An Interview with Travis Petelle

Travis Petelle is an email marketer who has made a lot of money from marketing informational products to subscribers. A few weeks ago I did a small review of his latest product List Building Maniacs Cheat Sheets. I caught up with Travis again this week and he answered some questions about his business and about … Read more

Create a Heat Map for Free with HotSpots

Heat maps are a great way of seeing what areas of your site visitors are clicking. This information can be used to address problems on your site or improve certain areas. The most well known service that provides this is CrazyEgg. They provide a fantastic service however a website with only 800 visits per day … Read more

The Timing of Your Paperback Release

Many bloggers are trying their hand at writing a book. The process of selling a book digitally is painless. Once you have written your book, you just need to upload it to a service such as Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP), CreateSpace and Smashwords. Sure, you still need to spend a lot of time writing, formatting … Read more

Feeling Like a Zombie

My sleeping habit has been terrible the last week. I’ve been struggling to get to sleep at night so during the day I feel like I’m walking around like a zombie. It’s been very frustrating as I’ve not had a problem with sleeping for years. This is partly due to how much exercise I do … Read more

The Downside of Free

Giving stuff away for free is one of the best ways of getting traffic to a website. It’s a tried and tested formula. Whether it’s a free ebook, free WordPress theme or free content; many people are conditioned to getting things for free. I noticed this when working on my last blog. The blog focused … Read more

The Highlanders Have Moved to England

Every country is known for something. Scotland is known for many things…some good, some not so good. The stereotype of us all drinking heavily is definitely true, particularly when you compare us to the rest of the world. Though we’re no different from the English, Irish, Welsh when it comes to drinking excessively. I’ve never … Read more

The Robots.txt File

The Robots.txt file controls what search engines and archivers can and can’t access on your website when they visit. It’s formally known as ‘The Robots Exclusion Protocol’ however most webmasters simply refer to it by its file name. Rogue archivers don’t adhere to the rules you set however all reliable search engines such as Google, … Read more