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I’ve been doing a lot of soul searching lately, and I’ve realized that I need to make some changes in the way I’ve been spending my time and energy as of late. When working on websites and such, I’ve realized that I’ve been wearing way to many hats. At varying points, I was trying to [...]

I just found this series of videos, called “In Plain English”. Very funny and informative. I thought you all would enjoy a few of them.

The biggest thing that kills people’s internet dream of making money online is that they have been so poisoned by the idea of “I made $xxxx in x hours, and you can too!”  that they don’t realize how much effort it takes, especially when getting started.

The number one thing that kills most blogs is that people cannot update them regularly.  Maybe they lose interest or move on to other projects, or are just to busy. I’ll be honest, it’s happened to me before.

Time to show some more love, and show what’s going on around the web this week:
Build a mini-net in 2008 (John Cow) - Interesting article on how to use other websites that allow you to post content to help market your own.

Read Part 1 Here

I recently signed on to be a member of PayPerPost, a blog network that pays you for making certain types of blog posts.  I had read about it on the DigitalPoint Forums, and it got a lot of positive feedback, so I decided to sign-up and see how it all works.

Kaboodle and ThisNext are really good tools for helping get traffic and sales at your e-commerce store. They are stores that let anyone list any product from any store, and share recommendations, wishlists, and so on.

We see social bookmarking sites, like Digg, Reddit, and Stumbleupon, as a way to market our sites and drive traffic.  But so many people will go in, drop a lot of submissions to a lot of different sites, and forget about it. They cross their fingers, hoping to make the front page.  Like anything else, [...]