Following my Success Without College post you might think this is going to be a lecture on studying diligently. Thankfully not . When doing business with anyone, whether you’re trying to sell something to someone, buy something from someone, or do any kind of partnership or other business deal, you absolutely must do your homework [ Read More ]
Archive for November, 2007
For all intents and purposes, my high school and college path began like anyone else’s. The difference is, I left college after two years and never obtained a degree. Some might be ashamed to admit that, but I couldn’t be more proud. Breaking free from traditions, norms, family advice, and society’s “rules”, is a big [ Read More ]
Categories: Web Business
The biggest shopping day of the year is coming in two days, followed by what is usually an equally big day for my sites’ shopping referral revenues, Cyber Monday. I have been working hard this week driving traffic to our Dealighted.com and ResellerRatings.com shopping sites using various low cost high profit ad campaigns such as [ Read More ]
Categories: Web Business
I couldn’t resist posting this one. I posted a few days ago about how Henry Blodget, the analyst banned from Wall Street by the SEC in 2003, is trying to weasel his way back into mainstream media. His Friday, November 16, 2007 commentary that Microsoft may be about to buy Yahoo caused Yahoo’s stock price [ Read More ]
Categories: Web Business
Everyone reading this blog wants to make more money, but once you get it, do you know what to do with it? Let’s face it, most people don’t have any savings and if they do, it’s maybe a few thousand dollars. That’s not necessarily because they can’t save, or because they don’t earn a decent [ Read More ]
Categories: Web Business
Remember Henry Blodget, the Merrill Lynch analyst who pumped up stocks in 2000 that he knew were terrible investments, in order to benefit himself and Merrill? He was sued by the SEC and paid $4M for his antics and banned from Wall Street for life in 2003, but since then he has been trying to [ Read More ]
Categories: Web Business
It began innocently enough, with a bottle of iced caffe mocha from my hotel room’s fridge in Las Vegas at Blog World. A day later, I was driving at night and needed a Starbucks mocha to stay alert. That’s all it took: I’ve officially developed a full blown caffe mocha addiction. Yes, I must now [ Read More ]
Categories: Web Business
I first heard about Bumvertising a couple years ago but now I’m wondering, where is Bumvertising today? I’d like to know: are any of you doing this – if so, is it successful and if not, why not? Photo: Could it work? Before the hate mail starts (and FYI to Googlers, that photo is a [ Read More ]
Categories: Web Business
I used to think Google Adwords campaigns were a waste of time for publishers. Maybe retailers could turn a profit paying $0.50/click or more for traffic, but not publishers with content sites monetized with ads. Recent tests with Google’s CPM based sitematch campaigns (now called placement targeting) have turned me around though. I have been [ Read More ]
Categories: Web Business
I was at a dinner party the other night when a friend started asking me if I knew anything about domaining. Here was a guy that works in a “real job” and knows nothing about Internet marketing, but he told me that he registered 10 domain names and had listed them on Sedo. When did [ Read More ]
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