Month: July 2016

Starting a drop shipping business is one of the leanest ways I’ve seen to bootstrap an online business without much money or experience. Before the Internet you needed to own machines, factories and buildings to start your own enterprise. Now anyone can do it online because we all have the same tools available and it’s … Continued

After hiring a virtual assistant never give your virtual assistant access to your PayPal account, Stripe dashboard or your credit card. Use common sense when hiring your virtual assistants. Look at their reviews, ratings, work history and portfolio. Get a feeling for them. Have a Skype call with them. Work with them for awhile. And then you … Continued

Here’s a quick overview of the various incoming and outgoing payments you need. You should be paying special attention on how you handle these transactions which are essencial to be running a drop shipping store. It’s not that complicated, but let’s clear things up. First of all you need a credit card or debit card to pay for … Continued

After finding you’re supplier you always want to make sure that your drop shipping items from AliExpress.com don’t include an invoice or receipt in the package, because you want the invoicing and receipt to be handled by you with your price rather than by the supplier. Here are a few steps to make sure that’s … Continued

There’s a great tool called UpViral.com that you can use to create and run viral contests. I’ve used the tool for a product launch last year and we built a launch list of around 10,000 email subscribers total. A big part of the traffic and emails we got came from viral sharing. Here’s what we … Continued

The reason why I’m able to consistently run cheap Facebook ads (low CPC) is because I always streamline everything. In direct-response advertising three things matter: 1) The offer 2) The message 3) The audience The more you can align these three elements in your advertising, the more engagement you will get, the more viral shares … Continued

Getting in touch with influencers is actually really easy once you have the balls and a strategic plan of action to start making moves. So here’s how to reach influencers. You just have to stop thinking that influencers are somehow cut from a different cloth, man up and reach out to them. It doesn’t mean … Continued

One of the easiest ways to convert cold traffic into buyers is by using tripwire offers. Trip wires are irresistible low-ticket, low-friction entry offers that offer a tremendous amount of value at a huge discount. Free plus shipping is a typical trip wire offer. See, the first sale is always the most difficult. Once I’ve … Continued

I’ve received a question from Islam and he asked me if I could give some tips about Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP). I have a few friends who are making passive income with Amazon KDP. They would publish their own kindle books and optimize everything for certain keywords. What they did was they used the … Continued