Opportunity cost is a term from economics used to describe decision making. Wikipedia defines it as: ‘the value of the next best alternative lost as the result of making a decision’. For example, if you have $100, you can only spend those dollars once. You can buy $100 worth of books or [...]
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One trick to both make your website look more professional and increase your click-through rate is to match your adsense colors to your site colors. Here’s the simplest way to achieve that goal on OS X:
1. Log onto your Google adsense account and select the add unit you want to modify. To do [...]
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Quick reminder: the goal is to reach $1,000 a month of web income by January, 2010
Currently I run three websites, this one, Silver Clipboard and Miscellanea. Given my time constraints, it’s hard to see how I could start anymore, so if I want to go from a net loss of $144 to a profit [...]
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The people over an common craft have make a cute little video about how and why to save your money. Check it out below:
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Quick reminder: the goal is to reach $1,000 a month of web income by January, 2010
For nearly seven years now, I’ve been playing around with my websites. I’ve pulled in a little income from advertising, but I never really wanted to add up the figures. This way I could tell myself I [...]
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One of the most interesting things we’ve discovered… is that [people] are more motivated by the fear of looking bad than by the hope of getting millions of dollars. So if you want to get millions of dollars, put yourself in a position where failure will be public and humiliating. —Paul Graham
Today is [...]
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