Archive for 2009

Success At Your Own Risk: The Monkey Bar Theory

Wednesday, May 13th, 2009

I’ve always avoided explaining why I break one “rule” of blogging that many people parrot by posting irregularly and infrequently, but here’s why: When I started this blog, I made a commitment to myself not to add to the noise pollution on the web by writing about anything that I didn’t have first hand experience […]

The Results of the $20,000 Passive Income Challenge

Monday, February 23rd, 2009

Last February, Dave Navarro and I put each other to a challenge… he put my ebook on how to start a freelance business to the test in a Freelance Smackdown to see if he could make an extra $1,000-$2000 per month in his spare time. Within a month, he had made that goal. Then I […]

The 7 Deadly Mistakes of Press Release Writing

Tuesday, January 27th, 2009

(BTW - it’s free!) Since launching our press release submission site, Tara and I have learned something truly important - many people are making some major mistakes when it come to writing and submitting press releases! To help others learn to write more effective press releases, we put together this free downloadable guide to writing […]

Turning Sh** Into Sugar

Sunday, January 18th, 2009

I’ve been kind of obsessed with 50 Cent’s new reality show ‘The Money and the Power.’ If you haven’t been following, it’s like a g-style version of The Apprentice where the contestants live in a crappy warehouse while they are tested and judged by Mr. Fitty and his G-Unit crew. Every week the challenges revolve […]

How I Ranked A Brand New Site In Google & Yahoo’s Top 10 Within 3 Weeks

Wednesday, January 7th, 2009

Three weeks ago, Tara and I launched a brand new free press release submission site – Online PR News. Today, 3 weeks later, it is ranking in the #9 spot (update, it is now in the #6 spot) in Google for one of our target keywords (competitiveness of the keyword is: 1,380,000), the #13 spot […]