Archive for December, 2007

Twitter as Popularity Contest

Twitter as Popularity Contest I love Twitter. Of course I didn’t always, I have both loved and hated it with equal measure. It can be an incredible waste of time but if you are careful about who you follow there is just the right mix of socializing and signal v noise that I am [...]

Massive Success With DealDotCom

Massive Success With DealDotCom OK, so that title was a massive exaggeration. But deep down I am pretty pleased with my DealDotCom performance so far, seeing as how I’ve only got 7 first-tier affiliates. This is only an extremely short post, but I wanted to know how you guys are getting on [...]

Blogs suck.

Blogs suck. As I was trying to devise a topic for my blog today I thought I’d reach out to Joe (a big forum advocate and the main reason behind the forums at WhyDoWork.com) for some inspirational ideas but all he could muster was a measly few words: “write about how blogs suck.” [...]

Home Business Inspiration Found in Unlikely Places

Home Business Inspiration Found in Unlikely Places This post is a great reminder of how much you can do with a tiny business and a big goal. Remember this was written a year ago when the real estate market wasn’t in such a bad place. I have a friend Paul who [...]

Returning to NoFollow

Returning to NoFollow As some of you know this blog has been using the DoFollow plugin for several months to remove the nofollow tags on links to those who leave comments. The decision was originally made to encourage reader participation and to give something back to those who take the time to leave [...]

2008 Bloggers Choice Awards

2008 Bloggers Choice AwardsAdesBlog is nominated for 2008 Bloggers Choice Awards, in Best Blog About Blogging category. Please support AdesBlog blog by voting here. You need to be registered to vote, registration is quick, so I hope you won’t be discouraged by the registration form. Once you are registered, you could also nominate your [...]

Selling Digital Products Online With Secure Delivery

Selling Digital Products Online With Secure Delivery This review of Secure Delivery includes a live example, so don’t forget to scroll down to check it out! In May, I wrote a short article detailing my predictions for the Top 5 Forms of Monetization that website and blog owners would use in the [...]

Don t join BlogMastermind if you re crazy!

Don t join BlogMastermind if you re crazy! BlogMastermind is closing its doors for new sign-ups in another 5 days. If you haven’t joined this program yet, I would highly recommend that you signup right away. If you are skeptical about what this program is all about, Yaro has [...]

Driving Loyalty to Your Blog

Driving Loyalty to Your Blog Retaining readership is an important part of blogging, but the next step to retaining readership is creating loyal readers. Marketers call this driving customer loyalty. As part of a book I wrote that will be published in 2008, I created what I call the [...]

Supporting Your Most Valued Communities Without WIIFM

Supporting Your Most Valued Communities Without WIIFM Awards such as the Open Web Awards are a great way for members of a community to show support for the free services they find valuable, and giving something back to the people who run them. What's In It For Me? Honestly… nothing directly, unless the [...]