Down-To-Earth Tips and Advice for Internet Entrepreneurs
I always like reading about web companies selling for millions. It serves as inspiration for all us web entrepreneurs building our own empires.
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Expanding into the U.S. market, Rakuten Inc., a Japanese Internet portal operator, said Monday it is buying LinkShare Corp., a privately held U.S. Internet marketing firm, for $425 million.
LinkShare’s performance-based marketing expertise
At the moment I am putting together some information products to sell online. I’m working with some friends to record audio content and I’m writing and recording my own content that I hope in two to three years from now will amount to quite a collection of valuable resources and a steady passive income for me and some of my … Read the rest of this entry »
If you are like me you spend a lot of time reading articles and websites. No doubt if you have ever been enticed to join a free e-course or download an e-book you would have been presented with a title like this at some point:
7 Proven Methods To Improve Your…
7 Steps … Read the rest of this entry »
One of the first overseas online friends I made with the help of Skype was Michael Pollock via his blog, SmallBusinessBranding. Michael also does a podcast called the SavvySoloCAST and I just finished listening to his latest edition – How to Create and Sell Information Products – Download the MP3 [ 68 Minutes - 23.5MB ].
The podcast features … Read the rest of this entry »
Today I am launching a new feature spotlighting another aspiring web entrepreneur and his or her web business. This idea came about because Adam, the owner of MySearchIsOver.com contacted me asking about advertising rates. Since I’m not taking advertisers at the moment but I wanted to help provide some exposure for Adam’s project I thought it would be interesting to … Read the rest of this entry »
Pay-Per-Click (PPC) advertising is a method of bringing visitors to your website by using an advertisement that you only pay for when someone clicks through to visit your site. Made popular by Google.com’s AdWords system which allows advertisers to place context sensitive advertisements on the search results of the Google search engine and on other websites that choose to display … Read the rest of this entry »
Here is an interesting model for monetizing a website – mini-subscriptions. PixelPass offers mini-subscription services for blog and website owners to enable them to charge a small monthly fee to access their content – anything from 25c – $2.
The model works like this -
Internet users pre-purchase $5 worth of PixelPass credit which can be used on any site … Read the rest of this entry »
Web business owners enjoy some of the best tools for assessing the success of their website. In the history of business there has never been a more analysable tool than the website. Webmasters often get caught up with their website statistics, carefully monitoring daily changes (even hourly or by the minute changes for the sick puppies!). Much of the … Read the rest of this entry »
I’m no web developer and I have never ever made use of any Flash except the odd copy and paste third party service. I know well enough that for most of what I do online I don’t need pretty movies, text will suffice, however I realise a lot of you out there probably do use Flash or might want to … Read the rest of this entry »
In today’s blogosphere I generally come across three styles of writing:
1. Reproduction of other people’s content
Most bloggers do this either by lifting whole sections from other blogs or websites as the full entry, or as I often do, sampling a piece from another blog as inspiration to write fresh content or give an opinion on someone else’s idea.… Read the rest of this entry »
