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Adsense is dead: Two lessons about making money on your blog
2007-05-14 00:00:00
I've read this phrase ADSENSE IS DEAD over and over again, but have not really understood what it meant. Based on my own experiences, and those of others I'm reading about in forums, I'm starting to come to the same conclusion. Specifically, the revenue opportunity just seems to be too darn small. I read last night about a guy who is getting 2,500 unique visitors to his site every day. This sounds fairly fantastic for a small-time operation. However, he also revealed that his earnings were
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A more simple view on money
2007-05-11 00:00:00
It's hard to think about money and happiness and NOT to get into a full blown discussion on financial management strategies. There is an entire industry built around making financial management very complicated and time consuming. Let's step back a second and take a more simple view of money.
More About: Money , View , Simple , More

The DIRECTORY OF BLOG DIRECTORIES is growing every day
2007-05-11 00:00:00
The DIRECTORY OF BLOG DIRECTORIES just keeps getting bigger every day. We have had numerous suggestions from our more active bloggers and we are trying to keep up with sending these out to our membership ASAP. Additionally, people are moving through the huge list and we are starting to have some really valuable data regarding which directories are free, which cost money and which are most useful.
More About: Blog , Directory , Directories , Ever , Wing

12,000,000 Americans maintain a blog
2007-05-08 00:00:00
NPR reported tonight that 12,000,000 Americans maintain an active blog. Most view it as a hobby, and not a business. The majority of bloggers are under 30 years old.
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Directory of Blog Directories, 2 Meta Directories To Get You Started
2007-05-08 00:00:00
Soon after the rise in popularity of blogging came the blog directory web sites. Today's hot question is, how do I find and register in as many blog directories as possible to increase the visibility of my work. Blog gers seem to have an addiction to traffic and they are willing to try anything that will bring readers to their sites. However, with the increasing number of tools available to bloggers this task is becoming more and more difficult. The actual mechanics of registering a blog in a directory is not difficult, but staying organized and having a rational process is nearly impossible.
More About: Directory , Directories , Tart , Meta

Our capitalist society is totally geared toward consumption
2007-05-05 00:00:00
I completely agree with the central thesis of this discussion. Our capitalist society is totally geared toward consumption. Buying is the economic engine of our economy. To keep the consumption fires burning, marketers have to sell the notion that you must buy to be happy. They sell us on a lifestyle of happiness based on having their products.
More About: Society , Gear , Total , Ward , Capital

From affiliate to eCommerce, why most fail
2007-05-05 00:00:00
Read a fantastic article today about the transition from affiliate to eComm erce and why most fail. This information confirmed what I had read in numerous books on the subject. Interestingly, it's NOT what most web sites on the subject want you to believe.
More About: Ecommerce , Affiliate , Most , Merc

Seems like there are no more key words left
2007-05-01 00:00:00
If you read up on keyword marketing, the basic concept is to find a keyword combination that has high demand but little supply. Simply put, the keyword phrase needs to be searched regularly in the search engines but not have that many entries in the search engine databases to display to the end user. To use a real example, perhaps the phrase "best keywords" was searched 1,300 times in March 2007 but the Google database only has 400
More About: Words , Left , Here , More , Seem

Barter is a great way for people just starting Internet sales
2007-04-30 00:00:00
Bartering is a great way to start working with other people if you are new to Internet sales. Here are some creative arrangements we have come across since starting out.
More About: People , Sales , Great , Tart

Greeting Card Delivery from the Internet
2007-04-27 00:00:00
When eCard s came out in the last 90's, they were all the craze. People said that the paper greeting card was dead and that the future was in eCards. I remember reading with shock the valuation associated with BlueMountain.com when
More About: Internet , The Internet , Intern , Elive

What is clickbank?
2007-04-26 00:00:00
Clickbank is a service site that was built for two purposes. 1) If you have a digital product (eBook, eReport, etc) and you are looking for distribution, you can put your product here and people will help you move the product. You will need to decide on the terms you will offer your affiliate marketers.
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Housing is dropping fast, but stocks go UP?
2007-04-25 00:00:00
So, in the end stocks went UP even after the amazing drop in housing sales in March. "The biggest drop since 1989" should be really getting people's attention. But for some reason, the strength of last quarter's earnings were more on their mind.
More About: Stocks , Housing , Sing , Fast , Ping

Stocks Drop on Housing Data
2007-04-24 00:00:00
Stocks Drop on Housing , Consumer Data -- While it seems to be moving in slow-motion, the housing crash is certainly happening. Another headline today breaking just recently showing yet more data that the housing market is headed down. Wall Street, as usually, had an instant reaction to this news.
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Singlefeed for those who need help with data management
2007-04-24 00:00:00
www.singlefeed.com offers some really straight forward tools for submitting your product data into shopping comparison sites and GoogleBase. As you know, I like to do this work myself. But I recognize that many are not into
More About: Management , Data , Help , Feed , Sing

GoogleBase likes to disapprove
2007-04-24 00:00:00
For some reason, we keep getting our listings in Googl e Base marked as DISAPPROVED. Unfortunately, Google does not provide any notification for why this is happening. We've been working with the GoogleBase API and are quite excited to submit
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Wholesale drop shippers charge different prices
2007-04-14 00:00:00
Did you know that wholesaler and drop shippers charge different prices to their resellers depending upon the financial arrangement? I was not aware of this and naively thought that once you had signed up as a reseller that you simply got the wholesale price. Not so. There are a
More About: Sale , Rice , Charge , Price , Hole

