This week, Ken Boyd joins me on the show to discuss how to grow your online platform through YouTube. Ken is the author of four Dummies books and including his latest "1,001 Accounting Questions for Dummies". 

Ken will share how he got the opportunity to write these books by having a YouTube channel. 

You can find this episode show page at www.BIBPodcast.com/321.

This week Allen Taylor joins me on the show to share his story on making a full time income online through freelance writing and ebook publishing. 

You can find this episode showpage at www.bibpodcast.com/315. 

This week I interview Heidi Nazarudin of TheSuccessfulStyle.com. Heidi is a former CEO turned style expert and blogger. 

You can find this episode at www.bibpodcast.com/312

This week, I interview LaTisha Styles. She is the founder of YoungFinances.com.

The site generate her income through affiliate marketing of financial products and advertising
with Adsense.


You can find this episode at www.bibpodcast.com/311

This week, voiceover artist Scott Reynes joins me to share his story on how he earns income from his voice. 

You can fins this week's showpage at www.bibpodcast.com/310

This week we welcome Becky Fox of FoxFitness.com on the show. Becky will be talking about how's she changed her personal training fitness business into an online format where she now creates passive income with video tutorials and blog posts regularly. 

We are looking forward to a gret New Year with lots of opportunity and cool stuff to do. Join us as we take a look at some recent concerns and how to tackle problems as well as sieze opportunities.

See the showpage at http://bibpodcast.com/podcasts/217-welcome-to-2013-the-year-of-opportunity

This week, we'll be taking more online marketing questions. You can find this week's showpage at www.bibpodcast.com/213. 

This week, guet expert Jeff Steinmann of Braveauexperts.com joins us to talk about how to make money from your expertise. 

Plus, we'll be taking more great listener questions on:

• Whether it's a good idea to buy aged domains or previously existing sites and turn them into passive income. 
• WHat to do with a Christmas site that has potential
• Whether to build a Wordpress site or a forum site around a niche site for baby boomers 

You can find this week's showpage at www.bibpodcast.com/191. 

This week, we play a previously recorded interview with Paul Reddick of the 90MPHClub.com. Paul discusses how he leveraged his expertise as a former baseball player and professional scout to build a successful coaching business using information products. 

You can find this week's showpage at www.bibpodcast.com/190. 

This week we'll be back to taking more questions on the show:

One of our listeners, Gary is wanting us to review and audit his website. We'll give him an honest critique. 

Terry wants to know how much he should charge for his first DVD on Amazon? 

Frank wants to know how to find out what Google images are in public domain and what the restrictions are on using them. 

Tracey wants to set her WordPress site up like a community so that she can have regular contributors that log in and post articles. 

All this and more! 

You can find this showpage episode at www.bibpodcast.com/189

This week Jonathan Hostetler joins us this week to talk about his experience building passive income online through his niche adsense sites. 

We'll also be taking more online business questions. 

You can find this episode's showpage at www.bibpodcast.com/188. 

This week, we have ther please of talking with William and Liam Murray. They'll be talking how they've managed to create an exclusive tribe of followers using Facebook and how anyone can build their own community groups using the system they discuss. 

Pierce Marrs joins us to talk about his popular SharkTank fan podcast. Pierce is the president and founder of Marrs Coaching in Nashville, TN.

After spending more than twenty-five years in the field of sales, both training and managing sales people, Pierce decided he wanted something more; so he decided to follow his passion and focus on providing Sales, Career, and Life Coaching to individuals, small businesses, and religious organizations.

His podcast is a great lesson on how to launch a successful podcast. Start with something popular people are already talking about and create a show around it. And what a great show it is!

To visit this episode's showpage, visit www.bibpodcast.com/184.

This week Joe Mattera of TechKnow247 stops by for a chat to talk about online security, preventative maintenance and why you should never take your computer to a big box store for repair. 

Plus we'll have more online business questions and answers! 

You can find this week's showpage at www.bibpodcast.com/183

This week, we interview Michael Fleischner, co-author of the new book Blogging Made Simple: Powerful Strategies for Blogging Success. Michael will be talking to us about his new book, the new Google Penguin update and how blogging has changed in regards to all of the new Google changes. 

