Archive for the ‘entrepreneurship’ Category

Is all Affiliate Marketing equal?

Thursday, December 21st, 2006

Affiliate Marketing thru an Affiliate Marketing Company or Affiliate Marketing Directly with an end Company, which is better? Is it better to go with dependent affiliate programs or services such as Commission Junction, Linkshare and others? For the past week or so I’ve been looking more in depth at affiliate ...

Update: FreshBooks Referral Program

Tuesday, December 19th, 2006

I’ve finally had a chance to sit down and go thru FreshBooks Referral Program that they offer prospective affiliates of their software. As you can tell from my previous posting I was greatly considering them until I read the terms of payment for their service, especially the highlighted one ...

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 ...

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 ...

OpenOffice.org for your Open Business

Monday, December 11th, 2006

As I wrote about yesterday if you are in business and even if you use computers recreationally you've probably come across open source applications like WordPress (like this Blog has used), Ubuntu (thanks Jason ;) ) and the closed source products from such companies as Microsoft, Trend Micro, Adobe among ...

Closed Source & Open Source for Your Business

Sunday, December 10th, 2006

So much of today’s software is open source based because people use it in mass quantities. There are competitive advantages to both Closed and Open source software but how do they affect your business? With software being used by pretty much every business in the modern world today ...