be dedicating the entire month of March to helping a group of students create a successful podcast too. He’s helped me so much, I feel that he and his Podcasting from A to Z course definitely deserves a mention. It’s the least I can do for all of his help.

If you’re interested in Podcasting the right way, learn from the best. Check out Cliff’s How to Podcast from A to Z Course by Clicking Here. (This is an affiliate link)

As always, thank you for your support, and I wish you all the best. Cheers!

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SPI 014 : iPhone App Development and Marketing Tips

Pat — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 12:01:19 +0000

In this session of the Smart Passive Income Podcast, I talk more about my iPhone app business. I’ve written a couple of posts about iPhone apps before (here and here) and have always been asked for more, so I thought what better way to talk about the business than on an podcast session!

During this episode, I cover:

Why I’m super stoked for February 10th, 2011.
How I got into the iPhone App business.
A detailed story of our first iPhone application and the 3 things that went terribly wrong with the whole process.
How much our business makes with iPhone apps, and details about 1 of our free applications that generates between $50 and $100 a day.
A few marketing tips I’ve learned during my 2 years in this business that will help you increase your chances of a successful app business.
How much it costs to develop an iPhone app.
How to protect your idea when searching for developers.
My thoughts on the app market and if there’s room for more success stories.

No guests – just me, so I hope you enjoy this session!

Cheers!

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SPI 013 : Is Giving Away Free Information Bad? Here Are Some Answers

Pat — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 09:38:30 +0000

In this session of the Smart Passive Income Podcast, I bring back a topic of a recent post I wrote, Is Giving Away Free Information Bad, and respond to some of the 200+ comments with the help of a special guest, Cliff from PodcastAnswerMan.com, who was a guest in session 5 of the SPI podcast.

To be honest, there really is no right or wrong answer here, but Cliff and I share exactly what free information (and the extend to which we provide free information) has done for our own businesses, and what it could do for yours too.

Thank you for all of you who posted comments on that post. All of them were extremely thought-provoking and I read and respond to a number of them during the recording, with credit to the commenter, of course.

During this episode, we cover:

How I respond to “giving away free information is bad!“
How an email list of less than 200 can be extremely profitable.
How to get people to want to pay you for the information you already provide.
Cliff’s idea to make even more money by giving away his premium content for free.
The “mindset” of free to the consumer.
What we think about just giving away a “little bit” of free information.
The importance of making it easy to let people give back to you.
Plus a whole lot more…

I hope you enjoy this session! Be sure to check out what my voice sounds like when I’m sick.

Cheers!

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SPI 012 : Mind Hacks, Physical Hacks and Work Hacks For Better Productivity And Getting Things Done

Pat — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 11:33:19 +0000

In this session of the Smart Passive Income Podcast, I talk about exactly how I manage to work on so many projects at the same time, stay focused and get things done!

I’ve divided the podcast into three different segments, which include:

Mind Hacks – The mindset of how we work and what we do is probably the most important thing about staying productive and on the right track. I go into great depth about some of the things I do to stay laser focused and motivated.
Physical Hacks – There are a number of things you can do that relate to your physical body that can have a dramatic effect on how much you get done. Small, simple and free changes that can really make a big difference.
Work Hacks – Here I talk about work related things you can do to help boost productivity, which includes a number of different tools and resources that I use.

Realize that I’m not saying you should do exactly what I do – that’s never the case here on the blog. But, I give you examples of what I’ve found works for me to hopefully give you a place to start (and some inspiration too!) to help you really take things to the next level in 2011 and crush it!

Thanks for your support everyone, and enjoy a safe and healthy holiday!

Oh, and if you’re interested in working with Tyrone and I in an exciting, intimate and very limited coaching program geared towards building a successful, high ranking and profitable niche site, check out NicheSiteCoaching.com and watch the short video there.

The deadline to apply is December 31st, 2010 at 11:59pm EST.

Cheers!

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SPI 011 : 5 Questions You Need to Ask Yourself to Improve Your Online Business, Blog or Website

Pat — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 07:05:53 +0000

In this session of the Smart Passive Income Podcast, I give you 5 questions that you absolutely need to be asking yourself in order to improve your online business, blog or website.

When we look for ways to improve, we often ask for outside help, but in this podcast I ask you to look inward to help yourself, and after listening you should have a greater understanding of what you can do better, and why.

So what are the 5 questions you need to be asking yourself? You’ll need to listen to find out (or read the transcript, hehe).

There’s a ton of content and information jam packed into this session, including:

The one tip that someone once told me that has changed exactly how I approach all of my online properties, especially my blogs.
Why you should keep your visitors from thinking too much.
The things you can do in any niche, no matter how competitive it is, to stand out from the crowd.
Why getting to number 1 in Google may not be the best thing to do.
How campfires and fishing can help our businesses or blogs.
Exactly how to get people to want more of your content.

Please, let me know what you think, or if you have anything you’d like to add and share with the SPI community.

Thanks for your support!

Cheers!

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SPI 010 : Crushing It With Amazon Affiliate Sales With Chris Guthrie of MakeMoneyOnTheInternet.com

Pat — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 08:44:50 +0000

In this session (the 10th session!) of the Smart Passive Income Podcast, I interview Chris Guthrie of Make Money On The Internet, who is making a killing as an affiliate for products from Amazon.com.

Out of all the places to sign up as an affiliate and earn a commission from the products you can sell, Amazon was my least favorite of all – that is until asking Chris a load of questions about why he chose to sell products specifically from Amazon and how he does it.

