http://techustle.com Using tech to hustle a few dollars. Thu, 31 Jul 2008 07:16:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Had my multiple sites up for over six months now and have tried various marketing techniques. I blew cash and did pay-per-click (PPC). I tried cross posting on other blogs related to the material I am trying to promote. I also tried creating profiles on certain forums and promote my ... http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Techustlecom/~3/351278550/ http://techustle.com/51/marketing-efforts-lessons-challenges-and-issues/ 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 ... http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Techustlecom/~3/303479418/ http://techustle.com/50/do-affiliate-marketers-think-they-are-superheroes/ 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 ... http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Techustlecom/~3/298508871/ http://techustle.com/49/pr-secrets-for-start-ups/ Went ahead and implemented a new layout and theme for the Techustle blog. I felt it was time to re-focus on Techustle and begin writing more often. So I went ahead and built various parts behind the scenes and now I am ready to show the new site. I guess ... http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Techustlecom/~3/298231066/ http://techustle.com/47/techustle-21/ ATTIGO a company founded by Scott Hobbs has just released information on their new touchscreen turntables (aka TT). The user interface is brilliant as it allows the DJ to have the same control aspects as a regular vinyl set-up. With the touchscreen turntables the setting of cue points on the ... http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Techustlecom/~3/298212461/ http://techustle.com/46/touchscreen-turntables/ Aloha Everyone. It has been a loooonnnngggg while since I have posted. Just been really busy with the day job and various projects. So many ideas and not enough time. Also working on migrating this site over to another server and updating the theme. I have noticed that everyone has the ... http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Techustlecom/~3/274525848/ http://techustle.com/43/posts-coming/ Woohoo! Went to the Incubus concert and it was pretty good. Overall the ambiance had a San Diego vibe mixed with a Hawaii vibe. We were on the lawn of the Waikiki Shell near the beer and bathrooms ;). The sound engineering sucked big time as it was very hard ... http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Techustlecom/~3/258778963/ http://techustle.com/42/incubus-concert-march-8-2001/ Well Asus just released its 2nd Generation EEE laptop to the FCC. Engadget just broke an article about it and included some pics. Some of the new features/upgrades for the 2nd generation are: 9" inch screen Finger gesturing touchpad CPU upgrade 8gig or 16 gig Solid State Drive Now if I can slap on OS X ... http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Techustlecom/~3/258773693/ http://techustle.com/41/asus-eee-2nd-generation-i-am-so-getting-this/ 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 ... http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Techustlecom/~3/254505477/ http://techustle.com/40/shopping-cart-software-which-one/ 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 ... http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Techustlecom/~3/253476426/ http://techustle.com/39/ebay-leaving-commission-junction/