How Long Does It Take To Start Making Money Online?

I get asked this question fairly often.

Usually it is from somebody evaluating one of my products to buy. Sometimes it is from somebody who is seeking a solution and just looking for whatever is going to work for them.

Often, the question is something like this…

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The Geeky Gear I Use To Run My Online Business

There is one thing that all internet entrepreneurs have in common: we ALL use a computer to do what we do.

Not only that, but our computer and the gear that goes along with it ends up being a central part of our lives.

Over the years, I’ve gone through a lot of equipment. There may be people that think I buy things which are too expensive (i.e. buying a Mac when a cheaper Windows machine would do), but the way I look at it is like this…

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What The Wrong Internet Marketing Mindset Looks Like

So, I got an email from a reader. This person will remain unnamed, but it spawned this blog post.

While I’m removing some of the text, this section is left unmodified. I’m going to BOLD the parts I want to focus on.

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Everything SUCKS! (Or So They’d Have You Think)

If you paid attention to the news, to TV shows, to newspapers and magazines, you’re left with a few impressions. Things like: (a) The economy sucks, (b) Things are dangerous, (c) You can’t do anything about it.

In a word, EVERYTHING SUCKS. Or at least that’s what they’d have you think.

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Increasing Productivity with Home Office “Feng Shui”

Most of us spend quite a bit of time in our office. Have you set it up to make it a space you actually want to be in?

I mean, look at it this way…

I like to have a nice bed because we spend around a third of our lives in it. If the average person is sleeping 7-8 hours per night, that’s a third of every day.

Well, I don’t know about you, but I spend about that much time in my home office every day, too. Not only that, this is where I MAKE MY MONEY. So, it is a pretty important space. And I imagine the situation is similar with YOUR office.

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Google-Powered, Full-Featured Ad Banner Management For Your Site – For Free

You want to direct sell ads, but you don’t want to stop using ad networks. After all, they’re fairly dependable. You simply want to be able to use your own campaigns IF you manage to sell them and they make you more money.

OIO Publisher remains a good option for many. It allows you to run 3rd party ad networks along with your own in-house campaigns.

But, there is another option provided by Google. And it is free.

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Why Story-Telling Is The Super Glue For Your Blog

Why is it that you can give the best information in the world on your site, and yet barely hear a peep from your readers?

No comments, no retweets, no shares. Its like being in the woods in the dark of night – crickets.

Yet… somebody’s shitty blog with hardly any real useful content seems to get all the activity.

Are they just lucky? What’s the missing X-factor?

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Are You Dropping The Ball When It Comes To Facebook?

The numbers speak for themselves.

Facebook is fast approaching the point where it will have over 1 BILLION active users.

50% of them log into Facebook on any given day.

Facebook is a BEAST. Pretty much irregardless of what market you’re in, your prospects ARE on Facebook. And, statistically, they’re on Facebook almost every day.

The question is…. are you dropping the ball?

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The #1 Reason Your Product Or Service Isn’t Selling

It’s the ultimate frustration. You’ve put time into your blog, you’re following the popular advice, and you’re doing XYZ to your blog because important-blogger-so-and-so says it works for them. Everything seems to be going smoothly, so you decide to take the leap and put up a sales page for your new service.

And then you wait. If you put it up, they will come, right?

You know better. This is not the way to take your blog to a business.

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