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If you have an Amazon.com affiliate account and is interested in doing business on a advance level you might be interested in an exciting new product from Amazon Services: WebStore by Amazon.

WebStore by Amazon gives you a branded e-commerce site backed by the support, selection and expertise of Amazon. You can be confident that your WebStore is going to be up when your customers come clicking. Better yet, WebStore is easy to set up and comes with a number of great marketing features so you can start selling in minutes!

You can create your webstore by dealing with unique, niche tip products, or a variety of products from a category, such as auto or home and garden, or you can promote a mix of related products.

The cost per month is $59.99, but you get a 7% affiliate commission for every sale and full online support. For a one month period Amazon is giving a 30 day free trial.

Sign up for WebStore today and get a 30 day FREE Trial*

Categories: Affiliate Marketing
Tags: Affiliate Marketing, amazon webstore

Join Mypaydayloan.com’s Marketing Team and benefit from  high commissions & bonus incentives!!!Mypaydayloan.com are currently one of the top ranking payday loan companies in Google, and have very high conversion rates due the free loan offer extend to all first time applicants.

Categories: Affiliate Marketing
Tags: pay day loans

The world of blogging has seen its share of changes, mostly for the better, in the last couple of years. Wordpress has improved dramatically and new plugins and widgets have created opportunities for both vertical and horizontal collaboration, cross promotions and online pollination far beyond the expectations five years ago.

The rise in social media sites, like digg, stumble upon, reddit and the host of other social media entities out there in the bloggoshere has increased the frequency of instant information. Social media sites like twitter, a cross between book marking and text messaging, allows bloggers to post text messaging information on their blog instantly.

Online advertising is on the rise and bloggers are finding unique ways to pursue a living or generating discretionary income online. So, with the myriad of information to sift through, how does bloggers find advertisers and advertisers find bloggers looking to make additional income.

That is where Social Spark comes in. The company connects publishers and advertisers in the blogging world. Advertisers on Social Spark register to look for bloggers that are willing to do guest post, write articles and publish sponsor post.

Since advertising is directly connected to page views and RSS readership, new blogs need platforms to connect with advertisers. Social Spark provides a great community for upcoming bloggers who have not yet acquired a large following like Problogger, John Chow, or Uberaffiliate and the like; or bloggers who are looking to diversity their income, moving away from their dependency from adsence, the most widely used money making tool used by bloggers

In fact, bloggers are increasingly of the opinion that mono-advertising, like mono-cropping can be devastating.  If the one crop becomes susceptible to a particular insect, (in bloggers case the bug is that Google may penalizing a blog when the blogger is list expecting) then no other source of income remains. Everything would be going good, sometimes fantastically well, then baam! Your site is drop by Google. That’s a boomer!

If you know of bloggers who are looking for a way to earn some money from their blog, refer them to Social Spark, and forward them this blog post.

Join me on Social Spark

Categories: Affiliate Marketing
Tags: social spark

John Chow the brains and brawns behind the John Chow dot com movement is giving away a 2GB USB flash drive pen. The pen is from Market Leverage, an online firm that connects advertisers to a proprietary base of Internet publishers and publishers  to hundreds of top-notch advertisements

According to John Chow, “this is one of the coolest pens in the world and is sure to be a great conversation piece”. Find out how to enter the contest by watching the video on john chow dot com. The contest closes on Friday, May 9.

The winner will be announced on Saturday during Dot Com Pho, a weeekly meeting of bloggers and experts in affiliate marketing. To get an additional entry, simply blog about this contest and send a trackback. Good luck!

Categories: Savings & Deals
Tags: 2gb usb flash drive pen

Finally Congress is working on the average Joe’s behalf! 

The Federal Reserve and other regulators initiated steps Friday to end “unfair and deceptive” credit card industry practices assailing consumers who are already struggling to cope in a bad economy.

Through down-right deceptive practices, the credit cards companies are nickle and diming you and I. Last quarter Visa made a wapping $280 million dollars profit and 28 percent gain from the year early.

Here are what the proposed new rules would prohibit:

_Placing unfair time constraints on payments. A payment could not be deemed late unless the borrower is given a reasonable period of time, such as 21 days, to pay;

_Unfairly allocating payments among balances with different interest rates;

_Retroactively raising interest rates on pre-existing balances;

_Placing too-high fees for exceeding the credit limit solely because of a hold placed on the account;

_Unfairly computing balances in a computing tactic known as double-cycle billing;

_Unfairly adding security deposits and fees for issuing credit or making credit available;

_Making deceptive offers of credit.

The agencies said the proposed rules also would require federal credit unions to give consumers a chance to opt out of an overdraft protection program. And they would prohibit those institutions from charging a fee for an overdraft caused by a hold placed on consumer’s funds when a person uses a debit card.

