Feed on
Posts
Comments

Archive for January, 2008

The Ripoff Report’s business model

Posted in Get Rich Quick schemes, tagged , on January 31, 2008 | 2 Comments »

There are two things you need to know about earning money on the internet: 1. Getting traffic and 2. Monetizing traffic.
You already know I like to study the eBay Pulsers’ unusual methods of getting traffic. They then monetize their Pulse traffic by selling ebooks (or candy canes, holey socks, etc…) and getting eBay [...]

Read Full Post »

Must Buy QuickBooks Pro 2008

Posted in Reasons I Leave My Computer, tagged on January 30, 2008 | No Comments »

Corporate tax filings are due tomorrow.  I have 6 forms that need to be postmarked “Jan 31″.  Even though it was just 7 degrees this morning, I was happy to be headed to my accountant’s office.
I tried to get away with using QuickBooks Simple Start.  But I found out the hard way that payroll tax filings are ridiculously cumbersome to do by hand, [...]

Read Full Post »

Two new scripting eBay Pulsers

Posted in eBay pulse, tagged , , , on January 28, 2008 | 6 Comments »

A couple of eBay Pulsers caught my eye today.  They are not new to the eBay Pulse, but I’ve not charted them until now.   http://www.esellerstreet.com/search.php5?catID=99
Kekoa64 is in the #1 spot.  Then eBay seller, the.rich.boy, is #2.  In the #3 place is UK seller, the-new-easy-cash-system.

Here’s Kekoa64 (#1) and the.rich.boy (#2) charted over the past 5 days. I think they [...]

Read Full Post »

Drew Peterson School of Marketing

Posted in Get Rich Quick schemes, tagged , , , on January 24, 2008 | No Comments »

Drew called into the Steve Dahl Chicago radio show yesterday. Yep, he’s been quiet for 5 weeks - time to fire up the ole Drew Peterson Marketing Machine.
First, let’s revisit the DP School of Marketing lessons from 2007:

Kill wife #3
Kill wife #4
Launch popular website for financial gain

At the DP School of Marketing, we can’t rest [...]

Read Full Post »

How many watchers does it take to make the eBay Pulse?

Posted in eBay pulse, tagged on January 24, 2008 | No Comments »

Zero, if you use a script. But seriously, how many watchers does it take to make the eBay Pulse?
The eBay Pulse has some filtering criteria other than just the number of watchers. The most watched items in a category are sometimes not shown. I don’t know why. Flickr.com imposes controls over their top photos of [...]

Read Full Post »

BigCrumbs now saves you more than FatWallet

Posted in Cool Ecomm sites, tagged , , on January 22, 2008 | No Comments »

Vince at BigCrumbs.com brought this to my attention. In my previous post comparing the two savings sites, the numbers I used for BigCrumbs must have been CrumbEarner rates, not CrumbSaver rates.
BigCrumbs.com CrumbSavers save more than FatWallet.com users on 5 out of 6 randomly chosen online sites.
Here’s the apples to apples comparison - revised today 1/22:

SharperImage.com

BigCrumbs [...]

Read Full Post »

This Pulser lost watchers

Posted in eBay pulse, tagged , on January 17, 2008 | 4 Comments »

OK, this one wins in the “very annoying gallery image” category. Right after Heather48IQ.

Their watchers are actually decreased on the last 2 days. Hmm… Each count on the x-axis is 15 minutes. This graph covers Jan 6 to Jan 15.

They have a slightly different implementation of the “force affiliate cookie” trick.  (update Feb 5 - [...]

Read Full Post »

Chocolate Chip Cookie on the eBay Pulse

Posted in eBay pulse, tagged , on January 17, 2008 | 3 Comments »

Yes, there’s always interesting stuff happening on the eBay Pulse.  Here’s a cookie from eBay seller ID auction-promotion.  This is the seller who won the candy cane auction.

Auction-promotion is not a “script kitten” like the top Pulsers.  Thanks Ray - love the term!  Their eBay watcher acquisition pattern follows natural traffic patterns for the US timezones.  eBay traffic is [...]

Read Full Post »

The perfect business

Posted in Quality of Life, tagged , , on January 16, 2008 | No Comments »

My quest for the past 2 1/2 years has been the perfect business. I’m giving myself 6 years to build one. AshBo, a 17 year old, already has one with Whateverlife.com.

What makes a perfect business?
#1. The perfect business makes money when you are sleeping. Money has to be coming in the doors whether you are [...]

Read Full Post »

Blog Stats

Posted in Quality of Life, tagged , on January 14, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Here’s the weekly number of hits to this blog.

The week over week growth is promising. The dip is due to Christmas. Statcounter.com is my preferred traffic analysis tool. Here’s a screen shot.

The Statcounter stats on this blog are not perfect because WordPress disables JavaScript. JS is required to capture referring URLs [...]

Read Full Post »

FatWallet members rank on Big-Boards.com

Posted in Cool Ecomm sites, tagged , , , on January 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »

A recent comment inspired another one of my researching jaunts when I should be working.
Mermaid said,
I joined fatwallet to see what it was all about… there’s absolutely no incentive to refer others and they aren’t very good at developing a community (no personal pictures). They simply don’t believe in the power of viral marketing. I [...]

Read Full Post »

I sent my money to Azerbaijan

Posted in Cool Ecomm sites, tagged , on January 9, 2008 | No Comments »

Wow, try to spell Azerbaijan without a dictionary!
I signed up for MicroPlace.com on Jan 1 and chose my debtor. $50 went to Azerbaijan. It was the best choice because:

42% of the money goes to women

3% annual yield - the highest on MicroPlace

100% payback rate

OK. Now that that’s done, I can watch the grass grow for [...]

Read Full Post »

Older Posts »