Exploring the amazing, profitable, and sometimes wacky niches around the web.
Lately I’ve done a lot of starting over. I’ve finally come to peace with the fact that starting something over isn’t always a bad thing. Sometimes it’s a headache. It’s almost always a lot of hard work. But it’s not necessarily bad.
Yesterday I spent two hours working on a client project, totally glad to be ahead of schedule. I was just about to wrap up for the night and I scanned over the folder of saved files. *smack* They were all wrong. [Read more...]
Testimonials can be a big deal if you’re launching a course, a program, a product, or even if you’re offering a service of some sort. I personally use testimonials for my information products and for my transcription service business.
Think of testimonials as awesome little tidbits that let the rest of the world know that you’ve been doing what you do for awhile and you’re not going to steal their money and run away. They don’t really think you’re going to do that, but seeing that other people have worked with you is a reassuring sort of thing and it helps get past those little specs of doubt floating around in the back of their mind.
In the past few years the use of testimonials has become a bit – let’s say crazy.
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Site A Update:I mentioned at the beginning of the week that I had some unexpected search engine traffic visiting Site A. That made it my priority to get some more content on there ASAP because when the traffic started coming in I only had one piece of real content in there.
Now it looks a bit more like a full mini site. The contact page, the disclaimers, disclosures, and all those standard little things are in there. And now there are five full pieces of content on the site.
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So after yesterday’s post about making money in ways that are not Squidoo focused a lensmaster wrote to me off-site and said something along the lines of, “But I’m not a writer, I can’t do those things.”
To which I replied as follows…
You may not think of yourself as a writer or a content creator, but that’s only because you’ve been enjoying what you do. Squidoo is first and foremost a writing and sharing platform, [Read more...]
So there has been much conversation this week about Squidoo, their changes, and the uneasiness people are feeling around it all. Several people have mentioned that Squidoo is 90% or more of their online income, it’s the only way they’re making money, they consider it their job, and it pays their bills.
This frightens me a little bit. I don’t want to see any of these people struggling to make their bill payments three months from now if Squidoo cannot recover its search engine rankings or if their lenses are locked.
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