3 Bloggers You Absolutely, Without a Doubt MUST Follow in 2012 to Start Crushing It!

Corbett Barr, Pat Flynn, Chris Ducker & David Risley

Warning: These bloggers could help you become uber successful this year! You’ve been struggling. You’ve had no motivation. No inspiration. That’s all about to change… 2012 is all about taking ACTION! And these guys (along with me, obviously!) are gonna help you… I present to you Pat Flynn, Corbett Barr and David Risley…

Niche Site Building, Post Panda and the Importance of Consistent Execution!

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Google’s Panda has had a dramatic effect on the ranking of many websites. Before, it was possible to place 100 related longtail keywords on a page, throw some links at things and rank for many of them. In fact I had such a page getting 15,000 visitors a month, which is now down to just 140 a month. How things have changed…

Niche Site Project – 4th Monthly Report

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Here we are with another month worth of stats, highs, lows and earning reports for the niche site I’m working on as part of the VBL Niche Site Project. Some seriously important lessons learned this month, as traffic took a bit of a hit, and Adsense earnings went completely ‘weirdo’ on me. Read the report for more info!

Starting a Niche Site: Ideas, Inexperience, and Doing All the Work!

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This post by Benjamin Spall, is part of ‘VBL Guest Post Season 2′. I have a huge respect for entrepreneurs. Making it is tough. Real tough. Like so many other things, it’s not until you try it out yourself that you can really appreciate the difficulty of the game. Take professional sports stars. They often [...]

Passive Income: 7 Membership Site Tips From A Long-Time Professional Blogger!

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This post by David Risley, is part of ‘VBL Guest Post Season 2′. Membership sites are pretty popular in the internet business arena these days. Passive income, baby! But, let’s leave the realm of the obvious and move into something practical. Membership sites have been my focus for some time now. I’ve learned some things [...]

3 Different Types of Virtual Businesses and My Experience With Each of Them!

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This post by Diggy, is part of ‘VBL Guest Post Season 2′. I was introduced to the concept of virtual business (making money on the internet) 3 years ago. In the last 3 years I’ve spent a lot of time, money and effort experimenting with different virtual business models. Needless to say, I wasted a [...]

Top 10 ‘No BS’ Tips to Creating & Launching Your First Virtual Business! (Part 2)

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I recently published the first part of this two-part series, and was pleasantly surprised with the feedback, emails, comments and social interaction that it got. In the first post we went over the initial set-up of getting ready to create and launch your first virtual business. Today its all about launching the sucker..!

Niche Site Project – 3rd Monthly Report

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Welcome to third exciting monthly installment of the VBL Niche Site Project! If it’s your first time here, just check this page out for all the background info on the project and to become a part of it. Botton line is… a few months back, I put together this experiment for myself, to research, create, [...]

VBL Discussion: If you started a Virtual Business tomorrow, what would it be?

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In the last year I have started two virtual businesses. I’ve been heavily involved with both of them for a certain period of time, and then, once things seem to level out, and starting running on their own (and after I’ve hired people to run the businesses for me!), I step away, manage from a [...]

Niche Site Project – 2nd Monthly Report

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Here’s the second monthly update in an estimated six reports that will go live charting the growth and earnings of just ONE niche site, generating passive income via Adsense and more. If you’ve not been following the Niche Site Project that kicked off a couple of months ago here at the VBL Blog, hop on our band-wagon now…

From ‘Nothing’ to ‘App of the Week’ on iTunes, and Several $$$’s in My Pocket!

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In this incredibly inspirational Guest Post, VBL Tribe member, Benny Hsu tells us his unbelievable iPhone App story. How he went from being a struggling online entrepreneur, trying to create is ideal lifestyle, to developing the ‘App of the Week’ and making thousands of dollars, overnight! Check out his remarkable story…

Announcing the Winner of the Niche Site Giveaway, plus a Special Offer from Me!

VBL Niche Site Giveaway Winner!

Today, I’m super excited to announce the winner of the Niche Site Giveaway contest I launched last week. Firstly, I’d like to say a massive thank you to all that entered. The responses I had were unbelievable. I expected 10 or 15 people to enter and I ended up having close to around 40, I believe. You all rock…!

VBL041 – Unleashing the Video Marketer Within You, with Gideon Shalwick!

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In this episode of the VBL Podcast I get to sit down with one of my favorite online personalities. Gideon Shalwick is one of those guys that you just KNOW can help you achieve results! You’ll no doubt love this conversation with the man I call my ‘Yoda’, when it comes to everything and anything to do with online video…

Niche Site Project #3 – Win a Fully Built-Out Professional Looking Niche Site, for FREE!!!

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In the last two weeks, I’ve received almost 150 emails since publishing my first Monthly Report for the Niche Site Project, from VBLer’s saying that they’d love to be involved in the challenge, but can’t for a number of different, collective reasons. I figured the least I could do is help… In some small way…

Niche Site Project – 1st Monthly Report

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A short time ago we all had a discussion on niche sites here on the blog. Following this, I announced my own niche site, and the VBL Community Niche Site Project kicked-off. After the dust on everything had settled, with a combined almost 300 comments on the subject, a couple of weeks back, I posted my first update [...]

10 Quick Steps to Becoming a Virtual Entrepreneur!

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Over the last couple of years, I’ve become more and more virtual as time has gone by. And I’ve loved every minute of it. So, I thought it would be a good idea to create a small selection of tips and tactics for everyone to follow to become a little more virtual in the way they attack business from a day to day basis! Enjoy…

6 Reasons Why People Will Unsubscribe from Your Blog, and How to Stop Them!

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Last month exactly 125 people unsubscribed from my Aweber email list. This shocked me quite a bit, I have to be honest. But, as a businessman, it’s intrigued me even more. You see, I’m a firm believer that we are not ‘perfect’ in any way, shape or form. We all have our flaws. But, I believe I’ve built a pretty solid blog here…

Niche Site Project – My Article Research, Creation and Posting Strategy – EXPOSED!

Niche Site Content Creation

As some of you may already know, a few weeks ago I announced my niche and domain for the VBL Community Niche Site Project, which went into full swing on July 11th. Along with monthly reports containing traffic numbers, adsense earnings, etc., I’ll be doing a few additional posts. Today I discuss my content creation strategy…

The VBL Community ‘Niche Site Project’… PLUS – Unveiling My Own Niche Site!

Niche Site Project

Just a couple of short weeks ago I published a VBL Discussion Post on the subject of niche sites, where I mentioned that I was challenging myself to start my first ‘true’ niche site online, a ton of VBLer’s said they wanted to join in… It’s not a competition, its a Community Project. Here’s the low-down…

VBL036 – How to Make Money on the Internet, with Chris Guthrie!

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In this session of the VBL Podcast, I speak with renowned internet marketer, Chris Guthrie about his various successes online, including how he built a site from scratch and sold it for a 6-figure deal in less than 2-years! We also discuss how to easily get started in the ‘make money online’ space for the first time, too…

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