Last year, he sold almost $1,000,000.00 in products from Amazon and earned a full time income as a result, all from niche sites that he’s built and set virtually on autopilot. He’s also got a very interesting story about how he got into this business, thanks to a little video game called Halo.

In this session, you’ll learn:

How to maximize your conversions for products that you sell from niche sites (and your blog too).
What linking techniques have the best click-through rates for Amazon products, and which ones are the worst (backed up by hard numbers).
The one thing that most people building product niche sites tend to forget.
What you can do to maximize your search engine rankings right from the start.
How picking a less searched for keyword can increase your income.

Chris is an awesome, down to earth guy who I became really good friends with at Blog World Expo last month. What impresses me most about him is not how he’s making a full time income from Amazon.com, but how he’s so willing to help others.

I hope you enjoy, and just like Chris says in the interview, if you have any questions, feel free to leave a comment and I’m sure he’ll be around to answer them from time to time.

Cheers!

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SPI 009 : Make Money By Making The Web A More Wonderful Place with Nicole Dean

Pat — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 10:17:05 +0000

In this session of the Smart Passive Income Podcast, I interview Rock Star internet entrepreneur, blogger, business coach, publisher, affiliate marketing manager and friend, Nicole Dean from NicoleOnTheNet.com.

Nicole obviously knows a lot about doing business, but what I really love about her is her approach to online business, which can be summed up in her motto: “make money by making the web a more wonderful place“. I truly take this saying to heart because that’s exactly how I feel about the work that I do and why I think I’m where I’m at today.

In the later half of the interview, we have a deep discussion about PLR (private label rights) material and how bloggers and niche marketers can use it to quickly produce quality content for their sites, even if they don’t know about the topic. Nicole owns her own PLR article company, and I never even heard of PLR before until just before this interview, which is why I asked her so many questions about it.

Also, be sure to listen for her two top tips for getting started online, as well as her top two tips for those of us who are already doing business online and want to get to the next level.

We’re coming up on the 10th session already! Thank you so much for your support!

Enjoy, and be sure to say hi to Nicole on Twitter!

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Pat: Hey everybody what’s up and welcome to the ninth session of the Smart Passive Income podcast thank you for joining me today. I wanted to answer a quick question before we get into our featured content and that is Hey Pat how often are you going to be posting these podcasts? Great question. I’ve actually been asked this quite often because it seems kind of random right now and I just want to let you know that I’ll be publishing a new podcast episode at least once every two weeks and I know a lot of you out there want more cause you’ve told me and I’m just trying to balance everything that I have going on right now. All the blog posts that I’ve been writing on smartpassiveincome.com which is obviously my hub for everything I do. All the niche sites that I’m been working on right now especially ones for the niche site duel which right now if you’re following along I’m sitting at number three in Google and I am seeing a lot of income come in each day just through ads and (1:11). I’m going to implement some other monetization strategies but things are going really well. If you want to learn exactly what that’s all about you can go to smartpassiveincome.com/nichesiteduel and that’s where a buddy of mine Tyrone challenged me to start a niche site. We’re doing this together to see who can make the most money, rank the highest in Google and I’m already sitting at number three. Just totally awesome.

So yeah I have that going on along with YouTube videos, all these projects I’m working on for software like wordpress plugins and iphone apps and all this other stuff. So right now I’m going to be publishing a new podcast episode every two weeks and I’m sorry if that’s not as often as you’d like. It’s not as often as I’d like but that’s what I can handle right now and sometimes you just have to know what you can handle in order to make things work. So that’s it for now. If I do happen to have other episodes on hand which I do and I feel like it’s appropriate I will publish maybe once a week but it fills up a spot on my Monday, Wednesday, Friday blogging schedule at smartpassiveincome.com and when I do publish a podcast so I have to take that into consideration. So yeah twice a week and so just from all that stuff I’ve been talking about all the things I’ve been working on lately you might think to yourself hey Pat dude you’re working on a ton of stuff how is that passive income I don’t get it?

Well the thing is I could literally stop working right now. Stop all my businesses. Not put in any more work and I believe I would be okay for the next two to three years as far income is concerned pending any crazy major things happening like Google being shut down or things in certain industries that might have been be totally changing. So I don’t have to worry too much about that but I’m building up my passive income portfolio as I would like to call it. I’m adding to it like the tagline of this show says work hard now so that you can reap the benefits later and I want a lot of benefits later that’s why I’m working hard now and it might seem like I’m putting in 12 hour days. Well honestly I’m only putting four hours in a day but I don’t have to but I’m choosing to do that. Most of my work is for stuff like this the podcast, the blog which aren’t even my primary income streams. I mean most of my income streams come from other projects. The smart passive income podcast and the smart passive income blog, those are things that I just created to help other people and help you realize that this stuff really is possible. It is possible to make a living online or make some extra income online and that’s why I’m here and that’s why I’m not charging anything right now and it doesn’t even feel like work to me because I’m having so much fun. I’m helping so many people. People are emailing me saying really wonderful things and it just keeps me going. So thank you so much for all your support really.

So with all that said I mean let’s just jump right into the featured content and I’m super stoked because I have a special guest. Her name is Nicole Dean from nicoleonthenet.com. Nicole spelled N-I-C-O-L-E and she’s a rock star and she’s awesome. Nicole how are you doing today?

Nicole: I’m doing awesome.

