Author Archive: Noah Kagan

Be Careful what you Advertise

May 15th, 2008 12 Comments Noah

Yes, Google Adsense can make you a lot of money but at the same time it can hurt you. Notice anything wrong with this photo?

Solution: Go to Google and filter out your competitor list…
The person with the funniest comment wins the book Difficult Conversations.

Learning Viral: The Leech Method

May 7th, 2008 7 Comments Noah

One of the best and most successful methods of implement viral is what I call the leech method. This is what has made some of the largest and most successful companies ever. How does it work? Great question.
Leech Method: This is creating a viral system on the back of a system that has a crap […]

How to Use Firefox as a Notepad

May 6th, 2008 4 Comments Noah

I thought a few readers might appreciate this. Sometimes I get an account #, email or phone # that I want to remember and I am not sure where / when I may need it. Instead of opening a text file the solution that I use is this:

1- Ctrl+k into Firefox search bar. Make sure […]

Learning Viral: Add-on or Natural

April 30th, 2008 1 Comment Noah

Last week I had a great meeting with the casual-games / viral guru and VC extraordinaire Jeremy Liew from Lightspeed Ventures. If you can get money from him please take it. Anyways, we were talking about the casual games experience and virality when he mentioned something about the ways of incorporating virality.
Add-on: This is […]

How I Outsourced my Apartment Hunting

April 29th, 2008 13 Comments Noah

Some of you know that last year for fun I spent most of it sleeping on peoples’ couches. Why? Because my friends are awesome. So after returning from the great country of Argentina I figured it was time to get my own place and share the couch.
Problem? It takes a LOT of time to […]

Optimizing: Improving HouseofRave.com

April 25th, 2008 6 Comments Noah

I was typing up an email of feedback to my buddy Neville when I thought it would be more fun to post it here. I hope he doesn’t mind;)

link to site
Improvements:
- Call to Action (CTA): The order button is grey and is semi-transparent. Make it orange, green, yellow. something noticeable! You can’t learn to ride […]