By Mikael
WOW!!… Because of The Keyword Academy and the methods these guys teach, I have never (ever) been as productive as I have been in the last 3 weeks. I know this might be a strange statement considering that I am running a decent online business already, but what I learned from one of their recent webinars has revolutionized my business.
I don’t want to sell you their program (even though you can get access to everything for $1), but merely explain some of what it is that I have learned through the TKA membership.
More Virtual Real Estate Means More Income
When you are making money online from websites that bases the income on traffic, you will need to focus on getting more of it. Now there are at least two ways to receive more traffic... Read more
By Mikael
I’m not going to make this into a long blog post because I know your time is valuable and that you probably feel that you have to little of it as it is. I think it is the “disease of online marketers”
But since we all value our time I also feel that it is important that we all learn to outsource as much of our work as we possibly can. This will both free up our time and also increase our online income.
And we all want both, right?
Normally the different outsourcing courses and seminars that are available online will cost you a fair amount of money and will not always be worth it (I recently tried a well known outsourcing course where I had to ask for a refund).
But this time I have come across a series of very valuable videos (as we... Read more
By Mikael
I am sorry for the blunt title but I am sure you’ll get the idea once you’ve read through this post.
Most online marketers know that there is a difference between “good content” and “poor content” online and I’m sure that we have all clicked on a search result in Google that sent us to a page filled with a lot of crap content that either didn’t provide any value and that was just gibberish.
I’ve never been an advocate of always trying to make everything you do online perfect. In my view “perfect” doesn’t exist and no matter how hard you try and how much time you spend you will always be able to do better.
But settling for something less than perfect is not the same thing as accepting crap. Far from it! My point is ... Read more
By Mikael
Most entrepreneurs (both online and offline) are extremely innovative people and most have more ideas than they will ever be able to complete or even start. Does this sound familiar to you?
Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you thought about things like:
Writing different ebooks and sell them
Adding opt-in forms
Starting a new blog
Creating mini niche websites and monetize them with Adsense
Building review websites with affiliate links
Creating strategic partnerships with other people in your niches
Doing massive linkbuilding campaigns using social media, video, article marketing……
Wanting to do guest posts on other sites for links and traffic
Obviously the list could go on and on because there is an unlimited amount o... Read more
By Mikael
I am not going to use this post as an excuse for not writing any posts in the last two weeks but rather try to put my point across in the best way I can. I do however admit that I have been feeling a little guilty in those two weeks because I have had several things that I would have liked to share with you.
Prioritize When You Have To
We all have 24 hours a day so when people say that they “don’t have time” they are actually saying that their priorities are in such a way that the “thing” they don’t have time to do is not as important to them as something else that they have committed themselves to.
There is nothing wrong with prioritizing and I actually feel that it is a vital part of both life and business. We all have a gaz... Read more
By Mikael
If you have been running an online business of some sort for any period of time you probably have a very good idea of what is required in order to become as successful as you would like to become. This applies to both Adsense sites, affiliate sites, ecommerce sites and every other way that you, as a webmaster, can make money online.
The things that you will have to do might differ, but there is still a very narrow set of things that you must do on a consistent basis.
Adsense Sites Example
Because I focus on Adsense as an income stream let me take you through the basic things that will lead you to success in this field.
1. Find good keywords
2. Write good articles for the website
3. Get incoming links (requires both time and more article wri... Read more
By Mikael
I’ve never been good at writing compelling headlines so please don’t judge this post solely on the headline
What I want to talk to you about in the post is why I find that success is best achieved through using structure and systems. We’re not going to talk about what “success” is because we have talked about this topic several times and success is indeed individual and based more on a feeling that on materials goods.
But this post will talk about financial success and business success and in those two areas I find that having a plan, a structure and systems will help you move forward a lot faster and help you avoid creating yourself just another job but instead creating some time freedom and financial freedom in the process.
Wh... Read more
By Mikael
If you have been wondering why I haven’t been posting in the last week or so it has nothing to do with not working as much as I usually do but rather the exact opposite. Through TKA I am now even more structured in my approach to my online business and because of this structure I’ve been able to get a lot more done in a short amount of time because I constantly know what to do next. Exciting but also exhausting at the same time.
