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It is time for the Sunday tradition. Here are five posts that I read recently that I thought were awesome. Enjoy!

Jarkko Laine writes a great post about risk management. He makes a great point in the article that recognizing and managing risk isn’t just something we should do at our jobs, but something we should be doing day-to-day with normal activities.

Josh Buckley gets a double-whammy today. He has a two part series about selling sites. He has a great method, and I personally know it works. Make sure to check out part-two!

Brown Baron has found a bunch of crazy Simpsons gadgets. Does anyone know how successful the movie was? They marketed and advertised like mad before it was released…

Josh Mullineaux writes an inspirational post designed to make you work harder. Three words: Pain Before Pleasure

Adnan tells about his success with blogging. He makes a pretty good amount of money, and he has a ton of…

Adsense is definitely not fresh news anymore. Almost every blog I visit has some form of advertising, and most of those are using adsense. I have been using adsense for about four months now (not here on the blog because you’re too smart to click), and I figured I would let you all know about the arbitrage model I use and how you can make yourself an extra few hundred bucks a month to pay some bills. ^_^ This is not even close to what you can achieve, but hey, I may just inspire to you make much more.

There are a few things required to follow this model:

• Adwords Account and basic competency
• Adsense Account and basic comptency
• Basic competency in a WYSIWYG Editor (GoLive, Dreamweaver)
• Basic competency in Photoshop
• One domain that can support unlimited subdomains
• 50-100 Dollars to Start (recommended)
• 10 Extra Hours per month (at first)

A Quick Overview

What we are going to be doing…

If you take a few steps back from your newly budding start-up business, you might begin to see the business as more than just a bunch of stuff that needs to come together to make money. Really, your start-up is a project. Think of how many components are being thrown in to the mix to make your business become a systematized reality. You’ve got your founders, employees, developers, partnerships and JV’s, lawyers, accountants, etc., all running around doing their tasks. What strategies are you using to control the chaos?

You must face reality and begin your role as a project manager. Your business must become a well-oiled machine that can plow through a mapped process. Would you ever think of getting on a plane that has no flight-plan, no destination, no gauges or controls? Why on earth would you attempt to start a business without a detailed plan, set of distinct…