Archive for July, 2007

Creating Killer Content

Saturday, July 21st, 2007

One of my favorite blogs had a great post the other day. The post on Problogger called The 4 Pillars of Writing Exceptional Blogs was guest written by Leo Babauta of Zen Habits. There were a number of very useful tips in the article left an impression on me. Though I’ve read many times before [...]

Secret to Success for just $25,000

Friday, July 20th, 2007

One day, a man approached JP Morgan, held up an envelope, and said, “Sir, in my hand I hold a guaranteed formula for success, which I will gladly sell to you for $25,000.” “Sir,” JP Morgan replied, “I do not know what is in the envelope. However, if you show me and I like it, [...]

Thirty Day Challenge

Thursday, July 19th, 2007

The other day I was doing some searching online for other blogs about passive income.  I came across someone’s site, One Penny Project, and found out about the Thirty Day Challenge.  So I decided to sign up. The basic premise seems pretty intriguing.  For the past few years they’ve developed a challenge related to making [...]

Starting Business Two of Ten

Wednesday, July 18th, 2007

Continuing on from the motivation that I got from Tim Ferriss’ book “4 hour work week” it’s time to have a second go at creating a muse for passive income. My previous attempt was to create a theoretical e-book/software combo and market and sell it online using Google Ads to drive traffic. The site never [...]

New Theme

Monday, July 16th, 2007

After much fidgeting with CSS to get the site working in Internet Explorer I was finally ready to set the updated theme live. I would very much like to hear your opinion on it.  Let me know if there’s something that looks not quite right on your system.

Time to tweak the page design

Thursday, July 12th, 2007

This page has looked the same for a while now.  It’s time for a change. There’s a bunch of things that I don’t particularly like about the way this theme is designed. Here are the outstanding issues to be fixed: There are a lot of pixel sized items that restrict the page layout on different [...]

9 Lessons Learned from first ‘Muse’

Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007

Over the weekend I called an end to my first attempt at creating a passive income ‘Muse’.  The general idea was to develop an e-book and software package and sell it online using adwords to generate traffic for the site.  The site gathered just 200 visitors over the course of the week, and had zero [...]