Derek Semmler dot com - money, motorcycles and cars (with a little bit of everything else)

The beautiful thing with blogging - or even just online business in general - is the relatively low startup costs. With the purchase of a domain and a hosting account you can have a business up and running in a matter of hours.
Not too long ago, we talked about how to save money with [...]

Shawn Knight recently tagged me to participate in a six word memoir meme.
After giving it some thought and consideration, I believe that I have come up with something that has taken me quite some time to learn but really has an influence on how I live my life.
Plan for tomorrow, live for today.
This memoir has [...]

Earlier tonight I was perusing my list of starred posts in Google Reader for my weekly Speedlinking feature when I realized that today is the last Monday of the month.
The last Monday of each month, I like to use the Speedlinking series to highlight the top ten blogs that referred the most traffic - where [...]

You might remember that this time last month I mentioned a new way to monetize your blog using PredictAd.
PredictAd is a service that adds a rather unobtrusive auto-complete feature to your site search box. In addition to the auto-complete, PredictAd has the ability to display contextual ads within the search box.
As I mentioned at [...]

When I first began blogging, I’ll admit that I really did not give much thought to creating a brand for myself and just jumped right in by signing up for a domain and hosting account.
Now that I have been blogging for about a year and a half, I’ve been giving more and more thought to [...]