You can find this episode on our show post at www.bibpodcast.com/180

This week, we take more great questions on the show; plus we'll be interviewing Jarrett Billicek on how to use Facebook ads to market your online business. 

Visit us at www.bibpodcast.com for more weekly online business tips and resources. 

This week, we have more great questions on the show, plus David Dutton stops by to chat about about Podcamp Nashville next Saturday April 14th.

David will be speaking on on the topic of How to Make Money from Interviews - Lessons Learned from Interviewing 103 Entrepreneurs. David's session will be at 9 am on Saturday morning, so if you're planning to attend PCNashville, be sure to stop by his session.

To check out this week's show page,  visit:

http://bibpodcast.com/

This week, we have another fantastic show with more great listener questions, plus a great interview with Ryan Moran on the topic of "Flipping Websites". 

You don't want to miss this show!

Visit us each week at www.bibpodcast.com for more free online business tips and resources. 

This week, we have the privilege of welcoming social media strategist Kim Garst on the show to talk about Pinterest. Kim has just written a brand new book that I highly recommend called "The Quick and Easy Guide to Branding Your Business and Creating Massive Sales with Pinterest".

I bought the Kindle version over the weekend and love it. It's full of so many great marketing strategies that you can use to promote your products and services. Kim has been listed in Forbes as one of the top 50 Social Media Power Influencers.

Kim will be sharing how business owners, who sell both products and services can benefit from the power of Pinterest.

For more weekly online business tips, visit us at www.bibpodcast.com. 

This week, we have more great questions about Wordpress, Ejunkie, Hyphenated Domain Names, Sales Pages and More! 

Don't forget to visit us at www.bibpodcast.com for free weekly online business tips and resources. 

This week, we take more great questions on the show! 

1) John wants to know if E-junkie is the best option for delivering both digital and physical products. We give an honest assessment of Ejunkie since this is the platform that we’re currently using.
2) Richard wants to know of a contact form he can use on his website; One that features a captcha code block to minimize the spam. We recommend a couple of great contact form plugins for WordPress plus some options if he’s not using WordPress for his site.
3) Greg wants a good USB headset recommendation for doing screencast tutorials, webinars, Skype, voiceovers and video conferencing. Since we do all of these on a pretty regular basis, we give him our recommendations depending on his budget – the Sennheiser PC 166 or thePlantronics Audio 655 . Both are excellent headset mics that offer solid sound quality.
4) Renee wants to know what search criteria we use for doing keyword research on Market Samurai.

5) And finally Derrick is creating a political video for YouTube and would like a good resource for finding free stock photos since he’s already spent about $20 pictures at Big Stock Photo.

Visit us each week for more online business tips and resources at www.bibpodcast.com

This week we were pleased to have award winning copywriter Sean McCool stopped in for an interview. Sean works directly with one of the largest information publishing companies on the planet - the $800 million Agora Inc.

We had the privilege of having Sean speak at one of our local marketing meetups this past week and of course it was so great that I asked Sean to come on the show this week to talk about the same topic - "Strategies for Increasing Your Email Open Rate".

On this interview, Sean will be  sharing:

• The 5 phases every market goes through and how to tailor your message to each.
• The biggest misunderstanding aout marketing and the truth about what makes buyers buy.
• Seven subject line formulas guaranteed to boost open rates
• Why standing at the checkout line at your grocery store could help to increase your online sales
• and much more

If you're looking for some killer strategies to boost your open email open rates, don't miss this week's show!

For more weekly online business tips, visit us at www.bibpodcast.com

This week, Josh Anderson of Nanocast joins us to talk about video and how to optimize it for your website. In this interview Josh, gives some great tips for rendering your video in the right format so that it loads plays quickly without the long buffer times.

If you enjoy this video, don't forget that we'll be covering all of this in more detail next Tuesday on our video marketing webinar. So if you haven't signed up, head over to www.BIBPodcast.com/videomarketing and get signed up today. 

We also take some more great questions this week on the show. 

• Keith wants to know whether he should buy a domain that has a trademarked domain. 
• Kevin is for a good email Autoresponder service and wants to know which one to go with - Constant Contact, Mail Chimp, Aweber, iContact? 
• George wants to know if there is a downside to using Kunaki's free barcode on his cds and dvds. 

We take these questions and more! 

Join us each week at www.bibpodcast.com for more tips on starting an online business. 

