Dave and Jay - Crazy Web Entrepreneurs

Okay, so maybe I put the cart ahead of the horse a little bit with the headline, but for a little over a year now some people have been making sensationalist claims about the end of PPC advertising and heralding the coming of PPA (pay per action) advertising.
Today I have mixed feelings to hear that […]

This past week we completed the content writing aspect of our 2 newest celebrity fan sites for John Cena and the Black Eyed Peas.
These fan sites will join Easy By Design as part of our shift from short term profits to long term planning, which is something we’ve been talking about a lot as of […]

Because of my “real world” job, I constantly am struck by the differences in online and offline business, generally in how the online world moves in hyperspeed ,making offline business seem to be moving almost… slowly.
For example, my family is heavily involved in small industrial properties, so when we talk investments, it’s usually big figures […]

When you are starting a new site or just getting into this industry, you often want to keep costs down. One of the best ways to do this is to use open source software when you’re just starting out. One of our favorite scripts to use for content sites is Textpattern. We’re actually using it […]

I recently came across a new site (articlechecker.com) which allows you to search for copies of your website. The concept of content checking isn’t really new and we’ve had sites like copyscape.com around for quite some time now, however this site is the first I know of which gives you this degree of flexibility.
You can […]

As you may or may not know, I run a web design company as my day job. I’ve been doing it for going on five years now and it can be quite lucrative. It was only last year that Jason and I started dabbling in making sites for ourselves, and got more seriously involved in […]

Sorry guys, this is another shameless review on our part to get a linkback. This time from John Chow. Like Tyler, we mention his blog all the time and I figure we should get some love back from a review. :)
If you haven’t heard about this yet, John is offering people a free link back […]

I’m trying to keep up with the number of posts Jay makes…sometimes we’ll have friendly good natured competitions over things like this, but I’m having a hard time with the blog. I don’t want to write pointless drivel, however I just seem to be perpetually having blogger’s block.
I can come up with a bunch of […]

I still see a lot of people looking around the web asking if it’s worth dropping $299 on a listing in the Yahoo Directory.
After doing a bit of research on the topic, I felt it was finally time to weigh in on the question. First off, when you find the page that your site would […]

Recently a new craze has been hitting the e-product scene, product sellers are using blogs or testimonial collections and sales pages to get you interested in buying their product. But on the day the product is supposed to be released, without any warning or indication the seller sends out a notice to everyone on their […]