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Why You Need To Become An Affiliate.

There are lots of ways to get on the web and have your own business. There are however a number of advantages to affiliate marketing that you are unlikely to find elsewhere. To really understand the fundamentals of affiliate marketing and what it can do for you, we need to go deeper and analyze it. In this post we will look at three reasons why affiliate marketing works so well and why you should join an affiliate program right away. There are new products being launched all the time that you can benefit from with affiliate marketing. 1. The World Is Your Oyster There really is no limit to defining… Read More »Why You Need To Become An Affiliate.

The Ultimate Google Hangouts Marketing Roadmap Review

Google Hangouts is a cool tool that I haven’t explored much but need to so this little book comes in handy. Being able to stream live and then have it post straight to YouTube seamlessly is impressive. And the use that this can be put to market a business is only limited by your imagination. Knowing how to actually make it all happen is the challenge: not if you follow this Roadmap. Anyway, here’s what I thought of this guide: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=pZhfV4b4DM8

Domain Name Scams

The internet is a wonderful place and at the same time there are unscrupulous people trying to catch the unwary.

In the mail I have received at various times a notification of my domain names due for renewal. The document looks authentic and appears to be a regular business invoice. I’m confident some of these end up in unsuspecting accounts departments and get paid. The only thing is that what these documents authorise is that you transfer your domain to them as your new registrar and you get to pay 100 times the going cost of renewing a domain!

Another one I got today by email is reproduced here for all to be aware:

From Tom Zu [tom.zu@pubip.org]

Letter to the president or brand owner, thanks)

Dear President,

We are the department of Asian Domain Registration Service in china.I have something to confirm with you. We formally received an application on may 7, 2012 that a companyRead More »Domain Name Scams

Syncing MindJet App With Dropbox

MindJet recently changed their pricing for their mindmap app to FREE. So I grabbed it. And I have dropbox which was the appeal – I could work on maps wherever I was.

So, because I was travelling when I downloaded the app (iPhone) I started merrily using it and created three extensive maps for courses I was preparing and books I am in the process of writing.

I stored them, logically, in local files.

Then I setup my dropbox account within MindJet. Set up a folder in DropBox for MindJet maps.

And hit the sync button.

Nothing.

Off to Google to find a solution.

Nothing.
Off to the Mindjet website and forums.
Nothing.
Then I decided, well, let me see if it works in reverse. Back at the office PC I uploaded s map to dropbox.
Logged in to the iPhone app. Yes! That worked. I could see theRead More »Syncing MindJet App With Dropbox

Fix Toshiba L640 – Restore to Factory Settings

Does anyone else think it’s silly that computer manufacturers have stripped down what they provide you when you buy these days. What’s really weird is that the User Guide is usually provided in soft copy on your machine. That means you need to start your machine to learn how to start your machine!

In any case if you need to restore your machine back to factory default settings, the best solution is usually contained within the User Guide supplied with your laptop. Hot Tip – print it out!!

Repair

For the Toshiba Satellite L640 series, here’s how to REPAIR your system if you need to:

1. WARNING – back up ANY data you don’t want to lose to an external drive or disc or usb device (there’s really no point in backing up to your existing drive!)

2. turn off the laptop

How to Install Joomla 1.6

Joomla 1.6 has been released and being a bumbling tech-head I wanted to check it out. I’ve been a Joomla user since the Mambo days so had been familiar with it but more recently I had been swayed to WordPress for its ease and simplicity. Joomla still has some nifty features and is IMHO more powerful than WordPress so it may not meet the average person’s need. but I thought ‘maybe the 1.6 version changes the game’ because it has been a MAJOR rewrite of much of the system.

So, if you want to know how to install and set-up Joomla 1.6, follow.

download the compressed file and unzip it on your desktop/laptop (NB you can install other ways like through your webhost but I tried that twice and it timed out so I’m showing you exactly what I did – the manual option)