How to market your own eBooks

Okay, so perhaps you’ve created a great information product, or you at least have an idea for an information product you’d like to create. There’s no doubt that there is a sense of accomplishment to creating your own product and presenting it nicely. But if you’ve started going down the authoring route and don’t already have a huge amount of targeted traffic, then you probably realise that it is a challenge making even... Read More

The money-making power of e-products

A few days ago I was having an interesting discussion with a friend of mine who works at a local independant restaurant. He waits tables there. It’s often long and tiring work for him, especially as it’s a particularly high-quality restaurant with a strong reputation that has lasted many decades. In other words, it’s always packed. It’s a lovely restaurant, with expensive but high-quality food, and it’s being run by a... Read More

Upstart Blogger Wordpress theme One

One is a single column minimalist Wordpress theme with large, clean typography and a muted green pallet. I was trying to convey I sense of calm to offset the large type. One is intended for use on any blog that needs to get it’s point across in the most direct way possible. Ready to make money straight out of the box, One includes a range of banners to use with the Upstart Blogger affiliate program and a widget driven sidebar. One requires... Read More

Upstart Blogger Wordpress themes Dark Orange and Dark Pink

The 2 Wordpress themes I am releasing today are the first dark themes, having light text on a dark background, ever released here at Upstart Blogger. I’ve wanted to stray to the dark side for a little while now, experimenting with darker palettes using Genesis Red on my personal blog Brass Revolver and a light on dark design at Enormous Reloaded. Dark designs are often labelled, wrongly, as difficult to read. The cold hard truth is that dark... Read More

Upstart Blogger Wordpress theme Prime

A little while ago I issued a teaser post entitled Something wicked this way comes. In it, I hinted at a large project looming on the horizon, something that would change everything and would blow the blogosphere wide open. That project is still coming. In fact, it’s developing right in front of your eyes right now. And this new theme, Prime, along with its cousins Dark and One, plays a very important part in that project. All will be made very... Read More