Author Archive
Ten Things I Do Every Day To Be Successful
Joe Vitale has listed ten things he does every day to be successful, and issued a call-out for several others- including me- to list our own. This all started with a post by Aaron Potts who “tagged” a group of successful marketers, including Joe, and asked them to play along.
Beautiful timing.
Most of the projects that […]
Your $100 E-Book Business- Fast!
One of the things I love about internet marketing is the relationships I have with people all over the globe. It’s a lot like traveling, but I get to stay in sunny Texas and “talk” to subscribers and customers who are shoveling snow in Michigan, sitting around a wood stove in the black forest of […]
Use Search Engines to Write Your E-book
Another e-book generating idea that is actually as old as graduate school, but the internet makes it practical. It’s called “research.”
The word “research” brings back memories of confusion and frustration for me. Have they found the sadist that came up with the Dewey decimal system and strung him up yet? I never did understand it. […]
Getting Started- Choosing Your Niche
There are three main components to keep in mind when you’re building your Portable Empire:
1. Building your list
2. Building your relationship with your list
3. Making products and selling them to your list, and through Joint-Venture and affiliate […]
How to Create Valuable Information Products Easily and Quickly
You hear it all the time, don’t you? “I’ve got this great idea for an e-book, I just don’t know how to write it.” Or, I’ve been working on my e-book for months and I just can’t seem to finish it.”
I’ve talked to potential authors who have spent years struggling to write their first e-book!
What […]
Get Others To Write Your E-book For You
A great strategy for producing an e-book is to ask others to write it for you. Some of the most successful e-book promotions have featured e-books with multiple authors.
Why would an author give you a chapter for your book?
Because you will encourage them to include their contact information and links to their web […]
The Gold Zone
Betsy (my domestic partner) and I were just talking about the difference between how things feel when you’re in the “gold zone” and how they feel when you’re not.
Julia Cameron calls it the “Vein of Gold,” and wrote a great book about it. Athletes call it “the zone.”
Let’s call it the “Gold Zone.”
She was […]
Taking A Day Off Every Now And Then Can Make You Money
Is there a name for the opposite of “the Midas Touch?” I’m not talking about brakes and mufflers, here. I’m talking about the king who had the disturbing experience of having everything he touched turn to gold.
In the end, it wasn’t all that great-
I’ve just gone through a week-long period where everything […]
A Bigger Box
Last Monday, I attended a birthday party for a musician/studio-owner friend of mine. The party was held at a fairly rowdy honky-tonk in historic Gruene, Texas.
There was bar-b-que, chips and hot sauce, and adult beverages. The focus of the party was a free-for-all jam session.
Who else, but musicians, gets together and […]
