A few weeks ago I spoke about the service Safe Swaps in my article Building Your Email List with Solo Ads. Safe Swaps is paid service that allows marketers to buy, sell and swap advertisements for their email lists. In total I had paid for 4 solo ads to go out within the first 10 … Read more
The development of my forthcoming book ‘The Art of Freelance Blogging’ has been stalled for close to a month now. I had been thinking of writing a book on freelancing blogging for a long time but I didn’t start working on it until late November 2012. After writing about 13,000 words for the book, I … Read more
A related posts section is a great way of keeping visitors on your website. I’ve added a related posts section to every one of my blogs in the past but I hadn’t got round to adding one here therefore over the last few days I’ve been looking for a good related posts plugin. There are … Read more
Those of you who are involved in the internet marketing niche may have heard of Chris Guthrie. Chris is widely known for his experience with the Amazon affiliate program. He’s made a huge amount of money with Amazon over the last few years and has a successful book on the subject too. In addition to … Read more
I came across a fantastic little plugin recently for WordPress entitled Column Shortcodes. Developed by CodePress, the plugin allows you to easily organise your content into columns on your page. Content can be divided into halves, thirds, quarters, fifths or sixths. You can also use two-thirds, three-quarters, three fifths etc. Once the plugin is installed, … Read more
Ryan Green recently discussed the pros and cons of using child theme frameworks. He looks at a lot of popular WordPress theme frameworks such as Genesis, Thematic and Thesis. It’s a great talk that I recommend viewing. The talk is 43.31 minutes long however the slides that he used in his talk are available for … Read more
Bloggers are always advised to think of killer titles for their articles. Strangely, no one seems to talk about how post titles should be capitalised. It’s something I never really paid much attention to myself in the past. There are two main options available to you when you are capitalising your blog post titles: Sentence … Read more
Adsense Flippers is one of my favourite blogs. Run by Justin Cooke and Joseph Magnotti, the blog focuses on how both marketers build websites that make money through Google Adsense. They document their ups and downs and use their blog as a platform to sell the websites they develop. They work on a lot of … Read more
A few days ago I vented my frustrations at the number of time wasters on Flippa. Today I’d like to talk about the upgrades that are available to sellers and whether these upgrades are worth spending your money on. On Flippa there are two pricing options available to sellers: Pay a $29 listing fee and … Read more
All in all, 2012 was a great year for me. I travelled to several countries in South America and managed to return to Scotland for two months in the Summer. From a business point of view, things went well, though I can’t help but feel I should have done better. The course of my online … Read more