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First of all, I’ve got to tell you that the $50,000 a year number is crazy super conservative. This gal, Judy, is earning more than that, but I wanted to make it realistic looking for even the newest marketer.

Okay, how does Judy (not her real name) pull in well over $50,000 a year with a monthly newsletter while spending only about 10 hours on it per month?

She promotes the newsletter to every person who joins her list when they join. This means when she’s giving away a lead...

In January 1949, Edward Dee brought his family from England to New Jersey, USA. He rented a facility, installed two machines, and began making a candy wafer roll called Smarties®.

If you’ve ever had one of these, you know each roll contains 15 disc-shaped candies of assorted colors and flavors. Pop one in your mouth, and you will get a pleasant, mild taste of… something.

It’s not always easy to figure out what the flavors are, and that’s because whatever the...

John McAfee was the eccentric founder and US presidential candidate. He died from an apparent suicide. According to some reports, he preferred to die than be extradited to the U.S. to face tax evasion, securities fraud, and money laundering charges for what he allegedly did during the 2000s. That is another story.

McAfee antivirus is what interests me. It's a poor product that McAfee sold his software company for $100 million in the 1990s. How did he do that?

Perhaps he was just in the right...

Twitch is the go-to platform for gamers, but you don’t have to be a gamer to make money on this social media site. If you want an exciting career as a streamer who can earn six and seven figures per year without being a gaming expert, then Twitch might be your new calling!

In addition to providing entertainment through gameplay videos or commentary from other streams like top players, there are many ways that people monetize their channels, including subscriber sponsorships and ads. One...

Marketing is hard - nobody said it would be easy. But the rewards of success are so much greater than any difficulties we might encounter on the way to achieving them.

Podcasts are a useful tool for those who wish to promote their business. It can be time-consuming and difficult, but there are many benefits to starting your own podcast. 

It takes time before you see any results with a lot of work-but the hard effort pays off!

But being a guest speaker on established podcasts – what...

I want to be clear right up front – there is NO stealing required to do this.

In fact, professionals have been doing this same thing forever, or at least since people have been creating stories, content, and so forth.

I’ll give you some movie examples:

Bridget Jones Diary (2001) is really a modern version of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice.

Clueless (1995) is based on Jane Austen’s Emma.

Cruel Intentions (1999) is a modern version of Pierre Choderlos de Lacios’...

This is a part-time business that quite literally requires no specialized knowledge, and you don’t even need a product.

You need just enough people skills to build rapport over the phone, Skype, Zoom, or whatever mode of communication you choose.

I know a guy who is doing this part-time, and based on my math, he seems to be making about $4,200 a month doing this 2 hours a day.

He charges his clients $35 a week for a 20-minute phone call, and he books about six clients per day during his...

You can add a super easy micro-recurring membership to your income in about 30 minutes, start to finish.

This assumes you already have some sort of product you’re selling as well as the ability to do a ‘bump’ upsell on the order form or create an upsell page.

A bump upsell is where you add a product to your order page with a tick box. The customer clicks the box to add the item to their order, and that’s it – it’s added with one click.

If your payment...

Why is it if we would like to be at our most creative and innovative, we resort to utilizing the very worn-out cliché at our disposal?

"We will need to think beyond the box on this one!"

It gives us guidelines and bounds about what we would like to achieve.

By way of instance, if the state I would like you to compose a post on fresh ways small companies can utilize social media, I have only given you a 'box.'

But should I let you get to work but provide you no idea what to do, then you...

In a traditional education you are taught there is ONE right answer.

Remember multiple choice tests? You were told that “C” was the right answer and “A” “B” and “D” were wrong.

But what if there is a “E”, an “F” or even several hundred different possibilities?

Nope. According to school, there is always ONE right answer.

It makes grading tests a whole lot easier, plus it trains people to follow orders from bosses who...