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9 Tips For Maximizing Adsense Revenue

July 21, 2011 | 33

Google Adsense. Probably the de facto way to make money with a blog – at least to newbies.

If you’ve read my Six Figure Blogger Blueprint, you know what I think of banner ads. They’re not the best way to make money with a blog. After all, the only way you get paid is to send traffic AWAY from your blog. And you’re only getting paid a few cents to do it.

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What Many People Forget About “Making Money Online”

July 15, 2011 | 38

I was having a discussion with somebody the other day. This person wanted to make money online. It didn’t really matter how, they just wanted money.

The plan (as they put it) was to find one of the most successful people online… and simply copy them. And, the understanding of the “how” was to start a blog and promote stuff.

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[WEBINAR] The Thriving Audience Framework, w/ Corbett Barr

July 12, 2011 | 9

We all need traffic. As I’ve said before, without it, all the work we do online feels like pissing in the wind.

Basically, you can either attract traffic or you can buy it (via banner ads, PPC, etc.). Most of us would rather not have to buy it. Plus, if you have to spend money for every visitor you get, do you really have a sustainable business? I’d argue no.

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How To Keep Members Once They’ve Enrolled (Member Retention)

July 8, 2011 | 5

This is part 4 of 4 of a series on Membership Sites & Recurring Income.

It is one thing to enroll a new member into your membership site. It is quite another to KEEP them.

The industry average retention period for a membership site is 3 months. That isn’t very long, and with a high turnover rate like that, the pressure will really be on to keep enrolling new people in order to grow your cash flow. There are, however, many things you can do to increase retention and keep people around.

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How To Market Your Membership Site

July 7, 2011 | 6

This is part 3 of 4 of a series on Membership Sites & Recurring Income.

OK, step 1 is to build your membership site. Step 2 is to populate it with some content. Step 3 is…. (drum roll)….

Selling it.

The question is – how?

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What To Put Into Your Membership Site (Free Versus Paid)

July 6, 2011 | 8

This is part 2 of 4 of a series on Membership Sites & Recurring Income.

Pretty much anything you might think of releasing as a standalone product could very easily be released into a membership site. In fact, any form of content could go in there. Blog posts, videos, ebooks, etc.

I think a lot of people (especially beginners) tend to think about the ebook when it comes to product offerings. The problem with ebooks is that the perceived value has dropped since so many people now do it. Depending on your niche, there are a lot of ebooks being given away as opt-in bribes. This makes the power of a PAID ebook diminished. Many people’s hard drives are littered with PDFs they haven’t yet read.

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What You Need To Create A Membership Site

July 4, 2011 | 14

This is part 1 of 4 of a series on Membership Sites & Recurring Income.

There are many different ways to build a membership site these days. Quite frankly, it can be pretty overwhelming.

I’ve tried a lot of different options, so I’m going to share with you what I believe is the easiest and best combination of tools to build your membership site.

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Getting Leads And Conversions: A Blog Review of DavidRisley.com from Derek Halpern

June 29, 2011 | 17

One of the many things I do for members inside the Inner Circle is review their blog. When I do these reviews, I almost always do it on video. I’m looking at things like design, list building effectiveness, and conversion. I also evaluate the structure of the content, navigation pages, etc.

Rarely is the direction of that blog review reversed. And, like everybody else, I also value an expert third-party perspective.

Derek Halpern seems like he’s come out of virtually nowhere in our niche, from “who’s that?” to a guy a lot of us are paying attention to. He’s actually not a newcomer to this stuff at all. He has a lot of experience when it comes to building traffic and converting traffic into leads.

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7 Ways To Get Endless Ideas For Your Blog Posts

June 27, 2011 | 24

You know you should write about something. You haven’t posted to your blog in days. You’re not too proud of that fact. But, what do you write about?

So, you rack your brain. You come up with a few ideas, but perhaps you stall because you’ve kinda written about it before, or you’re not sure anybody but you will even care.

You might look at other bloggers and wonder, “How the hell do they keep getting all those great ideas for posts?”

Well, I don’t know. But, I’ll tell you how I go about it…

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5 Things People Will Pay The Most Money For

June 24, 2011 | 32

Things are changing. Well, actually, it changed a while ago. Did you notice?

Selling information online isn’t as easy as it used to be. Why is that? It is because there is SO much information out there already for free. So, you have a couple of things happening… (1) People figure they’ll just find it for free elsewhere, OR…. (2) They’re so overwhelmed already, they just don’t give a crap about buying any more.

Perhaps this is sounding familiar to you.