Apologies for the lack of posts over the past few days. I got a call from a TV company asking if I would like to appear on their program as a last minute slot was available and it was too good an opportunity to turn down. Unfortunately I had to sign a non-disclosure agreement so I can’t say anything about it, or even mention the title of the show until it airs in a few months time but rest assured I’ll tell you all about it as soon …

While we’re on the subject of defining your niche, I want to share a free software tool with you that you’ll find useful not only for this, but in every aspect of your business. FreeMind is a Java based mind mapping tool that allows you to quickly and efficiently get your ideas down, visualize your thoughts as you clarify and orgaize them and output them to images, HTML, PDF and more.
FreeMind is extremely powerful software and once you get the hang of it you’ll find uses for it in …

In order to make money online you need to sell products or services – either your own, or someone elses. No matter whether you’re developing and marketing your own products (ebooks, DVDs, membership sites, whatever…) or promoting as an affiliate, you need to be marketing to the right audience.
One of the first, and most important steps in starting an online business is researching the market and developing your niche. It’s no good trying to sell golf equipment to an audience whose primary interest is computing. Sure, there …

About 18 months ago I was listening to an interview with Russell Brunson. At the time it was a name I had never heard before but within minutes of starting to listen to the podcast I was totally engrossed. Here was a young guy, with very little computing or business experience, who had quickly built a multi-million dollar business online in just a couple of years.
Russell was being interviewed by Armand Morin for the upcoming Big Seminar event and was starting to describe his unique business model. …

I get comments all the time from friends and associates – “You’re so lucky to be able to work from home, I wish I could do that”. Well there’s a good reason I can work from home – that’s how I’ve set my life up, but it’s not always as great as it may seem.
In fact, over the past 7 years I’ve gone from commuting to a J.O.B. to working from home, to renting an office and commuting there, and back to working from home again. I now …

This is a question I get asked all the time, and since I’m in the process of setting up this new site it seemed like an ideal case study to show you how to do it properly.
Many times I have a client who wants to register more than one domain, and have them all point to the same site. Often done to protect the domain from possible abuse (hijacking by someone else taking a very similar domain to ’steal’ your traffic) or simply to catch mis-typed type-in traffic (where …