Affiliate Marketing and Social Media conference in Miami Beach, September 27 to 29, the Performance Marketing Expo.
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Google Places Local Search Service Area Display Services
Hello Business Website Customers, Associates and Friends,
Got an email today from Google Places and wanted to forward the information on to you.
If you do business in your local area, registering with Google Places is one of the most important things you can do for your online
marketing. See the article.
Be Happy, Healthy and Prosperous,
Andrew
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In This Email:
Article: Google Places Local Search Service Area Display Services
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Quotes:
- If you look good and dress well, you don't need a purpose in life. ~ Robert Pante
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Article: Google Places Local Search Service Area Display Services
If you do business in your local area and you have not already registered your business with Google places, do so now here.
www.google.com/places
Registering your address with Google will get your more business, because you will be found on more searches.
Google automatically detects where a person's computer is and gives search results for that area using the information you provide
in Google places.
If someone in Miami searches for "architect" and you registered yoru architecture business in South Florida, you have a much better
chance of getting shown than your competitor who did not bother to register with Google.
Spending 30 minutes filling out some web forms, is time well spent that will keep marketing for you indefinitely.
Google has made some enhancements to their local business search. Here are some of the features in Google's own words.
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Don't have a brick-and-mortar storefront, or prefer not to give customers your home address? Show customers your Service Area.
Check out this video
www.youtube.com/user/GooglePlaces
Read on to Learn more.
www.google.com/support/places/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=177103
You can link directly to your restaurant's menu. Not a restaurant? Link to a list of services you offer.
To add your link, on your business's Dashboard, go to "Your business info" on the right and click "Edit." Scroll down to "Additional
Details." Add a row and type Menu in the left column. In the corresponding right column, add the link to the Menu page of your
website (not your homepage).
Check out some examples.
www.google.com/support/places/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=182238
Log in now to add your links.
www.google.com/places
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Monday, August 9, 2010
Intuit Payment Network, Windows Live Mail, Acai Scam, CSS Tables
Hello Business Website Customers, Associates and Friends,
If you have been using Paypal, or another payment processor to collect payments, you have been paying $20 to $30 to cash a $1,000 check. There is a new option that is a lot less costly. See the article on Intuit Payment Network.
If you have a number of email addresses, it is convenient to forward them all to the same mailbox for reading. However, you may want to send out from those email addresses without picking up mail. See the article for instructions on how to set up a send-only email account in Windows Live Mail.
Watch out for fake websites, impersonating other websites. See the Acai Berry scam article.
If you write your own Html code, see the article for how to use CSS to to make tables without using the Html CellPadding and CellSpacing attributes.
Be Happy, Healthy and Prosperous,
Andrew
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In This Email:
Article: Intuit Payment Network (IPN) Verses Paypal
Article: How to Set Up a Send Only Email Account with Windows Live Mail
Article: Acai Berry Diet Exposed is a Fake News Website
Article: How to Use CSS to Make Tables without Html CellPadding and CellSpacing
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Quotes:
- Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed. ~ Sydney Smith
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Article: Intuit Payment Network (IPN) Verses Paypal
Intuit is the publisher of Quicken, Quickbooks and Turbo Tax.
Intuit has an online payment processing service that can save you a substantial amount of money over Paypal.
Paypal charges about 2.9% plus $0.30 to receive a payment. Could be more or less depending on your circumstances.
This fee is understandable for credit cards, because that is the standard rate for credit card processing.
However, Paypal charges this fee even when the transaction is bank to bank. Bank to bank is like writing a check. There are no fees normally.
With Paypal, to receive a $1,000 payment, your cost is $29. That is a lot of money to cash a check.
Intuit Payment Network (IPN) charges $0.50 per payment received.
That is a big savings.
The drawbacks are:
1. Your customer must register with Intuit Payment Network, if they are not registered already. (This is true of Paypal too.)
2. Intuit Payment Network is for bank to bank transactions only. If your customer wants to pay by credit card, you do not save anything.
Go to http://paymentnetwork.intuit.com to register.
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Article: How to Set Up a Send Only Email Account with Windows Live Mail
Outlook has a feature that lets you set up email accounts to use as the from email for sending mail only, without picking up email.
Under Outlook, Tools, Send/Receive options, you can specify which email accounts you only want to send and not receive.
This is handy if you support many websites.
You can set up mail from all your websites to forward to one email box.
You can set up from email addresses for each website to send outgoing mail.
That way customers can send to and receive email from each of your websites individually. While you only need to check one mailbox to receive all your mail.
Windows Live Mail makes this even easier.
In Windows Live Mail, after you create your email account, go back in to Change the email account you just created.
At the bottom of the General tab page, uncheck the box "Include this account when receiving mail or synchronizing".
Now you can send with that email address and Windows Live will not try to receive email.
Windows Live does make you include the outgoing email information even though you are not going to use it, so you can make up anything for the POP server and password.
If you have a mail program that requires an incoming mail server, you can set up a dummy email account called empty@mydomain.com.
Give it the minimum quota. Do not tell anyone about this email address so it will not get any email.
Use this as your incoming email account for all your From Only email addresses. This will let you fill out your account set up page and avoid you getting any mail on the email addresses you only want to send out from.
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Article: Acai Berry Diet Exposed is a Fake News Website
I do not know if Acai Berry can help you lose weight, but I do know sometimes when someone is misleading you.
Take a look at www.NewYorkChronicle.org.
There are many websites that look similar to this one. They are fakes.
The website is made up to look like a news website and professes to have tested the claims of the Acai Berry diet.
The test results are better than the original claims and appear to be completely outrageous in support of the product.
If you click on the links at the top of the page to News, Weather and so on, you will see that all the links stay on the same page trying to get you to sign up for the free Acai Berry trials.
This person appears to be an affiliate and probably gets paid each time someone signs up for a free trial.
The product owner may not even know what the affiliate is doing.
The product may be a good one.
This marketing page is deceptive.
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Article: How to Use CSS to Make Tables without Html CellPadding and CellSpacing
To have a thin line as a border around the cells in your tables, using HTML, you need to use the BORDER, CELLPADDING and CELLSPACING attributes on your TABLE tag. By specifying 0 for CELLSPACING, you can avoid gaps between the cells.
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<table border="1" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0">
<tr><td>cell1</td><td>cell2</td></tr>
</table>
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Here is CSS to create a table with a thin black border, padding and a background. This CSS also aligns the table heading with the text. I like this table for displaying general text information in columns.
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table.infotable
{
background-color:#DDDDDD;
border:solid 1pt black;
border-collapse:collapse;
}
table.infotable td
{
border:solid 1pt black;
padding:.5em;
}
table.infotable th
{
border:solid 1pt black;
padding:.75em;
text-align:left;
}
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Here is how you use this class in your web page.
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<table class="infotable">
<tr><th>Head1</th><th>Head2</th></tr>
<tr><td>Cell1</td><td>Cell2</td></tr>
</table>
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See this article for compatible CSS for highlighting inline text and using an information box to go along with your table.
You can find the W3 CSS table definitions here.
www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/tables.html
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