Showing posts with label Business. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Business. Show all posts

PayPerPost Not The Answer for Low-Traffic Blogs

When I first started accepting sponsored-post commissions from PayPerPost.com, I thought I'd found a revenue model that would work for Life User.

Since I was paid a set amount for each post, I reasoned, the sponsors would have an incentive to drive traffic to the posts. What I was being paid for was my ability to write, not (as with cost-per-click and cost-per-impression ads) my limited ability to drum up traffic on my own. Since I'm better at writing than at attracting traffic, this would have meant PPP made sense for me.

Share/Save/Bookmark

Silicon Valley North: Why Ottawa and Not Toronto?

My sponsor for this post, Web design Joomla Ottawa, is an Ottawa website design firm, which reminds me of a question that's been bugging me for a long time. Why does Ottawa, and not Toronto, have a big enough IT industry to be called Silicon Valley North? Share/Save/Bookmark

40-Inch TVs and Failed Referral Marketing

young boy mesmerized by big screen tv frozen
My sponsor for this post described itself (or himself or herself, but I'm assuming it's a genderless business entity) as a price-comparison site for 40 Inch TVs in the UK. But all the prices it shows are from Amazon.co.uk.

Share/Save/Bookmark

Value Versus Growth in Stock Investing

In a previous article exclusive to Associated Content, I spoke briefly on diversification, hedging, focus investing, why most investors can't emulate Warren Buffett, and why you're probably putting your investments at unnecessary risk if you try to do so. This third and final article will discuss a major dimension of individual investment style: value investing versus growth investing.
Share/Save/Bookmark