Trisha Walsh-Smith who has made headlines by publicizing her marital problems on youtube.com is seeking donations through paypal to help her with her divorce legal fees.

She is asking for $1.00 from everyone who watches her video. She is accepting payment through paypal.com. Problem is - in addition to the lawyers, paypal is likely to be the big winner.

Here are paypal’s fees for transactions ranging from $0 to $3000 USD - 2.9% + $0.30 USD.

So if you donate a buck to Trisha Walsh-Smith - $0.33 goes to paypal.com

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I just released my latest ebook - “79 tips to break 80 in golf.” When you pick a topic that you know well and are passionate about, your ebook almost writes itself. I cranked this one out pretty quickly, but I’m probably forgetting about all the text that I had written for the websites beforehand. I took a lot of this text and rewrote it for the book. One of my secrets about writing ebooks is to develop the website (that you will use for promotion purposes) and the ebook simultaneously. You can then use some of your website content as ebook content. The advantage is that you get to rewrite the website content for your ebook.

Anyhow, I am really happy with this ebook and am sure that many will find its contents very helpful in improving their golf game.

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I received this from paypal in response to my inquiry:

Thank you for contacting PayPal, Hello my name is Ferdie, I am sorry to
hear about the situation regarding $30 fee and understand your
frustration and concern over this issue. I will be happy to assist you
with your questions.

If you don’t want to be charge for a $30.00 fee every month you can
cancel that billing agreement to virtual terminal and you don’t need to
downgrade to a personal account. If you are considering canceling your
Website Payments Pro or Virtual Terminal account, the following features
will be canceled:
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If you are running an internet business then, just like any other business, you should consider printing up business cards about the website and your ebook product (or other digital goods product). At the very least, printing up business cards demonstrates to yourself and others that you are running a business and that you are serious about your business. Business cards also help you promote your product to others. While traditional advertising, in my opinion, is not the most effective means of promoting a web-based business, people do tend to hang on to business cards for quite a bit longer than their memory of a commercial lasts.

When you choose your business card design, do so with the intention of making something people will hold on to and notice. Cheap business cards often find their way to the trash much quicker than expensive ones. Of course, gaudy business cards may get thrown away just as quickly as cheap ones, but gaudy cards may at least get noticed.

Consider adding something useful to the card like a calendar or similar item so that people will consider it valuable and keep the card. The longer they keep it, the better chance you have of making it pay off with visits to your site and sales of your product.

here’s a good site for printing business cards

http://www103.iprint.com/

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For years, the internet was looked upon as a place to get free stuff - free mp3s, free information, free software, free videos and free porn. This attitude still pervades the internet today and makes it difficult for individuals to sell their products on the internet. People think they should get things for free on the internet. How does someone selling an ebook or other digital product survive in this type of atmosphere? I believe if you want to sell product on the internet, you have to attempt to partially satisfy this desire for free stuff. Give people some valuable information for free but just enough to entice them without revealing the whole enchilada.

I see alot of websites that deliver only empty promises of what their product will do for you. These websites completely lack substance. I’m constantly wondering how these websites sell any product.

With demo software, you get an opportunity to try it out. Perhaps a demo ebook that expired after so many days would be the way to address people’s need for free?

future topics - free ebook directories, more demo ebook talk, is the web just another tv, how to address buyers’ credibility concerns, using google’s keyword tool

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http://www.mindlikewater.com/submitebook.html - $29.97 for listing

http://www.wisdomebooks.com/add76.html - $27 per 3 month subscription

http://www.ebookpalace.com/ - free listing

http://www.ebook2u.com/directory/add.shtml - free

http://www.virtual-ebooks.com/addabook.htm - free

http://www.see-search.com/asp/urlsubebook1f.asp - reciprocal link

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I’ve fallen in love with blogging. Although I have a decent understanding of html, blogging is so easy. And I’ve already effectively used it to promote another website of mine - www.recuerdosdelaalhambra.com. Through that site’s companion blog at http://recuerdosdelaalhambra.blogspot.com, I’ve already driven enough traffic to the main site to surpass my best month’s traffic total (in just 13 days). I’m on pace to almost triple my traffic to that site. And more traffic means more sales (I use the main site to sell my product from).

Blogging levels the playing field for those out there who don’t know html or for those who don’t want to hassle with a web site. It’s an easy and effective way to drive traffic to another site. And more traffic means more sales of your product.

How do you do it?
…click here to read more →

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One of the downsides of Wordpress is the constant release of updates. What a complete pain in the ass to have to update this crap every few weeks. Apparently 2.5.1 contains, among other things, a security fix. I’ve got about 50 or so blogs and dealing with this every time an update comes out is ridiculous. Fantastico’s automatic update has caused me more problems than I care to recount. So I manually update all the blogs now.

Well, that’s my rant and here’s the full scoop from the Wordpressers:

Version 2.5.1 of WordPress is now available. It includes a number of bug fixes, performance enhancements, and one very important security fix. We recommend everyone update immediately, particularly if your blog has open registration. The vulnerability is not public but it will be shortly.

In addition to the security fix, 2.5.1 contains many bug fixes. If you are interested only in the security fixes, you can download these corrected copies of wp-includes/pluggable.php, wp-admin/includes/media.php, and wp-admin/media.php. Replace your existing copies of these files with these new copies.

If you download the entire 2.5.1 release, you will be getting over 70 other fixes. 2.5.1 focuses on fixing the most annoying bugs and improving performance. Here are some highlights:

Performance improvements for the Dashboard, Write Post, and Edit Comments pages.
Better performance for those who have many categories
Media Uploader fixes
An upgrade to TinyMCE 3.0.7
Widget Administration fixes
Various usability improvements

Layout fixes for IE

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Sellers attempting to sell digital products such as ebooks on the internet are often frustrated by the vast number of people who visit their sites yet don’t buy. There are many reasons why people don’t buy. I would like to look at credibility concerns of potential buyers. One reason that people just window shop is because you and I and other Internet sellers are not amazon.com or any other major internet marketer. We don’t have the same reputation, longevity, or brand name recognition that amazon.com and others possess.

How do we sell in a market where people flock towards the big name and well known players?

1 - Tell people how long you’ve been around. If your website has been up for 10 years then let the world know. That will convince a few more buyers to buy rather than surf away from your site.
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Have you ever noticed how some posts generate more traffic than others on your blog? Have you then noticed how once those high traffic posts move down or off the page, your traffic goes down as well? Give the people what they want and rotate your high traffic posts back to the top of your blog.

I have a restaurant review blog and I’ve been getting a ton of traffic from my review of Taboo Fine Dining and Lounge. So what do I do?
…click here to read more →

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