Here is, verbatim, an email that came in via my contact form. It may be the best one I’ve ever received: Oh my God! I’m so tired of reading on the internet! Could someone just simplify all these posts and tell me how to blog for money? I wanted to start a blog tonight — just to post musings — and I am so boggled by the blog...

Derek Beauchemin ran a very useful series of posts about creating low maintenance and profitable niche blogs that is definitely worth checking out. My goal for this case study is to build a profitable blog with minimal effort. I will be shooting for a minimum of $100 profit per month after all expenses (including content production costs). The blog should also be...

In the past couple weeks I’ve made a big jump in my productivity. It was a conscious choice, and the result of a fair amount of honest self-critique and reflection. Here are the 5 changes that made the biggest difference. 5. Order and Prioritize your Tasks in Alignment With your Goals I’m not quite to the point of not checking email, but I have cut it...

Here’s a post that I found really interesting on CyberCashology called Are You Asking the Wrong Question? The post rambles a bit but here’s the part that rings true with me: …the teacher of a pottery class split his class into two groups. He told one group their grade would be determined on the basis of the number of pots they made during the...

A couple months ago I added Art of Money to the Quantcast system. Introducing Quantcast Internet Ratings Quantcast is the world’s first open Internet ratings service. Advertisers can find reports on the audiences of millions of web sites. Publishers can ensure their sites are represented accurately by tagging them for direct measurement. The service is free to...

I confess that I haven’t really done any promotion of Text Link Ads even though they really are a killer way to make money. The reason I often neglect the obvious is that I figure my blog is not (by intention) on the cutting edge, so most likely everyone has already heard of these programs. If you are already one of the many who are already aware of Text Link...