Close Enough to Taste http://closeenoughtotaste.com Sat, 01 Mar 2008 19:07:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 en Care to Guess What this Is? http://closeenoughtotaste.com/care-to-guess-what-this-is/ http://closeenoughtotaste.com/care-to-guess-what-this-is/#comments Sat, 01 Mar 2008 18:58:39 +0000 admin http://closeenoughtotaste.com/care-to-guess-what-this-is/

What’s in the Box?

I spent about 5 solid minutes laughing when I saw this on the side of this box. It was a wedding gift, a great wedding gift, but poorly named!

Guess away!

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Just a quick reminder that Valentine’s Day will creep up on you before you know it.

Don’t forget to:

  1. Get your girl/guy a gift! Maybe some valentine’s day roses?
  2. Ramp up your affiliate campaigns… maybe give Pepperjam a shot!
  3. Take the day off! Yes, it’s a hallmark holiday, but hell, it’s an excuse to spend some QT!
]]> http://closeenoughtotaste.com/valentines-day-is-right-around-the-corner/feed/ Mclovin reinvented! http://closeenoughtotaste.com/mclovin-reinvented/ http://closeenoughtotaste.com/mclovin-reinvented/#comments Sat, 05 Jan 2008 04:03:38 +0000 admin http://closeenoughtotaste.com/mclovin-reinvented/ For all of you Superbad fans, here’s a great tool that will help you secure your very own McLovin ID!

So hilarious I just had to share.  If you haven’t seen the move, be warned, you will leak brain cells from laughing so hard!

Chicka chicka yeah!

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]]> http://closeenoughtotaste.com/mclovin-reinvented/feed/ Project Review #1: MiaFan.com http://closeenoughtotaste.com/project-review-1-miafancom/ http://closeenoughtotaste.com/project-review-1-miafancom/#comments Thu, 03 Jan 2008 06:51:05 +0000 admin http://closeenoughtotaste.com/project-review-1-miafancom/ So begins what I hope to be a periodic review of certain projects that I’ve jumped into (often rather hastily), some of which started out as just for fun and some of which were a direct attempt to make a bit of coin.  Perhaps it’ll give others insight into what works, what doesn’t and what might come of future efforts!

Site - http://www.MiaFan.com - M.I.A. Fan Site

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M.I.A. is a rapidly rising international hip-hop/rap/political activist.  She is Sri Lankan by birth, but spends most of her time in the U.K.  I became a big fan of hers only recently and noticed there wasn’t a whole lot of information on her except for her main page which is an exercise in confusion (frankly, it’s kind of an eyesore.)  I learned later, after having created the site, that she has a rather popular message board in the U.K., but it wasn’t easy to find so I thought I might still be adding some value for her U.S. based fans.  I didn’t really set out to make any money on it and it’s only worth some pocket change each week, but it still counts as a monetized internet venture.

In fact, I had a bit of pocket change and thought it would be good to do a bit of link building (outsourced through scriptlance).  I’m still waiting to see if that drives much traffic to it.

Fan sites are apparently quite popular - never occured to me that someone could be so obsessed with a celebrity or a tv show, enough so that they would create a site around it, but apparently, they are basically “MFA” sites . . . made for adsense.

Plies.us is a fan site for the Florida rapper, Plies.  The site was for sale on Sitepoint Marketplace for a stretch and is great example of an MFA site, although the author apparently truly like Plies - enough that it doesn’t appear to be just a financial interest.   Still, the site was making about $700 bucks a month on adsense!

In any event, my site isn’t meant to be an MFA site (though who would truly admit to that!)  M.I.A. is not a fleeting interest of mine . . . but I just haven’t had time to research her much to update the blog.

I may sell it to a hardcore fan soon, because I think it could become a great resource for big fans.

]]> http://closeenoughtotaste.com/project-review-1-miafancom/feed/ Welcome to the blog! http://closeenoughtotaste.com/welcome-to-the-blog/ http://closeenoughtotaste.com/welcome-to-the-blog/#comments Wed, 02 Jan 2008 21:57:10 +0000 admin http://closeenoughtotaste.com/?p=3 Hi!  Thanks for taking a peek at my blog.

I’ll be blogging about my adventures in Internet Marketing and more generally, profiting from the internet in general.

Check out the About page for more details about me.

Otherwise, I welcome your comments, suggestions and feedback.

Should be a wild ride!  Enjoy!

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