Archive for June, 2009

David Caruso – The PPC Google Expert

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David Caruso

The PPC Google Expert

David Caruso is a very successful business owner, professional speaker, author and mentor winning numerous awards in the past for his accomplishments. His a Pay Per Click expert on Google Adwords and teaches from the heart about his marketing experiences online. His also written a best selling book called ‘Cheese Pizza’ and it’s delivered in a pizza box, which is also one of his creative marketing strategies that makes him unique.

David sits on the Board of The Small Business Development Corporation of NSW, which is a body that advises the NSW Government on Small Business issues, policies and initiatives. Being on this board, he is able to be a voice for the small business community and provide a wealth of knowledge to help small businesses as well. Therefore his advice is honest and practical.

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How To Outsource Your Internet Business

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How To Outsource Your Internet Business And Work Less

How To OutsourceThe weekly podcast topic for this week is outsourcing and I’ve been speaking about how you could use outsourcing to help your Internet business. Adam and I go into a lot of detail in this podcast to present you what is involved and how to steps to be successful at outsourcing your Internet business.

In this podcast you will learn….

  • Where to find good people to work for you full time for around $250 US a month
  • How to train your staff and keep them occupied as they work full time for you
  • The tools we use to manage and hire staff that allows you to only work 2 – 4 hours a day
  • Why it’s important to outsource everything except your strengths

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Become A Blogger Premium Review – The Blogging Gurus: Yaro Starak and Gideon Shalwick

Keep reading below as I give you a sneak preview tour through the Become A Blogger Premium website, otherwise if you want to see the video now click here.

Many people come to my blog to read my reviews and look for advice from leading experts that I have interviewed. I’ve made it really easy for anyone to access this information and categorised all my reviews and podcasts into the Business Resources section.

In the Business Resources section you will find:

  • Reviews of products I use
  • Web services that I recommend
  • E-books I have read
  • Other useful tools

For a complete list of these resources visit the Business Resources section.

Become A Blogger Premium Coaching Program

URL: Become A Blogger Premium
Purpose: This is a coaching program that will help you create, establish and make money from your blog in any industry you choose.

A few people left comments on the podcast interview with Gideon Shalwick from Become A Blogger and it was very interesting to share with everyone who Gideon Shalwick was what Become A Blogger can do for them. It was not intended to be a review of Become A Blogger, rather an insight into how Gideon become successful in running his Internet businesses.

This article is intended to help you reach a decision on whether Become A Blogger Premium is the right blog coaching program for you and whether you need it to achieve success in your Internet business journey.

Before I give you a sneak peak of the program and also share with you my thoughts, let me share with you why I enrolled into the program.

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Alvin Phang From Gathersuccess

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Alvin Phang

The Atomic Blogger

Today’s interview is with Alvin Phang who is a professional blogger making over $200,000 a year from his blog at GatherSuccess.com. He has successfully turned his hobby into a business, sharing about his life and business experiences through his blog, which now makes him a full time income. Alvin is a very outgoing person and is a sought out speaker who presents regular seminars about Internet marketing throughout Singapore.

I interviewed Alvin so I could find out how he achieved huge success with blogging. What I like about Alvin is how he focuses on the quality of his leads, rather than having thousands of leads that don’t make him any money. This is one of his successful strategies that you will learn in this interview.

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Secrets Of Outsourcing Your Internet Business

Outsourcing Secrets Recently, my friend Adam suggested I take a look at replacemyself.com, which is a website that shows you how to train and outsource your business to people in the Philippines working for you full time starting from $250 US per month. Although the information provided is not free, it was extremely valuable and for the price of $97.00 US, it is definitely worth it! It sparked my interest because I am already outsourcing tasks to assistants in the Philippines and I wanted to see how this system could improve my business further. Before we get into the details of this system, I am going explore what outsourcing is and how you can use it within your own Internet business.

What Is Outsourcing?

For me, it is taking routine tasks or areas of my business and hiring good quality people to do them for me at a fraction of the cost. One of the main reasons why I outsource a majority of my business is to eliminate the tasks that I am not good at and focus on tasks that utilises my strengths. For example, I currently have all of my emails and telephone support outsourced to a team of assistants. Therefore I am able to focus my time and energy to do more podcast interviews with leading experts and deliver them through this blog.

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Linda Bustos From Get Elastic

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Linda Bustos The Girl Behind Get Elastic

Today’s interview is with Linda Bustos from Get Elastic. Linda is a wonderful and cheerful blogger who has done an exceptional job to grow Get Elastic’s blog with over 10,000 readers. She provides excellent tips on ecommerce and is an expert media analyst who knows how to engage readers through social media. Linda has also been named one of Vancouver’s Tech Women to Watch, placed #25 of the Top 100 Influential Marketers of the year and was the winner of Marketing Pilgrim’s SEM Scholarship for the article 8 Stupid Things Webmasters Do to Mess Up Their Analytics.

