I won at Jackpot Rewards

August 24 0 Comments Category: Personal

$10 in this week’s guaranteed winners drawing at Jackpot Rewards, the online lottery site I wrote about a few months ago. I’m still gaining entries into the weekly drawings for hundreds of prizes, including a $145 million jackpot, with the help of the network of friends that joined through my referral link. If a $3 [...]

WPRS Multi-Site Licenses, Non-PayPal Payments

August 12 1 Comment Category: Business, Marketing

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 [...]

Product in a Day: FeedLines

This is my first attempt at building a simple product of my own to sell, rather than a service or subscription. I watch the SitePoint Marketplace on an almost daily basis, and I see so many simple, turnkey sites sold and resold on a consistent basis. While the scripts behind these sites may seem simple [...]

Jackpot Rewards Pays

April 14 0 Comments Category: Personal

A few weeks ago I mentioned that I had joined Jackpot Rewards, the online lottery and cash-back shopping site with a weekly $1 million sweepstakes. It’s still the best odds anywhere for winning a million dollars, and you get extra tickets when any of your friends have two matching numbers in the jackpot drawing that [...]

Picking a Graduate Program

April 14 1 Comment Category: Personal

As of this week, I’ve been accepted to masters programs to study computer science at University of Pennsylvania, University of Delaware, Lehigh University and Drexel University. Now I have to decide where I want to go.

$1 Million Weekly Lottery

March 05 0 Comments Category: Personal

A new company backed by investors Peter Lynch, Chuck Clough (the former chief global investment strategist of Merrill Lynch) and other big names from the Boston area offers a $1 million weekly lottery with a guaranteed winner. The site claims the best odds ever of winning a million dollars, and also runs a drawing for [...]

Applications In

February 29 5 Comments Category: Personal

Apparently the people I asked for letters of recommendation are worse procrastinators than me. I gave them all at least a month’s advance notice, and two reminders, and got them all back exactly two days before the March 1st application deadline for some of the graduate schools I’m applying to. 26 envelopes, $8.49 in postage, [...]

Results: PayPal as a primary payment provider

February 18 6 Comments Category: Business, Security

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 [...]

Forget iTunes, forget cable, I went with Netflix

January 17 3 Comments Category: Opinion, Personal

Last time I subscribed to cable TV service, the bill for basic service and cable internet was nearly $100 per month. Even with the short-term bundle pricing, all the taxes and fees the cable companies tack on make it an expensive service. I decided it’s not worth it. I don’t subscribe to cable TV. But [...]

Recommended Designers or Holding a Contest?

January 15 7 Comments Category: Business, Projects

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 [...]