Pat: Awesome well actually for everyone out there I heard about Nicole a while ago through Mark Mason from masonworld.com who you know from the very first interview we’ve had on the smart passive income podcast. That was in session number two I believe and she does a lot of really cool stuff. She’s an expert affiliate marketer and manager, a publisher, a business coach, a blogger and all these other cool things that we’ll be talking about and I’m really stoked to pick Nicole’s brain today about a number of things that I’m actually really curious about which we’ll get to in a minute. She’s got a number of website under her name. I already mentioned nicoleonthenet.com, that’s her blog. Shelancers.com, outsourceweekly.com, justaddsweat.com, webtrafficbasics and easyplr.com and I’m sure she’s got a number of other sites too. So you could tell she knows what she’s doing. She’s got multiple streams of income working for her. So Nicole thanks again for joining us today. Would be willing to share exactly how you got started doing business online?

Nicole: Oh sure. Everybody has their story right?

Pat: Right.

Nicole: First of all I would like to thank you for having me here today and I just want to tell you that I love what you’re doing. I’m a huge fan of your blog ever since I found it. I just love it. I devour it. It’s fabulous.

Pat: Thank you I really appreciate that.

Nicole: Yeah. I think you’re doing fabulous things. I’m impressed. So my story let’s see. Back in September of 2001, of course we know that September 11, 2001 was when our world changed and my daughter was born nine days later. So it was kind of an interesting time in a lot of our lives and it was also an interesting in my life because my daughter was born on September 20, 2001 and my husband was laid off on his job a week after that.

Pat: Oh wow. So you had all these kinds of things going on at the same time.

Nicole: Yeah. I’m very blessed that I did not have it worse. I know many people had it much worse than I did but we went from I had a four and a half year old boy and then my brand new baby girl that we went from one very nice income and living in our dreamhouse to no income overnight and I watched my husband go through that and suffer and it was not fun and it was not fair to him. So that’s when I decided that we needed some more control and some more stability in our lives because the pressure on him was unbearable and it was really, I feel unfair for it to all be on his shoulders but I couldn’t really do anything cause I had the baby and so I started looking around then and I took the long route to where I am today. I went through direct sales. I went through spamming my links on message boards. I went the whole route. I made baby bracelets for a while and dabbled and explored and tried to figure out what I wanted to be when I grew up and how I could contribute and so basically, eventually in 2004 I set up my first website. It was ugly. It was hideously ugly and I sometimes I go back, to way back (7:45) machine and look at it just for a good laugh. It was showmomthemoney.com and I still own that site and I enjoyed writing and I enjoyed playing around with it and then I started to monetize and I started to make a few pennies and I was like well that was kind of easy.

Pat: Yeah right. I felt the same way when I first started. I mean I implemented adsense. Is that kind of what you did?

Nicole: That’s how I started, exactly.

Pat: It’s such a good feeling just to get even just to get like 10 cents. You’re like oh my gosh this is fantastic.

Nicole: Exactly and so I know we’re going to get in into my little petri dishes in a bit cause that’s the question coming up.

Pat: Yeah, I love that.

Nicole: Basically I used that to figure out what markets were hot and then I spun off sites, way too many sites and I had a nice broad mess of niche websites. Again way too many and I would not recommend taking the path I took but I had all kinds and still do have many of my niche websites and we say my niche websites are what pay my mortgage and that my internet marketing money is my fund money because I don’t feel like I could about how to make money in niche markets unless I was actually doing it. So that where I learned most of what I know today and that’s still my playground where I go and experiment on things and see how it works and then if it works I teach it. If it doesn’t then chuck it up to another learning experience but since then I just have been basically watching what’s worked and I’ve been doing more of that and then watching what hasn’t worked and then not doing that.

Pat: …not doing that right.

Nicole: …and it’s really pretty much been the foundation of my business and now both my mom and my husband work for me or my husband works with me. He doesn’t like it when I say work for me. Work with me in our company.

Pat: Works with you okay. Got it.

Nicole: …and my mom does work for me and so it’s been a long journey but it’s been a good one and I’ve learned a lot from my mistakes and I’ve learned a lot along the way and I wouldn’t have it any other way.

Pat: It seems like a lot of the most successful people I come across always have those hard times in their lives where they just learned so much and their backs are kind of up against the wall and I think that’s when they perform best. It seems like that’s the same kind of story with you.

Nicole: Exactly. If I could bottle that sink or swim feeling I would be the world’s best business coach.

Pat: Right yeah I mean…

Nicole: …cause I know that with my clients, I mean my mom was one of 11 children and so she had a big family and I have many aunts and uncles but they live on a river and the way they learned how to swim was that the older one would throw in the younger one and it’s sink or swim. That’s what it is and so I think that is probably not the most loving way to learn.

Pat: No it’s a very stressful time.

Nicole: So yeah I was put in that sink or swim situation and I started paddling my little arms off and it worked.

Pat: How would you recommend people to actually kind of maybe think that way even though maybe they have a nine to five job and they just want to start something on the side but it really takes that almost pressure to be forced to do things that you might not be comfortable with but you know will get you results. How would you suggest to somebody who may not be putting all their effort into their business because they don’t have to?

Nicole: Right. I wish I knew. I really wish I knew. One of the things that I like to do is run through a visualization with someone where you try to picture the fear of regret and the fear of regret has to be bigger than the fear of failure and the fear of success because those are things that hold people back. So if you can’t, if you’re not in situation where you have to get past your feel of failure and the fear of success and I find that the next best thing is to look 10 years from now at the regret that you’re going to be holding on to because you didn’t go after it enough because you didn’t have to go after it.

