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Another epic fail: Making only 300 USD with Amazon affiliate links in 5 years

Another epic fail: Making only 300 USD with Amazon affiliate links in 5 years

by jordicabot | Jan 14, 2016 | affiliate, business model, stories entrepreneur, Uncategorized

Yes I do mean 300 and no 300K. And yes, I’m aware this is an epic fail (if you’re new to this site, please check my domain URL) but with so many posts of people making thousands of dollars a year (even some a month) with affiliate amazon links, I wanted to...

Right answer to “How much does this cost” is: one million dollars

by jordicabot | Jan 5, 2015 | business model, stories entrepreneur

Unless you’re selling a well-defined product with a fixed price, the first question any potential client will ask is how much her project would cost. Usually this question is already part of their first contact email together with very incomplete and fuzzy...

Crazy ideas that work: Kinder egg surprise videos

by jordicabot | Oct 28, 2013 | business model, stories entrepreneur

I’m a firm believer that for the sucess of a business, the implementation of the business idea is much more important than the idea itself. The problem with this belief is that then it’s easy to end up thinking that success just boils down to better CPA,...

Are you in it for the money? That’s fine, no need to hide it

by jordicabot | Aug 27, 2013 | business model, stories entrepreneur

There are two reasons why people start a company: to make money or to make a difference. This is mostly known as the Rich vs King decision (better explained in Rich vs. King in the Real World: Why I sold my company). So far so good. Based on this, I should be able to...
Stop impulse buyers – I don’t let you buy my SW service without testing it first

Stop impulse buyers – I don’t let you buy my SW service without testing it first

by jordicabot | Jun 11, 2013 | business model, marketing, philosophy, stories entrepreneur

An impulse purchase or impulse buying is an unplanned decision to buy a product or service, made just before a purchase (Wikipedia). So basically, impulse buyers are people that decide to purchase your product / service without carefully evaluating whether the product...
My law on recurring clients

My law on recurring clients

by jordicabot | Mar 20, 2013 | business model, customers, stories entrepreneur

When offering a project-based service some of your clients repeat while you never hear back from others. Surprisingly enough, this recurrence property does not correlates with the variable “the client said s/he would hire you again”. Therefore, I dare to...
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