Category Archives: Y-Combinator

Earn some cash with minute jobs

There are many websites that offer you money making programs out of which many of them are scams.These is a real way i have tried and have earned some real money. I have used nearly ten answering websites but i have only liked two of them.They are Expert bee and studentquestions .com.Expert bee requires some…

Have Clients? Read this!

If your business involves any sort of work-for-hire, you should check out Writing Frump. She’s specifically talking about writing, but freelancers who design logos or set up webpages will recognize the zany client stories and have a laugh. Personally, my unfavorite is the bait-and-switch client. When you first see the ad, the $50 for 500…

AdSense Pros and Cons

If your side income comes from a website, you’ve probably heard of Google Adsense. Do you have Google ads on your site? Darren Rowse of ProBlogger talks about all the great reasons to use AdSense (set it and forget it, good for any traffic level, no need to promote your site and seek out advertisers,…

120 Things Freelancers Can Do To Promote Themselves

AllGraphicDesign has a list of 120 things freelancers can do for self-promotion. It’s geared from graphic designers, so some of the tips won’t be applicable to everyone. Here’s one that all freelancers should be doing — get your own website and spread that link around! (39) Run Your Own Web Site. Your web site can…

Deductions For Freelancers

Having an extra income stream is great, but actually keeping that money is even better! Deborah Ng has a list of the Top 20 Tax Deductions For Freelancers. Some are obvious, and I was already saving the receipts. Others were news to me! Some examples are: Business trip expenses: Cell phone bills, planes, restaurants, hotels,…

Text Link Ads

This may not be a “secret” but it’s a pretty simple income stream. Text Link Ads is a site where you can sign up your blog or site, and they’ll send you related — you guessed it — text link ads. I put this up on a blog a few months ago, and I’ve gotten…

Google Analytics

By now, everyone using a blog to make money knows about Google AdSense, but do you know about Google Analytics? It’s free and pretty fast to sign up. If you’re running more than one blog, you can tie all your accounts together to compare stats. When you sign up, you get a snippet of Analytics…

Nowadays everyone is concentrating on marketing online, of course it’s probably the worlds biggest marketing channel, with approximately 1 billion people connected, who wouldn’t want to try and market to them. But you cant forget marketing offline as well as online. For example, say you’re a web designer, the market is pretty crowded online, but…

Smart Business: Start A Mailing List

A great way to keep your online web or business presence up is to start a mailing list. Have your visitors, clients, potential clients, and friends sign up to be notified of updates, or you have the ability to contact them all at once, with news, promotions, products, etc. If you have a mailing list…

When should you sell your business?

I’ve wondered about this for a while…When exactly should a business owner sell his business? If it’s profitable, why would you want to sell it? If it’s not, why would someone want to buy it? If it’s not profitable and someone wants to buy it, obviously they think it could be profitable, so why don’t…