For more information:

Federal Reserve: http://www.federalreserve.gov/

National Credit Union Administration: http://www.ncua.gov/RegulationsOpinionsLaws/proposed_regs.html

Categories: Savings & Deals
Tags: credit card bill, credit card companies

Wow! I went to Sam’s Club today and I was taken aback - really flabbergasted by the prices I had seen. Pork and beef products were all more than $4.00 a pound; the baby bark ribs were over $6.00 a pound. So I began to ponder, at this juncture in our economy, is eating out cheaper than eating in?

We have all heard of the stories: COSTCO rationing out the amount of rice that customers could purchase, the all time high prices of corn, eggs and milk (three of the most widely used ingredients) and the effect of high gas prices on the average Joe.

I said to myself, that my family and I should start eating out less; then I thought of this Chinese restaurant down the street (Huntsville, Alabama). My wife and I had been there just a couple days earlier. We paid $14.90 total for two ALL YOU CAN EAT buffet with so many times of vegetables, ( broccoli and beef is my favorite) chicken, beef, shrimp and host of other foods.

I kept thinking if we had bought the meat at Sam’s at around $4.00 a pound, add rice, vegetables and seasoning to it, would we be better off than eating at that Chinese restaurant? When you factor in the electricity to keep the stove going and the time, about an hour and a half to cook, would it have been more expensive than that impressive buffet at the Chinese restaurant for $6.95 a piece?

I think given the economy situation, we now need to reason whether eating out is less expensive than eating in. What do you think? I would love to hear some comment on this topic. Perhaps, you know of some place I could get some free coupon.

Categories: Savings & Deals
Tags: cost of food, eating in, eating out

If you are thinking of starting your own online operation, but you are not sure of what your should do, Joebucks.com is a great place you should check if you are all into the natural medicine / eco movement. Payments are as highly as 50 percent for each affiliate sale, and if your sale for the day is more than 5 items, the company will be willing to negotiate better percentages on your behalf.

The company has a two tier payment system with 5% referral fee for webmasters who refer other webmasters to the program. Payment are made biweekly via Check, by Mail,
 Bank Wire,  Paypal, or  Pre-Paid Debit Car.

Banners, links, articles and other marketing resources are available in the affiliate section of the website. Affiliates can choose to market products via links and banners or they can opt to obtain a free turnkey money making website which Joebucks.com will host for free.

The Joebucks.com Market Health Affiliate program sells natural medicines that are in high demand, such as natural remedies for diabetes, prostate, hair loss, constipation, acne, thyroid issues and many other ailments.

Well, It never hurts to try. If you like the natural health market this could be a start or a outstanding addition to what you have already been doing.

Categories: Affiliate Marketing
Tags: natural health affiliate

 With the economy at an ebb and gas prices at an all time high, car manufacturers are having a difficult time selling new cars and are dropping prices to lure customers into buying new vehicles. Car sales across the county have weakened significantly in March, dropping 11 per cent below a year earlier according to the latest Global Auto Report.
 
 Therefore, if you are in the market for a vehicle you could get an outstanding deal on a new car. But, is it wise that you buy a new car, particularly if you have bad or little credit?
 
 Although interest rates on a new car is usually a little better than the interest rates that are charged for used car loans, the new car cost much more and could be a strain on your budget. In the case of bad credit car buyers, the interest rates on car loans can sometimes be higher than 10 percent.
 
 Encouragingly, due to the ongoing credit crunch that has resulted in a cut into vehicle demand by reducing not only the number of auto loans, but also the loan value and the length of the term, used car prices are falling. In fact used car prices have been on the decline sine late 2006 and this decline has accelerated through 2008.
 
 In addition a major disappointment with purchasing new cars is that a new car loses 15 to 20 percent of its value from the time it leaves the auto dealership.
 
 A word of caution: owing to the fact that interest rates can make a big difference in loan payments and that interest rates are charged based on your credit score, please check your credit report for errors. You can get a free credit report from any one of the three credit bureaus: Trans Union, Experian and Equifax

Categories: cars
Tags: bad credit car loans, credit report, used cars

I just received from Amazon ProBlogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income

It is an exciting book and a must read for those of you planning to blog online, whether as a hobby or as a  way of generating residual income.

In the book he talks about his humble beginnings in 2002, having to leave on a small income and faith to give this idea of blogging a try. Today, he runs problogger.net among other sites, advicing bloggers on a host of money making subjects from affiliate marketing to Google tips and tricks.

The book, which in my opinion is invaluable, is only at $19.59 at Amazon.com. This book is a blogger dream. It gives you the opportunity to learn mistakes that the pros have made so you will not have to make them.

In sum, it teaches you all you need to know about blogging. It is a great resource for those who want to take the blogging route online or to take blogger to a higher level.

Categories: Affiliate Marketing
Tags: problogger, secrets for blogging your way to a six figure income

wow! I think Google just updated their page ranks. I just saw one of my site www.huntsvillepr.com from a PR3 to a PR4. S everal of my other siteS move up a notch.

If you have experience Page rank movement within the last few days, let me know what observation you have made. I would really like to know.

Categories: Affiliate Marketing
Tags: google page rank