I have been reading, analyzing, and {insert action verb here} for over a year now. As a young pollywog I read all the popular blogs. Such as John Chow, Shoemoney, and Super Affiliate. In fact I still do today. They seem to love to share and live the life of a superhero such as Iron [...] [...more]
Brian Solis over at TechCrunch has written a blog post on 12 PR secrets. His “secrets” are actually widely known and practiced in the marketing community. I think the number one theme expressed through out his post is that start ups need to have a mind shift. The mind shift is to build relationships with [...] [...more]
Been researching all the various shopping cart software solutions out there. And there are many. On the open-source end, there is OSCommerce, ZenCart, MagentoEcommerce, Substruct, Drupal+Ubercart, and Prestashop. As for purchasable solutions, there is X-Cart. My main requirements so far has been PHP or RoR and if possible free. I have not looked at any [...] [...more]
Yeah! EBay is rolling its affiliate programs in house. The announcement was made today and it has been written up by every blog out there. So I am going to write about how this affects me personally. One of my top things to get down ASAP or at least before May 1st is the migration [...] [...more]
I wanted to share my earnings from my eBay affiliate sites for the last 30 days. Drum roll please. I made a grand total of $13.86. That is right boys and girls $13.86. I need to work on my conversions because they suck. I think I need to add more authoritative content to help people [...] [...more]
In my last post about Yahoo! Search Marketing I provided a link to get $100 in free advertising from Yahoo! Search Marketing. To get the $100 you had to be a new customer and had to put a deposit of at least $30 in your account. Well, a few days after I signed up my [...] [...more]
Well it looks as if eBay will be reducing their listing fees and increasing their commission fees. I am hoping this helps me out on my niche stores. Because an increase in the eBay commission means I make more money on each transaction. My current understanding of my affiliate agreement is that I make 50% [...] [...more]
So besides working on this blog and other projects I attempted a another revenue generating idea. I read about it from my idol of hustle and flow Shoemoney where he talked about building a niche store. So what is a niche store? It is basically a site that contains ebay auctions specific to the niche [...] [...more]
It looks as if the War of the Worlds is going to be happening soon enough as Google has deployed their mobile phone platform SDK called Android. I would wager to say this is an excellent strategy as far as timing and tactic. First point is that Google timed their SDK release months before Apple’s [...] [...more]
So the last month I have explored multiple ways to try and make money off the web. As noted in my about page my goal is to make enough so I can quit the day job. I am taking the approach of trying a whole bunch of different things at the same time. Might not [...] [...more]