Pat: I love that. I’ve never heard that before but that’s excellent advice. I mean just thinking about the what if. We always have those what if situations and they make us feel kind of bad sometimes or just make us really wonder what could have been.

Nicole: Exactly.

Pat: If you kind of like you said think in the future and how you would think if you didn’t act now you might actually start doing stuff. So that’s a really great advice. Thank you.

Nicole: Sure.

Pat: So you said you were doing some niche marketing and I’m interested because I’m kind of in the middle of this challenge with another blogger Tyrone Shum from tyroneshum.com. He’s challenging me to a niche site duel. We’re both beginners at this but we’re putting, we obviously have some experience online and we’re putting our experience behind this kind of experiment and we just finished selecting our niches which was a crazy process. I’ve never done anything like this before. So I’m interested to know kind of if you can give us any insight on how you approach finding a niche. I know everyone else has their different style but how do you approach finding a profitable niche.

Nicole: Well I, my motto is making the web and the world a better place and that’s been my motto ever since I started and so I do things a lot differently than other people teach and that is that I build quality sites in my niches. I don’t look at it as a fast thing throughput of junky website, drive traffic to it and hope for the best. I put up something that hopefully either my kids would get down the road or that I could sell because it will be quite profitable and valuable so it depends on, it really depends on someone’s attitude going forward but I have websites that I set up in 2006 that I have not touched since then that still make $300, $400 a month which I know isn’t a lot of money but it truly is passive but that’s because I don’t have to worry about Google dropping me. I don’t have to worry about, I just don’t have to worry because I know it’s a quality website. So it is offering value and if I do decide I’m tired with it later then I can sell it for a nice profit. So going into a niche, it really has to be something that I’m interested in and where I feel that I am improving people’s lives in some way and I know that it is all warm and fuzzy and simple but that’s just me. I probably won’t set up a site just because I saw dollar signs there unless I actually thought it was going to be helping people in addition to making me money. So it’s hard because it has to be something I’m interested in and it has to be something that I’m going to be passionate about. Something where I really feel that I’m making a difference and where I’m going to be profitable at the same time. So I don’t dabble in widget niches. I dabble in, I really try to build a business that’s going to last the test of time and that like I said is something that I can either sell or hand down to somebody.

Pat: Yeah I really like that approach and I’m finding that, I’ve done a few niche sites in the past where I just select a product based on click bank numbers and profitability predictions and stuff and they’re not that interesting to me and I can only write so much content about Farmville.

Nicole: Yeah.

Pat: But this recent niche site that I’m doing which is about security guard training. My mom’s a security guard. I’m really quite interested in this industry and I feel like the content that I’m actually writing on this niche site is actually a lot more genuine and if someone were to come to the site I would actually feel good about it. So hopefully in the future kind of following your footsteps, Google will find me out and put me up there in the top rankings because it has quality information on it and it’s not just there to make money but also to give people information that they can use.

Nicole: Exactly and then I also always put an auto responder sequence like a yearlong auto responder sequence on those sites so I get the repeat traffic too and so I also get referral traffic because I ask the people that sign up for the list to refer friends and so it is a valuable site. I don’t like to game the system because my business is too important for me to gamble to on. So I’ve always had the strategy of offering value. So if someone runs across to Nicole Dean site and it doesn’t have my name on it but it’s one of my sites that they will be better off for having found that rather than landing on some crap site that somebody threw up in five minutes and have been gaming Google because Google’s smart and getting smarter all the time and they pay my mortgage. I’m not messing around with them.

Pat: I know right.

Nicole: You know what I’m saying?

Pat: Yeah. I mean you are making the web a better place if only everyone had that same mindset that we wouldn’t come across these crappy websites. Going back to what you just mentioned about your auto responder on your niche sites. How many, you said you had kind of like a yearlong auto responder campaign. How often are you hitting these people up? Like once a week. So that’s like 52 different emails. How often are you hitting them up?

Nicole: Yes. I start off quicker because I usually offer like seven days to blank or three days, three secrets of whatever and so I start off more frequently and then go to about once every seven to ten days after that.

Pat: Okay. Cool and I have another follow up question on niche site. Sorry I’m like totally interested in this. I’m sure everyone listening out there is too. I remember you saying you started like a crazy amount of websites, niche sites and obviously these are all things that you are passionate about or else you wouldn’t have started them right. Do you use like a pen name or how do you separate Nicole from these sites. Or do you keep Nicole on all these sites?

Nicole: You know that’s so funny because I just back from NAMS, niche affiliate marketing system and that topic came up so often there that people are just fascinated by it and to me it’s just part of my life so I don’t even think about it but yes I do have pen names. I have personas and each one has a, I don’t know if it’s a pneumonic I guess it’s not the right way to describe it but for instance if I were to create a site about car safety then my pen name would probably be like Sally Saturn or Sarah Ford or something…

Pat: Nice I like that.

Nicole: …so I can keep track…

Pat: I’m actually using a pen name on my security guard niche website. Its Pete Chamberlain and it’s totally random. I wish I thought of something more creative like…

Nicole: It helps if you have more pen names so you can remember who you are.

