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Talk about “Public Domain Profits”!
From Yahoo Business
Philip M. Parker has generated more than 200,000 books, as an advanced search on Amazon.com under his publishing company shows, making him, in his own words, “the most published author in the history of the planet.” And he makes money doing it.
Among the books published under his name are “The Official Patient’s Sourcebook on Acne Rosacea” ($24.95 and 168 pages long); “Stickler Syndrome: A Bibliography and Dictionary for Physicians, Patients and Genome Researchers” ($28.95 for 126 pages); and “The 2007-2012 Outlook for Tufted Washable Scatter Rugs, Bathmats and Sets That Measure 6-Feet by 9-Feet or Smaller in India” ($495 for 144 pages).
But these are not conventional books, and it is perhaps more accurate to call Mr. Parker a compiler than an author. Mr. Parker, who is also the chaired professor of management science at Insead (a business school with campuses in Fontainebleau, France, and Singapore), has developed computer algorithms that collect publicly available information on a subject — broad or obscure — and, aided by his 60 to 70 computers and six or seven programmers, he turns the results into books in a range of genres, many of them in the range of 150 pages and printed only when a customer buys one.
The Virginian-Pilot: via Dane’s blog
Some cute stationery and a creative edge were what Joanne Butcher needed to stay home to take care of her children and operate a full-time business.
“I wanted something with flexible hours that enabled me to be with my family,” Butcher said. “I also wanted a creative outlet.”
Butcher, 42, opened The Paper Wagon in March 2006 in her Salem Woods home by offering personalized note pads. As her business grew, she added bar/bat mitzvah invitations, birth announcements, party invitations and more recently, wedding invitations.
Butcher meets with clients in their homes and brings samples. She helps clients choose design, color and layout. She also delivers.
“Busy moms can shop at home while their toddlers are taking a nap or when the kids are at school,” Butcher said. “People love the convenience.”
Photo by emsago.
From Skellie
Hey, there’s just too much good stuff for me to post his list of bullet points. This is page after page of solid material it’s worth your while to read.
Here are just some high points so please do read the whole article by Skellie
Without the ability to gather links, subscribers and comments, your blog can’t grow. These three basic things are the lifeblood of your blog. It’s essential to be reminded (every once and a while) of how you can keep that lifeblood flowing.
As editor of Freelance Switch, a really big blog with over 23,000 subscribers, I’m always surprised to see how few people ask to be included in our links posts. I get maybe one request a day. The truth is that most bloggers who like a post and think it will be relevant to their audience will be happy to link to it, but most of us assume we don’t stand a chance, or feel that asking for links is too audacious.
Create a stickied thread in a forum. Unlike normal forum threads, stickied threads are permanently attached to the top of a forum. They have a few common traits: they’re timeless, they’re useful, they’re well-crafted, and they answer one or many recurring questions. However, it’s difficult to 100% guarantee your thread will be stickied, even if you put a lot of effort into it. If you’re pursuing this method, it’s best to do it on a forum you enjoy, and have fun with the process. If your thread doesn’t take off as you would have liked, it’s will still be a positive experience. Of course, the most important step in the process is making sure your blog’s URL is in your post signature, or you could even place it below the introduction to your thread. I was able to drive a steady stream of traffic to one of my older hobby blogs by having a thread stickied.
Write or exchange guest posts on highly-targeted blogs. A good guest-post on a well-trafficked, well-targeted blog is almost guaranteed to result in a spike in subscribers. This is because visitors are arriving at your blog from your guest-post with an already positive initial opinion of what you do. If your subscriber count has reached a plateau or even dropped, a guest-post is generally all it takes to kick-start the subscriber growth process.
Remember, read it all at Skellie’s blog
It’s been a crazy week at my Angel Food Ministries Lens…1225 visitors in the last 7 Days. You can click the thumbnail to see the screenshot for yourself.
806 have come from Google. The rest from a variety of other sources including 210 direct referrals from other sources.
Is the concern about rising food prices driving it? I suspect, but I’m not sure.
