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Don’t let your ClickBank account go dormant. Here’s how

Does your ClickBank account look like this image? Are you bleeding those few hard-earned dollars away bit by bit. If so, then your account is dormant. No activity after 90 days leads to dormancy and then fees go up the longer it stays that way (up to $15/month after a year of inactivity).
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Contest Day 4: A Bit Behind

Khalid’s Day 4 Summary
Wow, time does fly by when you’re <insert verb here>. Yup, so you really need to be on a plan/schedule. Boy am I glad I did. So am I on schedule? More or less. Ok, honestly, less. The big honking lesson is that I definitely underestimated how long tasks would/will take.
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Post-Mortem on GetFriday (Virtual Assistant Company)

Almost a year ago, we started our trial of GetFriday, a ‘virtual assistant’ or ‘outsourced assistant’ company based in India. Their fees start at around $10/hour and go down from there the larger the monthly plan you get. We eventually decided to part ways with them, mainly due to a few factors: 1. cost-cutting on [...]

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Tutorial on setting up the Google Custom Search Engine on your Wordpress blog

In all likelihood, you’ve seen where you perform a search on a website and the results look just very much like what you get when you do a search on Google. Well, in case you’re wondering how that works, Google has a product called Google Custom Search that lets you do just that. There are [...]

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References to help you decide on a replacement Blog Commenting system

We recently decided to replace the built-in commenting system that comes with Wordpress on Gizmos for Geeks due to its limitations and that we were spending too much time dealing with spam comments. We looked at the 4 most popular/capable comment replacement systems available now: IntenseDebate, Disqus, Backtype and JS-Kit’s ECHO. We briefly considered Facebook [...]

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The Power of the “Season”

I love this graph. It is so telling. This is a track of our visitors to one of Halloween costume websites. Look at how it rises steadily to the height of traffic on Halloween day (interestingly enough – probably from people looking for last minute ideas) and then falling precipitously the next 2 days (the [...]

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The Power of the "Season"

I love this graph. It is so telling. This is a track of our visitors to one of Halloween costume websites. Look at how it rises steadily to the height of traffic on Halloween day (interestingly enough – probably from people looking for last minute ideas) and then falling precipitously the next 2 days (the [...]

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Insurance Money well-spent: a concrete example

Over a year ago, we wrote about being ‘penny-wise, pound-foolish’, or rather advising not to be! Well, I have another very concrete example of how spending a bit more money up front saved me a whole lot of time and by extension, money.
I’ll nutshell it up front: I built my computer with the operating system [...]

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Bloggers must now disclose when they receive free samples

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has decided that bloggers need to disclose if they’ve received ‘freebies’ that they blog about or write reviews on. Otherwise they would be liable for fines on the order of $10 to $20,000.

In addition, testimonial advertisements now need to be more explicit in what customers can reasonably expect when they [...]

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Bootstrap Don’t Borrow

At a recent Meet the Angels event in Atlanta, the panelists made sure entrepreneurs knew that angels “should be a last resort”. While this was shocking for the entrepreneurs, the panelist described working with Angels is “expensive and onerous” and suggest that if you can avoid it, you should. So what’s an entrepreneur [...]

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