Archive for the 'Selling Online' Category

Is There no Alternative to PayPal?

As someone who makes all (or virtually all) of his income online, I am dependent upon PayPal. It is the online currency of the internet, for better or worse.
The frustrating thing is that there is NO alternative to PayPal. Not a real alternative, anyway. Why? Market share.
According to eBay (who owns PayPal), over 90% of [...]

How I Finally Made Money With Affiliate Marketing

About a month ago, I decided to get serious about learning to how to make money with affiliate marketing. I mean, I had made a dollar or two off of Amazon and the like, but I was not having any success breaking through.
I have been reading a few books, scouring the interwebs for articles, trawling [...]

6 Reasons Your Business Should Sell on eBay (part 2)

NOTE: This is article 2 of 3.
6 Reasons Your Business Should Sell on eBay (part 1)
In a previous post, I mentioned six reasons you should have a strategy for using eBay to build your business. Today, I take the first three reasons and expand on them. After my next post, where I expand on [...]

6 Reasons Your Business Should Sell on eBay

NOTE: This is article 1 of 3.
6 Reasons Your Business Should Sell on eBay (Part 2)
Unless you have been in a cave for the last 10 years or so, you have probably bought or sold something on eBay. What started off as a hobbyist site to sell your odds and ends has become big business, [...]

Who Do You Blog For? Write For Both Machines and Readers.

A dilemma for bloggers: Do you write for Google, and use lots of keywords to attract the attention of both Google and those who are browsing search results, or do you write for your regular readers, using conversational or intriguing titles, like “Dancing with the bears while camping“.
Many people write for the machines: ie. [...]

Do You Squidoo?

I like the bald guy. I have read pretty much everything he has written, and his blog has made it through every purge of my feeds I have ever had. So when he got behind the founding of Squidoo, I looked into it. Hard. And I just did not get it.
(For the uninitiated, Squidoo lets [...]