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10 Ways to Be Successful with Affiliate Sales

Affiliate marketing is one of the fastest and most affordable ways to get started making money online. In essence, what you are doing is selling other companies’ products for a commission. You can make money without developing your own product or building your own sales site. All you do is promote the product and send the customers to the company’s site to make the purchase. Of course, I don’t want to make this sound too easy. It does take work, commitment, persistence and time like any other business.

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Mac App Store reaches 100 million downloads

Whether you’re a PC or a Mac, people have certainly been app happy this year. Apple announced yesterday that the Mac App Store has sold over 100 million apps in less than one year, coming on the heels of Android’s own annoucement last week that the Android Market downloads have reached the 10 billion mark. Apple launched its online Mac App store in January, building upon the extraordinary momentum generated by its App Store for iPhone, iPad and iPod devices. The original App Store revolutionized the app industry, now offering more than 500,000 apps for Apple’s smartphones and tablets. Customers have downloaded more than 18 billion apps and continue to download more than 1 billion apps per month. “In just three years the App Store changed how people get mobile apps, and now the Mac App Store is changing the traditional PC software industry,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing. “With more than 100 million downloads in less than a year, the Mac App Store is the largest and fastest growing PC software store in the world.” The Mac App Store offers thousands of free and paid apps in various categories, including Education, Games, Graphics & Design, Lifestyle, Productivity and Utilities. Users can browse for apps in the online store and then buy them using their iTunes account. Additionally, Apple lets Mac developers set the prices for their apps and keep 70 per cent of the sales revenue.

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Mobile POS Payments Could Save Your Business Life – A SPN Exclusive Article

Honest Restaurant Owner Held Responsible For Fraudulent Transactions Here’s a true story that you may be able to relate to. You’re a merchant running a large local or national restaurant or other retail business. You work very hard and you’ve been fortunate to attract quality people along the way, people that are loyal and very hard working, people that have become family. You have 5 different locations and the management team that you’ve finally assembled in place does a great job and despite the challenging economy, you are beginning to do quite well again. Mostly due to your cost saving efforts and hard work. You’re comfortable and the future looks good when all of a sudden and without warning your business checking account is debited nearly $200,000. The money literally disappears overnight without notification. You only find out because your morning coffee purchase at Starbucks was declined on your company debit card, which should have just over $185,000 available on it. You’re calm on the outside and anxious on the inside because in this economy every sale counts and you’re certain there’s a mistake that someone must have made.

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Herding Cats with WordPress Plug-ins

Yippee! Open Source Software! We love it! Really? I’m not a tech guy nor do I play one on TV, but all the hype about how WordPress and other similar stuff makes your life easy is overestimated, at best. My latest escapade into herding cats is trying to manage the zillion plug-ins I have running on my site by myself. Kill me now, but outsourcing is for me. Plug-in Fever I’ve developed a website that has plug-ins, those little bolt on attachments all created by various authors and revised at different times, coming out of the wood work! I have plug-ins for… * affiliate ad postings * similar blog posts * social media icons * e-commerce * SEO * form generation * spam avoidance * popups * columns That’s just to list a few.

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Android and Apple duke it out for app sales

Jobs’ pledge to destroy Android may not be as simple as all that, as a new study reveals Android continues to flex its muscle when it comes to app downloads. Android captured a staggering 44 per cent of total mobile app downloads in the second quarter, handily surpassing Apple, which captured only 31 per cent in comparison. The second quarter also saw Apple shipments fall to 9 per cent – from 15 per cent in the first quarter – while Android has no such trouble, as shipment growth rose to 36 per cent, up from 20 per cent in the first quarter. ABI research associate Lim Shiyang said: “Being a free platform has expanded the Android device install base, which in turn has driven growth in the number of third-party multi-platform and mobile operator app stores. “These conditions alone explain why Android is the new leader in the mobile application market.” However, that’s not to say Apple doesn’t still pack a punch.

