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Funny doctor's note to employer: my friends work requires a doctors note if you call in sick About 2 years after I went full time as a blogger and website publisher I was watching the TV show Californiacation. It's a ...
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This post was dramatically updated September 18, 2017.  The updates include additional ways to make money from Facebook, specifically Facebook pages. This post originally focused on option #3 below, which is my NUMBER 1 method for making money on Facebook ...
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At no point during my years as an affiliate marketer have I enjoyed as great of a boost in affiliate commissions for one merchant so quickly than I have this year (2017) using quizzes. Writing this post makes me wonder ...
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The website monetization method that grabbed me by throat way back when was affiliate marketing. I loved the concept of being rewarded for my efforts without having to come up with a product to sell and all the hassles that ...
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While some people suggest that blogging and publishing websites is the same thing, I think there is an important difference. Yes, I sometimes use the terms interchangeably, but when getting technical and analyzing the business models of blogger vs. publisher, ...
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It's funny when I think back about some of the dumb stuff I did when starting online. I had a niche site with which I had no idea how to monetize.  I had little traffic and no clue how to ...
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One of my biggest problems as a blogger and niche site publisher is I too often needlessly complicate things. I've repeatedly throughout this blog discussed keeping things simple; those are equally good reminders for me. With the launch of a ...
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I don't publish income earned from Fat Stacks because I don't think it's relevant to the reason behind reporting niche site income.  I report niche site income to demonstrate that niche sites, in niches other than "how to make money ...
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I've been blogging and publishing niche sites full time since 2012.  I can't believe it's been 5 years. Since I started, I've blown through 4 laptops which puts me on track for ripping through a laptop about every 1.5 years ...
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Over the past six months I've spent $500 on business directory software, including plugins and a theme. Amazingly, not one plugin could do the job properly for me and while I didn't try all the directory themes, not one offered ...
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After investing 12 hours monkeying around with question and answer plugins, I came to the realization that no plugin was going to do what I wanted it to do. In fact, if you're adding a Q&A section to your niche ...
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I'm willing to bet you've had more ideas for online businesses than you could reasonably do in your lifetime. I know I have. It's a bit annoying, isn't?  All these great ideas, but not enough time and/or money. The allure ...
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I'm not very good at making videos. Sure, I can do the video screen capture videos to demonstrate something.  That's pretty easy.  Nearly impossible to mess that up.  I just need to remember to put a little excitement in my ...
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I cringe to think how many more subscribers I would have had if only I'd implemented this simple email marketing technique years ago. I'm going to preface this article with these results are not from Fat Stacks Blog.  It's from ...
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I can't help myself these days. I'm turning into a tinkerer; the eccentric guy in the lab coming up with hair-brained concept after hair-brained concept. If I were smart, I'd dig in and focus on stuff that's working.  Instead, I've ...
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"Money for nothin' and chicks for free." Iconic lyrics from Dire Straights. I'll leave the chicks for free bit alone.  Let our "dating" niche colleagues cover it. I'd like to discuss money for nothin' from the internet as best as ...
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"Don't put all your traffic eggs in one basket" "Don't rely on Google for traffic" "Don't count on Facebook for traffic" "You gotta control your traffic source" The more I do this IM gig, the more I realize all of ...
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When I grow up I want to write "how to get rid of acne" product reviews. I bet that wasn't your childhood dream, was it? Funny when you think about it, though. Many-a-folk broke into IM penning such work with ...
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Striving to increase page views per visitor is ironic because most website publishers want to ultimately maximize revenue, which means for many publishers, we want visitors to click an ad or click an affiliate link. In a perfect world a visitor ...
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Realizing that your niche site/blog is gaining momentum and has real potential is extremely exciting.  Getting to that point is not easy and usually takes a while, but once you get there, your brain will start spinning with ideas and ...
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