On this week's show we spend time answering more questions.

• Jean wants to know where to find an uncomplicated e-commerce theme for WordPress. Remember, the word Jean used is "uncomplicated". We spend some time talking about one of our favorite WordPress theme sites- elegantthemes.com; It has some fantastic e-commerce themes; plus they have excellent training and support.
•  Jason wants to know what to do with content from a site that has recently expired. Can he re-use it without getting penalized by Google for submitting duplicate content? We'll be discussing how Jason can handle this.
• Dean wants to know if there is an easy way to convert .mp4 and .mov video files to avi. We  spend some time sharing one free converter ( Cineform converter ) that will allow you to do just that. You can find it at  http://gopro.com/3d-cineform-studio-software-download.
• Charlie needs a simple site where members can easily embed YouTube videos. He wants to know whether he should use a forum software or just a simple Facebook page.
• Don wants to know what to do if you accidently forget to renew your domain subscription and it expires. Does that person lose the domain name right away or is there a window of time that allows them to still renew it?

We'll be covering all of this an more on this week's show!

This week, we kick the new year off answering questions on the show. 

Rick is having trouble with Market Samurai. It seems after running a number of keyword searches, Rick gets a message telling him he's been blocked from Google due to too many searches. 

Mike is changing one of his websites over to a WordPress blog and wants to make sure any visitors to the old site pages get re-directed over to the new location. 

Tobey is wanting to trademark his business name is confused about how to go about the process. 

Val wants to know the easiest way to upload a video and embed it on his site without using YouTube. 

And Danny has had some recent problems with Amazon S3 shutting down his account and wants to know if screencast.com is good alternative. 

We'll have these questions and more! 

For more weekly online business tips and resources, visit www.bibpodcast.com. 

For New Years's weekend, we decided to re-play an encore presentation of an interview we did with Andrew Lock, host of the weekly online show "Help My Business Suck!". Andrew will share his story of how he created a successful video podcast show right out of his own garage. 

For more weekly online business tips and resources, visit our podcast show site at www.bibpodcast.com. 

This Christmas weekend, we run an encore episode of the BIB Podcast show with a fantastic interview we did with Nick Usborne over a year ago. We'll be talking to Nick about his recent book, "NEW PATH TO RICHES: How Your Neighbors are Making a Big Second Income by Writing and Publishing Their Own Money-Making Websites". 

We hope all you have a wonderful Christmas and a Happy New Year! 

For more weekly online marketing tips, visit our blog and podcast site at www.bibpodcast.com. 

On this week's episode, I (Jonathan) make a crucial error the recording of our show. While Russell and I are recording (or so we thought) episode 159 I notice that my Edirol R-09 recorder is not running and immediately realize that the battery power had drained during the show.

As quick as I could, I grab my AC plugin adapter and hook it into the recorder but be then I realize I've missed most of the show. 

Unfortunately I had to go in and re-record 80% of the show by myself afterward. You'll be able to hear Russell at the end of the show but for the most part it's just me solo (sorry Russell). Obviously there's a big lesson here - Always Check Your Equipment Before You Start a Show! 

On this week's episode, we take plenty of questions: 

• Jason wants to know if he really needs a private policy statement for his website. 
• Derrick wants to know about a professional yet affordable mic for doing his own voiceovers
• Andrew wanst to know if there is an easy way to integrate Ejunkie with Kunaki
• Joe wants to know if there are any special video card requirements for editing and rendering video. 

We'll be taking these questions and more! 

Don't forget to visit our site each weeks at www.bibpodcast.com for more free weekly tips on starting an online business. 

In this week's episode we answer more questions on the show. Questions like:

• Why isn't Google XML Sitemap working with WordPress later than 2.7?
• What's the best software out there for creating great looking ebook, CD & DVD covers?
• Where's the best place to get royalty free music, photos, videos  etc.?
• How long should a squeeze page video be? 
• And much more! 

We hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday weekend. Russell and I took the weekend off from doing a show this week, but we still wanted to run a past interview that you all might enjoy.

This week's episode features a a fantastic interview we did some time ago with public domain expert Tony Ladig. In this audio interview, Tony shares how he's built a very successful online business turning public domain works into passive income.

