Archives / 2008 / March

FeBeNe: The only moneymaking formula you will ever need (but no one uses it).

Make Money

A few months ago, a few affiliates sent out a series of emails that caught my attention. It was a medium sized launch, but they had blogs around the world asking the same question. It made me drop what I was doing and read that email. I wanted to know: “What is FeBeNe?” It out to be part of a program developed by Jay Conrad Levinson, author of ‘Guerrilla... Read More

Mary Ellen Tribby and EarlyToRise.com's Amazing Growth Spurt from 8 million to 27 million in one year

Entrepreneurship

At the recent Strategic Profits seminar I attended in Florida I got introduced to Mary Ellen Tribby of EarlyToRise.com. EarlyToRise is owned by Agora Publishing, which in Tribby’s words is an “Idea Company” and they focus on direct marketing. I was totally blown away when they shared their metrics with me. They have a list of 300,000 people, and they make an average of $40 per person. Their year-to-year... Read More

Mary Ellen Tribby and EarlyToRise.com’s Amazing Growth Spurt from 8 million to 27 million in one year

Entrepreneurship

At the recent Strategic Profits seminar I attended in Florida I got introduced to Mary Ellen Tribby of EarlyToRise.com. EarlyToRise is owned by Agora Publishing, which in Tribby’s words is an “Idea Company” and they focus on direct marketing. I was totally blown away when they shared their metrics with me. They have a list of 300,000 people, and they make an average of $40 per person. Their year-to-year... Read More

Speedup or kiss AdWords goodbye

Google AdWords

In case you missed it, Google just announed that they will soon incorporate the average load time of your landing pages into their Quality Score.  In short, that means that if your pages do not load very fast you are going to get slapped by Google and crushed by your competitors that have figured out how to optimize their sites and servers for maximum speed.  Why is Google doing... Read More

Blog Tweaking

Archived

You may have noticed a month or so back that we briefly experimented with appending some “related post” links at the end of each entry. With a total disregard to building up the story, I’ll tell you the ending right now: No change in page views. The average user page view had no change, which was surprising, but the data doesn’t lie. Relatedly, we have tweaked the blog again.... Read More

How Internet Marketing Gurus are Screwing The Public and Making it Increasingly Harder for Newbies to Gain Guidance

Entrepreneurship

I came across a rant today by Mr X, the Internet Marketer behind the Adwords BlackBook. It’s well worth a read. This got me thinking. In the last few years, Internet marketing has gone from a legitimate business building skill with a few solid quality products to a industry of opportunity seekers blowing money on every dumb idea being tossed out. As one anonymous copywriter I know put it:... Read More

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