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Do you want to make money from Groupon? Here's how

Your website may be hidden on the Internet-- hidden in plain site. Follow some simple steps, show some patience, throw in a little elbow grease and you can have a well scoring site.

Cheryl and I have been doing design work, creative work and art projects since long before we met each other. People began to lump us into a collective: “Those DeWolfes.” We did our branding around a playful design. In a world where “Goo” is in the name of the biggest Internet company, we thought there was a room for a wacky design company that delivered some serious improvements. No, no there wasn’t. People didn’t know how to take the approach. Our branding-- the marketing meant to popularize our business-- became a drag.

As mentioned in What are you going to sell? one way to make money online is to feature products for sale by others. That’s the essence of affiliate marketing. You find products and sell them for others. They collect the gross revenue and you collect an affiliate fee. They could sell stuff on their own, but they want you to market products for them and the incentive is money-- potentially LOTS of money.

As soon as a blogger publishes their first post, their first question is: Where's all my traffic? Everyone assumes they're the only one seeking attention, when in truth nearly everyone is. It takes time to build an audience and no one gets much traffic without putting in the effort.

If you're choosing a topic with the goal of writing for cash, look at what fetches the highest Adwords costs. Adwords is the flip side of AdSense.

This post is a response to Tom Hammarberg's post on the Copeland Communications blog this morning, Twitter is circling the drain and we pulled the plug. In particular, he takes aim at the #yyj hashtag.

Drupal updates come fast and furious. Drupal is a complex beast. The most recent release is Drupal 6.22 (http://drupal.org/node/1168950). I caught wind that site owners are being charged THREE HOURS labour for an exercise that takes approximately 5 minutes. I just prepped a core-code-only install of Drupal 6.22.

This isn’t a shocker: commerce is driven by inequality. The more inequality that exists the greater the opportunity for high profits. When insurance companies hid their rates you had to go a great deal of effort or accept the bad deal in front of you.