With room to grow once again, I’ve been working on the other features I planned for W3Counter back in the fall. The main task, which I hope will allow me to sell to bigger customers than my normal $5/month individual webmaster, is providing private instances of the entire service. The plan is to have three [...]
I’ve had a number of people come to me looking for a W3Counter plan that can handle more than the “Pro” plan. More websites, more pageviews, or sometimes both. If people are knocking on the door asking to buy, I need to figure out a way to sell what they want. I decided against letting [...]
$3,000 disappeared because I didn’t notice the pattern for 4 days. Some fraudster attempted to place orders using 69 different credit cards before I closed all the accounts and refunded all the charges. Looks like this person had a large list of credit cards about to expire he was running through, since a few couldn’t [...]
The SEO community’s buzzing over official word from Google that selling text links can hurt your PR and rankings. It’s truly sad that $600-a-share Google is willing to ruin its own search results because they can’t figure out how to differentiate paid ads from useful links. They’re not always different things, either, one of many [...]
Just a note that woot has factory refurbished 30GB black Zunes for $99 with $5 shipping still in stock. Seeing as they’re getting the firmware upgrade for wifi syncing, additional codec support and other goodies next month, this is the time to buy. Zune holds 3 of the top 5 spots on Amazon’s top seller [...]
I really like mint. Not the web stats app, the new personal finance app. It’s extremely simple to use, automatically pulling in information from your bank and credit card accounts, updating itself when you’re not even using it. It’s completely free and smartly monetized through mutually beneficial offers from the site’s partners — telling you, [...]
Can’t say I got much actual work done this weekend. I spent too much of it working on replacing my monitor and trying to build a media center PC to turn the old one into a nice TV.
Things have been busier than I expected the past week and a half. Arranging movers, buying basics for the new apartment, unpacking all took a while. I had to catch up on a book I agreed to edit, and on a week’s e-mail I was getting behind on with only my laptop, which wasn’t set [...]
This book was my best buy of the year so far. It packs tons and tons of experience into 400-some dense pages of interviews with the founders of 30 startups. I was particularly interested in the story of PayPal’s early days as recounted by cofounder Max Levchin, the guy that drove technology for the company [...]
Continuing my trend of not taking any of the advice given, coming up with a new option instead, I don’t plan to pick any of the choices I laid out for monetizing W3Counter. Missing from that list is what I am going to do instead — add more value to the paid accounts so that [...]