So what do I mean by "public domain"? Well simply stated, it refers to any work where the copyright has expired. Most works created prior to 1923 automatically fall into public domain.  Public domain works offers a tremendous opportunity for online marketers who are looking to create content or information products. Here's an example. One of my favorite little books that sits on my office bookshelf is one that was written back in 1902 by James Allen  called "As a Man Thinketh".

While this book is well over a century old, it continues to be published and sold in ebook and physical book format; and because it was published in 1902, anyone is free to publish and sell this book or use it as free giveaway for email subscribers.

In this week's episode, you'll get to hear how Tony uses public domain works for his product development.

For more weekly online business tips, visit www.bibpodcast.com.

This week, we bring in a special guest that I've been wanting to interview for the past few months. Scott Foster of NeedanArticle.com joins us on the show this week to talk about the new changed to his article writing service. I had emailed Scott months ago about joining us for an interview, and while he wanted to come the show, he asked if we could hold off until he's able to implement all of the new changes at NAA. 

Just recently they completed most of those changes and offer a much more user friendly site that allows new members to easily find and hire quality writers for the website and product content. 

Scott will be sharing his story about he started NAA from a simple problem that he kept running into - finding qualified writers that aren't tied up with other projects. Scott knew the frustration of relying on one writer, so he developed a service that provided multiple writers for members that needed content done quickly. 

Russell and I both use the NAA service for our niche websites and can certainly attest to the high level of service and support that Scott offers.

You can find out more about Scott's membership service by visiting www.NeedanArticle.com

For more weekly tips and how to start an online business that generates monthly passive income, visit us at www.bibpodcst.com.

This week we play a previous interview we did some time ago with Dr. Nathan Wei, publisher of arthritis-treatment-and-relief.com. We wanted to re-play this episode because it's a great example of leveraging your own expertise by turning your knowledge into passive income online.

Too often, people go searching for the right niche to go into without first evaluating their own knowledge and expertise. In this interview, you'll hear how Dr. Wei took his knowledge and experience as a a board-certified rheumatologist, and had used it to create passive income generating site. 

For more weekly online marketing tips, visit our site at www.bibpodcast.com. 

This week we talk about "information marketing" and our upcoming webinar training - the BIB Info Product Mastery Course this coming Tuesday Nov. 8th at 8pm EST. If you haven't registered for this webinar training yet you can do so by going to www.bibpodcast.com/infoproducts.

We'll be playing an interview we did with the legendary copywriter Bob Bly. Bob will share his own success with  information marketing. Bob has recently authored a new book called How to Write & Sell Simple Information for Fun and Profit. In it Bob shows how anyone can earn a significant income through selling ebooks, special reports, audio programs and DVDs.

In our interview, Bob talks about how he first got started selling his first ebook and how this has led to selling countless other special reports and audio products.

• We'll also be answering more questions such as:
• What's the best (and most affordable) video editing program for a PC.
• How to change fonts within Wordpress
• Where to find professional looking website  themes for WordPress
• and finally how to edit your Kindle ebook once you've uploaded it to Amazon.

Episode 152 has great info on Webslite Tools like powerful plugins, hosting, and more. Plus, listener questions lead us into some great discussions and discoveries.

Tools! List Building! Free! Premium List Magnet

Cheap Headers

DeployMySite.com

How to get more done in less time

Niche Website Webinar update

Great Content ideas for your site

Is Your Site A Drive Through... or A Dine In? And what difference does it make?

Google and Amazon and Panda and... (listen for details)

Should you duplicate your site if you use a similar domain (like the plural)? The answer may surprise you.

This week, we'll be playing a previously recorded interview that we did over a year ago with tech blogger Eric Reagan. This is one of the best interviews we have archives.

Eric shares his story of he left his job as a corporate attorney to pursue his true passion- photography. No, Eric didn't become a photographer; Instead he created what is today a very popular blog in the photography industry called PhotographyBay.com. Eric now earns a very good full time income from this blog. 

Eric will talk about how he has been able to build a large following in such a broad niche. 

Also, our friend Leon Spencer will call in to give us an update from Podcamp Cincinnati 2011. 

Join us each week at www.BIBPodcast.com for all our latest updates and online marketing tips. 

This week, we take more questions on the show. Jason wants to know how Russell & I started out working together through our local Meetup, and how he can create a mastermind group in his own community. 

