The Waterloo Courier, a local newspaper in the Cedar Valley area of Iowa, has an enormous problem of their own making. Back in the late 1990s, a relatively unknown CEO of little recognized brand shouted from the rooftops that digital content would, one day soon, replace printed content. The CEO was Jeff Bezos and his company; Amazon.com. As many ‘old school’ company leaders do, having become stagnant and blinded by current industry trends, Bezos was mocked and scorned. At least two mockers are...

If you want to make money online at Curious.com, you are in luck! As instructors in all things Internet Marketing related at Curious as well as other online learning websites, we’ve found their platform, which provides online learning videos, surprisingly refreshing. Most articles about e-learning options are from third party bloggers with very little (if any) experience using Curious as either student or tutor. We have both an insider’s view (instructors) as well as being familiar...

Small business web design, when done correctly, can launch an unknown brand into the realm of elite service providers in an industry. In this article, we’ll review website builder’s as well best practices for launching a website. First, it isn’t necessary to be a web design expert to launch and manage an online property. Unfortunately, many believe great web design means tons of onsite ‘pop and flash’ but nothing is further from true.

Here are a few...

Blogging to make money online should be understood in the context of content monetization. One of the cool things about blogging, besides being able to voice one’s opinion; is parlaying written or video content into cash!

In this article, we’ll review three things to get you started earning money with a blog;

1. Shopping carts vs. ad only revenue
2. Quick start techniques
3. Content creation best practices

It is believed, by many,...

In this post, we’ll review Google Documents for business as well as give tips to those who, while casual users, haven’t taken the leap into full-time use of this productivity suite. With all the rage surrounding online document sharing in cloud hosted environments, and before going further, I strongly encourage entrepreneurs and small business owners to save a copy of all business related assets to an external hard drive. This advice seems to ‘cut against the grain’ as it concerns...