No one asks permission to fall in love, they may seek permission to marry but not fall in love.
Hardly anyone asks permission to get a job, they just get one — if they can, but they rarely ask for permission to apply.
So why do so many people come online and ask in forums, via email and many other places if they have permission to start an online business?
They seem to need someone in a position of authority to tell them, “Yes, your ideas are good enough, you are smart enough, you deserve the chance to try this out and reap whatever rewards there are to gain from it.”
Pay attention because I am talking to you and only you.
Permission granted.
There are a million jerk bag idiots out there with stunted brains or sociopathic tendencies that don’t have a healthy, humble soul.
And they’re making money hand over fist while churning out weak work that ranges from mediocre to terrible.
Why let them have it?
Give them some competition – they only succeed over you because better people aren’t fighting them for those visitors and sales.
That’s you.
Better people.
Nail them to the wall, your work is better, your values are higher.
Time to believe in yourself and do it.
Regards, Brent.
P.S. Any new website needs approximately 20 pieces of content to begin ranking in 2022.
It used to be that you could rank a single page, but Google got tired of all those one-page websites and cracked down on them.
That seems strange because Google only ranks pages, not websites, so why bother about shutting out a single page site?
The bottom line, though, is that when you give Google what it wants, they’ll sometimes give you what you want, traffic.
When you combine the A.I. in Frase and the questions from answerthepublic.com, you’ll have no trouble generating 20 good quality posts for your site.
Once they are in place, you can expect to get visitors within the first week, and the volume will gradually ramp up.
Get your trial of Frase here, https://go.wm-tips.com/frase because you’ll need this tool to speed up the content creation.
Most of us have been using Google, Ubersuggest or Hrefs for our keyword research, and the results are not as expected.
The reason for that is two-fold.
One, the keyword tools give lousy and inaccurate results.
Two, you’re targeting the wrong type of keyword for buyers.
Google knows what people search for, but they won’t tell you because you don’t pay them enough.
Ubersuggest, Hrefs and most of the others use Google data for their reporting, so it’s no better than Google’s.
But that’s only the start of the problem.
Google reports that something like 80% of all search terms haven’t been used before, so how can you target those?
The wrong type of keywords can get you ranked and bring a good volume of visitors but only a low percentage of buyers.
What we all want is more buyers, right?
Let me explain with an example.
Let’s imagine someone is looking for information about learning about martial arts.
Imagine they are trying to decide which martial arts is best for them.
So they type in:
martial arts – and don’t find what they are looking for.
Then:
martial arts types – they find lists of different kinds of martial arts, they start searching each of these:
karate
aikido
kung fu
kendo
judo
Still, they haven’t found what they are looking for, which is best for them.
So now they type in the phrase:
benefits of karate
then:
benefits of Aikido
benefits of kung fu
benefits of kendo
benefits of judo
Now we are getting closer to what they are really looking for.
But not quite there yet.
Next maybe they type in:
Is Aikido right for me?
Is Kung Fu right for me?
And so on.
Now we are really getting hot, and this is probably a buying keyword phrase.
But it might go even deeper, to something like “What is the best way to learn kung fu?”
NOW we have a buying keyword phrase.
Note how many keywords we have chewed through to get to the buying keyword phrase.
And this buying keyword phrase will NOT show up in a keyword tool!
But it might show up on the answer the public website — hint, wink, wink.
If you want a thriving business that attracts buyers rather than researchers, you might consider how you do your keyword research.
Regards, Brent.
P.S. Once you have your buyer keyword phrases, you’ll need to create posts that use them so you can rank for those phrases.
The tool I use to help me write that content faster is Frase.
Frase has an excellent A.I. component that you can use to develop an outline for your articles and posts or write the whole thing for you.
The quality of the A.I. in Frase has been improving in leaps and bounds to where it rarely makes mistakes, but when it does, they are easily corrected.
Some of you got an email from me with an odd subject line.
You know who you are, and I’m sorry for fouling that up.
I’ll try to make sure that doesn’t happen again, but I can’t guarantee that I won’t foul something else up.
It kind of fits with today’s email but definitely didn’t with the last email.
** Note to Self **
Proofread the emails before sending them.
** End Note to self **
Today I wanted to talk about getting stuff done, completed and published.
You know what it’s like when you know you should contact someone over an apology, a death in their family, a birth in their family, good news or bad, but you put it off because you’re busy or “it’s not the right time“?
You also know that it becomes harder and harder to make that contact after putting it off for a variable period.
It’s the same with product ideas or post ideas.
Sometimes you even get started in a rush of enthusiasm, but something causes you not to finish it.
It might be an interruption, you second guess the content, you run short of motivation of ideas to complete it, and it ends up sitting on your hard drive.
Unloved, incomplete, and gathering virtual dust.
Just publish it.
If it’s not complete, publish anyway and mark it as part one.
Go back tomorrow and either complete it or not, but publish regularly.
Your readers will forgive you for sloppy work sometimes, but they’ll never forgive you for intermittent work.
They’ll drift off to other people who feed their interests more regularly.
Keep them onboard by giving them something to chew on and comment on.
Regards, Brent.
P.S. When people consider what type of online business they want for themselves, very few say they want something that’ll take up all their time and barely break even.
Most people want the type of business that they can do from anywhere, makes a good amount of money, and only takes a few hours a day to run without any special skills.
That’s the type of Internet business that Tony has operated for a decade, and it still works every day for him.
The unique thing about Tony is that he is totally open about what he does and how he does it.
He even shares what he does each month and how it worked out, but that is only for a select few subscribers.
