Keep Your Writing Going by Delaying the Mundane

If you like to write, you surely know what it’s like to be in the writing “zone” or mood.  When you’re “in the zone,” words flow easily and you feel highly productive.  I love being in the zone and I hate being interrupted.

To keep my writing flow going when I’m in the zone, I always delay . . . → Read More: Keep Your Writing Going by Delaying the Mundane

Advertising with Google Adwords

Google Adwords is a great way to advertise your web site.  Think about it: how many web sites do you visit all the time that display Google ads alongside their content?  Google ads are everywhere.  And remember when I talked about evaluating your ideas and showed you how to find out how many people are searching . . . → Read More: Advertising with Google Adwords

Split Testing Web Sites with Google Optimizer

If you’re running a web site and trying to get customers to sign up for a newsletter or buy something, you should be split testing your web site.  Split testing means creating multiple versions of your web site to find out which one obtains the most conversions (sign-ups or purchases).  When you find out which version . . . → Read More: Split Testing Web Sites with Google Optimizer

The Easiest Way to Manage Email Newsletters

To manage my new email newsletter, I signed up for a subscription service called Aweber, which has made it really easy.  Aweber creates a signup form for you that you put on your web site.  Then when someone signs up it goes through the Aweber scripts and handles everything automatically for you.

After your form and web . . . → Read More: The Easiest Way to Manage Email Newsletters

February Results and March Plans

February Results

This month I made $4.98 from eHow.  Not bad.  I’m hoping eHow will give me a steady five bucks per month for infinity.  Five bucks per month isn’t much, but it’s still extra money.  I didn’t do a single thing on eHow this month, except complain about not receiving a 1099 so I can do . . . → Read More: February Results and March Plans

Creating Simple Web Pages

If you want to create a web page, such as a squeeze page, but you have never created web sites before, it can seem like a daunting task.  I’m going to discuss a few options that will help you get online as soon as possible:

Create your page using OpenOffice
Create a WordPress site
Hire a freelancer

Create your page . . . → Read More: Creating Simple Web Pages

Using a Squeeze Page to Capture Leads

If you saw my last post and visited my new site about accomplishing your goals, you were looking at one of my “squeeze” pages.  These pages are used to capture people’s email addresses (leads) to see if people are actually interested in my upcoming product.

Why Use a Squeeze Page?

Why use a squeeze page at all?  Why . . . → Read More: Using a Squeeze Page to Capture Leads

New eBook Experiment is Live!

I have finished setting up my web site for my new eBook!  I created three squeeze pages and a Google experiment that divides traffic equally between the three pages, so I can see which one performs the best.  I also signed up for an email newsletter service that makes it really easy to keep track of . . . → Read More: New eBook Experiment is Live!

Setting Up OpenOffice Part 3 – PDF Conversion

In this series of blog posts, I’m detailing the steps required to set up OpenOffice to write a book.  In Part 1, I walked through the installation process for OpenOffice.  In Part 2 I explained how to create a template for your book, to make it easy to have the same look and feel throughout.  Here . . . → Read More: Setting Up OpenOffice Part 3 – PDF Conversion

Setting Up OpenOffice Part 2 – Templates

In this series of blog posts, I’m detailing the steps required to set up OpenOffice to write a book.  In Part 1, I walked through the installation process for OpenOffice.  Here in Part 2 I’m going to discuss setting up a template for your book.

Setting up a Template

Creating a template for your document or book makes . . . → Read More: Setting Up OpenOffice Part 2 – Templates