• 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

    Amazon Affiliates Cut

    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...

Grab a Dot Com Domain for only $1!

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GoDaddy.com is having a special sale through August 31st,  get ANY .com domain  on sale for only $1. We thought this was a great deal, and even bought a couple domains for ourselves so we’re spreading the message to our readers. Read More…

Glimpse of HTML5 Technology

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HTML5 is on the horizon.  It is the new markup language platform that is going to take over the Internet.  While it is still primitive in actual website implementations at the moment, the platform is robust and serves many applications that our predecessor markup Read More…

Google Fails with Google Wave

Google Wave was suppose to be the ultimate collaboration software because Google engineers made it.  Google is suppose to be almighty and everything they build is flawless.  Unfortunately, that’s a myth.  Google’s overhyped collaboration software Google Wave fails.

And according Read More…

PayPal Fees Go Up, Features Go Down

PayPal Fees go Up, PayPal Plugin Gone

PayPal has increased the cost of chargebacks from $10 to $20.  For refunds, PayPal will refund the 2.99% but will KEEP the 30 cent transaction fee.  This is a mandatory non negotiable change in your policy, effective August 2010.

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.Co Domain Name Extensions

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Excellent news to the business owners out there that have a company, campaign or blog!  It is actually available today!  Today is July 20th and the .Co era is now here!!!  The exciting thing is if you want to get Read More…