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Self Made MindsSelf Made MindsSelf Made Minds is run by two Internet entrepreneurs Al and Scott. The aim of the site is to share experiences and knowledge that weve picked up along the way. Neither of us have a job and rely solely on our businesses to put bread and beer on the ta Articles
3 Ways to Benefit from the Christmas Season without Selling
2007-12-05 12:36:00 I’ve already written about the fact that I’m concentrating on affiliate sales at the moment (though having fun with Adsense at the same time). Christmas traffic is great for affiliate promotions on product related sites, but if your niche isn’t particularly Christmas friendly how else cam you benefit from this time of year? Make Friends and ... More About: Selling , Season , Benefit , Christmas season
Finding a reliable coder
2007-12-04 10:23:00 I know many of you can create, edit and alter code like Al and that is a huge advantage in developing online, if you do not then this post may be of interest to you. I have in the past used freelance websites which can be fine for what they are but after a while ... More About: Coder
Trialling a Feed Advert
2007-12-03 13:52:00 I’m after a bit of feedback on this idea, so all thoughts and suggestions are very welcome (and there’ll be a bonus for commenting). I’m trying to get more visitors to my site from my feed, so I spent an hour over the weekend creating a plug-in for WordPress that lets me display an extra sentence ... More About: Blogging , Feed , Advert , Vert
Has Google shrunk it?s index or cleaned it out?
2007-12-03 13:47:00 Anyone else noticing the change in Google today? The Results 1-10 of about xxxxx has shrunk hugely for all the keywords I keep an eye on. For example ‘tattoos’ used to bring up around 30-40 million pages After this morning I only see around 5.5 million, that is quite a drop, also seeing this whether I am signed in ... More About: Index
That?s the end of November Wrap! - Friday 30th Nov
2007-11-30 10:20:00 Today’s game is Rocket Rescue, takes a second or two to get the hang of, but fun once you do, I made it to level 19. If your short on time I am giving you a second game this week, Day of The Bobteds, should only take about 10 minutes or so to complete the ... More About: Friday , November , Wrap
Beware the typo
2007-11-29 10:51:00 I am used to double checking my own work but it also pays to double check what others do for you as I almost missed a typo on a transfer for a new domain, I managed to buy LivingRoomFurniture.co.uk from a company which I was quite happy about, lovely descriptive domain name that is highly competed for by advertisers, ... More About: Domains , Beware , Typo
Burning the Midnight Oil to the $1K Day
2007-11-28 10:48:00 When you work for yourself online there are times when you’re just not in the mood or it’s inconvenient to do that bit of extra work, you do work for yourself after all. In this post I want to share a recent experience that shows what an extra hour’s effort can bring. On the Saturday just ... More About: Burning , Midnight , Burn , K Day
Patience and perseverance, boring but necessary.
2007-11-27 11:35:00 If timing is everything which I posted about the other week then you can understand why Al is raking in so much cash just now, it isn’t luck as Al has actually been talking about the upcoming Xmas sales and revenue opportunity for quite some time and made moves to capitalise on it. As with any success ... More About: Patience , Perseverance , Boring
My First $1,000 Adsense Day
2007-11-26 10:57:00 Over the past month I’ve been pushing affiliates sales with varying levels of success and I’ve been pretty much ignoring Adsense and even removing it from some pages to concentrate more on sales, so I’m some what surprised to be sat here on Cyber Monday writing about hitting one of my Adsense goals, the $1,000 ...
Black Friday Roundup
2007-11-23 13:50:00 For those who celebrated I hope you had a great Thanksgiving yesterday, I threw a last minute Thanksgiving dinner party and the kitchen now looks like an absolute bomb site, need to get that sorted before Christmas. This is a new one I found out about this week, MSN now have their own webmaster tools and ... More About: Roundup , Black , Friday , Black Friday
Bits and bobs
2007-11-22 10:05:00 A few various odds and ends and things to mention today, December is fast approaching and is busy for all of us online and offline so we may not post everyday. As you can gather Al is busy selling every product known to man and in quantity, I have a plethora of new domains to develop, we then have ... More About: Bits
Make it Easy, Make it Obvious
2007-11-21 09:59:00 So far this month I’ve had 15 record days, in terms of both profit and traffic. I’m hoping for this to continue until just before Christmas so as you can imagine I’m a tad on the busy side looking for new things to promote and ways to make the most of the traffic I already ... More About: Make , Obvious , Easy
The top 10 domain awards and yes .mobi really is that bad!
