Archive for December, 2006

Amazon.com started what could arguably be called the first affiliate program by offering referral fees to site owners.
As the rest of the industry moved to monthly payments long ago, Amazon.com continued its slow quarterly payment method arguably because of concerns about returned items.
Evidently the number crunching is over and the company feels secure in offering [...]

In a recently released study from the Center on Faith In Communities the organization surveyed 250 Faith Based Organizations in cities like Cincinnati; Boston; Houston; Philadelphia; Atlanta; Phoenix; San Diego; Memphis; Portland; Trenton; Indianapolis; and Kansas City.
The survey found that 37 percent of the groups were currently engaged in earned-income ventures, while another 20 percent [...]

Don’t you love those hokey “motivational posters” that employers hang around the office to squeeze the last drop of blood from you turnips?
Go to Despair.com’s Demotivational Poster Generator and FIGHT BACK against “The Man!” (or to be inclusive in our derision, “The Broad!”)
And now you can even make PARODIES of MOTIVATIONAL Posters too!
Here’s my [...]

WriteToMyBlog.com is a new, free and interesting web based word processing tool to help you more effortlessly post to your weblog(s) without actually storing the data – it’s a web interface. It even allows you to post the same content to multiple blogs though the search engines frown on that.
It works with all the major blog [...]

FreeSell.com is using some interesting celebrity auctions to attract attention to their low fee site. It’s completely free to list your auction… then when you sell, you’re charged a mere 1% of the sale! That’s pretty good if the site can catch on.
The picture here is a bout a diamond ring a “Desperate Housewives” starlet used [...]

I’m into finding cheap advertising strategies. Cheap doesn’t always work but this one might work or at least fit into a larger overall strategy.
I was surfing Flickr.com the other day looking for photos for a blog entry.
I noticed that certain accounts came up again and again and that they were for a poltical campaign or [...]

One truism in the direct mail world – if you have a targeted list of hot prospects and a good product is “the more you tell, the more you sell”.
One very successful promotion in the late 80’s involved full page, all text (except one small corner photo) lead generation ads with a toll free number [...]

Why does Google want to be a domain name registrar? The New York Times gives as good an explanation as any…to more quickly update it’s search registry, elminate well optimized but otherwise worthless pages that just have ads at expired domains, and to keep it’s free search engine results as relevant as possible. Or is [...]

The Google Local Business center could be helping your home business. Are you taking advantage of it?
In addition to being able to create your Google Local Business listing here that gives you a free Google directory listing…
Now you can add your Local Coupons to your Google map results.
If you want to tell people what you [...]

People ask me if I still participate in MLM or network marketing. Mostly I just particpate to buy the products from Triolgy, especially their Omega 3 product. I like the fact that it goes to great painst to remove impurities and gives you the most bank for your buck when you’re shopping for pure Omega-3 [...]