I've read several great things over the past 24 hours that, for me, all tied into the most important factor in making money online: just getting started. In what may be the best thing I've ever read from QuadsZilla, he writes yesterday: "How do I ride a bicycle?" That’s what I hear when people ask me how to make money on the web or to rank in Google. The best way to learn is to get on the bike and ... Keep reading »
Back in January, Sahar didn't agree with my advice in How to (Really) Make Money with Domain Names and wrote in response on his own blog: [T]here is gold in development, however, if you think it is better than domain ownership and PPC, think again, many times over. I personally am a believer that some of us are property owners, some are developers, some are deal makers, ... Keep reading »
As many of you saw yesterday, Internet Brands (NASDAQ:INET) has acquired one of my sites. (The sale actually closed in February, but they wanted to finish up all their acquisitions before announcing any of them.) Since then, I have also worked with a friend as he went through the same process. Now that both the deals are public knowledge, I wanted to pass along some of the things I learned while selling two high-dollar sites to large companies ... Keep reading »
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You'll never get rich blogging. 18 months ago that was the very first thing I wrote on this blog, and I still think it's true. However, that's no reason not to make some money from your blog. Depending on what you're blogging about, even 10,000 to 15,000 monthly visitors could earn you $5,000 or more annually. Not enough to quit a job on, but who couldn't use an extra $416.67 every month? So what I want ... Keep reading »
People will always pay more if they're confident in what they're getting. That's true whether we're talking about advertisers or for the eventual acquirer of your site. Not only that, given the choice of two otherwise identical sites, they'll always choose the one with greater transparency. Because of that, there are two free services that I strongly recommend signing up for. Google Analytics I know some people who I highly respect recommend avoiding Google Analytics, but I just haven't ... Keep reading »
Rick Latona wrote last month that you shouldn't get into a business just because you own a good domain. He's speaking mainly to domainers, but the essential point is the same one that you hear regularly across the Internet: don't start a site unless you're passionate about the topic. Until recently I argued that point as ardently as anyone, because life is just too short to spend it doing something that you don't enjoy. However, within the last ... Keep reading »
I'm seeing reports around the web now that YouTube is completely down for everyone, but I haven't seen any word as to what's up. Very strange for a major site to just go completely offline like that. Update: Do these strange server names have anything to do with it, or is it just that no one has ever noticed them before? This is the best thread I've found ... Keep reading »
I wanted to revisit a topic I first wrote about almost three months ago, How to (Really) Make Money with Domain Names. Before I wrote that, and increasingly since then, I've seen public admissions by a number of domainers that the potentials for growth by just buying and holding domain names isn't what it used to be. 75% of domain industry professionals may expect domain prices to increase this year, but even Andrew Allemann from Domain Name Wire ... Keep reading »
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