Launchtags lets you create mini-pages about your expertise, interests, know how, hobbies, ideas or just about anything bright and shiny. Use text, pictures, videos, links and RSS feeds to build your page. Share 50% of the advertising revenue brought in by the traffic to your great page. Launchtags.com is simple, free and fun.
Members create mini-pages on which they can post videos, photos and links about their chosen subject. They’ll earn fifty percent of all advertising revenue generated from their pages. Subjects range from books and grandfatherly advice to London Hotels and France. Each contributor is given a profile which also links to each mini-page they’ve created. The Launchpad section plays host to ideas, it’s where you go for inspiration to create your own mini-page. Launchtags is free for everyone.
More at:http://www.launchtags.com/
Friday, July 20, 2007
How To Make Millions With Just Cat Pictures!
Eric Nakagawa, a software developer in Hawaii, posted a single photo of a fat, smiling cat he found on the Internet, with the caption, "I can has cheezburger?" in January, 2007, at a Web site he created. It was supposed to be a joke. Soon after he posted a few more images in the same vein: cute cats with funny captions written in a silly, invented hybrid of Internet shorthand and baby-talk. Then he turned the site into a blog, so that visitors could comment on the postings. What happened after that would have been hard for anyone to predict.
"We just thought, O.K., they're funny,"Nakagawa says. "Suddenly we started getting hits. I was like, where are these coming from?"
He saw traffic on the blog, I Can Has Cheezburger, which he runs with his partner, "Tofuburger" (she refuses to disclose her real name) double each month: 375,000 hits in March, 750,000 in April, 1.5 million in May. Cheezburger now gets 500,000 page views a day from between 100,000 and 200,000 unique visitors, according to Nakagawa. The cheapest ad costs $500 for a week. The most expensive goes for nearly $4,000. Nakagawa, an accidental entrepreneur who saw his successful business materialize out of the ether, quit his programming job at the end of May: "It made more sense to do this and see how big it could get."
Cheezburger's story is unusual in the upper reaches of the blogosphere in that the time between launching and reaching a critical mass of readers who sustain the site is so compressed. But many of the most popular bloggers have similar tales of starting out with a niche idea—an inside joke, a particular obsession—and watching it explode. Of course, most blogs linger in obscurity and are read by only a handful of people, and few ever reach the level Cheezburger has. What about a blog like Cheezburger lets it break away from the pack?
The initial appeal of the blog may have been a fluke, but its growth since then has been part of a tightly controlled experiment to help answer that question. Nakagawa and his partner constantly tweak the site to see what draws readers and what leaves them cold.
"We basically have a playground where people keep coming to play, so we're trying to create new games all the time,"Nakagawa says.
To drive traffic, they try to time their new posts with when people are most likely to be reading: in the mornings, on their lunch breaks, or in the evenings. Early on, when Nakagawa saw the site getting 1,000 page views a day, he added a widget that allows visitors to rate each post on a scale of one to five cheeseburgers. That helped boost traffic to 2,000.
Readers don't just rate or comment on the posts. They create them. Cheezburger depends on its fans to submit pictures, write funny captions, and send them in. Nakagawa has built a tool to let readers select a ready-made photo or upload their own, add and position captions, choose font styles, and submit a finished product. Any visitor can vote on the submissions, and the most popular ones make it to the main page. The function saves Nakagawa from having to find funny captions for photos, and it creates a lasting bond with readers.
That kind of interaction helps make I Can Has Cheezburger as much a community as a blog. A post by one user will inspire another to play off the theme, forming a narrative. "It's like you're creating a story supplied by people in the community, and then the people in the community supply the next part of the story,"Nakagawa says.
The idea of building a community around content supplied by users sustains several top blogs, and most put the idea of community ahead of making money.
More at:http://icanhascheezburger.com/
"We just thought, O.K., they're funny,"Nakagawa says. "Suddenly we started getting hits. I was like, where are these coming from?"
He saw traffic on the blog, I Can Has Cheezburger, which he runs with his partner, "Tofuburger" (she refuses to disclose her real name) double each month: 375,000 hits in March, 750,000 in April, 1.5 million in May. Cheezburger now gets 500,000 page views a day from between 100,000 and 200,000 unique visitors, according to Nakagawa. The cheapest ad costs $500 for a week. The most expensive goes for nearly $4,000. Nakagawa, an accidental entrepreneur who saw his successful business materialize out of the ether, quit his programming job at the end of May: "It made more sense to do this and see how big it could get."
Cheezburger's story is unusual in the upper reaches of the blogosphere in that the time between launching and reaching a critical mass of readers who sustain the site is so compressed. But many of the most popular bloggers have similar tales of starting out with a niche idea—an inside joke, a particular obsession—and watching it explode. Of course, most blogs linger in obscurity and are read by only a handful of people, and few ever reach the level Cheezburger has. What about a blog like Cheezburger lets it break away from the pack?
The initial appeal of the blog may have been a fluke, but its growth since then has been part of a tightly controlled experiment to help answer that question. Nakagawa and his partner constantly tweak the site to see what draws readers and what leaves them cold.
"We basically have a playground where people keep coming to play, so we're trying to create new games all the time,"Nakagawa says.
To drive traffic, they try to time their new posts with when people are most likely to be reading: in the mornings, on their lunch breaks, or in the evenings. Early on, when Nakagawa saw the site getting 1,000 page views a day, he added a widget that allows visitors to rate each post on a scale of one to five cheeseburgers. That helped boost traffic to 2,000.
