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A friend of mine, an economist at the Queensland Treasury, pointed out this article which he called “The greatest thing I have ever read. Period.”. Being an economist of course this sort of article understandably really floats his boat.
Game Theories by Clive Thompson
There are some really interesting points in the article and what I … Read the rest of this entry »
I enjoy writing and I hope one day to write a book. While it’s not quite the same as creating a business, writing a book and publishing it for profit certainly have many similarities. Authors like most creative artists often struggle to make a living from their craft. An author that treats their book like a business person treats … Read the rest of this entry »
This article is a bit old and I first spotted it a few months back when I was in Canada. I love stories like these and when I recently stumbled across this article again I thought the readers of Entrepreneur’s Journey would probably enjoy it too.
The New Yorker: CollegeHumor.com was started in 1999 by Josh and Ricky,
In yet more proof that it is possible to make big money through Google AdSense another blogger, Jason Calacanis, reports that his blog network, Weblogs Inc, is now on track to make $1 million per year in AdSense revenue.
yesterday we broke our $2,100 record with a $2,335 day. That’s an impressive number I know, because
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I have a rather long podcast today which is generally about choosing an Internet business but I talk a lot around the concept as well. Selecting what project to work towards on the Internet is not a task you should take to lightly but as I mention in the audio … Read the rest of this entry »
I was recently contacted by Stephanie Yeh, co-author (with Raymond Yeh) of a brand new book about to be released called The Art of Business. The book is released on Wednesday 27th of July in the USA so hopefully by the time you read this it will be available to you at Amazon.com. I was lucky enough to … Read the rest of this entry »
It takes guts to go after marketshare when a giant such as eBay is your competition but new auction website Quty has decided to give it a go. There unique twist on online auctions – 5% of the profits go direct to charity.
The Quty 5 Percent Initiative
From the very early stages of Quty’s development, our co-founders have
I’ve been touting the brilliance of blogging as a great way to get content indexed into search engines quickly. I’ve told people how I set up my first blog (which is now a PageRank 5), how Google ate up the pages and consequently I had top ranking for phrases I had merely mentioned in a blog post or two. … Read the rest of this entry »
I’ve been touting the brilliance of blogging as a great way to get content indexed into search engines quickly. I’ve told people how I set up my first blog (which is now a PageRank 5), how Google ate up the pages and consequently I had top ranking for phrases I had merely mentioned in a blog post or two. … Read the rest of this entry »
A guy I know just launched a website for his poker coaching business. He gets $100 an hour. He also makes money from affiliate marketing for a paid poker site, something that the big online ad networks have been warned against by the FCC. Given the size of this market, the amount of money that these
I’ve been hearing a lot of rumours lately that Google is changing the game. Now I have no concrete facts but those in the know say that these changes are happening now and will impact the way everyone conducts search engine optimisation. It certainly can’t hurt to stay up to date with these sorts of things so here I … Read the rest of this entry »
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In this podcast there is a quick bit of house keeping to start with followed by a discussion of affiliate marketing which I have started to test on this blog. If you are interested in making money online then affiliate marketing is definitely one strategy to familiarise yourself with because … Read the rest of this entry »
Last year I had an office in downtown Brisbane (well almost, up a hill downtown Brisbane is more accurate). I needed an office to run an English school but after I shut that down the school in the second half of 2004 I was running a home based Internet business from an office. I was paying $1400 a month … Read the rest of this entry »
If you are a user of Google AdWords then you would have recently received an email from Google about some changes. In a nutshell they were:
What is changing:
- Simplified account management: Your keywords will be active or inactive – instead of normal, in trial, on hold, and disabled. In addition, accounts will no longer be slowed.
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Hot on the heals of the the amazing Google Earth project is the latest from Keyhole – Google Moon. For a laugh zoom right up close to the moon’s surface and you will confirm one of the oldest assumptions of human kind.
Like most people when they first use Google Maps in satellite mode and then when using … Read the rest of this entry »
Here at Entrepreneur’s Journey I make most of the decisions on what makes it to the front page. That’s all well and good if there were a bunch of people like me reading this blog, which I am sure there are, but really I know nothing about you guys. I realise the best way to make this blog better … Read the rest of this entry »
The Internet has created many new career opportunities for people. As a work at home entrepreneur I would not be able to do what I do without the web. Another group that have greatly benefited from the World Wide Web are work at home moms (or mums as I prefer – Hi mum!) and for these people the role … Read the rest of this entry »
Recently Google launched (out of BETA) a new service for it’s AdWords product – site targeting ads with a CPM (cost per 1000 ad impressions) bidding method. With site targeting if you see a content site that is displaying Google AdWords and you believe the target market of the site is the same target you want to reach, you … Read the rest of this entry »
I’ve been experimenting with article reprinting as a traffic and SEO strategy. I’ll have more on that for you in the future but to continue with the program I wanted to let everyone know that you are welcome to republish any of my articles, audio files and original content in your own website or newsletter, provided you reference me … Read the rest of this entry »
