Win a trendy USB Wristband
This is easy. Just write a blog post on your blog containing the text and links below and you have entered this contest to win the trendy 1 GB USB memory wristband showed above. The contest runs until the 16th of August.
Andreas Bard is hosting a link back contest on his blog where you can win a trendy 1GB USB wristband. Make sure to check out Andreas blog that contains a lot of motivational articles that can help you improve your business.
After you have published the post, please send an e-mail to info@andreasbard.com or post a comment here with a link to your contest. I will announce all the contestants and provide all with a link back to their blog.
I also want to do another shout out for TheAnands running contest. Make sure to make a visit.
No victory without sacrifice
I was watching the movie Transformers the other day, which was a great movie. It was one quote that was kind of important in this movie that caught my attention and got me to reflect to what I write about here on the blog and that was, “no victory without sacrifice”.
I have written about this many times before and it is really worth looking in to again. As an entrepreneur you got to dare to try new things, taking risks and maybe do things you normally would not do, to reach the goal you have set up for what you are currently working on.
Taking risk is somehow vital when you are running your own business and an entrepreneur that does not dare to do something different and try out new ways of getting to a goal will most likely fail or get stuck somewhere on the road to success. To help you I have put together a short list of steps to take to overcome the fear of taking risks. So read the steps below and step out of your comfort zone.
Do not hold back
If you are going to do something, then really do it. Commit yourself to what you are doing and do it fully.
Your feelings
Do not let your feelings control your actions in your business too much. Do not let anxiety beat you, look at the facts and calculate what you have to loose and what you have to gain.
Just DO it
Do not hesitate. Of course you should not always take a risk without calucalting but sometimes it is easier to just jump off the cliff than to stand and watch how high up it is. The longer you wait, the higher the chance is that you will “chicken out”.
What you got to do is bet to win, and realize that you do not always win but for everytime you try you are getting closer to you goal. After each risk taken it will get easier, it is like practicing a sport.
Are you willing to risk loosing out on wonderful rewards and success just because you are to afraid to step out of your own comfort zone? If not, it is time to act.
There is no victory without sacrifice
Fellow Entrepreneurs Wrote (11)
My 3 weeks of vacation is coming to and end and I must say that these 3 weeks has been great. I will get back to writing more quality stuff now but for now you get a new batch of interesting post written by my fellow bloggers out there.
Have you been preparing for the next Google Page Rank update? If not, it is not to late so head over to Nate Whitehill’s blog and read his article on it.
Today I read an article on JohnChow.com that was written by a guest writer called Carl, that runs the blog Make Money Online with a 13-year old. The article he wrote there contains a list of five things he learned from John Chow, and contains a bunch of helpful tips for any web entrepreneur.
After reading the article mentioned above I went to Carls own blog to check it out for some interesting post, and the first one I stumbled upon really was. What Carl is writing about here is canonical URL’s and how they effect you in a negative way and what you can do to change it. I am actually working on this on my blog since I had four URL’s leading to the same content, but I still do not seem to get it to work but I guess I will soon.
TheAnand is running a link back promotion contest
TheAnand is running a link back promotion contest where you can win $27.93 cash! He is giving away cash which he won at another contest hosted by my blog. TheAnand has some rocking posts like make money from your blog in 10 steps.
Make sure to make Anand a visit, he is very kind including me in his promotion.
I am going on a cruise
Tomorrow we are going on a cruise over to Helsinki, Finland for 40 hours. I love these cruises because I really get to spend time with Elin since there is no way I can work on these, there are no TVs. Just awesome food, beautiful surroundings and partying all night long.
I promise you that you will get a more valuable post when I get back.
I am on vacation
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I am on a well earned vacation for 3 weeks with my fiance Elin. At the moment we are visiting Elins mother and uncle in Oxelösund, Sweden.
Today we visited Kolmården which is one of Swedens most famous Zoo’s. We had a great time and spent about 5 hours there.
Below you can see some pics from today.
Some cool tigers.
I found my twin brother and took him back home.
We will stay here for a couple of more days and after that our next stop is a cruise to Helsinki in Finland. I will do some updates for you but not as much business updates unfortunately.
A look at Power the web
Today I am having a look at the web site of Power the web, which is a company that owns and operates a lot of different web sites in different niches which all are focused on usability and accessability.
Their web site has been setup to show all their current projects and I really like the way they are doing it. They currenlty have 23 projects up and running to show, and if you go to their web site and look to the right you see a whole bunch of icons, and each of these icons represents a web site project that they are operating. When you click one of the icons information about that project is shown to you.
Their portfolio contains a lot of different web sites with everything from entertainment sites like, Jokes R Funny to information sites like, Find a Zip.
Some of Power the Web’s web sites, like IconBurst, offers free content that might be useful to webmasters, so click the links and browse their web site to see if you find something that interests you.
