Posted in Business Ideas on Oct 27th, 2007 No Comments »
For those of you who are excited by data entry, Amazon Mechanical Turk is an interesting site.
The premise is pretty simple — people (”requesters”) post “human interface tasks” (HITs), typically repetitive and mind-numbing, and workers will perform them, usually earning one or two cents per task completed. Some tasks are more involved and pay […]
Posted in Business Ideas on Oct 25th, 2007 No Comments »
In looking over the businesses I’ve started so far, here are the results:
First Game: In 3rd grade I was pretty hardcore into collecting baseball cards. I’d bring cards I had duplicates of to school and sell them to the other kids at about what I paid for them. Although the teacher called my […]
Posted in Business Ideas, General, Web Design on May 24th, 2007 No Comments »
Throughout the past six months, especially in March, I’ve been on something of a buying spree for domains. I’ve done quite a lot of brainstorming, and in the process I’ve bought every domain that seemed like a good idea to me. As of this moment I own 47 domains. That’s far too many to develop […]
Posted in Business Ideas, General, Writing/Publishing on Apr 8th, 2007 No Comments »
I spent some time today browsing small-press book and anthology publishers trying to get more information about how they run and the way they do business.
The reason I’m doing this research is because I’ve discovered that there is a serious lack of markets for fantasy and science fiction in the Novelette to Novella range, i.e. […]
Posted in Business Ideas, Financial, General, Web Design, Writing/Publishing on Mar 26th, 2007 No Comments »
I’ve been working on making some deals with pulp magazine publishers to get some stock into PulpSource. So far everyone I’ve chatted with (via email) has been pretty open to the idea of opening an online small press magazine (and eventually book) shop. I’ve even had more than one offer of ad exchanges […]
Posted in Business Ideas, Financial, General, Music, Writing/Publishing on Mar 24th, 2007 No Comments »
In the past couple days I’ve read a huge amount of stories for All Possible Worlds. In fact, catch-up might not run too much beyond this submission period, which ends 4/15.
Speaking of 4/15, I’m going to have to do taxes pretty soon. It’ll be really ugly since my garage burnt down over the […]
Posted in Business Ideas, Marketing, Writing/Publishing on Mar 15th, 2007 No Comments »
When I sent out the “invitation to check out the first issue” email for APW I must have worded part of it strangely because a couple writers thought it was some sort of rejection letter — it must have been the opener thanking them for submitting work. It did get me a lot more traffic […]
Posted in Business Ideas, Marketing, Music, Videos, Writing/Publishing on Mar 2nd, 2007 No Comments »
Today I’ve launched three “Indie Challenge” sites:
The Indie Band Challenge: http://indiebandchallenge.com
The Indie Film Challenge: http://indiefilmchallenge.com
The Indie Writer Challenge: http://indiewriterchallenge.com
Every month I’ll be giving away cash prizes to the two highest rated bands, films, and writers, and we’ll have a different batch of contributions each month. The prizes start out at $20, which isn’t much (but […]
Posted in Business Ideas, General, Web Design, Writing/Publishing on Mar 1st, 2007 No Comments »
I’ve been busting my butt as much as possible over the past couple days. I think I nearly shattered the thing.
On fictionclassics, I added The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. It’s kind of to the point where I just space out and edit and I don’t notice the […]
Posted in Business Ideas, General on Feb 20th, 2007 No Comments »
So today I had an idea and purchased the domain indybandchallenge.com. This is going to be _REALLY_ cool. I’ve also spent some time reading the book “Building Online Communities with Drupal, phpBB, and WordPress”, which is very useful.