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It’s Diversification, Stupid!

Don has officially banned exclamation points from post titles. Usually I’d be a pain in the ass and throw one in anyway, but considering our main page was littered with them, I found it hard to argue. We’ve been persistently delving away at potential business ideas, and along the way came across a great [...]

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Oh Noes! My Pagerank!

I don’t pay much attention to such things, but apparently the last update knocked down my Google Pagerank a peg or two. What could this mean? Well, since I’ve allowed some contextual advertising on the site, that’s a possibility. On the other hand it could have been nothing at all, as Google tends to work [...]

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Are Saturated Markets Hopeless?

Thus far with our Adsense site strategies we’ve targeted specific navigational queries that tend to rank well with a key phrase that gets traffic, but not so much traffic that people are already in the space and we have to compete with them. Its tough sifting through keyword suggestion tools and adwords lists searching for [...]

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Feast or Famine: Freelance Work Fun!

Thus far, I’ve put off getting another “real” job in lieu of building up portable freelance work. If I can get to the income level I aspire to, its unlikely I’ll go back at all! If after another month or two I haven’t reached my goals, then no problem, its back to the 9-5 grind [...]

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Working for Yourself and Perception

I’ve noticed a paradigm shift in my approach to work and productivity since I started working for myself. I’m not sure if this is common amongst entrepreneurs or if I just happen to be in a lackluster job previously, but my view of work has changed quite a bit since leaving my job. Lets take [...]

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