This is just a quick update to let you all know why I haven’t been blogging much in the last week and that is because I’ve been working on a brand new website. I’ve always said I wish I had a product to promote online as I think I would do really well; although I haven’t found a product, I have actually found my passion in that of personal development and lifestyle design.

Since moving to South Africa in September 2007, I’ve learnt to live on my own and be in a completely new environment, all at the age of 18. It’s inevitable that these types of actions are going to help a person grow and I’ve came across so many new aspects of living and happiness that I wanted a place to share them.

Continue reading

Do you ever think you’ve wrote the perfect viral piece, only to see it flop on Digg and other social sites? Or that because your content didn’t ‘make it’ there’s nothing else you can do?

I’m not one of these social media marketers that simply write about the topic (sadly, there are a lot of them), I work with some of the biggest companies in the world: consistently driving huge amounts of traffic. Today I’m going to share the exact methods I use to help promote linkbait even after it might not have done well initially.

Continue reading

Most people, myself included, tend to have one internet marketing specialty whether it be SEO, Affiliate Marketing, PPC, Landing Page Optimisation or similar. However, it’s never too late to continue to improve your internet marketing skillset and become a better all-round marketer.

I always practice what I preach and have been working hard to improve my talent in other areas, most notably website creation & graphic design. With that in mind, I wanted this post to be a collection of resources to help you improve your skills in a certain area of this niche and share my own growth with it.

Continue reading

I don’t want this to sound like I think I’m above anyone else, but I’m probably part of a small majority of people who test out new ways to drive traffic to sites apart from common methods, unless you are of the blackhat sort. Although I would never put these into practice on a respected site, these are just some of my findings that I think you might find interesting.

Note: I don’t condone or respect anyone who uses these tactics, I think it’s just useful to know the types of things people may be doing. Similar to the fact that I try to mix myself with people who are performing ‘dodgy’ tactics to keep myself well rounded.

Continue reading

You may find the title of this blog post a little dramatic, personally I think it could have more impact but I don’t want you to think I’m trying to pull off a ’social-friendly’ title without the content to back it up. Killing, or more appropriately, death, is used here not as the death of your physical form, but of your soul and who you are.

You probably didn’t notice that I was sent to hospital on Monday (I use Wordpress future post feature) and got out today, repeatedly reassuring everyone back home I’ll be fine. Spending 5 days in a private room where nurses have to wear masks and gloves to see you can start to put things into perspective, and I greatly appreciate the experience.

Continue reading

This is the second post in the series about building your internet business empire where we have previously covered the strategy side of things. This time I’m going to take a look at organising yourself for maximum effectiveness and efficiency in your actions.

This is something I struggled with for quite a while, I would find it impossible to launch a website unless it was perfect or I would spend hours reading and responding to emails. At times I would even get too stressed and want to give up due to having two jobs. However, I’ve been through all that and dealt with it, hopefully you can learn from my experiences and what I have to share.

Continue reading