Archive for August, 2006

Commission Junction has taken a move that makes perfect sense in most instances but which makes it difficult for small affliates hoping to get started, and bloggers. If, for whatever reason, you can’t use javascripts on your website or blog, it just got harder to use commission junction. Their latest ad campaigns require Java Script [...]

Via Dane… Inventors’ Digest: In honor of August being National Inventors’ Month, Inventors’ Digest magazine will unveil a compilation of its best and brightest articles from the past two decades, providing the first downloadable volume free of charge now and throughout August, to help novice inventors move from idea to product development success. The 20 [...]

In all the talk about “outsourcing”, “downsizing”, and the loss of manufacturing jobs who profits? Of course the overseas laborers themselves make a pittance. It’s the importers though who are making the lion’s share of the profits while, for example, the Chinese firms operate with narrow margins. That makes sense of something that happened here. [...]

Fact 1: Blog comments ARE a great way to get your business, program, or service known. You not only get back links for the search engines, you can get real live human traffic – read customers – by posting intelligent, on topic comments. Sometimes you can even get yourself noticed by blog networks and asked [...]

Want to jazz up that free Blogger blog? (Especially if you’re trying to generate revenue?) I’ve posted before here about one great source of Free Blogger Templates – Gecko & Fly. But today I ran across another Free Blogger Templates site that let me find even more excellent blogging templates. The website is, appropriately… http://blogger-templates.blogspot.com/ [...]

A German blogger scanning “Google Earth” for satellite images that would tweak his curiousity unconvered a Chinese military secret… a scale model of it’s border with India, the scene of a border war in 1962. A preparation for war? Be careful when you’re surfing. Your “find” may make you famous … or infamous. Another sign [...]

Would be real estate investors know to “buy low and sell high”. They know it’s wise to buy a “fixer upper”, clean it up, and resell it. They just don’t know how. Maybe you could start a business as a “remodelling coach” and sell your time and get a referral fee from the local hardware [...]

From Dane’s Blog WeirdTechNewsHub: Million Dollar Homepage – 1000000 pixels, charge a dollar per pixel – that’s perhaps the dumbest idea for online business anyone could have possible come up with. Still, Alex Tew, a 21-year-old who came up with the idea, is now a millionaire. SantaMail – Ok, how’s that for a brilliant idea. [...]

If you’re wondering who died and left your local “planning commission” as God, you’re not alone. Thanks to the internet we get to see the whining and carping that goes on in these planning commissions who believe that they have such omnipotent power over people who want to make a living from their homes. While [...]

No, not more information products…software…or any amount of Here’s a free video from my friend Lance Mock. The example, this person creates products using CafePress and sell them for a 20% commission in a store there, by by changing the venue and marketing on Ebay, he has the chance to spice it up by calling [...]