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Scrivener for business writing

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How to Get the Legendary Treasure in Skylanders Level 1

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Brilliance by Design: Creating Learning Experiences That Connect, Inspire, and Engage: Vicki Halsey: Books

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How to Block Safari 5's New Reader (And Bite Off Your Nose)

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Droid vs. iPhone Size Comparison

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Are You Thinking About Switching to the Droid?

Photo credit: one very jealous iPhone 3GS Three days ago the Motorola Droid smartphone was made available on the Verizon network. I've been loving the iPhone for two years now, and I've owned each of the three versions and never regretted a penny I've dropped on the device. But I'm tempted by the fruit of another. Today I went into...
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Back to Task Management Basics: todo.txt and TaskPaper

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Link Cloaking, What is it?

I hear a lot about "link cloaking" and that I should be hiding my affiliate links to keep them from getting hijacked. Is this true? -- Joe S. What is Link Cloaking? Link Cloaking is the technical practice of hiding an actual URL through a link on the local domain, or a through a benign third party domain. URL shorteners, which...
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Kindle on the iPhone The Real Game Changer?

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Get Informed! The We-care.com Loyalty Affiliate Plugin

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Blog the Vote: Which Candidate Will Help Small Business?

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I Love Logo Contests

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Coda 1.5 is Available. Wish I Could Use It.

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Whoa, Jangro's Gone Green (and Blue)

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Mailplane and Site Specific Browsers

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One Chinpose to Rule them All

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How Do I Grow My Affiliate Marketing Business?

Note: This is a post submitted by a reader of jangro.com. If you would like to submit a post to be published here, click here. Is this the million dollar question? Ah...No. But I propose to call it the $1 per day question. Huh? Let me explain. There is so many things out on the internet that say something like, "How to make $500 day...
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Evaluating Blog Comment Systems

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I Am No Longer an Affiliate

The other day, I thanked Jason Calacanis for hitting the Affiliate Summit attendees, and therefore the affiliate marketing community, in the face with a big fish of a keynote address. It was a "wake the hell up" message that I believe strongly that we needed to hear. I'll also give Wayne Porter a long overdue public thank you for his own...
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Show Me the Money!

Talk is cheap It started out with a quote by Shawn Collins about the new PepperJam network. "Even after all these years using Commission Junction on the merchant and affiliate side, I still find it terribly clumsy to find what I want. With Pepperjam Network it is quick and easy. Pepperjam Network is what an affiliate network would look...
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Not the Same Old Status Quo at CSN Stores

CSN has set a new bar in affiliate marketing tracking and commission structure. The need for a change comes from their observations that a significant percentage of their sales are going to coupon affiliates AFTER the consumer has already been to the website. It goes something like this: User visits CSN stores, possibly through an...
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Coupon Affiliates Under Scrutiny

Kellie Stephens at AffiliateFairPlay has published a study on the use of forced clicks on affiliate coupon websites. Forced Clicks The definition of "forced click" varies a bit, but for this study is any affiliate tracking click that was initiated without any use action whatsoever when visiting a coupon site. No gray areas...
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Rocktober Round-Up. What a Month!

There's just a whole bunch of stuff going on here and while it's not normally my style, I thought I'd throw a bunch of stuff together in a composite post. It's Halloween! Here at MechMedia (my company), Halloween is our Christmas. Our most popular website is a costume ideas and community site called CostumZee. (yeah, we have a bit of a...
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When Memcached Doesn't Cut It - Website Caching Part II

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CashAddOn - What's Wrong with Incentive Publisher Browser Plugins

There's a new incentive shopping browser plugin on the scene, called CashAddOn. CashAddOn is a Cash Back shopping portal. Their model is that they have a FireFox plugin that, when installed, gives you indication in the browser status bar if you're receiving cash-back commissions on a purchase from the current website. A small blue minus...
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Google Sucking Up for More Adsense Placement

Got an email yesterday from the Google Adsense team with some great news that one of my sites may be included in their "custom placement packs program". Custom placement packs are selections of individually-reviewed sites designed for our largest brand advertisers. I'm impressed. thank you. puffs up chest We would like to feature...
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The Affiliate Blog List V2

Not very long ago, I announced the availability of my new Affiliate Blog List. Since then, I've added some new features and given it a bit of a facelift (because Jim Kukral is a self-proclaimed design snob and won't visit an ugly site). Ok, it's still ugly, but it's less ugly. Again, the general idea of the blog list is that I think that...
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The Adwords Quality Score Spiral

Earlier this week, I wrote about a problem that we're having where the Adwords Keyword Insertion function was not working properly . Apparently it's working just fine, or at least as Google has designed it. To recap, in the ad text, you can put the following notiation: {Keyword:Default text} and it will insert into your google ad the...
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And The Misguided Merchant Award Goes To...

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SEM Tools and Techniques for Examining Websites

I'm presenting this week at Commission Junction's CJU in a session titled, "Site Lab: Designing Effective Landing Pages". I'm actually co-presenting with Pedro Sostre. Pedro, being the creative designer type, and I being a geek an engineer/developer, we split our presentation along those lines. We'll be looking at actual ordinary websites...
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