Have you ever found yourself, or rather, your creative genius lacking inspiration?  Like you’re ton of ideas and super cool posts have disappeared?  I’ll bet you have at some stage.  It’s one of the most frustrating issues many bloggers face.  I’ve faced it myself.  Often this is the main reason that the vast majority of people who start blogging eventually quit after a few months.  They run out of steam. So the question remains, how [...]

It’s been a while since I’ve written an update on my niche site development.  Since my last post on Ranking on Page 1 on Google, I’ve come to realise a few things.  In this post, I will be discussing some of the things that I’ve learned and realised because I’d been using solely free methods of research.  I also introduce a popular software program that I recently acquired, and discuss how I use it in [...]

In the previous part of this series, we covered inputting the required information to MailChimp to satisfy all the legal things about mailing lists.  Additionally, you should now be familiar with the MailChimp dashboard as well.  This part focuses on setting up your email list in MailChimp.  Go ahead and sign into your MailChimp dashboard, and click on the “List” tab.  This article will finish with the HTML you need to integrate into your website.

In this part of the series on how to create an opt-in for your website, we focus on setting up your MailChimp account with all the required information, as well as giving you an overview of how the user area in MailChimp actually works.  To make use of this section of the series, you will require your login details, created at the end of Part 1. A further note, before continuing.  I don’t want to [...]

Opt-in forms, or subscription forms, are common place on many websites which are there to serve the purpose of capturing useful information from your readers.  It is common practise to request a readers name (be it full name, or just forename) and their email address.  The purpose of this is two-fold.  By collecting your readers name, you immediately have a simple means to identifying with them when you get in touch.  Similarly, the collection of [...]

Yes, you did read right – making money online is a scam.  At least this is what I originally thought about a year ago when I first started to realise people were making a living from the internet.  Over the past 6 months I’ve been actively learning about making money online.  I’ve learned a lot, from blogging, to marketing and various methods to monetise your website.  In this post I want to discuss what made [...]