Internet Marketing Toolbox

Oh I wouldn’t want a business on eBay for quids! The changes are coming so think and fast it’s almost impossible to keep up.

After last month’s digital delivery fiasco, it seems that now eBay Australia wants to get into the action by announcing they will ONLY accept CASH or PAYPAL after June 17, 2008.

So with direct deposits, money orders and personal cheques no longer viable payment options from June 17 on, it seems eBay will …

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While I’m wrapped with using WordPress as a publishing platform, I DO want to take things a step or two further, and right now, I want to include a membership section on a web site. That means HIDING my WordPress pages and posts from the public, and showing them only to paying “members”.

You’d think that would be a very simple thing to do with WordPress - just grab another plugin, and voila! Instant membership section.

Not …

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Have you developed a workable comment policy for your blog-based web site? While it doesn’t need to be published for all to see, it does help if you have a set of guidelines you can follow to help decide which comments to publish, and which Akismet comments to de-spam.

For starters, all comments to your blog should be approved before publication. That means as soon as someone makes a comment, they’ll see the “Your comment is …

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In a move which shocked thousands of eBay digital goods store owners, eBay has banned goods with digital delivery methods - ebooks, music, software, web templates, domain name sales, design services, web hosting, craft epatterns etc - from being shown in their auction marketplace.

Instead, if you want to list such products, you have to now use their Classified Ads service.

Brian Burke, eBay’s Director Global Feedback Policy, cited “feedback manipulation” as the reason for this …

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Two current Internet Marketing promotions are poised to split the IM community… or at the very least, give it a lot to talk about! On one hand, you’ve got the crowd who say that the best way to succeed online is to freely give first, and grow on your reputation. On the other hand, the train of thought is to monetize absolutely everything you do, including your marketing.

Both promotions are part of a launch for …

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How do you find out what THE most important question people have about Internet Marketing is? Simple! Just ask them. Mark Joyner did that, and already there’s a virtual landslide of responses… well, I’d call 143 comments on a blog post after 10 hours a landslide!!! Check them out for an excellent insight into the Internet Marketing marketplace.

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A client sent me an email today noticing an increase in the amount of spam they were getting, and wondered what they could do about it. Ahh… the eternal question! Here are some of my thoughts on preventing, limiting and dealing with spam!

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Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.

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I WAS going to get an early night… too many up past midnight this past week… and then I discovered Free IQ . Well now it’s way past bedtime (again) and my brain’s going at a hundred miles an hour with all the new possibilities I’ve got before me!

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A very simple WordPress trick to save you heaps of time and frustration… and possibly even “automate” your blogging.

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