Business Reviews

I saw John Chow do a sponsored review of Safe Swaps and really think this place has potential. What they let you do is go on their system and find other people with email lists and arrange a swap where you do a mailing for them and they do one for you. I’ve been approached in the past by other marketers who wanted to do this, but the problem has always been accountability. You just never knew if they had a list the size they claimed, or would do a mailing at all if yours went out first. continue reading »

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 continue reading »

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. continue reading »

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. continue reading »

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. continue reading »