Marketing Tips
Enough With The Addon Domains Already!
Ok this may seem like more of a web guy rant, but I’m also wanting to inform you so that maybe you will understand why I think addon domains can be a very bad thing for your online business. Before I get into why I dislike them let me clear up the domain differences. Besides…
Read MoreColors Affect Purchase
I’ve talked about this before but I feel it’s important to cover again because everyone is always looking for ways for better conversion and improving sales. In my post before I explained how website visitors are affected by different colors not just of how it appeals to them but how it psychologically affects them. Today…
Read MoreCustomer Usability
This in my opinion is one of the most over looked aspects of any business. My interpretation of customer usability is getting the customer to use or consume your product. With the recent holidays just passing my wife and I purchased a couple of gifts for each other for the house. We picked up a…
Read MoreHow You Submit Articles is More Important Than Where
The following article is from my good friend Bret Ridgway, I wanted to share this with you for a couple of reasons. Â One is that Bret has a lot of great information to share, he and I are co authors on our book “50 Biggest Website Mistakes“. But more importantly I’ve just recently revamped my…
Read MoreNot Very Beneficial
This mistake is directed at the sales page but could apply to an entire website. So many times we miss the boat with this one – we craft a nice looking page and have fairly decent sales copy on the page. But, for whatever reason, we don’t seem to be getting the sales we think…
Read MoreSocial Apps
Well the previous post received some good tips and comments it’s always interesting to me to see what is working for other people. Of course what works for one market or niche may not work in another, but it is always good to test and see. I figured i would follow up the post on…
Read MoreLets Get Social…
Every where you look it’s “find us on Facebook”. Or “Follow us out on Twitter” of course there’s linkedIN, Google Buzz and others as well. I know many people use these sites just to connect, some are using it for marketing strategies. I’m curious what social sites do you use, and how do you use…
Read MoreNo (Or Hard to Find) Affiliate Tools
Many times we get so wrapped up in getting the product done and the website up that we forget about all of the details to help promote the website. What we’re talking about is a website mistake many forget to do, or if they do this they don’t make good use of it. That mistake…
Read MoreWho’s Watching Your Blog?
I was recently reading a post at TechCrunch about how one browser has over taken another one as the most popular browser for views on their site. This got me wondering when was the last time I actually checked my stats for my blog? I get so busy with product creation, support, and normal day…
Read MoreEmail Copy Woes?
My good friend and mentor Armand Morin is revealing his secrets about email marketing. http://fed3.me/emailcopy I actually work WITH and For Armand and I see the results he received from his email marketing. Truth is, just this morning I helped Armand put up a website, when we finished (about 2:30 am) Armand sent out an…
Read More50 Biggest Website Mistakes
After a lot of writing, many revisions, and lots of updates my book that I have with my good friend Bret Ridgway is FINALLY complete. Our book is the “50 Biggest Website Mistakes we see online business owners make”, this book is my first in this series and Bret’s second. Bret has a book title…
Read MoreUpsell Utopia Or Upsell Hell?
This has to be one of the most overlooked mistakes. And it’s not the fact that upsells are done wrong. The biggest mistake is that they’re not done at all. First, let’s clarify what an “upsell” actually is. An upsell is an offer made at the time of ordering to make additional sales to that…
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