I was an Internet Marketing consultant for several years -- including 2.5 years full-time while my first website was still getting off the ground -- and I still do pro bono consulting from time to time just to meet new people and be exposed to new industries.
Virtually all the sites I've worked with have been U.S. sites that marketed nationwide, but I've worked with a handful who were only interested in marketing locally. Here's what I've learned with ... Keep reading »
I frequently see articles and even entire books on how to select a good topic for your website. I can't recall ever seeing anything on choosing what type of site to build for that topic, though, and that can be every bit as important as choosing the topic.
So if you're just getting started, I hope this list will be a good resource for helping you select what kind of site to build. If you have comments or questions, please leave ... Keep reading »
Great post on Everything I Know About Business I Learned From Poker from the Zappos blog and follow-up post from QuadsZilla. I love analogies, and they draw a very tight one.
Andrew points to a Wall Street Journal article today about how Google is looking into a number of ways to maintain profitability during tough economic times and speculates:
As Google struggles to keep its earnings growing, another place the company will look is to squeeze its content partners. All it has to do is dial back the revenue share it provides to content publishers. That includes domain name owners. Since Google has essentially killed ... Keep reading »
Chris is going to try site flipping and Jay has posted 5 Reasons Why Flipping New Sites Is Better Than Keeping Them. Those are two good posts amongst all the noise about site flipping from people trying to sell you training programs on their "secret techniques," and good posts are hard to find on this topic.
So as someone who's both bought and held sites and bought and flipped them, I wanted to give you my perspective on site ... Keep reading »
Love this post by Alan today. Here's my favorite part:
Gurus claiming they make money from the net or whatever line they’re using is like saying the guy we buy produce from at the flea market is “making money from the flea market." No, he has a business at the flea market and he busts his tail setting up shop, ordering produce, doing paperwork, stacking watermelons, sweeping the floor, unpacking his truck and so on. The flea market has no ... Keep reading »
I routinely write things free-form as the thoughts roll out of my mind and then save them to come back to later and polish up. I found this one today as I was going through my drafts and was amazed to find that a) I had written so much as it fell out of my head and b) that it was just a few days short of a year ago. I've already kind of answered the question for me in ... Keep reading »
I know this is a constant refrain for me, but for every person who finds success using a shortcut, there are thousands who never will because they use shortcuts. Seth blogs about that today.
Add up all that time you spend chasing a quick solution, and you could have had real success. Instead, you're left with nothing while the turtle wins the race.
Today the U.S. capital gains rate stands at 15%. That means if you sell a business that you've owned for more than a year, you owe the government 15% in taxes -- $150,000 on a $1,000,000 sale.
Obama wants to raise that to as much as 28%, though. So to net the same amount with a 28% rate as you do with a 15% rate, you'd have to ... Keep reading »
