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Tony @ Success from the Nest explains why there is no advertising on his site; the article is a must-read if you’re considering blogging in order to host ads.
Today he also shed a little light on his latest project with Brian Clark of Copyblogger. He’s remaining understandably tight lipped, but it has something to do with “people who are creative and have knowledge to sell.”
Trent at The Simple Dollar describes how he keeps the content flowing.
Seth Godin’s take on when to start.
I just ran across a couple of great posts. If you’re putting an important project or dream off, read Success from the Nest’s The Only Time You Can Start Is Now article.
Now that you’re ready to start, review Liz Strauss’ list of 10 Bloggo-Fears That Go Bump in the Night and How to Make Them Worse to eliminate any final doubts that you might have. Now get to work!
Brian Clark shares some interesting thoughts today on a different method for profiting from ebooks. The current school of thought is that free ebooks increase your stature and result in links. However, Clark suggests that it is possible to sell your ebooks if you position yourself correctly.
Michael Munger, Chair of Political Science at Duke University, describes why people are habitually late. (Warning: Humor included!)
Mises.org has made H. J. Haskell’s 1947 classic The New Deal in Old Rome: How Government in the Ancient World Tried to Deal with Modern Problems available for free in pdf.
h/t Jeffrey Tucker
Making money online is difficult. Success is especially difficult to obtain if your website is not search engine friendly. SEO FAST START (updated for 2007) is a free, comprehensive, beginners guide to SEO. I’ve jump around the book and the advice is sound.
Aaron Hall of seobook.com fame, has good things to say about the free ebook (and only one criticism).
Trent at The Simple Dollar describes Five Personal Finance Lessons That Rocked Me Like A Hurricane When I Figured Them Out.
Understanding and embracing his last point is essential if you want to be successful.
There’s a meme floating around the blogosphere. The Dog Yard kicked it off with some evil blogging advice. If you are new to blogging and you’ve considered blogging for fun or profit, make sure to check out the links below.
What’s a meme? ChrisG & QuixtarBLOG both have good explanations.
