If you were thinking of opening a shop, you probably wouldn’t open a burger bar next to McDonalds and try to compete - would you? A back-street restaurant away from the big boys that serves a niche could work - your niche could be local students, office workers or vegetarians.
The Internet is the same as [...]
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Stop worrying about the things you can’t do.
Stop worrying about whether your new site, product or idea will work.
Stop worrying if someone else is doing it better.
Stop worrying if you are good enough.
Stop worrying about whether people will like it.
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Focus on what you can do.
If you have faith in your product you will make it [...]
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There’s a million and one blogs, ebooks, websites and courses on the web that want to tell you how to make money on the web.
Stop reading them.
It’s time to stop reading and start doing. Don’t waste countless hours trying to find a sure-fire money making scheme or a better blogging host or a better way [...]
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Just remembered that I bought the Hearing Aids page on Wordhugger. Just nipped over there and had a look and only 122 people have bought pages - very disappointing.
The site was a good idea and I liked the fact that the guy running it was donating a part of his profit to Kiva. It got [...]
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Magneto is a very nice looking open-source eCommerce package. Not only does it look very nice, it is also packed full of interesting and useful features, such as:
Ship to multiple addresses
Product comparison features for both store owner and customers
Product tagging and a Tag Cloud (not self-respecting Web2.0 site would be without one!)
Multi-tier pricing (create 2 [...]
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Brian Clark, of Copyblogger fame, has released a free ebook called, “Teaching Sells: Forget everything you know about making money online….. and start making some”.
I wouldn’t normally touch this kind of ebook with a barge pole but this is by Brian so I knew it would be good. I wasn’t disappointed.
The book is only 22 [...]
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I’ve taken the plunge and bought a page on Wordhugger. What’s WordHugger?
“Word Hugger is a website about micro investments, which are the internet’s newest virtual real estate gold. Investors can pick a word based on their hobby, business, interests, or expertise in a particular field. For a one time investment of $60, you own a [...]
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I’ve been mulling over buying a page on MillionDollarWiki. Yeah, it’s only $100 but I just can’t convince myself that this site is gonna work.
At the time of writing, the site has sold 765 pages. That’s 76.5k for the site owner, very very nice. A great idea and already a nice earner for them - [...]
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