We'll also be taking more niche website questions. We'll talk about whether or not it's wise to allow comments on your Wordpress site, how to build hidden pages that don't show up in the navigation bar and more! 

Don't forget to visit our site at www.bibpodcast.com for more online business tips each week.

This week we answer more questions questions about creating passive income online. Rick asks a question that I'm sure alot of people are wondering - When using Market Samurai, what criteria do you use to determine the right niche. Is it SEOT (seo traffic), or SEOC (competition) or PBR (phrase to broad ratio). 

I use my example of selecting my recent niche "gallstone diet" to explain why I chose it based on the numbers in Market Samurai. 

We also answer some questions regarding "refunds" and how to deal with them when selling DVDs through fulfillment sites like Kunaki. 

For more free online tips and resources, be sure to visit www.bibpodcast.com. 

For our mid week segment, I thought I would run an interview Russell & I did a year ago with Jonathan. In this interview,  Jonathan talks about article spinning - specifically why most of the article spinning software out there is not worth the money, and how he's managed to separate himself from the rest by creating a truly unique and remarkable  product like the Best Spinner.

Jonathan is running on a special on this powerful software but it will only last another day. Normally it's $77 per year but  for until Friday October 7th at midnight you can get it for just $47. Even if you miss that deadline, he still normally offers a $7 trial for 7days. You can get a copy at www.thebestspinner.com.

On this week's show, we spend time talking about our new niche websites that we've decided on during the Niche Website Training webinar series.

Russell will be sharing his thought process and research process for coming up with his new site topic - slow cookers. I'll be sharing my topic as well. It's not a product review site like Russell's, but one that based on the search numbers and competition using Market Samurai, could develop into a nice stream of income on the side.

Both of the niches we've selected are evergreen, meaning that these are topics that people should still be searching for online 10 years from now. We'll be keeping everyone posted on our progress as we develop these sites.

We'll also be tackling some more questions on the show today. We'll be sharing our opinions on the following:

Why we always recommend WordPress over Dreamweaver & other website builders.

The best affordable desktop PC for editing short  videos for YouTube

Where to find traffic stats on Hostgator

and more!

Questions and Answers

This week we tackle some concerns our listeners have about getting their websites started.

Hosting and domain registration is VERY important and your choices in the beginning can have an impact for a long time to come. Make the right choice up front so you don't have problems down the road.

And speaking of right choices in the startup phase, how should you decide on a domain name? Once it's done, it's done! So get it right! Dot comDot net? Dot org? Other variations? We tackle 'em all.

What software should you use to build your site? Well, it depends, but there are some great free tools that are super powerful. That's what we use - as well as thousands of other site owners large and small!

Youtube marketing is hot! So how do you maximize your impact? Here is one way that will make a big diffrence. And one thing that won't work so no need to try.

Plus an update on the webinar! BIB Niche Website Training

If you’ve ever thought about self-publishing  your own book, don’t miss this week’s episode. We had the opportunity to interview Kristen Eckstein, aka the “The Ultimate Book Coach”.

On today’s show, you’ll hear Kristen explain how to avoid procrastination and get your book written quickly. She also explains  the 3 different ways to get published and then finally some simple ways to market your book once it’s finally complete.

You can get free access to Kristen’s complimentary 1 hour workshop at www.artofpublishing.com.

This week on our mid-week segment I spend some time talking about a fantastic book I've started reading called Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard by Chip & Dan Heath authors of the bestselling book, Made to Stick.

In particular, one of the sections that really caught my attention was in chapter 3 where they talk about the problem of indecision. In an age where we are constantly bombarded every type of media under the sun, let's face it - it's hard for us to make firm decisions. When given a gazillion options, people naturally take the path of least resistance, and do nothing.

Consider this when it comes to starting an online business. You get ready to commit yourself to a goal of creating passive income and then what happens? Well, if you're like me early on when I first began,  you subscribe  to every e-newsletter on the planet with hopes of getting some cool new ideas right? But what happens?

You end up getting overloaded with so many ideas that your brain starts to short circuit. You begin to realize you can't do it all. You're just a finite human being with a limited amount of time, so you have to pick what works for you and unplug from all of the other messages out there telling you to "do it this way" or "do it that way".

