Category: Making Money

  • How to make a simple ‘hands-free’ income creating Kindle books

    How to make a simple ‘hands-free’ income creating Kindle books

    4 years ago something BIG happened. A magical tablet was born. A tablet that can store a library’s worth of books, fits in your jacket pocket and weighs less than a banana. I’m talking about the Amazon Kindle. This clever little device is changing everything – the way we read, write and sell books. In…

  • Why there’s great money to be made from the Amazon Kindle

    Why there’s great money to be made from the Amazon Kindle

    There is HUGE demand for Kindle books. It’s no longer just gadget lovers and kids who are buying them. People from all walks of life are adopting this new technology and it’s a trend that will continue to grow. These stats should give you an idea of how big demand is already, after just 4…

  • How to use ‘news jacking’ to increase your web traffic and bring in ad revenue

    How to use ‘news jacking’ to increase your web traffic and bring in ad revenue

    Please note: If you missed part one of this article you can see it here. Let’s say you have a website about travel. It could be a blog or a simple WordPress website – anything. Just now I’ve just had a look on Digital Spy and one of the lead stories today is: “George Michael…

  • Here’s a way to profit from the news… without phone hacking

    Here’s a way to profit from the news… without phone hacking

    This is a strategy called ‘news jacking’, or ‘trend tagging’ – it goes by lots of different names. With James Murdoch having resigned his post on the board for the Sun and The Times it seemed like a good time to cover this. It’s an excellent (and legal) marketing strategy we could all take advantage…

  • The truth about ‘autoblogging’ as a hands-free income

    The truth about ‘autoblogging’ as a hands-free income

    Autoblogging is evil. It’s a way of using robot software to scrape bits of content and information from the Internet (from other people’s websites and blogs) and then post it onto brand new ones – autoblogs. You’ve probably come across them. They normally contain a few oddly formatted, non-sensical paragraphs and lots and lots of…

  • Who are these pixel lovers and nappy bag millionaires?

    Who are these pixel lovers and nappy bag millionaires?

    I occasionally get emails from readers who feel like they’re never going to escape the treadmill. These are intelligent people who have EVERYTHING they need to be a success. All they’re missing is the confidence, the go-get-it attitude. So today I want to take a step back and look at 3 entrepreneurs who’ve managed to…

  • 3 things we can learn from Steve Jobs and the mighty Apple

    3 things we can learn from Steve Jobs and the mighty Apple

    Apple are one of those companies… you either love them or you hate ’em. Wherever you stand, you can’t deny the huge impact they’ve made. They brought the humble mouse into common use with the appearance of the Apple Macintosh. They started an MP3 revolution with the iPod (one of the best selling gadgets of…

  • How to automate your ‘business life’ online

    How to automate your ‘business life’ online

    Imagine if you could automate a big chunk of your ‘business life’ online. If instead of checking Twitter every 5 minutes for new followers, you could relax and watch the tele. If instead of having logging into multiple social networking sites to communicate with potential buyers you could set it to happen automatically. Well, here’s…

  • Could you make $100,000 in 5 days from the world’s most remote festival?

    Could you make $100,000 in 5 days from the world’s most remote festival?

    While I was stateside I stumbled upon what could potentially be a very lucrative, very niche, festival-based business opportunity. One that no-one seems to be taking advantage of right now… I’ll warn you, for this to work you’d a) need to find a trustworthy contact in the states (or get hold of a US work…

  • Can you profit from these ‘shock jock’ marketing techniques?

    Can you profit from these ‘shock jock’ marketing techniques?

    I thought it appropriate to go over a form of online marketing technique I’ve seen used in the states. I call it ‘shock jock’ marketing. A shock jock is a radio show host with an offensive-on-purpose presenting style. By offensive I mean laughing at other people’s misfortune, making fat jokes… saying words like “poo” a…