This is a new website out there that helps you start a business .

I have been looking into things like this so I found this a really great resource. Let me explain:

Lets say I lived in New York (which I do) but my business was going to be a Louisiana corporations there are websites online that help you create everything for that state figure out the laws and make sure you’re doing business properly.

It will help you incorporate or form a LLC. They also help with S-Corps. I am going to put my blog into an LLC which means that if someone sues my website they wont be suing me. Which is a big thing. But I don’t want to have really have to do the stuff myself. I don’t mind paying someone a small stipend to do the work for me. The company IncParadise.com for example only charges $89 + whatever state fees are involved. So if you are too busy or just don’t want to deal with it, these are great options for you.

One thing I want to mention is reviews, reviews can be biased for any number of reasons. For example although I absolutely try to be unbiased since the owners are friends of mine and I’ve personally never had any problem with the service my recommendation of them although attempted to be unbiased still remains slightly so. (E-Starr & Skye-Host )

However when you get a recommendation from a friend should you trust it? I trust it to a degree, depending on the friend and what product it is.

I was recently in the market for a VPS (virtual private server) and the problem I had was I couldn’t trust most of these companies except my friend who owns a VPS recommended me MODVPS.com. He raved about them, their quality of service, the speed of the server etc.

I purchased a small VPS plan for 44.50 a month, it was my birthday present to myself. And off we went. I cleared with them first I can run wpmu and all the scripts I wanted to, however when my friend and I wanted to install it. The two sample sites I set up on there, 1 randomly covered the apache page. This wasn’t a MAJOR issue but still an annoyance I could fix myself. The second part was I had to delete the site and set it up again for the account holding wpmu. I wasn’t thrilled. The server was slow, working with shell it still was slow. It would continuously time out. Imagine all this trouble and it had 2 sites with maybe 2mB total between the two and zero bandwidth used for the month…how would it be once wpmu is installed and my readers have blogs on there?

It was completely unacceptable. I have since canceled, the server is still up. I’m awaiting for it to be canceled and for me to receive my refund. (Neither so far, but they say the wait is up to 5 days) Which is annoying but I can live with it.
I took his review of the company with a grain of salt. I tested before I made any real plans to stay, their support was straight to the point but not VERY helpful. If there is a support number I didn’t see one.

I don’t like the fact that the only way to get support is through an email, support is of course open 24/7 however because email is available 24/7. But it doesn’t necessarily guarantee you a response at 3.30am when your server is lagging or is down for any reason. All service is available 24/7 but I am never up to test their response time from 3.30, nor do I plan to be. But I always like an emergency line available. However, that is just my personal like and dislike.

This is a sposnored review by ContextWeb

As announced May 1st 2007 the company Context web is opening the very first true format of online advertising. It is a different concept in how they are approaching it and I’m actually looking forward to it.

ADSDAQ (http://www.adsdaq.com) It seems like its essentially going to work like sponsored reviews where you bid and what not for publishers and advertisers but I think it is pretty nifty. It’s something new for monetizing a website. They have a full press release

“Successful exchanges have always provided traders the ability to place a firm ‘Bid’ or ‘Ask’ price,” said Anand Subramanian, CEO of ContextWeb, Inc. “The online marketplace is now ready for a true exchange. By including advertisers and publishers of all sizes, ADSDAQ creates a more scalable marketplace for premium advertising inventory across the entire internet.”

Which they are 100% right in this aspect. I am always looking forward to better versions of marketing my ads. I attempted with reviewme, but they are only half as good as sponsored reviews in their marketplace section, in my opinion. they should lower their price on the difference they take but then again I’m greedy :P However in some of the updates sponsoredreviews aren’t going for the better, it is rather annoying since I attempted to bid on some reviews which wouldn’t have worked for theblogworld but only offered the blog world as an option. :|

Hopefully these guys can make it work a little better.

As I have been working with Text Link Ads on my other website I’ve sold 8 out of 10 links, each time a link sells I contemplate increasing the price. After 4 links sold at $65 dollars I increased the price to $85 after 2 more links sold at $85 I have now increased the price to $100.

What happens is I only have 10 spots so its truly the old saying supply and demand, my supply is depleting so people want the links more.

After the article I wrote about if my links are under priced I noticed the site I referenced lowered their prices. I wonder if it has to do with me? Probably not, but you never know? I also noticed that text link ads are accepting blogger.com websites, now although I am not against blogger.com and free blogging websites. I am against having them in text link ads or places that calculate your ALEXA ranking in their ratings.

If you are going to include them place n/a or give them a zero rating. There is no way to tell if they are going to be a ranking of 15 really if they had their own site or 1.5 Million. What unnerved me was the fact that a blogger.com website was in the top 25 tla sites. Now granted my ranking isn’t the highest of the bunch but if I had to compete with blogger websites it will drastically reduce my chances. So I emailed, I protested the fact that blogger site is the #1 spot that it wasn’t fair and they said they are going to do something to remedy this situation very soon. I appreciated the response but the fact is the possibility more sales are given to that person who got luck, and not someone else who worked hard to deserve their Alexa ranking. Well it bothers me, since what if it were me who is at spot #26?

The power of the link is very important. Making sure you understand and do your research and don’t over price yourself. Each time I raised my price I did it in small bits. The first time I raised it by $20 dollars, and then the second I’ve raised it by $15 earning myself a total of $35 dollars more per link. I am still waiting for the sites to have their spider crawl and offer links in my posts so I can make more since TLA does take A LOT out of your amount. I mean I am greatful since I wouldn’t have found the advertisers any other way I just wish it weren’t so much.