How my Computer Science Degree Actually Hurt my Internet Business
Most online entrepreneurs that I have met are not technical people. More often than not they are visionaries with some other specialize skill set like accounting, investment banking, or general business to name a few. For these people the fears and difficulty they have is the technical stuff: putting up their website, search engine optimization, ...
Where to Enter Google Adword Coupon Codes?
Every time I start a new website I get emails from Google with a $100 Adwords coupon code in it. Besides free traffic, at a minimum, I use that $100 to test what headlines get the most click thru rates so I can use similar ones to increase conversions. Unfortunately I don’t enter these Adwords ...
Oops, I’m #1 in Google. How’d I do that?
Back in the days of 2007, before anyone knew what a “tweet” was, when Facebook was still for college kids, and before email storage space was unlimited, I needed a way to archive my funny email forwards that I got from friends and family. Well, I thought: why don’t I just start a free blog ...
How to Avoid Burnout as an Entrepreneur
I used to lift weights a bit when I was in high school. I always thought that the harder I worked the more muscle I would gain. But after a certain point I noticed that it was much harder to see gains then it was when I originally started. This only convinced me that I ...
Marketing is Like Dating
In recent weeks I’ve had a difficult time explaining to my engineering buddies how I could be into internet marketing now. They tend to equate marketing with sales, and therefore think of it as a dishonest trade. The other day I finally thought of an analogy that helped them see things from my (newly discovered) ...
Sales and Marketing Lesson for Introverts
“If you build it they will not come…” It took me a long time to actually accept that phrase. Coming from a software and engineering background, when someone would mention the word sales I would naturally think of a sleazy used car salesman. “Who needs that?” as any good engineer would say. ”Why can’t these people see that ...
Writing Inspiration
I mentioned the past how I wasn’t a big fan of writing. Getting over this is a difficult challenge because I basically am forced to re-learn all of my existing opinions and habits as they pertain to writing. But writing on a regular basis, and in this case blogging, is more important than I ever imagined. For ...
What to Blog About
If you are like me you are not keen on writing. Coming from an engineering background, I can say first hand that the importance of writing is almost de-taught in the computer science department. In fact, it is not a major that requires a lot of term papers or essay writing. Programming is an interesting ...
How I Got 12,963 App Downloads in 8 Hours
Today our Coupon Policy App is 9 months old and continues to bring passive income month-after-month. What started as a problem, then into a weekend project has grown into an actual product with over 25,000 users. Summary Unique downloads to date: 25,000+ Emails sent: 40 (November), 12 (July) Google posts on websites posted during launch ...
Twitter Bootstrap Theme for Drupal 6
I decided to give Twitter Bootstrap a try for my new mobile theme and design website. Unfortunately, I was unable to find a Bootstrap 2 theme for Drupal 6, so I ported it over myself. Since I use so much open source software, I decided a few months back that I want to start contributing more ...
