http://www.onlinebusinessquest.com Rags to Riches in Real-time! Thu, 13 Nov 2008 19:52:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Over the past few years, the practice of uploading and sharing of videos on the Web has become extremely popular. Advances in technology, increases in storage space and computing power, coupled with faster access speeds through broadband have all contributed to the rise of video marketing. The viral nature of ... http://www.onlinebusinessquest.com/2008/11/13/how-to-use-videos-to-drive-traffic-and-add-profits-to-your-online-business/ How's that Pink Floyd song go... "And then one day you find, ten years have got behind you... no one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun." It's been over 7 months since my last post. (Sounds like I'm making a confession) So, what happened? I guess ... http://www.onlinebusinessquest.com/2008/10/25/the-return-of-the-online-business-quest/ My friend Gary Chandler from Earth News Media wrote up some questions we should all address in our business ventures. Also, on the topic of surveys I found this open source survey tool we're going to implement for one of our clients. You should also check out SurveyMonkey as well. ... http://www.onlinebusinessquest.com/2008/02/20/business-strategy-strategic-assesment-survey/ I have to admit that I've dropped the ball on my site flipping project. Creating Joomla membership sites is not as easy as it seems. Setting up the Joomla templates is not the issue but rather getting the content, plugging it into the site, adding the Joomla extensions, finding my ... http://www.onlinebusinessquest.com/2008/02/15/buying-and-selling-websites-the-marketplaces/ So I dove into building the MentorNet website (See MentorNet - Finally!). I wanted a really crisp, clean look and feel, so I borrowed a few ideas (ok, and some code ;-) from around the web and came up with our new design. I'm really please with it. ... http://www.onlinebusinessquest.com/2008/02/06/aaarrgh-i-hate-stylesheets/ Rich recently sent me some videos put out by Frank Kern as he was getting ready to launch his big Mass Control product. (In case you aren't aware, Frank Kern is an online marketing guru who's famous for being behind the Stomper.Net launch that generated $17 million or something ... http://www.onlinebusinessquest.com/2008/02/02/i-want-to-be-frank-kern/ Rich and I have been kicking around a lot of ideas about what kind of online business we ought to start. Sure, we'd actually like to see this blog become an income generator itself, but the whole idea is for us to figure out just how to make an ... http://www.onlinebusinessquest.com/2008/01/24/mentornet-finally/ I did it! My site flipping experiment worked! I sold 5 web sites for around $1500 in 2 weeks. And these sites weren't even memberships sites! I'm really excited now! Even though I did buy a site on one marketplace and took the template and tweaked it, optimized the code for ... http://www.onlinebusinessquest.com/2008/01/23/site-flipping-works/ I just finished listening to an audio cd of an interview between Keith Baxter and Jack Humphry and I knew I would listen to it until the end when Keith introduced Jack as the first marketer of "authority sites". Just so you know, you can get this same audio CD ... http://www.onlinebusinessquest.com/2008/01/19/absolute-authority-and-social-media/ I was having another typical discussion with my buddy, Rich, where we were bemoaning all the obstacles preventing us from making progress with our online business quest. But probably the biggest one is that we have just too many ideas. And it doesn't make it any easier that ... http://www.onlinebusinessquest.com/2008/01/14/getting-organized/