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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...
Choosing the best blog software – WordPress is winning
I'm fairly new to the blogosphere (the fact that I even know that term is scaring me) and I find myself becoming ever more alienated from normal society, and I love it! Slap that geek badge on me and I'll wear it with pride. But seriously I am enjoying learning more...
How to get a successful website in 12 months using only Google
Google is powerful. We all know this. Everyone uses Google on a daily basis to search for everything and anything. As a web entrepreneur, you must have a solid understanding of what it takes to get a good listing in Google. If your business is web based and your...
Pricing Strategy: How much should you charge for your product or service?
About: One of the most difficult, yet important, issues you must decide as an entrepreneur is how much to charge for your product or service. While there is no one single right way to determine your pricing strategy, fortunately there are some guidelines that will...
Making money from your website using advertising
You have managed to get your website to that magical point where you have established popularity, traffic, loyalty and a community of fans. Your site contains a wealth of information, resources and services that you provide free because that's just the kind of person...
Entrepeneurship and Meditation
I've created a new category for spirituality because I believe this aspect of life, especially to entrepreneurs, is very important. While business may be the focal point for an entrepreneur's life, it's your outlook on life that shapes what kind of person you are....