Watch the video below to see how in just 35 days I welcomed 1,035 highly-targeted and fully-opted-in subscribers on to my email marketing list… all from one print advert and a dead simple webpage!

(Click here for a transcript if you have any problems playing the video.)
Remember - the tactic I used can be adapted for [...]

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If you visited this blog at all over the last few weeks you may have seen the whole site was offline.
You may even have just seen a page like ‘page not found’ or ‘Database not connected’ or similar.
Quite embarrassing. Zen Internet, the award winning ISP who hosts this blog, and many of my friend’s and [...]

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Here’s a great way to start your day. If you have headphones, put them on now and turn up the volume…

Have a great day.
-Ed.
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In my recorded phone conversation with UK copywriting master Paul Gorman last week it became publicly known that I’m not a very good copywriter.
Luckily I never claimed to be — and that’s why copywriting is a tiny chapter in my strategy book, where I talk about headlines but also strongly encourage the reader to get [...]

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I’ve just created a short video that demonstrates a special webpage testing tactic that is guaranteed to increase sales. This short video shows the technology in live use on one of my own webpages — it’s without doubt one of the most powerful technologies available at the moment so check this out when you get [...]

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If you do a lot of writing check out this article on a great piece of software that can double the speed you output new content.

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Unless you’re already subscribed, when you read my blog you’ll see a box appear over the top of the page. That gives readers the chance to subscribe.
Once you’re subscribed you receive a short email each time I post to the blog, you get private access to password protected posts, and are informed the moment I [...]

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Many of the (small percentage of) website owners who make the wise move of regularly reviewing and using their online marketing statistics — to increase sales and marketing performance — are unfortunately wading in ‘dirty data’.
Their web site statistics that reveal how many people visit their for example includes their own, (and co-workers, investors and [...]

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Should you ask for a visitors email address before they buy from you for the first time? The answer may surprise you…

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I sometimes wonder how many of the programmes and tools I sell are actually used as intended.
So I’m over the moon when I find out someone is not just actually using one of my products, but has actually taken it a step further.
Cindy King very kindly reviewed my Blog Planner writing tool, and in the [...]

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119 people responded to my ’survey call’ on Monday and I’m staggered by the response (and also a bit humbled.) Thankyou to everyone who took part.
In addition to all the suggestions and awesome feedback there were also more than a handful of people who question how or why landing pages are so important — so [...]

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Today I’m going to leave you with some rules that make split-testing more effective.
Warning: This is a long article, but I want to give you some critical tools. If I only told you half the story and you split-test incorrectly it could waste precious marketing budget. So here’s all the critical advice in one go.
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In an earlier blog post (Link requests = more traffic & sales.) I explained how getting other sites to link back to yours will increase sales, and I explained the basic method for asking for links.
Since then a couple of readers made the following comments —
Ed, Good blog and advice, although it’s not easy [...]

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