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Dan Poytner has been promoting self publishing for years.
Here are his tips on how to start your own home based publishing business.
Anyone can be a publisher. The publisher is the one who puts up the money. If you invest in your own printing, you are a self-publisher. If you begin to take in manuscripts from […]

To spare the hapless further embarassment I will not post a link, but I will mention on one of the forums the other day, a budding netpreneur told this story.
He became an affiliate for a program that supposedly told people how to get an expensive set of golf clubs for next to nothing.
Evidently the affiliate […]

Chitika.com offers a unique new pay per click revenue alternative.
Whereas many pap per click systems specialize in text ads, Chitika offers a combination of a picture and text designed to promote “comparison shopping”.
These ads CAN be run on the same page as “contextual text ads” IF the webmaster designates the content to be shown… a […]

As netpreneurs, here’s what we do know.
1. Depending on the keyword chosen, advertisers pay $0.5 to over $100 per click to have somebody simply LOOK AT their website and (hopefully) read their sales message.
2. Net Publishers who run dynamic advertising for Google or Yahoo are paid some percentage of the price the advertisers pay per […]

You may receive an email like I did.
The email makes it sound like you’re getting a real deal… A $97 value annual membership for free.
And to be sure you DO get lots of free ebooks… an excellent collection, some with resale rights.
But this is also a group similar to the Joint Venture folks who […]

Did you know it’s possible to receive up to $150 for a used cell phone?
Many routinely pay back $5 or more. One company even pays folks $5 for referring their friends too.
Given the way cell phones seem to accumulate, it’s worth seeing if any of those old phones around your place are worth money.
Here’s […]

Google got in trouble for seeking to digitize books with legally enforceable copyrights.
Now Yahoo et al are planning to do the same with the classics.
Read through and I’ll pass an idea along that may allow you to profit while working from home…
From BizJournals.com
A group including Yahoo Inc., Adobe Systems Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Labs said […]

Are you using forums to good advantage?
Not only are there some online forums that provide solid information, they can be an excellent
way to drive traffic to your web site.
I recently made a posting on just two forums about an unusual book I’d found:
Discovered! 505 Odd Enterprises
An inspirational collection of 713 unusual but practical ideas,
suggestions and […]

LocalTN.com is just another one of the bids to tap into the emerging local search marketplace. They’re using offline marketing via sweepstakes and other incentives (one a “lifetime hosting” offer for a sweepstakes winner) to build online traffic. From what I can tell it’s not a home based business, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t […]

Here’s an interesting discussion thread about a beginner seeking to make money with Google Adsense at Phil Wiley’s forum.
His site’s 6 weeks old and he’s getting 30 visitors per day.
Frankly, I’d say that’s excellent.
Once you get the first click from an Adsense customer, you won’t turn back.
If you can get the first click, the […]