Readers don't just rate or comment on the posts. They create them. Cheezburger depends on its fans to submit pictures, write funny captions, and send them in. Nakagawa has built a tool to let readers select a ready-made photo or upload their own, add and position captions, choose font styles, and submit a finished product. Any visitor can vote on the submissions, and the most popular ones make it to the main page. The function saves Nakagawa from having to find funny captions for photos, and it creates a lasting bond with readers.
That kind of interaction helps make I Can Has Cheezburger as much a community as a blog. A post by one user will inspire another to play off the theme, forming a narrative. "It's like you're creating a story supplied by people in the community, and then the people in the community supply the next part of the story,"Nakagawa says.
The idea of building a community around content supplied by users sustains several top blogs, and most put the idea of community ahead of making money.
More at:http://icanhascheezburger.com/
File123 is a secure online storage vault that allows businesses and households to store, search and retrieve paper and digital files
File123 is a secure online storage vault that allows businesses and households to store, search and retrieve paper and digital files. Users can fax or scan paper documents and email or upload computer files. Each account features: • 1 GB of storage for free and only $4.95 per month for 10 GB. • Create unlimited number of folders • Share large files with anyone via email • PDF file conversion allow the user to download either their original file or a PDF document. • OCR: Each file is read by our optical character recognition engine and every keyword is indexed for easy searching. • Site secured by Hacker-safe and Verisign SSL • Data secured by Amazon S3’s redundant data warehousing services • The site was built using all the latest Web 2.0 standards.
More at:http://www.file123.com/
More at:http://www.file123.com/
Price Protectr "It will monitor the prices of products you buy online and see if they go down "
Price Protectr is site for the consumer. It will monitor the prices of products you buy online and see if they go down (which apparently they often do). They will then notify you and you can collect your refund. Normally, you buy a product online knowing they have a price protection policy, but it is up to you to monitor the prices and ask for a refund. Who would do that? The site monitors 33 major stores including Amazon, Best Buy, Circuit City, Costco, Future Shop, Sears and Staples. All you have to do to get the service started is enter the URL of the product you bought and wait for the good news. Of course, it is up to you at that point to go back to the online store and start the refund process; but Price Protectr does offer detailed instructions on how to handle that process at most of its stores.
This site demonstrates the beauty of the internet. This site will help you reap money, for free. All you have to do is join, record you purchases at those stores with price protected policies, and wait.
More at:http://www.priceprotectr.com/
This site demonstrates the beauty of the internet. This site will help you reap money, for free. All you have to do is join, record you purchases at those stores with price protected policies, and wait.
More at:http://www.priceprotectr.com/
Get Your eCommerce Site With BlinkCart
BlinkCart will change your eCommerce experience .Get your eCommerce site rolling on some serious wheels with BlinkCart, a service that allows you to add a shopping cart to any page that supports HTML or Javascript codes. That means this shopping cart already works with your current website with nothing to download or install, given that it’s a fully web-based system. Sign up for a free trial account on the website and then choose your payment method, including PayPal, Check, or Bank Deposit. Then, add the products you wish to market, and copy and paste the button code on to your webpage. Your shopping cart will be up on your website in five minutes or less, making it the most convienient and affordable way to boost sales on your site.
How It Works:Works with your existing web pages •Accept multiple payment methods (Paypal, Cheque, Bank Deposit, etc.) •Shipping calculation (fixed or by weight) •Sales tax, VAT calculation •Product specific discount code support •Product thumbnail & stock level support •Online orders & inventory management system •Fully web based system. Nothing to download or install.
More at:http://www.blinkcart.com/
How It Works:Works with your existing web pages •Accept multiple payment methods (Paypal, Cheque, Bank Deposit, etc.) •Shipping calculation (fixed or by weight) •Sales tax, VAT calculation •Product specific discount code support •Product thumbnail & stock level support •Online orders & inventory management system •Fully web based system. Nothing to download or install.
More at:http://www.blinkcart.com/
Locate Your Nearest Golf Course Via BunkerShot
BunkerShot has an information rich website showing where the nearest and best courses are to wherever you happen to be located. There are even instructional videos on the site to show you how to cure that slicing problem you have or how to grip the club like Tiger Woods, you can even book your tee time online through BunkerShot. The site has an RSS feed that you can subscribe to to make sure that you are always in the know about what is going on in the golf world, and my personal favorite, a golf dictionary to figure out all of that crazy golf jargon.
More at:http://bunkershot.com/
More at:http://bunkershot.com/
Honeypitch fuses a proposal automation solution with CRM and business productivity tools.
Honeypitch fuses a proposal automation solution with CRM and business productivity tools. Quickly combine a presentation, proposal, estimate and contract into an invite-only website that can be negotiated online. The goal is to enable teams to create the perfect pitch of ideas, services, and products that generates immediate feedback and results. Each highly-personalized "Honeypitch" has version-controlled sections and topic-based message boards that allows both parties to agree to terms with confidence.
HoneyPitch will assign you anywhere from 1 to 50 employees depending on the package that you choose just to help you make your pitch the best and most effective that it could be. They can help you acquire sponsors, raise venture capital, or just about whatever you need HoneyPitch.com will find a way to help you get it. With affordable rates that start off at free (it doesn't get much more affordable than that, does it) up to $200 a month, you can get the help you need now.
More at:http://honeypitch.com/
HoneyPitch will assign you anywhere from 1 to 50 employees depending on the package that you choose just to help you make your pitch the best and most effective that it could be. They can help you acquire sponsors, raise venture capital, or just about whatever you need HoneyPitch.com will find a way to help you get it. With affordable rates that start off at free (it doesn't get much more affordable than that, does it) up to $200 a month, you can get the help you need now.
More at:http://honeypitch.com/
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