Hmph! No sooner do I start making money as an eBay affiliate than eBay’s CEO steps down, and the new CEO immediately starts making changes. These changes may be good for affiliates, or bad for affiliates — the jury’s still out.
The biggest change is the new fee structure for sellers listing products for sale. eBay [...]

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In a discussion about a site’s target demographic and marketing approach, someone on a webmastering forum wrote, “Sending 50 troops against an army of 5,000 is a waste of 50 troops.”
That line has stuck with me for a couple of weeks now, popping into my head at odd and random moments.
I don’t know how many [...]

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In my continuing efforts to expand the diversity of my income from various sources, I have just set up a couple of Cafe Press stores: St. Patrick’s Day t-shirts for Masons and St. Patrick’s Day t-shirts for Shriners. I’m promoting these on the Masonic Memorabilia site, which is getting a surprising amount of organic [...]

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Amazon.com has decided to pay fines worth $1,500 day rather than comply with a court order prohibiting the company from offering free shipping to its customers in France.
According to the article at the International Herald Tribune, the French law prohibits discounting books by more than 5 percent (and Amazon’s free shipment counts as a discount). [...]

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