Congratulations: Top 10 Amazon Best Seller

Congrats to Ryan Allis for getting his book, Zero to One Million, to the top 10 Amazon Best Sellers. At the time of this post, his book is ranked #6! No tags for this post.

Launch of Zero to One Million Book Today!

I don’t read books. Sure, I fill my day reading blogs, newspapers, magazines, but seldom do I have the time or energy to really sit down and delve into a book. My attention span is too short, and my leisure time so limited, that the idea of reading a book seems like a distant luxury. However, this is a book I will read. Full disclosure: Ryan Allis is my boss, and I count him as a friend. However, unlike other young entrepreneurs, there is something different about Ryan and what he has written about. Unlike most entrepreneurs still in their early twenties, Ryan has created multiple successful stories. What most people don’t realize is that his book Zero to One Million is in it’s third revision NOT because he didn’t do a good job editing the...

Reduced Click Area Yields Lower Profits

Due to a shocking  below-expectations profits margin for the fourth Quarter, Google saw shares tumble, losing $11,000,000,000 in market value (yes, that is $11 Billion!). While I am certain that the down-turning economy played at least some role, I think that a new ad-system by Google may have also been responsible. In the final quarter of 2007, Google altered that ad-block for its popular cash-cows, Ad-Sense and Ad-Words, allowing only the title itself to be “clickable”. Previously, any part of the advertisement – the Title, Description, or Display URL – would trigger a hit if clicked upon by the user. As was outlined by the good folks at Efficient Frontier, and certainly backed up by our own statistics over especially the December...