Archive for September, 2006
Saturday, September 30th, 2006
The 31 day $100 challenge
Tomorrow is October 1st, and I have a challenge for the next 31 days. I will try to earn at least $100 in ad revenue from this blog in the next 31 days. At $3/1000 page views, that will mean that I need 1000+ hits a day. I have only been able to get around [...]
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Saturday, September 30th, 2006
How to find leaks on your board
Recently, the news has been filled with reports about a particular Fortune 100 company, and how it addressed leaks from the board of directors. These reports have triggered Congressional hearings and much public debate and comment. The focus so far has been on where the investigation went wrong. However, I think an equally critical issue [...]
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Saturday, September 30th, 2006
A note about traffic and revenue
Steve Pavlina says that he earns $300/day from his site. Last month I got about 1000 hits and about $3 in ad revenue. So to get $300/day would mean 100,000 hits per day. This is an unbelievable increase from the current traffic, but I do not think it is impossible.
There are several ways to get there. [...]
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Saturday, September 30th, 2006
Three Microsoft Outlook plugin ideas
Microsoft Outlook is a very nice tool. It has your email, contacts, calendar, and even a todo list all in one place. You can create rules to sort your email, and it has a built in junk email filter that is pretty good. However, there are lots of time saving features that have yet to [...]
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Friday, September 29th, 2006
Typing in Devenagari/Hindi on Windows
In order to type in Hindi, you need to follow these steps:
1) Download and install Hindi LIP (Language Interface Pack) for the version of Windows that you are running from http://bhashaindia.com/Downloadsv2/Category.aspx?ID=2
2) Go to the Control Panel
3) Open The “Regional and Language Options” applet
4) Click the “Languages” tab
5) Click “Details”
6) Ensure that you have “Hindi” in [...]
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Friday, September 29th, 2006
Globalization, the Internet, and Tutoring - Unlimited tutoring for $49/month - one day special
Yahoo reports that TutorVista offers online, personal, tutoring for pretty much any subject for $99/month, unlimited. The tutoring is provided via Skype, Yahoo Messenger with Voice or Google Talk.
According to Yahoo, the tutors are located in India. However, all tutors are required to have a Masters degree in their subject or have a B.S. in [...]
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Friday, September 29th, 2006
Making money from your blog
Another great article from Steve Pavlina that I just found, How to Make Money From Your Blog. It has several ideas for generating traffic and generating money. One is called a blog carnival. I had to do a search to see what this was.
About.com says:
A blog carnival is a regular “themed” posting that is hosted [...]
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Friday, September 29th, 2006
Successfully starting a small business
Steve Pavlina has a post 10 Stupid Mitakes Made by the Newly Self-Employed that lists several pitfalls that you should avoid when starting your single person business. The article is worth reading, but I will summarize it here.
1) Be yourself - don’t try to appear to be a big business when you are just you. [...]
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Friday, September 29th, 2006
Successfully starting a small business
Steve Pavlina has a post 10 Stupid Mitakes Made by the Newly Self-Employed that lists several pitfalls that you should avoid when starting your single person business. The article is worth reading, but I will summarize it here.
1) Be yourself - don’t try to appear to be a big business when you are just you. [...]
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Thursday, September 28th, 2006
My dumb computer
It is 2006, and I should have a computer that I can talk to. “Computer, what is my schedule for today?”. “Computer, are their any birthday’s that are coming up? Can you recommend some gifts? Ok, buy those gifts?”
Why can’t we just tell computers what we want? Ask a computer scientist this, an you will [...]
