The Dragons Den is a TV reality show whereby "contestants" go in front of a panel of "millionaires", to present a business idea and try to secure funding (in exchange for a stake in the fledgling business. The Dragons basically rip into these people with no mercy, trying to find any weak aspects of their [...]
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I recently used the 'Customer Support' email form at Amazon to ask a fairly straightforward question, If I purchase an item from someones wishlist, would they be made aware of my home address. OK, fairly easy, simple question which is not covered in their privacy policy! The initial response was obviously not from a "human", [...]
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Do you want to make money through the Internet but you don't have enough experience or capital to start your own online business? You don't have to worry, for a lot of online marketing options exist for you to start with. One of these options is affiliate marketing. Affiliate marketing provides first time online marketers [...]
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Informational Products are the greatest product since sliced bread. People love to purchase information. And eBooks are great because they are easy to write, easy to produce (no printing costs), and easy to distribute (download or by email). What could be better! In this blog message, I'm going to show what to write about, and [...]
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And I ended up slightly over target at 108.22% – the majority of which was Template and eBook sales, with 13.67% as Adsense, and 10.86% as Affiliated Income. So, overall, a good week – any week is good when targets are exceeded! Best day was Wednesday at 165.54% of target (a few eBooks, a template [...]
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I'm not sure why, but some blogs and sites that I read don't show the live bookmark button in Firefox. But all is not lost! So long as you know the site has an XML or RSS feed, you can add a live bookmark quite easily – simply go to the Bookmarks menu and select [...]
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When is 24 hours not 24 hours? When it's Internet Time! I was trying to explain my AIS stuff to a friend who is totally computer illiterate – I was trying to explain that Internet time is not the same as keeping a shop. I pointed out the following example: If you own a shop [...]
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Hurrah! I just exceeded this weeks target (today is the last day of this week) with a $78 order for eBooks…right now I am at 101.33% of weekly target Of course, there is still quite some time to go in the day yet, so I am hoping for a few more AIS's to make up [...]
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I don't get many chargebacks via Paypal (maybe around 5 or 6 per year) – I generally don't bother fighting them as it is most likely that Paypal will side with the buyer rather than the seller… However, I recently received a chargeback from someone who stated to Paypal "I never received the item". I [...]
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