Pat: Yeah right. That’s so funny. Well I feel a little bit better about that cause I’ve had a little bit of backlash cause people are coming to me and saying Pat well you should be totally transparent and anonymous wherever you are online and I kind of disagree like I kind of want to separate my niche sites from smartpassiveincome for example.

Nicole: Well my opinion is as long as you’re not trying to pass yourself off as a doctor, lawyer, financial adviser or something like that. You’re just setting up an informational site then that’s fine. One other thing I recommend doing is setting up a community if you’re not comfortable with a pen name. Set up a community where other people become the experts. So a community blog where you bring in columnists and guest bloggers, so you have this, you’re just basically the overseer of all the other experts. So you can still have the big site, the authority site. You could still make money on it but if you’re uncomfortable with having a different persona then that is another way to just be the owner of the site but have the other people be the expert so you don’t have to do them.

Pat: That’s fantastic. Good stuff and we mentioned petri dishes just a while ago and this came about because I remember listening to an interview of yours actually. It was with Mark Mason where you compared doing online business to petri dishes and I thought that was a fantastic analogy and I was hoping you might want to share it with our listeners cause I thought that was really cool.

Nicole: Of course. In the offline world to start a business is extremely expensive and it’s a huge commitment. I mean you have to get lenders, investors, all that kind of thing. Even if you wanted to buy like a McDonalds franchise that’s a colossal investment.

Pat: Absolutely.

Nicole: But with your online business it’s like ten bucks to set up a new business. So you’re able to experiment and people, I was so fearful of making a mistake or to committing to something in online business. Now we say just look at it like a little petri dish. You put something in there. See if it sprouts. If it does great. Run with it. If it doesn’t then oh well move on to something that is and so what I did is like I said my first site was showmomthemoney.com and what I would do is go into my stats and I would look and see where I was getting traffic from Google naturally and I was like well obviously it’s easy to rank for these things and obviously people are looking for information on these things because I’m getting traffic for them without even trying and so then I would take that information and let Google tell me what I should create my sites in and anything that I saw there that I found or I thought that I could grow value I would grow that section of that website but I would also spin off a website on that same topic. So I setup too many niche sites. Not as many as some people but too many for me personally but…

Pat: How much is too many?

Nicole: I had a hundred websites.

Pat: Wow.

Nicole: …and that was too many for me.

Nicole: Now I’m down to 80 domain names total. So I probably only have like 50 real websites. I’d have to count again but the thing is that it’s easy to set up a website but then what people forget is after you set it up you have to, the internet marketing part of internet marketing comes in. That word marketing is the important word there and so the marketing begins at that point and so if you have a hundred websites then that’s a hundred websites that you need to market if you want to make money from them. So it became a big beast and it was very stressful and I learned how to outsource very well and still do but it’s just more, it’s too much mental clutter for me personally. I’d rather have just a handful of really good valuable authority money making websites than to have a whole bunch of little ones out there that I have to keep track of. So I let go of some of my personas and I let go like a lot of my websites and I’m much more relaxed now.

Pat: No more Sally Saturn?

Nicole:

Pat: For those of you out there who don’t know a petri dish, it’s like something you use in chem lab or bio to like put something, it’s like a little plastic dish and usually put some type of I don’t know, bacteria and then put it in this thing to see how much it grows or what not and you put samples of stuff in there to see kind of what’s going to happen. I think that is a great analogy because petri dishes are only like 10 cents and you can setup a whole bunch of them and see what works and run off with that just like you said. So that’s great advice. The offline to online comparison really strikes a chord with a lot of people because offline, you’re so much involved and online like you said it just takes just a little bit of time and a little bit of money.

Nicole: Especially now that we have wordpress. When I started we didn’t have wordpress. So it was much more difficult to put up a website but now, you buy a domain and two clicks later you’ve got a blog.

Pat: Yeah I think I had a for my niche site the most recent one it took me about three hours to set up everything including putting up my first post and it was nothing. It was absolutely no work at all. So I’d like to switch topics as we finish up here to something that I know very little about. Up until last week I actually haven’t even heard of it or rather I’ve actually heard of the term but I didn’t know what it was or how it worked and the term I’m talking about is PLR or private label rights and I’m totally in the dark with what PLR is and what is private label rights stuff?

Nicole: Well the way I, there’s all kinds of opinions on PLR. A lot of people think that it’s just crap. Is it okay that I say crap?

Pat: Yeah, totally. Crap away.

Nicole: A lot of people think that it’s just crap and that it’s absolutely pointless but you know my motto is to make the web and the world a better place and so this stuff that I teach and that I sell is not crap. It’s actually a valuable tool for bloggers, affiliate marketers and internet marketers and what PLR is, in this instance we’ll talk about articles. Basically its article drafts that you can purchase very affordably. So like my site which they can get to at smartpassiveincome/PLR, that’s Pat’s affiliate link. if you go there I hire writers and editors the write articles and edit them, really quality stuff, these are college educated people and then I sell these articles to multiple bloggers and affiliate marketers normally about 75 to 100 people buy them and then each of those people can take those articles, edit and enhance them with their own thoughts and ideas and use them as a shortcut when they need ideas for blogging. So when you’re staring at a blank screen on your blog and you need something to write about you can take either a paragraph out of a PLR article, you can take a whole article or you can consolidate articles and combine them. Edit them as much as you want. You don’t have to link to anybody and it’s basically a draft that can short cut your blogging process and help you to add value to your blog without having to work so darn hard.

