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Amazon.com gets into small business loans


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I just received this email: [quote]Amazon is always looking for ways to help our sellers grow. We are excited to announce a new service: Amazon Lending by Amazon Capital Services, Inc. Based on your Amazon selling performance you are pre-qualified for a loan up to $xx,xxx. Use these funds to purchase inventory and increase your […]

Best of the Web 50% Off


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Best of the Web is one of the few directories I will still submit to, you can pay a one time fee for your listing, and they work to keep it valuable (unlike Yahoo which ignores their own directory except when it is time to charge you a $300 annual fee). Today only to celebrate […]

Goodbye, 1028, hello, something bigger


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728+300 = 1028. This equation has caused me endless problems. A standard screen resolution is 1028 pixels, but also the sum total horizontal room needed for the two most popular IAB ad units is 1028 pixels. If I want to maximize a website design for ad display that often involves using both 728 pixel wide […]

DMCA Form Generator


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Google has said they are coming down hard on content farms, or places with non unique content. Well, unfortunately, stealing content has become quite commonplace on the Internet, and you may think that your content is unique but since losers the world over are stealing it, it isn’t. I decided to do some copyright checking […]

Internet Brands, Demand Media, and Website Valuation


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Call this an addendum to my previous post on website valuation. I’ve never been a fan of people offering 2x profits for an established profitable website, but I explain how and why in that previous post. Internet Brands, a large online publisher that also happens to own vBulletin, was a publicly traded company until recently, […]

Do Not Track Tool for Online Advertising


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From here. WASHINGTON – Federal regulators are proposing to create a “Do Not Track” tool for the Internet so that people could prevent marketers from tracking their Web browsing habits and other online behavior in order to target advertising. The proposal, inspired by the government’s existing “Do Not Call” registry for telemarketers, is one of […]

Server Hacked Thanks to Insecure PHP Script


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I get frustrated sometimes. I run my business, and I probably really could benefit from hiring out more of the work instead of doing it myself, but I have gotten burned so many times. People walking off without finishing jobs, cash in hand, I’ve probably lost $10,000 through the years to that problem. That is […]

The Coming 1099 Avalanche


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The ObamaCare bill is full of crap. Any time you have something so long that “you have to pass to find out what is in it” you’ll find crap. Included in the bill is a new requirement that would make all businesses send 1099 forms to all providers of goods and services who you spend […]

On Website Valuation


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I think, perhaps, people in the know about websites really have a golden opportunity in current times to buy good assets for cheap. I invest a lot in real estate, and of course in websites, and I see a lot of parallels. They are both properties that can provide almost completely passive income. Where they […]

Why Yahoo is the worst company on the Internet


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So I got an email today, saying that Yahoo has decided to terminate Rightmedia, which it purchased not to long ago. Perhaps terminate is the wrong word, they’re basically going to end all existing Right Media services for small publishers, which is most of what the company offers. Coming on the heels of their implosion […]

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