When you get a big client on the hook, they will always get into negotiations, and if you're not ready for a lot of what they're throwing at you then you're going to settle on a much lower number than you intended to. ...
As a consultant you might make a decent amount of money for every client you get to sign up and you give your advice to. They would then ask what they need to purchase in order to make their business run better, increa...
A lot of people start out with affiliate marketing when they want to make money online. This is because it's a low-cost startup that can bring in a decent amount of money if you're a top referrer to specific companies....
I'm sure you've come across plenty of Amazon affiliate websites or Clickbank affiliate websites and thought "These sites are actually making money through affiliate marketing?" and the answer is usually Yes, but they cou...
How many times have you gone to a website and had a video autoplay? It happens a lot more than you would think but you usually click the pause button and keep browsing through the site. You may think "If I'm clicking...
If you're working online as a freelancer then you likely have plenty of skills you've acquired over the years and you may not know they could make you money. Think about it, if you were a content writer like myself, yo...
When you start adding images to your website you will likely think "I need some stock photos!" and then you'll go on a search for the best stock photos out there. You might find some premium websites that charge $25+ p...
Everyone wants to work with or buy from a well-established company, but they tend to avoid the little guys because they aren't trusted as much. Well, you can always make your business appear bigger through the use of t...
Many people think they'll start a blog or eCommerce site and be able to quit their 9-5 job the next week. Well, this never really happens because it takes plenty of time to brand your business, get people to trust your...
A lot of people who start a digital agency will expect to get their first 20-30 clients within the first month. This is pretty hilarious because 99% of agencies out there take 6+ months to have that many clients signed...
Many people want to sell something online but don't have a product of their own, so they resell items and be a sort of middle man for the manufacturer and customer. In comes dropshipping and the ability to sell someone...
Whenever you're starting your first website, there are plenty of paths to take, but most of them aren't needed, or they're too advanced for someone just starting. When I started, I never had anyone telling me how to do...
Whenever a person is running ads for themselves or a client, they will usually target a positive ROI every time, and this is because they want the best results possible. This is pretty common when running a business si...
People are always looking to build their following on specific social media platforms, or all of them, but they never really know where to start. Usually, they will just publish videos and act like the other popular pe...
Whenever someone is trying to get their business noticed online, they will likely do the normal things of optimizing their pages as well as running a PPC campaign to bring in customers. This method uses that exact meth...
Whenever I come across a website that is selling a single product, I think, "How are they making any money? Who would run a website with a single product on it?" but then I start looking through the site and realize it...
Plenty of old schools business people will think of starting a business and never think it should be fully digital right from the start. I disagree with that for a bunch of reasons, mainly because I can test the waters...
Most of the time, when an affiliate is looking for something to offer, they'll choose something with the highest commission and start from there. They will then look for what fits their industry, what they like the mos...
Whenever I'm talking with a client, they will always ask if they should invest in SEO or PPC first. I usually tell them to invest in both if they can, if not, start with SEO because it can bring in far more clicks over...
Whenever I start a website in the SEO niche or write for one, I always think of how everyone wants to be a beautiful swan in the eyes of their customers and why they wouldn't want to be the ugly duckling that sticks out?...
Many people out there want to run massive companies and have hundreds of employees working for them so they can sit back, collect a nice big check, and be the boss. What a lot of people don't understand is that getting...
There are billionaires today that started making money online through a SaaS company which they sold and then started to scale up their business experience. One of these billionaires that I can think of is Mark Cuban, ...
Whenever you start a website, you may think you need a lot of content on your blog to be successful, which is true, but that's not the only place you need to put content if you want to dominate your competitors. There ...
Doing SEO is something you need to take your time with, because it will destroy you if you treat it as a race, so get over some hurdles and let's talk a bit lol. SEO takes time, it takes a lot of effort, and you might...
If you've been doing SEO for a little while, you already know there is no such thing as instant gratification in this field of work. You may rank quickly for a long-tailed keyword, something with no competition, but th...
Whenever you hear someone talking about generating leads for their SEO agency it usually comes down to Facebook Ads, Adwords, or they've got a "unique" system, they don't want to tell you lol. Well, in this discussion,...
Whenever someone is setting up multiple websites in various niches, I always wonder what their end game is. They seem to have a lot of things going on when trying to expand their revenues streams but they're making it ...
There have been many inventions over the last ten years that derived from someone getting frustrated about their current situation, experience, or they just hated a product so much they needed to make it better lol. Yo...
There are a lot of obscure reasons for someone to start an online business, but there are usually five main ones that I'll talk about within this discussion. Everyone who owns a website or blog has it for the main purp...
Many people on websites like Etsy or eBay have started to move from small hobby shops to big businesses because they've been upscaling and obtaining more clients. A majority of these people started out messing with a h...
When I launch a website, it usually has a specific purpose, and I like the domain to be pretty clear. I don't want people wondering what my website is about when they see the domain and that's the main reason I tend to ...
If you're looking to start making money online, I'm sure you've read "build a blog and monetize it" countless times because that's one of the easiest things to do that doesn't take many skills. It's true, you can make ...
When you start a business, you might not be thinking of bringing on a manager because you will be doing everything on your own. This is how the majority of startups think, but it doesn't have to be that way, because yo...
When I started doing affiliate marketing, I didn't realize what I was doing. I would set up complex paths to get clicks on my affiliate links, and it didn't need to be so over the top. Now I run a few little websites...
There are many free SERP checker services out there, but they are usually limited and almost always link to a big company like Ahrefs, SEMrush, or Moz which means you'd have to pay a premium for a real service. What if...
Since 2003 I've been working online with clients and building million-dollar businesses that were not my own. It takes plenty of time, data crunching, and effort to build a company from startup to fortune 500, but it's...
Everyone gets excited about a new niche, a new business idea, or a new product they're trying to launch but a majority of them are going to fail and it's usually because of bad business preparation and inflated expectati...
Not many people are amazing at everything, in fact, not many people are amazing at a few things. This shouldn't sway your drive the slightest because you can always hire someone to work on the sections of a job, websit...
There are a lot of people out there that have freelancers they outsource to when there is more work to be handled than their team can accomplish in time. Instead of running into this problem, why not have a team of fre...
You'll always hear people ask, "How can I get high quality backlinks," and the typical answers follow. Did you know that if you write amazing content that people will link to your pages without asking? What! Yes, tha...
