Are You Ready To Outsource?
I’ve been pondering it for a few years now, but something has been holding me back. To be honest I was full of concern, concerned about letting someone else do my work, concerned about actually going through the process of choosing and communication with someone the other side of the world. You see I don’t get out much and can be a tad shy at times J so I really thought this was beyond my capabilities, well not beyond my capabilities but definitely out of my comfort zone.
You see ever since I made the decision to increase my exposure online and to dedicate most of my waking hours to creating traffic and building a mailing list I have had this massive to do list, which never, ever got any shorter and I have recently found myself waking up in the small hours with the list swirling around in my head!
So enough is enough I thought, all the other people I know or read about who make their living online are outsourcing, it’s about time I got with the program.
I’m not one for woo woo stuff but some sort of synchronicity was in play here, well that’s what a lot of people I know would call it. I call it just plain coincidence. I watched an interview with Michael Dunlop the other day and he mentioned a company in the US called TaskUs.com who manage your outsourcing for you. Perfect!
I immediately went to their site and signed up for their special offer and submitted a couple of tasks within about 15 minutes.
The next morning in my inbox was confirmation of my task etc. AND a personal email from Jed, my new account administrator. Jed welcomed me and told me he will be looking after my account. He was open and honest about what they can and can’t do, which made me feel even more comfortable about the whole thing.
I’ve created a short video below that walks you through the process.
List Building Doesn’t Work
At least until now….
If you have read my 7 steps to more traffic report, and you are implementing the strategies you need to read on…
Don’t waste that traffic!
We all know the bigger the list you have, the more people will listen to you and the more you will earn.
However, most people just can’t build a big enough list! The guy I’ve been more or less stalking for the past month or so is quite frankly the master at it – Michael Dunlop who earns over six figures a year now from his list. But it wasn’t always like that in the beginning he tried everything.. and they all sucked! Such as..
Slide up opt-in boxes, Emailing Commenters and just in general spamming techniques…
We’ve all been there, we feel we’ve tried everything and are almost ready to give up, until…
You discover Lightbox Opt-in boxes, i’ve just installed mine and it looks great!
Long story short, this increased his opt-ins from a measly 17 a day to 109 the very next day and it’s stayed consistently in the 100s!
However, we now had a new problem, no one could duplicate his success without spending a lot of money with a web development company and so he created PopUp Domination! The only lightbox software that brings incredible design to your website which is guaranteed to increase your opt-ins or your money back!
List Building Definately Works!
Apparently the sales page will be online always, you can come back, watch it and buy the product any time, however please remember: The longer it takes you to come back and buy it, the more money your are losing.
Free Download Survey Results
As you can see from my graphic below the results are in for my latest survey.
A clear winner is information on getting more traffic and building a mailing list. So it’s time for me to get to work creating the content for you. I intend to create an easy step by step guide which is easy to read and digest. Which I hope will take away the roadblocks one usually encounters when implementing strategies for this kind of thing.
Should have it ready by the beggining of August.
What would you like to download for free?
I have just created a very small (3 question) survey, asking you about your biggest online business challenge… It will take you 2 minutes at the most to complete.
Help me to help you with your online business for free, click on the link below to complete the survey
Thank you so much, I really appreciate you taking the time to help me out.
Manage WP | A New Tool
I’ve recently discovered something really cool, well today actually!
There is now a tool available which I think will be a real God send to those of us who run multiple blogs.
It is called “Manage WP” and it enables you to manage all your WordPress blogs from one dashboard… how cool is that?
All you do is go to http://managewp.com sign up for a “free” account, they send you your password via email. You can then log in a start adding your blogs
Adding each of your blogs is a simple process, first of all you install the “Worker” plug in which you can download from the dashboard, you then click on “add blog” fill in the log in details click submit and your blog appears in the dashboard. Do this for each of your blogs and they end up listed like so
I’ve yet to give it a full road test and it is in beta so bugs maybe present. I will keep you posted.
If you are interested in this tool, leave me a comment below. And remember your WordPress super hero (aka me!) can set it all up for you if you need me to.
My Purchase Of Product Launch Formula 3.0
I’ve just bought Jeff Walkers latest product – Product Launch Formula 3.0. I’m a sucker for a nice shiny new Internet Marketing Course. I’ve bought several in my time.
