• PayPal Charges Effective 10% on Certain Transactions?

    PayPal, like many merchant accounts, have internal schedule sheets of obfuscated rates that would be undecipherable by even most bankers—in fact, I have met several whom was baffled when I showed them the full schedule sheet of rates that the Read More...

  • Amazon Cuts Affiliate Program in California

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    Internet retailer Amazon.com cut its business with its affiliates based in California on June 29, the day after the California legislature passed a provision taxing out-of-state internet retailers. Previously, internet retailers had not been required to collect sales tax thanks to Read More...

  • Google Mail For Your Business Emails

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    I stumbled upon an interview floating on the Internet between Bill Gates and Steven Levy, the author of In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives.  This conversation happened shortly after Gmail was launched.

    “How could you need

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  • The Social Web – Facebook

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    This past year has seen a real fight for dominance between what’s known as the Search web (Google, Yahoo, Bing) VS the Social Web (Facebook, Twitter), and the social web seems to be taking over Read More...

  • Mobile Marketing on the Rise

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    Does this look familiar? What you’re seeing above is called SMS or Text Message marketing, and right now it’s taking the world of advertising by storm.

    2011 is a very important year for online marketing, we’re in the middle of a Read More...

Case Study: Google Placements for Client

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One of our clients offers face painting and henna tattoo services for events.  We performed a Google placements service for her to get her business on the top of Google.  One of the issues we ran into were that Google Read More…

Google Lenient on E-Commerce Duplicate Content

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For the privacy and competitive advantage protection of our clients, I will not disclose any specifics.  However, as I was working with a client’s online store, which was on the Magento E-Commerce software platform, I noticed something peculiar in the Read More…

Increase in Visitor Trends: Androids, iPhones & iPads

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During the launch of the iPad 2, Steve Jobs gave a pretty impressive speech describing that we are entering a “Post-PC era”.  Right now, the majority of traffic most websites get are still from desktop, laptop and network operating systems. Read More…

Google SEO: Acronyms in the Domain Name

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It has been proven that a domain name with the exact matching keyword you are aiming to rank for on Google is very effective.  When I did a search for “search engine optimization” on Google, I realized something interesting.  The Read More…

New Office in Hollywood!!

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The new office for ONE V8, LLC / Variable8 is in Hollywood!  We are now on La Brea, between Sunset and Fountain. I will have some better quality pictures soon. These were taken from my Samsung Epic 4G, but check Read More…

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