One Surefire Way NOT to Make Money as an Affiliate

When I first started up in the affiliate marketing business several months ago I made a classic newbie mistake. And because of this mistake I ended up turning what could have been a decent start into a big disappointment.

Five Ways To Know if Your Idea is a Turkey

So you want to start a web business, huh? As those of us here in the US ponder our holiday of Thanksgiving-with its traditional turkey meal-I thought I would share 5 ways to know if the idea you have will actually make you money if it is just a turkey.

Tough Times & Getting Tougher?

I live in Eugene Oregon. We have the highest unemployment rate in the nation. It's also the highest unemployment rate in Oregon's history, varying from 8% to over 15%.

Making Money with Affiliate Programs – Part II

In this holiday season online shopping is hotter than ever! According to US Commerce Department online sales continue to grow with a robust 25-27 percent this year over 1992. Online holiday shopping at a rate of 10 percent is also considerably outpacing the 5.7 percent growth of overall retail sales. Goldman Sachs predicts 23 percent of all gift-buying this holiday season will take place online!

Fork and Exec with Perl

Recently I had a project that required a number of different programs that will mostly run all the time, but need to be restarted now and then with different parameters. Normally, the first thing I think of for a program that runs constantly is inittab or svc (daemontools). The svc facility is the more flexible of the two, and will be what I'll use in…