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Internet Marketing Business Plan – 2012 Edition

Written by on January 1, 2012 · 34 Comments

Categories: Online Business, Plan Review - Tags: , , , ,

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Cape Reinga, on a bad day, the Pacific is meeting the Tasman somewhere in the background

Sorry this is a bit of long one, even for me! You might want to read my previous posts first if you haven’t (and they are shorter!): 2011 Looking Back, 2012 Goals – Introduction. Short version, why should you read over 3000 words of my ramblings? Because most people don’t have a business plan to make money online, and I think more of you need one!   A Whole Bloody Business Plan? Why Not Just Some Goals?  This started off as my 2012 goals post – and ended up as an Internet Marketing plan – how the frig did that happen?  I read some other people’s goals posts – and don’t get me wrong. I’m not knocking posts like this, or this, this one, or indeed the one that made me buy a book. I read them all, and they all seemed reasonable goals and plans.   But I wanted a bigger picture, I wanted a  vision, some frigging idea where I was going with this whole business thing, and 2012 in particular.   Or, to be allegorical, (’cause I am playing with language at the moment), I needed to know the layout of the forest, before I focussed on individual trees!  And then Google has failed me. [...] Read more »

2012 Goals – Introduction

Written by on December 29, 2011 · 28 Comments

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I strongly suggest that you check out my review of the Keyword Academy - its not free but you can try it out for 30 days for free. So try it out for no risk - what's the worst that can happen? You might even make some money!
Ugly photo! December 2011 - though they did send me a medium when I asked for an XL!

As I mentioned in passing in my last post 2011 – wasn’t the most exciting year of my life.  Personal Goals  Gonna hit big 50 this year, which is cool because it means we can dance in the next age grade in Dancesport ie instead of competing against 35 year olds, we are the youngest couple again (well I am, partner’s 10 years older!).  HOWEVER, we want to compete in Latin again, so I need to look good wearing this:  Let’s face it, I probably won’t be going back to looking like this:   - but it’s got to better than this!:  As of today I’m 108kg, in the 1988 photo I was probably about 70kg (and yes over-weight according to the  wisdom of the day – trying to get to 65kg from memory). Now apparently 75kg is OK weight for my height (180cm) – you see why I have a problem with the weight loss industry! Frankly if I got down to 90kg that would be a) record-breaking low for the last 20 odd years for me, and b) still “obese” by the stupid “one size fits all charts” , and frankly – I’d look pretty hot in my latin [...] Read more »

2011 Review Looking Back

Written by on December 27, 2011 · 7 Comments

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I strongly suggest that you check out my review of the Keyword Academy - its not free but you can try it out for 30 days for free. So try it out for no risk - what's the worst that can happen? You might even make some money!
looking back

Hmm, looks like although I’ve used Chris Guillebeau’s approach to planning before, I’ve not actually blogged about it!  I don’t have a lot of time for most “self improvement” blogs, and I first noted Chris’s site because he has, what I still think is, a stupid idea of visiting every country in the world. Really, I love to travel, but there are number of countries that I’ve never wanted to visit, so why spend money going there?  Anyway I like his writing and his goal setting is quite unusual. This is part 1 – looking back, check back in a few days for when I’ve actually figured out my New Year’s goals!  Anyway – this is the easy part of the process: looking back:  Pretty much I’m looking at health, travel, business,  in that order, because that’s probably what matters.     What Went Well in 2011  Frankly I was kinda worried about reaching that “certain age” that women get to.  I had heard so many bad things about menopause. Well I’ve reached it, and what happened? For the first time since I was 20 I’m not popping a daily pill, had the odd weird dream, woke up hot a couple of [...] Read more »

Backlinks: Build My Rank and Alternatives

Written by on November 14, 2011 · 26 Comments

Categories: Back Links, beginners, Build My Rank, Paid Tools, The Keyword Academy - Tags: , , ,

Do You Want to Make Online Income?

