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Ok Ok, I have been somewhat missing in action the past few months but for good reason. I have been learning online marketing. The day to day of programming is fun but I spend way to much time behind the computer. So what have I learn so far?
I have learned that the sites I use, like MySpace, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, etc are being used by people to gain a marketing advantage. They are actually making money off of these sites. That surprised me in the fact that I never really saw that potential in these sites. I just saw them as a social hangout.
So what exactly have I been doing? I have been creating videos and making sites. The first site I made was Joseph Geyer. This is my personalized mentorship site where I aim to provide mentoring to those just beginning network marking, or just plain old marketing. Yes I have learned this so well that I now teach others.
My second site is called MLM Ball. It helps show people there broken mindset when wanting to be successful in any online business and helps promote the All 4 One Mastermind community.
And the latest and greatest site, My Millionaire Date strives to show people that there is a better way to manage there money and become a true millionaire. No game playing, no wishing. Pure help. It is actually my best work to day as far as opt in pages go.
Yes, I am still doing some work on Foxxy Playground but the budget for work has been pretty much shot so now I am looking for more work to help offset the lower income. I know my marketing sites will start performing once I do the whole web 2.0 thing and build my web of trust so I am not to worried about it.
On another note, I have an offer for one of my domain names ds9.com and I am seriously considering it. The guy has been trying to get it for a couple of years and I am not doing much work on it right now anyways. The only thing I would loose is my cool email address (and a few other people also) but such is life I guess.
There you go, my happenings over the past few months (if you had any interest). Oh, you can find me on Twitter also to get a deeper reflection on my life.
-SJ
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Loading ...This player is HORRIBLE for any kind of advanced usage. No documentation on the configuration file layout. The documentation they do have is very vague and always refers to there customizer tool. They do have a doc that tells you how set up icecast. Um guys. icecast is NOT YOUR PRODUCT. LINK to the documentation on the icecast site and dont just copy/paste the text so your documentation “looks better”. Well people who use databases to control playlists just is not working. There technical support button DOESNT work no matter what checkboxes you check or uncheck. This is a classic of “Im a dummy” product. If you are an advanced user that uses a database back end, stay away from this product. The only thing going good for it is the reconnect to live streams every so often so the users browser does not die. If the Jeroen player did that, Wimpy would be out of business PERIOD.
Even if teh Jeroen player is free, its worth more than what you pay for Wimpy.
-SJ
(1 votes, average: 5 out of 5) Loading ...You may or may not know but I started making How-To videos this week. These aim to help the absolute normal person and try to leave out all assumption. I guide you thru each step, on screen, to accomplish a task.
So far to date, I have posted 2 videos. The first being on how to set up your own MySpace social networking site and the second being on how to remove your advertisements from websites you frequent like MySpace and Facebook.
How-to remove advertisements (even on my blog!)
How to set up a social network
Have any questions, feel free to contact me on the right or post in my forums.
- Joe
(1 votes, average: 5 out of 5) Loading ...Remember the lite brites of days old? This is a complete revamp of it in the web browser. I could easily waste hours on this.
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Just received an email from eBay announcing there new “lower” fee structure. Its pure crap.
They RAISED the final value fee by 3.5%!! 5.25% was already rediculous and now they want 8.75%? WTF? Yeah they lowered there insertion fees by 5 cents. Wooopy doo dah. They are still taking the money out of your pocket when it sells.
Another thing, as I read this I was reminded that they charge insertion fees for there stores. What crap is that? They also charge monthly fees. I am sorry.. wait no I am not, if I am paying a monthly fee to have a store I want to not have to pay everytime I put a product in a store I am already paying for. wow.
They hid the fee increases by throwing in gallery for free. Definately done with eBay. I will probably still buy on there but I am definately NOT selling on there anymore.
Con artists of the century? There new fee structure.
- SJ
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Over the last week, I figured I would try to clean some clutter out and put some stuff up for auction on eBay. What I have found is that they are charging WAY too much now. Lets look at one of my auctions:
2 items with a “buy it now” auction and “best offer” listed at $29.99. They both sold for a total of $44 ($22 each). Here is the fee breakdown:
Insertion Fee: $2.40
Final Value Fee: $2.31
Total fee: $4.71
That is MORE than 10% of what I received for my items. To put the sting even further, there sister company Paypal took an additional $1.88. Total fees for selling on eBay amounts to $6.59 on a sale that was $44. My final income was $37.41, they took 15%. It looks like the only way to make money on eBay is to inflate somewhere and now I know why some of these shipping charges are outrageous. eBay does not charge fees on shipping, PayPal does as it is charged on all incoming money. So if you are going to sell something of any value, list it for a dollar and put your purchase price in shipping.
My insertion fee was so high on that item because it was a buy it now. Guess what eBay, it does not cost you more to list that item so why are you charging more?
Another quickie example which is not as bad. A cell phone up for auction with a buy it now.
Insertion Fee: $1.10
Final Value Fee: $3.25
PayPal Fee: $2.98
Total Fees: $7.33
Phone sold for $84.75 - $7.33 = $77.42 in total income. That is still close to 9% (8.64%) in total fees. I am looking for a new auction site that does not try to rape you on fees. Maybe Amazon is the answer? Maybe uBid?
Pass on eBay. There fees are out of hand.
- SJ
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For those that follow the mod I created for Joomla/Mambo, I released version 0.0.14 RC1 last week.
The reason for this release was to allow overrides of playlists and bypass the playlist generator. This comes in handy when you are using a service such as Loudcity or Live365 to host your playlists.
You can download the new version from the mod page.
If you find any problems with this version, please post in my forums.
-SJ
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About a year ago I purchased a music set from Centerpointe that basically helps take you into a deep mind state and helps you get into a meditation state of mind. I have actually been using the music to fall into a deeper sleep at night and to take naps in the middle of the day. The music tracks are the perfect length (30 mins each).
They published a newsletter by email and if you could get over the "upgrade now" messages, the newsletters actually contained some useful information. Yeah I know the whole point of having a newsletter is to upsell so I just overlooked that part.
The reason I post this article is to let everyone know that has doubts about the music that they discontinued there newsletter and finally moved into the digital age with a blog. You can read the innagural post on there new blog. Another bonus and reason for posting here is to give them a little kick from a PR4 blog. Dont ask how I got PR4 but I figured I’d help. 
If I may critique them (yes Bill has only published two articles so far), he is, in my personal opinion, making the articles too long for a blog. Most people who read blogs do not have time to read such long posts and some (me included) lose interest about halfway thru long posts. Now I am not saying post "uber kewl" and long content, just try not to post a whole newsletter with each post.
Oh, did I mention Bill Harris is featured in "The Secret". I bought the music from Centerpointe before I saw "The Secret" and was glad I was on the right path to personal growth.
-SJ
(1 votes, average: 4 out of 5) Loading ...For all those out there searching for a great blog editor, Windows Live Writer is it. I use it now to post to my blogs and they look much better.
It supports the following blogs (as of this writing):
Wordpress.com
Blogger
Typepad
LiveJournal
Moveable Type
Wordpress
Wordpress 2.2
Community Server
dasBlog
Radio Userland
Metaweblog API
Movable Type API
Notice there is no MySpace or any other social networking site on the list? I think it is because they do not use standard blog API’s since they are using a custom brewed backend system. As a suggestion to these social networking sites, make it easier for people to post content to your site. Its what makes your site good and its FREE for you.
Get Windows Live Writer - Its FREE.
-SJ
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