There’s been a lot of talk in recent months about “forced continuity” This is a sales technique which, amongst other things, seems to give you something for f’ree, but forces you to take out a subscription to another product - which may or may not be difficult to cancel.
But there’s another type of forced continuity […]

I am a long-term fan of ClickBank. My first ClickBank account was set up on Friday, 22 December 2000! At that time, I was just playing with affiliate marketing - sort of stumbling around. But gradually, the cheques from ClickBank kept arriving regularly - twice per month. They kept growing in size - and NO, […]

It’s a refreshing change to come across an article about affiliate marketing which deals with the self-motivation aspect rather than the more technical details. I’m sure that out guest writer, Richard London, echoes the sentiments of many “Update” subscribers when he says:
“I cannot begin to count the number of times I have run to my […]

Like many people with an expanding business and not a lot of time, I’m increasingly turning to outsourcing to get work done.

I have my virtual assistant, Ranjitha, who looks after my blog, my social networking and bookmarking activities and a variety of other work.

My graphics designer, Naveed, does my important graphics

I hire software […]

Sometimes it can be difficult to anticipate what’s going to be popular and what’s not. A case in point is the new product which I added to the Download Library before I went on holiday: “Newbie QuickTip Videos”.
I spent quite a bit of time putting the package together. Although I only added five videos initially, […]

No, I’m not trying to scare you. There’s enough people (journalists, politicians etc.) doing a good job of talking us deeper into a recession. But, whether we like it or not, many folk are getting seriously worried about rising gas prices, unemployment, the property market and so on.
My son-in-law, Gavin, recently asked me “Are internet […]

Many internet marketers claim that you can command a higher price for a product if you ship it out in physical form, rather than deliver it as an instant digital download. This may well be true, but I haven’t yet experimented with it. Today I had a quick look at one of the most popular […]

Since I started to get more involved with “social marketing” through the likes of Facebook, Twitter and so on, I have become very conscious of the time that you can spend in these communities.
I’ve also been aware that it’s easy to make the opposite mistake and, after an initial flurry of activity, to start to […]

There seem to be a lot of folk who are unaware that Google lets you create simple web pages with the minimum of fuss. There’s no uploading of files, no messing around with HTML (unless you want to) and you can get your website live in a matter of minutes.
Just to show how quick it […]

Here’s a tip if you want to find out more about any strange emails you’ve had.
Over the past few weeks, I’ve had emails seemingly from Google AdWords saying that they’ll stop showing my a.ds because they’s not been able to get payment from me. The email asked me to log into my AdWords account and […]