MSNSearch ran a search and win competition a while back and judging by their lacklustre performance in terms of market share, it doesn’t seem it was such a raging success. Other companies are now tapping into the “search to win” concept and given their different focus, perhaps they’ll have better luck.
(click to continue..)

If you only visit Taming the Beast.net’s blog or just subscribe to the feed, you may have missed out on some marketing and ecommerce articles I’ve recently published or updated on the main site - here’s a summary of my latest guides
(click to continue..)

Press releases are an excellent way to get extra coverage and backlinks to your online business - and they aren’t all that difficult to create or expensive to distribute. If you use press releases, here’s a quick tip for squeezing a bit extra from this promotion strategy.
(click to continue..)

In any affiliate program, it’s the minority of publishers who generate the majority of sales. Even so, there’s a simple strategy that affiliate managers can implement to boost the minority somewhat and get that minority generating even more sales.
(click to continue..)

Most of us know how tough it can be to start and succeed in online business, or a bricks and mortar business for that matter. But imagine how hard it would be to set up a small business that can sustain you and your family in a developing country when you basically have nothing to begin with!
(click to continue..)

Where would we be without smileys? No doubt many email and other forms of text communications would be misunderstood. After all, writing “you’re an idiot :)” has a different meaning to writing “you’re an idiot” - the latter leaves you hanging as to whether the author meant it literally.
(click to continue..)

I came across a sales page for a software product the other day that practically guaranteed it would make me rich beyond my wildest dreams; with minimum effort and using content I already had. Sounded good to me. Rich, minimum effort, yep, certainly appeals to most of us I guess.
(click to continue..)

Accompanying the explosion of social bookmarking sites and feed reader services in recent years, increasing screen real estate is being taken up on sites giving visitors options of adding our feeds and pages to this or that service. A relatively new service for publishers does away with the icon clutter!
(click to continue..)

Do you often have customers contacting you who don’t have credit cards or Paypal wanting to make a purchase from your online business?
(click to continue..)

I first wrote about pump and dump stock spam scams around a year ago. Since that time I haven’t seen much of a let up on these sorts of spam emails; so I was thinking it must be still profitable for the perpetrators. According to the SEC, it certainly is.
(click to continue..)