Archive for July, 2006

To Be or Not To Be Anonymous

Posted on 17. Jul, 2006 by .

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I just wanted to touch on this topic because even though I use my name “Adnan” on this blog and in my other internet ventures, I don’t like putting my full name on the internet. Now call me mad, paranoid or simply foolish, but I am still cautious about putting my information on the net. [...]

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Why do you Blog?…for Pride

Posted on 16. Jul, 2006 by .

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Now this part on the Series of Why Do You Blog? may be the most subtle and rare reason for blogging, but nevertheless, I thought I would outline some of the major points involved and a few case study examples of Blogging For Pride. According to Wikipedia, refers to “a strong sense of self-respect, a [...]

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Website Downtime

Posted on 16. Jul, 2006 by .

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Yesterday, you may have experienced some difficulties when trying to access Blogtrepreneur.com. Also, the same might have happened a week ago. I apologize for any inconvenience this has caused. The cause of the problem was that my webhost called Frozen Webhost was moving my site to a new and much faster “AMD64 3800+ with 2 [...]

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New Case Study Series: Why do you Blog?

Posted on 12. Jul, 2006 by .

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So as Im sitting here on another sweltering July day, I’m wondering why I actually blog. Is it for self-respect, to earn money, to make new relationships or simply because Im bored. Well in fact, it’s all of them! At some points during the half a year I’ve been blogging, I’ve wanted to blog as [...]

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Breaking Barriers 24/7

Posted on 12. Jul, 2006 by .

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Today when I woke up, and logged into my computer, I felt a huge sense of achievement. In my sidebar, I noticed that I had managed to reach 51 subscribers to Blogtrepreneur. The breaking of the “50 barrier” even though I had not set that as a goal, seemed to be highely significant, and thus [...]

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New Digg.com Improvements

Posted on 11. Jul, 2006 by .

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Now while I may not be the first one to say this, I’ve recently noticed how beneficial Digg.com has become for Business and Young Entrepreneurs. With the new Digg version, has come a chance to view not only technology related articles, but also Science, Videos, Entertainment, Gaming, and most importantly, World & Business. This new [...]

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Ethical Conduct Of An Entrepreneur

Posted on 11. Jul, 2006 by .

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Every Friday, whenever I have the time, I meet up with people from our community close to where we live. In the 1 hour slot which we all have together, we normally discuss life-related issues and concerns associated with religion and ethics. In the talk that we had last Friday, the main person in charge, [...]

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Blogtrepreneur Forum is Live!

Posted on 10. Jul, 2006 by .

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With the help of Matt, we finally managed to get the Blogtrepreneur Forum up and running. We used the free program and script phpBB2 for the forum software and I find that it is very easy to manage and moderate. I started the forum as the quality of comments that I am receiving is very [...]

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Anticipating the End of the World Cup and Wimbledon 2006

Posted on 10. Jul, 2006 by .

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So after a gruelling match between France and Italy, which ended in French heartbreak, Italy victors and a Zidane headbutt, the World Cup has finally bade farewell. I wanted to take this opportunity to say how fun it has been to watch, especially in the group stages and the few rounds after (until England got [...]

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New Poll: Site revenue – Google Adsense

Posted on 09. Jul, 2006 by .

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After reading a couple of threads recently in my daily forum visits, I wanted to pose the question to my readers, how much do you make online from your sites? Although in this poll I am only including Adsense, I will be making another poll with more options, and then at the end of my [...]

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Poll Results: Is Spam Becoming A Problem?

Posted on 08. Jul, 2006 by .

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Well after a 10 day period, I decided to end the Poll which asked the question, How Much SPAM do you receive. I opened the voting at 0-10 SPAM emails per day, however at the end of the poll I was shocked to see that 29% of the 28 voters we had received more than [...]

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How To Miss Out on Great Opportunities

Posted on 07. Jul, 2006 by .

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As some of you may know. Today was a fantastic day for me. Not only did I go and watch the tennis at Wimbledon and was spotted on TV (I was on a close-up!), I got linked to by Yaro Starak’s site Entrepreneur’s Journey. I wrote an article for him about Getting More Return Visitors [...]

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Supporting Other Entrepreneurs

Posted on 05. Jul, 2006 by .

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I consider myself a loyal reader to quite a few blogs on the internet. A lot of these are my friends’ blogs at the MindPetals Entrepreneur Network. Others are simply blogs which capture my attention and motivate me within. One of these blogs is Entrepreneurs-Journey, written by Yaro Starak. Yaro as an Internet Entrepreneur prides [...]

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Does hot weather decrease productivity?

Posted on 02. Jul, 2006 by .

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As I’m sitting here in my study writing this article, I’m actually sweating. OK, this is summer you might say, but then I might say that this is England, the land where Summer never comes, and when it does it lasts for a few days before it rains. The temperature is about 33 degrees Celsius, [...]

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