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Adblock doesn’t scare me

Adblock doesn't scare me. Adblock will not signal the end of the commercial web. Adblock will not bring Rapture upon the internet faithful before Armageddon. I don't care if they claim 300,000 people are downloading it a month. It just doesn't phase me. It's only physically blocking ads from people that mentally block them anyway. I make money on the internet. I make money off ...

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How to increase your earnings with Text-Link-Ads

Text Link Ads has recently become one of my top money makers. In previous times, I was only making around $100 or so a month -- but I've increased these earnings to around $300 per month off one site. While TLA does a good job of trying to help it's customers succeed -- they don't necessarily spell out how you might be able to increase your ...

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Numbers: spreadsheet bliss

A few weeks ago, Apple released a much needed update to their iWork and iLife suites. The most important update to iWork for me was the addition of a spreadsheet-like program called Numbers. I spent a few nights porting my revenue and expenses over to Numbers and all I can say is: wow. I'm a huge fan of spreadsheets, and also a perfectionist when it comes to ...

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How to make clean money off open source

After I published my article about making money from open source, I had a few people asking me if I could write a follow up on methods for making money off open source. So here's my list. For what it's worth, I can attribute all to almost all of Project W's revenue to an open-source project of mine. That accounts for around $600 of revenue ...

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Nine days from launch to page 1 of Google

People often times over-analyze SEO (Search Engine Optimization). I am here to tell you how easy it is to rank high in Google without any shady or blackhat methods. I launched this blog nine days ago on August 18. Today on August 27, I find I'm getting referrers for money from open source (you'll notice personal web search is turned off in that url). ...

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About this site

Studio Rockstar is a site dedicated to those internet entrepreneurs out there. Stick around and learn how K makes his money, and tips for how to build your own online empire.

Got a question you want to ask K? Email him at k@studiorockstar.com.

The Goal

K's trying to make enough to quit his dayjob. He thinks there's two ways to this: saving or earning.

EARNING: He figures he needs to be making about $83 per day.

$19.08

SAVING: He figures he needs to save up $20,000 (one year's living).

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