It’s not often I write anything positive about Nigeria, especially when it comes to ecommerce; so I’m very pleased to introduce a new service operating from Nigeria that’s been launched to help merchants around the world do business safely in that country.
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Skype Prime, announced yesterday, is a new feature that allows consultants to charge clients for Skype-to-Skype voice and video calls; either by the minute or per call.
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Close to 750 million people over the age of 15 accessed the Internet globally in January 2007, representing a 10% increase over January last year.
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I’m finding it increasingly difficult to get solid chunks of time to focus on any single task these days; many items are completed in a piecemeal fashion, creating multiple tasks that need to be remembered.
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Ever wondered about some of the weird and wonderful ways that spammers get their messages through to you and avoid detection?
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Last year I wrote about click to call - technology that allows a potential customer to click on a button which then initiates a phone call to the merchant.
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An unfortunate part of being an affiliate is sales leaks; i.e., referrals that you make that you’ll never be paid commissions on. It happens to all of us. This can be caused through a number of factors ranging from merchant dishonesty to cookie blocking by the user or glitches in the tracking software on the merchant’s end.
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Bill from Search Engine Land has posted about a newly granted patent to Microsoft relating to minimizing duplicate listings. It has the potential to have rather huge consequences in organic results if the algorithm were applied; especially if you also have PPC (Pay Per Click) ads on the same results page.
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With some users considering any uninteresting commercial email as spam, even if they’ve subscribed to the communication; it’s no wonder the dreaded “report as spam” button gets used, or more accurately, abused so much.
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