Archive for 2006

Steve Shulenski has had a few up’s and down’s in his business career. Many people would have just given in after adversity. Here’s what Steve did in his own words…
Going bankrupt forced me to look at everything I had done to put myself into that situation. It made me realize that the only way I [...]

Jason Gazaway suggests you
1) Make A List:
You’ve probably heard this before and with good reason! Write the things you need to do with your business down on a piece of paper. List in order the things by two factors. One is the importance, and the second is which of the things [...]

While it’s not always a home business, some homeowners have added them to adjacent lots so they can keep an eye on their investment…
From Albany Business Review…
The clientele includes people who need temporary storage while their new home is being built; local sales representatives for out-of-town companies who need room for their inventory; college [...]

Via William Mencarow at PaperSourceOnline.com’s free “paper” course.
THE TRUTH ABOUT BUYING JUDGMENTS
By Anonymous
Collecting judgments is very difficult.
I should know, I do it for a living.
It is much more complicated than these judgment courses would [...]

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.