Untethered Dreams

When I was at Elite Retreat last month, I got a chance to speak with Allen Baler, who is simply an all-around good guy, and who gave me a lot of great ideas and advice. The piece of advice that I’d like to pass along comes in the form of a report that shows you [...]

We recently moved over from OpenX to OIO Publisher as our ad platform but before we did, I did some research into what the affordable options were (aka free!). It quickly came down to two (2) platforms: OIO Publisher and Google’s DFP (DoubleClick for Publishers) Small Business. I wrote a guest post over at Famous [...]

Googler Don Dodge wrote a detailed blog post on the hiring process, including what to expect before, during and after the interview.

Does your ClickBank account look like this image? Are you bleeding those few hard-earned dollars away bit by bit. If so, then your account is dormant. No activity after 90 days leads to dormancy and then fees go up the longer it stays that way (up to $15/month after a year of inactivity). Well here’s [...]

Khalid’s Day 4 Summary Wow, time does fly by when you’re <insert verb here>. Yup, so you really need to be on a plan/schedule. Boy am I glad I did. So am I on schedule? More or less. Ok, honestly, less. The big honking lesson is that I definitely underestimated how long tasks would/will take. [...]

Almost a year ago, we started our trial of GetFriday, a ‘virtual assistant’ or ‘outsourced assistant’ company based in India. Their fees start at around $10/hour and go down from there the larger the monthly plan you get. We eventually decided to part ways with them, mainly due to a few factors: 1. cost-cutting on [...]

In all likelihood, you’ve seen where you perform a search on a website and the results look just very much like what you get when you do a search on Google. Well, in case you’re wondering how that works, Google has a product called Google Custom Search that lets you do just that. There are [...]

We recently decided to replace the built-in commenting system that comes with WordPress on Gizmos for Geeks due to its limitations and that we were spending too much time dealing with spam comments. We looked at the 4 most popular/capable comment replacement systems available now: IntenseDebate, Disqus, Backtype and JS-Kit’s ECHO. We briefly considered Facebook [...]

I love this graph. It is so telling. This is a track of our visitors to one of Halloween costume websites. Look at how it rises steadily to the height of traffic on Halloween day (interestingly enough – probably from people looking for last minute ideas) and then falling precipitously the next 2 days (the [...]

I love this graph. It is so telling. This is a track of our visitors to one of Halloween costume websites. Look at how it rises steadily to the height of traffic on Halloween day (interestingly enough – probably from people looking for last minute ideas) and then falling precipitously the next 2 days (the [...]