2007 April

Paid Links Joy May Be Over Soon

I was originally going to put this link I found on paid links in my weekend entrepreneurial links post but then did some digging and decided it needed some separate post attention! I found an interesting article on one of my semi-regular blog stops OsWorld.biz that glared out at me with the title The Death …

Weblo Creates Webpage Trading Market

I recently read an article in Business 2.0 about a company that is trying to make it’s own market on the internet.. They’ve cleverly hid the fact that all their trading is web pages by modeling them after real life real estate and people. It’s called Weblo.com. It’s really an interesting concept. They name and …

Paul Graham and Mistakes that Kill Startups

From his bio it says “Paul Graham is an essayist, programmer, and programming language designer.” He co-developed the “first web-based application, ViaWeb.” He also sold that web-based application to Yahoo, described the spam filter basics used by most filters today, is writing a new programing language, and also helps run a venture capital firm specializing …

Making Money Brokering a Domain Sale

I just read an interesting article about over at Tyler Cruz’s blog about a domain sale he brokered. He made a pretty penny at it too. You could call it right place at the right time, but it was definitely an opportunity that most might not see and very very few would actually have gone …

Think of SEO as Free Advertising

One comparison that is so obvious but often needs to be explained is that SEO can be thought of as free advertising. SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization, which for those who don’t know means that you use techniques to optimize your website and the links coming in to rocket yourself to the top of …

Teach Yourself How To Write a Business Plan

In response to my previous article asking should I go to business school I’ve jumped full force into researching what it takes to start a legitimate business in the eyes of investors. True, if you’re making money hand over fist who cares if you have a well defined structure. But if you want to truly …

Could Goople Really Happen?

I was tipped off to an interesting article over at Forbes about the concept of Google and Apple joining forces to form a super power of tech goodness. Talk about monopoly! It seemed cracked out at first, would the world let this happen? Would Microsoft let this happen? If everyone under the sun has been …

You Really Need to Have an SEO Plan

One of the biggest things I’ve learned in building my blog network is that I should really listen to what I read. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve browsed a blog post that says “Follow these steps to sure fire win SEO,” or something like that. Even if these bloggers were just writing …

Is Real Life Business Experience Better than B-School?

I’d like to start out by saying IMHO, real-life anything experience is more valuable than what you can learn in schools. With that being said. I’d like to follow that quickly up with saying going to school, whatever it is, can help you in ways real-life experience can’t. So which one is it? I’ve already …

Kevin Rose Shows Us How to Launch Your Website to The World

I’ve been told personally by several prominent bloggers, as well as read countless times that the easiest way to launch another blog or website is to have an audience. Of course this is quite obvious, and of course I didn’t follow the advice. Launching Blogtown Press would have been much easier had I really focused …