You just had a brilliant idea for a new business. You’re psyched and now you can’t sleep.I’ve been there, I’ve done that… give me a minute and I’ll make it worth your while. Here’s some conclusions I’ve...
Topics: General Business, Internet Business, marketing

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This is a quick post to help others who may have this problem in the future, or if I forget how I solved this problem (again).The problem:Running rake test in your Ruby on Rails plugin directory results in a method not found error...
Topics: Technical

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Here’s a page out of David Ogilvy’s book – literally.”Ogilvy On Advertising” published in 1983, page 106.Here are the captions in case you can’t read them.Voice over: Look! We are going to show you the...
Topics: General Business, marketing

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I have a number of random projects out there in the cloud. Being a professional web developer, I have the resources to build all sorts of junk and then set it free. Here’s a result from one of my experiments that you may find interesting.A couple...
Topics: adsense, analytics, Internet Business, My Projects, seo

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Here’s a warning for those who deny that nothing lasts forever, and a strategy for those who choose to accept the premise.Evolution is the perpetual process of finding an optimal local fit in a ever changing global environment.Business is a vehicle.
Topics: General Business, philosophy business

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