Ramblings
Congrats to Bob Cobb of Free Stuff Times for winning the fourth signed copy of the NY Times best selling book, The 4-Hour Workweek. Bob’s name was drawn from over over 300 other entries. Thanks to everyone for entering. I still have a few more copies of the 4-hour workweek that I will be giving away so if you didn’t […]
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Business The Net
Within an hour of putting my 300×250 ad spot up for sale, I get an email from Ryan Stewart of eleven21.com offering to buy it. Ryan sent me the $1,000 before he even sent me the ad. This was shortly followed by another $1,000 payment from Bidvertiser (their ad will run next month). What Ryan is doing with the ad […]
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Business The Net
Bye Bye Google The summer ad slowdown is really starting to take their toll on Google AdSense. At its current rate, the 300×250 Google ad that is embedded to the right of every blog post will make no more than last month ($661.73). Before the summer, the spot has made as much as $1,300 and that was done with less […]
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Business The Net
The $100 Yahoo! Search Marketing coupon I posted earlier today went over so well I decided to add a few more ways to get your paid advertising for next to no money. This is one of the methods I will use in my Nobody to Somebody blog. Since I have only $86.10 to work with for promotion, I will need […]
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Ramblings The Net
$7,000 In One Day Graham Langdon of The Million Dollar Wiki is one happy camper. I wrote about Graham’s project three days ago. The next day he sells 70 pages. Let’s see, at $100 per page, Graham pulled down $7,000 in 24 hours. Hmmm, I think he should buy me a beer! 23 Thing Nate Learned From Blogging Nate Whitehill, […]
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Reviews The Net
Mike Powell and Juergen Horn came up with an simple idea: gather all auctions on eBay with one dollar or less and with just one hour left to see what kind of bargains they can pick up. When their search resulted in over 30,000 auctions, they decided to capitalize on it. LastMinute Auction was the result and this ReviewMe review […]
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Ramblings The Net
Sally Chow was born on September 9th. When choosing her name, we went through all the normal methods, like reading baby name books and checking out sites that list names. However, one of the things I did before even considering a name was to check to make sure the domain for the name was available. If it wasn’t, I didn’t […]
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Business The Net
Pretty much everyone knows about Alexa and Technorati when it comes to ranking a blog. The numbers they split out doesn’t really mean much but many ad networks use it so we are always trying to improve them. There are a many tools on the Internet that can take information from the various ranking services and give your blog a […]
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