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June 30, 2020 by James McAllister 8 Comments

How Many Email Subscribers Do You Need To Make Money?

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How many email subscribers do you need to make money? This is a question that I get asked quite frequently, and unfortunately it doesn’t always have a straightforward answer.

While I won’t be able to give you an exact number to strive for, I’d like to point out some variables that can affect your earnings per subscriber, and try to help you come up with an accurate target for yourself. Because while it is certainly possible to make money even with a very small mailing list, it’s also possible to have thousands of subscribers and still not earn very much.

Therefore, anybody that tells you that you need X amount of subscribers to make X amount of money, does not understand what they’re talking about.

To gain a better estimate however, let’s look at a few variables: [Read more…]

June 22, 2020 by James McAllister 11 Comments

5 Lessons I Learned Spending $100,000 On Amazon PPC Ads Last Year

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Having spent over $100,000 in Amazon pay-per-click ads in 2019 across of hundreds of campaigns, I’ve learned a lot of lessons that wouldn’t have been obvious at the beginning.

Relatively speaking, Amazon PPC is still a relatively new platform, and it is constantly evolving. New tools and advertising strategies are coming out all the time, and there isn’t as much known about the platform vs something like Adwords or Facebook ads.

Therefore, I wanted to release this post to share all of my key findings over the last year.

Let’s look over some key Amazon pay-per-click strategies that have been helping me to reduce ACoS and make more sales on Amazon!

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June 18, 2020 by James McAllister 10 Comments

Should You Add Your Blog Name To Post Titles?

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Should you add your blog name to your post titles? This is an interesting question, with a relatively simple answer. [Read more…]

June 15, 2020 by James McAllister 2 Comments

Social Media: The 6 Stages Every Future Customer Must Go Through (To Actually Make Money)

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Social media is great for building a following, but the biggest mistake entrepreneurs make is stopping its power there.

It’s nice to see your following growing, and receive likes on all of your posts. It truly is. However, likes won’t pay your bills, and a following won’t do much for your business if it can’t be monetized at some point down the line.

Contrary to popular belief, social media is still an incredibly powerful tool for actually generating future customers. However, it requires a strategy that helps to move people from one stage to the next. And if you keep structuring your social strategy to generate awareness, you’ll never get those people anywhere close to spending money with you.

Therefore, I encourage you to read through this article carefully. It is one of the most important articles on social media that I’ve ever written. By following the advice, you’ll learn how you can start generating real income from your existing following (even if it’s not very large) and grow your overall audience profitably all at the same time.

Let’s start with the first stage – the one most business owners never move far beyond.

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June 8, 2020 by James McAllister 8 Comments

One-Off Courses Vs. Membership Sites – What’s Best For Your Info Product?

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When it comes to selling digital products – especially courses, there are a few routes you can take.

On one-hand, you can release your course as a one-off payment. The customer purchases it, and they have access to it forever.

On the other hand, there has been a rise in membership sites / subscription services – entrepreneurs offering access to all of their courses, for a recurring monthly fee.

I’ve spent a lot of time pondering what option I wanted to pursue myself, and had the opportunity to really dive deep into the pros and cons for each strategy.

In this article, I want to help you make your decision, by covering the advantages of disadvantages to selling online courses in a flat, one-time fee, vs a recurring membership option. I don’t think there is a clear best choice for everybody, so I’m going to help you decide what the best option is for you.

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May 25, 2020 by James McAllister 17 Comments

Amazon Affiliate Program – Pros, Cons, And FAQ

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Looking to maximize your earnings from Amazon’s Affiliate Program? Grab my Amazon Affiliate Blueprint on my Products page!

The Amazon Affiliate Program (also known as Amazon Associates) is something that every affiliate marketer should have in their arsenal – but it is not without its fault.

Amazon is the world’s largest online retailer, and offers just about any physical good that you’d want to promote. While it’s not the ideal choice in every situation, you would be foolish to ignore the power it can hold for you.

In fact, there are people who build entire companies – pulling in hundreds of thousands of dollars per year – solely around promoting products on Amazon.

In this article, I’d like to talk more about the pros and cons of Amazon’s affiliate program in detail, as well as answer some of the most common questions regarding the program.

This way, you can better idea on how you could benefit from signing up, and how to make more from Amazon’s affiliate program once you choose to do so.

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May 15, 2020 by James McAllister 4 Comments

Q&A: Why Am I Receiving Poor Conversion Rates With Amazon’s Affiliate Program?

If you’ve been sending a lot of traffic to Amazon landing pages, but you’re not earning many commissions, this can be incredibly frustrating. [Read more…]

May 12, 2020 by James McAllister 5 Comments

Maximize Productivity With Todoist – Todoist Review

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You might be wasting dozens of hours each week, without even knowing it.

That’s right – even those that think of themselves as productive waste a considerable amount of time, even if it doesn’t feel like it.

I’ve been there as well. It is so easy to get distracted by something small, and spend far too much time browsing the web, checking social media, or wasting time away on your phone.

The real killer though?

Time spent between tasks. The huge chunks of your precious day spent in transition, figuring out whatever it is you’re meant to do next.

In this article, I want to highlight a free service that helped solve this problem for me. It’s called Todoist, and it will help you get more done each day than you ever imagined possible.

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May 4, 2020 by James McAllister 3 Comments

Link Whisper Review: How I Built 811 New Internal Links With Link Whisper

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Internal linking is a strategy that’s often over-looked by many website owners, yet it’s extremely important.

Not only will proper internal linking help your pages to rank higher on Google, but they’re very important to helping Google crawl your website.

The SEO benefits are huge.

On top of that, internal linking lowers bounce rates, helps to engage your readers, and makes your brand much more memorable to your audience.

Unfortunately, knowing when and where to link to isn’t always easy. As your website grows, it becomes increasingly difficult to actually keep track of what posts you have published on your site.

Chances are, there are hundreds of internal links you could add to your posts right now that are extremely relevant. Each one of these helping to boost your on-page SEO.

One easy to do this is by using the plugin Link Whisper. Link Whisper scans all of your pages, and intelligently provides recommendations for you – making it possible to add hundreds of links in only a couple of hours!

In this article, I’ll go over all of the features and provide my full review of Link Whisper. [Read more…]