Archive for January, 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 53-year-old stood in [...]

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 sit in cyberspace and [...]

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 if you staple or clip [...]

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.
Worried about paying [...]

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 Atai [...]

From Webmaster Brain, the typo generator suggests common misspellings of keywords you may wish to bid on.
By bidding on the typos, you usually can invest less in pay per click ads.
The problem is coming up with them.
This tool will help.

According to Skip, the deadline is still tomorrow the 13th to join his membership site for just $25.
Skip Rosell is one of my favorite writers.
He’s creative yet humble. Lot’s of people want to score big off you and sell you a $200 program (or more) and to do that they have to imply you’re going [...]

Byron Township Michigan says that the business must be IN the home, not in “auxiliary” buildings on the home’s plot.
This means that pole barns, garages, and other out buildings on a property are not legal home businesses.
Gould said he is most concerned about offices are established in accessory buildings or garages.
Township planner Larry Nix [...]

The connectedness of the world is allowing business owners to relocate their businesses to Israel so that persons wanting to live there won’t have to face the ravages of the country’s 11% unemployment rate.
“When clients call the business in Israel, they call a local France number and speak to a French person [at a call [...]

Here’s a posting I found on Craigslist.org … you may wish to avail yourself of it.
Just go to AssociatedContent.com.
This ad relates to legal articles, but all sorts of topics can be submitted.
Content Producers from around the country are adding their reviews, articles, insider tips and other great information to Associated Content, and quickly seeing [...]