Untethered Dreams

Have you ever wondered whether or not people actually make money on the Internet? And if so, how? Well many struggle, but many really do. But it is hard work, just like anything else really, offline or online.

Not barely two days have passed, and here I am entering and promoting another guest blogging contest! This time, this one is being thrown by a collection of blogs: ComLuv.com, IBlogZone.com, MyBlogGuest.com, and FamousBloggers.net. This one is all about traffic generation, and you can read my awesome post called Zen and the Art of Web Traffic. It’s not [...]

As part of our ever-ongoing efforts to reach out to the rest of the blogging community as well as promote our very own blog here, we’ve been ramping up our guest blogging efforts. Other blogs in an effort to improve their own incoming guest posts run contests to encourage that. One such community is Blog [...]

I noticed while browsing the Affiliate Summit conference‘s website that although they have a neat tool to pick the sessions you want to attend and of course the really long page of sessions on the Agenda page, they don’t have a calendar-at-a-glance on a single page that shows what’s when in a matrix type of [...]

Update: Congrats to our winner @Getalonghome. Stay tuned here and on Gizmos for Geeks for more giveaways and contests. Well we’re baffled as to how we had no takers on this past contest. Sent out a whole bunch of tweets to prospective winners, but not a single reply. Weird. Do folks like to enter contests [...]

Update: Congrats to our winner @Getalonghome. Stay tuned here and on Gizmos for Geeks for more giveaways and contests. We’re giving away yet more stuff! This time, it’s a copy of O’Reilly’s latest in their Head First series – Head First WordPress. Great book – see our review. This is better suited for those now [...]

Here’s a quick recap of our 2-week internal competition. How did we do? In a nutshell, not well. We ended up losing money, mainly on paid advertising. How much? We haven’t added up the numbers exactly, but we were both each under the $100 mark. It turns out that we were both a bit hesitant [...]

Well so much for blogging every 2 days or so. Participating in a game that you’ve never played before can seem deceptively easy at the onset. And this one certainly caught us. So I got my site up and posted about it on a few forums, submitted it to Google Webmaster Tools, did some basic [...]

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. [...]

Khalid’s Day 1 Summary As promised, here is a post describing my efforts so far. Doug’s summaries will appear in separate posts. As I was thinking how to sum up my day 1 of our contest, I initially thought it was mostly a failure, but then I had a second opinion and that was that [...]