One of the most undeniable traits of a real entrepreneur is the ability to be flexible. To move in the right direction when the time strikes and to turn, or pivot in another, when required. This is ‘formally’ known as the ‘Entrepreneurial Pivot’. I’ve experienced plenty of pivots in my career – learning something from [...]
Nowadays, I often get interviewed for podcasts, magazines and blogs. In fact I was just interviewed by Yaro Starak for his excellent entrepreneurial blog and podcast, which I’ve personally read for years myself. I’ve been asked ‘If you could go back and start your journey as an entrepreneur all over again, what would you do [...]
As you know, it’s not often that I whole-heartedly get behind someone and what they have to offer online. But, I’m gonna do it today!!!
On Monday I published a post highlighting 3 bloggers that you must follow online in 2012 to achieve the success I know you want to – one of them was my good friend, Corbett Barr…
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…
Six months in the making, and my new company is finally a GO! It’s your new one stop shop for everything project-based outsourcing related. We’ve been beta testing for months, and received rave reviews from our early clients. So, I’m super excited to now officially share with you my new company… YourWebPA.com!
Here I am with Episode 50 of the VBL Podcast! Just amazing… In this episode, I talk about why I’m putting the podcast on hold for a bit, and what its done for my brand, the blog and business in general. It’s a short, but juicy 20mins of just ‘lil old me chit-chatting away… Check it out!
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…
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!
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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..!
In this episode of the VBL Podcast, I sit down to talk with good buddy and pro-blogger, Robb Sutton, on the finer points of starting, promoting and populating a blog with awesome content that will naturally go viral all over the internet. We also discuss the up’s and down’s of blogging full-time, and how to stay productive…
I’m in the process of editing my first ever VBL-related product, and I have to say, its been a massive learning experience for me. The fact is that I could have released this thing months ago. But, I have changed things around, procrastinated a certain amount, and quite frankly, put it on the back-burner a lot because [...]
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 [...]
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…
In this episode of the VBL Podcast, I sit down with best-selling author, massiv and highly sought after speaker, David Meerman Scott, to discuss the finer points of social media and why businesses need to get their act together when it comes to Real Time Marketing in todays increasing competitive worldwide business environment.
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…
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…!
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…
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