To all the people out there that have downloaded and tried out my url re-direction program there is a new update that I recommend everyone download.The software allows me to quickly create new links like http://www.halotis.com/go/rss that quickly re-direct to any website and count the number of clicks on that link.  With proper logging I’m [...]

Check it out.  I created a Facebook Page for HalOtis.  A Facebook Page is a new feature that allows you to create a presence for businesses, artists, bands and other things that wouldn’t normally be able to sign up.  It has the added benefit of a basically unlimited number of “fans”.  The owner of a [...]

The internet is a continuously changing beast. I’m making a rather bold claim that Facebook is going to eclipse Google as the heart of the internet in the next few years.
I recently read an interesting article at slate.com about how 18 to 25 year olds are giving up on email in favor of using [...]

Over the past four or five years I’ve tried to run websites monetized with advertising. In all of those years my biggest pay day was probably the one day that I made almost $4 from advertising clicks. At the time I was pretty ecstatic about the $4 payday. If I could just [...]

A substantial increase in income from my websites over September when I made just $3.44.  Stating that it represents a growth of 8560% month over month is really kind of pointless except for the shear impressiveness of that number.
The vast majority of the income came from affiliate sales.  Here’s the breakout:
Google Adsense: $2.14Affiliate Sales: $292.36
For [...]

Earlier this week wrote a small PHP application to provide me with a self-hosted service like tinyurl with the addition of a traffic count. It is pretty rudimentary but allows me to have my own url-redirection without the complexity of HTML files with a META refresh.

The program I did has a simple interface that [...]

The goal for the month of November is to focus on two things, traffic and conversions. I want to end the month with an increase in my affiliate sales by about 30% over last month, which works out to 3 more sales. To accomplish this I need to get the site up to [...]

Made to stick is an absolutely brilliant book with tons of useful ideas and lessons. The concepts that Chip and Dan Heath teach in this book are usable in any context where you want to convey an idea to someone else.

I consider this book to be a must read for anyone that writes, or [...]