What would happen if you crossed…

Sarah Silverman

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Rich Woman

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Making Money Online

And then started a blog?

You’d get posts like How To Make 4c a Week From Your Blog

Waiter, Can we Get This Girl an Alexa Rating Please? is a post from: Art of Money

Here’s a little tip for advertising buyers…be careful where you purchase your ads.

If you’re not a webmaster this may help you get the joke.

Great pic taken by jkenning.

Be Careful Where You Advertise is a post from: Art of Money

This hilarious video is part of a series by Cube News 1.

Some pratical tips for cube dwellers. You can check out the entire Cube News series on You Tube.

Click here to view the embedded video.

PS…get out while you still have enough sanity to know better

Cube News is a post from: Art of Money

Here’s my self portrait that has been on my About page for well over a year:

Here’s the founders of YouTube (Chad Hurley and Steven Chen) as found on Yahoo News:

Great minds think alike I guess.

Of course I’d sue if there wasn’t such a long line in front of me.

YouTube Founders Steal My Photo Concept is a post from: Art of Money

This video is hilarious, what’s really funny is that it probably isn’t that far from the truth (except for the part about being honest about what you’re doing) for a lot of semi-pro bloggers.

I secretly hope the bloggers on my network are exactly like this.

Click here to view the embedded video.

Found via John Chow.

Sorry I’m Too Busy Blogging is a post from: Art of Money

Did you know that Google had an online store? Just in case you can’t live without a pair of Google socks, or a Google dog leash.

Sorry, in case you’re wondering, they don’t sell Page Rank

Did You Know there Was a Google Store? is a post from: Art of Money

A little peak into the world of Mr. Snowman the venture capitalist.

Click here to view the embedded video.

Thanks to Sean [aka Snowman Dragon ] for sharing.

Snowman VC: “I’m Gonna Need a Latte” is a post from: Art of Money

The ultimate in product placement and contextual advertising, although Google would call it spam I’m sure.

In a speech yesterday George W. dropped a little product placement for “Dell” televisions into his talk.

Check it out:

Click here to view the embedded video.

Could it be the highest priced contextul ad ever. Apparently Michael Dell donated $250k to George Dubya’s campaign fund.

Dude, You’re Getting a President is a post from: Art of Money

Joel Comm’s AdSense Game

Joel Comm has released a semi-cool little game that teaches you how to create AdSense sites. It’s called the AdSense Game.

It allows you to go through the steps of choosing an topic, setting up your template, AdSense placement and color optimization and marketing techniques.

Then it runs a simulation to tell you how much money your site made, presumably based on the parameters you chose.

Wait, he must of stolen this game…from my life! Well my past life anyways. And true to real life…each day the earnings go down a little bit. I’m assuming that the purpose of that is to show you that you need to buy Joel’s AdSense book [which I own btw] but in reality it should be a tip off as to the wisdom or lack of wisdom of setting up a business based on AdSense.

After 2 days I had racked up $444.84

Even though it is obviously a marketing tool to sell books, it actually has a decent amount of similarity to the game of creating niche or made for AdSense sites.

Can you beat my score?

Play the AdSense Game is a post from: Art of Money

If you read this, this, then this, and finally this you will:

1. Learn about how to sell using stories in your copy

2. Get a really important lesson about permalinks in WordPress

3. Get a really good laugh or two

4. Learn a very skillful link baiting technique

Don’t forget to read the comments too.

btw…I read both of the sites involved on a regular basis, they’re both excellent.

Link Baiting and Permalink Botching is a post from: Art of Money

Every week when I get my list of most searched terms on the web from Wordtracker, I’m always slightly amused to see “google” as one of the top 5 terms [it is every week].

It doesn’t say a lot to the caliber of people online savvy to see how many people are using a search engine to find a search engine and you would HOPE that these people are typing in “google” at some other search engine other than Google; the Wordtracker data is a bundle of search results.

