Lucian Apostol

I dont like to-do lists, but in many days I need lists to get things done or to prevent forget things, other days the work just flow.

This is the time when ideas gathered during the year are coming to life. I always take advantage of the break to invest more time in developing something new ( either it is a new product or a major improvement on a current one )

You need to establish a good online presence in the field you are writing about. If you engage and talk with folks like you on social media platforms, forums, and other websites, it will be much easier for your blog to take off, because those people who follow you on those platforms, will read your content, assuming they are interested in what you are writing.

Late at night!

This week almost none, because I was busy with another side project.

Entrepreneurship or startup world is full of failures. Nothing works for the first time. Most successful products I have right now are the ones that took the most rejections. Brutal negative feedback is hard to cope with, but it is the kind of feedback that helps you to improve the product. You can get demotivated by a rejection because you tend to think that you are not good enough for this,...

Most of my products rely on paid traffic at this point, but it was a time when the marketing budget was non-existent and I had to work hard to attract some visitors. When I check incoming traffic on my old websites I see that there are visitors coming after following links acquired 10-15 years ago. It is hard to believe how I was able to get those links, Things have changed and now there is...

When I start a new project, it is free until it is good enough to add a premium version. Once I hit that level, a small percent of users are converting to the premium version. I learned that users have no problem paying for the premium if the free version is good and useful.

Many years ago I had few blogs where I posted content on a regular basis. To make some money out of my work I posted affiliate links inside the content, which worked really well compared to banners or affiliate links posted outside content. After a period, links posted expired, affiliate programs were changed or worse, closed for good. My blog posts were full of broken links after a certain...