Making Money

July 29, 2019 by James McAllister 6 Comments

Repeat After Me: I Will Never Compete On Price

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What makes your company unique? Why do people buy from you?

In business, you can typically offer two of these three things, if you work hard:

A high quality product or service.
An impressive overall shopping experience, with great customer service all around.
A low price.

However, you can not realistically offer all three of these at the same time. Nor should you try to.

If your goal is to actually build a large, profitable company, competing on price is not only incredibly challenging, but it offers the highest amount of risk for the lowest reward. It is a loser’s game, and by simply adjusting your strategy, you can position yourself to do far better while practically ignoring price completely.

In this article, we’re going to make clear why you should rarely, if ever try to compete on price, and cover actionable strategies to take instead.

Let’s get to it!

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July 16, 2019 by James McAllister 18 Comments

Learn 1 Of These 7 Freelancing Skills, And You’ll Never Be Without Money Again

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When it comes to developing new skills, some skills are more valuable than others.

While we all wish we could make money from home without actually putting in long hours, this often isn’t as easy as it sounds. Sometimes, we need to make some money straight away, and we don’t have months to wait before revenue starts to come in.

This is where freelancing shines.

Freelancing is one of the greatest businesses to start in 2019, because it’s so straightforward. You do work, and you get paid.

That’s it.

However, it does require you to actually have a marketable skill in the first place. A skill that employers are actually looking for, that adds value to their business in some way.

In this article, we’re not just going to cover the most common freelance jobs available online, but we’ll also cover the most in demand freelance skills that employers are looking for.

By doing this, we ensure that any time spent developing these skills is well worth it, and you won’t have to spend too much time actually looking for work.

Let’s get to it! Here are the most profitable, high-income skills to learn if you want to make money as a freelancer.

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June 19, 2019 by James McAllister 4 Comments

5 Steps To Building A Better Connection With Your Following

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It doesn’t take a large following to make a large amount of money.

There are people with 200 loyal readers doing better than those receiving 200,000 visitors / month.

Heck, we recently learned about an Instagram star with 2.6 million followers that couldn’t sell even 36 t-shirts. Not even one unit per 72,000 followers.

What gives? What’s the difference between the person with 200 followers that makes a full-time living, and the Instagram “influencer” that couldn’t sell even one shirt per 72,000 followers?

It’s simple – it comes down to truly understanding your audience, and using that to build a real, meaningful connection with them.

In this article, let’s go over how you can build a better connection with your following, foster further engagement, and of course – make more money from your existing audience!

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