Business

Do Most New Businesses Really Fail in the First Year?

Thu December 22nd, 2005 at 12:52 pm
Business

Myth: 9 out of 10 businesses will fail in the first year.

Reality:

76 percent of new businesses were open after two years.
47 percent after four years.
38 percent after six years.

Via Business Opportunity Weblog.

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The Houston Image

Sun November 20th, 2005 at 10:34 am
Business, Photography

I can make it public now. My friend and fellow photography Bobby G and I have partnered up to take over The Houston Image. This is a local forum for photographers, models and makeup artists and we are going to give it a facelift and take it to the next level.

The first change will be [...]

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Picking a CMS

Tue November 1st, 2005 at 12:40 pm
Business, Media, Web

A friend of mine wanted to team up and buy a photography web site. The main thing this site currently does is forums. It uses a really ancient script that is exceedingly ugly. It also takes you strait to the forums with no other functionality easily available.

So we have a few goals we’d like to [...]

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Google Got a Lot Smarter

Fri September 16th, 2005 at 11:30 am
Blogging, Business

So I’ve been running Adsense on my individual entry pages. I got an offer to run CrispAds and put them in as the alternate URL for Adsense. Then I went to look at the ad. But I couldn’t find an entry that didn’t have an ad. And most of them were relevant. Guess Google finally [...]

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Negative Feedback Doesn’t Matter?

Thu August 25th, 2005 at 3:30 pm
Business

Seth says he’s hearing that negative feedback on ebay and Amazon doesn’t keep people from buying. This is very important to me because I’m currently working on a reputation system for photographers and models. But if feedback doesn’t work, then what’s the point.

I think it might matter more to people in a face to face [...]

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Cyborg Name Generator

Thu August 25th, 2005 at 9:33 am
Business, Web

You know this is a brilliant little web app. It does something cute and memey (did I just invent a word?). Directly produces a product that can be sold - logoed merchandise - and has an opportunity to serve ads.

Technorati Tags: adsense, meme, robots

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Going Full Time

Tue August 23rd, 2005 at 11:59 am
Blogging, Business, Web

Not me, Jason Kottle.

One of the things in life I’m finding frustrating right now is that I can’t work on the plethora of web ideas I have full time. I told the Mrs that if I had a year I could probably replace my salary. But I don’t have a year.

The thing that really interests [...]

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Site Checkup

Thu August 11th, 2005 at 4:53 pm
Blogging, Business, Web

This is a really useful article for making sure your blogs is in good health. I didn’t know about the site: and cache: searches on Google. There over 600 pages from reactuate in google.

I knew nothing about alexa. Reactuate is kind of in there and kind of not. I haven’t figures it out yet.

windexl tools [...]

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