My first blog was more focused on personal finance topics like budgeting, investing and saving money. Since that site is 18 months old now, even though I’ve pretty much abandoned it, it still gets search engine traffic for these topics. Blogging Perks – Marketing With Free Gifts This leads me to tonight’s topic. A shiny new copy [hardcover] of...

It’s easy to sell me stuff, ‘cuz I’m a loser! This post is the second in my Business Basics series. Last week I started with Got Business? and so this week I thought I dive right in with a real life business case study called: “How Not to Sell Me Something” that touches on the real secret to being successful in business…giving a...

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...

First I need to tell you about Change This. It’s the kind of site that when you find it, you can’t believe that you didn’t already know about it. I don’t know if they were bad, or just purposely subversive but they have no page rank at all. Strange for such a high quality website. Never mind…now you know. Sign up for their...

I came very close to titling this post “Money of Art” but since every post that makes it on to the top of a social bookmarking site starts with “how to” I just couldn’t do it. In my last post I mentioned that I used to own a woodworking business. I made hand crafted photo frames, but what I didn’t mention was that I actually...

I’ve figured it out…the biggest oversight online. Do you know that if you Google “SEO” it returns 151 million results. In a nutshell it is the art of trying to present the exact magic website formula to the search engines to rank highly on the results pages. Many companies charge thousands of dollars a month to “optimize”...