Category Archives: Getting Traffic
8 ways to improve upon old and stolen blog posts
Every once in a while we get that one-in-a-million idea for a blog post. A brilliant idea, this one. Genius even. It’s so unique, there’s no chance that anyone on the whole bedamned interwebs has ever thought of it. This magnificent post will nearly write itself, earn you a big fat wad of cash and [...]
How simplifying your website will increase conversions and make you more money
Your website is basically a machine. A tool designed to perform some function. Some machines are simple, like a lever or the wedge that keeps your door open. Some machines are complex, like the space shuttle. Most websites are too complex and have too many pieces. Simplify. You don’t need 89 images and links and [...]
Giving people what they want
If you’re confused about the success of your landing page, squeeze page, your ebook sales, click-through rates, SEO, CRO, percentage of sign-ups, new RSS subscribers, unsubscribers to your newsletter, bounce rate or virtually any other metric that touches upon human attention, tattoo this to something close by: People are looking for stuff. Just help them [...]
Forget what you want to be. What do you want to have?
“What do you want to be when you grow up?” You’ve maybe been asked that question a few dozen times. For parents and teachers and career counsellors, this is a pretty standard question. Too bad we so often can’t answer it. These well-intentioned folks ask you what you want to BE so you can figure [...]
My biggest and most important business “secret”
Somewhere at the bottom of any money I’ve made as a business owner… Somewhere at the heart of any service or product I’ve launched… Somewhere in my refusal to work with some people and literally beg to work with others… …is this one thing. This is my secret. This is how and why I make [...]
