Archive for February 17th, 2006
Interview with Digg founder Kevin Rose
Web 2.0 Explorer: Yesterday I interviewed digg founder Kevin Rose to discuss digg’s popularity, its battle with spammers, the recent issues with GroupThink and digg’s upcoming personalization features. This is the first of a two-part article presenting that interview. As you know, digg.com is a technology news site that over the past 6 months has [...]
Affiliate Marketing Blog: One point worth noting though to any merchant who is considering setting up an incentive. Please don’t offer it to the affiliate who generates the most number of sales? Why? Because chances are the prize will go to their top affiliate anyway. They won’t necessarily put in any extra work and as [...]
From Ramit Sethi comes word of an In-N-Out delivery service for Stanford students called Chompz. From their about page: We’re seniors. We’re bored. It’s around that time to hunt for jobs, and, well, that takes time and effort. So we decided to bring In-N-Out burgers to campus. We remember when we were freshmen and didn’t [...]
Wow! Go It Alone, the book by Bruce Judson, that I mentioned earlier today is available online for free: From the introduction: The numbers are staggering. Over half (56%) of all Americans dream of starting their own business. The United States is the land of opportunity, but so few of us ever make the leap [...]
Thomas Edison: Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. via Worthwhile Living.
How to Guides for Business Chances are, if you’re planning to start a business, you don’t have a million dollars in the bank to finance it. But that shouldn’t stop you. There are plenty of inexpensive ways to start a business and we’ve got more than 40 great ideas—plus a list of (tags: startup bizopblog [...]
Avoiding the Pitfalls Common to Startups
Bruce Judson, author of Go It Alone was recently intereviewed in the Wall Street Journal: The Wall Street Journal: What is the biggest mistake people make when starting a small business? Mr. Judson: This might seem trite, but the most common mistake I see is that people think they have a great idea without testing [...]
Best and Worst of Making Money Online: Part 2
Continuing our post from yesterday, here’s part two of Best and Worst of Making Money Online. Make Money Online‘s biggest affiliate program duds of 2005: CrispAds (no returns at all) Art.com (money’s still stuck in the account) Commission Junction and LinkShare (some money, but stick in the account) ShareASale.com and clixGalore (still nothing) CafePress (some [...]
Frank Rumbauskas: I just read a profound post on Seth Godin’s Blog … read it here. It made me realize the reason for cold calling: You cold call because modern self-marketing wasn’t possible when cold calling was invented. And yet in this wonderful Information Age, everyone is still doing it…. Photo by aka Kath.
From the always well written Work At Home Biz Opp Blog: I got the following phishing message⦠it said this: Hello, This is John with the camera. I noticed that you picked up the money, it has been 2 days and I havenât received the package, whatâs next? Are you scamming me ? Please respond [...]
