On Tuesday, May 18th at 9am PST / 12pm EST Chris Guillebeau one of the most famous travelling bloggers launches another edition of his Empire Building Kit that received stunning attention more than a month ago. This time it will be open only for one day.
One of the biggest areas next to gambling. In this category the most successful Affiliate Marketers make money online from people looking for:
debit cards,
credit cards,
loans,
mortgages,
debt consolidation,
insurance packages.
Hotels & Holidays
Contrary to porn and drugs (medicines), hotels and holiday packages is a legal category without any ethical issues. It is a very competitive industry, like personal finance, but it is worth to grab a chunk of such a big market. Cheap hotels and luxury hotels are one of the most popular phrases. When it comes to holidays, holiday deals and cheap holidays is what people are very often searching for.
“A lot of productivity advice offers great hints for speeding up particular tasks: perhaps by concentrating better, by eliminating distractions and interruptions, or by learning to use Firefox, Gmail and other common programs more efficiently.But what can you do if simply saving five minutes here and ten minutes there isn’t enough? What if you want hours more space in your life, or if you feel constantly overloaded and busy?” http://www.dumblittleman.com/2010/03/5-big-ways-to-add-time-to-you-days.html
Amazing Life Lessons You Can Learn From Albert Einstein: Part Deux
“Given the great response to the article “10 Amazing Life Lessons You Can Learn From Albert Einstein” I’ve decided to publish the other seven lessons that I originally intended to include in that article. These were cut out because I feared the article was too long. However, I now believe that these seven lessons are even more profound than the original ten.For those who didn’t get a chance to read the earlier article, let me begin by…” http://www.dumblittleman.com/2010/03/amazing-life-lessons-you-can-learn-from.html
5 Ways To Slay The Un-Motivation Demon
“Are you having a hard time getting motivated? Know what you want to do, but it’s a challenge kicking yourself in the butt to get up and do it? You’re being haunted by the un-motivation demon. Fortunately, there are 5 ways to slay it. You could be making attempts to get out there and do what you’re setting out to do. And even begin to get results here or there. But your surroundings, circumstances, and negative or lazy forces…” http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/5-ways-to-slay-the-un-motivation-demon/
How to Cure the Love/Hate Email Relationship
“For most of us, email is our bipolar friend. Sometimes we love it and other times it’s our worst enemy. It’s there for us when we’re bored. It’s there when we’re trying to avoid work that makes us uncomfortable. It provides a delightful kind of anticipation every time we open it. Maybe there’s something new and important there. Maybe something exciting and wonderful. But other times it creates a whole lot of… http://www.illuminatedmind.net/2010/03/18/stop-email-overwhelm/
Compounding Time: Create More Free Time by Investing it Wisely
“Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know that compound interest is the foundation of investing. But what does compounding have to do with the other 8 hours? A great deal. How you invest your other 8 hours determines your happiness and financial success. If you squander this critical time, it’s like putting $50 under your mattress. It won’t provide you with any return. For that $50 to grow, it must be invested. For your…” http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/compounding-time-create-more-free-time-by-investing-it-wisely/
I have just launched a new website about lifestyle design called SwitchStories.com and published a great story of Peldi Guilizzoni from Balsamiqu. He managed to get 15,000 Customers in just 29 Months. Have a look at his photo above - beach coding in Mexico. I would appreciate if you could visit my new site and retweet it. Thanks!
While working on your online business you will probably consider using email marketing to leverage products or services. I had a chance to write a post on SEOmoz.org about a few crucial areas you should take into consideration while managing newsletter campaign: 7 Things to Know About Email Marketing. Enjoy your reading!
I am currently reading “The Power of Focus” and in the section called “Your Habits Will Determine Your Future” there is an interesting part about developing a habit of listening to motivational and educational audiotapes while driving, walking or exercising.
If you listen to an audiotape for thirty minutes each day, five days a week, in the years you’ll have been exposed to over thirteen hundred hours of new and useful information. This ia a habit that almost all of the successful people we know have developed - they listen to audiotapes.
So, to help you to get into the right state of mind I recommend you three podcasts I have recently listened to (one of them is actually a video podcast):
Complimentary men@pause seminar to listen
In the interview with Mr. Steven Pressfield, Matthew Scott asks many great questions regarding being an entrepreneur and you will have an occasion to learn what is the difference between a professional and an amateur business person. I learned a lot from this podcast and I am sure you will be glad to find out why it is all right to be miserable sometimes. Really down-to-earth audio.
How to develop an entrepreneurial mindset
Great podcast prepared by Pamela Slim where she talks to Gary Schoeniger, founder of the Entrepreneurial Learning Initiative. The following piece of advice from Gary is a selling point to me:
“Find a problem. Figure out how to solve the problem. Find more people with the same problem and you have a business.”
