May 2007 Archives

Email Marketing is a powerful but forgotten tool by most online entrepreneurs.

Continue reading Mailing Lists - The forgotten tool in online businesses »


Posted by on May 1, 2007 9:18 AM in Entrepreneurship | Comments (0)

Blogger.com to publish California Mortgage News. This has worked ok for the past couple of years but it has also created some problems.

Continue reading Blogger.com - Please allow label editing! »


Posted by on May 1, 2007 3:17 PM in Blogging | Comments (0)

AC Lens Affiliate Program. Today we will be reviewing the overall site design, user experience and selection of AC Lens, a contact lenses retailer.

Continue reading Review of Aclens.com »


Posted by on May 1, 2007 3:30 PM in Review | Comments (0)

Earlymiser has turned out how to normalize performance across multiple web service layers. When querying multiple web service providers we have found varying degrees of performance and reliability.

Continue reading Developing Applications Over Multiple Web Service Layers »


Posted by on May 2, 2007 9:20 AM in Design | Comments (0)

Matt Cutts trying to destroy the paid link market it's apparent that there is a good way to buy text link ads and a "bad" way from Google's perspectative. I find it pretty frustrating that Google feels it necessary to use back channels like Matt Cutt's personal blog to disseminate information about their main product, namely their search engine.

Continue reading Buying Text Link Ads. How to improve the user experience and improve your search engine rankings at the same time. »


Posted by on May 4, 2007 9:44 AM in Marketing | Comments (0)

email marketing Listrak announced integration of Google Analytics in their hosted email service.

Continue reading Listrack Offers Email List Integration with Analytics »


Posted by on May 7, 2007 9:17 AM in Analytics | Comments (0)

Continue reading Typekey Authentication »


Posted by on May 7, 2007 9:40 PM in Blogging | Comments (0)

Early Miser I simply copied over my robots.txt file from Best Buy Zone. This was a mistake. Hey this is one of my mistakes so let's learn from it.

Continue reading Remember Check Your Robots.txt file! »


Posted by on May 8, 2007 12:23 PM in Webmaster Tools | Comments (0)

IDrive-E Online Backup.

Continue reading Online Back Up Solutions - Man have they gotten better! »


Posted by on May 10, 2007 3:14 PM in Hosting | Comments (0)

Microsoft is shutting down BCentral. As a reminder Microsoft sent out a reminder notice last Friday, May 11, 2007.

Continue reading MSN BCentral closing this week. Update your Entries! »


Posted by on May 14, 2007 11:22 AM in Link Building | Comments (0)

Debt Consolidation. The term returns 4,120,000 results making it a competitive term to say the least.

Continue reading Review of Debthelp.com »


Posted by on May 14, 2007 11:44 AM in Review | Comments (0)

Continue reading Ebay Changes Program Terms - All search engine traffic belong to us »


Posted by on May 15, 2007 4:08 PM in Ebay | Comments (0)

Early Miser that was particularly funny and I thought I would share it.

Continue reading How not to buy a web site. »


Posted by on May 17, 2007 12:13 PM in | Comments (0)

Pre-Employment Screening. Once we got what I would like to term "bad hire." Boy did we learn from that experience!

Continue reading Hiring - Another key factor in start up success »


Posted by on May 20, 2007 5:13 PM in Startups | Comments (0)

Best Buys Zone UK. Somehow I managed to nearly complete both of them. Our house here in New Mexico is on a hill and when people put this house up, they couldn't be bothered to build terraces to minimize erosion. So I have been building rock xeriscape terraces around the house.

Continue reading Bestbuyszone.co.uk Relaunches as a mini-mashup! »


Posted by on May 22, 2007 9:05 AM in Projects | Comments (0)

eBay, we can find businesses selling merchandise for prices which would make any physical store lose it's shirt (so to speak). The question that's being asked is where merchants get their goods so cheap. Are those original goods? Are they knockoffs? Or maybe those are wholesale companies retailing their merchandise online? If you search online for terms like Wholesale Clothing liquidation you will find the new trend of wholesale clothing which are called closeouts.

Continue reading Where To Buy Name Brand Merchandise Below Wholesale Cost? »


Posted by on May 22, 2007 1:36 PM in Ideas! | Comments (0)

where to buy wholesale merchandise below cost and how this can give a entrepreneur and advantage. This post is how Lulu.com can give another advantage - and that's in custom published products.

Continue reading Lulu.com Offers Authors the Ability Control Every Part of the Publishing Process »


Posted by on May 23, 2007 11:48 AM in Ideas! | Comments (0)

Continue reading Tips for Faster Google Indexing! »


Posted by on May 24, 2007 11:11 AM in | Comments (0)

Debthelp.com it looks like they have made a number of the changes that I recommended. This is the sign of a quickly responding debt consolidation company that moves quickly in the marketplace, adjusting quickly to feedback.

Continue reading Debthelp.com quickly readjusts site design. »


Posted by on May 24, 2007 12:59 PM in Review | Comments (0)

Kumiko ssays you will make less money and John Chow says that PPP Direct "fails". Both are flat assed wrong here. It's curtains for ReviewMe.

Continue reading Review Me Vs. PPP Direct »


Posted by on May 24, 2007 9:06 PM in Blogging | Comments (0)

ReviewMe vs PPP didn't cover all of my thinking. So I decided to do this follow-up post.

Continue reading PPP - the long tail of blogging »


Posted by on May 25, 2007 10:36 AM in Blogging | Comments (0)

Continue reading Spam and Globalisation »


Posted by on May 28, 2007 2:25 PM in Information Theory | Comments (0)

Ebay has acquired StumbleUpon. This is a somewhat surprising but I imagine that it's the case that the first major media buyer who made an offer in StumbleUpon's price range.

Continue reading Couple of interesting acquistions »


Posted by on May 30, 2007 5:29 PM in Acquisitions | Comments (0)

stretched, if you know what I mean: like butter that has been scraped over too much bread. That can't be right. I need a change, or something."

-Bilbo Baggins, The Fellowship of the Ring

Continue reading Pagerank, It's like butter. »


Posted by on May 31, 2007 9:02 AM in Google | Comments (0)