Entries from September 2007 ↓

Well I guess that I’m a little late on this one, but yesterday when I got my issue Business 2.0 in the mail I was surprised to see it was the final issue. Apparently this was announced earlier this month, but I guess I somehow never heard about it.

Time Inc. decided to to close down the magazine due to dwindling advertising revenue for the magazine. This is actually very disappointing to me, as I’ve been a subscriber for the past 3 years and it was really nice to have a magazine that I was genuinely excited to read each month. It was a very unique magazine that was definitely on the cutting edge of reporting in the entrepreneurial/start-up side of the business/tech sector. In fact several articles from the magazine that I read over the last few years have inspired some of the web projects that I’m currently working on. It looks like a good portion of the staff are actually going to work at Fortune, but I think it will be tough to put out anything that compares to the uniqueness of the Business 2.0 brand.

My subscription currently runs through February, but I’m not sure what happens with the rest of that? Anyway now that I’m in search of another good tech business magazine to read, so give me some suggestions or recommendations on what you read.

I’ve been thinking about this quite a bit lately as I’ve been in the process of trying to build some profitable projects on the web to generate some passive income.  Over last year or so I’ve read several things that recommend that you find something that your’re good at and focus on it while building a business on the web.  Well I do agree with specialization to a point, but what about those those of us that are just starting out and don’t have the capital or resources to take care of the other aspects of the business they’re building?

No matter what your going to focus on, I still think that you must have a well rounded understanding of the other aspects of the business as well.  Unfortunately these are areas that you’re just going to have to spend some time learning initially.  Then once your projects begin to grow,  maybe you can afford to outsource some aspects of your business so that you can focus on the ones that you enjoy doing most.   Yes this does result in more things for you to learn initially, but if you think about it wouldn’t that be knowledge that your glad to have down the road?

So basically it’s all up to you and the amount of work that you want to put into your projects.   I don’t think that you can learn to much initially starting out, because in the end it’s ultimately what will separate you from those that didn’t put in the additional effort.  Just remember you get out of things what you put into them and you’re the only one you can really count on in the beginning.

Wow I’m glad that I didn’t get this cell phone bill for the new iPhone. Apparently the new iPhone updates email even when its turned off and can rack up some huge charges in other countries. It looks like this user took their iPhone on vacation and upon returning home they had a $4800 bill from AT&T for the all of the international charges.

Unfortunately for the user it looks like it states something in the terms and conditions of the agreement that international usage can result in huge charges. I’ve really never been good about reading terms and conditions for stuff I sign up for. Really when it comes down to it most people don’t have time to sit down and read a long agreement and most may not understand them anyway. Well the bottom line is that terms and conditions are put in place strictly for the companies benefit, however after reading this story I’m definitely going to examine service agreements that I sign alot closer.

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Yesterday they released their SEOquiz, a 75 question quiz over SEO to see how much you know. I got a 71% when I took it and even though the badge below says it, I wouldn’t considere myself an SEO Professional. I thought that the quiz had some tough questions on it and I probably got few lucky guesses right on some tough questions. Needless to say I need to continue to sharpen my SEO skills just like I had planned on doing. So how good are your skills, head over to SEOmoz right now and take the SEOquiz and see how you stack up.

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