If you're more familiar with one of these than a laptop, there is hope!

Is there hope for someone who wants an Internet business but isn’t very tech savvy? The short answer is yes, but there’s certain types to avoid. The last five people who called were 50+ years old and want to start a business, but they didn’t know anything about the Internet aside from browsing and emails. One woman was 56 and just opened the box on her very first computer the day before.  I told them Read full story »

If you’ve ever wondered why when you search for “scam” and “ripoff” along with a business opportunity or anyone in marketing, you find places like scam.com and ripoffreport.com at the top of the results, there’s actually a reason behind it. Read full story »

If you have a merchant account already or shopping around, there’s several different fees on a merchant account application. Knowing what they mean, and which ones you can negotiate, is the key to getting the best deal. If you call your merchant provider and they don’t drop at least $100 a year in fees, I’d shop around. Read full story »

One of the tools that’s a must have for any blogger or webmaster is a program that checks to make sure your links all work, and report the broken ones. I bought this program years ago for another project and just got the idea to run a report on this blog to check things out when I saw on another very high traffic blog that had several broken links. It’s virtually impossible to do it without a tool like this. Read full story »

There’s a lot of blogs and unfortunately, there’s also a lot of scrapers and copy and paste thieves who try to make a living off the works of others. I’ve read a lot of articles on the topic, and here’s some of the best ways to prevent it, and take action if it happens. Read full story »