New website and no visitors
You just started a new website and wait for a few hours… then you rush to your statistics panel/visits counter waiting to see at least a few visits but sadly you find that there has only been one visitor… yourself.
Most people read in blogs, newspapers, etc. that there are websites that receive millions of hits [...]
Insights about reseller and affiliate programs
Most service providers and product sellers online will sooner or later create an affiliate or reseller program (if they don’t have one yet) and sometimes those programs appear to be to good to be true, so I’ll provide some insights based on my 9+ years of experience running reseller and affiliate programs.
Basic differences between reseller [...]
Facts and myths about reselling webservices
You can find a lot of companies offering reseller programs and discounts, and it’s pretty tempting to jump into reselling as the investment required seems to be ridiculous and the profits margin huge. However you should take everything with a grain of salt, as sometimes things aren’t as good as the providers paint them.
Myth
It takes [...]
Selling online from home
So you’ve decided to start your own online store from home… this isn’t an easy task, but that doesn’t mean that it can’t become a success. I’ve personally assisted over 50 friends to start their own online stores and work from home, most of them are still online and selling every day. Based on my [...]
Most common Adsense-related mistakes
Almost every webmaster has used or at least thought about using Adsense(R) to monetize traffic, however there are literally thousands of webmasters complaining everywhere that their accounts have been frozen. So this time I thought it would be good to include a list of the most commonly seen reasons of why Google decides to freeze [...]
Selling online: How to prevent online fraud
So you’re ready to start selling online, however you’ve read and heard everywhere that selling online is a huge risk because of online fraudsters… well that’s absolutely true.
However, there are also scammers taking advantage of real-life commerce transactions! You can open a bricks and mortar store to sell goods and still face a fake bill, [...]
Things to look for when becoming an affiliate
So now we’re going to talk about how to select a good affiliate program. There are thousands (maybe millions) of them out there, so selecting the right ones is one of the hardest tasks.
1. Make sure that the affiliate program that you’re joining is somehow related to your target audience. Let’s say that you’ll be [...]
Which web host is right for your money making site?
Yes, there are millions of webhosts out there, and what makes it more difficult, they all advertise 100% uptime and a lot of features, but as we all know, it’s impossible to have a perfect provider. This time I will try to provide some tips so that you can be sure that you’re using the [...]
Making money from email forwards
It seems like a virus, those PowerPoint files that have “nice” messages and “thoughtful” wishes, yes you know them, you have received at least one of them as a forward from someone else. I still can’t understand how people spend lots of time creating those files just to send them to friends and coworkers.
However there’s [...]
Identifying SSL certificates and their real meaning
Myths and truths about SSL certificates.