on entrepreneurship
Jan 30, 2011 Affiliate Marketing, Business & Marketing, Help Yourself, Lookatme, I'm Web 2.0!, personal
My mother-in-law sent me a quote today that happens to be from one of my all-time favorite transcendental authors. It was entirely appropriate timing too, as I just started my latest venture Murphy Group Media. I have to say, I couldn’t agree more!
… if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings. In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness. If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. ~Henry David Thoreau
Thanks Mom!
Tags: business, entrepreneurship, henry david thoreau, startup
Epiphany in C Minor
Dec 27, 2008 Affiliate Marketing, Business & Marketing, Search and SEO, Wordpress
Brilliance can be a commodity. Even idiots are allotted a few moments of brilliance in their lifetimes. I’ve had my share (well, at least two). And the gods saw fit that I have one more.
Yes, I had an epiphany and I’m not ashamed of it. Like the epiphanies before, this gem was so obvious it was stupidly beautiful (or beautifully stupid).
I don’t know if I have the ability to describe the full diorama of the idea, but I’ll try. Lately I’ve been registering domains like a fool. Any niche or meme that I feel like I can one day profit off of, I think “Hey I need 10 domains for that!” and hastily buy them, then just let them sit and park (much to Google’s content). Many many domains sitting unused. No traffic, therefore no revenue. And I’ve been getting more and more niche ideas lately. So my dilemma was: lots of ideas * lots of ideas = almost zero revenue – lots of costs. So basically I’ve been losing a lot of money on parked domains. Yet I still want to play and get more.
So the epiphany I had isn’t new to most people, just me. It’s simply this: you don’t need a damn domain for every niche play you enter! Get a wordpress, tumblr, google pages, blogger, or whatever free site/hosting account, build up your content there, drive some traffic, and THEN when something starts to stick grab a domain and start point links to it from all your free pages. OR, and this is where it comes in handy for me, create that page of content for your new niche on an existing domain that ALREADY has the trust and age going for it. You’ll be able to rank faster and longer. (that’s what she said! hehehe).
Are You an Awesome SEM?
Dec 1, 2008 Affiliate Marketing
In the world of PPC there are “Awesome SEMs and then there is everyone else. Most Awesome SEMs don’t think they are awesome, they know they are! They breathe PPC like a Mongolian monk breathes Zen. Ask an SEM what their stats are, go ahead. They’ll unleash a round of PPC Kung Fu on you.
Are you an Awesome SEM? If you didn’t take the time to answer the question, then you are. Let me break your silent focus for one moment, then you can get back to your A/B testing. By showing your PPC awesomeness, you can win free tickets and accommodations to Elite Retreat! Simply do what you do, but do it better than anyone else. PepperjamNETWORK is hosting the contest. And no, they didn’t pay me to post this. I just thought I’d pass it on since I know some of my readers would love to attend the event and this is one way how to do it on someone else’s dollar.
Find out more details about the PepperjamNETWORK / Elite Retreat contest here.
Tags: elite retreat, peperjam network, PPC, SEM, shoemoney