Welcome to my December monthly income report! Each month I am planning on publishing a detailed report of what I’ve been up to during the previous month, the income I’ve made online, and the things I’ve learned. I find it’s a great way for me to motivate myself and others and to keep myself accountable [...]
Continue reading ... | Posted By: Josh Kohlbach | January 3, 2012
I’ve always had mixed results when trying to make products and sell them. Aside from a smattering of ebooks, some niche sites that have done just okay and random affiliate product sales here and there, I’ve mostly made money online by trading time for dollars. That is, freelance programming. Freelancing has been good to me [...]
Continue reading ... | Posted By: Josh Kohlbach | December 22, 2011
Go ahead, give it a try. It doesn’t have to be exactly one second, but it shouldn’t takes longer than a second or two to say. If you’re selling a product, offering information, or trying to get someone to take an action you should be able to describe what the single purpose of your website [...]
Continue reading ... | Posted By: Josh Kohlbach | November 17, 2011
I’ll let you in on a secret. I hate doing the same thing over and over. So when it came time for me to try out this new fad of adding a sign up form to different pages of my site, like my about page and content bucket pages as per Derek’s suggestions, I decided to [...]
Continue reading ... | Posted By: Josh Kohlbach | November 7, 2011
The difficult bit in the whole product creation lifecycle isn’t actually creating the product itself. In fact, would it shock you if I said that actually making the product accounts for only about 10% of the total time you’ll take to make it a success? Don’t be shocked. Anyone who’s made a product and sold [...]
Continue reading ... | Posted By: Josh Kohlbach | November 4, 2011
I was fiddling with some numbers this morning looking at conversion rates and it struck me that I use the calculator a lot for this kind of stuff and it would be ideal if I could just plug it all into a form and get the answers I need. So if you want to figure [...]
Continue reading ... | Posted By: Josh Kohlbach | November 1, 2011
As many of you know I love writing code, and when I come across a great idea that should be codified I struggle to resist the urge of making something more of it. I’ve done this in the past with the Stylesheet Per Page plugin for WordPress and the hCard Generator plugin for WordPress and [...]
Continue reading ... | Posted By: Josh Kohlbach | October 26, 2011
I recorded this quick screencast today to show you this cool tactic I picked up from Rob at softwarebybob.com. I think it’s a great way to reveal the behavior of your actual visitors that aren’t just quick bounces. It’s just another lens in which to view the data in your analytics to reveal what your [...]
Continue reading ... | Posted By: Josh Kohlbach | October 23, 2011
This article is a guest post from Dr. Adam Stetzer, the president and co-founder of HubShout. Adam and his team contacted me to check out this great new tool they’ve built which is a different kind of spin on your average website grader. We exchanged a bunch of emails talking theory on what would make [...]
Continue reading ... | Posted By: Josh Kohlbach | October 15, 2011
I have two cool announcements today. But before I get to that, I wanted to ask, have you ever worked for 6 months or longer on one project? Doing something incremental where you do just a little bit on it every day? This is what I’ve been doing on a couple of projects since the [...]
Continue reading ... | Posted By: Josh Kohlbach | October 12, 2011
The following post is guest post by Ruben Corbo. Ruben came to me wanting to write something about mobile and how it effects our thoughts on business. What he delivered was a great article on leveraging our own APIs via mobile handsets. If you own a product and release a public API layer (or are [...]
Continue reading ... | Posted By: Josh Kohlbach | August 24, 2011
How To Make Money From Programming Below is comparison table of some of the most innovative ways you can make money from programming. It’s not meant to be a comprehensive list or a description of exactly what you will earn if you do any one of these. There’s many variations on these models, some faster [...]
Continue reading ... | Posted By: Josh Kohlbach | August 2, 2011
"3 quick ways you can start making money as a programmer today"
Welcome to our community of programmers and designers!
Hi, my name is Josh.
I'm a programmer who sells software online and this site is all about helping you do the same.
It's great to have you on board! If you're new you can start here.
© Josh Kohlbach 2011 - Disclosure - Privacy Policy