I guess nothing is sacred or untouchable to the bottom feeders of the web. It was only a matter of time before VOIP (Voice Over IP) was exploited by phishers. Welcome to the newest trick in the fraudster bag - “vishing”.
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I’ve been asked a couple of times recently by site owners located outside the USA whether it really makes a difference if you host your site with a local hosting company vs. utilizing a server/service based in the USA.

In my opinion, from an operational and customer service point of view, none at all - some of the best web hosts in the world are USA based and are often cheaper than their local counterparts; *but* when it comes to search engine rankings
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A rather annoying experience today with a company making a totally futile attempt in exercising anti fraud strategies.

An order was placed for a few hundred dollars, then a few minutes later, an email came through demanding verification via fax.
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When was the last time you removed email addresses that continually bounce from your lists?

An email list loaded with addresses that bounce isn’t just sloppy marketing that sucks up bandwidth and slows down your deliveries; it can have more drastic consequences.
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Sometimes I start to feel a little bit jaded in my marketing and online business efforts - so many millions of banner ads viewed over the years, so many landing pages, so many products, so much writing.

It’s a bit like being a first time drug user graduating to a hard-core junkie - the buzz of the first hit gets harder to achieve; but you remember what it was like, so you keep trying to regain that feeling :)
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Believe it or not, there can be some benefits to be had from receiving spam; especially if you’re involved in affiliate marketing. Here’s why.
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There’s reportedly around 70 million computers worldwide still running licensed copies of Windows 98 or Windows Millennium Edition (ME). That’s at least 70 million PC’s that are going to be without security updates from next week.
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With US online merchants seeing an increasing number of orders from overseas; it good to bear in mind that the US dollar is not *the* global currency, however much
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It’s not a fishing method, nor is a patent troll a small, foul tempered creature with a penchant for living under bridges and attacking those who come near - although some would argue
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I was looking at my traffic statistics for June earlier on and as always, I’m amazed at the number of different keyword combinations people have used in search engine queries which lead them to Taming the Beast.net. For the month of June 06, it was over
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