Have you ever considered the market potential of selling your products in other languages?

I live in Spain, so it's always been in my mind to look at the opportunity to sell my products in Spanish. Let's do that now.

Search term - "How to use Twitter"

If I search on that term in English on Google, there are no less than 818 Million pages that come up! To sell my Beginner's Guide to Twitter, I have a heck of a lot of competition. And yet when I do the same search in Spanish, only 17 million pages appear.

So there are 48 times as many pages in English as there are in Spanish.  read more »

I've done it. I know of several well known internet marketers who have done it too.

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Many of us have sent a broadcast email with an incorrect link, the wrong information, or some other schoolboy error which necessitates yet another email to correct the problem.

And that almost always results in unsubscribes.

Here's a simple checklist you should go through before you press the "queue" button:  read more »

How much should we be charging for social media help?

I don't mean for people like us - we don't need it!

I'm talking about for conventional businesses. People who don't understand social media, but realise they need to "get into it."

I'm asked all the time for help, and I'm seeing more and more business opportunities.

It's not something I want to do loads of, but I quite enjoy it. My problem is in setting a price. So I'm curious to get your opinion, and I appreciate there will be geographical differences here.  read more »

I'd begun to think I was missing something. Maybe it was an age thing, or maybe I simply wasn't as intelligent as I thought I was.

The Beginning

When I started blogging, it all seemed simple. You had to find a vertical where you thought you could do better than the other players (I later found out we bloggers call them niches.) And you had to start a blog.  read more »

We had one hell of a party last night to celebrate Spain beating Germany for a place in the world cup final. The Cabildo (local government) set up a giant screen on El Reducto beach in Arrecife.

There was an amazing atmosphere, and the party then went on until dawn.

Here's a short video of some of it.

Fun!  read more »

I bet you can tell me right now which are your three most popular posts.

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What's your strategy with those?

Let me explain: The chances are that they are popular because they do well in search for you. Either by luck or good judgement, you have done something that has got them ranked well with the search engines. You've done the hard part!  read more »

At 9AM this morning I had a bill sent to me by a UK based company. By 9.06AM I had paid it online. The money will arrive in their currency, in their account tomorrow, or the day after. That's the beauty of electronic funds transfer - something I can do from this remote island in The Atlantic.

So will someone please tell me why certain US based companies I deal with insist on sending checks to me?

Apart from the fact that it takes me nearly three weeks to get the money, and I lose around 10% in commissions and currency exchange, has anyone stopped to consider the environmental aspect?  read more »

The alleged reception problems with the iPhone 4 are all over the web and conventional media. But in case you missed it, it seems that the signal strength reduces when the phone is held in a certain way.

Judging by the number of people writing and talking about it, I'm guessing that there is a problem.  read more »

It's a question I hear and see all the time. In forums, in emails, face to face. And it's usually accompanied by something like "My niche doesn't really lend itself to monetization."

Well, sorry, but any niche can be monetized, and most in a variety of ways.

Let's talk about them:

Indirect Advertising  read more »

We often bandy around phrases like "You are your the CEO of your business" and "It's important to start to think strategically about your business."

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But what does it actually mean to be a CEO? What is strategic thinking all about?

In simple terms, being a CEO is about delivering the best return on investment whilst making the best use of the assets available.  read more »