I do love the Adsense clicks and the clicks to books and such that make money, but don’t be too envious, it’s not “interesting” but not likely to make me rich any time soon!
For the record, I HATE hotmail. I hate the name. I hate the service. I hate the spam that comes from hotmail users. I think it’s completely unprofessional to try to do business or even conduct serious communications using a hotmail address. Did I mention that I hate hotmail?
But in case you don’t, here’s a good article from Web Worker Daily on Jailbreaking Hotmail.
With Microsoft’s announcement this week that Outlook and Outlook Express will no longer support desktop access to Hotmail accounts raises some interesting questions on data portability.
After 30th June, Microsoft’s Windows Live Mail application will be the only means by which desktop and offline access to Hotmail accounts will be supported. This effectively means that a Hotmail user’s messages continue to be imprisoned within a closed ecosphere of services and applications. OK, smart people won’t be using Outlook, Outlook Express or Hotmail, but millions do and many have years of messages archived that they may wish to continue accessing outside a web-based interface.
However, there are some unofficial mechanisms that can not only continue to provide offline and desktop access, but also standards-based access into most email clients
- IzyMail has close to a decade of experience in delivering webmail gateway services. A one-off payment of $17.95 buys a one-year subscription that equips any Hotmail, Yahoo, AOL and Gmail account with a POP and IMAP ‘wrapper’, so users can send, receive and synchronise messages using most desktop clients, such as Thunderbird, Apple Mail and Outlook
- Thunderbird’s WebMail extension plays a similar role to IzyMail, though is of course limited only to Thunderbird and doesn’t necessarily support the various permutations of a service like Hotmail (Live Hotmail, Hotmail Classic etc.) but does support a wider range of services
- Apple Mail fans can use a similar plugin - HTTP Mail - to retrieve Hotmail messages and folder.
Of these solutions, I’d recommend IzyMail’s standards-based approach, freeing the user to employ any both leading mail protocols with the widest range of clients. Indeed, IzyMail saw a huge spike in subscriptions with the launch of the iPhone last Summer as users utilised POP and IMAP webmail gateways to synchronise their email with their phones.
I say just get Gmail.com!
If you find it helpful to learn just HOW successful business people think, you’ll want to read this article on Costco’s business strategy.
Some things I learned…
*Their stores never carry more than 4000 items - but in bulk. A Wal-Mart carries 125,000.
*They never price anything more than 14% above their cost.
*Their profit essentially comes from their membership fees, not retail mark up (remember that if you think you can get rich by only charging 14% above your cost!)
Quotable Quote:
The other tenet Sinegal insists Costco follow is that it never sells anything at more than 14 percent above cost. If a hypothetical pair of socks cost them a dollar, they sell it for $1.14. Not a cent more. “If you study the retail business you will find all sorts of examples of people who thought that they could charge another dollar for an item, and another dollar here, and they could cut the wages on their employees, and the net result is that you have lots of companies that wind up going out of business,” Sinegal said.
Most entrepreneurs and work at home types just want a fair shake to make a living for themselves.
They don’t want to government to give them anything… they just don’t want to be hassled.
So they hate it when they hear about people who are supposedly “icons” of “capitalism” turn out to be socialist welfare state suck ups.
Here’s one regarding Warren Buffett, the stock market guru who “buys low and sells high”. Turns out that may be his political theory too if the complaint below applies to him as well… a few bucks to a grasping politician reaps huge financial rewards long term.
“Buffalo is a city awash in subsidized projects. Warren Buffett, who owns the Buffalo News, got $100 million in government giveaways to open a call center for his GEICO General Insurance Company, the one that uses cavemen and a talking lizard to pitch its products. A special subsidy zone had to be created just to lavish the money on Buffett.
“The call center cost $40 million. So, basically, Buffett’s company is getting back what it invested and then collecting a $60 million gift from local and state taxpayers. The call center may eventually create 2500 jobs. If that happens the subsidy would equal $40,000 per job, which is more than a year’s pay and benefits for each of the call center workers….
