When I was young, my parents subscribed me to a magazine called “Highlights”.  On the cover each month they would have a challenge for the kids that challenged them to find “What is wrong with this picture?”  Tonight, I am providing a similar example…what is wrong or missing from this picture?

Of course the obvious thing [...]

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I was on the way to work this morning and was scanning the radio when the nationally syndicated radio show “Bob & Tom” came on. They mentioned something about a URL list and I suddenly stopped my scanner. They had a guest comedian, Gunner, on their program discussing some URLs that really weren’t [...]

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Here’s a good way to lose readers and active participants in your community and blog. When you move your domain to a new hosting provider, you should forget to set up the default email addresses at your new host.  For instance, let’s say your email address for your website is paul [at] imakenomoney [dot] com.  [...]

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I’ve posted before about how I spend a lot of money on a Adwords campaign on irrelevant keywords.  I found a similar story recently from one of my favorite affiliate bloggers, Johnathon Volk, a “super” affiliate.  He posted recently about losing $3,500!  Why?  Because:
1) He was tired
2) He was tired
3) He was in a hurry.
Apparently, [...]

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I was checking my email today when I saw I had a very short email that said, in short, “Please see the attached letter”, “Thank-you” and from the “Law Offices of….”
Oh, that can’t be good.  As I continued reading I found that I had just been sent my first cease and desist letter.
To quickly bring [...]

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So most of my stories up until now have been about how I make an online mistake and lose some money.  This post will be about how I lost money offline and how that applies to losing money online.
It happened easily enough.  As I was out and about running some errands, I found myself at [...]

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I enjoy the occasional microbrew or craft beer. It’s true. On the weekend it is nice to stop by a local place that carries beer like Shiner Bock, Abita TurboDog, Flying Dog Pale Ale and the like. I’m not saying it’s an obsession just an occasional indulgence. I thought it would be [...]

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So about a year ago I was sure I was going to get rich from creating niche bid word or link sizzler directories by purchasing a script that generates a list of words people could bid on.  I’ve never seen an official count, but I bet 99.9% of the people who bought those scripts never [...]

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People are usually attracted to the idea of making money “online” because they know someone personally “offline” who has been successful. In my case, it was an associate of (again) my brother-in-law. My brother-in-law had listed his lumber business with someone who ran a online lumber directory. I can’t remember the exact [...]

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The domain I have had for the longest (and made the least money from) has had a range of life cycles. When I first purchased the domain, I was really excited. I spent a lot of time on it and had a good start. Right about when the site was getting going, [...]

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