Recent content by wiredniko

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    Dropbox Forced Arbitration to Terms Of Service

    For any dropbox users out there. Lifehacker Article They have a link you can go to opt-out. ...hope that helps.
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    How Do You Accomplish Your Goals

    2014 is approaching so I naturally tend to think about my life, what I have accomplished and what I want to accomplish in the future. Since there are a lot of like minded individuals here I wanted to ask. 1. How many goals do you setup? 2. How often do you review/look at them? 3. How often do...
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    I Need Some Advice

    It's funny how everyone around me does not understand that weird drive...or maybe it's a need to make money. To break away from the mold and command my own destiny. This is the reason why I had to post this here. At least people here understand what most of us trying to...
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    The Internal Black Void

    Being an entrepreneur is such a life altering change. I am letting go off a failed project and looking to start a new one and I find myself utterly horrified. The best way I can describe that feeling is...its like being suspended in a black void, there are no attachments, you just are a body...
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    When Do You Drop A Site?

    I always think big, which is both good and bad. I have created a pretty pimp site that I have been able to grow extremely fast. The problem is its a news based site. Which means I have to stay as current as possible. Having a full time job that frequently takes 9-10 hours of my time makes it...
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    Book Notes: Getting Real by 37signals

    I thought barman posted a link to this book 3 days ago...I did a forum search and google search but I can't find the original thread...so my book notes have to be posted solo. Note: I have heard of 37 signals before but reading this book is a must for any web developer. I am no pro in the...
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    A Way to Check For Site Updates with No RSS?

    So for my main project currently I need a quick way of looking at multiple websites for any updates so I can be kept in the loop. The problem is some sites do not have RSS feeds. Or they have super busy RSS feeds, like 200 updates a week when only 10 of those updates are relative to the niche I...
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    Book Notes: Mastery - The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment by George Leonard

    For one of my threads multiple recommended the book Mastery. Since I am a geek I tend to take book notes on all educational books I read. Here they are: Intro - The master's journey can begin whenever you decide to learn any new skill - Learning any new skill involve relatively brief spurts...
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    One Niche Per Site?

    I want to build an empire not just a micro-niche MFA. What makes the most sense, have one giant site tackling multiple niches (think article farms without the suck) or multiple big sites each dedicated to a niche? (think sites like wired.com)
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    Email Marketing Strategy

    I am creating an email list with autoresponder emails. For selling my product do I pre-sell on the email and then send them to a place to directly buy or do I talk a little bit about it, not saying its a sale and then sell it to them on the page I take them to? To put it simply do I: 1...
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    Seattle / San Diego / LA / NY / Washington DC / Tampa / Miami

    I am thinking about moving cause Ohio sucks my dick. It sucks even worse because I used to live in San Diego. Has anyone had any experience with Seattle, LA, NY, Washinton DC, Tampa or Miami? Do you like it or hate it? Pros and cons? I am already doing research online and my plan is to...
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    Recommend me good wealth building books

    I am not looking on books that tell me how to save money, but looking for something along the lines of what to do once I have money to make even more. I am mystified by the process, do I buy real estate, stocks, bonds, mutual funds? It seems the worst thing I can do is leave money in the bank.
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    CTRs to aim for?

    I keep trying different advertising platforms and keep hitting the same kind of brick wall. What CTR should I aim for? Yes I realize, keep testing keep increasing CTR, but right now I am too newb to know if a CTR is even acceptable. So what kind of CTRs do you aim for with your initial...
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    The Time Management Thread

    For the longest time I tried to get organized and I felt that I was pretty good with time management until I read "Getting Things Done" and it radically changed my world. After that I read "Eat That Frog", I have been in the process of implementing the main idea, do the biggest/most important...
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    Google Buzz Lawsuit

    Just got this in my gmal account.