I strongly suggest that you check out my review of the Keyword Academy - its not free but you can try it out for 30 days for free. So try it out for no risk - what's the worst that can happen? You might even make some money!
Bamboo builds strong buildings; links build strong websites; Khao Sak, Thailand

OK guys apparently the world changed and some of you didn’t notice. Ironic really, I’ve heard plenty of people whinging about not being able to get good backlinks. Or asking for alternatives to Build My Rank because the BMR blogs didn’t look “real” and weren’t niche specific. You want links from relevant sites.  You want links from sites with PR, authority and even traffic.  Then you get an opportunity to join just such a network  - and you spam it with crappy spun-content from your favourite fiverr outsourcer!  Come on guys!  Obviously I need to review backlinks 101 for you guys – maybe some of you never knew, some of you forgot, some of you just don’t want to hear it.  Some links are worth more than others!  I started a new site – 3 weeks later it was a PR3 – three months later its still  PR3 and on page 1 for its desired keyword? What did I do? I gave it one single link from a PR3 site which I controlled which was relevant to the niche and didn’t have too many outbound links. It not rocket science, it hasn’t changed any time recently. Some links are more useful [...] Read more »

We Don’t Need No Stupid Badges!

Written by on January 31, 2011 · 42 Comments

Categories: Making Money Online, Online Business, Passive Income, Plan Review - Tags: , , ,

Do You Want to Make Online Income?

I strongly suggest that you check out my review of the Keyword Academy - its not free but you can try it out for 30 days for free. So try it out for no risk - what's the worst that can happen? You might even make some money!
View From Our Hotel Window, Royale Chulan, Kuala Lumpur

The Keyword Academy has this absolutely infantile, ridiculous scheme where you can apply for badges to match your (verified) income – I mean its like pre-primary school right? Except for some odd  reason it does seem to matter to me – and today I made it – I made the next badge up – in the last month I earned $2500 in passive online income and I have nice pretty badge to prove it. Half of that was from Adsense and that figure represents a 50% increase over December’s Adsense figures. So how long does it take to make at total of $4000/month of online income? So in answer to the question “Can You Make $1000/month with Adsense”  (written almost exactly 2 years ago) – is YES, I DO. And yes at the time, I really didn’t think it would be ME that did! In fact I blame Mark Butler (from the Keyword Academy – yup you can get a personal consult for free within the Academy – its smart move by them – but unbelievable good value for members) – I had a consultation with him a few weeks ago – and I wrote on my white board – make $2500 by April [...] Read more »

Slope Stability, Earthquakes and Passive Income

Written by on June 30, 2010 · 13 Comments

Categories: Online Business, Passive Income, Uncategorized - Tags: , , ,

Do You Want to Make Online Income?

I strongly suggest that you check out my review of the Keyword Academy - its not free but you can try it out for 30 days for free. So try it out for no risk - what's the worst that can happen? You might even make some money!
Big Pit, Kalgoorlie, Western Australia

You may not know – I used to be a Geologist and even know useful stuff about how to make sure your house didn’t fall down a hill in rain storm or earthquake  (here’s a hint you probably need a 3D slope stability program to do the calculation!)  Having a science degree in real physical science has always been extremely useful – even long after I left the profession – because it taught me about cause and effect – and  that just because something happens at the same time doesn’t mean they are related. Where am I going with this – and does it relate to making passive income online? Well it does relate – we mix up cause and effect all the time: we think life is more dangerous for kids these days then it was in the old days – but most children survive to the age of 5 in developed countries now – something that would have been beyond imagining  even 200 years ago, and unfortunately still is in some parts of the world. We think that working hard on a site should see Google loving the site, sending us heaps of traffic and making us lots of money. [...] Read more »

Passive Income: End of the Quarter Review!

Written by on April 24, 2010 · 39 Comments

Categories: Online Business, Passive Income, Passive Income Australia/NZ, Plan Review - Tags: , , , ,

Do You Want to Make Online Income?

