Entrepreneurship

Start Your Month Off By Looking at Last Month: Traffic & Profits

June 1, 2007 Advertising

I’m always excited when a month comes to a close because it presents me with the opportunity to look back at what happened last month. This is especially important because I have the opportunity to see how I’m doing in attaining my goals for my sites. In particular, I’m most interested in traffic and financial [...]

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Proper Elements of an Email Signature

May 30, 2007 Entrepreneurship

This might seem like a completely obvious post, but sadly, it is not obvious enough. I get emails every day from people who want to do business with me, but have no clue that I’m instantly judging them by their signature (or lack, thereof). A signature is hugely important, especially online. You can’t just hand [...]

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Flying Tips, Cool Online Trends, and Google Gets Scary! Are We In a Brave New World?

May 23, 2007 Blogging

I’d like to thanks CNN for sharing with me the incredible AvoidDelays, which is brought to all of us from our nation’s air controllers. This site is chock full of awesome data about flying in the US, including airports to avoid, worst time to fly to certain cities, and much more. If you travel at [...]

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Un-Official Launch of Our Real Estate Ecommerce Site!

May 23, 2007 eCommerce

After a TON of work learning about ecommerce, shopping carts, security, vendors, permits, and the law, I am excited to announce that I’m un-officially launching our BiggerPockets Real Estate Investing Store! The store is now live with a whopping two (2) products available for sale! (hey, we all have to start somewhere) I’m quite pleased [...]

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Vindication and a Public Apology: Courage & Cowardice

May 22, 2007 Commentary

If You Do Something Wrong, Fix It! It is really not that difficult a concept. If you do something wrong, first you must recognize that you have done so, then you should do something to rectify the situation. For those of you who have been around for a while, you know about the situation that [...]

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A Day in the Life of An Internet Entrepreneur: The Greatest Job on Earth!

May 5, 2007 Entrepreneurship

I’m sitting at home watching Dreamgirls (great movie, BTW!) through Comcast OnDemand and I’m working at the same time. Yup! Its Saturday night and I’m at home working, as usual. While I do consider myself a complete workaholic, I didn’t really realize how many hours I put in ever week until I started to think [...]

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Mega List of Ping Services for Your Blog: How to Let People Know About Your Latest Blog Update

May 2, 2007 Blogging

Spreading the word about your latest blog entry is as easy as pinging a few update services. Most blogs allow you to add different update services (ping sites) to notify. I thought it might be userful to put out a list of the update services I’m currently pinging. If you’re interested in adding any or [...]

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The Networking Event that Never Was

May 1, 2007 Entrepreneurship

I had high hopes . . . they have summarily been squashed! As many of you are aware, I tried to put together a networking event here in Denver for web-entrepreneurs, developers, investors, etc. The event this morning was a complete bomb! The Networking Event of The uhhhhh Century. Well, Maybe Next Time! I sat [...]

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Boycott Chase Bank and Learn What Not to Do In Customer Service

April 19, 2007 Commentary

Sounds pretty extreme, right? I just don’t know what companies are thinking these days. How Chase Bank Has Forgotten About the Customer I had a call into Chase about an issue with my credit card the other night and couldn’t believe what I heard. My discussion with a customer service representative was not going where [...]

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Google Blogsearch Revealed: Learn the Secrets Behind Google’s Blogging Search Engine

April 18, 2007 Blog Design

In a guest assignment for Darren Rowse’s ProBlogger, Alister Cameron writes an incredible post detailing how Google Blogsearch ranks your blog posts. Using the Google Blogsearch patent application, Alister reveals some incredible information about the data Google uses to determine the quality of a blog or blog post. He mentions how it looks like Big [...]

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Another Server Crash

April 18, 2007 Commentary

It happened again . . . I awoke to phone calls and emails this morning alerting me that my websites are not working. I really hate it when my server has issues like that (hate is not a strong enough word to describe how i really feel)! So far, this has happened a few times [...]

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Meeting of Minds – Denver Networking Group

April 17, 2007 Entrepreneurship

Whoops . . . posted that one a bit prematurely . . . no it’s not a problem I have regularly! The Creation of a Denver Networking Group I’ve talked on this blog about why you should get out of the office and network and I’ve decided to start up my own local group here [...]

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Don’t Just Teach Your Friends to Make Money Online. Partner with Them!

April 16, 2007 Blogging

I recently read a webmaster forum post from a guy whose friends keep asking him to teach them how to make money online. There are a few approaches to take in this situation: Three Approaches to Dealing With a Friend Who Wants Free Advice on Making Money Online Tell him to piss off and figure [...]

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Don’t Let Your Inbox Get in the Way of Your Productivity! Organize Your Email!

April 13, 2007 Entrepreneurship

Is Your Inbox on Fire? I admit that I no longer find emailing to be a pleasurable activity. It is right up there with getting a cleaning at the dentist for me! Over the years I’ve probably received close to 100,000 emails since starting BiggerPockets Real Estate Investing Community. It is absolutely mindblowing to think [...]

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The Power of Effective Follow-Up in Marketing

April 12, 2007 Commentary

In a post about using social media sites for networking a few days ago, I mentioned a website called Geni.com. As a result of the post I was contacted by someone at the company and they have now offered to send me some fun branded swag. It was never my intention to get cool free [...]

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