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Archive for August, 2007

Plan for September

Friday, August 31st, 2007

Continuing on my program to explore a new business idea every 5 weeks.  For September I’m going to be focusing on continuing and expanding on the things I’ve learned from doing the 30 Day Challenge.
My process for the month will go something like this:

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addthis_title = [...]

Breaking the $1,000 per hour barrier

Thursday, August 30th, 2007

I just found this eye openning post on CDFnetworks.
Major milestones in affiliate marketing usually center around the $1,000 figure. Your first 1K month, first 1K week, first 1k day etc. Those are all definitely great achievements. But once in a while, when the planets align just right, that number can be supercharged to the $1,000 [...]

Link-Backs: Make Sure They Count

Wednesday, August 29th, 2007

In an effort to help spur on more commenting. I’ve decided to remove the nofollow tag that is attached to any links in the comments.
From Wikipedia:
nofollow is an HTML attribute value used to instruct search engines that a hyperlink should not influence the link target’s ranking in the search engine’s index.
The people at Wordpress decided [...]

Great Free Backup Software

Tuesday, August 28th, 2007

I mentioned in my last post that I do regular backups.  It’s something that I’ve learned from experience to be really nice to have when you need it.
Moving your work online means you probably don’t have to worry about it as much but there’s always going to be valuable files on your hard drive that [...]

Automation is Key: Automate the Web

Monday, August 27th, 2007

This is the first in a series of posts about taking advantage of automation to improve your efficiency. In this post I’ll show you how to Automate the Web with Firefox and various online services.
First tip is to use an RSS reader to aggregate all the sites you read regularly. This is huge! [...]

5 Great Copywriting Blogs

Friday, August 24th, 2007

The internet is a great resource for people that want to learn something new.  There’s a blog out there for just about every subject imaginable.
Copywriting is a skill that can be mastered, though it is a very difficult thing to understand for new people.  Good copywriting can mean the difference between making no money online [...]

New Business Cards

Friday, August 24th, 2007

My new business cards arrived today. Did I really need these cards? Probably not, but I love them.
I designed the HalOtis logo two years ago and I’m still in love with it. As every month passes I find that I associate myself with my company more. It’s a strange [...]

Launching sites all over the place

Thursday, August 23rd, 2007

Since the beginning of the month I’ve been on a bit of a rampage.  I’ve started 1 tumblr blog, 2 blogger blogs, and 1 I’m hosting myself.  There’s no stopping there either.  I’m going to continue starting websites at a rapid pace.  Some simple math tells me that I’ll probably need 20 profitable sites before [...]

Site Listed on Google

Thursday, August 23rd, 2007

Last week I launched a new site.  I got ahead of the 30 Day challenge and decided to buy a domain name and some hosting for one of the niches.  So I picked up greatbeltbuckles.com and installed Wordpress on it.  Today I’ve ranked on the Google search results!!! This is super exciting.  especially since [...]

4 Steps to Make Money Online

Tuesday, August 21st, 2007

It has become increasingly apparent over the last few weeks that there are some things missing from my approach to make money online. The most successful people in internet marketing out there have amassed a large collection of web properties that collectively give time many thousands of unique visitors each day. That’s a [...]