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Starting a new blog

Starting a new site is a really difficult thing to do. Over the years, my sites have accumulated a large amount of inbound links and traffic -- so now when I want to start a new site, it's no problem. I put up a few links and posts about the site and it instantly gets a big traffic boost. But for this site, I wanted to ...

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Lessons in viral: don’t sell to your intended audience

I just ran across an extraordinary site by R.I.M. (manufacturers of BlackBerry) and Sprint. The site illustrates of the key factors is doing viral right: don't sell to your intended audience. Obviously, they're not looking to actually sell to anyone terribly rich -- but that's exactly what the piece outlines. Most of the time the most successful viral pieces are the ones that either ignore, or make ...

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Let’s stop the childish format wars already

I've just about had enough. Yes, I'm talking about the HD-DVD & Blu-Ray format wars: a war that's spanned over two years now. It's just childish. Today I read an article on engadget that said Paramount/Dreamworks are actively dropping support for Blu-Ray in order to become HD-DVD only. How stupid is that? They're actively pissing off customers in order to take sides in a war that ...

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Mint + Google Analytics = statistics bliss

Any webmaster knows that one of the hardest metrics to pin down for a website are the number of visitors to your site. You might run Webalizer on your access logs and it'll tell you that you have 100,000 unique visitors a month -- and then you try out something like Google Analytics and it'll tell you that you only have 5,000 visitors a month. It's ...

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Weekly Links: 8/12-8/18

Each week, I like to chronicle some of the great content around the net and post it up here for my readers and for posterity's sake. KISS applies to your landing pages too -- Copyblogger covers some great advice for landing pages. Increase your conversions and keep it simple! RapForums.com for sale -- Tyler Cruz posts about RapForums.com being for sale. Okay, okay, it's not that interesting, but the ...

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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.

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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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