If you are starting any new type of business and you are dealing with customers or other businesses sometimes it can be hard for them to take you seriously, especially if you are starting an online business. This happened to me when I first started ThinkComputers. I was about 16-17 when I started the site…
Yahoo Turns Down Microsoft
Well this was not the best news to me. I had really hoped if Microsoft and Yahoo joined forces a lot of good would come of it, especially in the online advertising market. As I said Yahoo’s Publisher Network and Microsoft’s AdCenter don’t even compare to Google Adsense, but if they were combined, there could…
Lunch at Sushi Tomo
Over the past year I’ve gotten a real appreciation for Japanese food. I had my first Sushi back in 2006, but never really started eating it on a constant basis till about 4 months ago. After having amazing Sushi in Las Vegas from Social House and Nobu Ashley and I needed to find some good…
ThinkComputers and Thermaltake Giveaway
It seems like it is the time for contests and giveaways. I am giving away some CES Swag and there are a lot of other contests going around the blogosphere. I wanted to let everyone know about a contest we have going on over at ThinkComputers. We have teamed with Thermaltake to give away over…
Revver Looking To Sell Cheap
Revver is a user-submitted video sharing platform much like YouTube. What sets it apart from YouTube is that they share revenue with their users. YouTube has revenue sharing, but only for select publishers. Revver on the other hard offers this to everyone. I really like the service and it gave me another avenue to make…
CES 2008 Swag Giveaway!
Last Month I showed you all the free swag I got at CES. I have decided to give a good amount of it away! Like I said in the previous post I still have a lot of the stuff from CES 2007 so why not give away most of this stuff. There will only be…
The Super Bowl and Ads
Since the Super Bowl I have talked to a lot of people about the commercials, hell its good conversation and its great to remember some of the better commercials, who could forget the Apple Ad of 1984. Anyways most of the people I talked to said advertisers pay way too much for the 30-second spot,…
Super Bowl Thoughts
I’m not really a football fan, I mean I can sit and enjoy a game on TV, but I’m not a die-hard fan. Even though I rarely watch football I had to watch the Super Bowl, it is the biggest football game all year so it is going to be a great game and of…
Microsoft Offers Yahoo $44.6 Billion!?!
You may not think that I follow stocks that much, mainly because I never really talk about them on the blog, but I do follow the big players, Google, Apple, Yahoo, Sony, Microsoft etc. Things haven’t been looking good at all for Yahoo. Their Q4 earnings were down 23 percent and their stock has been…
Advertising Now Available
If you have been reading this blog for a while you may have noticed that we been running on mostly third-party ads, but now we are offering advertising for anyone. With a lot of good posts coming up and RSS subscribers increasing I though it would be a great idea to offer private advertising. Pricing…
Some Adsense Tips
With affiliate marketing becoming so popular people are moving away from Google Adsense, but a lot of people are still dependent on it for income and I am one of those people. Since Google decided to screw us on the clickable area it has been harder and harder to make the money we used to….
Motivation From CES
Besides all of good times at the parties and events during CES the thing that I took away most from CES was motivation. I have been working on ThinkComputers since 2001 and I wouldn’t have imagined that it would be my full-time job that actually pays well and I enjoy doing. I proved to a…
The CES 2008 Swag
Almost every trade show you go to there will be some type of swag given away, usually its t-shirts and pens, but some companies go out of their way to have some really cool swag to make you remember them. This year at CES I did end up getting a good amount of swag, although…
Arbitrage For Beginners
Arbitrage is a word you probably have heard around the blogosphere. So what is it really? Wikipedia explains that arbitrage is the practice of taking advantage of a price differential between two or more markets. So basically you want to capitalize on the imbalance. Still don’t follow? Ok let’s make this easier, say you make…
CES Wrap Up
As I said CES really kicked my ass! Unlike a lot of people who went for fun, I was there for work. One of my goals for this year is to take ThinkComputers to the next level and with that means a lot more work. So while at CES we tried to cover as much…