James Mcallister Online Audio Blog - Business, Marketing, Entrepreneurship

Regardless of your current level of course sales, you could be making more. Your work isn't over once your course is published, you've simply moved onto the next stage. With a few small changes in your strategy, it's possible to drastically increase the number of enrollments you receive in your online courses. In this episode, we'll go over some methods you can begin utilizing to increase traffic to your course sales pages, and develop a framework that ensures your conversion rates continue to improve over time. View the article on my site: https://jamesmcallisteronline.com/online-course-conversions/

WordPress is one of the most powerful content management systems in the world, powering more than 75 million different websites around the web. However, there is a major difference between WordPress.com, and WordPress.org. As tempting as it may be to start your site on the 100% free WordPress.com version of WordPress, it's important to know what you're giving up by making this decision. In this episode, we look over the differences between WordPress.com and WordPress.org in more detail, and help you make the decision that's right for you - setting yourself up for blogging success in the long-term. View the post on my site here: https://jamesmcallisteronline.com/reconsider-hosting-wordpress-com/

When it comes to internet marketing, every niche is different. The strategies that may work in one niche won't work in another, and it's important to take all factors into account when determining your traffic building and monetization strategy. In this episode, we focus specifically on competitive markets, where gaining initial traffic is difficult. We discuss what you need to do to begin making those initial sales, and establishing a framework that will put you in a position for steady long-term growth in the future. View the post on my site here: https://jamesmcallisteronline.com/succeed-competitive-niches/

Balancing both a side hustle, and a traditional full-time job can be difficult. After all, you only have a limited amount of time each day to get things done, and every minute counts. In order to eventually succeed and work on your business full-time, it's important you have the right strategy in place. In this episode, we'll go over 7 tactics you can use to build up your side hustle in the most effective manner possible, while still ensuring that you hit all of your targets with your traditional job as well. This will remove all of the risk of your new venture, allowing you to take this two-pronged approach until your business is making enough money to cover all of your expenses, and become the only thing you focus on. View the post on my site here: https://jamesmcallisteronline.com/side-hustle-with-job/

One of the wonderful things about digital info products is that they never have to be truly 'complete'. You can go back and update them, making changes, improving and expanding them over time. It's possible for your product to blossom into something many multiples larger, months or years after release. In this episode, we'll go over more about why you need to continue updating your products over time, and how to do so in a way that continues stacking on value for your customers. Ultimately, this will lead to higher customer satisfaction, a stronger brand, and more copies being sold. View the full post here: https://jamesmcallisteronline.com/improve-info-products/

When you're just starting out, converting visitors into buyers can be extremely difficult. You're unknown to just about everybody, and nobody trusts you or your company. Your lack of social proof is working against you, rather than for you, and you have so little data to work with, further optimizing your sales pages can seem impossible. In this episode, let's look over some things you can do to establish trust prior to making the sale, and other conversion optimization tips to implement early on. Read the full post here: https://jamesmcallisteronline.com/establishing-trust-before-sale/

More people than ever are making the wise decision to invest, in an effort to secure their financial future. Unfortunately, this has also led to many people pushing shady investments based on their own agenda. When you're just starting out, any earnings you'll gain through traditional methods will not yield you a significant return. Therefore, you need to change your focus, and invest in you - growing your income, and increasing your earning potential in the future. View the post on the site here: https://jamesmcallisteronline.com/early-investment-strategy/

There's a big misconception in marketing that you need a large audience to make a sizeable amount of money. For most companies, this often isn't true. With a loyal, engaged, passionate following, it doesn't take a lot of people to make a sizeable amount of money. It only takes the right system in place to maximize the lifetime return on each customer acquired. In this episode, we go over some free strategies to build your brand from scratch, attracting the right people to help your company flourish. View the post on the site here: https://jamesmcallisteronline.com/first-10000-fans/

In today's entrepreneurial world, branding is over-hyped. It's not that branding isn't important, because it absolutely is. It just shouldn't be the only form of marketing that you're doing. Every business needs to find the right balance between branding and direct response marketing. In this episode, we discuss why this is important, and share tips to help you find that perfect balance - helping you make the most out of your marketing resources! View the post on the site here: https://JamesMcAllisterOnline.com/branding-vs-direct-response/ Check out my products here: https://JamesMcAllisterOnline.com/products/

Entrepreneurship is challenging, and when you're doing it all by yourself, it's even more so. You're responsible for every aspect of the company and need to fulfill each and every job role. You're wearing a lot of hats, and juggling a lot of plates. However, some skills are more important than others. In this video, let's look over the 10 most important skills solopreneurs need to master if their goal is to grow their company to bigger and better places.

Creating your very own product for sale doesn't have to be difficult, nor does it have to take a lot of upfront investment (either in time or money.) However, if you're a blogger, YouTuber, podcaster, or other content creator in any form, you need a product. The benefits are immense, and offering your own product for sale is one of the quickest ways to increase your income online. In this episode, we go over why creating a digital product is so important, as well as some ideas worth considering that you can develop quickly.

In business, change is inevitable, and it's often outside of our control. Even if you do everything right, some sort of tragedy can very quickly wipe out all of your hard work. So many entrepreneurs have spent years finally growing success in their business, only to have it wiped out in a matter of weeks with a bogus lawsuit, or loss of a key money maker (such as a specific platform or client you became too dependent on.) However, personal branding has the benefit of being relatively indestructible, among several other key benefits. In this video, we take a look at personal branding in more detail, and what makes it uniquely special. View the full post here: https://jamesmcallisteronline.com/need-personal-brand Check out my products here: https://jamesmcallisteronline.com/products

In business, change is inevitable. This is good and bad for us as entrepreneurs. On one hand, it ensures we always have to be on the edge, making adjustments to our business strategy accordingly. On the other, it means that there is room to capitalize on this if we're ready to. As the world advances (and speeds up in its advancement), entire industries will be shifted, and nobody will be unaffected. In this video, we discuss why companies who are already doing well are most at risk, and discuss how you can start making changes to your strategy today, to ensure the long-term viability of your organization. View the full post here: https://jamesmcallisteronline.com/james-mcallister-online Check out my products here: https://jamesmcallisteronline.com/products

In business, it shouldn't take a lot of investment in time or money to begin pulling your first bit of revenue - especially online. In this post, we'll go over a business idea that certainly isn't glamorous, but will begin pulling in money right away - money you can use to scale, reinvest into other projects, or at the very least, stay encouraged as you grow your earnings over time! View the full post here: https://jamesmcallisteronline.com/james-mcallister-online Check out my products here: https://jamesmcallisteronline.com/products

It's hard to stay away from a good thing forever. In the first episode of the James McAllister Online audio blog, I formally announce my return to the world of internet marketing, discussing topics such as: * Where I've been these past few years, and why I lost touch with my audience * Growing pains I experienced while building two consumer product brands from scratch, to over 100,000 unit sales. * The death of my former website, 'Help Start My Site', and what's changing with my new website - James McAllister Online View the full post here: jamesmcallisteronline.com/james-mcallister-online Check out my products here: jamesmcallisteronline.com/products