There’s a famous saying, “Failure to plan, is planning to fail”. It’s a near certainty that if you don’t have clearly defined goals for your business, and a clear plan to achieve them that you won’t succeed. However, many people start an online business without clearly defined goals, and then wonder why they never see the success they desire.
I’m lucky that I was introduced to the concept of goal setting from my time in Network Marketing. I was encouraged to set big goals by my mentor and …

Thinking of entering a new niche? Before investing time and effort to create products or content for a niche, you really need to spend some time on market research. You need to know whether enough other people are interested in the subject that the market is big enough, and you need to know that the competition isn’t so fierce that you’ll never get the exposure you need to be profitable.
My top 3 free tools for market research are Amazon.com, Clickbank.com and Google.com – let’s take a look at …

OK I had something else planned for today but I just watched this and had to post it. I’ve created and published a few ‘How to’ tutorials over the past few days, but I’ll let the master talk about the ‘Why’. I’ve been a massive fan of Tony Robbins for a long time and it’s great content like this which reminds me why I keep buying his books!

You can ge more videos like this at TED.com
Now, if you’re wondering why I would post this video on a …

OK, part five of this series on creating content and this is a tutorial on creating video content in the form of screencasts. Unless you’ve been living on Mars for the past 2 years, you can’t help but have noticed that video has become massively popular on the Internet.
Until fairly recently, using video online required specialist and expensive tools and hosting, but with the techniques I’ll show you today, you can create and host your videos free of charge, and use them as a marketing tool to drive more traffic …

OK, part four of this series on creating content and this is a tutorial on creating audio content using Audacity. Audio is, in my opinion, by far the quickest, easiest, and most useful way of creating content. It has a relatively high perceived value (compared to ebooks for example), it’s very quick to create (I bet I can talk faster than you can type!), it’s easily digestible (think iPods!) and is perfect for re-purposing existing content, whether your own or PLR.
Here’s the video, and below you’ll find the …

I found an amazing report recently that I just had to share with you. Joe Lavery is one of my favorite marketers, and a while ago he interviewed a man who needs no introduction – Mike Filsaime (The guy behind Butterfly Marketing etc.)
Joe Lavery and Mike are both expert marketers, and have created some awesome products, many of which I’ve personally used to add to my own bottom line.
I’ll keep this post short… if you want a report based on the interview you can purchase it for a measly …