I’m sure the thought of advertising has definitely been on the mind of any budding internet entrepreneur, whether for direct or indirect personal profit. But almost everyone I know uses AdBlock on their internet browser, for obvious reasons. who wants to see advertisements interrupting their normal happy browsing experience?

One writer has an interesting take on it:

…reading an article with an AdBlocker on is the equivalent to “pirating” information from a writer. This is because there is no tiny gain for the writers work even though the writer who wrote an article deserves every penny they can get.

A fascinating perspective. I’ve heard bits of debates like these before, but never anything better articulated. Check the full article out here.

Actually, I didn’t double anything. But this guy did.

He writes a rather popular recipe blog that loves to use the weirdest ingredients in his cooking. He gives a ton of great tips in this  post, but this is one of my favorite sections:

The next thing was retargeting my SEO keywords, I started using phrases instead of singular words.  Now there are so many sites that have individual words set up as their keywords that it’s almost impossible to have your keywords climb to the top, but your phrases can.  So for my recipe on Quinoa, instead of just putting quinoa as the keyword, I put easy quinoa recipe, health benefits of quinoa, healthy quinoa, and how to cook quinoa.  As a result the article got 100 views in 1 day.

Some great ideas for anyone trying to run a new, entrepreneurial website might find valuable!

As I have gone about the process of creating my dance business, many lessons have been learned.  As a video is required for my front page, and will be the crux point of the site, and you the quality of the video would have to be excellent.  So I instantly thought to send my brother Ben an Email.  Ben has created several movies already and is a very experienced and skilled movie editor.

His feedback was immediate, thorough, and immensely valuable.  He had pages of suggestions and possibilities to make the video the best it could be. He even offered to give some professional help himself.

The point is, I believe there is much we miss out on by not having the humility to ask for help from others.  Everyone has different areas of specialization, and it is only wise to utilize their expertise.  Without my brothers help my video would have done a great disservice to me and my business, but with it I believe the end product will be something I can proudly display on the Internet.  Perhaps there’s someone in your life that might be able to help you get around that roadblock you’re stuck at.  In any case, be sure to have the humility and knowledge of self to be able to ask for help.

For those of you on the more techy side of website design, you probably don’t need this post. For anyone with less experience with HTML or hex codes, you might be having problems coordinating colors for your background, widgets, etc.

For me, I was attempting to match my background with the given color of the menu bar. However the black of the menu bar was most definitely not the straight up 000 black you’d guess first.

So who wants to sit around guessing hex codes all day? After a quick google search, I found a great little app that finds hex codes just on mouseover. Try it out by clicking here.

This past month, I’ve bought three domain names from various sources, and paid everywhere from $5 to $20 for them.

Unfortunately, it was only AFTER buying said domains I randomly found a blog post that recommended a website that has a plethora of coupon codes saving at least several bucks on almost every domain registrar! Check it out here.

Just type in the name of whatever site you’re trying to buy from, and you’ll probably find a deal or two. Tight stuff.