Archive for October, 2007

Book Review: The Long Tail

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

The Long Tail by Chris Anderson is a book about niche markets. Chris investigates some of the newly opened markets due to the vastly decreased costs associated with digital inventory. For example, the Rhapsody Company sells subscription music service and maintains an absolutely monstrous library of music. The largest record stores on the planet might [...]

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The HalOtis History

Friday, October 26th, 2007

I started trying to make money online in 2004. Colum, my business partner and co-worker, and I decided to launch a business called HalOtis. The premise was to compete in the NASA Centennial Challenges to build a lunar rover. We went through several design iterations, and did a mockup of the design before we realized [...]

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Publishing Ezine Articles

Friday, October 19th, 2007

The positive results I’ve been getting from my Stock Secrets site has kept me focused on attracting more growth to the site.  I’ve proven to myself that the concept has potential worth pursuing further.  The immediate goal is to get the site up to a sustained 200 visitors per day.  With that in place it [...]

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Buying And Selling Websites

Sunday, October 14th, 2007

Ed Dale is the man when it comes to buying and selling websites.  After selling his first major website in the late nineties made him a millionaire, he did it again creating and selling 28 websites for a total of $5 million.  When he talks about what’s possible in buying and selling websites, he knows [...]

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Made my first sale!

Friday, October 12th, 2007

It took a while longer than I expected, but on Wednesday I logged my first ever sale as a ClickBank affiliate. The sweet taste of success has energized my motivation to continue down this path at making money. Here’s how it all happened. On the weekend of the 29th of September I launched a new [...]

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Is There Value in a Business Plan?

Wednesday, October 10th, 2007

I got a surprise call yesterday from a business advisor service.  At some point several months ago I must have submitted my name in some online form.  It took several months but they finally contacted me to talk about joining their program. It was a neat concept,  they would pair me up with an appropriate [...]

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Steve Jobs Words of Wisdom

Tuesday, October 9th, 2007

I saw this video over the weekend and it really struck a cord with me. Steve Jobs is a guy that I really respect.

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Finding Passive Income

Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007

Back in June, I made a promise to myself to develop a through understanding of how to make passive income. It turns out that it’s much harder than I had expected. I was inspired by some books that I read at the time to really figure everything out and start making passive income for myself. [...]

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