Author Archives: Allan Ward

Allan lives in Adelaide, South Australia with his wife and two boys. He is the founder of Blogger Business Plan and loves helping bloggers learn how to transform their blogs from hobbies into sustainable businesses. When he's not blogging or working in his financial planning business, you'll find Allan playing guitar, reading or coaching his son's soccer team.

How to giveaway e-books on your site using Headway theme

photo credit: mysza831 I’ve been asked by a couple of people how to set up a process to giveaway or sell eBooks on their websites. It’s a relatively simple process to set up and I’ll describe it below. For this article I’ll base the instructions on using Headway as your WordPress theme. If you don’t…

Weekly Wrap 3 June 2011

Grow Your Social Network - Twitter, Facebook & Youtube - Twiends_1307067234592

Welcome to the weekly wrap for another week.  This week I focus on some interesting websites I’ve found that help you use Twitter more effectively. Twiends – Twiends is an interesting concept. You register and link your Twitter, Facebook and YouTube accounts.  You set up a profile and add your interests. Then, based on your…

Weekly Wrap 27 May 2011

I’m introducing a new segment this week’s called the ‘Weekly Wrap’.  What I will do is every week record a quick video talking about what I been doing for the week, things I’ve learned and things that I think would be of interest to you. In this week’s Weekly Wrap, I cover a bunch of…

Headway Theme – How To Hide Pages

In this tutorial I’ll show you how easy it is to use the Headway WordPress theme to create new pages that are hidden from the usual site navigation. In WordPress, when you create a new page, it’s automatically added to your navigation menu.  This is fine sometimes, but there are also occasions where you don’t…

How To Make $100,000 Online By Blogging

Make Money from Blogging

I often see questions on forums asking ‘How can I make $100,000 online’? Sometimes the amount of money in the question changes, and frequently the people asking the questions want to make it in one month. But the bottom line is that these questions are from people who are desperate to make money and have …

Bring the Fresh Review

Product Recommendation, Reviews and Affiliate Products – How I Feel About Them

I’ve been doing a lot of research on various internet marketing products and services that have recently been released. Unfortunately, in the internet marketing world you need to approach a lot of these products and reviews with a healthy dose of cynicism, as there’s so much hype out there that every second product is promoted…

What’s Your Blogging Routine?

photo credit: wwarby Do you have a blogging routine? You may write regular blog posts, but are there other tasks that you also do regularly? I’ve always maintained that blogging is like running a business. And no matter what business you’re in, there are some exciting parts to your job, and some not-so-glamorous parts to…

Blogging Lessons I Learnt In 2010

photo credit: Lee Nachtigal 2010 was an interesting year for me across a number of areas. It was challenging in my financial planning business as I worked my butt off to help clients recover from the GFC. In the internet marketing world I achieved some of the goals that I set for myself earlier in…

How To Use Market Samurai’s Monetization Module

Market Samurai Monetization Module

I’ve been using Market Samurai for a while now and have found it very helpful in doing keyword research and assessing the viability of targeting particular keywords or phrases.  Over the past few days I’ve been digging deeper into the product and have discovered the Monetization module. The Market Samurai Monetization module allows you to…