Business How-To
Is Affiliate Marketing Dead?
By Bryan at 20 October, 2011, 7:50 pm
Yes, it is one of those posts. One of these awesome posts about why affiliate marketing is down. Well, not really, but kinda, but mostly not. Follow me or did I lose you yet? Great, so let me go a little bit more in depth. First off, of course affiliate marketing isn’t dead. It never [...]
Read More >>Things NOT to Put on Your Business Website
By Bryan at 10 September, 2011, 4:58 pm
Since offline business has sky-rocketed lately for me, I get to see a wide variety of things that make me facepalm every time I see it, as I think to myself why in the world did they put that on their business website. So I just want to share a few things that I have [...]
Read More >>Price Points, Bundling and the Art of Unbundling
By Bryan at 18 August, 2011, 9:22 am
Pricing a product is extremely difficult, especially if it is a new product or you don’t have much trust in a certain niche. However, by hyping up a product properly and selling the benefits of the product effectively, that should not be the problem. The problem comes down to pennies almost, as you may struggle [...]
Read More >>Getting Sued?
By Bryan at 22 July, 2011, 4:32 pm
It seems I read every day about a different person getting sued online for this reason or another. I mean, the affiliate marketing industry is just another business, involving millions of dollars each year. So why wouldn’t lawsuits be more then abundant in this industry? Lawsuits come in all forms in the online world, from [...]
Read More >>Keeping Pace with Payment Processing
By Bryan at 11 July, 2011, 3:23 pm
Payment processing on the majority of small websites is so limited nowadays, it is almost embarrassing for the companies that I see. Many offline businesses that try to come online themselves use Paypal and that is it, despite using their own merchant account at stores for their credit card purchases. While you usually need to [...]
Read More >>Back Your S!%# Up!
By Bryan at 7 July, 2011, 8:28 am
Let me tell you a personal story, and hopefully after this, you will learn a little something and take action unlike I did right now. My wife’s laptop was having problems. She likes to download everything she sees online, and I am sure she got a lovely little virus. She could use her laptop for [...]
Read More >>Selling to Past Clients
By Bryan at 5 July, 2011, 2:36 pm
Getting new clients can be extremely hard at times, as you will invest a lot of time and money to obtain a new customer. You do this with paying salespeople, advertising and just overall general office fees. So why in the world are so many businesses throwing away those clients who actually buy from them? [...]
Read More >>Basic Affiliate Marketing Math
By Bryan at 3 May, 2011, 6:48 pm
Affiliate marketing math can be a bit confusing at first and you may make some/a lot of mistakes, but once you get it all figured out, it really isn’t as bad as it seems. First off, I am a numbers guy. I love working with numbers and seeing how they can work the best for [...]
Read More >>Taking Accountability for Your Actions
By Bryan at 28 March, 2011, 1:23 pm
This weekend, my wife and I sat down and pretty much laid out everything that I do on a daily business as far as our business goes. And man, let me tell you, I need to get better organized! Just to warn you, this post is a lot about me getting things out and holding [...]
Read More >>I am a Failure
By Bryan at 2 March, 2011, 12:49 pm
I am a total failure. I have failed at more then half the site ideas that I started. In fact, more then two-thirds of those sites that failed were never even completed! The other third I either stopped caring about and lost interest, it didn’t make money or it was just plain stupid. So yes, [...]
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