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I have been writing back and forth with Melissa Morse for a few weeks.  She started reading IncomeSchool.com when it started and has already implemented a lot of the tips and techniques.  But she feels like she is flailing around without a clear direction of where to take her business. So in this episode I […] The post Business Breakdown: EmbraceCreative.ca appeared first on Income School.

SEO: What most new internet marketers see as Charlie’s golden ticket to success.  The truth is that search engine traffic takes a long time to build, and building your site to attract Google rather than focusing on your users is a terrible pitfall. Still, SEO certainly has value.  Building your website according to established norms […] The post SEO appeared first on Income School.

In this episode I go into much greater detail of how exactly I run my blog to earn half a million dollars per year.  I delve into the products I offer, how I built an audience, taxes, etc. I will confess that it is a bit awkward for me to share such personal financial information […] The post How I Earned $505,813 from My Blog Last Year appeared first on Income School.

I have never met any blogger who had good traffic going to their site, who isn’t making serious money.  Never. Whenever I’m coaching someone through starting an internet business, they always want to have a definite monetization strategy in place before they start.  Even if they know they should wait to build the product until […] The post Monetizing Your Site appeared first on Income School.

If I were to point to one factor that would make your blog more or less likely to succeed at providing an income for you, it would be this–whether or not the blog owner publishes daily for the first 4 to 6 months. In the beginning of your blogging business, you need quick success and […] The post Developing Your Publishing Routine (Your Blog’s Lifeline) appeared first on Income School.

Online contacts are usually awkward.  You comment on a website not knowing whether to expect anyone to hear or respond to you.  You purchase a product not knowing whether or not you can expect the seller to help you if something goes wrong with your purchase.  You like a page on Facebook never knowing if […] The post Treating Your Internet Visitors (and Customers) Right appeared first on Income School.

Trouble getting traffic to new websites is probably the single biggest killer of new internet businesses.  It’s something that new internet marketers worry about, but that more experienced internet marketers have done enough times to be confident with. In this episode, I share my very best strategies for driving traffic to new sites.  Follow the recipe, […] The post How to Get Traffic to New Websites appeared first on Income School.

You want a complete stranger to offer you $1,000.  Really, it’s true.  Every website owner hopes that he can acquire a visitor who becomes a fan who then becomes a customer who then becomes a repeat customer.  Eventually, you want the lifetime value of that customer to hit $1,000. If you approach the stranger today […] The post The Layered Engagement Plan appeared first on Income School.

One common mistake I see with newer websites is that they allow their sites to look little.  There is nothing wrong with looking like a small business that gives a personal feel and the personality of  an individual, but there is a problem with making your website look undesirable and worthless. In this episode, I show my strategies for […] The post Defending Mafeking, and Making Your Site Look Worthwhile appeared first on Income School.

No business tip has been more beneficial to me than a lesson I learned on a podcast 3 years ago.  The podcast was an interview on Smart Passive Income about writing helpful blog posts.  Pat Flynn wrote an article about me and the success I had following the advice from that podcast. The suggestion that […] The post Creating a Shockingly Helpful Website appeared first on Income School.

You may think that running an online business would mean doing a lot of technical work to make your website run. But the reality is that tools like WordPress and a quality hosting company make running a website incredibly easy.  In fact, I find that the dips and plateaus in my business are usually caused by […] The post The Technology that Strangles Online Businesses appeared first on Income School.

Business coaches talk about “finding your niche” like they would finding your soulmate–as if there were only one “right” one out there, and you just have to find it.  It isn’t true, and it keeps thousands or millions of people each year from starting businesses that could have been successful. The truth is that to […] The post Finding Your Internet Marketing Niche (The Easy Way!) appeared first on Income School.

Business advice is everywhere.  It’s in my earbuds, my RSS feeds, on my Facebook newsfeed–and constantly on glossy ads in my mailbox. The most popular bits of business advice are those which require the least amount of work and expertise, and yet produce the quickest and most dramatic hockey-stick-graph results. I love quick fix business […] The post The Business Lesson Nobody Wants appeared first on Income School.

Most of what I write on Income School is tips and techniques.  I like to skip over the fluff and just write what you need to know to increase your income.  But in this podcast episode I’m welcoming you into my life. In episode 1 I invite my wife Emily to join me on the […] The post In the Beginning appeared first on Income School.