Breaking Free
How to Quit Your Job and Start Your Own Business
From New Idea To Business Launch In One Month (with pictures)
In: Business Ideas| How To
18 Feb 2008This entry is part 1 of 18 in the series UniversityTutor.comHey Folks,
I’ve been hard at work on a new business idea which I’ll be unveiling here over the next few weeks to you on this blog as I track the launch, new features, marketing efforts, and of course the results.
I am following my own philosophy [...]
This entry is part 2 of 18 in the series UniversityTutor.comI’ve been working like mad man lately on this new business website, and its coming along really nicely.
Something I’ve been thinking about a lot is “how can you build trust on a website?”
People have an inherent distrust of any service they see online, due to [...]
Business Launch Preview Part 3: Going Live!
In: Business Ideas| How To
16 Mar 2008This entry is part 3 of 18 in the series UniversityTutor.comHey Folks,
Well the website has launched and you can go check it out here UniversityTutor.com
I’m going to show you a few more cool features that went into it, the results of some user testing, and what the next steps are to get my first sale.
Making [...]
Making Progress…
In: Business Ideas
19 May 2008This entry is part 4 of 18 in the series UniversityTutor.comHere is a little video update on the tutoring business launch. I’ve been doing all sorts of things to promote it. We’ve got enough tutors signed up in four cities now and I’ve been doing SEO, pay per click, contacting academic advisors, etc. [...]
The Evolution Of A Business Model – Never Stop Testing
In: Business Ideas| Education| Updates
25 Sep 2008This entry is part 6 of 18 in the series UniversityTutor.comSome of you may remember how I took a passive income idea and launched it in one month.
Since then I’ve been revising and testing out different business models as it slowly builds momentum. There are now about 300 tutors signed up and over 600 [...]
How To Generate Leads To Your New Website
In: Marketing
29 Sep 2008This entry is part 7 of 18 in the series UniversityTutor.comA few days ago I told you about how I tested a whole bunch of different business models in my new passive income business.
At each step of testing I had to send some traffic to my website to see how people would respond. Today [...]
How To Use Domain Names To Improve Your Google Rankings
In: Marketing
1 Oct 2008This entry is part 8 of 18 in the series UniversityTutor.comAs you know, I recently started a new passive income business that went from conception to launch in just one month.
In my last article I briefly mentioned how I was able to start getting some great organic search results (that means free traffic from search [...]
This entry is part 9 of 18 in the series UniversityTutor.comI had a somewhat funny experience today discovering how computers figure out what is spam and what is not.
It started when I got an email from a new customer on my tutoring site (this is a passive income business I’ve been working on).
Brian,
This got marked [...]
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 [...]
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