How To Generate Mass Interest in Your Business During Tough Times
Leveraging educational techniques to pull in high quality leads: http://www.marketingwhitepapers.net/. Make sure you watch the video and sign up for more.
And that is it! I hope you enjoyed and please share your thoughts about them in comments.
When I saw the first video presentation from TED I quickly realised why there are so many people eager to pay $6,000 per year to attend this conference. For many years it was only available to the small group of people who could afford it. It changed in April 2007 when TED conference became open to everyone with high quality videos published on its website presenting many inspiring, funny, jaw-dropping talks of the “world’s brightest minds”.
It presents “Ideas worth spreading” by the best speakers in the world talking about variety of topics from Technology, Education, Design to Arts and Global Issues. I believe that TED changes the world. I really do. There is so much inspiration, passion and enthusiasm in the air about all presented topics and life in general. I have just created a category called TED and will share with you the most interesting presentations. I am sure you will enjoy watching them and that they will push you more towards living the life you love.
Sir Ken Robinson - “Do schools kill creativity?”
Instead of introducing this presenter I will just quote one of his lines:
“If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original.”
It is not a secret, actually. I don’t believe in secrets although it is a common practice to overuse this word nowadays. I believe in hard work and the right STRATEGY. And this is what David Hainemeier Hansson is talking about in his latest presentation at Startup School 08. David is a creator of the web-application framework Ruby on Rails and a partner in 37signals, one of the most agile web agencies in the world.
I can’t agree more with David as I am bit tired of all these venture capital talks, “build the new Facebook” discussions and giving away everything for free in the Internet. I believe that quality content and applications should have a price tag. It is not only good for their creators but also for users as we tend to respect more things that we need to pay for. If you have something for free, you can throw it to the bin and forget about it. If you just have paid $30 for an e-book or $300 for an online course, then you will put effort in reading/learning.
In my last post I wrote about Teaching Sells and I am glad its launch was successful and that premium content is getting more popular. We really need more value in the Net as it is just overcrowded with domain parking ads, AdSense spam sites, spam links and a lot of non-value things.
Coming back to David’s presentation, I really like his approach and I share his point. But what I really enjoyed from his video is what he said about developing your own business online - you don’t have to hurry, you don’t need to hire 20 developers and have a new website launched in one month aiming to be another YouTube. There is a lot of space for niche Internet products and you don’t need to be a genius to have your business online that will at least give you the freedom of working on your own.
The secret from David - stop another Internet bubble madness and build some decent business online.
I have found two great studies about being innovative in creating value in the first place instead of concentrating on making money (online).
1. The Art of Innovation - 55 minutes of Guy Kawasaki’s presentation - an Apple ex-employee and current venture capitalist talking about creating meaning, finding the right mantra and a great chance he missed - a lot of interesting examples, humour and many valuable advices. Where are your products and services? In the top right corner of the above chart? Make a coffee, sit comfortably and watch the video.
In this quick and easy 22-page report (or optional audio recording), you’ll learn:
- Whether blogging is dead or not
- How to avoid the tyranny of Google
- Why you should forget the “Long Tail”
- How to truly leverage Web 2.0
- Why you’re not normal, and why that’s a good thing
- How the true power of the Internet is being missed
- What “teaching sells” means to you
For many months I haven’t read such a good report regarding online business. Valuable review of future trends and an attempt to find the best model for your Internet revenue stream. But it is just the beginning of something bigger. After reading the 22 pages I was ready to ask for Brian’s PayPal account to send money and buy another parts of the report… Very clever addictive copywriting.
After great popularity of del.icio.us, Digg, StumbleUpon, Technorati it was the time for niche link building platforms. Specialised social bookmarking focusing on specific topics, like Sphinn for SEO gives often better results that promoting on crowded Digg. Loren Baker from Search Engine Journal confirms this theory:
For example, in Search Engine Journal??Â?Â?s case, 100 Sphinn visitors could be much more powerful than 5,000 Digg users as Sphinn members are search engine marketers, tuned into the search world, and highly receptive to our material and sponsorship messages.
If you are interested in building your own social bookmarking platform and gather community around it, you don’t have to write it yourself. There is an open source solution right there for you, called Pligg. And if you have some webmaster skills you can build your own template. Otherwise just find some free ones on the Net. Before you go to download Pligg, have a look on one of the nicely designed pages based on Pligg.
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It is not a secret, actually. I don’t believe in secrets although it is a common practice to overuse this word nowadays. I believe in hard work and the right STRATEGY. And this is what David Hainemeier Hansson is talking about in his latest presentation at Startup School 08. David is a creator of the web-application framework 