If you're one of those people that's overwhelmed with all of the messages about how to start an online business, then I hope you'll consider unsubscribing from about 99% of them.

Decide what you want to do, and pick one strategy. If you've been a listener to our show for a long time, you know Russell and I don't sell hype. We don't promote anything that promises get rich quick.

Instead, we use a simple formula for generating passive income online and we'll be sharing these lessons for free on our upcoming Niche Website Training Webinar Tuesday September 20th at 8:00pm EST.

You can register here - www.bibpodcast.com/passiveincome

his week we answer questions about site monetization, embedding flash video and finding a good source for quality voice-over talent for your audio podcasts or information products.

Jeff, one of our listeners if having trouble monetizing his niche website on electric guitars. So far he has plenty of good page content but he's not generating much revenue from it.

Jeff's situation is certainly not unique. Often times people spend so much time and effort building their content, they neglect the important part of creating multiple streams of revenue from it. In Jeff's case, he's focused primarily on Google adsense for his revenue and not looking in other directions (that provide larger chunks of profit) like creating his own line of information products (videos, ebooks, etc).

In this week's show Russell and I will share some tips for boosting his income through product creation, and other affiliates like Amazon and Clickbank.

If you're like Jeff, who's running into difficulty monetizing your website or need help getting started creating an income generating niche website, be sure to join our free webinar, Building a Profitable Niche Website from A-Z on Tuesday September 20th at 8:00 pm EST.

You can sign up by going to www.bibpodcast.com/passiveincome.

This week, Russell and I take some time to answer questions on the show. Kevin emailed this past week about a good web hosting plan for his website.

He's been told by his current host provider that he's using way too much of their system resources and wants to find a economical alternative.

We'll be tackling this question for Kevin as well as some other questions like:

Is Instant Article Wizard a good tool to use for article marketing?

What are the right Camtasia studio settings for creating videos for DVD and YouTube at the same time?

Is GoTo Training the right choice for creating and recording webinars?

In addition, we're announcing our newest upcoming free training webinar on creating a passive income niche site. We've been wanting to offer this training again since we did our last 16 Week Online Challenge and had such a great response.

You can register for this upcoming training webinar course by going to www.bibpodcast.com/passiveincome

This Friday morning, David Dutton stopped by for an in-studio visit. I've never had an in-studio guest on the show, so I was pumped to be doing this. I hooked up my inexpensive Behringer XM8500 mic to the sound mixer for David and it sounded great!

David was the guest speaker this week at our August Internet Marketing Meetup Thursday night.

David's topic this month was The 4 Step Method for Building a Successful Online Business. For those that don't know David, he lives and breathes exactly what he teaches. David has created successful niche websites in both the travel and the greeting card niche. David gets 54,000 visits to his coolestplacestovisit.com website and generates a very nice monthly income from Google adsense from it.

You can get a copy of David's 4 Step outline at www.bibpodcast.com/141. 

This week we had the opportunity to interview John Milanoski, founder of the Customer Advantage. John is an internet marketer who's best known for his Marketing Millionaire training system. John will be talking about his background, and what led him start the Customer Advantage, a company that provides members with special discounts from local businesses.

In many ways it's similar to know brands like Groupon and Living Social but John will be sharing some of the unique advantages that TCA offers. 

On our midweek segment, I talk about marketing products that people want, not just need. I've heard a saying before that goes something like this - "You can make a living selling something people need, but you can make a fortune selling what people want."

Think about it;  What do people get more excited about - needs or wants? Sure, they'll spend money on things they need, as we all do but notice they'll also look for them at a discount. You take your car in for an oil change and find out that your two front tires need to be replaced - A need.It's not something you want to spend a fortune so you shop around for the best deal around town. But when it comes to things people really want, they'll usually pay a premium for quality.  

An avid golfer never looks for the cheapest set of golf clubs he can find. A backpacking enthusiast will not even think about taking a chance at the lesser expensive hiking boots if he's unsure of the quality.

When targeting a niche for your next information product or affiliate site, don't just look at keyword competition alone. Think about your topic. Are people passionate about it? Is it something they are willing to spend a lot of  money on? What is the income level of those who are purchasing?

Don't just sell a need; sell a passion.

To catch our weekly podcast show blog and get a free copy of audio program, The Beginner Internet Business Plan, visit us at www.bibpodcast.com.