Archive for January 13th, 2006

From running his own listserv to 3 billion page views per month and $20 million per year, it’s still run from his living room… From the BBC: For a man with no plan, who describes himself as just another “line worker”, Craig Newmark is doing alright. Meeting the international media in Manhattan this week, the [...]

Jason Lewis’ ebook is titled “Website Not Required”. And, as you may have guessed, it’s about how to make money without a website. For many people, the thought of having a website is the barrier. Gibberish like “html”, “php”,”blog and ping”,”search engine optimization”,”FTP,”Java” scares them off. Then, even if you HAVE a website, sometimes they [...]

Here’s a great tip from Glenn at Woozinator.com Just Suppose… You’ve been handing out LOTTO Tickets to the waitresses in an Up-scale eatery. (Or a place where your #1 client eats. So U can get more.) Day after day. Week after week. These staffers are going to be VERY happy to see you. SO… What [...]

From the IndyStar Man pitches pixels, makes a million Look what Alex Tew did, and you get one of those “Why didn’t I think of that?” flashes. It’s so simple, so cheap, so mind-bogglingly lucrative that it took the 21-year-old student from small-town Wiltshire, England, not even five months to go from broke to millionaire. [...]

From the Guardian UK A group of statisticians has laboured for months to crack the secret of producing best selling novels – only to find that under their formula The Da Vinci Code should have been a flop. This year’s runaway bestseller should have had only a 36% chance of reaching the charts, according to [...]