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Archive for September, 2007

Website Launch Update

Saturday, September 29th, 2007

This morning I launched a new site. it’s at http://quantitativestocksecrets.com There is only one post on the site at the moment but I will probably write a second post tomorrow.

The Traffic numbers for day one are in already. The site landed 184 visitors on day 1 and 26 of them clicked through to [...]

Website income for September: $3.44

Saturday, September 29th, 2007

Website income for the month of September was just $3.44. All of that came from Google Adsense.
Not too exciting, and there’s definitely room for improvement. I’m still not covering my hosting costs. Despite my offer to go above and beyond if someone bought a Text Link Ad for this site, nobody has [...]

Business 3: New Site Launched

Saturday, September 29th, 2007

Last night I managed to get a new site launched. I’m still tweaking the site so, I’ll post the URL sometime later today once I get everything working the way I want.
Here’s what I did last night:

On Godaddy they have an automated software installation service, I used it to install Wordpress 2.2.1 (out [...]

One example why I love Linux

Friday, September 28th, 2007

Today I wanted to get my desktop set up for doing some python programming. The process couldn’t have been easier and was way better than anything possible on Windows.
On Ubuntu, I opened the package manager and did a search for python. went down through the list that it brought up to find a good IDE [...]

Business Three: Making Money in October

Wednesday, September 26th, 2007

So I kind of took a break this month from trying another business idea out. But that doesn’t mean that I wasn’t thinking about it! Right now I have at least two things that I want to try out.
First I want to delve further into affiliate marketing. I’ve already seen proof that [...]

Building Sustained Traffic

Monday, September 24th, 2007

Over the last 2 weeks of testing I’ve found a great new way to build sustained traffic for a blog.
The typical approach for a blogger is to leave comments on other blogs, or to submit their site to social bookmarking services, or directories.
Those approaches work to get traffic but typically they are short lived bursts.  [...]

What is Leverage

Thursday, September 20th, 2007

Today As I was walking to work I was thinking what is leverage and how can I use it? In it’s most basic definition leverage is getting more work done than the effort you put in.
The word leverage can be used in different contexts:

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Crap can make you rich

Tuesday, September 18th, 2007

Over the last few days I’ve stumbled on this internet marketing guru John Reese. John is a guy that has made many millions of dollars online. He owns income.com which just launched BlogRush as their first product and has countless other products that he sells.
Last night I listened to a 2 hour interview [...]

Advertize on my site and get a free review

Monday, September 17th, 2007

Order a Text-Links-ads spot for my site this month and I’ll do a full review of your website and post it. 
To the first person who orders an link I’ll also personally help drive more traffic to your site for the entire month, in more ways than just having a link in the top left [...]

BlogRush for More Traffic

Monday, September 17th, 2007

It seems like a great concept.  I get to have my content syndicated across the blogosphere for free.  The powerful thing about it is the number of times that my content can show up.  With BlogRush’s referral program you have the chance to really have your posts show up pretty often.
they go 10 Referrals deep [...]