It happens from time to time, since I get a fair amount of email. The summary version is this… A person is currently having financial problems. Perhaps they lost their job… or they’re trying to avoid getting one. They want to make money on their own. And they turn to blogging. They ask me questions…
Sometimes I talk about these little side topics, almost in passing. And I end up getting readers from them. For example, had a couple people ask me for more articles on cryptocurrency. 🙂 It’s funny, I think I talked about Bitcoin maybe a couple of times. Obviously, it isn’t my focus here. I even remember…
In online business, everything is a test. And to that end, I’m going to give something a “go” here on The Daily… I’m going to try simplifying the subject lines. We’ll just use sequential numbering and no headline. And I’ll sit back and watch those open rates and see what the heck happens. 🙂 Here’s…
So, tell me if this sounds familiar… You have a ton of ideas for your blog and your online business. Since you pay attention to some other marketing blogs and “gurus”, you get new ideas all the time. Good ones, too. So much so that your brain pan feels like it is about to explode….
OK, here’s why today’s Daily is going to be short and sweet. Because, I want to turn the tables and hear from you. See, I sit here every weekday and I write these emails for you. And I see my open rates. And sometimes, some of you hit the reply button and we hear from…
To end off the week today, I’m going to give you a little tip that you can implement over the weekend (if you like). We all want traffic. We all want people to stick around on our sites a little longer. In fact, time on site is one of the major ranking factors Google uses…
Not sure if you saw this story, but it was on Business Insider… Facebook’s algorithm has wiped out a once flourishing digital publisher The headline gives the summary. It is a publisher called LittleThings.com that was just decimated by Facebook’s recent algorithm change. This is the big change that came with Zuckerburg’s little “come to…
At the Summit I was just at in Texas, one of the co-founders of Outdoorsy (a peer-to-peer RV rental company) spoke about startups. And he talked about how to test out an idea as quickly as possible. Now, this is something I’ve talked about, too, inside The Lab. It is always a super risky idea to…
This week, there’s a big conference (actually 2 of them) going on for the online marketing industry in San Diego. One of them is Traffic & Conversion. I’ve been there the last several years. But, not this time. And here’s why… As this email is going out to you this morning, I’m busy prepping my…
I once had a subscriber to The Daily get pissed at me because I linked to something in The Lab which wasn’t free. I “dropped the ball big time”, in their words. “What happened to the free, daily, valuable content?”, they asked. I have to admit that, at first, I was mildly offended at his email. Since…
I am here at the RV Entrepreneur Summit in Texas. And I was talking to a guy who came all the way here from Australia. Now, THAT’S some damn dedication! Hats off to him! But, I asked him what he does. His wife works in the public sector back home, but he started a family…
Let me talk about social media responsibility… and how YOU can play a role in saving the world. We’ve all done it. Or at least most of us. You get pissed off about something that happens to you, and you turn to Facebook to rant. Or perhaps you rant about politics on social media. Or…