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Small Publishers Staying Strong

Andrew Johnson posted on his blog that he thinks small publishers will be out of business in 2 years. I don’t think so, not even remotely. The small publisher has an inherent value that no large publisher can match. No or little overhead. To be out of business you’d have to be losing money on […]

The Saga of Wayne Yeager & Trafficology

Way back in 2001 one man named Wayne Yeager took the Internet marketing world by storm. He started this newsletter called Trafficology.com based on the premise of bribing webmasters for their best traffic generating ideas. He would pay $1350 a month, including $1000 as a top prize, for the best ideas sent to him each […]

Rolling the Dice

I was asked recently why, if I do this for a living, has my forum signature (where I list most of my sites) not gotten longer by any measure in recent time. The reason is that there are different methods of going about being a website publisher. You can build many small sites, you can […]

How’s this for a niche?

Restaurant corn on the cob is always so much better than the stuff I make at home, or the stuff my mom used to make. Determined to find out why I searched on Google for “How to cook corn on the cob” and this website came up second. This site immediately struck me as useful. […]

Confessions of a Workaholic Webmaster

Hello everyone! I figured I’d take a break from writing about business and focus on a topic I don’t normally share with anyone, except my inner circle of peers; my personal life as a webmaster. This is a true rarity, so don’t expect many more of these types of blogs from me. When I woke […]

Market Research: Part I – Finding A Niche

Market research should be the first step for any webmaster, seasoned or just starting out, when seeking a niche based website to develop. I remember speaking to a fellow webmaster who said something to the tune of “how do I find a new niche, when they are all taken up?”. How can all niches be […]

Amazon Experiments in Forums

Amazon has launched a new beta feature that creates a forum for individual products thus allowing customers to discuss the product. Sort of like customer reviews 2.0. To see them check out this page and scroll down. I’ve often preached about the qualities of blogs, and its nice to see big business waking up to […]

Another Major Acquisition

I read this article this morning about NBC Universal buying iVillage. This is yet another in a recent string of major Internet acquisitions. I also like how the article recaps some of the other big ones lately. What I find really neat about this is that the sale of course includes Gardenweb.com as it is […]

Welcome

Meet the new blog, same as the old blog. I plan to treat this blog roughly the same as the blog I had on SitePoint. Actually no, thats not true, this blog will be better. Well for one I can link to more of the articles I’ve written when I want to expand on a […]

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