Work at Home Business Tips

If you read my initial post in this blog, you would have seen that I will be sharing new thoughts and ideas that I have, to see if they can be used to make money. Well, here is one of those ideas.

I am a terrible typist, maybe you are too. Did you know being a terrible typist can be a benefit to you.

I have heard stories of people mis-typing a URL and ending up at “page not found”. They figured out if they mis-typed the URL others would too. So, they registered the domain, pointed the domain to a website or built a website and made money of off the mistake in spelling or typing.

I was searching in google the other day for “free website promotion” and instead typed in “free websute promotion”. Google, being as smart as it is, asked me if I really meant “free website promotion” which of course I did. But, I was surprised to see a number of results come back. Obviously others had figured out that people would misspell “website”, and had used the misspelling to their advantage. Furthermore, there were a number of Google Adwords using the keyword “websute” - meaning people were paying for this keyword. Which leads me to believe enough people are misspelling “website” to make it a keyword worth pursuing.

So the thought occurred to me - do suppose website misspellings are registered domains? Like “websute.com” or websote.com”? So I checked. And I found that neither were registered domains. Probably because no one is going to type http://www.websote.com or http://www.websute.com into their web browser. But, I thought could these domains be of some value. So, I bought both domains. By the way, do you know that you should domains for every website you promote? I’ll tell you why and how to buy domains in my next post.

I have some thoughts on how I may be able to use these domains to my advantage. But I’ll wait until I put these ideas into place before I tell you about them. Right now these domains are pointed to a couple of my websites, one of them being this blog. I’ll keep you posted on what results, if any, I see.

So, the moral to this story is, pay attention to the website URLs you type into your browser. You never know, one of these misspellings could make you a lot of money.

Until next time, Mike

IP to IP Broadcasting - I suggest you don’t do it.

I was shocked this morning when I received an email at one of my not often checked email accounts. The email was advertising IP to IP broadcasting.

You may have received an IP to IP message yourself in the past. You were working on your computer, minding your own business and then suddenly a Windows message popped up and someone was trying to sell you something. I received several of those IP broadcasts, until I learned how to turn the Windows messaging off.

Anyway, I was shocked because I didn’t think anyone was still trying to sell this junk advertising. Here is a copy of the message, without the website link (I don’t want to give them any advertising).
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Broadcast your a’d to millions. Send your message straight to the desktops of potential customers.

A newly-discovered loophole in Microsoft messaging technology enables online entrepreneurs to instantly
send their message straight to the desktop of millions of b’uyers at the c l i c k of a mouse. It works through the “net send” protocol, which displays a pop-up advertisement on another Windows machine.

We have 3 dedicated servers that has one mission and one mission only, to blitz your a’ds to millions
and millions of users, totally S’PAM F’REE, and 100% l’egal using a built in function of the Microsoft
Operating System. We have a database which has over 90% of IP addresses on the internet. We could send
your a’d out to 100,000 people every hour for the next 6 months and never send your a’d to the same
person twice. that’s how many people we can reach.

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Now, I had the opportunity to use this “technology” a few years ago, but I decided not to use it.
I decided not to use it because:
1. It seemed very intrusive forcing a pop-up on someone’s Windows desktop - worse than spam.
2. I knew since I could easily figure out how to turn these desktop messages off, others could too, and it would soon be worthless.
3. You could not put a click able link in the forced desktop pop-ups. You had to rely on the recipient to remember, or write down the URL you were advertising, and then type it in their browser. People are busy, if they can’t click through, forget it.

So, if you see an advertisement like the one above, don’t fall for it.

Hey - If you have any experiences with IP to IP broadcasting, or you have a differing opinion, I’d love to hear from you.

Looking out for you, Mike