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Don't listen to any of these armchair socialists. In the real world when someone wants to buy your company you sell. For any amount I might add. Reading your post I guess you are under 30. Sell, sell, sell. Or you will regret it later. You have to look at it this way: your first company is just to proof that you can build a company and sell it. It's like a good grade on your business building CV. Forget about the money. The money is nothing. I hope the big company puts some shares in the deal, or at least options. Shares are good at the moment in this market. The best thing about selling now is that you get an excellent CV. The next time you want to start a company with your track record you can go to any venture capital firm and get enough funding to start a real company with offices, employees etc. Then you sell your second company for the big bucks. After the big bucks you start your third company. This is the company that you keep as it is a combination of a great business idea and work that you really like. So your first company you sell. I am currently doing my third company which you can see here: http://usa.tiouw.com/

I think the case with books is the strongest case for IP because its not obvious how a writer would make money without protection. Nevertheless I think that even in case of books there should be no IP. And I am a writer with two books published in the Netherlands and one in the US (http://usa.tiouw.com/content/index.php?/archives/19-You-Unlimited,-mind-reading-the-masses-with-NLP.html) First of all most writers hardly get published anyway. Second of all they wont make much money on the books sold themselves. So you need an alternative business plan to make money on books. So without IP Protection you still would have many books published and only a few of them would be copied without paying the author. So the difference for most authors would be very limited. It's only a very small group of writers that would get hurt. But that hurt is also limited, because ... ... without IP protection, a new book would be more like a trade secret. Take for instance Harry Potter latest adventure. It would be launched in secret, the public would buy it en masse. Other publisher rush to copy it and distribute it, but the advantage of being the first to rush it and sell it would still make more than enough money for any individual. So the whole idea that artists need IP protection is nonsense. IP protection is just another form of monopoly that big companies love to have. Removing IP from the world would only change a little bit. Every art form would find a new and better way of existing. So to sum up IP protection in case of books: 1) Nobody wants to publish your work anyway 2) If you get one publisher to publish it, it still means to no one else wants your book to copy even if they could do it for free. 3) If you are a succesful author there is enough money to be made by being first on the market anyway. Sure it is less than under a monopoly, but it is more than enough. Conclusion: get rid of IP as fast as possible.

My company has send out free reports about How to Learn to Control your Emotiones with NLP and How to Understand your Personality with the Enneagram. These reports are around 1-2MB and we send them as PDF attachment to thousands of people many who use a hotmail account. There are problems with Hotmail, sure, but not because of dropped attachments. It never happens. Check it for yourself at http://usa.tiouw.com/ParticulierRapporten.php

Unfortunately I wrote the explanation why in Dutch, see: http://tiouw.com/serendipity/index.php?/archives/3 06-Slechte-Goede-Voornemens.html

Unfortunately I wrote the explanation why in Dutch, see: http://tiouw.com/serendipity/index.php?/archives/3 06-Slechte-Goede-Voornemens.html

http://www.tracewatch.com/ for a free analytic program that actually really helps. I have tried most of the above for my site http://usa.tiouw.com/ and none came even close. Analysis is useless if you cant trace exactly how a user is going through your site. It might mean more work for you, but the pay-off is there. I know for sure that your clients will love you for it and that it will mean more business.

I ran AWstats some time but too many security issues. Now I am using Tracewatch at http://www.tiouw.com/. Free, open source and great. See http://www.tracewatch.com/ Nice features are that you are able to follow individual visitors through your sites, find most common paths etc.

First of all if he gets 15000 @ 0.15 clicks per day he is paying $1500,- a day in advertising that is $547.500 per year in advertising alone. His friend must be an internet miljonair! I somehow doubt that such a large operation would execute the test as described in the article. I think the figures are a bit inflated to make it a better story. Furthermore I use Google Adwords for my company (http://www.tiouw.com/). I spend around $5000 a year on Google. As everyone who has ever worked with AdWords knows is that when you change your ad, it changes your click through rate. Changing URL's, text, anything has a direct result. It takes some time before the system gets used to the changes and then you are back on track. I expect that if the company in the article would have run for some time with the new settings it would generate more and more hits. Finally, tests have shown that people do not click on the no.1 position, but prefer no. 2 or 3.

I am using Google Ads (search engine only) and I love it. It's bringing in more work than I can handle so I can choose my work. But it might be due to the fact that it is the Dutch market and it is for therapy and stuff. Check it at http://www.tiouw.com/ ,but dont click on any advertisements please, lol, if you run into one of my.

For everyone who states that hypnosis doesnt exit in the replies above: you obviously have never worked with it. It works even better than advertised in the article. Unfortunately scientists use very bad trance inductions (supposedly because they are "scientific", but in fact because they don't know better. (By the way I don't consider psychologists scientists at all so disregard their remarks immeadetely. Neuroscientists do all the real stuff.) I have a private practise (http://www.tiouw.com/) where I treat people for anxity, depression and anger problems. I work on a no cure, no pay basis. I use hypnosis and cure over 90% of my clients with two or three sessies of two hours. (I stop seeing them if they are not well after three sessions.) Of the 200 people I saw this year everyone went into a trance. No exceptions. They only question is how deep will they go.

I am using http://www.s9y.org/ at my Positive News blog at http://www.tiouw.com/serendipity/ (in Dutch so you probably cant read it). And I like it a lot. I thought it was more famous though. So anyone else using this?