[Cat Dancer]

Originally Posted by Dave Kaminski

I've definitely fallen prey to giving advice when it's not asked for. ... should probably learn to keep my mouth shut a bit more often though.

Yeah, I keep reminding myself to ask "do you want advice about that"?

Brainstorm ways on how you could monetize this?

Oh, that's easy Create a web site. Put up articles giving advice. Invite people to ask for advice, answer the questions, and grow the site. Generate multiple streams of income through useful ads, affiliate marketing, and donations.

Is there a systematic way you go about thinking these things through that you could write a book about?

Sure. Run the web site for a year. Collect the "best of" articles. Publish a book.

Could you do a column for a mag or paper specific to your knowledge of programming or job hunting or relationships or something you could specialize helping people with?

Could, but probably not necessary in this new age of blogging, tracebacks, and voting on media sites like Reddit and Digg. People can find your content on your site as easily as in someone else's publication. Though certainly it would be useful to do some interviews etc. to let people know about the site initially.

Could you consult!?

Sure. Once there's some traffic to the site, that's easy marketing for a consulting service.