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Sep 30, 2008
I recently launched a website about the issues that legal immigrants face in the United States. Being a legal immigrant myself, I am very closely associated with this area and this is more of a personal website than something that I am looking to make money with.
The website is at http://www.endlesswait.com.
I launched the website on September 4. On September 28, I noticed that page rank of the home page went from 0 to 3. That's the fastest that any of my sites has ever gone up in rankings. Page rank 3 is not too hard to achieve with Google, but neither is it too easy. I've known websites that are live for years, do professional backlink building for months, but never got their PR past 2.
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Sep 3, 2008
I always wondered how people buy and sell businesses. I assumed that it must be through market-specific seminars/contacts or by using middle-men companies that facilitate such a deal. Going by the complexity of such deals, the third-party service I assumed (and later found out) is pretty expensive. It could be up to 10% of the company value. Not a paltry sum when you are trying to sell a business and make a profit from it. Often, 10% means sacrifising up to 2 more years worth of profits on a company that does nothing more that help you shake hands with your potential buyer.
I found this website today from an ad on Yahoo - http://www.bizbuysell.com and I was intrigued by it. It's like any other marketplace, what an obvious idea, damn I did not think of it first! If I were you, I would post my business on it just to see how many parties show interest. The site is pretty basic. There you go, a great idea and an opportunity for someone to come up with a much better site (perhaps even bidding and auction features instead of a direct price) specifically for business buy and sell. Even if you charged 2%, you would still be undercutting marketing companies that do this by a long shot. I am going to research some more sites like this and post it here. If you know of any, please enlighten me.
I always thought one of the biggest problem with Joomla was that it did not come with a standard commenting system or a set of features for bloggers, like Wordpress does. But over the years, a lot of blogging components have been added for Joomla by third parties. See the full list of Joomla blogging components here. Of these, the two most prominent and feature-rich ones, in my opinion, are:
1. My Blog by Azrul.com
2. mojoBlog by Joomlify.com (This is the one I chose eventually even though I rated My Blog higher. Read on to know why.)
Posted by: admin in Untagged on
Aug 9, 2008
Yay Yay the blog is up and running, so I am going to celebrate by paryting with my wife all night. OK alright, we were gonna go out for a party anyway.
Different things can make people happy. And just this simple act of installing the blog and getting it work did it for me today. There are 2 reasons for that:
1. The "As Seen on TV" reason": Joomla, the Content Mangement System that I am using for this website (also something that we specialize on at Simplosys), is the best, alright. But if you've had the chance to work with it for a while, you'll know that it does not have a default commenting system, much less a default blogging platform. There are several third party products that provide those features and actually come pretty close to being a nice solution. But you never realize all the bumps along the road to get them working until you download and start hackin' at it. I used 2-3 pieces to get this blog up and running on Joomla without spending a single penny other than my own time (and I love working on this stuff, so that's double the reward actually ;). I am going to write a separate post about how I got this working, in detail, soon, so watch out!
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