Pat: So that’s pretty cool especially if you’re getting into like a niche that you may not be totally familiar with. So there’s these kind of pre structured articles already written for you that you can kind of put your own voice in is that…

Nicole: Yes.

Pat: Now why would I, I’m just throwing out a whole bunch of questions cause I don’t know anything about this. What is the benefit of using PLR instead of say like a ghost writer?

Nicole: Like I said I’m also someone that outsources a lot. So I work with a lot, usually around, I have about 15 people I pay each month. So I deal with a lot of outsourcing and it’s not easy. Outsourcing can be very difficult especially when you’re trying to find quality writers because either they’re going to be very expensive or if they might not get your voice right, they could just be plagiarizing stuff. I mean there’s a lot of things to jump through when you’re dealing with writers and some writers charge between $10 and $75 an article. Seventy five is definitely on the high end but you can pay $10 per article whereas with PLR you’re paying about a dollar per article because the cost is split between multiple websites or multiple customers. So there’s less work for you, less hassle, lower costs and you can let me deal with the writers.

Pat: So if I was a blogger who got PLR and I knew that other people were kind of using the same articles on their own sites I’d be a little worried about duplicate content. So is that something I should worry about or is the purpose of PLR actually just kind of to be a structure that we can add our own voice to and in that way we wouldn’t have to worry about duplicate content.

Nicole: Great question and that is actually a very common question. The way I recommend that people get around this is when you buy a set of PLR articles I recommend that you stick them into your blog as drafts. So just right away get them off your hard drive. Get them into your blog. Save each one as a separate draft and in that way when you have writer’s block or you’re about to go on vacation or something. You can just go into those, add and enhance them and you’ll be set. I would not recommend loading an entire blog with PLR articles but as far a lot of people teach you to rewrite PLR but I prefer not to rewrite content just to rewrite it because I think that is kind of pointless and because most people have their own knowledge, their own experience, their own stories to add. So I like to say to go in and enhance the content. Add graphics, even adding a call to action, adding stories, adding case studies, anything that you can add to that will make it different than anyone else’s that’s bought it and in all honesty most people that buy PLR never use it. So there isn’t nearly as much direct competition as you might think unfortunately it’s on their hard drive which again I recommend you to stick it right into your blog as draft so next time you don’t feel like blogging it’s sitting there ready to help you to get your post written.

Pat: Right. Would PLR material be something that we’d be allowed to use say on article websites?

Nicole: I don’t recommend that for a couple of reasons. One is that sites like ezinearticles has a very good program for detecting duplicate content so you’ll get caught and probably get in trouble and the other reason is just because you don’t want to look bad if other people have the same article up there and they may think that you stole their content or vice versa. I recommend using it on your own blog, in your ezines and to create products and free reports. Those are the ways that I like to recommend using them.

Pat: Okay yeah that was my next question so what were the best practices with using PLR for bloggers and internet marketers, how and where I use them? So you mentioned obviously your blogs like newsletters and kind of free reports and products to maybe drive people into your newsletter.

Nicole: Exactly and as far as best practices go as long as you know your customer and you keep them in mind and what’s best for them and how you can help them then using the PLR is just another tool to do that.

Pat: Right. Very cool. So if you’re interested in looking for more PLR material you can head on over to smartpassiveincome.com/PLR and look that up. I mean you won’t know if there’s articles about your specific niche until you go there and just search for what you have right or are there articles in every single niche available?

Nicole: Oh no.

Pat: Okay.

Nicole: No and we do sell out quite quickly for when we release content on certain topics. So check back often and make sure that you get on the newsletter notification list because we usually release new content once or twice a week.

Pat: Very cool. I think Mark Mason who’s actually joining Tyrone and I in this niche challenge is using PLR material to, is using enhanced PLR material, excuse me on his guitar website. It’s already up and it looks like it’s a really professional site because of the content that I hear he has on it. So that’s very cool. So again that’s smartpassiveincome.com/PLR and as we finish up I just have a few more questions for you. You are an expert and you know what you’re doing. What two tips would you give to people who are just getting started to help them become successful?

Nicole: The first thing is to pick one model. There are about a bazillion ways to make money online and bazillions on the low end.

Pat: Right. Right.

Nicole: So pick one model and stick with it and take that and run with it until you start to get profitable and the other thing is find one mentor preferably someone that is teaching the model that you’ve picked because that will make your life a lot easier. So pick one model for making money online and then find a mentor that can help you to get to profit because otherwise you’re going to be so distracted running in circles after every different thing that crosses your inbox. It’s going to really slow down your progress.

Pat: Yeah I have to just reiterate that last point. Finding a mentor is really important for me when I got started actually. I had a couple but I think just one would be enough and people, there’s a ton of people out there who are willing to help who were in your shoes not too long ago who know where you’re coming from and would be happy to offer their advice. So I mean you’ve just got to ask. Don’t be afraid to ask.

Nicole: Right and don’t think you have to know everything at first. Just pick the one thing you’re going to learn and after you’ve done that then you can go on and learn the next thing. You don’t have to learn list building, affiliate marketing, blogging, info products, coaching. You don’t have to learn how to do all that right out of the gate. Just pick one thing. Do it and then you can move on to the next?

Pat: Right. Perfect and second to the last actually. Two tips for people who already have a presence online. Who have already began their internet business journey but are looking to take things to a whole new level. What would you recommend for those people?

Nicole: Oh definitely. The first thing would be to focus on what’s working and do more of it. That’s plain and simple, it sounds obvious but nobody does it. Look at where the money is coming from and replicate and duplicate that. It’s so much easier than always looking at new things. Just look at what’s working and where the money is coming from and do it more.

Pat: Yup the 80-20 rule.

Nicole: …and the second one, what was that?

Pat: I was saying the 80-20 rule.

Nicole: Yeah exactly and the other part of that is saying no to distractions. I’ve made much more money in my business from saying no than I’ve ever had in saying yes because every time I say no to something it allows me to focus on the things that do make me money and that’s just, it’s key, was absolutely key, otherwise your brain is just on overdrive and you’re running in circles and making no progress whatsoever. So do more of what’s working. Do less of what isn’t. Don’t be afraid to say no. Opportunity will continue to knock. Trust me.

Pat: That’s really great advice I will take to heart because I need to hear that quite often. Lastly I’ll like to ask all the interviews here kind of what’s working for you right now. What is something that you’re doing right now with your online businesses that people can apply for themselves at this very moment?

Nicole: One thing that I recently done is to setup a blog plan. So I’ve got each day of the week Monday through Friday has a different theme but I haven’t posted that it has a theme. It’s just for my own inspiration and for my own planning because I don’t want to feel like I’m tied to it by announcing it to everybody and then feeling trapped because I’m kind of a free spirit in case you didn’t notice. So I know each day of the week what I plan to blog about and it’s really made blogging a lot more fun and it’s allowed me to relax and enjoy it a little more and my traffic is definitely increased since I’ve been doing this. So like I said this is not posted on my blog but I have Monday as motivation, Tuesday as how to’s, Wednesday I do a weird niche Wednesday, Thursday I do an expert briefs where it’s a composite post where I ask people that I respect and admire to answer questions and then I compile those well my virtual assistant does but then Friday is free content Friday.

Pat: That’s true. I didn’t notice that before but now that you mentioned it, I see that pattern now.

Nicole: Yes exactly. So they don’t expect it every week but when I sit down I know exactly what I’m doing and it frees up my mind and it makes blogging a lot more fun again. So that is something that I’ve been doing lately that has been working.

Pat: That’s great. I sort of do something similar every first Monday of the month I do my income report and I just, I don’t even know what to think about what’s right. It’s just automatic and it makes it a lot easier. So that’s really, really cool advice and something that I think a lot of people can apply. Maybe not every day or every week but just looking to do things a certain way consistently. It will improve your results definitely. So Nicole thank you. Thank you, thank you so much for spending time with us today. If people want to learn more about you, I know you’re everywhere on the internet, where should they go to find you?

Nicole: Well the best place is my blog nicoleonthenet.com and N-I-C-O-L-E-onthenet.com.

Pat: Alright and do you have a twitter we can all so hi to you at?

Nicole: Oh yeah. Nicole Dean.

Pat: There you go. N-I-C-O-L-E D-E-A-N.

Nicole: Yes and please comment on my blog. I do read them all. That is not outsourced. I read them. I don’t get a chance to answer them all but I do personally read every comment that is left on my blog.

Pat: Awesome. Great. Well thank you Nicole. I really appreciate it and if you’re not following Nicole or you’ve never heard of her before just go to her blog nicoleonthenet.com. She knows what she’s talking about. I’ve learned a lot from her and I’m sure there’s a lot more we can learn from her too. So thank you again and have a good one. I’ll talk to you soon.

Nicole: Thanks Pat.

Pat: Thanks bye. Alright everybody I hope you enjoyed that interview from Nicole Dean from nicoleonethenet.com. Check her out. She’s awesome and she definitely knows what she’s talking about. If you want to look into PLR material for maybe a niche site that you’re doing that you might not know much about, you can go to smarpassiveincome.com/PLR. That’s my affiliate link for her. Really inexpensive PLR articles, private liberal rights articles that are available in a number of different categories. So you can go check that out. Thank you guys again for taking the time to listen. I really, really appreciate it. Thank you for all the support. We’re growing so fast. This podcast is in the top charts in iTunes now thanks to you. So if there’s anything I can do for you please let me know. Stop over to smartpassiveincome.com for the show notes and hit up ebooksthesmartway.com to get your free eBook by me that will teach you how to write a killer eBook too and that’s it so I’ll see you in the tenth session which will be out in the next two weeks and yeah take care. Keep killing it out there and I wish you all the best. Take care and bye.

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SPI 008 : How to Get More Traffic with Corbett Barr from ThinkTraffic.net

Pat — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 07:05:49 +0000

In this session of the Smart Passive Income Podcast, I welcome Corbett Barr from ThinkTraffic.net as a co-host, and we discuss something I know most of you are very interested in…traffic!

We talk mostly about traffic for bloggers, although many of the same principles and techniques can apply to any other type of website you may have.

Here are just some of the questions we answer on today’s session:

What can you expect traffic-wise when you’re just starting out?
What things can you do to get your name out there and start to get traffic coming to your site?
How do you create buzz for a relatively new blog or website?
How many posts should you write before you start up a new blog?
What do you do with the great content that you’ve written for your new site that probably not very many people will read, since there’s hardly any traffic coming in at first?
Is blog commenting and participating in forum discussions a good way to drive traffic to your site?
As a blog starts to pick up momentum, in many cases the traffic will eventually begin to plateau. What can you do to break through to the next level and get off of that plateau?

So far, this has been one of my favorite podcast sessions to record, so I’m hoping it will be one of your favorites to listen to.

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SPI 007: Blogging Success and WordPress Plugin Development with 20 Year Old Entrepreneur Michael Dunlop

Pat — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 07:05:55 +0000

In this session of the Smart Passive Income Podcast, I interview Michael Dunlop of IncomeDiary.com, who is a 20-year old entrepreneur who seems to know exactly what he’s doing. He’s making well over 6-figures online from blogging working half-time hours, and he’s recently found success with a brand new premium WordPress plugin that he just launched, Pop Up Domination. I chat with him quite a bit about that process because I’m also interested in software development as a potential income source in the future. This interview definitely makes me want to get it done ASAP.

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SPI 006 : 6 Hurdles I Encountered When Starting My Online Businesses and Exactly How I Overcame Them

Pat — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 07:05:18 +0000

In this session of the Smart Passive Income Podcast, I cover 6 hurdles that I encountered while running my online businesses and exactly how I overcame them. It’s my hope that after listening to this session, you’ll have a better understanding of some of the struggles that I went through to get to where I’m at today. Again, doing business online is not an easy button – you will run into struggles, and hopefully you’ll learn from my experiences what to expect and how to handle them.

“What doesn’t kill us only makes us stronger.”

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SPI 005 : Podcasting and Passive Income – Interview with Cliff Ravenscraft of PodcastAnswerMan.com

Pat — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 07:05:34 +0000

In this session of the Smart Passive Income Podcast, I interview the totally wise and inspirational Cliff Ravenscraft of PodcastAnswerMan.com, who shares with us his crazy journey to making a living doing something he loves, as well as the strategies and tactics he uses to earn a passive income.

I had a lot of fun with Cliff on this interview, and we went a little longer than usual. But, I’m sure as you listen you’ll get super inspired and learn a lot about how to make even more money online, and how you can make money from what you love to do too.

Plus, he’s super easy to listen to. He definitely has the “radio voice”. Check it out!

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SPI 004 : 5 Powerful Ways to Create Profitable Passive Income Products

Pat — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 07:05:25 +0000

In this session of The Smart Passive Income Podcast, I go over 5 powerful ways that you can create profitable passive income products. There’s a ton of info out there about what kinds of products you can make (i.e. eBooks, membership websites, etc.), but there isn’t much about the creative methods that you can easily create them, which is why I’m excited to share these methods with you today.

I guarantee that after you listen to this, you’ll probably have a ton of ideas about what you can do and you should be well on your way to creating some kind of passive income info product.

Enjoy!

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Items Mentioned in this Session:

GreenExamAcademy.com
Darren Rowse’s 31 Days to Build a Better Blog (on the blog)
Darren Rowse’s 31 Days to Build a Better Blog (the eBook)
Smashwords.com
Ebooks the Smart Way
Market Samurai
WP-Wishlist WordPress Plugin
Subscribers Magnet

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SPI 003 : Affiliate and Niche Site Strategies Revealed with Glen Allsop

Pat — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 07:05:50 +0000

In this session of The Smart Passive Income Podcast, I’m very excited to chat with Glen Allsop of Viperchill.com as we get into crazy detail about exactly how he makes money online. If there is one session to take notes on, this is the one because Glen reveals a ton of information about his 5 step process for making money with affiliate and niche sites.

You can learn more about Glen by visiting his high ranking blog at Viperchill.com.

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Items Mentioned in this Session:

Action Items:

Download my free guide at http://www.ebooksthesmartway.com
Subscribe to the Podcast on iTunes, or via RSS.

Transcript:

SPI 003 : Affiliate and Niche Site Strategies Revealed with Glen Allsop

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SPI 002 : Late Night Internet Marketing with Mark Mason from Masonworld.com

Pat — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 07:05:21 +0000

In this session of The Smart Passive Income Podcast, I’m pleased to have the opportunity to interview Mark Mason from Masonworld.com. Mark is a good friend of mine who has a 60 hour per week corporate job and a family to support, yet he still makes a killing online as an internet marketer. He shares with us some of his tips and tricks for productivity and success, as well as the tools and resources he uses to make profitable and high ranking niche sites.

You can learn more about Mark and what he does on his blog at Masonworld.com, or from his successful iTunes podcast.

Enjoy!

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Items Mentioned in this Session:

Action Items:

Subscribe to the Podcast on iTunes, or via RSS.

Transcript:

SPI 002: Late Night Internet Marketing with Mark Mason from Masonworld.com

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SPI 001 : Introduction | Show Formalities | What to Expect

Pat — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 07:05:31 +0000

It’s here! The first session of The Smart Passive Income Podcast!

You can download the podcast to your computer or listen to it here on the blog. Additionally, I will be submitting the podcast feed to iTunes soon, so you can subscribe there as well – but I’ll let you know when it’s up and ready to go.

Since this is our first session together, I spend a little bit of time introducing myself and how I define passive income and utilize it for my businesses and lifestyle. Also, I go over the formalities of the show and what to expect from future sessions.

Future shows will have a structured format, and several will include special guests.

Special information about the episode such as items mentioned during the session and action items will usually appear below, along with a transcript.

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Items Mentioned in This Session:

Action Items:

Once iTunes has approved the show, I’ll provide you with an iTunes feed for the podcast only. Additionally, you can also subscribe to the blog and get all of my material (blog posts and podcast) by clicking here.

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SPI 001: Introduction | Show Formalities | What to Expect

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