I still maintain a couple of directories.  One of them has recently gotten some purchases of “Featured Links”.  The way it’s set up, people submit the link as a Featured Link, then they’re directed to pay through PayPal.  Some of them never bother to pay, so the link just sits there in my database “pending”.
Of [...]

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I can’t get anything done!  I don’t know how much of it’s my ISP, but I’m hearing about a lot of outages and downtime.  One rumor I came across is that any domain registered to Network Solutions is going to be having trouble until 6 pm Eastern Standard time.
Great.  I finally get a few minutes [...]

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Here are some cool posts I’ve read recently:
Merlin’s top 5 super-obvious, “no-duh” ways to immediately improve your life. Because even though it’s obvious, sometimes you just need to be told.
Making Money Online… How long does it take? Because we have this tendency to think an online business should take off overnight, just because [...]

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I came to check my site tonight, and it was breaking with parse errors. My first thought was that somehow the file breaking it had gotten an extra blank line added at the end - which can sometimes mess up php pages. So I opened the file and went to the end, and [...]

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I decided I needed to write some kind of an update here, but when I thought about what to say, I got stuck: there’s stuff going on, but nothing’s finished enough, or established enough, to be worth reporting.
So I’m going to report that I’m getting a new laptop soon. It’s a Dell, with a [...]

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When I checked my AwStats on one of my sites, I found 39 hits from “www.disney.com”. I knew better than to think Disney had stuck a link to my site on their front page. My next thought was that they’d circulated an internal email with a link, but I doubted it would show [...]

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It’s July 14, and I’ve earned about $175 so far this month. My monthly earnings are usually under $100, so this is a record. Even better: some of this cash is already in hand, and most of the rest of it will be in hand shortly after the end of the month. [...]

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Just a quick alert here. If you’re purchasing something online and they have a system that automatically sends you to Ebay’s PayPal to pay and then back to their site to confirm your order, be very, very careful about backing out at the last minute.
I recently went to purchase hosting, and realized at the [...]

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Looks like not everyone is pleased about the MarketingSherpa nominations. Seobook, posting here on Threadwatch doesn’t get why his blog and SEW weren’t included. Neither do I, but find this a little over the top:
Is there any point to awards that do not even list the best choices as an option?
Taking this question [...]

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…according to Business Opportunities Weblog, anyway.

My blog is worth $80,164.68.How much is your blog worth?

I really don’t have any idea how they measure this, but it’s fun.

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