Entrepreneurship
Unleashing The Massive Profit Power of A Common Spelling Mistake: How The Greatest Typo-squatters Make Millions From Fat-Fingering Searchers
Making Millions For Kevin Ham is all about the “O”…or the lack of it, really. Open up a new browser window right now and type in any word you can think of with a “.cm” at the end…chances are, you’ll find a domain owned by Kevin Ham called agoga.com populated by Yahoo ads. This recent article in BoomJ titled “The Man Who Owns The Internet” gives us a brief but enlightening view into how Kevin Ham, master of Web domains, built a $300 million empire from aggressive domaining. I’ll quote liberally here with no apologies just to wet your appetite. Check out the full article on BoomJ to really find out how a doctor turned domainer and became an internet mogul.
Here are some quotes from the article…
…Trained as a family doctor, he put off medicine after discovering the riches of the Web. Since 2000 he has quietly cobbled together a portfolio of some 300,000 domains that, combined with several other ventures, generate an estimated $70 million a year in revenue…
…Early on, he wrote software to snag expiring names on the cheap. He was one of the first to take advantage of a loophole that allows people to register a name and return it without cost after a free trial, on occasion grabbing hundreds of thousands of names in one swoop…
…Given Ham’s reach on the Web — his sites receive 30 million unique visitors a month — it’s remarkable that so few people know about him. Even in the clubby world of domainers, he’s a mystery man …
Bootstrapping: Finding Creative Ways To Raise $200-300 To Jumpstart Your First Affiliate Business
Although you don’t have to spend money to make money with affiliate marketing, you do have to spend some money if you want to make a lot of money quickly right out of the gate. It’s just cold hard math. Unless you’re willing to take a long-term approach, starting an affiliate business or site for free can be an exhausting, frustrating experience. It can take weeks or months of consistent effort to see real traffic and stable earnings. Top affiliates, in contrast, tend to spend a little bit on tools and software that give them an edge like good affordable web hosting, a custom web design, advertising and a great keyword tool. You don’t need to break the bank to really hit the ground running, though. You can launch and market a really kick ass blog or site that generates tons of cash quickly for just a few hundred dollars. Here are some creative ways that you can raise funds for your first little startup.
What Is Digital Entrepreneurship?
For those readers wondering what Digital Entrepreneurship is exactly, I’ve created this short post with a few relevant links for people who want to do a little bit of research on the topic.
Twitter Receives Financing with Union Square Ventures
Fellow Twitter-ers -Twitter Headquarters last week announced the closing of their financing with Union Square Ventures, Charles River Ventures, and some angel investors including Marc Andreessen, Dick Costolo, Ron Conway, and Naval Ravikant. What does this mean for twitter-mania? Perhaps more momentum, definitely more engineers, and the chance for building a sustainable company. I’ve only been twittering for a few months now, and I am barely a novice twitter-er, but it definitely gets a little addictive. Twitter is one of those ideas I thought had a lot less merit initially. What am I doing right now? Really? That’s it? Won’t that get boring? Apparently not…I’ve found myself twittering at the oddest times - and it’s fun. Of course, you’ve got to build a network of friends - no one twitters solo. But that’s the draw, isn’t it?
