Category Archives: General

This should make you smile…

Thanks to Peter du Toit for finding this… Winner – Best Narrative Short, Cleveland Int’l Film Festival, Winner – Jury Award, Gen Art Chicago Film Festival, Winner – Audience Award, Hawaii Int’l Film Festival, Winner – Best Short Comedy, Breckenridge … Continue reading

Posted in General | Tagged validation, validation movie | 48 Comments

13 Ways To Increase Your Profits

Lee McIntyre has just released a terrific free report called “Profit 13 Ways: 13 Ways To Increase Your Profits Fast”. Lee is based in the UK, and until 18 months ago was a high school teacher. He now makes a … Continue reading

Posted in General | Tagged free report, internet marketing, lee mcintyre | 54 Comments

Invisible Websites

One of my current projects is a review site for a niche market – event companies in South Africa. It’s a tiny market in global terms, but there are a couple of hundred companies working in the industry. When business … Continue reading

Posted in General | Tagged business confidence, corporates, marketing, niche market, search engine optimization, search engines, SEO, small businesses, South Africa, web designers | 45 Comments

WordPress2.6 Released

I’ve just updated this blog to WordPress 2.6, and I’ll be going through all my niche blogs as well. WordPress 2.6 introduces much better plug-in management. You can now delete unused plugins from within the WordPress admin panel, and you … Continue reading

Posted in Blogs, General | 17 Comments

Long term vs short term goals

When I read Robert Kiyosaki’s Rich Dad, Poor Dad a couple of years ago, one of the key points that stuck in my mind was the necessity of creating assets. Kiyosaki defines an asset as anything that puts money in … Continue reading

Posted in General | Tagged article marketing, asset, assets, content sites, income, kiyosaki, liability, passive income, real estate, robert kiyosaki | 31 Comments

Time For A Change

It’s a new month, and that’s a good excuse for a bit of a change in the way the ol’ blog looks. I’ve used Cory Miller’s “Clean Copy 2″ theme – if it’s good enough for Michel Fortin and Terry … Continue reading

Posted in General | Tagged blog theme, freelancing, quitting | 47 Comments

James Brausch Special

James Brausch has a 24-hour special on at the moment. This one is really something special. You can get his “core” products, worth over $1000 (not an inflated price – I show his actual selling prices below) and his $1000-a-month … Continue reading

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Blogrush goes live

As you can see in the sidebar, I’ve signed up for John Reese’s BlogRush Blog Syndication Network. Like all the best ideas, it seems really simple and obvious in retrospect. It’s easy enough to get an RSS feed from, say, … Continue reading

Posted in General, Online Business, Products | 21 Comments

Stupid Is As Stupid Does – How Stupid Do Marketers Think You Are?

“Stupidity” is a movie. It’s a documentary about the “dumbing down” of America – American culture, American society and the evolutionary adaptation which seems to make stupidity a vital factor for survival. I found the DVD of “Stupidity” in my … Continue reading

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Writing As If You Mean It

Brian Clark posted some of the best tips about writing I’ve read. I enjoy writing, once I get into it, but it’s the “getting into it” that seems to be a problem for me. I’m going to take Brian’s advice … Continue reading

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