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4 Critical Things Blockbuster vs. Netflix Can Teach Marketers and 3 Things That Can Make Blockbuster Win

4 Critical Things Blockbuster vs. Netflix Can Teach Marketers and 3 Things That Can Make Blockbuster Win

Every now and then, a topic gives me an itch I just need to scratch.  Writing this article serves one of those purposes this week.  Luckily, I can relate it directly to making money online.  Enjoy… Summarizing the History… For 2 decades, Blockbuster reigned supreme as the leader of movie rentals.  Cable and satellite had not mastered pay-per-view and on-demand viewing.  They didn’t have the 2 way communication necessary to request a movie and then have it … Read entire article »

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HUGE Money-Making Christmas Presents Received!

HUGE Money-Making Christmas Presents Received!

I received a MASSIVE late Christmas present from some great friends… As super-affiliates, they receive free copies of products that they promote and sometimes other products they choose not to promote.  Their closets were getting full from all of the how to make money “junk”, so they cleaned them out and gave them all to me. … Read entire article »

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The 5 Usual Steps to Making Money Online…

Below are the 5 basic steps to making money on the internet… These are the same steps I see over and over and over again when reading, watching or listening to Information Marketing geniuses.  After a while, looking at this stuff creates some serious deja-vu.  This is the formula that most people sell and which REALLY does make billions of dollars on the internet. Identify what you’re passionate about Create a website where you offer good information about that subject Gain a following and gather leads by gaining their respect Offer/sell products that you or someone else has created Profit! … Read entire article »

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Making Investment Bankers Blush: Massive Profit Margins

I just sat down with my wife and watched the movie Wall Street.  She had never seen the original, so we watched it and the new one that came out late last year. It made me think over and over again how incredibly changed forever the landscape of business is because of the web. In so many places I worked, people had always talked about that “one great stock” that they would become a millionaire from as the price skyrocketed to Pluto.  That business model for the wanna-be entrepreneur has several huge downsides: You have to invest a lot to make a lot. Making money is basically gambling Ensuring that you make a lot by doing significant research is illegal (insider trading) The internet inherently connects us all so quickly and easily that communication is being … Read entire article »

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Do NOT invent something new!

Do NOT invent something new!

Usually when someone thinks about entrepreneurship, they think invention… …or the development of something novel and completely different than what’s available. That’s the most difficult way of approaching a new business.  Unless you’ve been around the block and created businesses before and are completely comfortable with your current income, you avoid “invention” like the plague. There’s a very simple reason for this.  The internet is not new.  There are hundreds of millions of people on it and millions … Read entire article »

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Finding Wealth: David Siegel

Finding Wealth:  David Siegel

One of the fun things I found to do is zooming around Google Maps or Bing Maps and finding very large homes… Interestingly enough, there are some amazing property appraiser websites in various counties around the United States that can give you some very cool information on properties and owners.  I used these to see if I could find what people with very large homes did for a living.  I found some very interesting people through … Read entire article »

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Basic Search Engine Workings and the Money That Flows Through Them…

Basic Search Engine Workings and the Money That Flows Through Them…

There are some very important basic pieces of information I find myself telling different people all the time about the business of making money online. People, in general, have some serious misconceptions about how money is made, especially through advertising. The most basic misconception is how Google searches and ads work… Here’s a mile-high description that should give you a good overview: Rankings: Google ranks sites in it’s search results by certain closely-guarded criteria. The higher the score the site … Read entire article »

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