Archive for May, 2007

May 15

To celebrate our RSS readership breaking over 40, we’ve decided to share with you a little taste of the charmed life Jay and I lead. Hopefully it will inspire you, and doesn’t make you too jealous. Without further ado I present to you:
Dave and Jay’s Fine Dining Experience - May 15th 2007!
This evening, Jay and […]

May 14

These days, everyone and their dyslexic left-handed orangutan pet are running a blog contest to create some buzz and to generate some incoming links. While it’s true that contests are a great way to promote your blog, if not managed properly you will not see as much of a benefit to your blog as you […]

May 11

If you’d be so kind as to direct your view to the top of our page where the navigation buttons are, you’ll see we’ve added a top posts page.
Our way of sharing the best of Dave and Jay with new readers, enjoy!
Good Profits!

May 10

So as you’ve probably noticed, I’ve taken the “of the week” out of the title for these posts, since I haven’t been providing weekly tips. I still intend to keep them as a regular feature of our blog.
This week’s tip is something that Jay and I are working on for this blog, and something I’m […]

May 09

Our First EasyByDesign Sale!

2007 at 9:35am | by Dave

As you may or may not know, depending on how long you’ve been reading (because we haven’t talked about it in quite some time), EasyByDesign is one of our newest business ventures. It’s part of our overall strategy to diversify our income and avoid being dependent on one set of Internet properties for our […]

May 08

Struggling with Focus

2007 at 11:21am | by Jay

I have to admit, these past few weeks I’ve been having a real hard time staying focused. It’s not that I’m not doing any work, in fact I spent a lot of my birthday working on the BEP-Fan galleries and other stuff around the sites…
The problem is, right now there are so, so many sites […]

May 07

Why Microsoft Won’t Buy Yahoo

2007 at 7:06pm | by Jay

This past weekend, Dave posted about how hard a hit our small sites would take if Microsoft did indeed buy Yahoo, as the rumors right now are suggesting. I, however, don’t buy it…
Why?
Well, it’s a combination of factors, but mostly it’s all about price: Microsoft doesn’t have any problems buying up small companies worth a […]

May 06

Jay and I are hoping that the Microsoft / Yahoo deal never materializes, or at least doesn’t materialize anytime soon. It makes perfect sense for Microsoft, as a step in the right direction to close the gap that Google has over them, but right now a lot of our monthly income is tied up in […]

May 05

The 80 / 20 rule

2007 at 4:35am | by Jay

This isn’t exactly cutting edge theory, but it’s something often overlooked, especially by new entrepreneurs: it’s called the 80/20 rule.
What is it?
Well, the idea is that 80% of your profits will come from 20% of your work. This generally applies to offline and online business in surprisingly similar ways, and it’s also why Dave and […]

May 04

2 Sites Update #3

2007 at 4:02am | by Jay

It’s been a few weeks since I posted my last update on our 2 latest fan sites; to be honest they were a few very unproductive weeks, but I think Dave and I have turned the corner so to speak. We’ve started running on a schedule of 2 work sessions per week, averaging 2-3 hours […]