Ramblings

The Winner Of The Fourth 4-Hour Workweek

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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Flip That Ad Space

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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Google 300×250 Ad Spot For Sale

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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More Free Advertising Coupons

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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Miscellaneous Ramblings for 8-10-2007

$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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Having Fun With Blog Rankings

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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