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Archive for October, 2009

There seems to be a lot of concern, and even paranoia, over the innocuous cookie, and I don’t mean the kind with sugar and chocolate chips! Wikipedia, the online free encyclopedia, defines this kind of cookie as follows:

“In computing, a cookie (also tracking cookie, browser cookie, and HTTP cookie) is a small piece of text stored on a user’s computer by a web browser. A cookie consists of one or more name-value pairs containing bits of information such as user preferences, shopping cart contents, the identifier for a server-based session, or other data used by websites.”

This delightful, easy to follow, step-by-step guide to selling books on Amazon is written by a five-star seller, who gives away some of the biggest money making secrets to selling books online today. Although the guide is designed with the stay-at-home mom in mind, it is appropriate for anyone who wants to make a few-hundred extra dollars a week, or the model can be blown-up for those interested in starting a profitable fulltime business.

Buy this book on Amazon now: How to Sell Books on Amazon: The Stay-at-Home Mom’s Secret Guide to Selling Used Books on Amazon

New Life Auctions, an eBay seller, offers a lot of good (free!) advice and a few useful tools. One of the most helpful we’ve found is their eBay and PayPal Fee Calculator. It’s an online form where you can enter the various considerations for your eBay listing, click a button, and see what the fees are going to be. It’s a very helpful exercise for beginner and seasond seller alike.

If your morning sounds something like this, “Wake up! C’mon! You’re going to be late! You’ll miss your bus! This is the last time. I’m not telling you again…” then you have a problem.

You can change that! There are a few basic thing you can do to bring things under control. Just remember, YOU are the parent. The key, though, is consistency. Decide on the plan and then follow it through.

Mornings are built upon one thing: bedtime the night before. Having a standard, consistent, evening routine will assist greatly in how smoothly the next morning will run. There are some standard procedures you should follow. Here are a few:

Main Street Mall Online is a virtual shopping mall featuring merchandise specific malls where sellers offer their products and/or services in their own stores. It is a premium selling site with all the features of much more expensive venues however there is a single monthly flat rate for services. There are no listing fees and no sales commissions.

After many years of false starts and fitful fluctuations in the publishing industry it looks like the time has come for a new approach to the serious distribution of professional quality e-books. There is a small number of quality contenders in the e-book reader market but it appears, at least at present, that the number one choice climbing to the top is the Kindle from Amazon (shown left).

It certainly doesn’t hurt that America’s number one online retailer is seriously in the mix. The Kindle is exclusive to Amazon and features a proprietary publishing format (AZW) and supports several others including TXT, Audible (formats 4, Audible Enhanced (AAX)), MP3, unprotected MOBI, PRC natively; and PDF, HTML, DOC, JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP through conversion.

One of the most useful utilities I’ve found for my computer is AZZ Cardfile (http://www.azzcardfile.com/). It’s like a Rolodex, scratch pad, address book, birthday list, to-do list, and general database all in one.

The website says, “Azz Cardfile incorporates many useful tools in one piece of software: simple and powerful, totally customizable organizer software without predefined fields, Recipe Software, Contacts Database, Address Book, Rolodex, Contact Management Software, Simple Database, Organizer for Notes, References or any other items.”

It’s unseasonably cold this morning. 27F with the wind chill factor. That’s cold, folks! But it’s a good Sunday morning. The website is all but done. Oh, sure, there’s a few bits and pieces that need a little messing with but all in all it is ready to go. We’ve added the link to MSMOsites and we’re looking forward to our first visitors.

The amazing thing to me is that from concept to near completion the site took only three days. Three days! Most comparable sites would take a week to ten days minimum and could easily drag out for weeks. We are really more and more impressed with this WordPress website engine. It’s powerful, easy to use, and the theme (template design) process is fast. It makes the whole process enjoyable.

We have become quite enamored, of late, with the WordPress website engine and the extensive collection of themes (site designs) available for it. This powerful, stand-alone, package offers the framework for establishing a multi-page website that features a built in blog. Various free and commercial theme offerings provide hundreds, perhaps thousands, of page layout choices. You don’t need a great deal of experience to get your own great looking website up and running.

There are a lot of articles around about Flash and fancy and Web 2.0 and how the Internet is changing. Well, I hate to break it to you but the Internet has been in a state of constant change since its inception. Features, services, functions, and whole sections have come and gone as new ideas have dominated old ones and new and better ways have been found to do old and familiar things. Does anyone here remember Archie, Veronica, and Gopher? And I don’t mean comic book characters.