When I started my blog over at SmartIncomeDetective.com, I spent ages looking for the Best Magazine Newspaper Wordpress Thememoney could buy.

I found it. In fact, I found many of them. The theme I am using on the Smart Income Detective Blog cost me $59, but I am sure you will agree that it looks a lot more expensive than what I paid for it.

The customisation options are great and the support I have received from the design team have been second to none - I even get...

I’ve been business blogging since 1998, of course it wasn’t called blogging then. I was writing a text only ezine for NicolaCairncross.com (wealth coach), which then became The Money Gym, which in the early days went out to about 25 people – friends and family who had email addresses. They passed it on and it grew.

Once written, I would then archive it on a page on my website. You could find it by clicking the ezine link, then the archive link, then the year, then the date...

After I wrote my Business Blog diary post yesterday I was left feeling a little bit unsatisfied with myself.

Sure, adding new original content each week to a business blog, which is always going to be naturally full of key phrases, is always good for the search engines, but a Business Blog Diary style post in and of itself is not targeting specific phrases so I don’t really write them for the search engines. I write them for my readers (or so I thought….) and they do often get...

I have a few of my own products, work with clients in my psychotherapy practice and teach yoga. I have always done some affiliate marketing over the last 10 years, but haven't focused much on that lately. However, I checked my stats at shareasale and clickbank and noticed some sales this month so thought I'd work on this income stream again more.

In the past, I've done a lot of article marketing, but I know that these directories have lost favor with search engines the last few years....

I wanted to share with you the Top 10 Digital Marketing “gurus” who have inspired me on my online business journey so far and I’ve tried to tell you about them in chronological order – how I found them (or in Guy’s case, how they found me!)

(Some of them you will have heard of and some you won't)


** Robert G Allen - I became aware of the potential for making money online around 1998 / 1999, about five years after I bought my first domain name. I...