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joetech | 10 years ago | on: Beside a startup, what are the other ways to significant wealth for a dev?

There are ways to make a lot of money with affiliate marketing, but that can involve a lot of trial and error and can (usually does) involve bootstrapping with a lot of your own cash or a credit card. Although I know of at least one person who turned millionaire after bootstrapping by maxing out his credit cards, I would never suggest doing that. It's a deep hole to climb out of if you fail and for every success story, there's probably 100 failures not talked about. In short, the successes I've seen involve buying advertising to get people to a landing page that generates leads with commissions that (hopefully) pay you back more than you spend getting the traffic. It's a delicate operation that pays well only if you get the landing page and affiliate choices right.

I've also seen wealth generated with mailing lists. This is another affiliate marketing play that can be done without feeling too spammy and can still add value to the user.

Similar to a mailing list, a forum can be easy to set up and maintain. Also like a mailing list, if you create a large enough user base, advertising can pay off.

One of the better earners is a subscription model for just about anything. Software provided for free with a "premium" set of features for $x per month is a good way to generate a user base more easily.

A couple things to keep in mind: 1. You will almost always have more success when you're passionate about the subject matter. 2. It will take time. Most overnight successes are preceded by years of ramp-up.

joetech | 11 years ago | on: John Lewis fined over spam emails

I hate spam as much as the next guy, but this is more of a case of the plaintiff not reading before he clicks and agrees to things. We all do it, but we don't then sue a company for it. I really wish a ruling like this was made on a case in which there was no opt-in, but this guy (even by his IN-action of NOT un-ticking the box) opted in.

joetech | 12 years ago | on: The Wallaby Card

Great concept, but I don't know how comfortable I am giving them access to all my accounts when all they do for me is choose which card to charge. And how do the purchases show on my card statements? Are they all from Wallaby now?

joetech | 12 years ago | on: What is wrong with this message?

The author left out a detail? Does his account impersonate someone else? I think that's an important part of the conversation, even if the messaging is presumptive.

joetech | 12 years ago | on: Did these guys just reinvent the Web?

The first thing I did when I saw Famo.us last year was rip into the code. With a little persistence, you can pretty easily use the code without waiting for their release.

joetech | 12 years ago | on: FlyKly Smart Wheel

I absolutely want one of these. They've thought of everything. As I went to pledge my money for it, I found that the starting pledge that actually gets me a wheel was $550 and that's all gone. So to get one will run me $590 and presumably more in retail. This is where "more accessible" as one of their goals falls short.

It looks great, but I'll have to pass at the price.

joetech | 12 years ago | on: My embarrassing picture went viral

The internet becomes much more tolerable when you learn to tune out the trolls who find their only happiness in trying to bring down others.

joetech | 12 years ago | on: Opt Out of Klout Now

I don't see the problem. If you're playing on Facebook all day rather than working, perhaps that discussion at your annual review is needed. I get on Facebook and Twitter occasionally at work, but not enough that it would impact my work and consequently, not enough that I'd worry about anyone knowing how much I'm on social networks.

joetech | 13 years ago | on: Git? tig

"So, the best GUI for Git is a command-line based UI?" lol

joetech | 13 years ago | on: Shame.css

Nice idea. Maybe we should use shame.php and shame.js as well.
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