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What is the best length for a blog post? Answers and Tips

July 4, 2018 Gail Lowe 11 comments

The answer to the question, “what is the best length for a blog post?” is the same as the old adage about a piece of string. It really depends on a number of things including: the type of post the intended audience your style your purpose in writing the post the problems you are solving for your audience the time you have There is no ‘magic number’ that all posts have to be although you will find guidance out there that will recommend posts of a certain length. When I first dabbled in blogging and content marketing a few years

Ways to improve time management: the urgent or important matrix

June 14, 2018 Gail Lowe 10 comments

This post contains affiliate links. How do you decide what to do with your day? Everyone has the same 24 hours in a day, 7 days a week and 52 weeks in a year. So how do some people manage to get so much more done than others? Is it because they are Superman and Supergirl masquerading as ordinary people? Or are they employing strategies that are superior to that of the average person? There are many ways to improve your time management and there are many scheduling and project planning tools on the market today that claim to help

Wealthy Affiliate Premium Membership is a MUST: 4 Reasons Why

June 5, 2018 Gail Lowe 8 comments

This post will explain 4 reasons why you should take out a Premium Membership at Wealthy Affiliate and why a premium membership is a MUST if you are truly serious about your business. . The article is aimed mainly at a number of different readers: 1) People who are seriously interested in starting an online business and are looking for the best way to start 2) Wealthy Affiliate members who are on the starter membership and are considering upgrading to premium 3) Any members who have considered leaving because they have yet to see a return 4) Members who are

How much does it cost to start an online business? Wealthy Affiliate Explained

May 4, 2018 Gail Lowe 4 comments

If you are reading this blog, then chances are you are looking for at least researching how to start an online business. Maybe you’ve seen some adverts on the internet, maybe you’re fed up with your regular 9-5 job and are looking for a change, or maybe you just realise that there has to be more to life than you are getting at the moment and are looking to the internet and newer technologies because you realise that we are in the middle of another work revolution and want to get on the first wave rather than bring up the

Entrepreneur vs employee: the cashflow quadrant

May 2, 2018 Gail Lowe 4 comments

(This article contains affiliate links) Many people search online every day for a way to make a living using the internet. Some have a great idea that they will turn into millions, some want to create a small extra monthly income to relieve a financial pressure; and there are people at every level in between. What’s the difference between an entrepreneur vs.an employee and does it really make any difference if you want to start a career online? There are nearly 170,000 searches of the term “make money online” each month in Google alone and that does not include Bing,

10 traits of an online entrepreneur mindset

May 1, 2018 Gail Lowe 6 comments

Many people are searching for a new way to make a living online and are looking to become online entrepreneurs. You may well be one of them, which is why you have arrived here. But do you have an entrepreneurial mindset to help you on your way? In a previous article, I talked about the difference between being an employee and being an employer using Robert Kiyosaki’s cashflow quadrant. In this article, I will discuss 10 traits that you need to have or develop to develop an online entrepreneur mindset. The Entrepreneur Mindset 1. Risk-taker Taking risks in business is

6 things to do before you start a website for a business

April 30, 2018 Gail Lowe 10 comments

If you want to know how to start a website for a business, then this article will show you how to get started and give you some tips and advice. It is aimed at people with little or no experience of setting up a site and no experience of HTML or computer programming but who need to set up a website either AS a business or FOR a business. So below are my 6 action points for setting up your business website. You can print out this article too and tick of the actions as you have done them. 1.

How to start an online business for free: the Wealthy Affiliate Way

April 3, 2018 Gail Lowe 18 comments

How to start and online business for free: the Wealthy Affiliate way. What do you dream of? More money, greater freedom, more free time? I know I do. And I thought I knew how to get them. I’d seen the adverts on the internet promising a wonderful ‘laptop lifestyle’. They’re all over YouTube and Google Ads. And as soon as you click on one, then every time you shop for some new shoes or a new pillow, you see more and more people offering you the “way” into your dream. Many people dream of owning their own online business because

How to make money from a website: 5 easy ways

March 11, 2018 Gail Lowe 4 comments

Many people write blogs or have an online presence, even if it is just a FaceBook account and many of those want to know how to make money from a website. It’s a simple question and the answer is that there are a lot of different ways to monetize your sites so that it can become a source of income for you. In fact, if you are the owner of a website, then having that site generates money for you should be a priority whichever way you do it. Why did you set up your website in the first place?