Business Ideas
Business Ideas, models, notes.
12/16/2009
- The System I Use On My Websites
I haven’t been this excited about a product coming out in a long time.
This is a special interview I did with Peter, the creator of a product to be released tomorrow.
What Peter is teaching is EXACTLY what I do on my websites in terms of the layout and design. It’s exactly what I have [...]
11/2/2009
- How my business and websites work
I recently had a great comment/question on my blog:
http://www.jonasblog.com/2008/07/how-and-why-you-should-replace-yourself-with-someone-overseas.html/comment-page-2#comment-62563
In a nutshell, David asks “how many sites do your GUYS maintain, and how much are the sties making in order for them to pay for themselves?”
I thought the question and answer were informative enough to make a post out of it.
Here’s my response:@David – this is [...]
5/6/2009
- Outsourcing Case Study – Lisa Schwartz
So often I have people ask me questions that I don’t have answers to:
“What kind of person do I hire first?”
“How long does it take them to get up to speed?”
“What do I have them do for me?”The other day I got an email from Lisa Schwartz that hinted towards her having a great experience [...]
2/25/2009
- Simple Things To Outsource
I’m always looking for things that are easy to outsource.
I’m not sure I’ve ever seen one as simple as this.
Inside ReplaceMyself.com I give people a “Business-in-a-box” that lets the guy they hire get started doing simple affiliate marketing without any intervention on the customer’s part.
All you have to do is say “Go do this” (like [...]
2/13/2009
- The Best Way To Make Money Online
It is my humble but accurate opinion (to take a page from Rick Butts playbook) that what Adam and Alen teach at jonasblog.com/npc is the best way to make money online.
I think it’s the best model, that fits well with outsourcing, is hard to fail at, is scalable, easy to understand, exceptionally well explained, and [...]
1/15/2009
- An Automated Online Business Model
It has been a long time since I’ve been as excited about something as I was when Adam showed me what he’s doing in his online business.
People show me their products all the time.
Cool…ok…”it doesn’t solve my customers problems.” (that’s my thought most of the time).
Adam’s is totally different. It solves people’s problem of [...]
12/9/2008
- Succeeding In Your Online Business (2 of 4): Adwords
I’m not the first to say this, neither am I the last.
But, it’s something people miss over and over again.
The first place you should look for traffic to your website is Google Adwords.Get Flash to see this player.
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you get immediate feedback
you can track what is [...]
12/8/2008
- Success In Your Online Business (1 of 4)
This has been bugging me for a long time. I finally did a video for it.
Nobody talks about this. It’s super simple, yet it’s what causes 98% of online businesses to fail.
This is only for people trying to run an online business
If you’re not running an online business, you can skip my next 4 posts.
As [...]
8/28/2008
- KISS for Online Marketers
Over the past few months I’ve started to realize one of the things that keeps people from succeeding online is that they feel like they have to do everything they ever hear of or they’re a failure.
“You have to have a list”
“You have to do SEO”
“You have to do Adwords like this!”
“You have to be [...]
3/28/2008
- Dealing With Google’s New Rules
Here’s a podcast of this blog post
Or you can listen to it here:(The audio is different than what I wrote below)
If you’re using Google Adwords, you’ve probably already seen or heard about the change that’s coming on April 1, 2008:Important Change to URL Policy Enforcement Starting in April, display URLs for new ads will [...]
1/10/2008
- Free Keyword Research Tools
Over the last couple years keyword research has become difficult as the quality of tools have degraded. Overture’s keyword research tool became totally unreliable about 18 months ago. Wordtracker just doesn’t have the data to provide accurate results. Sometimes in fact, wordtracker’s data comes from such a small data set that it [...]
6/29/2007
- 4 Hour Work Week Review
Yesterday Chris Knudsen and I went out to lunch. He said he had finished reading the 4 Hour Workweek on a plane a few days before and he kept thinking “This is John Jonas” as he read it.
Last night I finished reading it.
A few thoughts.
1. The stuff he says in the book is possible [...]
8/29/2006
- Review of Revenge of the Mini-Net
Earlier today I did a review of revenge of the mini-net, the ebook.
I didn’t actually review it, I summarized it and added a bunch of my own advice and experience into the summary.
Within minutes of sending it out I got this email back from someone whos email signature includes
SEO Specialist, [Company Name]John, this is the [...]
12/29/2005
- Contextual advertising trend
Right now there are a whole bunch of people trying to create the next big adsense. People see the value in contextual advertising, and programs are popping up all over the place.
I think most of them are missing the boat, and are setting themselves up for failure. Most of them get trendy, people [...]
12/13/2005
- Surfing the internet for money?
In the past 2 weeks I’ve had 3 different friends call me to ask me what I though of 12dailypro.com.
After all three told me they were making lots of money with it, I decided I had better look into it to at least warn them if they’re in danger of losing the money they’ve put [...]
12/12/2005
- Contextual Advertising Affiliate Programs
Obviously contextual advertising is where the good advertising revenues are going to be over the next few months/years. Adsense has taken the internet by storm because the model is so efficient for everyone involved.
However, the monopoly that google has on it is beginning to be a problem now (as evidenced by my previous posts [...]
12/11/2005
- Keys to Success – Jim Richie
About 3 years ago I took an “Entrepreneurial Lecture Series” class at BYU. The class met once per week and had a different entrepreneurial speaker come each week and speak to us.
After 3 years I only remember a few of the speakers, and remember less of what they spoke about. However, there was [...]
11/29/2005
- I’m fed up with adsense
I’ve had about enough of google adsense. They’ve been a monopoly for long enough and are really starting to treat people poorly.
Now, I know that it is still by far the absolute best contextual advertising program around. It has done wonders for the average joe being able to make money online. I [...] - Geek Dinner
If you haven’t heard yet about the geek dinner that’s happening in Utah County tomorrow night you should probably check it out.
Not only is Phil Windley speaking (he’s a great speaker), it’s going to be an awesome event to meet people.
11/15/2005
- HALF vs ELF Businesses
I was going through some of my notes from the Big Seminar two weekends ago. There was a lot of good information presented (and a lot of stuff that was fluff), and I just wanted to write about one thing that Joe Polish said.
Joe presented his Stick Strategy Secrets – Offline Robotic Marketing Secrets [...]
