Archive for December, 2006

Choosing an Affiliate Program

Tuesday, December 19th, 2006

As I wrote about a few days ago, I had decided to get some affiliate links on CommerceCubes.  Now comes the question which to choose?  Naturally I am interested in promoting Secure Delivery as an affiliate but I am also having a look at a few others. Things I need to ...

Secure Delivery Review Part 2: Signing up and using Secure Delivery

Monday, December 18th, 2006

In my original posting about Secure Delivery I talked a bit about the team behind Secure Delivery and the technology that makes it a good service for people who produce and sell their own digital content. I also talked about the pricing structure that is currently in place for ...

What is Affiliate Marketing?

Sunday, December 17th, 2006

If you are fairly new to the web then I am sure that you’ve possibly heard the term “Affiliate Marketing”.  What does this mean on the web?  Well for one thing if you run a site that is content based you can incorporate ads into the articles or the site ...

Business a Building Progressively is a Chess Game

Saturday, December 16th, 2006

Most people who first start in business fail at least once. After that some experiment to find businesses that they are truly good at (which is what I’ve been doing) while other people simply progress taking the things that they liked from working in the last venture to the ...

Digital Goods and The threat of Theft

Friday, December 15th, 2006

Ever since I started doing my initial review of Secure Delivery earlier this week I’ve actually come into a few outside conversations with other business owners (One being my dad and the other being a small business owner I’ve been talking to online) involving digital goods; specifically the sale of ...

Skype your brains out till the 31st of December

Friday, December 15th, 2006

I just received a friendly reminder today that SkypeOut services for FREE are ending on December 31, 2006.  After that time a $0.021 USD charge will apply when making a call to a landline. I’ve used Skype a bit for business and personal over the past year and I’ve only ever ...

Site Meter… for the Statistic Lover in you

Thursday, December 14th, 2006

In my travels on the net I keep coming across Site Meter on various websites. Naturally this perked my curiosity enough to install it on my site. For a free application/service it really is a great little tool for those of you looking for an application to track ...

Review of Secure Delivery by Portal Labs – Part 1

Wednesday, December 13th, 2006

I mentioned in a previous posting that I would be reviewing Secure Delivery in the coming days and without further delay here is Part One of my review of Secure Delivery. Well after doing some signing up and logging in I am an official Secure Delivery user and member. Thanks ...

Buying Leverage but at what Cost

Wednesday, December 13th, 2006

I always enjoy reading a solid article from Dani (Danielle) Rodgers. Strolling through SmallBusinessBranding.com today I was reading her article about Lessons from the Startup Front > Choosing Hired Guns. Having been a “Hired Gun” on a few occasions in the past I can personally attest to what ...

Dell Delivers and Christmas Shopping Persists

Monday, December 11th, 2006

After a little waiting for the system disks from dell they have finally arrived so I am proceeding with my Ubuntu install. I picked up the disks this morning from Purolator (all of which were shipped for free… thanks to Dell Computers). There is one thing that I ...