Feet Up, Earn Money.

It is the dream of many. Getting a full time income and having much more free time, the freedom to do what you want
when you want without having to worry about taking time off work or having the money to actually have fun.

There has been oodles written about the 4 hour working week or similar, The premium text on the subject is THE 4 HOUR WORK WEEK by Timothy Ferriss. But there are two main questions for people who have read the back of the book or ever wanted a better life earning more by doing less.

Is it possible?

and

How can I do it?

Well of course people do this and some are sucessful. Reading Timothy Ferriss’ book will answer this for you, but the basic model can be explained very quickly.

Outsourcing

Outsource web design, oursource content writing, outsource SEO etc.

Either for your own business activities or for third parties.

But you do need a budget, nothing comes for free. But if you are selling SEO expertise for £45 an hour and just paying £10 an hour it is simple to see how such things are possible.

But the essential skill that you will need through out and it THE most important skill to any business model is SELLING (other than the primary function of the business, it is hard selling SEO or PHP coding skills when you cannot actually supply these services)

If you don’t have a clue about selling person to person I can recommend Richard Denny’s book Selling To Win

It is an excellent book and gives a real boost to anyone who would like to know how to sell but has never had any experience.

Top Outsourcing links:

Guide To Outsourcing

When you started your internet marketing business, did anyone tell you that you were going to be spending up to 12 hrs on your computer every day?

Did anyone warn you that despite the excitement of making money online, you’d be giving up your free time by trying to learn and master new skills and trends that are required to stay ahead of the competition?

Did they tell you that when they said you can “run your own business from home”, they really meant that you will have to “work from home, as a self employed freelancer in your own company, isolated from a normal social and family life…?”

ELance

Find Experts Who Get The Job Done
Elance provides a simple and cost effective way to hire and manage your team online.

Script Lance

Outsource your website programming, design, writing and marketing projects to freelancers on ScriptLance.

Richard Denny Group

The Richard Denny Group, one of the UK’s most trusted and respected consultancies, providing Customised Training & Business Support programmes

July 17th, 2010 Posted by admin | Uncategorized | no comments

Entertainment and Media Site Owners Wanted

I am looking for some webmasters with entertaiment / movie blogs and sites to register interest in a new project of mine.

I am developing a novel content syndication and revenue stream for entertaiment sites. I believe that nothing like this has been attempted yet. This is an initial registration of interest I am looking for. Development into a testing stage will take the next few months. I hope to have a beta up and running before Christmas 2010.

Interested - fill in the form below and I will get back to you once progress has been made

June 15th, 2010 Posted by admin | Uncategorized | no comments

Getting a Press Release Seen

You have your brand new website, it is all ready, seoed to the hilt - but you want that one big mention in the national press to trigger the start of your new venture.

You want to get your press release seen by as many people as possible.

There is a lot of services you can submit to here is a list of a few.

A quick word of advice, if you are submitting direct to a magazine or newspaper do your research!  Make sure your press release is in keeping with the publication and most of all NEWSWORTHY. Look for similar stories in the publication and make a note of the journalists name. Need a little help, check out a press release writing service like http://lowcostpr.co.uk/

Big hint: If you are emailing press releases yourself DO NOT have the press release as the attachment. Have it all in line in the email. Have a couple of lines of introduction, followed by your name and contact number, followed by the press release text.

If you have more information, PDF or medi pack include a link, but do not attach to the email.

FREE press release services

ClickPress

Search By Headlines - Often gets featured on Google News

Pressbox

PRCompass

PAID Press Release Services

Responsesource

journalism.co.uk

PRweb.com

Get an agency to do it for you!

May be expensive, but for big lucrative projects it is worth checking out these guys

10 Yetis

Bytestart

Publicity Heaven

Other services I havent checked out yet
freepressreleases.co.uk

ukprwire.com
free-press-release-center.info
prlog.org
prleap.com
prfree.com
press-base.com
press-world.com
free-press-release.com
sanepr.com

Would love any feed back, suggestions of other press release sites - a full reviewed and rated list would be a big help for many affiliates.

February 25th, 2009 Posted by admin | Uncategorized | 2 comments

Google News Submission Service Review

Ok, so I do this occassionally, buy into what can often be seen as spam, where someone offers a submission service, tool, advice for a couple of dollars via an online marketing forum. If done occassionally it is often worth a punt.

Last week a new poster on the A4U forum  was offering his google news submission servic, strangely in US dollars for a UK forum, but there you go.

The service was $30 - $15 for a review ‘copy’. Details on A4U here

Doing these type of buy ins can be more educating than useful up front. So I handed over my hard earned (so you don’t have to - there you go you now owe me 20quid)  and stated my keywords and link.

Yes all three keywords did end up the the first page of google news, all three made it to page one (one made position three, the other two position 1). The least niche of the 3 is now (6 days later) on page , the other two are mid way on page 1.

Any way, the traffic from this, not alot, the keywords were a little too niche. I should have probably had Credit Cards or Persoanl lonad for this test. Also - the worst thing is that the link achieved was from a third party site. Namely searchbyheadlines.com.

This site is free to post to anyway, I have tried it and it can be fairly easy to get on page one for niche keywords using this service.

As with alot of these types of offerings online, it is all about information rather than any real magic.

It was worth a punt, but would not reuse the service.

January 19th, 2009 Posted by admin | Uncategorized | no comments

Valentines Day 2009

The time to act is NOW for Valentines day 2009. Ok Maybe wait untill the brain fog of new years day has passed
So what goes on on Valentines Day. Well amongst other things this one day in the shortest month sees a big peak in marriage proposals.
Of course I am thinking about PurelyDiamonds and their huge array of engagement and wedding rings (Engagement Rings | Diamond Engagement Ring | Wedding Rings | Diamond Pendants | Diamond Studs)
Purelydiamonds produce a vast array of the highest quality rings and other diamond Jewellery at up to 50% off high street prices. (and yes they are passing on the VAT decrease).
Why PurelyDiamonds?
Purelydiamonds offers some wonderful product photography and video of the products. If this weren’t enough to boost conversion rates all items come with a standard 30 day money back guarantee, hugely boosting consumer confidence in purchasing such an exquisitely expensive item online.
If the customer is not quite ready for the full proposal on 14th Feb, there are some amazing deals on the highest quality diamond pendants, bracelets and earrings.

Also think Easter and Mothering Sunday gifts - there are some fantastic gifts that will last alot longer than chocolate (and be alot better for the waist line)

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December 30th, 2008 Posted by admin | Uncategorized | no comments