September 20, 2007
- Reciprocity and your Internet marketing business
Today I was reading a book (Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion) by one of my former Arizona State University social psychology professors, Robert Cialdini. He discussed an experiment that a university professor did some years ago. The professor sent Christmas cards to strangers. He got a number of cards in return. This illustrates the principle [...]
September 18, 2007
- New York Times, Adsense and Passive Income
Keeping with my new-found idea of creating passive income while leaving the laptop computer at home, I am writing this post from a public-access computer at the Salt Lake City Main Library. My laptop is at home feeling unloved.
The New York Times is no longer charging for online content
In a nod to the growing [...]
September 16, 2007
- Passive Income and Freedom From Your Computer
Earlier today I went to the gym to work out. Before I hit the treadmill, I logged into the gym’s public access computer and I took a few minutes to check up on a new website that I recently put up on the subject of “Golf Instruction.” Interestingly, I found that Google listed a page [...]
September 10, 2007
- We’re crossing the chasm
EARLY ADOPTERS
I was just reading about a book that has been out for several years by Geoffrey Moore called Crossing the Chasm. His premise is that there is a group of people who love to be on the bleeding edge of technological developments (they buy the iPhone on the first day; they join Second Life [...]
September 3, 2007
- Upskilling
I heard a guy on a radio interview today talking about how the job market in the U.S. is changing. Some tasks can and will be done more cheaply or efficiently overseas (he mentioned accounting that can be done as well and much cheaper by being outsourced to some developing countries like India, but even [...]
September 2, 2007
- The green reason to use the Internet for passive income generation
I was just listening to a Tom Friedman (The World is Flat guy) lecture and he made a point about how the U.S. is funding both sides of the war on terror. We fund the terrorists by sending our fuel purchase monies to the Middle East where at least some of it trickles down to [...]
August 31, 2007
- Your own webstore on Amazon.com
If I were just starting out in e-commerce, I would consider using Amazon.com’s new webstore option. It provides instant ability to take credit cards and fulfill orders through Amazon’s already existing structure. They also pay you a 7% commission for any products you sell that are listed on Amazon.com. You can add your own products [...]
August 30, 2007
- The “Theres” vs. the “Not-Theres”
I was reading a summary of Don Peppers and Martha Rogers 1993 book The One to One Future and came across this idea. In the past, there was a divide between the “haves” and the “have-nots,” but in the future this divide will shift to the “theres” and the “not-theres.” That is, the privileged are [...]
August 26, 2007
- How to quickly show up on Google
The other day I posted something on this blog and sent Ryan an email message about it. A short time later, I received an alert from Google (I have signed up to be notified whenever my name shows up on the web somewhere) saying that Ryan’s blog had a new mention of my name. When [...]
August 22, 2007
- Designing Your Life of Freedom (from time- and location-based income)
The Web Whisperers has just released a new series of email tips designed to help you create a life of passive and residual income, or at the very least, income you can produce from wherever you want to be or live in the world.
Most people’s income is dependent on putting in time at a specific [...]
