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Cold Hard Fact #7: Your online reputation will make or break your blog or business. Sky-high credibility is what you need to get noticed (and to have readers/customers coming back day in and day out).

Your Big “Uh-Oh”: There are people out there who are much bigger than you, possibly much better than you, and who already have your readers’ oh-so-coveted attention somewhere other than your rocking website.

How To Fix This Profit-Sucking Problem

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What’s the one thing that separates 5-figure-a-month online businesses from the ones struggling to make ends meet?Master marketers tell you it’s many things … “the list” … traffic … SEO … affiliate marketing … joint ventures … but none of those is really the “magic bullet” that takes a one-person-show all the way to the top. I can say this because I personally coach 5-figure-a-month marketers, and the more I get to know them, the more I see the one critical skill that brings them to the top of their game (and keeps them there). And the name of that skill ? … [Read more →]

Cold Hard Fact #6: The right domain name can make the difference between a site that rocks and a site that, forever, yearns to rock.

Your Big “Uh-Oh”: Every good domain name under the sun is taken (or so it seems).

How To Fix This Profit-Sucking Problem

I’ve been there. You have a great idea, and you spend an hour searching for the domain name of your dreams … only to find every variation is taken, and you’re left with no options but to get a boring .info, .biz, or .wtf domain to make you look oh-so-less-than-professional. Life is cold and hollow.

Nuh-uh. No more. There’s a new M.C. in town, and his handle is … [Read more →]

Cold Hard Fact #5: One little word can make the difference between 10% conversion and 50% conversion on your landing pages.

Your Big “Uh-Oh”: If you’re don’t have a way to figure out what word that is, you’re going to waste a LOT of time and lose a LOT of sales.

How To Fix This Profit-Sucking Problem

If you’ve never done split testing before, then don’t kick yourself (yet) - until the other day, neither did I. I threw up my landing pages and checked how well they converted, but didn’t do the split testing deal. For some reason, I thought it would be an ordeal to set it up and manage it.

Man, oh man, I was wrong.

Enter The Dragon
So I get an email from one of my favorite coaching clients, Johnny Meehan (who did project management for multi-millionaire Tellman Knudson’s marketing machine), and he says this: [Read more →]

Cold Hard Fact #4: Search engines are hot for content that’s closest to the root of your domain name.

Your Big “Uh-Oh”: If you’re using the default Wordpress structure, SEO love is not coming your way.

How To Fix This Profit-Sucking Problem

If you’re using a blog to build your business, you want to take advantage of SEO as much as you can. And while books can (and are) written on the ins and outs of SEO, there’s one simple thing you can do in the next 5 minutes to make a significant difference in your search engine rankings: [Read more →]

Cold Hard Fact #3: Other people have specialized knowledge that can easily double your sales. Easily.

Your Big “Uh-Oh”: You ain’t asking them for it, bub.

How To Fix This Profit-Sucking Problem

You are in business to do X. You are not in business to do Y, Z, AA, 9V, etc., etc., and so forth. But Y, Z, and the number 23 are critical for you to make money - and lots of it. Case in point: [Read more →]

Cold Hard Fact #2: Networking works fastest when you connect with extremely well connected / well known players.

Your Big “Uh-Oh”: These people get tons of email every day and business proposals out the wazoo … so it’s &^$# hard to get their attention.

How To Fix This Profit-Sucking Problem

Do what smart fishermen/women/(people? c’mon!) do, and fish where the fish are hungriest … their blog.

As any blogger will tell you, comments are like sweet, sweet life blood for a blog. They build community, which builds subscribers, which builds traffic, which ends up in hart-stoppingly satisfying hell-yes-pass-GO-and-collect-$200-style profits. [Read more →]

Cold Hard Fact #1: It’s 1000% easier to sell to existing customers.

Your Big “Uh-Oh”: You don’t make it easy as #@!! for those existing customers to send their money your way.

How To Fix This Profit-Sucking Problem

Do what Ben Mack, branding expert and old school fire eater recommends in Think Two Products Ahead: [Read more →]