Niche Site Journey – Day 3

NOTES from Pat Flynn’s webinar: SEO and Keywords What makes a good keyword? Relevance – Keyword = Content Traffic – The pipeline from the search engine to your site. Competition – How difficult is to get ranked in the search engine for a specific keyword or set of keywords. Commerciality – The higher value a ...

Niche Site Journey – Detour 1

It has been insane the last few days – I still have not had a chance to dive into Market Samurai to do keyword research. Do not worry, gentle reader. It will come and we have lots to discuss. The boys and I had a great time in Nashville on Tuesday night with Pat Flynn ...

Niche Site Journey – Day 2

Pat Flynn Meet Up! Yesterday was very enlightening. I have a full schedule today. My two boys (Sean 9 and Seth 11) and I are heading down to Nashville, TN this afternoon to meet Pat Flynn from the Smart Passive Income blog. He is the one that I am using as a template for my ...

Niche Site Journey – Day 1

Carpe diem quam minimum credula postero “Seize the Day, putting as little trust as possible in the next (day)” Today I am embarking on a personal journey. I have been reading all about guys doing well with online marketing, but sometimes it just seems like all hype. Do you ever feel that way? I am ...

The Adventure of Two Webinars In One Day And What I learned

Today I attended two webinars. Yes, it was exhausting, but I really like webinars. I learn lots of strategies and many times what not to do. I hope to do many webinars. This morning I heard Neil Patel, of QuickSprout and KISSmetrics. This evening, I attended another webinar, but it was so horrible I will ...

Why Do Most Of The Influencers Use Foul Language?

Gary Vaynerchuk is one of my favorite personalities. If you know Gary then you know what comes next. He is very honest about the fact that his talks are full of expletives. As a homeschool dad, I am mentoring my children to start their own entrepreneur ventures. They miss out on a lot of great ...

Nice To Meet You. Wanna Buy Something.

[podloveaudio src="http://brilliantzoom.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/02062013.mp3"] So, yesterday I get this email from a gentleman that I have subscribed to his list. He was actually did a guest post on ProBlogger.net. The email is as follow – I am really glad today to tell you that I had my first guest post on ProBlogger.net. I am happy with the ...

How John Chow Misled His Readers [Podcast] 1

[podloveaudio src="http://brilliantzoom.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/JohnChow_Misleads.mp3"] There are few things that annoy me more than a misleading headline. Especially by someone who should clearly know better. Please be aware that it is never my goal to tarnish anyone’s reputation, but I also want us to learn from the outrageous conduct of some of those who give online business a ...

Internet Marketing Advice For Students, Business Cards, And A Richard Branson Resource [Podcast]

[podloveaudio src="http://brilliantzoom.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/02042013.mp3"] Today we have several great resources to tell you about. It is the day after the Super Bowl so I filtered out all of the Monday morning marketing quarterbacking nonsense. MarketingLand.com put together a how-to on preparing for a career in Internet Marketing. Now this is called a student guide, but I actually ...

Ready, Set, Publish! 4

Overwhelm! This is a real issue in the Internet marketing space. The problem is that there are hundreds of potentially authoritative resources clamouring for our attention. How do we know which one to trust? What is important and more relevant to where we may be right now? If we are new to internet marketing, how ...