I follow r/Entrepreneur on Reddit.com and I recommend you do too. Because every once in a while there is a post by interesting high achieving people.
For example two days ago there was a post by jwitham2002 which was celebrating his 5 year anniversary of being in business. Continue reading
I’m currently studying Entrepreneurship for small business development (a short learning course at Varsity college) with the goal of writing a business plan which will be at a level that you could present to a financial institution or venture capitalist to get funding for your venture.
Recently we have been going over the requirements for your business plan. I’m going to write down a check list of all the things you should include in your business plan. Continue reading
I’ve decided that I want to make money online, in some form or another. Either by offering a product. Or by refferal income to other products. Or by creating a physical product and selling that.
The problem that I have realised is that there is a distinct difference between the knowledge I have and the knowledge I need to make it happen. Continue reading
The founder of thisiswhyimbroke.com recently did an AMA on Reddit. Which I found very interesting.
Here is the link for anyone interested.
This site is such a great idea, with a perfect layout that maximizes user interaction. Its literally just an excuse to advertise products to customers. With the idea that what ever item the customer sees they will be entertained by it.
The site doesn’t try to sell boring items flat screen tv’s or computers or software. It brings you the newest most interesting items from around the web.
Some of the features that the founder said were integral to the success of the site are:
– Infinite scrolling
– Extremely polished product photos ( That instantly explains what the products function is)
– Occasional humour and sarcasm in descriptions
– The general emphasis on user experience as opposed to generating income.
The last one I think is a biggie, because most of the sites incomes come from affiliate income. Subsequently you would think that they would only choose products to list that supported affiliate programs like Amazon, Etsy or electronic stores. But many of the items listed don’t.
They meet the necessary criteria of being novel interesting items that other people may enjoy being exposed to.
So far I’ve discovered 3 other sites that have the same goal in mind.
The concept is the same, none of these site’s actually hold the products they are advertising. They just sell the most interesting items to the best of their ability.
I don’t know if the market is saturated, maybe the English market is. This opportunity for a website is still available in other languages.
The founder says that now his site brings in over 6 figures every year, that’s over $100000. Amazing. If I could generate $30 000 I would be amazed.
I love the site, and the idea. The more I think about it the more I want to start a similar site.
Its been 3 years since I last blogged. Reading over those posts I realize what an awesome person I was then. Not so sure I’ve improved in that time though.
Anyway, blogging to me feels therapeutic as I get to put all my thoughts in one easily accessible place. Ideas, inventions, businesses and then who ever might see the blog can keep me accountable to my posts.
Idea coming up in the next blog post so I can keep track of it.
So I need a hobby, being poor in london is depressing because of the amount of things that you see that you cant afford to do.
I mean, if you are a poor redneck out in the sticks in west virginia at least then you can be blissfully ignorant about your pittiful bank balance. But in a city where every has a price, even the air you breath ( if you suffer from emphysema) i mean dong gone it billy bob it costs you to take a shit!
Like I have no problem sitting around and doing nothing when I have no money, but to consistently have it rubbed in my face that I cant afford anything in a city. Now that will eat at you, very insidiously, you wont even know its happening until you have lost alot of confidence because only if you do those cool things around you do you feel like a worthy person, making up excuses why you cant take a trip, or go on a night out make you feel like scum.
So yeah, its time to get a hobby
I was watching this beautiful video and thinking to myself, wow, I love animated movies because they dont fill you with false expectations about real life because you instanly recognise the film for what it is. Pure enjoyment.
Meanwhile in traditional movies, all these stereotypes that we view on a constant basis, shape our perceptions about how we interact and how we are supposed to interact with each other.
And Now… Drum Roll… A synopsis of every holly wood plot that ever existed….
Boy meets girl
Boy and girl have spark
Drama ensues
Girl about to leave boy
Boy realises his mistake and that she is the one
Boy performs grand gesture to rekindle the spark.
The live happily until the credits start rolling.
Now why is this wrong? its an awesome thing to think about and it creates seriously strong emotions in all of us but has that ever happened in true life, has someone ever had that incredible set of romanticized experiences without gagging, or choking on their own bile. I doubt it.
At least at pixar, you enjoy the film and appreciate it for exactly what it is… FANTASY. You dont wake up the next day and start placing excessive expectations on events and interactions and you certainly dont start thinking that grand, soppy, (giving your balls to a girl) gestures will endear you to her and get you into her pants.
I want my hot water bottle.
I am finally back online after my Computer Came down with a severe case of Computer Aids. For the week that I did not have my Computer though it was incredible how bored I was. We are way to reliant on Computers in our lives. But its unavoidable the Increase in productivity from using a Computer is actually insane. Actually it is totally out of the league of a person who does not have a computer.
So now I am back to my initial project, and no time is to soon as I recently quit my Job and am on to bigger and better things. Unfortunately one of the techniques that I was relying upon has been shut down. Amazon.com does not allow affiliates to earn referral income from paid searches linking to their website.
That is unlucky, but there are a smorgasbord of affiliate programs who do. So I am going to look into the other options. Such as Ebay, which apparently pays terrible commissions but as long as I can make some money it will be worth looking into.
Otherwise, time to get on board with Commission Junction and see how that is working out.
Chris Out
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