Furthermore, Get Elastic is also recognized by the Wall Street Journal as one of 15 entrepreneur blogs worth reading and ranks on the AdAge Power 150. I wanted to interview Linda because I wanted to find out how she grew the blog starting from a few hundred readers to over 10,000 readers a day in a short space of 2 years. Not only does she have a great readership, Linda is a true expert using her blog to market through social media networks.

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Three Steps To Creating Your Membership Site

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If you haven’t read the previous post, you need to read Our Internet Secrets: How To Create Membership Sites. This podcast continues on and shows you how to create your own membership site that has helped Andrew and Daryl Grant make over $500,000 a year alone.

How To Create Your Membership Site In Three Steps

Today, our podcast is with my good friend Adam Lever from Big Screen Promotions. We both met each other at an event a few weeks ago and teamed up to bring to you some very special podcasts on topics to help you profit from your Internet business. In the upcoming weeks we will be doing regular weekly talks and sharing with you lots of detailed information on how to profit from your Internet business.

Adam Lever and Tyrone Shum

Adam Lever and Tyrone Shum

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Our Internet Secrets: How To Create Membership Sites

Andrew and Daryl Grant On Friday I attended Andrew and Daryl Grant’s 4 day workshop in Sydney called Our Internet Secrets. I was very fortunate to attend this event and have to thank Yaro Starak from Entrepreneur’s Journey again for giving me 1 out of the 20 tickets. This course is normally $1,995.00, so I was very grateful to attend as a guest. Over the 4 days there were a lot of excellent speakers on top of having Andrew and Daryl speak. All of the speakers that presented is part of the Our Internet Secrets faculty group and if you are a member of this program you get access to them. Some of the speakers were: Yaro Starak, Bret Thomson, Darren Stephens, Greg Cassar, Paul Blackburn and Janet Beckers.

Each of them brought different their unique expertise and shared with the audience on how they created and achieved great success with their Internet Businesses. I was particularly interested to learn about how Andrew and Daryl Grant set up a very successful multi-million dollar business using their eBook and membership site strategies. These were just a couple of components that were part of their game plan. For example a goal they achieved were:

  • Having a membership site with 1,000 members paying $49 a month over 12 months (Income of $588,000 a year)
  • Selling 20 Internet Business packs per month at seminars for $3,000 each over 12 months (Income of $600,000 a year)

These were two of the strategies that intrigued me the most and it did make sense that it was possible to make a million dollars a year. You might be wondering how did they do this? Well, I am going to share with you the first goal they accomplished.

Creating A Membership Site

As Andrew and Daryl points out, they have a membership site that could be created and launched within 3 days. For me that is unheard of because I would be thinking where do you get the content so fast? This got me really excited and I wanted to learn how they did it! Before you could start creating a membership site you need to understand what is currently available in the market and how to make yours different, so you will stand out. Well, lets explore what are some of the problems most membership sites have in common:

  1. Can take 6 months or more to set up before it makes any money.
  2. Members stay an average of only 2-3 months, so you don’t get a recurring income
  3. Most membership site software is designed by and for people with a US company and bank account.
  4. Can be expensive to set up, depending on the software you use.

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15 Year Old Blogger From Teenius

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The 15 Year Old Blogger

Simon_TeeniusSimon Rogers is a 15 year old blogger who I wanted to interview and find out how he started to make money from his blog called Teenius. Simon’s blog came under my radar when his comments on a popular blog provided great value to the community of readers. (That’s also a tip on how to get yourself to stand out).

Around two years ago, Simon was looking to make some money for the summer and a friend showed him how to start making money from proxies, which he will share with you in this Interview. From there he stumbled across blogging which he initially didn’t like. Though, as you will soon find out Simon started to make money from blogging and the rest is history…

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8 Tips To Optimize Your Category Pages

Today’s video is about optimizing your category products page within your ecommerce business. This is a key component for any ecommerce website and it can make the difference to every sale.

Watch “How To Optimize Category Pages” video on Youtube

Here are some points that you will take away from this video:

  • Allow a customer to auto return after “Adding to Cart”
  • Display out-of-stock items separately
  • Include an “Add to Cart” button on you category listing page
  • Have a sort by option
  • Highlight new & sale products
  • Show “real life” photos
  • Include a search function – Google search
  • Make your product images clickable

Tyrone Shum
Category Optimizer