2/2/2010
- Feeling Appreciated
I had a great comment on my blog that will answer so many people’s questions:
A great way to show appreciation is to come meet your team.
1/27/2010
- Seminar in the Philippines
(Boracay is a top 10 world beach)
On March 19, 20, 21, in Boracay Philippines I’m putting on an outsourcing retreat seminar.
This seminar is NOT FOR FILIPINOS!
It’s for Americans, Australians, Brits, Canadians…
Basically, for people who want to understand why the outsourcing they’re doing to the Philippines is working SOOO darn well.And…if you’re not currently doing it, [...]
1/22/2010
- Dangerous Knowledge
The following is an email that John Barker (the original “Mr X.”) sent out last week.
I thought it was so full of good info and advice that I asked him if I could publish it.
In the email he gives you an example of a profitable affiliate site he has!I’m reading the new edition of the
4 [...]
12/30/2009
- 7 Ways To Fail When Outsourcing To The Philippines
When it comes to outsourcing your business (or yourself!) to the Philippines, there’s definitely a learning curve.
Here are 7 ways you can guarantee failure for yourself :
(Hint: Don’t do these things!)
1. Try To Hire Someone To Do Everything
Here’s an actual email I got this weekSo wait…you want a programmer, graphic designer, webmaster, who is fluent [...]
11/30/2009
- How I Do Videos For My Blog
I’ve spent a lot of time figuring out how to do good videos on my blog.
If you look at some of my earlier videos you’ll see they’re not that good, and they took me 10x longer to do than the ones I do today.
This is how I currently create the videos for my blog (and [...]
11/19/2009
- Going from “1 sale a week” to “1 sale a day”
Devin made me this nice video the other day asking for some advice.
I think the question is pretty relevant to most IMers.Here’s my response
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10/26/2009
- Web Tools To Help Run Your Online Business
There are a lot of online tools I use in running my business. Tools which at one point I didn’t know existed, and when I found out about them, I said
“HOLY COW!!! THAT SAVES ME HOURS OF TIME AND THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS!!!”
I attempted to create this list somewhat here, but it was just too [...]
5/19/2009
- My Guidelines For Picking A Domain In A Niche Market
I buy a lot of domains.
Here are my guidelines for my GUYS when selecting a domain for a niche website.
I have them do almost all of my research for me.I want a .com almost always. There will be times when a niche is too competitive to find a reasonable .com and in that case [...]
3/17/2009
- Which Business Is Better
Over the past few weeks I’ve had numerous people ask me:
“You recommended 2 different programs for online business models. Which is better?”
Here are the two (both have a video interview):
Make $3 700 times a day
An Automated Online Business Model
Here is my answer:
BOTH
There were a few reasons why I posted (and recommended) both of those:Both [...]
2/27/2009
- How to make $3 – 700 Times A Day!
Here’s Joel’s business model (think about how this fits with your guys in the Philippines):
build a 30-minute mini-site
^^^ mini site makes (average) $3/day
repeat 765 timesMath
$3/day (average) * 30 days/month = $90 per site per month (not a lot)
$90/site/month * 100 sites = $9000/month (getting better)
$90/site/month * 765 sites (how many Joel has) = $68,850/month (NOW [...]
2/6/2009
- Speaking at Jeff Mills Outsourcing Conference
I’m flying out in a few hours to Minneapolis to speak at Jeff Mills Outsourcing Seminar.
You can join it live on Ustream for $12.95 (which I think is crazy)!
Here’s the link to get access to the ustream feed:
Outsourcing Seminar on Ustream
I speak at 2:00pm Central time tomorrow, but the seminar goes for 2 days.
Last time [...]
2/3/2009
- Jeff Mills on Outsourcing
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so.write(“john-jonas-with-jeff-mills_outsourcing”);Last night I did a teleconference with Jeff Mills on outsourcing.
We answered 17 user questions.
Jeff has some really good stuff especially when it comes to one time outsourcing and protecting yourself.
It’s a great call (35 megs because it’s over an hour long).
2/2/2009
- My Swipe File
Do you keep a swipe file of sales copy and squeeze pages and interesting marketing tactics?
If not, why not?
Here’s why you do it.
When you want to create a sales/squeeze page for yourself, you can go back through all the pages you’ve bookmarked and just pull the pieces out of them that you like.
When [...]
1/31/2009
- Achieving Your Online Business Goals in 2009
I did Marlon Sanders coaching call yesterday (he has an awesome coaching program) where I taught how to live the 4-hour workweek through outsourcing to the Philippines.
He did a great write up about achieving your business goals here:
http://www.marlonsnews.com/?p=182
1/28/2009
- Rick Butts Advice on Business
Rick Butts was here at my house on Friday.
Man is that guy smart. He really helped me understand all the web 2.0/social media stuff that’s going on and how it fits into my business.
As we talked about living the 4-Hour Workweek, Rick said something about ReplaceMyself.com that really struck me:
“If people aren’t using ReplaceMyself.com, [...]
1/27/2009
- Outsourcing Video Production
Just as an idea for those of you looking for ideas of what you can send to your guys in the Philippines.
I just sent my guy Sony Vegas (video editing software) and said “learn this” and then asked him to take 2 video feeds, and an audio feed, and put it all together into one [...]
1/26/2009
- Outsourcing Testing and Tracking
Over the past few weeks I’ve been putting off testing a few different elements of a page I have.
I had the copy, I had the different variations, I knew what needed to be tested.
Easy, right? Wrong.
I just didn’t want to go back into Google website optimizer and set up the test.
I didn’t [...]
12/15/2008
- The smartest internet guy I know
Kirt doesn’t know I’m posting this, but here goes.
There are 3 people I can say have taught me significantly more than anyone else along my career.Paul Allen – helped me get my start in this business
Scott Boulch – really pushed my career over the edge
Kirt ChristensenI didn’t put anything next to Kirts name above because [...]
12/12/2008
- A tool for making Article Resource Boxes
I’ve been doing article marketing for a long time.
Here’s what I always tell people:
“Article marketing is the second most effective thing you can do to market your website. Google Adwords is #1″.
I use UniqueArticleWizard to do all my article submissions. It’s by far the best tool out there.
However, up until now, it’s been difficult [...]
12/11/2008
- Succeeding In Your Online Business (4 of 4): Implement Everything!
3 reasons you should implement everything you know:
It’s not that hard
You feel so much better about yourself when you do things, instead of just learn them
You’ll make a heck of a lot more money!You can outsource almost all of it.
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Make Sales
Use Adwords
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