After my last story about some dude trying to copy my Ninja Blog Setup site in Spanish I received the following email via my contact form: hi jon i’m being honest, and i tell you, you had an amazing Idea… I’m also a hug fan… But the funniest thing is “I didn’t know it was yours” also I want you to leave your post as is...

You’ve put your latest affiliate love child online and it’s too soon to tell if your idea is going to take off or not, but how can you know that the idea is a killer? Imitation is the most sincere form of flattery… I guess if some wanker takes the time to copy it verbatim, that would be a pretty good endorsement. I guess it is some small...

By whatever magic of nature, science or criminal activity, you’ve achieved a baby, but for god’s sake before you name the thing, make sure the domain name is available. “…One of the criteria was, if we liked the name, the domain had to be available,” Pankow said. It was, and Pankow quickly grabbed Bennett’s online...

Here’s an interesting report with a message that makes sense when you think about it, but is often taken for granted or overlooked. Anyone involved in online business knows and spends a lot of time trying to grab searchers from search engines: analyzing keywords, traffic conversions, search volumes etc. But what makes people search for certain terms...

I heard through the grapevine that Elance is running a promotion where they will give a free copy of Tim Ferriss’ popular book Four Hour Work Week to anyone posting a new project on their site. I searched their site up and down to find evidence of the promotion and couldn’t see it, so I shot an email to my account manager and here’s the reply I...