Variable8 Blog http://www.variable8.com/blog Thu, 14 Jul 2011 11:05:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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...

]]> http://www.variable8.com/blog/2011/07/paypal-charges-effective-10-on-certain-transactions/ Amazon Cuts Affiliate Program in California 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...

]]> http://www.variable8.com/blog/2011/06/amazon-cuts-affiliate-program-in-california/ Case Study: Google Placements for Client 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...

]]> http://www.variable8.com/blog/2011/06/case-study-google-placements-for-client/ Amazon.com Gets Rid of Affiliate Program in State of Illinois Amazon.com offers one of the highest rated and popular affiliate programs on the Internet, through their Amazon Associates.  I found out about this actually through purchasing an investment website, and the seller was selling because he was a resident of Read More...

]]> http://www.variable8.com/blog/2011/05/amazon-com-gets-rid-of-affiliate-program-in-state-of-illinois/ Auction Websites With New Bidding Algorithms There are a lot of auction style websites on the Internet, which creates a platform that allows the market demand to dictate the exact price that people are willing to pay for an item.  There is a subtle but major Read More...

]]> http://www.variable8.com/blog/2011/05/auction-websites-with-new-bidding-algorithms/ Google Lenient on E-Commerce Duplicate Content 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...

]]> http://www.variable8.com/blog/2011/05/google-lenient-on-e-commerce-content/ Google Mail For Your Business Emails 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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]]> http://www.variable8.com/blog/2011/04/google-mail-for-your-business-emails/ Increase in Visitor Trends: Androids, iPhones & iPads 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...

]]> http://www.variable8.com/blog/2011/04/increase-in-visitor-trends-androids-iphones-ipads/ The Social Web – Facebook

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...

]]> http://www.variable8.com/blog/2011/04/the-social-web-facebook/ Mobile Marketing on the Rise

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...

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