So why am I not a millionaire yet?
Well I think the main reason is that I love to learn new stuff but then when it comes to implementation after a solid enthusiastic and VERY organised start my enthusiasm seems to wane.
The last big product I bought was Traffic Secrets 2.0 which I learnt loads from but I did not use the knowledge to its full. Don’t get me wrong TS 2.0 helped me help my clients no end but I didn’t do what I thought I was going to do with it which was to crush the market in my particular niche choices. Quite simply my enthusiasm for that tailed off horribly.
So what has changed and why is the purchase of this particular product going to be any different. To be honest I didn’t really know, other than the marketing for it was so good I simply HAD to buy it!
10 Reasons Why I Love WordPress
Ok I may be going back to basics here but that’s what this site is about, helping the newbie’s and intermediate WordPress users with their websites & small businesses.
I love to build websites and I love WordPress.
I think I have been using WordPress for around 3 years now; I started my own sites using Typepad and then building Typepad Blogs for clients. Which was great to start with and Typepad is a great hosted service but it was very limited.
So after attending an Internet Marketing Conference (it may have been The World Internet Summit) where all the marketers were talking about this open source software called WordPress which is free to use and you can host it yourself, I was converted!
So here are some of the reasons I converted and why I love it so much
Improve Your Blog by Tidying Up Your Sidebar
In my earlier days with my blogs I would cram as many sidebar items on my blog as I could. The latest widgets, sign up boxes, social media icons, several blogrolls, affiliate banners, subscriber counts, search boxes, tag clouds, flickr photos etc etc. The list goes on. Now i’m not saying that any of these are pointless, they all have their place and job to do to enhance user experience.
However
What tends to happen over the course of a year is that bloggers come across new and interesting projects, promotions, and widgets. Each one of them just gets jammed in the sidebar without too much thought and months later, the sidebar has grown out of control.
I’ve been seeing this more and more as I surf through the blogosphere and this post is simply a reminder that it’s time to tidy up that sidebar
Here are a few tips
- Outdated materials? Double check the promotions, contests, or advertisements in your sidebar to ensure they are all still valid.
- Outdated links? It’s commonplace to see gigantic blogrolls in sidebars (we’ll discuss that next) and since those links have likely been accumulating over months, and sometimes years, it’s likely that one or two blogs have gone the way of the dodo.
- Too many links? If you notice that your blogroll is gigantic, then it’s time to either move it or limit and rotate the links that are shown. You can easily create a page specifically for listing your links too.
Next, organize your sidebar by priority. Place the items you wish to draw the most attention to up top and near to the content (if you have two or more sidebars). All the important items, especially time sensitive items should be placed up there.
SEO Doctor
I’ve just come across a simple little Firefox addon which reveals the SEO score of your site through an easy to understand scoring system. Not only that the SEO Doctor will offer great suggestions on how to improve your SEO score based on official recommendations from Google and such like.
You can download it here
You would think that with my knowledge my score would be 100/100 but to my horror I only scored 82! The great thing about this add on is that it tells you why. Firstly i had too many links on my page, secondly my title tag had too many characters in it AND the less said about my metadescription the better! It just goes to show that this stuff needs checking and checking again to make sure you have not missed anything out.
This basic optimisation is SO important to your findability on Google etc so download this add on now to see how your website shapes up.
If you would like help with fixing any issues that you find, or if you would like me to check out your score for you contact me here >>
There are more advanced strategies to get your site ranked higher but i will leave that for another post.
WP Questions To The Rescue
I come across WPQuestions.com about 5 months ago when I believe it had just started and was really impressed and excited by the concept. However the site was quiet back then and in my opinion needed time to evolve and attract askers & experts.
You see, WPQuestions is a problem-solving community for WordPress aficionados developed by Darren Hoyt. The aim of WPQuestions is that members pay to ask any WordPress related urgent question or seek help with your WordPress doubts and issues and other members get paid for answering those questions. Users are either Askers, who offer money for emergency support, or Experts, who are established PHP coders looking to earn money and bolster credibility.
WPQ is also great place for established WordPress designers and developers who want to help problem-solve and be paid fairly for their efforts. If you need any quick efficient help form WordPress experts, it’s the right solution you should go to. Wisely, you can earn some extra money if you are good at WordPress too.
Free Report!
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