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Finally… Google Analytics to Provide Real-Time Reporting

Like millions of other website owners, I use Google Analytics to analyze my website stats. And while I actually like GA a lot, it isn’t perfect. My biggest pet-peeve with the software is the fact it doesn’t provide real-time results. It has a lag time of at least an hour or two before you can view most of your data, and a full 24-hour lag time on full data reporting. With all the brilliant engineers Google employs, that particular flaw has never made any logical sense to me. That negative aspect of GA has been bugging the heck out of me for years. Well, finally, that’s all about to change and fast. How fast

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Reader Rescue : Should My Meta Description Tags Just Duplicate My Title Tags?

Hi Everyone From early days learning SEO, I went ahead and did all my meta descriptions with a bit of blurb about the page but my *Guru* has told me this is incorrect and I should include only the title of the page in the meta description, eg “Antique Dining Chairs” whereas I had put in “Antique Dining Chairs – over 500 chairs on display at the Glebe Antique Centre.  Dining chairs to match your table, occasional chairs for that special place in your home” . Any thoughts before I go and change everything yet again? Christine ————————————– Hi Christine From where I’m sitting, your *guru* is wrong. Remember, your meta description tag is often used as the snippet on the search results pages to describe your site. So apart from including keywords, it has to do the job of convincing people to click on it. A nonsensical list of keywords is not going to convince people to click so you have to balance it out with an appealing sentence, preferably including a call-to-action or reason to click. Yes, it’s important to put your keywords at the start of the tag if you can, but you have up to 160 characters in that tag indexed by search engines , so you should use the space to your advantage. Having a short, unimaginative meta description or simply copying your title tag is not going to make any difference to your overall rankings and is more likely to turn your potential visitors off. Google admitted that it no longer considers the meta description tag in their ranking algorithm anyway, so, other search engines aside, the main job of the tag in Google SERPs is to convince people to click on the link and visit your site

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Why Copywriting is the Litmus Test of Your Online Marketing Readiness

Online marketing requires considerable planning, especially to those promoting a service. Service business owners and independent professionals face multiple challenges of promoting themselves as well as communicating the value of their services. Therefore service business owners often question whether they are ready to launch a full-scale online marketing effort. Almost always, the question can best be answered by the copywriter – the resource charged with creating and implementing the business’s message strategy.

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6 Essential Social Media Marketing Tips

When you go about marketing your online business through social media, there are a few basic guidelines you should aim to follow. These can be applied to forming connections in social networking sites such as Facebook or Twitter, as well as in social bookmarking services like Digg, StumbleUpon or Reddit – although, perhaps to a slightly lesser extent. Being a success through social media is all about leveraging connections, and giving in to the fact that no website is an island. If you are completely self-absorbed and only socialize with others for your own benefit, then you will have a hard time building a loyal following. These next few tips will help get you moving in the right direction, so you can grow your network much faster by using social media. 1. Get To Know The Culture: Before you get too trigger-happy and start sending friend requests or following people all over the place, get comfortable with how people interact in your chosen network. Find out what people respond to and get a sense of the language and etiquette people use when communicating with each other

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How to Webcast Videos on the Internet

Webcasting, also known as live video streaming, is one of the fastest growing video production services. Companies are increasingly using webcasting as a means of communicating that is more engaging than a conference call. The reason that webcasting is so much more effective as a communication tool, as compared to a phone call, is that part of all messages is delivered in non-verbal communication that isn’t transmitted using audio alone. Webcasting also has the benefit of connecting groups that aren’t in the same physical location at the same time to the same presenter and is often used at conferences, both for incoming and outgoing video communications. Live video streaming saves both the time and expense of flying a speaker to several locations and is an effective way for companies to lower their carbon footprint. Single camera webcasts can be very simple to produce but multi-camera webcasts require professional equipment and a technical director to perform the live switching. For the most basic webcast, a single camera transmits both the audio and video feeds to a computer that is connected to the Internet and the video is uploaded to a streaming server

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