Month: April 2013

Janis Pettit is an entrepreneur and business coach who started out as a stage and television actress in New York. She made the decision to leave that world and start a corporate training company that launched her into what she does today. A few years later she opened a restaurant which she took to seven…

I have been attending live marketing events for years, and have now been to lots of them. When I say ‘lots’ I mean that I have been an attendee or a speaker at more than fifty live marketing conferences and seminars since 2008. During this time I have learned so much, including how to behave…

Michele PW (Pariza Wacek) is a direct response copywriter and marketing strategist who has written sales copy for some of the biggest names in the industry. She started writing professionally in 1992, and in 1998 she started her freelance copywriting business. I love learning from Michele on a variety of topics from improving my writing…

Creating An Authority Site Today I’d like to talk about how to create an authority site. Are you doing this in your niche? Look at the top sites in your niche (or any niche, for that matter). Most likely these sites all have at least one thing in common: their designs look very slick and…

Juho Tunkelo is a direct response copywriter and conversion optimization expert living in Helsinki, Finland. I had been following Juho for several years and finally met him this summer while visiting my family in Finland. He’s warm and funny, and I spent several hours with him, his wife (who also does some writing online), and…

This is my sixth full year working full time online, so I knew that it was finally time for me to shake things up if I was going to have a major breakthrough and move on to the next level in my business. Luckily, my friend Dennis Becker decided to start an online marketing Breakthrough…

James Schramko, podcast host and online entrepreneur, is my guest this week. His main site is at Super Fast Business. He’s an Aussie, and we spoke while he was on holiday in the Philippines. I had finally met him in person while we were both attending the Traffic & Conversion Summit in San Francisco earlier…

Teresa Miller, publishing expert and online writer, is someone you want to know. We had been following each other online for the past year or so, and we finally caught up in person at the recent Earn 1K A Day Seminar in Las Vegas. I was speaking about how to make huge profits with a…

Even though we’re still having to deal with double digit temperatures here in southern California, thoughts of the upcoming holiday season are on the minds of those setting up niche websites to take advantage of holiday shoppers on the Internet. According to the National Retail Federation, it is estimated that consumers will spend approximately eleven…