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2007 will surely be known as the year the US housing bubble burst. As US house prices fell and
mortgage delinquencies surged, shock waves were sent across global financial markets.
The outlook for 2008 will most likely to stay in volatile conditions. So. choppy waters are
likely to be with us for some time. What do you think?
As [...]

eBay continues to gear toward attracting buyers and helping them find what they
need more easily. Here are a couple of tools added in Nov/Dec:
eBay Guest Buying is now site-wide
They first started testing “guest buying” a few months ago in a bid to increase
sales from non-eBayers. The results — eBay saw a “significant” increase in
first-time visitors [...]

It is now official - Doubleclick is now part of Google.
Two days ago, on Dec 20, 2007, the Federal Trade Commission, FTC Approved the
Google-DoubleClick Deal. It has taken more than 8 months for the deal to go through.
FTC Announcement
Google Press Release
Bloomberg News
Why the deal went through?
It points to the latest Microsoft-Viacom deal as proof [...]

Things are going well for the new online advertising platform Rubicon Project
- Within the six-week period since launching in private beta in October, they’ve
served 1.4 billion ad impressions with about 2000-plus websites approved for
the private beta.
I’d signed up with the Rubicon Project in Nov. and currently serving some ads in
two of my approved blogs.
The Rubicon [...]

Is there such a thing as a dream business?
Yes, there is…
* If you can have fun making money by pursuing ideas that excite you
* If you can start a great internet home business, with no capital investment
and no risk
* If you can choose to start the business with the option of part-time, or
full-time, or growing [...]

At the recent UBS 35th Annual Global Media & Communications Conference,
eBay Marketplace President John Donahoe indicated a new pricing structure is on
the horizon in 2008. According to Donahoe, eBay has been running tests since
September this year, in the form of several promotions with reduced insertion
and gallery fees.
eBay generates income by charging a higher insertion fee [...]

Fact: The Internet is driven by new technologies to grow and change rapidly.
As online entrepreneurs it is important for us to keep up-to-date with
professionally-related news and developments of the Internet. We should always
be on the look out for valuable resources for keeping in touch with others whose
areas of expertise expand the breadth of our ability [...]

Spam is defiantly a bigger and bigger problem nowadays. Recently Ralph Wilson,
Paul Myers, and other Net marketing gurus have written about the problems that
spam is causing honest, hard working Net marketers.
Actually, while spam is the fundamental root of our problems, the anti-spam
measures that large ISPs and important free e-mail hosts (like Hotmail and Yahoo!
Mail) undertake [...]

The point about Google being an independent company summarizes the whole paid link
issue. It will continue to be a sore spot for many webmasters.
WebProNews catches up with the Head of Google’s Webspam Team and Software Engineer,
Matt Cutts and the Features Editor of Search Engine Land, Vanessa Fox at PubCon 2007 in Las Vegas. Continue reading [...]

The ability to create and deliver a timely, high-quality newsletter (a.k.a. “e-zine”)
plays a vital role in building an internet or online business. This is to ensure
that you’re in constant touch with your subscribers who are your potential customers.
Why?
1) We all know…”out of sight” is “out of mind” in the off-line world.
Whereas, in the online world…the [...]

What does affiliate success boil down to?
Let’s start…from the beginning…
The number one challenge for all affiliates…
Build a Web site…that builds targeted traffic…
and that causes visitors to click through…
with a warm, open-to-buy attitude…
to merchant sites that you represent.
There is an endless labyrinth of possible software and information/advice offered
on the Net. I’m not sure which is [...]

Like the idea of starting an internet business to sell perfume online?
Billions of dollars of this product are being sold every year, almost entirely
through physical stores.
Well, experts said it’s impossible to sell perfume online….until…
Ken McCarthy of The System Seminar sent me a video link in a note today…
“One man cracked the code and figured [...]