Archive for the ‘Money’ Category
Tuesday, January 15th, 2008
I was reading over at John Cow (yes, Cow, not Chow!) how he turned down an offer for $30,000 to buy his blog outright. The blog's income is about $3,500 per month from advertising sales. I think John made the right decision, as he'll easily make more than $30,000 over ...
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Monday, December 24th, 2007
Awhile ago I blogged about making sure you accept Euros in addition to U.S. dollars. I also blogged on Friday that I had [finally] added Australian dollars to the Paint.NET donations page. Several were quick to comment that I did not have British pounds on there, and so I also ...
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Friday, December 21st, 2007
Someone made a blog comment the other day about not having a button on the Paint.NET Donate page for Australian currency. I realized they were totally right and there was no reason to not have it, so today I added it.
Also, freeware developers … do not underestimate having a release ...
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Tuesday, November 20th, 2007
A friend and former co-worker of mine, Terrence, has started up a new blog called Double Journey. His goal is to double his money from $20,000 to $40,000 using any legal means at his disposal. So far he's in the hole by almost $100 because of website hosting and domain ...
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Friday, November 2nd, 2007
Yes, for goodness sake.
This may seem obvious to anyone who's been following the financial market in the slightest, but if your bank accounts are in USD$ then it is to your advantage to also find a way to directly accept EUR€ (euros). Case in point: the other day I ...
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Monday, September 3rd, 2007
One thing that John Chow has given advice on is selling ads directly. I've been thinking about this a bit the last few days and I think it may be time for me to try it out. I certainly have the traffic for it! The getpaint.net website gets over 1 ...
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Saturday, August 4th, 2007
With Paint.NET v3.07, there was a subtle change in the release notes:
Changed: The help file / documentation is now hosted online. This has reduced the download size by more than 3 MB, and will also allow us to provide translations without ballooning the size of the download (each language would ...
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Friday, July 13th, 2007
I don't really have an outline for this series so I'm really hoping that the "#1" up there in the topic doesn't stand by itself for too long. Anyway, like I said earlier when I decided against disclosing revenue figures for now (either because I'm humble or because I'm a ...
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Tuesday, July 10th, 2007
In my previous blog post about the profitability of Paint.NET, I had a few votes for disclosure, one neutral vote, and one strong non-disclosure vote. The non-disclosure vote was from BoltBait who's one of two moderators on the Paint.NET Forums. I'd say his vote carries some pretty good weight. And, ...
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Sunday, July 8th, 2007
One blog I really like is called MicroISV on a Shoestring. It details Patrick's entrepreneurial adventure with some software he wrote in Java to make Bingo cards. His blog talks less about the software itself and more about the business side of things: advertising, payment processing, and even his profit ...
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