Working with comparison shopping sites like shopzilla
2007-04-14 00:00:00
s a new online store owner I was initially very excited by the prospect of bringing my products to the comparison shopping sites. It seemed like a fantastic way to be found and bring motivated buyers to my site and jump-start my new business. However, after a few months of pumping quarters into the comparison shopping sites I'm starting to realize
More About: Shopping , Work , Comp , Site , With

Where is the balance and peace?
2007-04-03 00:00:00
I read an interesting blog today from someone in Asia. He had several posts, all related the topics of stress and finding inner peace. Even though his blog needed polish and spell-check (though I'm not one to throw stones), I thought his central message was great. In short, his thesis was that western society is really geared toward those activities that cause stress to go to unhealthy levels. At the same time, he acknowledged that a certain level of stress
More About: Peace , Balance , Here , Alan , Lance

How to overcome the out-of-stock problem with dropshipping
2007-03-31 00:00:00
The number one problem with the dropshipping business model is the out-of-stock problem. You come across this all over the place. Dropshipping is a very attractive business model because it does not require you to hold any inventory. For those who do not know about this, it is a special arrangement where the distributor is set-up to send the product directly to your end customer. The customer usually doesn't know where the
More About: How To , With , Stock , Shipping , Problem

Web 2.0 feels like dot-com all over again
2007-03-31 00:00:00
The web 2.0 movement is certainly mainstream at this point. A quick look at the VC investment data shows that this is no longer a fringe movement. Having lived through the dot-com experience, running an Internet start-up at the time
More About: Web 2 , Again , Over , Like , Feel

Still extremely low traffic
2007-03-31 00:00:00
I've been posting for over a month now and still see extremely log traffic to the blog. A close examination of the logs shows a HUGE amount of spider and robot traffic, but relatively small amounts of human traffic. We've been making some adjustments to the key words on the pages, as they were the same throughout the site, with the hopes that this will help. However, from everything I've read, Google pretty much ignores keywords entirely. I believe MSN and Yahoo
More About: Traffic , Extreme , Stil , Still , Xtreme

Amazon Web Services API very easy to use
2007-03-31 00:00:00
f you've been wanting to integrate Amazon products onto your site or web store, I have great news for you. We've been exploring the Amazon developer tools and have found their Web Service s API extremely easy to use. I am assuming for this entry that you are familiar with the te
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Is discussion group marketing a real strategy?
2007-03-31 00:00:00
I've read in many places that one way to gain visibility for an online venture is to get involved in one of the many discussion groups and forums that are out there. There are many blogs
More About: Marketing , Market , Strategy , Real , Trat

Meaningful discussion groups for generating valuable ideas
2007-03-31 00:00:00
Since my post on 3/15, I've gained a new respect for some of the discussion groups I've been hanging out in. Specifically, I've come to a new perspective that some discussion groups really are completely sp@mmy while others have a loyal and motivated following. For example, I've been posting regularly in and . I had tried many before these two, but didn't see an
More About: Ideas , Idea , Meaning , Genera , Sion

Work at home internet business
2007-03-31 00:00:00
The work at home internet business opportunities that have become popular over the last few years open income potential to the average guy that would have previously been out of reach. Before the Inter net , the idea of being an entrepreneur and opening your own business meant taking a serious financial risk.
More About: Business , Internet Business , Home

Turn visitors into buyers - simple how-to
2007-03-31 00:00:00
We implemented a simple idea at our web store that really helped turn visitors into buyers. Our traffic often lands on a product-specific page because they get to us via a search engine or comparison shopping site. We were showing just one product on the landing page, big mistake. If the user didn't like that product for whatever reason, they clicked away and we lost
More About: Simp , How-To , Buyer , Visitor , Simple

The Housing Market Crash
2007-03-31 00:00:00
In my family the topic of the housing market crash gets daily attention. It all really started when I read Sell Now!: The End of the Housing Bubble by John R Talbott last September. We had lived in our house for 8 years and had become quite comfortable. We also lived in one of the big US
More About: Market , Sing , Crash , Mark

The Housing Market Crash
2007-03-30 00:00:00
In my family the topic of the housing market crash gets daily attention. It all really started when I read Sell Now!: The End of the Housing Bubble by John R Talbott last September. We had lived in our house for 8 years and had become quite comfortable. We also lived in one of the big US
More About: Market , Sing , Crash , Mark

Meaningful discussion groups for generating valuable ideas
2007-03-29 00:00:00
Since my post on 3/15, I've gained a new respect for some of the discussion groups I've been hanging out in. Specifically, I've come to a new perspective that some discussion groups really are completely sp@mmy while others have a loyal and motivated following. For example, I've been posting regularly in and . I had tried many before these two, but didn't see an
More About: Ideas , Idea , Meaning , Genera , Sion

Turn visitors into buyers - simple how-to
2007-03-29 00:00:00
We implemented a simple idea at our web store that really helped turn visitors into buyers. Our traffic often lands on a product-specific page because they get to us via a search engine or comparison shopping site. We were showing just one product on the landing page, big mistake. If the user didn't like that product for whatever reason, they clicked away and we lost
More About: Simp , How-To , Buyer , Visitor , Simple