A few ideas I jotted down earlier this month – I’ll be adding to this list in the future (feel free to leave your additions in the comments):
20.4.08 - 8 Tips For Business Success
17.4.08 - 5 ways your business can make more money
To paraphrase a famous author:
Consider any businessman at any period of his life, and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to increase his profits.
Making more money starts with intelligent financial management – and in this article you’ll read 5 steps for your business to make more money:
14.4.08 - AdSense is not evil
Many people have criticised AdSense for encouraging lazy monetization (at best) and splogs (at worst). I respect these people, I just don’t respect this opinion that much.
Taking any monetization method to its extremes will produce a lopsided business that is overly dependent on one form of conversions. AdSense = niche search traffic. Now you can get that traffic all on one site, or you could be smart and spread the load across several sites and niches. When this is taken too far in the direction of “increasing your options”, it turns your work into below-par cow dung. If you rely too much on AdSense, you become lazy and don’t maximise your revenues / your site’s value in case you want to sell it later on. If you focus too much on AdSense monetization, you put yourself at the risk of depending solely on search traffic. Lose that, and everything else is lost.
Over-dependence on any one thing is stupid. Why blame the tool when the TOOL who’s using it isn’t making the right choices?
12.4.08 - 4 reasons to beat your ego with a big stick
Self-respect is a good thing. A positive sense of self-esteem gives you the confidence to handle difficult moments in life, and also acts as an attracting force in bringing you closer to others and to your personal goals.
There are times though, when believing in yourself turns into rigidity and a blanket refusal to change your way of thinking despite mounting evidence to the contrary right in front of you.
We’ve been right before, so why can’t we be right this time?
Change is the only constant, and as the environment changes around you, you need to adapt ahead of time to take advantage of it.
I attribute this stubbornness to excess self-importance, or in other words, an ego that’s out of control.
A few mistakes I’ve made that can be blamed on this:
