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    Where to start as a student

    In order to successfully run a business you have to figure things out for yourself every single day. This is the most important skill for you to learn, and you can start learning it now. Right now everything is realistic for you. I have friends who were able to bank several hundred thousand...
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    Web ads

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    You want big time ads that aren't related to your site? You should spend some more time researching internet publishing. Most of the big ad buys go to leading sites, either say top 1,000ish sites in the US, or the top handful of sites in a particular market. Check out quantcast.com.
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    May be room to compete in the E-Auction world

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    Except that they also have to walk a fine line to ensure they don't destroy their future value (kind of like killing the hen laying the golden eggs.) Each time eBay jacks up their fees it kills off the business models of another layer of "ebayer's" whose margins aren't high enough...
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    Outsourcing Websites - Anybody Using These?

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    I've never heard any positive feedback about the companies mentioned in the Four Hour Work Week. I suspect the problem is a combination of Indians that are not fluent in English combined with outsourcing companies growing faster than they can (there is a serious shortage of high quality...
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    Critique My eBook Sales Page!

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    Are you sending traffic to the landing page yet? I wouldn't try too hard to refine it before running some tests. Just a personal example that happened in the past few weeks, I set up a split test for one of my websites. There was about 10 different designs, I had no idea which would work best...
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    Teaching Kids About Money?

    The best way for your kids to learn these things is to watch what you do. In terms of concepts, based on personal experience with my parents, having them understand earnings, savings, and debt is probably the most important thing. If they are entrepreneurial they will figure the rest out on...
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    Mark Cubans view on CEO salaries

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    The free market absolutely allows for assets to be liquidated, which is exactly what incentivizing executives on short term performance does. If the shareholders let it happen, its their problem. Warren Buffet and Charlie Munger have some good opinions about what is really going on with CEO...
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    www.lamboforums.com BETA

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    You should watch for upcoming new car models, and launch dedicated forums for the car is released. Do this for 10 or so cars, and I'd be willing to bet money that at least 1 will become a dominant forum for that car (assuming you know how to drive traffic to them.)
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    Critique My eBook Sales Page!

    WEB/DIGITAL 
    When I mentioned clickbank, I didn't mean to use it as a payment processer (though you can), but to use the top products on there as a guide to good landing pages.
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    Knowing who to trust in Business...Im not sure

    There are people I'd trust with my life that make horrible business partners, and I know this from first hand experience. Whats more important is how everything is structured both in terms of legal ownership and also incentives. Too much to go into detail here.. but now when I do business...
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    Constructive Use of Free Time

    Refer a new client, get your next carpet cleaning free (or at cost, if you don't have the cashflow.) You need to be thinking about how to explode your business. That might include expanding on areas outside of carpet cleaning. You should be spending your time scaling the business out and...
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    Dodgy CPC

    WEB/DIGITAL 
    Do a search on Google for "quality score." Just like their search algorithm, there are many different variables being used which are changed regularly. Plenty of theories, some of which may be right today but wrong tomorrow. Only useful way to figure out what is going on is through your own...
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    Critique My eBook Sales Page!

    WEB/DIGITAL 
    Take a good look at the landing pages of the top sellers on Clickbank: http://www.clickbank.com/marketplace.htm By my estimates, quite a few of these are doing at least $1 million a year in revenue, if not that much in a month.
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    Lifelock?

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    Thats not the only thing going on over at Lifelock: http://www.wvgazette.com/News/200805172662 Estimated 1 million customers paying $110 a year.
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    Tiers of Rating A Book?

    Here is how I have been evaluating books books, Before buying: - Credibility of the author - What other people are saying about the book After reading: - What percentage is filler verse new ideas - How important and usable the ideas are - How fast did I finish the book, if I even finished it...
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    10,000,000$ Net Worth .......Impossible? Hell No!

    The great thing about big goals are you can fail miserably and still do extraordinarily well. I suggest bumping that from a 10m net worth goal to a 10m yearly income goal.
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    New York to start charging internet sales tax on large retailers

    TAXES | REGS WEB/DIGITAL 
    Re: New York to start charging internet sales tax on large retail That article is pretty poorly written. The law has to do with retailers with affiliates (not "large retailers".) New York state is counting affiliates as the retailers doing business within the state, thus they are no longer...
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    Choosing Great Website Colors...

    WEB/DIGITAL 
    Right.. but the good color choices are based off of simplicity not because of psychological factors an art teacher says they are associated with. And yes, I run tests to maximize my conversion ratios. Time and time again, basic straight forward designs have worked best for me, black text, white...
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    Choosing Great Website Colors...

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    Total baloney. Converting designs and aesthetic design are very different. For example, I consider myself a very competent graphic designer and artist. I am an expert user with Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop. I can paint very realistic portraits of people by hand. Not really something to brag...
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    Future Economy and Entitlements

    This is one of those problems where there is no right answer. Pyramid schemes always fail, some just take longer than others to collapse. Add in government enforcement life support and the results are brutal. I would recommend checking out "The Coming Generational Storm" if you want to read in...

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