Making Money Online During the Holidays

Written by Pablo Palatnik on October 28, 2007

It’s the time of year where people are BUYING! So, how do you capitalize online during this time of year? Tune in to the new Palatnik Factor podcast where I discuss what I did last holiday season to generate about $6k in revenue in about 2 months.

If you haven’t heard of drop-shipping, it’s time to get your feet wet and do some research as to what products you can sell without buying them. As you’ll hear many times in the podcast, it’s all about getting the right product at the right price (as is with any other business), but this just takes a bit of research on your part.

Tune in now to the latest podcast episode, “Making Money Online During The Holidays” and let me know your thoughts or feel free to post any questions here!

Barak Obama Goes Social on Myspace

Written by Pablo Palatnik on October 28, 2007

If you haven’t seen the home page of Myspace yet, well…you’re going to find one man, one presidential candidate all over it…Barak Obama. What better way to target the youth of America than through social media sites? Myspace is a great avenue for a president to promote his/her candidacy to a young demographic. It could prove to be a good online marketing strategy for Obama.

“MySpace and MTV are teaming up to give you the chance to meet Sen. Barack Obama, ask him questions by IM, and give live feedback on whether you like the answers or not. Tune in for the live stream at 1:30 ET/10:30 PT on Monday. Your questions and feedback will be broadcast on MTV Monday night. Check it out!”

If you look at the blogosphere, which is always a good indication of what people are talking about or interested in, look at the difference between both candidates:

Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg- The Next Bill Gates?

Written by Pablo Palatnik on October 26, 2007

The question is now being raised if Mark Zuckerberg, founder and developer of Facebook, could be the next Bill Gates? I guess any young guy that has a company worth billions will always be compared to Bill Gates. Bill Gates most definitely believes in the Facebook product and brand buying a share of the company for $240 million dollars, as the site is now valued at $15 billion.

Some comparisons by an AOL article between Zuckerberg and Gates:

Gates has built an empire in Microsoft and its many products and acquisitions. There is no comparison between what Zuckerberg and Gates have built…unless of course Zuckerberg somehow gets Facebook to be the default page on some browser that’s just as big as Explorer and makes a software platform installed with every PC that’s not Apple or Microsoft. Nevertheless, Facebook is becoming a huge force and becoming the biggest thing in social media, for now, with all this buzz. I have to give it up to Microsoft though for making deals with Digg for ad space and now purchasing a share of the largest social site (Myspace is still up there though, traffic wise and has a great new concept I’ll blog about soon) battling out Google and winning the companies share. I really think Yahoo is soon to be bought out by Microsoft…it’s coming.

If your company was worth $15 billion dollars and you had a chance to sell it before it devalues, would you take the money and run to your next start-up or try to build on the Facebook brand and take it up a few more billion?

BTW- I’m close to being the next Bill Gates as well, I have more Facebook friends. I just need to top his net worth…that’s all.