April 5th, 2011
I’ve been thinking economics a lot lately. It concerns me that so much of our economy is located in government jobs. Anyway, yesterday I was browsing this article titled The Highest Paying Jobs In America. Some of the choices are bizarre (astronomer?) but many of the choices make a lot of sense, especially if you are looking for a good balance between high paying jobs and safety / job security.
This got me thinking. Most people, reasonably, are looking for safe jobs. So when they search for the highest paying jobs, they are really not looking for a list of the highest of high paying jobs (which are rare and risky) but that …
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December 15th, 2010
I try to keep my monthly revenue online pretty steady. But lately I’ve been getting into a variety of niches that are quite seasonal. For example, Higher Ed for example spikes in January and August each year. October and April are really bad months for Higher Ed.
This year I noticed a post over at Brainz titled The 15 Greatest Board Games of All Time was doing really well in search. I honestly hadn’t built the content with the idea of monetizing it via referrals. I had built it with the intention of getting links (building great content that people would link to).
But I decided to run a little experiment and see how that article …
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November 17th, 2010
Some friends of mine have been busy for the last year building a cool new social app called Keepio. The social service is built around a simple but very useful idea: that human socialization isn’t just about communication, chatting, texting, etc. It’s also about the exchange of goods. And sharing information about goods.
So Keepio is a platform for keeping track of your own possessions, but also allows you to review things that you own for the benefit of others, and best of all it sets up a nifty structure for exchanging goods in a variety of ways: selling, trading, loaning, etc.
Ever loan a book and never get back? …
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November 16th, 2010
The most popular post of all time, by a long shot, at College Startup is the one about entrepreneurs who were successful without going to college. Seems people love the idea of success earned through hard work and accomplishment without going through the normal hoops of education.
I’m a big fan of education. I just don’t think it’s necessary to succeed. Especially with the advent of the Internet and all the free information that’s out there. Still, I think education is a very valuable thing. Being exposed to the greatest ideas the world has ever known is no small thing.
Interestingly, there are some people out there who feel the same way, and who choose to …
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October 28th, 2010
This guest article was submitted to College Startup by Rob Matthews, a professional proofreader who specializes in providing college admission essay help.
Writing a great application essay requires lots of pre-planning, a thorough execution, and multiple revisions. Admissions offices at prospective colleges use the application essay to go beyond academics and extracurricular activities to get a better understanding of a perspective student. Admissions teams use the application essay to ascertain specific qualities and experiences which helped a student grow, learn, or change.
To begin writing a great application essay, choose an application essay topic to that best identifies a personal experience, characteristic, or issue that is of tremendous importance to you. Use your response to the application essay to …
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