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May 25, 2020 by James McAllister 1 Comment

Amazon Affiliate Program – Pros, Cons, And FAQ

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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 Leave a Comment

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…]

March 16, 2020 by James McAllister Leave a Comment

7 Powerful Reasons To Implement Live Chat On Your Sales Pages

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One of the quickest ways to improve your website’s conversion rate and increase your sales is to implement live chat.

Live chat may be the most effective way to offer customer support – both pre-sale and post-sale, in today’s day and age. It’s far quicker to communicate than email, and allows you to accomplish so much more than just using the phone.

That’s not to say the others should be ignored, but it’s a fact – live chat has insane potential.

In this article, I want to cover some of these benefits in detail – sharing with you why live chat is important for every business, and giving my recommendations on how to set it up today.

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September 18, 2019 by James McAllister 4 Comments

7 Exciting Ways Blogging Can Benefit Your Small Business

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Blogging may be the single most effective way to market a small business, yet a surprisingly large number of people fail to take it seriously.

It’s cheap to start, and cheap to scale. It works in almost every industry. It generates sales in the short-term, and is an incredible brand-building tool in the long-term.

When it’s pulled off correctly, it can not only completely transform entire companies, but it can make it incredibly difficult for anyone else to even compete.

The potential here can not be overstated. My first ever hire was a content writer. There’s a reason blogging is at the core of all my companies, (including my eCommerce brands which have gone on to do millions in sales.)

The importance of blogging cannot be understated. In this article, I am going to make the case why it’s time for you to start a blog, and showcase all of the incredible benefits that blogging can offer your small business. Some of these will not be obvious, and I urge you to continue reading with an open mind – taking examples and imagining how they will fit in with your own business, and your existing marketing strategy. [Read more…]

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 20 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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May 13, 2019 by James McAllister 6 Comments

8 Online Course Selling Mistakes That Are Killing Conversions

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You’re not making anywhere near the level of course sales that you could be.

It doesn’t matter if you have the cheapest price point, or the largest number of lectures.

It doesn’t matter if you’ve hired a professional copywriter, and paid them tens of thousands of dollars to build your landing pages.

It doesn’t even matter that you have the absolute best course on the market right now.

You’re not making anywhere near the level of course sales that you could be.

And that’s okay. But I want to help you change that.

When you’ve put so much time and energy into creating an awesome product, it’s natural to want to get it into the hands of as many people as possible. However, almost all course creators make some common mistakes that severely hinder their ability to acquire new students.

In this article, let’s look over these mistakes in more detail, and discuss practical strategies you can use to begin increasing your sales right away.

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April 15, 2019 by James McAllister 2 Comments

You’re Not Done – Improving Your Info Products Long After Release

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There are a lot of beautiful things about digital products, that physical products simply can’t compete with.

Instant distribution, for one. There’s no need to deal with picking and packing, shipping and returns. You can put it up for sale, and it’s available for consumption instantly.

Ease of creation is huge as well – there’s no need to deal with foreign factories, import laws, and ordering thousands of units at a time to meet factory minimums.

This is why digital products are so popular for bloggers, vloggers, and other content creators online. The risks are low, and upsides are very high.

However, perhaps one of the greatest benefits that digital products have is the fact that they can continuously updated over time. They never have to be truly complete, and always have room to be improved. Because of this, it’s possible to start out with something very small, and have it blossom into something truly amazing over time.

In this article, we’ll go over more about why you need to be updating your products, and how to do so in a way that continues stacking on value for your customers. [Read more…]

April 8, 2019 by James McAllister 2 Comments

The Definitive Guide To Establishing Trust, Before The Sale

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When you’re just starting out online, getting initial sales can be tough.

You don’t have the data you need to optimize your sales pages. Even worse, that data seems so far out of reach because you’re hardly making any sales.

Listen – your product may be a great value, it may eventually go on to become a best seller without any changes at all from you.

The problem right now may simply be that the person doesn’t trust you. Not only that, but even though their heart is looking for reasons to buy, their brain is instilling fear, doubt, and uncertainty in them.

Ultimately, a lack of trust kills conversions even more quickly than a high price does.

Remember – when people feel that your product is more valuable than what you’re asking for it, and they trust your company enough that you’ll deliver on that value, they will buy.

It all comes down to that.

In this article, let’s look over how you can begin building that critical, initial trust for your website. These methods are the same regardless of whether you’re a blogger, eCommerce store owner, course creator, book author, or anyone else selling physical and digital products online.