“How do you find a profitable niche?” I love this question, but the answer really depends upon a number of things. I tell you what they are and how to use... ...

In my experience, one of the hardest things for people to get working properly is keyword research. It is not that they have a hard time using keyword analysis tools, or that they don’t understand their subject or market. It is that they start their research with the wrong keyword seed list. ...

There are so many things that people need to balance in their daily lives. As bloggers, we share a few very frustrating needs. One of the most commonly taught ways to get blog traffic is to comment on other people's posts, and it works. But, is blog commenting all that you thought it ...

Through all of this, I have learned about Internet business, ways to make money online, Twitter, fishing, and the dietary needs of kittens (truly, I don't know how I ended up on that one). Even better, I have found a few amazing people and resources. Today I want to share three of ...

Learning anything can be frustrating. Learning how to lose is worse. I had a few things go wrong this weekend. Last week I worked on setting up a site for a product in a niche that I thought I could utterly dominate. Unfortunately for me, I had missed something. ...

Everyone knows that SPAM is bad, right? It is annoying and a huge time waster for anyone who is trying to get things done. Only after countless hours of deleting unwanted emails or fake comments, you can finally get back to what you want to do. But what would you say if I ...

Bad days suck, and it is often comforting to talk to a friend about your situation. Unfortunately, the place you work is often not a place where you will find such a friend. No matter how much you want it to be. ...

Today may be normal, but this week is not. I was unable to write this weeks posts on Saturday as I needed to prioritize my weekend activities. There is, as you know, only so much time. I needed to define my priority. ...

In the video below, I have tried to describe how I use Photo Dropper and Flikr to use my own photos as well as free images available on Flikr. ...

Keywords and SEO for an old blog were the topic of a recent meeting and I was hoping to leave the meeting with a new contact who could help me to get some new business. But for some reason, it seemed too good to be true. Then it made sense. ...

Another week has gone by, and this one was notable. Here is a FREE pdf with advice for coming up with blogging topics and pleasing your readers! ...

This is not a post about sports, and it is certainly not about ways to choose blog post topics. Rather, this is a post about desire. If you are not willing to experiment with your posts, or if you are too stuck on a few core ideas, your blog is probably pretty boring. ...

There are so many things you need to do to start a successful Internet business that it is often easy for bloggers to forget about their strategy for the content on their site, and off of it. This week I asked Srinivas Rao, Brandon Connell, Tristan Higbee, and Pawel Grabowski about what they ...

I have been reading a book by Seth Godin (an eBook I got from Matthew at the big red tomato company months ago) and it occurred to me that when he uses the word branding, he is describing something that is a bit different from what I had understood ...

When you started reading, did you see that shiny blue banana at the top of the page? If you think that it was just put there because I like bananas, you are only a little bit right. I like oranges too, but did not even consider putting a big orange ...

Creating an irresistible brand is an important part of building a successful business and there are some important keys to creating that irresistible brand. Once you have these pieces in place, your brand will start to become so irresistible that you’ll barely keep from buying your own stuff! ...

Over the past month, I have been looking for ways to improve my personal brand and promote my blog. But, it has not been easy. I have not always been sure that I was on the right track, so I decided to ask a few questions to a couple of ...

Keyword research, keyword analysis, keyword cake. You know you want it - download it now! :) ...

If you have ever done keyword research for hours trying to find that perfect list of keywords for some project, then you know that it is not easy. Using a keyword tool to suggest keywords or simply making a list of what you believe to be good choices are both valid options. But ...

One of the topics related to the running of an online business that causes the most conversation is definately on-page search engine optimization (SEO). In fact, it is not uncommon to hear some bloggers and Internet marketers say that they don't worry about keyword research or keyword density because they "write ...

The power of including the right keywords in a post is that your blog could receive an inflow of traffic from the search engines and increase the value of your writing efforts. But, you need to know which keywords will be effective before you can put them into your writing. And, you ...

Last week's Friday post had a link to download a pdf about choosing your niche. So, below is a link to the next pdf in this series. This time, about social media. ...