
Whether you’re just starting up, or have been in business for years, sometimes you just need someone to bounce a few ideas off. My name is Dane Carlson, and I’m the founder and editor of the Business Opportunities Weblog Network. I have have been helping small businesses start up and grow for over five years.
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The Business Opportunities Weblog Network is made up of ten niche business blogs, plus a classifieds site and a forum. Here’s a selection of popular posts from around the network:
We are always looking for new perspectives on business. If you’re interested in blogging for us, please contact Dane Carlson.
To advertise contact advertising@business-opportunities.biz.
Episode #3 of the Business Opportunities Weblog Podcast is now online. In this episode, our new host Dan Portnoy (of The Drop fame) and Tim Grahl are joined by the ever knowledgeable Anita Campbell who runs SmallBizTrends.com and hosts the Small Business Trends Radio program. She shares her take on the hottest businesses right now and how you can take advantage of them.
The Business Opportunities Weblog Network is made up of eleven niche business blogs. Here’s a selection of popular posts from around the network:
We are always looking for new perspectives on business. If you’re interested in blogging for us, please contact Dane Carlson.
To advertise contact advertising@business-opportunities.biz.

The Honolulu Advertiser:
For hundreds of thousands of people, the dream of making an Internet fortune works like this: Earn pennies at a time in exchange for allowing Google Inc. or Yahoo Inc. to place advertisements on a personal or small-business Web page.
Take Andrew Leyden, former House Commerce Committee counsel and founder of a dot-com venture that failed, who started PodcastDirectory.com, a search engine for podcasts. As the site’s popularity rose from a hundred hits a month in 2004 to nearly a million now, Leyden started making the equivalent of an entry-level government worker’s salary — $30,000 to $40,000 a year — simply because people clicked on ads. That allowed him to work at home in Chesapeake Beach, Md., trying to make more money by attracting still more traffic to his site.
“I went from literally 26 cents a week or something like that to several dollars an hour,” he said, by using Google’s AdSense software, which solicits bids from marketers who, in turn, pay to run ads on his site.

WorkBoxers:
I recently approached Alborz who runs a blog with car advice and told him I wanted to do a little experiment with his Google Adsense adverts. I told Alborz that I wanted him to change his Adsense link color to match his sites link color. At the time, Caradvice.com.au had the default blue that is standard with Adsense.
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A few days ago Alborz informed me that while his traffic had risen 25% (nothing to do with what I did!), his daily Adsense earnings had doubled!
Read the rest.
The Business Opportunities Weblog Network is made up of eleven niche business blogs. Here’s a selection of popular posts from around the network:
We are always looking for new perspectives on business. If you’re interested in blogging for us, please contact Dane Carlson.
To advertise contact advertising@business-opportunities.biz.