Archive for the ‘web development’ Category

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...