2007-11-20 11:16:00 I have taken a fair interest in domain names this year, possibly a bit late to the party so paying good amounts for the domains but many would say it is still early doors and certainly not too late to invest wisely for future profits, I have therefore kept an eye on the usual suspects blog wise ... More About: Awards , Domain , Domains , Mobi
Golden Age for the Entrepreneur
2007-11-19 15:28:00 If you have ever wanted to be an entrepreneur now must be the best and easiest time ever, if you choose to take it. Previously to make it as an entrepreneur you’d have to have the idea for a product or service, get funding to get it started. Create a distribution chain be it your own ... More About: Entrepreneur , Golden , Golden Age , Rene
That?s a wrap! - Friday 16th Nov
2007-11-16 11:17:00 Patrick at Blog Storm is one of the masters when it comes to link bait, he still hasn’t got a subscribe to comments option though but does have some great suggestions and a screenshot on how Google could be improved Online spending in the UK growing fast unlike tradition retailer spending according to Comscore with the ... More About: Friday , Wrap
The Coolest Blog Ads Experiment
2007-11-15 11:25:00 I set myself a goal for this Christmas season and that is to earn an extra $50K over November and December. To achieve this goal I’m using a few techniques that are new to me, so far some have been very successful whilst others proved a good learning experience. For obvious reasons I don’t want ... More About: Blog , Experiment
Rubicon Project maximises your income using 300+ ad networks
2007-11-14 09:00:00 The Rubicon Project looks to be a great leap for webmasters to fill and maximise advertising inventory in a more efficient manner. I highly recommend you check out the 3 minute presentation which explains exactly what they intend to do. Rubicon can optimise for and serve over 300 ad networks like Adsense, Chitika, Yahoo, Adbrite etc based on demographic, ... More About: Networks , Income
Learning the Hard Way - Check Your Affiliate Links
2007-11-13 13:32:00 This is a fantastic time of year for Christmas product related sites and it’s where the work you’ve done throughout the year can really reap rewards. Over the last 2 weeks I’ve seen all income streams increase between 50 and 250%, which makes checking stats every morning a very exciting time. Each day I’m looking ... More About: Affiliate , Links , Check , Hard , Learning
Improve your ranking by one place and triple your traffic
2007-11-12 10:29:00 Have not seen anyone talk about this for a long time but it is incredibly important, do you want to know what difference it makes if you move up just that extra place in the rankings? Well it may shock you to realise that you could get over 3 times more traffic just by moving up ... More About: Traffic , Place , Improve , Ranking , Triple
That?s a wrap! - Friday 9th Nov
2007-11-09 13:46:00 Bloglines creates a(nother) top 1000 list of feed subscribers (using Bloglines), found courtesy of Darren over at ProBlogger. The EEE PC is released in the UK for under £200 and is is on Scott’s shopping list for his son’s Xmas present with a 7″ screen, wifi and 3 USB ports. The Next Internet Millionaire Episode 12 is ... More About: Friday , Wrap
Show me a broker and I?ll show you the money
2007-11-08 10:21:00 I bought a UK domain recently through Sedo auction and found it much easier to bypass them and their instructions and deal direct as I knew the seller through a forum - Sedo wanted me to scan/fax page this and that to Germany but it was much easier just to treat them as an Escrow and do ... More About: Money , Show , Domains , Broker
If timing is everything my time is now.
2007-11-07 10:27:00 If all of the images on this page were taken a little sooner or a little later then the moment would have passed, timing is important, just ask Al on missed opportunities and the difference between success and failure being taking action. At times when you read about success and large cheques, huge payouts and massive ... More About: Time , Domains , Timing
Kontera Offering a $25 Bonus to New Publishers
2007-11-06 13:03:00 I’ve received an email from Mika of Kontera about an offer they have on for new publishers, where if you get 50,000 impressions in you your first month you’ll receive a $25 bonus. Kontera provide those in-text adverts that normally appear as double underlined links, they are pay per click but I’ve heard some larger publishers ... More About: Publishers , Bonus , Offer , Erin
Questions Answered about the $132,994.97 Adsense Check
2007-11-05 12:38:00 If you ever need motivating these photos should do it, the legendary Shoemoney cheque. I’ve seen the above picture numerous times before and it always makes me smile. I hit just over $17K from Adsense last month but seeing how Jeremy was pulling over $100K from Adsense 2 years ago shows me I still ... More About: Questions , Check
That?s a brand new month wrap! - Friday 2nd Nov
2007-11-02 09:36:00 Today’s Friday fun game is Draw Play - draw your route then play it! There is no running score & it doesn’t show you levels but great fun! Level’s have names, the last few I managed to get to were ‘mini death’ ‘random junk’ and then ‘down’. There are lots of top 10 lists of blogs going around at ... More About: Brand , Month , Wrap , Mont
Concentrating on Affiliate Sales over Christmas
2007-11-01 11:58:00 I’ve just had a record October and am excited as hell about November and December. It’s the time of year where my affiliate income should see a dramatic increase, as people are in holiday buying mode. In order to maximise this I want people to leave via my affiliate links rather than a PPC ad, ... More About: Christmas , Affiliate , Sales
Don?t forget your housekeeping and remember to smile
2007-10-31 10:27:00 My Adsense has been down the last month but with a domain leased and some new one’s to get ready for next year I am still reasonably happy with how things are at the moment. What I have managed to do seeing as things have been a bit quieter is do some general housekeeping and ... More About: Smile , Housekeeping
Learning from Missed Opportunities
2007-10-30 14:11:00 We all do it, we have a great idea for a site or business, procrastinate on it too long and then find somebody has “stolen” our excellent idea. I’ve been using the Net since the early days (PG - Pre Google), I first discovered it at Uni and then all web pages were grey, with ... More About: Learning , Opportunities , Earning , Unit
Women are more successful & trusted
2007-10-29 10:17:00 My wife has been working with me for the past few weeks now, we have always worked well as a team and it helps greatly on a day to day basis to have someone with a good understanding of what you do to bounce ideas off. This has also relieved me of some general maintenance duties ... More About: Women
That?s another wrap! - Friday 26th October
More articles from this author:2007-10-26 12:44:00 Coming soon Adsense changes without altering code from your control panel, For instance, you can quickly change the borders of all your 300×250 medium rectangles from red to blue with just a few mouse clicks via the Adsense Blog Loren comments on how Google have had 1 million job applications a year. Acorn add an auction area to their ... More About: Friday , October , Wrap 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