We humans have different preferences and methods of working effectively and what might be the right choice for some will be totally inappropriate for others. There is no right or wrong way but in the end it is the results that count and they are often easy to measure and compare.
But let me share a little with y... Read more
By Mikael
I have talked about this topic before but I find that it is so incredibly important that it is worth mentioning again. The reason I came to think of it was that Jonathan Ledger has written a post about this topic a few days ago after he had read a thread at the Warrior forum.
As online marketers we’re trying to do everything ourselves and this is especially true when we are first starting out learning all about this new and exciting world of online business. But doing everything poorly instead of mastering a few things have never been the road to success and since we have the added “benefit” of being bombarded with “bright shiny objects” (aka. new marketing products) whose only purpose is to try to make us change what we doing by ... Read more
By Mikael
Now you know that I am a big fan of using leverage to increase my outcome but also because I like that things happen without me doing much (if anything) once things are set up.
Now I could use a lot of words to talk about what is important when you want to be successful online but instead I am going to use leverage in the form of directing you to a series of 5 videos that will explain some key elements that you MUST know.
The videos will take a total of 23 minutes and 1 second to watch. Be sure to watch them in the right order.
Video 1
Video 2
Video 3
Video 4
Video 5
To Your Success,
Mikael
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By Mikael
If you have signed up for email newsletters and different Internet marketing guru’s lists, you have probably seen a lot of promotions about using outsourcing in the last few weeks.
Some are offering membership sites teaching you how to outsource and others are selling ebooks and video training courses on the subject.
Now all of these are probably great and if you are not currently using any kind of leverage in the form of outsourcing, then you should probably look more into these products. Because without leveraging other people’s time you are most likely falling behind because your competitors are most likely getting help to grow their businesses.
The reasons for using some kind of outsourcing (you can also hire regular employees or p... Read more
By Mikael
There are basically three types of online marketers working the Internet and trying to make money from it.
The first group is those that are just getting started and are basically just beginning to dip their toes into the big wide World Wide Web. Very few of them are making any money from their efforts and most are fumbling around in the dark. Nothing wrong with that because that is where we all started at some point!
I’ll skip past the second group because that is the one I want to talk about so let’s first have a look at the third group. These are the Gurus and High Rollers of the online world. They own the majority of the money making websites online and are all in all a big family that attend each other’s seminars and JV each othe... Read more
By Mikael
If there is one thing that my years online have thought me then it is that if you spread your focus on several things at once you’re not really focusing on anything and everything becomes a blur.
How easy do you think it is to hit any target or goal you have set for yourself if your vision is blurred and you’re jumping from one thing to the next and especially if you don’t not much of any of the topics?
I can tell you from my own experience that it is not only hard, time consuming and confusing but it can also be extremely frustrating when you feel that you’re working like a horse but nothing (or very very little) is happening and money is not showing up like you expected them to.
Multitasking is not the way to start and run a succe... Read more
By Mikael
Imagine that you are starting your fifth, sixth or tenth website. You business is growing and you are seeing you monthly income from your websites climbing each and every month. It is a nice thought isn’t it?
As you surely already know a website is made up of content and preferably high quality content that will have your readers come back for more. As a general rule you can assume that the more content you have on your website the more traffic you are going to get because there will be a lot more content that people can find when searching online.
Picture writing one quality article for your first blog… It probably took you somewhere between 1 – 2 hours of writing and editing or maybe even more. Every beginning has its challenges and... Read more
By Mikael
Today’s post is inspired by a post I read over at Dumb Little Man about how to use time wisely. Lauren lists a few simple things that you can do (or stop doing) to use your time in a better way. I fully agree with Lauren’s points but that is not what I want to talk about.
Instead it was the finishing quote from Benjamin Franklin that made me think. He said:
“Dost thou love life? Then waste not time; for time is the stuff that life is made of.”
First of all I think that it is a very powerful statement but secondly it made me think about one of the true benefits of being effective and productive with your time. I’m not going to lie to you and say that I am a super human when it comes to being productive and effec... Read more
Mikael Rieck is the author of more than hundred articles on topics of how to make money both online and offline. He has been online since 1999 and has always had a passion for money making opportunities and teaching others how to make a profit.