BANS to be Updated by April 1st
As a follow up to my post about eBay leaving Commission Junction and setting up their own Partnership program, as well as concerns expressed by BANS (Build a Niche Store) users, here’s part of the email reply that I got from Kelvin…
Hi Rosalind…good to hear from you.
I can confirm that all versions of BANS will be updated as soon after the eBay affiliate transition as possible - ideally on the 1st April.
Best,
Kelvin
Good going, Kelvin. I just KNEW you wouldn’t let us down! 
To learn more about BANS, please read my How to Easily Add eBay Listings to Your Site post.
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Affmeter Pro Update
A new version of Affmeter Pro ( 2.00.11 ) has just been release with the integration of Onenetworkdirect.
Too, we had a couple of questions through the Support Desk about security concerns while using Affmeter that I wanted to address publicly.
Affmeter Pro is desktop application, not a web based one. Therefore, your data is not transmitted to - or being retained by - a third party service supplier. Affmeter Pro automatically logs into your affiliate and network accounts and collects the statistics from your accounts into your local machine. Passwords, usernames and your statistics are stored only on your computer. Furthermore, your username and password is stored in an encrypted format
and may not be accessed without your master password.
To learn more about Affmeter’s affiliate stats consolidation software, read my original Affmeter review.
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More Affmeter: Discount for Existing Users
In my earlier post about Affmeter, I neglected to mention the offer for those of you who were already avid users and Beta testers of Affmeter Free and just wanted to let you folks know that the upgrade from Affmeter Free to Affmeter Pro V2.0 Upgrade is available to you for an even steeper discount than that for new users.
In both cases however, the discounts are available only until March 15th, 2008. Enjoy!!
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Save Time: Consolidate Your Affiliate Stats with Affmeter
How much time do you spend logging into Commission Junction, Peformics, Clickbank, Clixgalore and other affiliate networks to check your stats everyday? What about your Google Adsense and Adwords accounts? An hour? Maybe more?
I know ’stats junkies’ who check their affiliate commission stats and Google Adwords expenses every single hour — and when I first started affiliate marketing, I used to do it too.
Having to remember all the different network / affiliate program logins used to drive me nuts, especially when I was a newbie and just getting familiar with the different network interfaces and nomenclature was enough of a chore.
Firuze Gokce, who is also an affiliate marketer, felt the same frustration… and she did something about it. Read more
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Download Camtasia Studio 3 for Free
Yeeha! You read that right! I just heard via Jeff Mulligan (CBMall) that with the recent introduction of Camtasia Studio 5, the nice people at Techsmith are making Camtasia Studio 3.1.2 absolutely free to download.
That version is actually a few steps up from the version 3.0 that I’ve used to make my videos, including the most recent one which is probably not the best example, but the BlogClassroom videos are under lock and key.
You can use Camtasia to record, edit and share your screen videos and it’s pretty easy to get up and running with it, even if you’re not a geek.
To get the free version:
- Download the free trial version of Camtasia Studio 3 (Executable file - Not an affiliate link).
- To get the software key, click the link to register.
- Install and open the program and enter the software key and you’ll have a full working version.
You’ll be able to upgrade to Camtasia Studio 5, later if you want to for only $149, as opposed to the usual $299… but Version 3 should give you all you need.
Enjoy!
Camtasia Studio
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Perfect Keyboard: My All-Time Favorite Software
I can hardly believe that I’ve never told you about my all-time favorite software before!
It didn’t really occur to me until I was at AdTech in New York and was dealing with the frustration of having to work without it because I’d forgotten to load it onto my laptop … again!
Later in the conference, during a discussion about software with some webmaster friends, I mentioned my oversight and was absolutely shocked to learn that some of them did not use this software.
WHAT?
I honestly thought that all computer users (not just webmasters) would not only know about - but rely on - this fantastic little productivity tool that reduces workload and saves a heap of time.
Check out this video to see how slick how it works.
For more information, check out my article Perfect Keyboard Pro: My All-Time Favorite Software .
Click here to order Perfect Keyboard. The product has a 30-day money back guarantee and is available in 3 editions… Lite, Standard and Pro. While I use the Pro version, the Standard version ($29.95) will be more than suitable for most.
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Avoid Mountains of Work - Get a CMS Sooner than Later
If you arrived here via NPT’s homepage today, you’ve already seen the site’s ‘new look’.