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So here we go again.
John Chow writes about how you should use press releases to your advantage. Even if I have not really used this for any of my websites I know for a fact that it is really effective, but not for any website, you probably got to have some kind of innovative and new things on your site if you want to get featured in some news paper.
My buddy David Lithman mentions a couple of reasons why your web site fails. This might seem like basic knowledge for anyone doing business online, but unfortunately it is not, so have a look at your web sites and see what you can improve and your traffic will most likely improve too.
Always try to work ahead is something Bob Buskirk wants to tell us. A great article with a few easy steps to better time management. Some of them I have mentioned before, like setting goals.
Ted and his Payperpost.com gets another $7 million in fundings.
Ted Murphy and his company PayPerPost, Inc. gets another 7 million dollars in fundings. This concept has been controversial from the start and Ted has had a tough time being an innovator, taking Internet advertsing to another level. There has been a lot of discussions about blog ethics but lately things have changed though and the blogvertise industry is starting to get more and more accepted among internet marketers around thw world.
PayPerPost.com with support from its advertisers and posties has proved that this is a company here to stay, something which investors now seems to have understood and are more than willing to put some cash in to this internet startup.
PayPerPost asked me what I think the should do with their money. Well, here is a few things:
I really love this company and even if I am getting paid to write this review, everything is 100% true. Below you can read the press release.
The PayPerPost Revolution Accelerates, Sponsored
Blogging Marketplace Secures $7 Million Series B
Draper Fisher Jurvetson leads round and joins Board of Directors
ORLANDO, FL – (June 12, 2007) – PayPerPost, the leading marketplace for advertisers to reach bloggers and other consumer content creators, today announced it has completed a $7 million second round investment led by Draper Fisher Jurvetson, an investor in the company’s Series A and one of the world’s leading high-technology venture capital firms. The financing brings the total amount of capital raised by PayPerPost to over $10 million, giving the company considerable resources for further development as the industry’s leading Consumer Generated Advertising marketplace. Additional participants in the round include existing investors Inflexion Partners and Village Ventures as well as new investor DFJ Gotham. With this investment, DFJ Managing Director Josh Stein also joins PayPerPost’s Board of Directors.
“PayPerPost created this exciting new advertising space and has established itself as the industry leader,” said Ted Murphy, chief executive officer of PayPerPost. “Although we’ve only used a portion of our first round capital, this added support from investors unlocks significant growth potential. Our content creator and advertiser ROI metrics clearly demonstrate the upside for PayPerPost’s model. We intend to use this capital to build the infrastructure, visibility and professional expertise necessary to reach and retain a greater network of advertisers and content creators than ever before.”
Since its founding in June of 2006, PayPerPost has signed more than 6,500 advertisers to its groundbreaking service, which has enabled Consumer Content Creators to be compensated for their efforts discussing specific companies, products or services via blogs, videos or other media. The content creators are required to disclose relationships with advertisers on their blog, providing transparency for the end reader. Over 125,000 Internet postings, most in the form of blogs, have already earned money for their creators through PayPerPost’s innovative marketplace. PayPerPost recently released PayPerPost Direct, a disruptive new service that allows advertisers to contract and negotiate directly with individual bloggers they identify through a safe, managed system.
“PayPerPost has laid a strong foundation for the future,” noted Tim Draper, founder and managing director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson. “It continues to attract a critical mass of participants from both the advertising and blogging communities. Analogous to Overture’s sponsored search model, we believe PayPerPost’s business model holds disruptive potential and will enable the company to thrive in the evolving paid-content arena.”
To mark the $7 million dollar funding, PayPerPost has launched a new website detailing the company’s service offering at http://www.payperpost.com. Bloggers and advertisers can easily sign up at the site and begin leveraging the self service marketplace.
Starting some old businesses again
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The Anand
When I first started out on my journey to freedom with my first company my business was a a local hosting and web development firm, and back then I did all the design myself, which was not something I wanted to do so I stopped doing it and focused on other ventures.
But with all the knowledge and great contacts I have now I have decided to get this division of my company going again. The first step is to start the local business here i Nynäshamn with the name, Nynäshamns Webbyrå where I will server the local companies and help them start or improve their Internet presence. I will offer them hosting, content writing, SEO, design and programming.
I have also decided to try out the hosting business international, and I know it is a tough industry with a lot of competition but I am willing to try it out with. For this purpose I have invested in the domain name AmazingHosting.net. I own AmazingHosting.biz and have had that domain for a couple of years so thought it would be nice to go on with the same brand and a .net is certainly more premium than the .biz so I would probably benefit from that.
I have some job left to do. I will focus on getting Nynäshamns Webbyrå complete and then I will get Amazing Hosting redesigned and up and running.
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