Well it seems that Yahoo and MSN are just a little bit sick of having people search for “google” from their page. Follow the links and notice that they have both included a second search box…as just a not so GENTLE REMINDER that, “ya know, if you’re looking for a search box, to uh, do a search with…well there’s one right in front of you!”

MSN and Yahoo are Pissed about Searches for Google is a post from: Art of Money

It’s been a pretty wild couple weeks around the Art of Money world headquarters. I’ve been working on my first Info product and want to share a bit with you.

I was making a video called “Keywords Crash Course” as a prerequisite video to my product when…well lets say you need all the letters on your keyboard working….

See Jon’s Camtasia Info Product Creation Blooper

It’s not going to be on America’s funniest videos but if you have ever done any presenting or screen demos, you’ll probably find it amusing.

Scheduled official launch date: July 26, 2006!

Info Product Creation Blooper is a post from: Art of Money

“Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons. ”
– Woody Allen

“The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.”
– Calvin Trillin

“Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That’s how rich I want to be.”
– Rita Rudner

“Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.”
– Charles Dickens David Copperfield 

“If you can count your money, you don’t have a billion dollars.”
– J. Paul Getty 

“A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don’t need it.”
– Bob Hope 

…more money quotes.

Quotes is a post from: Art of Money

I’m adopting this little ditty as my unofficial business theme song.

My Business Theme Song is a post from: Art of Money

It’s about a month ago now that I decided to abandon my old site Smart Money Daily and move on to a Wordpress powered blog…mostly to spend less time writing code and more time writing stories.

Today I checked my stats for the old site and I discovered that I had referral traffic from DMOZ!

I’m listed in the Personal Finance: Money Management: Weblogs category along with a lot of my friends from the Carnival of Personal Finance. Wouldn’t surprise me if one of the Carnival participants was editing that category.

For anyone in the business of search engine optimization a DMOZ listing is some kind of major attainment since Google and other major search engines consider a DMOZ listing as a reliable vote for a site’s credibility.

The Open Directory Project is the largest, most comprehensive human-edited directory of the Web. It is constructed and maintained by a vast, global community of volunteer editors.

Oh well, maybe in a year or so…I can get Art of Money in there!

Life’s Funny Sometimes is a post from: Art of Money

Over on Mark Cuban’s blog, he has issued a fun challenge…if Howie Mandel can get

Now that The Apprentice is moving to Monday nights and riding on the coattails of NBC’s newest hit, Deal or No Deal, the Donald is doing the right thing and trying to get a viewership boost from an appearance on the Howie Mandel hosted show.

Of course, being the fun loving guy that I am, and as someone who is always trying to look out for the best interests of Donald Trump, I have decided to make an open offer to Howie Mandel.

Howie, if you can get Mr Trump to pull a rubber glove completely over his head and blow it up on your show, not only will I watch it, I will donate 1 million dollars to the charity of your choice.

Oh, to be in the idle rich club and have fun with my money like this. Don’t know if the Donald will go for it, but I love it that Mark isn’t afraid to take a little jab at him.

Mark Cuban’s Million $ Challenge is a post from: Art of Money

Are you ready for the next Million Dollar Home Page idea? This one is just as clever and probably a little more interesting.

The trade of goods and services is the essence of capitalism so what Kyle is trying to do with one red paperclip is to make a series of trades and end up with a house. So far he has done remarkably well. With only 10 trades he has gone from a paperclip worth a fraction of a penny to a professional record deal that I would guess is probably worth a minimum of $15,000 to the right individual.

Although the story is rooted in the old time principles of trade and capitalism, it is really only made possible by the broad reach of the Internet. When you can expand your pool of trading partners to include most of the world then you really can leverage the one man’s garbage is another man’s treasure [think eBay!] to the max.

I just love it when someone takes a simple idea and turns it into magic! My guess is that Kyle’s house is about 10 trades away, depending on where he wants to live, of course.

One Red Paper Clip is a post from: Art of Money

GoogleMan the comic strip.

GoogleMan! is a post from: Art of Money