Archive for the ‘Marketing’ Category

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Friday, January 5th, 2007

Recently I’ve had the good people over at MindPetals helping me promote my “entrepreneurship” category of writing. I haven’t been invited to the 9Rules network as of yet but that’s okay as i may have to wait a while on that one. Recently I came across a Publishing service called ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ubuntu Lovers show your pride

Friday, December 8th, 2006

Now I am sure you’ve heard me talking about Ubuntu and the trials and tribulations I’ve been having to get Ubuntu installed on my Laptop but for all you Ubuntu lovers out there that are interested you can now get stickers to show everyone that you are an Ubuntu supporter. This ...

What’s in a Business Name?

Monday, December 4th, 2006

What really is in a business name? I’ve got to say that a certain amount of marketability is needed for a business name to be successful. Beyond that it helps if people can tell what kind of business you are in by hearing your business name. That’s ...

Abused Buzzword: Web 2.0

Friday, December 1st, 2006

I’ve got to say that one of the best blogs around is Kathy Sierra’s, Creating Passionate Users Blog.  Recently she wrote about the Web 2.0 phenomenon and I personally thought this passage was quite fitting… Many people hate the phrase "Web 2.0" even more than they hate what they believe it ...

Business is all about “people”

Thursday, November 23rd, 2006

Ever since I bought my laptop from dell I can tell you that I’ve been impressed by the measures they take to collect data about you.  They really get the whole “we want to learn about our customers” point I’ve talked about a few times before on this blog.  My ...

A Business Card is born

Wednesday, November 8th, 2006

I’ve been putting together my business for the past few months and finally I am getting to the point of having business cards done up. I could pay someone just as easily to design and develop a layout but it won’t have that personal touch that I think misses ...