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I’ve been running BlogRush on my site for the past two weeks. BlogRush has positives and negatives. The biggest positive is getting your content syndicated across a large number of sites with related content. The biggest negative is that the system is open to being gamed. If you haven’t tried BlogRush, it’s a pretty simple [...]

Robert Frank of the WSJ’s The Wealth Report wrote a post the other day about a watch that sells for $300k, but doesn’t tell time. Impressively, it sold out in a mere 48 hours. On your first pass you may think this excessive trinket is easily dismissed as some crazy little gadget that billionaires use [...]

Sorry for phoning it in on Friday. The WP 2.5.1 update was muy importante, but what happened to Saturday and Sunday? Well, I took the weekend off (actually Friday as well) to focus on my house, my wife and our animal (literally) children. On Thursday I realized I just had burned out a little after [...]

An update to the recently released WordPress 2.5 is now available. If you’re like me and running WP, you need to update now as this release fixes an important security issue: We recommend everyone update immediately, particularly if your blog has open registration. The vulnerability is not public but it will be shortly. In addition [...]

I’m a relative newcomer to affiliate marketing from scratch. My day job has allowed me to monetize a well established site in a very specific niche — a niche we dominate. I’ve never really had to build from the ground up on my own. I have all of the requisite skills both from the publishing [...]

Everyone knows about the termination fee you must pay to your cell phone carrier if you decide to terminate early. Interestingly, there are plenty of service providers out there that do not provide a termination clause for convenience. What this simply means is that unless there is a breach in the term and termination provisions [...]

It occurs to me that targeting seasonal niches might be an interesting long haul strategy.  I’m curious how much optimization effort would be needed when you ramp up again the following year.  I can see where simply dusting off a campaign could be a really fun way to keep it interesting while at the same [...]

I’ve had a bunch of great business ideas.  Or maybe they were great ideas.  In most cases, I’ll never know because I could never get them off the ground.  Why?  Because they were very complicated.  Building a complicated business isn’t a bad thing at all.  For one, complexity means you are benefiting by creating a [...]

Joel Comm’s Adsense Secrets 4 is an impressive piece of work.  While I’m not new to AdSense, I found tons of helpful advice in this eBook.  His original books, New York Times bestsellers were priced at $97.  For anyone that is starting out, $97 might seem like a bunch of loot, but the reality is [...]

I’ve been a card member for twelve years or so and I’ve always appreciated Amex’s customer service and card offerings. A couple years ago, I switched to One from American Express for my personal expenses. The rewards are straight-forward. One percent of your purchases will be deposited to a high yield savings account at the [...]