Posts categorized Business
After living in 7 apartments in 7 years, I’ve given up renting and bought my first home. One benefit of all the extra space is room for a permanent dashboard display…
It’s been almost three months since I decided to create and sell an ad tracking service (in progress), and I’m still probably a few weeks away from being able to find out if anyone wants to use it. There’s so much involved in launching a new service beyond just writing the code: Plan and Develop [...]
WP Review Site continues to sell well, enough that I spent the time to give it a proper payment form instead of just a PayPal redirect. Those that can’t or choose not to use PayPal can now pay directly by credit card. By several requests, WPRS is now available in a multi-site license ($199) and [...]
It’s now been just over 6 months since I made PayPal the primary payment method on my ecommerce sites in an effort to reduce losses to fraud (see Will 53% of customers switch to PayPal and Betting on Igor). It takes a long time to see the effects of something like this, since chargebacks tend [...]
I need a new website for W3Counter, and I can’t design it. I need to reorganize the site and there are going to be lots of new service plans and features to show off. I’m thinking of holding a contest at SitePoint, but I don’t know if I’ll get good results from this. I’m not [...]
Midterms are over, assignments are in. I set up a wiki, Subversion repository, trac and Bugzilla for my senior design project team. Time to work on the business again. No time to sleep in, though… Saturday morning I’ll be up early for a workshop on testing business concepts at the Baida Center. Drexel University’s Lebow [...]
It’s time to find out. I just rolled out the updated Visitor Boost and Targeted Visitors sites that send all new customers directly to PayPal for payment. This is the riskiest thing I’ve ever done with these sites, but I need to start taking some risks — I’ve got 10 months until I graduate college [...]
In the past few weeks, I’ve mentioned some “missing money” a few times – QuickBooks telling me I earned more this year than I could account for in my bank accounts. I think I finally found that today while going over things again and figuring out how July went (worse than May and June, better [...]
I got some good news on my voice mail this morning – my tax audit is unofficially over. I haven’t mentioned it here before: The “Small Business Self Employed” division of the IRS audited the Schedule C of my 2005 tax return. It took about 2 months of mailing binders of documents back and forth [...]
Last night, I moved TargetedVisitors.info and VisitorBoost.com to one of the new servers. They were some of the last sites to be moved — they’re so critical to me that I’ll let the other sites test out the new servers first. One of the scripts that runs on crontab every 10 minutes didn’t take the [...]
