Archive for November, 2005

This is an old post from the sowpub.com forum by Don Alm…
There are lots of great ways to make lots of money.
Unfortunately, they all involve selling of one form or another… even website monetized by Google Adsense are about selling Google on why your website has unique content or some other search engine on your [...]

Any private citizen in the UK should be alarmed.
But in particular, folks operating a business from their home may be in for more of a shock should the value of their inventory or business equipment be used to justify higher property taxes.
From the News Telegraph
England like the US is slowly trashing the rights of citizens [...]

Google is unveiling it’s GOOGLE ANALYTICS service…

Google Analytics helps you find out what keywords attract your most desirable prospects, what advertising copy pulled the most responses, and what landing pages and content make the most money for you.
Free.
Spend on marketing, not on web analytics.
Sophisticated Analytics.
Google Analytics has all the features you’d expect from a high-end [...]

From the Huntsville, AL times…
Debbie Baughn’s children help with Bears and Beads
The bears around Debbie Baughn’s home in Madison aren’t the least bit threatening. In fact, her daughters hate to see them leave the house.
Bears are a major component of Baughn’s home-based business, Baughn’s Bears and Beads. She has applied more than 20 [...]

PoliceAuctions.com is a membership site that lets you track pending government auctions and, if you’re the high or only bidder, find some “steals” to resell.
I’ve just became aware of the site, but they seem to have a lot of content if reselling chattel (personal property) is your bag.
A friend of mine had a father in [...]

David Frey of MarketingBestPractices.com has unveiled a special report called “How To Get Big Companies To Call, Buy, and Beg for Your Products & Services”… you’ll need ad Adobe reader to view it.
Most work at home types are afraid to go after the big accounts.
They think they aren’t in the big leagues so “why bother?”
But [...]

What really sells online?
Some people make money selling plumbing fixtures or rope or gift baskets.
How do you know whether to sell that yourself to make sure you don’t end up with another “loser” project?
There’s no guaranteed formula but I just ran across one of the best resources I’ve seen in a long time.
The folks at [...]

My Photo Op Theory of Economic Development News states “Politicians believe economic development has occurred in proportion to the number of photo ops a company’s expansion provides.”
It’s corollary is that “Economic Development occurs in smoke filled rooms at tax payers expense not on street level.”
Take Nissan’s recent announcement about moving to Nashville, TN
When one employer [...]

From Jensense
New AdSense referral feature launched
If you have wanted to make money by referring publishers to AdSense, yet haven’t been accepted into the AdSense & AdWords referral program, you are in luck! You can now earn $100 per new publisher, when they sign up for AdSense and earn $100 in revenue.
When you login to your [...]

Actually BOTH are important.
And either can be “outsourced”.
What normally happens is that someone with a talent, skill, or ability “opens shop” and assumes that their mastery of that field will automatically guarantee customers.
Perhaps so, perhaps not.
Here’s a case study posted on Creative Real Estate Online by Frank Chin pointed out to me by Dien Rice…
I [...]