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Entries from September 2007

Internet Video At Its Best

September 26th, 2007 · No Comments

How else could we re-live classic moments in city council history like this? I give you: “Rogue Helicopter Pilots”

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Tags: Charlotte · City Council · David Thompson · Flying · Funny · Helicopters · Humor · Internet · North Carolina · Pilots · Video · YouTube

How Much is a Facebook Application Worth?

September 26th, 2007 · No Comments

I was poking around on the sitepoint marketplace and found a couple of Facebook applications for sale/sold.
This one with 70k users looks like it sold for about $15,000. This one with 24k users is currently is auction with the bid price now at $3,550
So the question is, are these Facebook apps under-priced, over-priced, or priced [...]

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Tags: Applications · Apps · Auction · Facebook · Facebook Applications · Marketplace · Sitepoint · Social Networking · Websites

Hunting Domain Names and Getting Lucky

September 24th, 2007 · 2 Comments

Every so often I stumble across a domain name that is really amazing, yet hardly used at all. Barely any content, no domain parking monetization, nothing. Just a extremely valuable domain with a tiny bit of content. This week I came across two domains, the actual domain names are not really relevant, but I’ll say [...]

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Tags: Bargains · Business · Deals · Domain Names · Domains · Hunting · Internet · Marketing · Online · Parking · Sales · Selling · SiteLead · Stealing · Websites

Continued Strong Growth Predicted For Online Advertising

September 23rd, 2007 · No Comments

A recent Financial Times article points out that online advertising is expected to grow strongly, even if a U.S. economic downturn is negative for the advertising industry as a whole. Interesting from the FT article was this fact:
Online is the fastest-growing advertising sector, and could reach over $20bn this year, just over 7 per cent [...]

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Tags: Advertising · Business · Economics · Economy · FT.com · Financial Times · Internet · Marketing · Online · Online Advertising · Statistics · Websites

Google Adwords Quality Score: What Not To Do

September 21st, 2007 · 1 Comment

Offering some rare insight into what specifically gets factored in to Adwords quality score…Google offers up some advice. I’ve pulled out the bullet points from their blog on things they say will hurt your quality score:
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Tags: AdWords · Google · Google Adwords · Internet · Landing Pages · PPC · Quality Score · SEM · Search Engine Marketing · Websites

Selling Books on eBay

September 17th, 2007 · 1 Comment

I’ve got way too many old books that I’ve already read sitting on my bookshelf collecting dust…so I thought I would list a bunch of them on eBay. Selling books on eBay is super easy these days! Now that you can just enter the ISBN number, you don’t need to manually enter titles, authors, etc.. [...]

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Tags: Auction · Books · Business · Charity · Life · Marketing · Online · Sales · Selling · Websites · eBay

ChoSun Galbee Korean Barbecue Restaurant

September 14th, 2007 · No Comments

If you are looking for some really tasty Korean Barbecue in the Los Angeles area, check out ChoSun Gablee in Korea town! I ate there for the second time last night and was once again very happy with the restaurant. ChoSun Gableen has great food and a great atmosphere - plus doesn’t break the [...]

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Tags: BBQ · Barbecue · Food · Google · Google Maps · Korea Town · Korean · Los Angeles · Maps · Restaurants

Email Autoresponse: The 4 Hour Workweek Effect

September 12th, 2007 · 5 Comments

If you’ve been reading my blog, you know I’m a fan of the 4 Hour Workweek book by Tim Ferriss…in his book, Tim recommends that you severely limit your email consumption and production to maximize your productivity while you work. He recommends that you:
1. Turn off any email alerts or send/receive functions you have that [...]

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Tags: 4 Hour Work Week · Autoresponders · Autoresponse · Blogging · Books · Email · Productivity · Tim Ferriss · Timothy Ferriss

Adult Website Search Results From Ask

September 11th, 2007 · No Comments

Looking at some website stats today for this blog, I noticed some strange search results from Ask.com…I’m not sure why one of my blog posts deserves to be in the #2 slot for “

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Tags: Adult · Ask.com · Internet · Marketing · Porn · SEM · SEO · Search · Search Engine Marketing · Search Engines · Websites

Internet Marketing Lifestyle: Beach Cruises

September 7th, 2007 · 3 Comments

One thing I love about the work-at-home Internet marketing lifestyle is the freedom to do things like jump on my beach cruiser at any time and take a ride through my beach town. Today I thought it would be funny to bring along my camera, mount it to my handlebars, and take you on a [...]

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Tags: Bikes · Cycling · Hermosa Beach · Internet · Internet Marketing · Marketing · Pennywise · SiteLead · Video · Work at Home · Working · Working at Home · YouTube