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How I Have Made Money Online – Part 2 – Online Stores and Advertising
Continuing the three part series on how I have made money online today I look at operating an online shop and using advertising on a hobby website to generate an income. If you missed the first part of this series you can read it here - How I Have Made Money Online -...
How I Have Made Money Online – Part 1 – eBay, Garage Sales and Card Trading
It sounds wonderful -- making money online -- that's why you are here isn't it? You want to learn how to make money from the Internet. I've been doing it now since I first discovered the web in 1998. Yes in a way that makes me a late adopter of this technology. The...
A Day in the Life of an Internet Entrepreneur
The purpose of this article is to give you a window into the lifestyle of an Internet business owner and in particular a home based business entrepreneur. The example below is a typical day in my life. If you are presently considering quitting your day job/after...
Do You Want to Run Your Own Business? Read this First!
Are you considering the life of an Internet business owner? Well before your eyes gloss over with dreams of endless free time and images of sitting on your couch with your laptop clicking away earning you thousands let me show you the reality of the situation. A...
What is RSS and How Do I Use It?
This one is for the newbies that have no idea what RSS, XML and syndication are...whoa, confusing already isn't it! Definitions It wasn't much longer then six months ago that I had no idea what these terms were. I understood what XML was because I had read a book...
Book Review: The Paypal Wars
The Paypal Wars: Battles with eBay, the Media, the Mafia, and the Rest of Planet Earth by Eric M. Jackson Amazon: When PayPal launched its online payment service and set out to overhaul global currency markets it successfully weathered the dot-com bust and a fierce...
Book Review: The Perfect Store – Inside eBay by Adam Cohen
The Perfect Store - Inside eBay by Adam Cohen Amazon: From its beginnings as a hobby site on a Silicon Valley PC, to its maturation as a real company under the burgeoning fiscal pressures of cyberspace, to its present status as one of the few original e-business...
How to Get Free Original Content for Your Site Without Writing it Yourself
As a web business owner you will be well aware that content for your website is good. The more content the better, but of course it must be relevant and of high quality. If you know anything about search engine optimisation you know that Google loves content. The...
Book Review: Google And The Mission To Map Meaning And Make Money
Google And The Mission To Map Meaning And Make Money by Bart Milner Amazon: This book is a brief history of Cyberspace and Google's fundamental contribution - a new search method that gives almost immediate access to the contents of billions of web pages. It covers...
A Simple Technique that Got Me a Number One Ranking in Google
You probably do this already - complete regular searches in Google for your key phrases and see how high you rank. It's well known that the first three results are far and away the sites that get the most clicks. If you can get one of the top three results in your key...