One of the major problems with working from home and online is the constant distractions presented to you.
It can be challenging to work efficiently every day.
I know what I need to get done each day, and I get more than enough interruptions from family and mobile phone to make that harder than it needs to be.
This is what I’m doing to attempt to improve my work flow.
In the Opera web browser there are things called Workspaces.
I can have multiple of these, and I can put any tabs I like in each workspace.
So, I have split the tabs I usually have open into different categories and named the workspaces accordingly.
Because I can have only one workspace open at a time and I have fewer tabs available in them, there is less to distract me.
The workspaces I have are for research, emailing, writing and traffic.
The other browsers I use don’t seem to have that functionality, and I don’t know if it will improve things, but I’m hopeful.
I’m implementing another thing, turning off my mobile phone and putting it in a different room until I’ve completed my daily tasks.
Apparently, even having your mobile phone alongside you is distracting, so it has to go.
What do you do to keep yourself on track?
Regards, Brent.
P.S. The distractions mean that some days the only thing I get done is this email.
While getting the email done is important, it’s not the only thing I need to accomplish daily.
One marketer I know works very efficiently and makes a good living from what he does.
He regularly shares what he does and how he does it with his email subscribers.
None of what he shares is pie-in-the-sky stuff that may or may not have ever worked.
No, he only shares what is currently working for him, making the information valuable and actionable today.
This is the extra training for the Starting online for free membership which you’ll find here. For subscribers your link to get this at no cost is below…
, isn’t as highly polished as others you’ll see on YouTube or many sales pages.
The whole course, link on that page, is based on you creating products and sales using only free tools.
I chose to make the videos for the course as low-key as possible to demonstrate that anyone could do this.
No super skills are required to start.
I’m confident that you could do a much better job of creating your product and making your videos look far better than I did, but I didn’t think it would be helpful to make my videos all flashy and professional-looking.
For years I thought I wanted to be a millionaire until it dawned on me that wasn’t true.
What I wanted was the millionaire lifestyle.
Perhaps that’s what you want as well.
You probably know or know of a person who lives in a house they have owned for 50 years or more.
That property has appreciated to now being valued at over a million dollars.
That person is now a millionaire, but they may be living on a small pension and cannot do the things we associate with being a millionaire.
So it’s not the valuation of your assets that is important.
It’s the cash flow of having a million bucks generating income for you.
If that cash flow comes from investments you don’t have to do anything with that would be called passive income.
Now that’s the type of income I wanted and have worked for since I figured it out.
How much regular cash flow would you like to have?
If you had that mythical million bucks invested in real estate, the bank, other peoples businesses etc., a return on capital of 10% to 20% per year is possible.
Would $100k to $200k be sufficient for you?
Breaking that down to monthly works out at between $8k & $16k per month.
Online, that sort of income isn’t out of reach, but you won’t get there next month unless you are already well on the way.
You can get there in a year by being focused and consistent.
Regards, Brent.
P.S. The place to start is by setting up a simple business.
For the investment of less than a single pizza, you can have all the information you need to make a start.
This is the extra training for the Starting online for free membership which you’ll find here. For subscribers your link to get this at no cost is below…
Now, you could buy this through buymeacoffee.com, but I’m going to put a coupon in the members’ area of wmtips.substack.com for the first ten people to grab it.
The other thing for you to consider is that this is a case study on having an idea, taking action on that idea, and getting it done in a matter of hours.
You can do this.
If enough people ask, I’ll make a video showing how to put one of these together.
Regards, Brent.
P.S. This marketing stuff isn’t as hard as most of the ‘gurus’ make out.
They tell you it’s hard so they can sell you their shit, but you don’t need that.
You can use free tools for 99% of what you need to do to make a buck.
That 1%? You can use their free trial until you make money and pay for an upgrade.
This training and forum will give you a deeper insight than the emails will, plus you can ask questions of the author and me when you get stuck or don’t understand something.
This is a paid product, but it is ridiculously inexpensive for what you get.
You probably know that quote from the childrens’ book Henny Penny.
Most people don’t remember the ending of that story unless they have young children or grandchildren that they have read it to recently.
And I’m not going to give it away here now.
You may also remember the story “The Boy Who Called Wolf.”
Both of these stories deal with the issue of getting the call wrong and making a big noise about it.
You may not get that the same issue arises with people who call what appear to be positive stories repeatedly.
The listeners will get the wrong impression from either scenario, which can hurt their lifestyle in one of two ways.
The negative stories impact them by causing them to take greater precautions that they might need.
The positive stories can cause them to take bigger risks than they should.
Dealing with the financial news of recent times, you could be forgiven if you believe that cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin in particular, are investments and assets to hold.
The share market is based on real companies making real products for real people and making real profits.
Well, mostly.
The share price of a company, in normal times, is based on what the market thinks is the value of that company.
Simply the capitalisation of the company divided by the number of shares gives the price of each share.
Cryptocurrencies have no intrinsic value, and they don’t exist except in someone’s digital wallet.
You can’t hold one in your hand, and you can’t buy very much with one in the real world.
At least with the Tulip Mania of 1634, you got to hold your excessively expensive tulip bulb.
If you have any cryptocurrency in your digital wallet, can I suggest you cash out at least the amount you put in initially, so you don’t lose it all?
It may well go to even sillier prices, but I think some of the whales are about to cash out, which will crash the market.
Regards, Brent.
P.S. Rather than gambling on being able to cash out when the price starts falling, perhaps a better strategy is to build something that’ll provide value for others and an income stream for you.