I strongly suggest that you check out my review of the Keyword Academy - its not free but you can try it out for 30 days for free. So try it out for no risk - what's the worst that can happen? You might even make some money!
Dancing Rumba on my 48th Birthday, Nelson, New Zealand

Well a little late but so long as I get this out before the end of April! In fact the last time I did one of these was 6 month's ago! Anyway its the end of the tax year here so I had to do some tax stuff first. First off a huge tip for any of you who aspire to wander around the world logging in occasionally to make a little more passive income online! Sort out your tax status and try to be tax resident in only one country! After several years of doing tax returns in two countries I am significantly over it! Read more »

Its Spring! End of a Quarter Report – How To Manage the Dollars

Written by on October 3, 2009 · 44 Comments

Categories: Free Tools, Online Business, Passive Income, Tools - Tags: , , , ,

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I strongly suggest that you check out my review of the Keyword Academy - its not free but you can try it out for 30 days for free. So try it out for no risk - what's the worst that can happen? You might even make some money!
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So its the end of another month – another quarter anywhere so how is my journey to passive income online.  Well to be honest its been flat-lining since my record of making over $2000 in one month – in July. Bouncing around at the same level give or take in US$ terms, dropping in local currency because of the strength of both my local currencies (yes I run accounts in two countries – I don’t recommend it!). Oh and finally spring has sprung – downunder in Perth anyways – finally I might add, so much for global warming its been freezing here for far too long. The photos in this post were taken in King’s Park, Perth a couple of weeks ago – yes we have quite a display of wildflowers at the moment. New Custom Thesis Theme I’ve been spring cleaning this blog too – a couple of you have noticed that the design has changed a fair bit.  None of my doing – Costa who makes cool custom WordPress themes at blogigs.com wrote to me saying that my previous design hurt his head and here is a new one. Well OK I can take a hint – I [...] Read more »

Online Income How To Make $1000 Online!

Written by on July 2, 2009 · 19 Comments

Categories: Online Business, Passive Income - Tags: , , , , , ,

Do You Want to Make Online Income?

I strongly suggest that you check out my review of the Keyword Academy - its not free but you can try it out for 30 days for free. So try it out for no risk - what's the worst that can happen? You might even make some money!
River Cruise Europe

Well oops – I see I haven’t done an online income post for a while – and now its the new tax year in Australia this is as good an excuse as anything to avoid doing my taxes! Back in May I had some new goals – so lets report against though shall we – well it amuses me – sorry if you find it boring! What has happening in the interim is that my passive online income has doubled from May to June.  My overall income including some freelance work was US$1400 – not too shabby really – considering where I’ve come from. OK I’d struggle to live on that amount in Australia, though I certainly could in some parts of the world, but at least its more than I would have earned on the dole! And I figure its just the beginning because certainly the passive component of that (about 50%) will only keep on going up. Update on Current Business Goals Get those 10 sites up and running with backlinks built and starting their run up the SERPS. Hmm not quite – “excuse” below Build more backlinks to the hubs which make me money- after all they [...] Read more »

End of Month Update on Progress and a Business Plan

Written by on May 1, 2009 · 10 Comments

Categories: Online Business, Passive Income - Tags: , , , , ,

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I strongly suggest that you check out my review of the Keyword Academy - its not free but you can try it out for 30 days for free. So try it out for no risk - what's the worst that can happen? You might even make some money!

OK we are third  of the way through the year – lets see where Lis Sowerbutts is doing , original goals in italic  from January for the first half of 2009: Progress Against Original Goals Get more organised and focused on the important stuff so that I can achieve the following: Read more »

Overdue February Update

Written by on March 10, 2009 · 10 Comments

Categories: Online Business - Tags: , ,

Do You Want to Make Online Income?

I strongly suggest that you check out my review of the Keyword Academy - its not free but you can try it out for 30 days for free. So try it out for no risk - what's the worst that can happen? You might even make some money!

Sorry guys, its been a couple of weeks since I posted on passive income online, and yes  I am a bit unhappy about the lack of progress  I have to report. So the good stuff is I fleshed out this blog a bit:  tidied up the blank pages on the header which were getting traffic but actually had nothing on them! Read more »