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There have been multiple forum threads lately about people believing it’s OK to copy (steal) a vendor’s squeeze page without asking for permission and put it on their affiliate site to build their own list to promote the vendor’s product.
The belief seems to be that since they know a couple of vendors that wouldn’t care [...]
Google Promoting ITSELF As A “Work From Home” Method
This surprised me enough to take a screen shot of it…
You probably know there are a lot of Biz Opps pitched as a way to “make money at home with Google Adwords”.
Well, apparently Google wants in on the action.
Here’s a screenshot of an actual search result done today:
To make sure it wasn’t a fluke, [...]
Customers Are Stupid (wait, maybe it’s you…)
There is a forum thread going on right now with online business owners laughing about how stupid their customers are. The initial example was about someone who was given a password to login that looked like this:
EHSKHEQW (Upper Case)
…But instead of understanding that it was supposed to mean that the eight letters were all capitals, [...]
How To Back Up Your PC Drivers NOW (You Better…)
I put a new hard drive in one of my computers yesterday, and it made me remember 2 resources that I highly recommend you remember and use:
Driver Magician: This awesome little program automatically finds all the drivers being used on your PC that aren’t included in the Windows installation disk, and saves them all to [...]
Avoiding Copyright Infringement On Work-For-Hire
It seems like a good idea… Hire someone to do some work for you. Whether it’s creating website designs, having website content or graphics created, having someone write an ebook or articles for you, it’s a way to get more done in less time by leveraging the work of others.
The problem: How do you know [...]
Taking The One-Time-Offer Burger Analogy Even Farther
Michel Fortin wrote a very good blog post denouncing the “churn and burn tactics of aggressive one-time upsells. Read his article first, then I’ll expand on his analogy (including tainted meat, bad-tasting burger, and more.)
Here’s Michael’s real-world analogy of one-time offers:
A burger? Sure, that’s $3.00. (You hand over a $20 bill.) The server, holding your [...]
If You Refuse To Sell Products You’ll Go Bankrupt
This was odd…
Yesterday I went into a department store and asked to see a piece of jewelry (which cost about $1,000).
The woman behind the counter told me that nothing was on sale that day.
I said, “You mean there are no discounts on anything?”
She said no, that she was unable to sell me anything that day!
She [...]
Checked Your T.O.S. Lately? (Cyber-Cheating = Jail Time…)
Here’s an interesting article on the implications of the MySpace suicide ruling, regarding how much legal weight website Terms Of Service carries:
Examples:
1) Anyone under age 18 using Gmail or any of Google’s other products is breaking their T.O.S.
2) Match.com prohibits married people from using Match.com to cheat on their spouses
3) eHarmony.com forbids users from lying [...]
How To Protect Your Online Passwords
If you’ve been following the saga of Sarah Palin having her Yahoo email account hacked into, you know that it was accomplished by answering simple security questions.
Here’s how to avoid having the same thing happen to you:
Your logins are only as secure as their weakest link. Your actual password may be completely unguessable, but someone [...]