Below you’ll find an unedited version of a chapter from my new book, Email Marketing Demystified. To get your copy of Email Marketing Demystified, visit www.myemailmarketingbook.com. In order to design and place opt-in forms on your website, you will most likely need to make use of an opt-in form plugin or a cloud-based opt-in form service. As email marketing …
How I Wrote a 45,000 Word Book in 18 Days
List Building: Understanding Types of Opt-In Forms
Below you’ll find an unedited version of a chapter from my new book, Email Marketing Demystified. To get your copy of Email Marketing Demystified, visit www.myemailmarketingbook.com. Opt-in forms come in many different shapes and sizes and can be put on many different places in your website’s layout. Some opt-in forms are large, hard-to-miss and somewhat intrusive. Others are smaller …
List Building: Writing the Killer Copy for Your Opt-in Forms
Below you’ll find an unedited version of a chapter from my new book, Email Marketing Demystified. To get your copy of Email Marketing Demystified, visit www.myemailmarketingbook.com. After you have created your lead magnet, you will need to identify what kind of messaging you are going to use to get your potential subscribers to sign-up for your mailing list. The …
List Building: Creating the Perfect Lead Magnet
Below you’ll find an unedited version of a chapter from my new book, Email Marketing Demystified. To get your copy of Email Marketing Demystified, visit www.myemailmarketingbook.com. You should offer your subscribers something of value in exchange for signing up for your email list, such as a discount coupon, a free report or a resource list. In the world of …
I’m writing another book.
I published my first book, 40 Rules for Internet Business Success, last July. Since then, more than 10,000 copies of the book have been downloaded through Amazon. It briefly held the title of being the most downloaded book in Amazon’s small business and entrepreneurship category. The audiobook version of 40 Rules for Internet Business Success …
Business Expenses: How My Company Maintains an 80% Profit Margin, Every Month
When I founded American Consumer News, LLC in 2006, I literally spent no money getting the business up and going. I didn’t really have any money, so I started my online business using a free Blogger blog and zero-cost marketing techniques. After writing for several months on the personal finance blog I created, then called …
Everything You Need to Know about Saving for Retirement (in 1,300 words or less)
Most of us are very bad investors. We put very little effort into deciding what kinds of things we should invest in. We don’t pay much attention to the tax consequences of our investments. We often let ourselves get sold products that primarily serve to enrich the person selling said products to us. We buy …
Introducing MarketBeat.com, the New Analyst Ratings Network
I began using the name Analyst Ratings Network in early 2012 in order to differentiate our coverage of equities research (analyst ratings) from our general financial news that we publish on American Banking and Market News (americanbankingnews.com). When I selected the name, I tried to pick out something that had an available domain name and …
How I Sent My Parents to Las Vegas for Free Using Points and Airline Miles
Last fall, I started listening to a travel hacking podcast called Abroaders after one of the hosts was interviewed on another podcast I listen to. After listening through their back catalog of episodes and reading a few travel hacking blogs, I learned that there is a community of people that regularly travel around the world …