http://filthyjack.com The Road to Riches Wed, 21 Nov 2007 16:06:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Hello again. Been awhile for me. The past few months have been harrowing but I hope to be able to post more frequently in the months to come. The situation is certainly one of those 'life moments' where you need to step back and look at things and wonder exactly ... http://filthyjack.com/index.php/harrowing-experiences-learning-opportunities/ Let’s start by addressing the contest requirements: You’re leaving me with 6 hours of down time. I am good to giver with a lot less. I say we cut down the resting time and go until 4:00am. As far as the pictures go, I’ve seen them before and they fill me ... http://filthyjack.com/index.php/lets-rock-this-shit/ Just a quick update...  Another G...   as in $1000.00 The growth of my forums has brought in its first two sponsors.  One at $600.00 for a year (a 115x60 image on all pages) and one at $350.00 for six months (same ad size).  Exciting times ;) http://filthyjack.com/index.php/another-g/ I had been working on adding a blog to one of my sites - the forums.  My goal with the blog is two fold, it will give me a spot to post how to articles and I believe I am more likely to get links to the blog as I ... http://filthyjack.com/index.php/pr-what/ I wish I had kept better track of my usage stats from years gone by for one of my sites. I've moved hosts a few times and never thought back then about potentially trying to monetize the site. It is full of original content on learning about web development and ... http://filthyjack.com/index.php/friendly-urls/ OK. Since the previous blog post of mine in regards to Hostway the email situation has reared its ugly head once again. This time taking nearly a week to resolve. Something to do with being on a newer server I was told. Hostway suggested moving me to an older 'tried-and-true' ... http://filthyjack.com/index.php/more-on-hostway-and-mash-from-the-uk/ Just a little bit of a status update. My forums which I have spoken about a few times and offered up stats here have continued to grow, with March being a big traffic month.  I get huge volume spikes when other related forums link to me but nearly 5000 visits about 60-something-thousand ... http://filthyjack.com/index.php/progress-growth-and-a-little-rebound/ Yesterday, I had a meeting with my business partners regarding "the project". This morning, while shifting a few pixels on a Web site, I had the opportunity to reflect.  I realized that we have assembled a great team, and we will accomplish far more together than any of us could ever ... http://filthyjack.com/index.php/48/ Not that this is a startling or unexpected discovery but I was glas to find it and thought I should share it. There are so many great resources out there and so little time. As you can tell by my lack on any recent post I've been quite busy and ... http://filthyjack.com/index.php/today-i-discovered-inside-adwords/ A while back, I talked about the increased spam on one of my forums.  I decided I needed some help with the spam problem, I just wasn't around enough to deal with it.  I'd wake up from 6 hours of sleep and there would be 6 spam messages. I asked two ... http://filthyjack.com/index.php/forum-moderators-get-some-now/