“As the GEICO call center opened, another call center, owned by a Canadian firm, shut down. The net gain in jobs was zilch. Still, the Buffalo News wrote story after story about how the GEICO center was a wonderful economic development, while giving little attention to the one that closed….
“James Ostrowski, a hard-line libertarian who has been fighting the subsidy culture of Buffalo, said it took him a few years to realize why the city, and Erie County, fathers were so eager for these deals: ‘There are about 50 people who make things happen here and they are all in on the subsidies,’ said Ostrowski. ‘Everybody is in on the take in some fashion. We are drowning in high taxes, but if you are connected or wealthy you make a few phone calls and you get relief. The politicians just get to dole out money to enrich people and it gets them all sorts of favors…Give $100,000 to the right politicians over a couple of years and get a $20 million construction contract or a $500 million deal that guarantees you make out even if the whole thing fails. All these families volunteer to serve on all these authorities — because they get so much back.” — David Cay Johnston, Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expenses (and Stick You with the Bill) (New York: Penguin Group, 2007), 121.
HT: Scribblative Agincourting
Blog and website publishers who are able to deliver the traffic through organic search methods or other legitimate means are always on the lookout for ways to maximize the revenue from their efforts. After Google’s Adsense program let advertisers pay “chump change” to webmasters who run their ads on PREMIUM webspace, frankly publishers have been looking for solid alternatives that aren’t - how can I say it? - “cheesy”…
We want something well done, with top notch reporting of stats of every kind and great offers that attract click through and earn commissions. But few “fill the bill”.
If that describes your frustration, then the Clickbooth Affiliate Network may be the resource they’ve been looking for because of some of the unique advantages I noted as I surveyed the program myself:
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*Clickbooth guarantees higher conversions and the highest payouts as publishers are allowed to run offers directly cutting out the middle man.
*I was instantly contacted by a personal account manager.
And the actual campaigns available to publishers are amazingly diverse and should suit just about any audience you serve.
If you’re blogging or creating websites, Clickbooth Affiliate Network is worth your serious consideration. You can visit http://www.clickbooth.com to learn more and sign up for your own account!
The news is filtering through the nation “Rice Shortage!”
Because of the astronomic price of gasoline that keeps moving upwards, talk of “recession” (or “Depression”), etc. this combination of news has the potential to spread panic.
And the fact that the “stimulus payments” are going out in the mail soon and everyone knows they’re a joke that will just go into the coffers of the people sucking us dry at the pumps (which we’ve no discovered frequently overcharge us to boot!)
What’s really going on?
Business Week has a good article on the subject. Why is there a rice shortage? First, it’s not all the rice… just the premium Thai Jasmine and Indian Basmati rice versions.
There’s currently no shortage of rice. “Vietnam and Thailand have had record rice crops in the past year, and India too has had bumper crops,” says Nathan Childs, a senior economist who follows the global rice market at the Economic Research Service of the U.S. Agriculture Dept.
Instead, what’s driving the price of rice so high are widespread worries about food inflation in many rice-growing nations. “In poorer nations, a large share of people’s earnings is spent on food, and big price increases in other kinds of food are harming consumers,” Childs says. So to protect their supplies of rice—a staple food in much of the world—several countries have imposed export bans or sharp limits. That has led to a sharp reduction of rice available for trade in the global market. In 2007, India and Vietnam, two of the world’s biggest rice exporters, reduced their rice shipments. Since then, Cambodia, Egypt, and Brazil have all halted rice exports. And many observers worry that Thailand, the world’s largest rice exporter, might jump on the bandwagon.
But if you don’t mind eating plain old Arkansas rice, for instance, there’s no shortage of these “non gourmet” types of rice from what we can see right now.
The Philippines is stockpiling rice because they are afraid of a shortage despite bumper crops and West Coast families who eat rice at 3 meals per day are buying up the Jasmin and Basmati rice while many restaurants seem to be stockpiling the “best” rice too.
It’s not a signal that there’s a food shortage per se - just a shortage of this gourmet variety.
