We All Start Somewhere – The Story of My First Product

If you’ve read my manifesto – aka the Six Figure Blogger Blueprint - then you should know by now that I firmly believe that selling your OWN product is the #1 way to build a business based around your blog.

I even talked in there about how I arrived at that…

It is the story of how I “sold” PCMech.com to a company called eFront Media. This was in the height of the dot-com boom and everybody thought that online advertising was the new gold rush.

So, this company offered me about a million dollars for PCMech.com. And, I was like – Holy Shit!. And I took the offer.

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HUGE Niche Sale. 72 Hours Only.

This is it, guys. It only happens ONCE PER YEAR. And it begins right now. For only 72 hours… then you’ll have to wait for a year.

Pay attention.

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Black Friday: 2-For-1 Bundle Offer – Ends Sunday

Thanksgiving. A day of thankfulness. And of gratitude. I thank you for being there – and I thank my family for putting up with me.

Then, there’s Black Friday. The infamous “most busy shopping day of the year”. Well, far be it from me to stay out of the game.

Starting now – and ending bright and early on Monday morning at 9AM – I have an open offer. A “2 for 1″ offer.

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How To DRAW Your WordPress Theme And Make It Work

Everybody with a blog wants to have a nice looking design.

It can also be one of the most frustrating things in the world – especially for people who have no idea how to code. Perhaps you are familiar with this one.

Well, there is a way where you can DRAW your theme. Practically like painting it on screen. No coding necessary. Just drag and drop, then setting up some settings.

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OptimizePress Versus Premise – Which Is Better?

When Kajabi first launched, it seemed to raise the awareness in the market about automated marketing funnel systems. Kajabi was supposed to make squeeze pages, membership sites, all those little technical aspects of online marketing a lot easier.

Of course, Kajabi came with a monthly fee. So, it led people to look for alternatives. Sure, enough, there are many of them. I’ve looked at several of them, including Optimizepress, JVPress and Premise. There are others, too.

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Wreck Diving On A Sunken Boat Wreck – And How It Helped My Business

It was a beautiful, clear morning as we pulled away from the marina in Clearwater, Florida.

There were at least 10 of us on board. We had met out there at the marina in order to go offshore about 20 miles and go diving.

I arrived with my big pile of diving gear that I bought for myself after I completed my certification. A brand new BC, regulator with auxillary (often called “the octupus” as a slang), even a dive computer.

I didn’t really know where we were going, exactly. I was going with some people from my diving group as well as the instructor. I knew it I would get wet…and that’s about all I knew.

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Coming Up With Your Perfect Offer

In order to step off the cycle of stupid, you need to have an offer. At least one.

But, what if you don’t have one yet? Where do you start? How do you know what to offer?

It starts with coming up with your perfect offer. This exercise is great for anybody, but it is even more useful for somebody without much of an audience yet.

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The New DavidRisley.com Office

A little over a week ago, my family moved into another house. It was a major hassle (obviously) and it happened to come right in between two business trips, but I think it will be worth it.

One of the major reasons we made the move was for my office space. I was working in a small space in the last house. I was thinking about renting an outside office, but then we got to looking at it…

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