It sure has been a while. As always, things keep happening at lightning speed. I’ve talked about personal balance before (you need time away from work), but it seems like I can’t even follow that myself. From 8 am to 6 pm, and then back at it from 11 pm to 2-4 am, it seems [...]
In my previous post, I had said you are not a company. The issue was simple – if the business falls apart without you (ie single-employee situations), then that isn’t a company. It is more freelancing. The same should apply to ‘companies’ that rely purely on widgets. I read today on TechCrunch on how JS-Kit [...]
As I alluded to in my previous post (MadKast is stupid), a viable company is not what passes around for ‘entrepreneurship’ these days. It is sad. Any Joe Blow with a computer and blogging software starts to blog. Good for him. He then starts to make money – even enough money to quit his day [...]
Been busy moving. Since 2001 I have not lived in any single residence for 12 months. Latest place lasted 8 months. Current place is planned for 1 to 12 months – hoping to move to Vancouver next. But everything is set, and ready to go. So – was going through my feeds, and I read [...]
I’ve talked about before how direct ad-sales is the best way to truly maximize your revenue capacity. We own a lot of XXXX.org domains – we then get custom advertising for the site (often times contacted by advertisers to our high SE rankings), and make pretty damn good money. Recent case in point: Site with [...]
I don’t know what I used to do before Commentful (product of ours). The reality is that tracking conversations can be hard. There is so much information online that losing track is as easy as counting to 1-2-3. So it boggles me when companies don’t use email to connect with their current/potential customers. Email is [...]
Full disclosure can be really tricky when someone doesn’t want to be disclosed. I myself am in a tricky situation. We sell business data to companies interested in the local space. We also cover interesting companies in the local space. So – we have a customer who bought data from us months ago. This same [...]
The thing about local blogs is … unless you live in a city, you likely don’t know it exists. The only reason I know of Gothamist LLC was because of their Toronto blog – Torontoist. So with that in mind, I’ve been amazed at how established some local blogs are. While reading about Bloggers Bring [...]
My last post on Wowhead.com, a World of Warcraft fansite going for $1 million got a lot of attention. Personally, I had come across Wowhead a few times, but had come away impressed. I thought it would be interesting to chronicle which succeeded and why. I’m going to only be covering Allakhazam (the original), Thottbot [...]
For those that have read my about page, I used to be involved in the MMO (massively multiplayer online) space. Since quitting and focusing on (what I see as) more lucrative markets (local and blogging), I’ve still kept a good relationship with pretty much all the large players – while I tired of it, keeping [...]