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Congrats To Ryan on The World’s First Ad Flip

Ryan Stewart of eleven21.com has done it! He has successfully flipped the 300×250 ad spot he purchased from me for $1,000. The new owner is Rich4Life.Us (you can see their ad running right now), Rich4Life did try to buy the ad space directly from me but Ryan and Bidvertiser beat them to it. Ryan had his ad running for two […]

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300×250 Ad Stats or Why $1,000 Was a Steal

I thought I would share some stats from the recently sold 300×250 Google ad spot. Since the spot no longer runs Google AdSense, I am under no contract to keep stats about the spot a secret. The 300×250 ad spot was purchased by Ryan Stewart of eleven21.com, who is now trying to flip it for $1,500. After the information I’m […]

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Kontera Secures $10.3 Million Second Round Funding

TechCrunch is reporting that Kontera Technology, the provider of the ContentLink used on this blog has secured $10.3 million in a second round of financing. A year ago, Kontera raised $7 million from Sequoia Capital and Lehman Brothers. This second round of financing was led by Carmel Ventures, an Israeli venture firm. Sequoia and Lehman also participated. Kontera has been […]

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Selling Your Own Reviews & Text Links with OIOpublisher

Trying To Cut Out The Middleman It’s not a big secret that ReviewMe reviews like this one and text links from Text Link Ads are two of this blog’s biggest money maker. The main gripe most web publishers have with these services is they take a pretty big commission for getting you a sale. A few enterprising webmasters have tried […]

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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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