Archive for the ‘Tips & Tricks’ Category

Plan To Delegate Tasks Before You Need To

Wednesday, January 28th, 2009

How often have you felt overwhelmed with the load of tasks awaiting your urgent attention? Quite often I guess. Wondering what to do about such situation? Simple, Plan to Delegate Tasks before you feel you need to.

Too often, we over-rate our ability and insist on doing everything by ourselves instead of assigning it to others. This is more glaring in the case of perfectionists who can never get satisfied with anything done by another person. They always want to give every task that personal touch. Well, in business, the earlier you learn to delegate the better.

Since you are just a human with limited time and abilities, your business will eventually need more attention than (more…)

Why You Should Stop Using Free Email Services For Your Business

Monday, January 19th, 2009

Stop Using Free Email Services For Your Business

Free Email Service

Free Email Services

Do you want your prospects to take your business serious? Then you’ve got to stop using free email services to run your business! Come to think of it, how will you feel if you receive an email from Apple Inc. and the email address is mr_apple@gmail.com? You most likely will assume that the email is fake and probably the work of scammers.  Successful Entrepreneurs don’t use such services to run their business!

Why You Should Stop Using Free Email Services

The online community has a peculiar way of evaluating business outfits. You will hardly be taken serious as an entrepreneur if you do not have a  unique domain name registered for your business. Online prospects will simply assume (more…)

Why and How To Cloak Your Affiliate Links

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

Should I cloak my Affiliate Link? A question that many newbie entrepreneur wants answered. This post examine why and how to cloak your affiliate links.

Affiliate marketing is one of the primary ways that bloggers make money online. If you are not into affiliate marketing, I will encourage you to give it a trial. Irrespective of the number of income streams you already have, an additional money maker is always welcome. My previous post on affiliate marketing may give you additional motivation. Ok, back to the topic, “Why and How To Cloak Your Affiliate Links

4 Reasons why you should cloak your affiliate links

  1. Ugly Urls – I personally hate the way some affiliate links looks gibberish, ugly and pretty long. For me that is enough reason to hide them.
  2. Affiliate Commision Theft – Some bloggers claim they cloak their affiliate links to prevent affiliate commission theft. Well I have not experienced such, but I believe it is a possibility. (more…)

WordPress 2.6.0 to 2.6.1 another Upgrade Headache!

Monday, August 18th, 2008

I love WordPress, not just because it is free (everybody loves freebies, don’t you?), but because it is a great software that produce beautiful websites. However, I gets scared whenever there is need to upgrade to a newer version. I often experience WordPress Upgrade Headache! 

I was complaining that the frequent release of new versions is getting me frustrated. But the tech guys advised that it is for my own good. Well, I have swallowed that, but then the upgrade has never been smooth and it seems the WordPress team are not doing anything about it. I don’t mean to be ungrateful, afterall, I am not paying for their service, but then, there are too many users having problem with upgrading. (more…)

When Things Go Wrong, What Do You Do?

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

Irrespective of how careful a man plans, external factors can still pose serious threat to the success of a venture. At such time, feelings of frustration and anger can make an optimistic entrepreneur want to throw in the towel. If care is not taken, it may even cause the premature death of a lofty dream. I just had an experience that shows that such situations are common in life but how an entrepreneur handles it is what matters.

For some days now, I have been having serious technical challenges with my website. Some of you (my loyal readers) may have suffered as a result. I lost some posts and comments that you made on my blog (I apologize if I lost your comment). The fault was not due to carelessness or bad planning on my part, I did my very best to keep the website running as per plan, however, the servers at my hosting company decided they needed a break. So, they hijacked the websites and converted them for placards. Visitors were greeted with differ kinds of gibberish error messages (it was not a funny situation). (more…)