The Website Professionals

eBay offering an extra 30% in April?

Posted in Affiliate news on Mar 31st, 2010

What’s going on at eBay? I just got an email offering me an extra 30% for April, if I can beat my eBay Partner Network earnings for March (which should be easy enough)…

This April we’d like to offer you a unique opportunity to earn a significant bonus on top of your regular earnings. If you can increase your eBay Australia April earnings over your March earnings, we’ll add a 30% bonus on top of whatever you earn in April. As an example, if you earn $500 in March, and $600 in April, you’ll be paid $780 for April instead of $600. We’re only offering this incentive to select publishers and it may not come around again for while.

Is this just for Australian affiliates, or is everyone getting it?

I love my MOO cards

Posted in Marketing on Mar 16th, 2010

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I just received a new batch of Moo MiniCards, but I like them so much that I’m having trouble handing them over to my clients. When it comes to making the customer feel special, Moo make Apple look like a bunch of amateurs.
Experience MOO magic here.

Wacom Bamboo Fun … is actually kinda fun

Posted in Everything else on Mar 15th, 2010

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Wacom Bamboo Fun

I spent a few hours with a Wacom Bamboo Fun over the weekend, and although I didn’t have quite enough time to give it a complete test, I was impressed enough to put it on my shopping list.
Features:

Combines the benefits of pen and Multi-Touch input into one tablet
Use a single finger for navigation and multiple fingers for gestures
Simple gestures make it easy to scroll, zoom, rotate, move backward or forward
Pressure-sensitive pen tip for natural pen and brush strokes
Battery-free, ergonomic pen with two switches
Textured work surface for a pen-on-paper feel
Quick access to user-defined shortcuts with four ExpressKeys
Attached fabric loop conveniently secures pen

The Wacom Bamboo Fun package also includes Adobe Photoshop Elements and Corel Painter Essentials, which is a great deal if you don’t already have them.

ShareCash payment

Posted in Affiliate news on Mar 13th, 2010

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I made it onto ShareCash’s top earners page a few times last month. And although it’s not exactly a huge amount, they certainly pay a lot better than any of the other uploading programs I’ve tried. And to think, just a few months ago I was actually looking to BUY more hosting to cover the bandwidth on my most popular files. ShareCash are hosting my files, and paying me as well. It’s win-win.

Sorry, your account is too old to be eligible to redeem this coupon.

Posted in Marketing on Mar 3rd, 2010

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I just attempted to redeem my $75 Google AdWords voucher…

“Sorry, your account is too old to be eligible to redeem this coupon.”

Nice way to do business Google. Send your existing customers a free voucher, then refuse to credit it because our accounts are too old. You really know how to make us feel like valued customers.

Export a favicon from Photoshop

Posted in Tips, tricks & tools on Jan 29th, 2010

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1. Download the ICO (Windows Icon) plugin, and extract it to your \Plug-Ins\File Formats directory.
2. Design your 16×16 icon (or resize something larger), and select “save as”.
3. Select the ICO format, and save your file as favicon.ico.
4. Upload your new favicon.ico to the root directory of your website.
5. Add this code inside the <head></head> section of your pages: