A few days ago, in my post about outsourcing, I mentioned a book in passing called The 4-Hour Work Week by Timothy Ferriss. A couple of people have asked me about the book so I thought I’d post a review of it.
As you probably already guessed, I bought the book because of the title – I mean who wouldn’t buy a book called that? It’s right up there with Think and Grow Rich and Shut Up, Stop Whining and Get a Life as one of my all time …

The success of your online business, no matter what model you use, relies on one thing – traffic. There are essentially two ways to get that traffic: pay for it (PPC, CPM advertising etc.) or get it free (which essentially boils down to SEO). SEO simply stands for Search Engine Optimisation and is the process of making your website more ‘valuable’ to the search engines and hence likely to rank higher for your keyterms. Here are my top 5 free tools to help in the SEO process:
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Wouldn’t it be great to work from anywhere in the world, carrying all your tools and data with you in your pocket? Wouldn’t you love to have an entire suite of software, everything you need to run your online business, attached to your keyring?
Well you can… for the past couple of months I’ve been trying various software packages which are USB compatible. What that means is that, rather than installing the software onto a computer, it can be run directly from the USB drive which means you can …

Writing articles is a fantastic way of generating traffic and marketing your business, but like most things there are good and bad approaches. Here are my 7 top tips to get the most out of your articles:
1. Write an author bio
This is the first vital step – to promote your site you need to write a short, catchy authors bio with a link back to your site. Tell your readers a little about you and warm them up – people are much more likely to buy from you …

Several years ago I was in a dilemma. I’d been working as a self employed web designer for a couple of years and things were going well. I was building up a string of regular clients, a growing portfolio, and getting more and more referrals. I was earning good money and always had more than enough work.
That, however, was the problem. I was getting so much work that I was having to turn projects down. There are only so many hours in the …

How many users visit your site each day? Where do they come from? Where do they go when they leave? What keywords did they search on to find you? What country are they in?
The answers to these, and so many more questions are easily, and often freely, available with the help of a good stats system.
The lifeblood of your online business is traffic. Not the noisy, fuel guzzling, car and truck kind, but the constant flow of fresh, unique visitors who are eager to consume your …