Wasn’t the population at 4 million just a few years ago? I read an interesting Arizona Republic article saying the state of Arizona has grown to approximately 6,000,000. That’s amazing! Where are all of these people hiding? Oh! I know! At all of the new Starbucks stores that keep popping up left and right.
It was the Friday before Christmas, all through the house. Santa kept replicating, all by himself. There’s Santa and another Santa one -two -three -four! With that all of the Santas joined together and decided to have a caption contest. Feel free to leave a comment with yours and have a Merry Christmas!
For a flash from the past check out the 2001 Tornado Christmas Card (delivered online and printed), it’s still pretty cool even 4 years later.
Here’s a new CSS Tips/Tricks Forum
Rollyo search roll for BrainFuel.
24 Season 5 starts in January!
PHP + CSS Dynamic Text Replacement.
MySync – Mac to Mac syncing without .Mac
FutureMe lets you email the FutureYou.
9rules member Paul Stamatiou is having a contest to give away 1-year of hosting.
MagicTracer (raster to vector conversion plugin).
What do you think of the CNet homepage? I think it is really great and very robust however a little bit overwhelming.
Some nice free icons. (Thanks J-)
Cool web 2.0 software (a big list with highly obtuse colors)
Some old and current Go Daddy coupon promo codes. The Buy7 one worked as of Dec 05.
Joe from Freak Comics is having a contest.
AJChat looks like it will be a neat little chat app.
First they were web sites, then they were blogs, then there were podcasts, and now video blogs (vlogs). Here’s a new one called Rocketboom. Thanks for the link Tomas. It’s like journalism for the fun of it.
There are few things better than a quiet day in the mountains gently sliding down the face of a mountain (on skis of course). I’m thinking that skiing while paragliding might just top any other combo-sport I’ve encountered. When you have 5 spare minutes watch this video clip and tell me this isn’t the coolest new sport? (BrainFuel mirror).
Things people have said to me after I asked them an interesting question:
“Actually, yes, I’ve been shot at twice. Once I was hit in the calf of my leg and another time the bullet grazed my head.”
“I only drink on the weekends.”
“I’m usually only drunk 7 or 8 times a year and usually on the weekends.”
“I had a really difficult time staying sober at the company Christmas party.”
“Yeah, one time this guy literally picked me up and threw me out of a bar.”
“My friend took his car out into the desert and torched it. He forgot his keys though and the cops called and said ‘we found your keys’.”
“110 mph is the fastest I’ve ever gone…” [in a car]
“There are sure a lot of lightbulbs on an aircraft carrier.”
“Did I mention that there are a lot of lightbulbs on an aircraft carrier?”
Have any of your own to add? Leave a comment.
What’s up with this trend to call musicians “artists”??! I think it needs to end and end right now. Painters are artists and musicians are people who play instruments. Care to prove me wrong?
I’ve watched over the last couple of years as several bloggers have built up websites and then sold them for a small to even large return on the investment of (mostly) time.
Yaro Starak recently purchased SmallBusinessBranding.com for a price I’d guess is below $5,000 although I could be wrong (he doesn’t say). He writes his thoughts on the purchase on this web site. I actually learned about this reading ProBlogger which is another site I follow.
Have you ever thought of doing something like this? I’ve got a few ideas for some of my sites and have ideas to improve a site I own and move it towards a point where it might be attractive as a purchase. It’s just an odd reason to build a site. I mean, don’t people usually put their own personality into a site? If I were to prepare BrainFuel for sale, for example, I would almost have to take the fun and witty posts out and leave only the web business and site review posts. Who wants to buy a personal site?
Incidentially, I know at least two people who think this is what I should do here on BrainFuel (take out that personal touch). That’s besides the point though, and won’t be happening.
One thing I’ve noticed that is especially true on the web is that a specialized and highly focused web site can be amazingly successful. Sites about narrow topics dominate in both number of steady readers and in their overall rank and money earning potential.
So, my question for you is this: If you could spend 100 hours of your time in the next year and build a site like Small Business Branding and thought you could sell it for around $5,000+ would you? Then why don’t you. The key is to specialize and just choose a very specific topic. Be the expert and specialize.
Following your own advice in business is imperative to being able to sell your product with any emotion. If you sell financial advice then you’d better have your car paid off when you explain the benefits. Wearing that Rolex just doesn’t impress me. And the same applies to design firms and marketing companies. Show me how you’ve been able to differentiate yourself from the crowd. If marketing works like you say it does why don’t you market yourself the way you think I should?
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