$5 trillion dollars is a lot of cash, even by Mr. Gates’ standards. Women online are increasingly becoming an force to be reckoned with in the world of ecommerce. They are heavily involved with a variety of purchases – and not just female oriented or “domestic” products; but goods and services which in generations past were the exclusive realm of men. (more…)

Looking to increase your AdSense returns? I came across an interesting free service today that provides a filter list for low paying Adwords advertisers that they claim link to MFA (Made for Adsense) sites. I’m sure you’ve seen these sites around ;). (more…)

I’m sure you’ve heard the stories of domain names that are registered for under $10 a year being resold for $1 million + – ah, it’s stuff that dreams are made of. Back in late 2000 through to 2001, I turned my hand to domain name speculation and trading. Was it successful?…. (more…)

I’m very pleased to announce that Taming the Beast has teamed up with a leading marketing and development company to provide TTB visitors with quality search engine optimization, web marketing and development services at very special pricing.

To celebrate the launch of the partnership, you can get a free comprehensive, totally no-obligation site evaluation valued at $170! (more…)

A 22 page report released by the Online Publishers Association states that online content purchases increased by 15% during 2005 over 2004, generating two billion dollars in revenue.

The big winners were the (more…)

Copywriting for PPC is particularly challenging, especially for marketers whose previous experience is in print, in those massively long online sales letter sites or who generally have writers diarrhea, like yours truly :).

Even the pro marketers in this field admit that trying to explain (more…)

Keyloggers are particularly nasty software applications that record every keystroke a person makes and then transmits that data to another party. You won’t catch these emails in your outbox or sent items folder as an smtp mailer is usually embedded in the application that operates independently from your email software.

In recent years, keylogger applications have extended their feature set to store extra information, such as (more…)

A recent 35 page report from Pew Internet and American Life Project shows that online dating is not only alive and well, but gaining more credibility amongst the general population. Even though the majority of people surveyed still believe it to be a somewhat dangerous exercise the majority of respondents also (more…)

With AOL getting into greedmail and users’ email inboxes becoming crammed generally; some bigger online retailers are awakening to the possibilities of RSS. As always, it’s the simple ideas that are often the best and the good news is that you don’t need the budget of a multinational to implement some of the RSS strategies that are proving successful (more…)

I’ve been around the dark alleys and the “verboten” places in a web hosting company not often seen by site owners for quite a while now; but our System Administrator still speaks in what seems to be gibberish at times (more…)