Chris Garrett
Build your business by sharing what you know
In the last post in this series I explained my preferred approach to business blogs. Let’s take a look at why you would bother creating a business blog. What benefits can you acquire by blogging? As you would expect, I am a firm believer in the benefits of blogging for business, but I do know …
Business Blogs are a mystery to many people. How does content produce customers? Aren’t blogs a lot of work? What is the least you can do to make a blog work for your business? In this overview I aim to show you that, yes, there is work to be done, but it need not consume …
Have you seen Kevin Kelly’s “1,000 True Fans“? You will likely see this excellent article mentioned on other blogs. It’s one of those posts I wish I had written, because I have tried to recommend similar ideas, just not as well. What he says is that an artist can make a living from 1,000 true …
Since I wrote about affiliate marketing I have had quite a lot of feedback. While there are a lot of people saying they are cautiously going to give it a go, many more have told me one of two things: Woooah! Yes there is a great deal of money to be made in affiliate marketing, …
It was interesting to see Yaro talk about Affiliate Marketing as I had also been having a discussion on the topic and wanted to share my own advice. Do check out Yaro’s post. The key point I want to repeat is this one: Those early days taught me that patience is a virtue when it …
As most people who read this blog know, giving away information is what I do. I write, answer emails, give away ebooks, give talks. Thankfully I also pay the bills. The way I do that is by charging for information. Specific, bespoke advice, workshops, consulting calls, teaching classes. So many times people have queried the …
Today I have something for you to think about. I figure this is a good time, being as we are at the start of a new year. It’s a word for you to consider. That word is “compelling”. In marketing and blogging people often throw around the word compelling. It is right up there with …
One of the stranger aspects of being paid for offering your advice is how much easier it is to see in others the same mistakes you overlook in your own work. Have you noticed that? On Saturday I was lucky to meet Liz briefly and she gave me some constructive criticism about my blog. The …
I was chatting to a couple of bloggers over the weekend and I thought the discussion was divided and interesting enough to open up to you guys. As we often do we got around to talking about cool sites we have seen recently. I mentioned “Why Digg is Blocked” and almost immediately regretted it. One …
Why? “Why?” might be the most important question you can ask. Why should someone visit my blog? Why would someone buy from me rather than anyone else? Why ought someone choose this product? Why advertise with me? Why do readers like this over that? Why am I doing this? Why are we in this situation? …
I am getting a bit annoyed with the Hollywood writers strike. Not at the writers but at what people are saying about them. While I do not know any details about what caused the strike, the popular perception seems to be these writers are over-paid already. Some are obviously paid very well indeed, I expect …
What is wealth to you? What attitudes do you have towards money? Are you attracted and enthused by the idea of business or are your feelings conflicted or negative? A couple of people have told me they get uncomfortable talking about money. In fact reading about business or making money makes them feel uncomfortable. It’s …
While in previous entries of this series I mentioned how the implementation is more important than the idea, no human endeavor in this world happens without someone first having a brainwave. Look around, how many things that we take for granted were some bright sparks moment of inspiration (often followed by years of perspiration). Making …
Making money online need not be something you only dream about. In this series I hope I have given you some ideas and inspiration that show you really can do this. A common theme in feedback though has been an issue of confidence, so let’s address that now.
Making real money online does not happen inside your head, it happens out in the world. If you are like me you will have lots of ideas that never get acted on. We need to go from day-dreaming to doing! In the previous entry of this series I talked about scaling up your operations. How …
Making real money online means breaking out of the limitations you have set yourself. We all constrain our earnings in our own ways. This post is how you can change your approach to earning money and break through your profit ceiling.
In the first part of this series I showed three earning styles. People earn money by working for it directly, creating a business that makes them money or by investing. While there are no rights or wrongs, and most of us actually never leave the first category of working to earn, the best potential for …
I have made many mistakes since becoming a professional blogger and new media consultant but todays post is about the biggest financial mistake I have made and what I am doing about it. What is this big mistake? I am sure it is a mistake many people make but before I describe it, let me …