Granted, I didn’t change the design very much, but the ArticleLive back-end is absolutely b-e-a-u-t-i-f-u-l! Now I won’t have to revise and upload 100’s of HTML pages every time I make a change to the basic template - yee-ha!
When I told Anik Singal that I was going to a new CMS, he mentioned that he really liked the original NPT layout because it was ’so easy to find what you’re looking for’. Well, finding the information you want should now be even easier with well-defined categories, featured articles with links to related articles and reviews.
The only downside to changing over to ArticleLive was that I made it a D-I-Y project. Duh.
Ergo, not all of my 100’s of articles are in the database yet, and there may be linking problems from within some of the older articles (if you find an error, please be kind and let me know), but the essential articles are all there and I’ll go through them with a fine-tooth comb to make sure they’re up-to-date and linked to the most helpful resources.
So, words to the wise. Get a great CMS when when you start your site (not 5 years into it) and avoid a HUGE mountain of work later.
Anyway, now that I’ve scaled that mountain, it’s time for some R&R in the Rockies. Yee-HAAAAAA!
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At Long Last… The Perfect CMS!
Well, the Year of the Pig really is already proving to be my year. Not only was I born in a pig year - but I also finally found the content management system (CMS) software that answers many of my prayers… ergo, I now look as happy as the little pig you see pictured here to the left.
Let me explain…
Up until now, I’ve recommended that affiliates - who have little or no knowledge of HTML - put up a blog on their own domain using the Wordpress platform on a cPanel host.
Compared with using an HTML editor to build static pages, blogging with Wordpress is a simple and inexpensive web-based site-building method that allows a new webmaster to get their site online very quickly, and requires only a TINY bit of effort to use Fantastico within the cPanel interface to install Wordpress. Best of all, blogs are traffic magnets.
Wordpress has a few limitations that can be a bit frustrating, however. Although creating categories and sub-categories for posts is simple and straightforward, page (article) categorization is clunky. If you are inclined to make a page for each one of your articles, the list of pages in the interface could just go on and on and ON and a minor ‘clunkiness’ could become ‘VERY frustrating’ in a big hurry.
To solve this problem, I’ve been hunting for a better system for more than a year, and am happy to report that after reviewing a great many free and paid content management systems (CMS), I’ve finally settled on what I think is the very best of the bunch.
That CMS is …
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Stop Spammers with My Contact Station
Joel Comm has just released “My Contact Station“, software that kills site spam, increases security by solving the email harvesting problem, and provides advanced and professional contact solutions - and you can get it now for just 7 bucks!
This script is easy to install on any site, including your Wordpress blogs. Check out the video demonstration and hear audio testimonials from satisified customers. Better yet, once you own it, you can also promote My Contact Station for 100% Commissions!
If you have a web site, secure your site from spammers right now with My Contact Station.
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Worried about Duplicate Content Penalties?
Hey! I’m back from our 4 week tour of Singapore, Malaysia and Vietnam (which was totally awesome BTW) and now that my jet lag is subsiding, I’ve been catching up with what’s been happening in the world of Internet marketing since early March.
As always, there were a number of product launches for the ‘latest and greatest’ ebooks, systems and other sundries during my absence. Pretty much ho hum except for one - Content Composer - which is geared to online publishers who either write their own content, use PLR articles or employ ghostwriters to build content and drive search engine traffic to their sites.
If that describes you (it should) and you are worried about incurring duplicate content penalties with your current publication strategies, or you want to create more unique content in less time, then you’ll be interested in Jason Potash’s new Content Composer software, which was just released yesterday, so I picked it up and went through it last night.
It definitely isn’t some cheap ‘article spinner’ that spits out nonsensical crap. Content Composer is completely White Hat technology that helps you quickly and easily generate unique, natural language articles with a modest amount of work on your part.
Basically, you take one of your original articles (or a PLR or ghostwritten article) then spend 5 to 10 additional minutes rewriting a few key paragraphs, and Jason’s software will generate a dozen new and unique articles for you to use on your site and for distribution to article directories.
So, for example, instead of placing my completely original article both on my site and on EzineArticles.com, I can quickly generate a new article that retains my meaning but poses no threat of penalty to my own site. So, I can relax knowing that I won’t get slapped by Google for duplicate content or for trying to spam the engines. That’s a BIG Plus.
What I like best however is that it ultimately means a lot LESS work for me. (And goodness knows, I’m always ready for another vacation!)
If you’re ready to reduce your content publishing workload, pick up Content Composer. What you save in time and earn through additional traffic could get you a very nice vacation!
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