Archive for September, 2011

How To Make Money With Webinars Without Making Products

September 30, 2011 | 7

So, webinars are awesome for a variety of reasons. They work well in terms of making sales of a product, too.

But, what product? Do you have to have gone through a bunch of work to create your own product in order to have a reason to do a webinar?

Nope.

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6 Reasons You Should Be Doing Webinars

September 28, 2011 | 24

Have you ever considered doing a webinar of your own? Or do you think this is something only the “big guys” do?

As you guys may have noticed, I have been doing more webinars lately. I intend to do more, of course. I have some plans coming up in that regard which I’ll tell you guys about soon.

But, there are good reasons why I’m doing webinars. Here are 6 of them…

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5 Ways to Promote Your Product Without Pissing Off Your Audience

September 26, 2011 | 22

You might have a product and you might have even sold a few copies during the launch. But how to keep squeezing money out of it is something that can make you really crazy.

Promoting your product can make you feel like a door-to-door salesman trying to sell ice cubes to eskimos. Many of us are often left scratching our heads as to why we’re not generating more revenue from our products. David even talked about why we need to let go of our hesitancy to pitch, yet we still struggle with this.

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How To Place A Video Opt-In On Your WordPress Homepage

September 21, 2011 | 18

Ever since I made the most recent design shift here on DavidRisley.com, the thing that people mention to me most about it is the video opt-in. Basically, I have a video on the left side and an opt-in form on the right side.

It is actually pretty simple to implement something like that. But, first, let’s answer the question…. should you?

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I’m At a Crossroads. The Problem With The Internet Marketing Niche.

September 15, 2011 | 73

I’m at a bit of a crossroads in my business.

No, nothing bad is happening. However, I am looking at the way forward and thinking of making some changes. Some of it has to do with some of my various observations in the internet marketing niche.

One has to evolve, and we can’t keep doing things the “old” way and expect them to keep working. Let me attempt to explain…

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What Question Would You Like Me To Answer For You?

September 9, 2011 | 7

Some time ago, I did an open Q&A webinar with my readers. It was a lot of fun and it helped a lot of people. It was wide open, public, and not done for the purpose of marketing anything.

Here’s how it worked…

I asked for questions. I then worked the list of questions down to 20. I scheduled a webinar and I hammered out answers to those 20 questions from my readers, in real-time.

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The 5 Rules of Six-Figure Blogging

September 7, 2011 | 28

A lot of bloggers out there want to make money doing it, but the way it is being approached just isn’t going to work.

I’ve said it about 2 billion times by now (I’ve lost count), but a blog is not a business. It never will be.

Yet, I see a lot of bloggers that, when they sit down and work, all they focus on is writing that next blog post. Really? How’s THAT going to make a business for you?

So, I thought I’d sit down and create a simple list of problogging TRUTHS. Understand these – APPLY it – and you’ll be further ahead.

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How Much Stuff Should Go UNDER A Blog Post?

September 6, 2011 | 7

I got a question the other day from one of my email subscribers. Chris Huff, from Behind The Mixer, asked:

What’s the best length for standard stuff after a blog post. For example, there can be a list of related articles, an about box, social media icons, newsletter subscription, quite a bit before the viewer ever sees the comment box. I’ve wanted to add a newsletter subscription box to mine, but as you can see on this page, it seems like the end of the article is getting pretty busy.

Really good question.

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