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10 Lessons Miller’s 300 Teaches You About Successful Online Business

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Fuzzy Future has a great article that adapts 10 elements you whiteness in Frank Miller’s 300, and applies them to a successful online business.

  1. Know your surroundings, and choose the battleground that most suits your strengths
  2. A handful of well trained soldiers can out-perform thousands of weak ones.
  3. A few good friends is better then an army of acquaintances.
  4. The gods aren’t always right, do what’s best for yourself, above all else.
  5. Keep your skill set sharp, cause you never know when you might have to defend yourself.
  6. Never retreat, never surrender.
  7. Constantly adapt to your changing situation, it’s the only way to survive.
  8. Never be satisfied with your past accomplishments, it might just get you kicked down a bottomless pit.
  9. Even a man-god can bleed.
  10. Even if you’re a hideous, misshapen troll, the right networking can get you riches and women.

Learn more about how you can/should use these principles for your online business.

Originally posted on April 1, 2007 @ 2:03 pm

Amsterdam, Sold! For $50,000!

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Amsterdam, one of the landmark business in Second life, modeled on the city’s red light district, and specializing in adult content, was sold for $50,000.

The previous owner, whose avatar is called “Stroker Serpentine”, says he sold the iconic virtual destination “to focus on a new, bigger adult business”. Little is known about the city’s new custodian, except that he is — perhaps appropriately — from the Netherlands.

Amsterdam is one of the first places that most first-time players visit in Second Life, mostly due to the ‘titillation factor’.

InformationWeek has more on this titilating development.

Originally posted on March 30, 2007 @ 1:35 pm

Google Pay-Per-Action Beta — Your Questions Answered

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I mentioned Google’s new pay-per-action scheme about a week ago. Since then, the announcement raised more questions than it answered, and so Google ventures to answer some of them for you.

  1. Do pay-per-action ads show on Google.com or on sites in the search network?
  2. I am an advertiser using My Client Center (MCC) and am interested in the pay-per-action beta test for my clients, as well as for my own business. What are my sign up options?
  3. Is it possible to set a cost-per-action (CPA) value (i.e. the amount I’d like to pay for a specific action) as a percentage of the amount of the purchase rather than as a fixed amount per purchase?
  4. I am also an AdSense publisher and would like to participate in this test. How can I sign up?
  5. I am not a US advertiser, and wonder when pay-per-action will be available in my country?
  6. Although I am not a US advertiser, my campaigns do target US customers. Can I participate in the beta?

And then of course there is the official pay-per-action advertising FAQ.

Originally posted on March 30, 2007 @ 1:25 pm

ICANN Says ‘No’ To Internet Red Light District

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The ICANN Board today rejected a proposal to create web addresses ending in .xxx in a vote ending 9-5 (1 abstention), and sent a broader message that ICANN will not accept the role of content regulator on the Internet.

ICANN, had been asked to allow the creation of web addresses ending in .xxx to specifically indicate sources of pornography and adult entertainment, and in effect create a virtual red light district on the internet.

Vint Cerf, the Google Inc. senior executive who is also chairman of ICANN, said the board’s decision had nothing to do with the actual content of the sites in question. Rather, the rejection came because the proposal could be seen as ICANN creating rules effecting Internet content, which is at odds with its mandate to oversee the way Internet operates in order to ensure open and fair participation by all.

MarketWatch has more.

Originally posted on March 30, 2007 @ 1:14 pm

Yahoo! Mail: To Infinity and Beyond!

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On the eve of the 10-year anniversary of Yahoo! Mail, the company has announced that they are going to begin offering everyone unlimited email storage from May 2007 onwards.

When Yahoo! Mail launched 10 years ago, users got a whopping 4MB of storage for their entire mailbox. Today, you would fill that up with a single picture from your weekend.

For more details on the announcement and a quick snapshot of the service’s past, check out Yodel Anecdotal

Originally posted on March 27, 2007 @ 8:17 pm