When italian dry salami smells like feet...don't eat it...it will shred your ass. *poot*

There's always a better, more efficient way to do things. Search for that at all times

Focus on creating value for the customer. If you create value, everything else falls into place

Get yourself a good mentor ? someone who's been around lots who can help you avoid the pitfalls. And realize that, no matter what, you're still going to end up in some of those pitfalls

Every day is a new opportunity to win or lose. If you want to be realistic, then count the cost, understand what you're getting into, talk to people about the risks and rewards

Research, research, research

Take the risk

You have to be a pit bull. You've got to go at it every day, no matter how many times you get kicked in the ass, with everything you've got

Keep a sense of humor

Learn from your mistakes....or even better, learn from the mistakes of others.

How to get rid of your SPAM.

This solution isn't for the masses because it might be considered too "complicated", but it will work perfectly for anyone here with zero lost emails and nearly no time lost filtering junk mail from real mail.


1. Buy a domain.

2. Give everyone their own custom email.

ie... you have a friend Robert, Jane, Sarah..

Give them:

[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]


If you sign up for ebay... give them: [email protected]

If you sign up for dotster... use [email protected]

Never post your email address in plain text somewhere that it can be harvested but not changed (like Usenet or WWWboards)


If any of them get compromised, you can always log into your account and change your email address they have on file & blacklist the old one. If it was a personal contact, just send them like three emails to let them know you have updated THEIR email address for you because you ahve been getting spam on it, and now its [email protected] for example.

It is very easy to blacklist email addresses with Qmail:

Just create a dotfile with the account you want to blacklist:

.qmail-robert

and put: /dev/null

inside it... that's it! No more mail will be delivered from that address.

I found that 90% of my spam mail came from my domain contacts. Luckily I was using [email protected] so all I had to do was update the contact info and blacklist the old domain.

Those domain contact spam lists are very old. It is much harder (but not impossible) to harvest big numbers of whois records for free now... so if you were to update your contact information and blacklist the old address(s) then you would see a huge drop of spam without any collateral damage (lost valid emails)



Spam can definitely effect your progress throughout the day by cutting into the amount of time you have to spend working on things. This method will help you reclaim most of that lost time.


Btw... it's not hard to start using this method retroactively. Just look at your contact list & start logging into your accounts and changing the addresses on file. If they are personal contacts, just be sure to update them with their new email address for you.

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set yourself targets, this should be done with every business venture you do, hit the targets then make new ones, hit those then make new ones, repeat until death

Go to a big webmaster board and make a contest that rewards the best business tip :2 cents:

Think it's pretty obvious the prizes are mine :thumbsup

heres more entries.


Find your niche and then be the best at it. You can't be all things to all people, and trying to just results in half assed unsuccessful projects. It is better to be a big fish in a small pond than a small fish in a huge pond.


The most important thing in business is perseverance. By having the attitude that your never going to give up, you are already ahead of a lot of people in this world. I have known plenty of very smart people that could have been very successful, but they give up on things easy.

Write down your goals, even put them on a plaque. Hang it over the toilet where you will be facing it every morning when you take a piss. Never lose site of them. If you want to earn $100000.00 this year, break it down to $8333.33 a month, or 1923.08 a week which is 273.97 a day. It already looks a whole lot easier doesnt it? You can reach your Goals, Believe in yourself and you will go far.

great advices....more more more :thumbsup

Buy my content.

Work Hard Play Hard.

Put a full day of work in, get the most for your time.
Don't fuck around at all during your 8 hour day.

Put at least 10% of your gross back into your business. Not 10% of what you net. Its called tithing.

If you're failing to bring in money, change what you are doing. Its not working.

If something works and makes you money, do it again.

Give people a break, someone gave you one. Pay it back.

When work is over put it away. If you aren't happy your work will reflect it.

Party!!!! reward your efforts no matter how small with a gift to yourself.

Remeber Stephen Kings motto.

" All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. "

Never judge a book by its cover.


Some of the most fucked up looking sites out there bring in mega cash. Have you really looked at the huns page? I think my 9 year old daughter a has a better site.

Not to mention some of the best looking sites on the net make nothing and only get only a few hits a day.

I had to fire an employee with a suit and a GQ haircut because he was a fucktard.

and the blue haired bitch with the staples in her eyebrow doubled productivity and increased sales 10%.

hummmmmmm

ANALYSE

50% of your daily routine should be analysing. You can think you have great ideas and work your ass of but how can you tell?

Analyse what your surfer clicks. Analyse where he signs up for. Analyse what days/times he likes to surf. Analyse his clickingpattern. Analyse where he is coming from. Analyse how he found you.
Analysing shows facts that bring you succes so you can do more of the good things and less of the bad things.
So do the math...

Any scripts/programs you might recomend to analyse this? I for one wouldn't be able to do that....
All I know is where surfers are coming from and where sales are coming from...

A lot of the information you need is in the stats. My hostingcompany for example is webair. Their c-panel allows me to check refereing urls by doc. This gives a good impression of clickpatterns.
Often sponsors give you info on the stats as well and then there is a tool that gives great info...
http://www.porngraph.com/

I love you too

It is very simple:

Treat your business partners well.

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Guess you don't have friends out of the net too

Networking is the best thing you can make money with

When is the contest over?

1st of april

lol, you do both very well ;)

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The best advice I could give anyone would be this:

When building a business, just as in building a house, it's structure will only be as good as it's foundation. So, build your business starting with yourself, from a place of honesty and integrity. That means do what you say you'll do, do it on time, deliver better service than you promised, and be professional to all those you do business with. Strive to improve yourself always, and in this business the key to that is to listen and learn from those who have succeeded before you.

Do that and your house will be solid.

Here's the winner.

Acknowledge what it is that you do best, and stick with that. Don't delude yourself that you are a designer / photographer/ etc when you have limited talent in that area. Leave the things that you are weak on to the pros, and your time will be much better spent.

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150 great ideas :-)

Stop wasting all day in the boards and get back to work at what you know unless of course your promoting some sort of sponsor :glugglug

what if I don't know shit?

Become very good in one particular field or become a jack of all trades.

contest almost over guys....waiting for the last enteries.

The best entries are already in ;-)

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almost last bumppppppppppppppppp
last day for new enteries

Despite what you think you never know everything.

Drug Trafficing = much more $$$$ than in porn.


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i love this thread... it makes my brian hurt... =)

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