• Business On the Side

    The days of working as a business analyst by day and a business consultant by night are starting to wear on me. For those of you who don’t know, I run Watershawl Technology Consulting and do Internet Marketing for Cost Publishing “on the side” while maintaining a day job as a business analyst. I’m Microsoft…

  • 12 Ways to Make Money Online

    How to Make Money Online Making money online is not always easy.  It’s work just like any job, but it seems to have this allure to it.  I think that allure has a lot to do with a feeling of being your own boss or getting as much out of something as you put into…

  • A Day in the Life of a Business Analyst

    Boiling a business analyst’s primary functions down, you get the following: conceptualize, visualize troubleshoot, problem solve research, mine data and reports identify trends and patterns, predict identify similarities and differences interact with people, communicate innovate and discover solutions to problems create proof of concepts, write business cases document procedures and implement solutions Here is a…

  • Blogging for Profit

    How to Find a Profitable Micro-Niche to Market Online This is an article based on a similar article I wrote about traffic conversion in 2009. Using proven, repeatable techniques there is little risk and great rewards involved in blogging for profit. Peter Drucker in Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Practice and Principles writes, “Entrepreneurship, it is commonly…

  • Sign up for LinkShare

    Signing up as a LinkShare publisher is quick, easy, and free! Just complete the info on this page and you’ll be able to start making money online in no time. What is a LinkShare publisher? Publisher is LinkShare’s term for an affiliate who is promoting other company’s (Advertisers) products and services in exchange for a…

  • The Confidence-Success Loop

    The “con” in con-man is short for confidence.  Con-men are successful because they are confident.  They “fake it until they make it” one might say.  This same confidence can and is used by successful law-abiding citizens every day.  What I am suggesting is that there is such a strong connection between success and confidence that…