January 2010
5 posts
Saving money with free haircuts
I used to get haircuts from this guy on the other side of town. Mostly, I just went there because I lived a couple of blocks away. He did an alright job, and he charged hardly anything. Years after I moved away, I would still go there, often at much inconvenience, simply because I liked not having to explain anything.
One day, I rode my bike all the way across town to his place, and of course, he...
Finding Business Partners
Over the past years, I’ve received literally hundreds of offers from businesses, some legitimate, some not, to partner up and make lots of money. I’ve never really been able to figure out which ones to follow up on and which ones to dismiss.
Generally, I just email back anyone who mentions my site somewhere in their email, and ignore the rest. I also tend to dismiss emails from people...
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The Hidden Value of Adwords Image Banners
At this point, I’ve basically given up on Adwords. I’ve spent over $12/conversion, and for a freemium site, that just plain sucks. I’ve already sent off for 5000 postcards, and am going to take a hack at direct mail next week. I’m not sure how well that will work, but I’m assuming it will cost less than $12/conversion. The standard law of seven I’ve read about...
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Is something wrong with dot net domains?
A few nights ago, when I decided to start this log, I was determined to find a domain that had the word “bootstrap” in its URL. After all, that’s what I’m writing about. So I tried all of these:
bootstrap.com
bootstrapper.com
bootstrapped.com
bootstrappr.com
bootstrappd.com
bootstrapr.com
etc., etc.
Those are all taken. I’m sure you’ve already guess...
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Here I am (the story thus far)
I’ve been an entrepreneur all my life, but it wasn’t until a few years ago that I decided I wanted to be a self-made trillionaire (ha, the Firefox spellchecker says this isn’t a word, not yet anyways).
Several years ago, while I was a cook at a small restaurant up the street, I had what I thought was a brilliant idea for a website. The problem at the time was that a) I had no...