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From Commission Junction
Like many independent publishers, Jeremy Palmer began working in performance-based marketing part-time. After applying some of the best practices recommended by ValueClick’s Commission Junction and developing his own specialized sites, Jeremy was able to quit his job and work full-time as an independent publisher. Today, Jeremy runs over 100 sites from online [...]

From Bootstrapper Notes…
$100/Day Challenge - April 2006 Totals
For April 2006:
Sales: $4,591.70 (includes my products and other products where I am the affiliate)
Adsense: $168.39 (earnings from my list - no search traffic)
Affiliate Sales: $30.04 (outside of Clickbank)
Refunds: $382.96
Adwords: $2,115.63
Overture: $9.63
Total Profit: $2,281.91
ROI: 107.37%
Total Profit/Day: $76.06

Read it all..

Can you write an ebook and sell it on line?
You might join the ranks of those cashing in on the increasing profitability of ebooks.
PUBLISHERS REPORT CONTINUED INCREASES IN eBOOK REVENUE FOR 2005. eBook
publishers reported increases in eBook revenue over the previous year with a 23% increase in eBook revenues over 2004. eBook units sold [...]

WEB POPULATION HITS NEW HIGH IN U.S.: The U.S. online population has hit an all-time high: 73 percent of adults, or 147 million, now use the Internet. The figures represent an increase from 66 percent, or 133
million adults, in January 2005, according to the Pew Internet and American Life Project. But only 42 percent of [...]

From Skip McGrath…

1. Poor Feedback Rating
2. Don’t accept credit cards
3. Weak Headlines & Poor Product Descriptions
4. Poor images turn off sellers
5. Underestimating costs & losing money

Ty Tribble, our Ebay expert notes that the auction platform isn’t doing so well in Mainland China.

SFGate:

EBay has little hope of capturing a bigger share of the Chinese online auction market despite bankrolling a major expansion there, according to the company’s chief Chinese rival.
Jack Ma, chief executive of Alibaba.com, China’s leading Internet marketplace, [...]

Adrants reports that the long time print empire of TV Guide may finally recognize it’s growing dinosaur status.
To retain advertising dollars and market share it’s launching 65 blogs …
The blogs, written by magazine and web editorial staff, focus on individual television shows, movies, soaps and just about everything else that has to do with [...]

First this is about personal blogs… the kind that one person or a team can create and edit, not about making a million blogs with remixed content at each blog for keyword saturation purposes.
I’ll reproduce just one exchange in this debate, but the whole article is worth reading!
From Start Up Journal
Alan Meckler writes: Jason, good [...]

Over at the Jensense blog, there’s a pretty good summary of recent discussions that makes you wonder if pages displaying Google Adsense ad get preference in indexing.
In other words… Adsense may indeed be a faster back door into Google.
Since Google AdSense launched, there has been rumors and speculation about the possibility of the AdSense bot [...]

Here’s my experience thus far with “Dave’s Cool Little Website”…
It works!
Pretty much.
Dave’s cool little website does everything promised, has good to great follow up support, and costs $97 plus the domain name.
I was shocked to start getting money from ebay several times a week thanks to having people visit my website Low Auction Seller.
So [...]