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How To Start Your Own Country
26 Jan 2010This is sort of a funny topic I’ve been reading about recently, and I wanted to share some findings. It’s mostly just meant for fun (mental masturbation in the wider sense of “breaking free”) but has some interesting long term implications.
Read on future King and Queens!
First Of All, Why Would You Want To Start Your [...]
This entry is part 3 of 5 in the series BuyersVote.comIt’s been a cool week. I’ve been reading this awesome book, the 22 Immutable Laws Of Marketing. It’s short, simple, and profound. Highly recommended.
I also met up for drinks with another American entrepreneur living in Buenos Aires (found me through the blog). Turns out he [...]
StartBreakingFree Moved To New Server!
24 May 2009For the last year or two I’ve been hosting this blog (and others) on 1and1 Hosting with a shared hosting plan. While it was very inexpensive (about $10 per mont) the performance has been seriously lacking lately.
On a regular basis I would come to the homepage, or try to log into the backend, only to [...]
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Video Of The New Billing Feature On UniversityTutor.com
In: Business Ideas| Education| How To| Wealth
7 Apr 2009This entry is part 13 of 18 in the series UniversityTutor.comHey Folks,
Here is the video as promised of the new billing features on UniversityTutor.com.
For those just joining us, this represented a big change in the business model. Previously I was charging tutors $10/month to keep their profiles on the site.
With the new business model, [...]
The Secret To Working Less, Producing More, And Getting Rich
In: How To| Real Estate| Wealth
16 Mar 2009There is only so much you as one person can produce in a day. Your time and mental energy are, in some sense, your most precious resource. You have a limited supply that you can use in a focused and uninterrupted way each day.
So the question becomes, what is the most effective way to spend [...]
For a while now I’ve been watching less and less actual television and turning to the internet to get around old fashioned media distribution methods.
In this article I’m going to show you how I have finally gotten the right home theater system setup that I am 95% happy with, which will allow you to…
Get any [...]
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- Tags: boxee, home media center, home theater, miro, ubuntu, xbmc
How To Get A Great Design For Your Next Website
In: How To
6 Mar 2009A few days ago I wrote about how you can get a business website built for cheap or free. Several people (correctly) pointed out that you often get what you pay for in these type of situations.
They are absolutely right about that. If you go the inexpensive/free route you can easily get bogged [...]
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- Tags: website design
New Features And Tests On My Passive Income Business
In: How To
10 Feb 2009This entry is part 10 of 18 in the series UniversityTutor.comHey Folks,
The past week or so I’ve been working on a cool new feature for my passive income business, UniversityTutor.com: MAP BASED SEARCHING FOR TUTORS!
This is using some Google Maps technology underneath to integrate with my site and hopefully it will make it much easier [...]
My Website Improved 14% Changing One Sentence
26 Jan 2009Hey Folks,
I decided to do a video blog today to show you a recent change I made to my passive income business, UniversityTutor.com. For those of you who haven’t been following the blog for a while, I launched this business in about 1 month with $100.
I only changed one sentence on the website – [...]
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- Tags: passive income, testing, video
Do You Weebly?
18 Nov 2008In the past I’ve written that one of the best ways to test out a business idea is to throw up a quick website for it. This is inexpensive and will help you get feedback for your idea and possibly your first few customers.
In the past it took me about 4 hours using Wordpress [...]
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- Tags: weebly, wordpress
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