Business The Net
After unveiling the new Web 2.0 looking AuctionAds banners, the company has announced an increase in affiliate payout. The payout rate for signing up a new AuctionAds publisher increases from 2% to 5% effective immediately. AuctionAds publishers, we are happy to announce a nice raise in our affiliate payouts. Effective immediately you will receive 5% of all revenue produced from […]
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Ramblings The Net
Just a little over a month after this blog broke 7,000 RSS readers, it has now passed the 8,000 reader mark. I am really happy with the growth of the RSS readership. It’s been growing at about a thousand readers per month for the past few months. At this rate, I’ll have no problems meeting my goal of 10,000 RSS […]
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Business The Net Wordpress
When I created those 125×125 ad buttons, they were at fixed locations – the first buyer bought the first spot and the second bought the second and so on. The main problem with this setup was higher up buttons had better click rate than the lower ones. With all advertisers paying the same monthly price, that wasn’t fair. I wanted […]
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Business The Net
Over the last few months we have been testing how well emailing a weekly newsletter would work in driving traffic to our blog. I am glad to report that this system works very well. For every 100 emails sent out, it drives 45 people to the site as a visitor. We currently send out 3000+ emails a week to our […]
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Ramblings Videos
Last month, Ed Lau and Michael Kwan held a contest asking readers to name their new hockey blog and win an iPod nano . They haven’t selected the winning name yet but they did select the random winner of the 4GB nano during Saturday’s Dot Com Pho. A video was made of the drawing. I was asked by Ed and […]
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The Net
We all have outside influences that pull us from blogging on a daily basis. I previously posted about the lies that are holding your blog back. I know posting once a day can be a difficult task when you are just starting to blog. Have you ever stopped to ask yourself though what is holding you back from blogging? Experts […]
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Videos
First off all, I don’t know how 45n5 managed to get their hands this video that featured Darren Rowse and myself doing the hula. However, since it’s been released, I guess I have no choice except to release an official statement on it. Official statement: This video is a fake. That is not me doing the hula. However, I can’t […]
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Fine Dining
The evening dinner reception for my cousin’s wedding was held at Kirin Mandarin Restaurant at the Three West Centre in the heart of Richmond. The entire 350 seat restaurant was booked out for this event. If you have ever been to a Chinese wedding banquet then you know they are a big deal. I think Chinese wedding banquets ranks near […]
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