If you’re a blogger writing on products that you’re given for free, or compensated for writing about, there are new FTC requirements for disclosing the endorsement. The rules are pretty simple and make sense. Basically, you have to simply disclose something like, “Company XYZ sent me this product and he’s what I think. . .” [...]
I love National Public Radio. This morning they mentioned the free internet war between Google, Bing and Yahoo!, and it’s definitely worth a mention. Google has slowly taken over the internet world by providing stellar services at minimal or no direct cost. This time it’s internet service. As a gift through the holidays this year, [...]
Okay, so I signed up for a free account with People String to check it out. After receiving several invites from a couple people, I decided to have a look at the guts of this business model and share my initial impressions and Peoplestring review. From what I can tell at first glance, Peoplestring is [...]
A big thanks to the Hawaii Women’s Business Center for hosting last night’s workshop on monetizing blogs and websites. The HWBC does a fantastic job organizing such events and it’s great to be a part of them. Over the last year, I’ve been invited to teach monthly at the HWBC and it’s been great meeting [...]
Well, it was time to order more business cards and I went to my favorite place to order cheap business cards online, Vistaprint. They make it so easy to upload your own design or create a design with the endless templates they have. Anyway, I had my coupon code for 25%. I had a feeling [...]
I just got off the phone with a good friend of mine, John, who has a pest control business here on Oahu called Kilauea Pest. I’ve know John for a number of years and it’s always exciting to touch base with him and talk business. It turn out that John is friends with boat Captain [...]
I just got the word that online registration is officially open for my next workshop at the HWBC in Honolulu. On November 12 th from 5:30-7:30pm I’ll be teaching for 2 hours a workshop entitled, “Underground Strategies That Will Instantly Monetize Any Blog or Website”. Registration is open to everyone! If you have been to [...]