No audience, no traffic, no money. I’ve read a lot of articles about making money online. I’d be willing to bet that I’ve read more on this topic than any other. Many of these articles are fantastic. The good ones being those that aren’t too flashy and point people to legitimate ways to make a…
Read More A Dirty Secret The “Make Money Online” Experts Don’t Often ShareNote: This post was originally published on Medium on August 12th 2020. No tricks, no training, and little writing experience. I think I’m screwed. July 2020 was a good month. To be exact, it was a $2,056.97 month. The bulk of my earnings are due to the success of one post that for some reason…
Read More A $2,000 Month On MediumNote: This post was originally published on Medium on June 24th 2020. To hell with the years of sweat, frustration, and self doubt. Blogging. The Early Days. By the Spring of 2002, I had built and sold a consulting company, and had recently gone back to work as programmer with a huge media company in the…
Read More How I Became An Overnight Success As A BloggerNote: This post was originally published on Medium on June 17th 2020. I’ve read many stories about entrepreneurship and making money on Medium, written by people with amazing profiles, and impressively actionable calls to action that take you to nice websites used to collect my email. Just yesterday I read one, and left a simple…
Read More How I Became A MillionaireWhen I first started selling products online back in 2003, I had to guess at what keywords my customers would search for. My sales page kicked ass, but everything on the “technical side” of selling products online was different back in 2003. Here is a Wayback Machine capture of my dadwon.com sales page from December…
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It is hard to find work on Craigslist these days, and it’s not just in the Fredericksburg, Virginia area either. My clients all over the country are having the same problem. Craigslist isn’t the problem. God no. Craig Newmark did the world an incredible service when he created his free online classified system, or is…
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Getting a site to appear on the first page of Google search results, I’ll call it SERP1 can make a website owner a lot of money. There are two ways to do it: Organically – Your site rises in the rankings using SEO techniques. This can take a lot of time, and be expensive if…
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Everyone is flipping out about the “new normal” due to COVID-19. I won’t weigh in with personal thoughts on the topic, suffice it to say I think that the Government forcing businesses to close is a dangerous step. People are now out of work. Unemployment claims are through the roof. Making money to pay for…
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Google bought a company called Applied Semantics in April of 2003 and AdSense was effectively born. Google AdSense is an advertising platform that content publishers can use to generate revenue off of their websites. If you have used the web, you have seen, and probably clicked on, ads that were served by AdSense. Every time…
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