The traditional playbook is not dead. But the economics have changed, and the people who taught it have changed with them. A few years ago, the standard advice for making money online fitted on a postcard. Pick a topic you care about. Build a site. Publish useful content. Earn affiliate commissions, ad income, or both. Add an email list. Repeat. That advice built a lot of businesses, and it built IncomeDiary. Other routes ran alongside it: online courses, software, authority sites in tight niches, sponsorships. Michael Dunlop’s PopUpDomination is a good example from the software side. When Pat Flynn interviewed him on the Smart Passive Income podcast in October 2010, Michael had just launched it as a premium WordPress plugin for bloggers. It found one specific problem, getting more email subscribers, and built a tool for it. So is that world over? Not quite. But anyone who tells you AI has changed nothing, or that it has changed everything, has not looked at the numbers. 1. ...
TL;DR A holiday marketing campaign is an offer, a popup, or an email linked to one date on the shopping calendar. This guide covers the year-end season, which runs roughly from Halloween to the New Year sales, and each date works best with a different kind of campaign. It starts with the list you build in October, runs through Black Friday, Cyber Monday, Giving Tuesday, and the December shipping cutoffs, and ends with the January sale. Are you planning your holiday marketing around one Black Friday discount? The holiday season has nine important sales dates, but each one works best with a different campaign. The holiday season is the one time of year when your visitors arrive already planning to buy. So, your job is making sure they shop with you, come back for the next date on the calendar, and leave you with an email list that keeps customers coming back. In this guide, I’ll walk you through the year-end season one holiday at a time, from the list you buil...