As someone who makes all (or virtually all) of his income online, I am dependent upon PayPal. It is the online currency of the internet, for better or worse.
The frustrating thing is that there is NO alternative to PayPal. Not a real alternative, anyway. Why? Market share.
According to eBay (who owns PayPal), over 90% of [...]
About a month ago, I decided to get serious about learning to how to make money with affiliate marketing. I mean, I had made a dollar or two off of Amazon and the like, but I was not having any success breaking through.
I have been reading a few books, scouring the interwebs for articles, trawling [...]
Yes, I know I said I was done worrying about stats and from now on I was just going to crank out good content and let things fall where they may. That is still the case, but you do like some external validation when it happens.
Way back on May 25th, I wrote that my goal [...]
I am not sure how I missed it the other day, but in follow up to my mentioning Seth Godin’s Free eBook, a reader wrote in (Thanks Josh!) and pointed out a post from the other great one, Guy Kawasaki, on the Fine Art of Bootstrapping.
Guy says:
“I could build a case that too much money [...]
One of the problems with being a self-taught web geek is the gaps that exist in my knowledge. I can do major hacks and tweaks in css, I can hard code html from scratch in a text editor and I do NOT know how do do the nifty screen shots everyone else on the internet [...]
I was tagged by Roger Anderson with a Thinking Blogger’s Award. The idea is to link to 5 blogs that make us think, and tell why we like them. The hard part is picking only 5, as I am pretty brutal on weeding my RSS feeds weekly, so I tend to only read the [...]
I like the bald guy. I have read pretty much everything he has written, and his blog has made it through every purge of my feeds I have ever had. So when he got behind the founding of Squidoo, I looked into it. Hard. And I just did not get it.
(For the uninitiated, Squidoo lets [...]