Make money online with online reviews at your own site
I was a big fan of Amazon.com and Yelp.com — sites where users of products, services and businesses would be able to leave reviews and ratings of their experiences. In 2008, I realized that my...
Online advertising income down, or just scattered?
Om Malik posts a short synopsis at his blog today regarding PubMatic’s fourth quarter 2008 AdPrice Index Report. Om says: The desperate bid to rack up sales over the holiday season helped turn...
Wordpress spam comments target specific posts.
A random visitor, Paul, left a comment on my What is bumburbia post from the other day. This is a comment I’ve received emails about, so I figure I’d address it here. When people have blogs...
A response to Why I stopped volunteering
In today’s article titled Why I’ve given up volunteering, a random visitor, Alex, left a comment about how he disagrees with me about what I wrote. Alex considers himself a staunch capitalist,...
Why I’ve given up volunteering
As a capitalist, I focus myself on finding a good use of the tools I was born with: my brain, my body, my hands, even my voice. I also focus on using the tools I can purchase: property, equipment, the...
Starting a business? Do it in a recession.
Chicago, IL By A.B. Dada — Whenever friends come to me for advice in starting a business, I always tell them the same thing: wait until a recession. The immediate answer is always the same: WHY? We’re...
A key to entrepreneurship
Chicago, IL By A.B. Dada — On a recent slashdot article, I had posted a response to why I believe that 1099 work (contract work) makes more sense than W2 work (employment) for more people than one...
Dada’s Law on Income
Chicago, IL By A.B. Dada — There’s an old adage people are familiar with about getting services from others: “You have 3 options: get it done fast, get it cheap, get it high quality. Pick two.”...
Increasing your basic efficiency to save time and money
Chicago, IL By A.B. Dada — One simple fact of business that many entrepreneurs and employees ignore is the idea of efficiency: doing more in less time. We generally want to find ways to save big...
My Full Reserve Bank: Prosper.com
Los Angeles, CA By A.B. Dada — I’ve been a promoter of the idea of a full reserve bank for many years. So far, we’ve never had the chance. Lately, though, I’ve come to realize...
No, we can’t: why teamwork is a bad idea
Los Angeles, CA By A.B. Dada — I hate the idea of teamwork. In high school, a teacher used to tell me “There is no I in team,” to which I replied “That’s why I’m not...
Jobs, Investments, Savings, Gambling
Someone at a church I work for asked me this weekend “How can I make money fast?” It’s the third most common question I’ve heard this year. My fast respond is: “Learn how to spend it slow”...
Why I thank God for Asians in America.
Zion, IL By A.B. Dada — I have three local friends who I keep in touch with through e-mail, and occasionally in person. They’re all heroes of mine because of their lives and lifestyles —...
How to go international with your services
I’ve always loved working in the United States, but lately there is a great fear I hear about from other consultants, employees and business owners: will be enter a heavy recession? The games that the...
ReviewMe.com — an interesting way to make money through viral marketing
Sponsored Post: The Global Unanimocracy Network was accepted into a new advertising/review co-op called ReviewMe.com today, and I’m looking into it as a way to combine realistic reviews (of sites and...
Using Skype for the small office
I’m really amazed with Skype — the quality tends to be terrible, the software is buggy, the delay over their VoIP to POTS network is significant. Yet the upside is that it not only works, but it tends...
[Slashdot] Traffic reports and advertising
In a Slashdot article titled (Mis)Tracking Web Traffic, I made this post titled General traffic figures are useless.: I’m not sure it matters. I advertise my own businesses on the web, and I accept advertising...
Selling what you can do, not what you could do.
I helped two friends this summer who run very large companies — companies that have been grossing 8 figures annually each. Both are companies that grew slowly over many years, doing what they did best:...
The Myth of Innovation
I was talking to a long time friend and entrepreneur last night for hours over the change in the markets we chase. We’ve known each other for half my life, about 16 years, and we’ve both seen incredible...
Don’t let gentlefolk try to diagnose business failures (or successes)
For those families with my political sites, I’m a fairly extreme capitalist of the anarchist variety — I believe in unrestricted markets because I feel that people won’t make transactions unless...
