Written By Loren Woirhaye, August 11th, 2010
Reading time: 8 – 12 minutes
If you’re new to online marketing and you are getting ready to launch your first real website, you need to know the following, very timely information about “web hosting”
In the next few minutes you’ll learn :
how to choose a sensible web-hosting plan and what to avoid
how to host multiple sites on one account
how to know the right time to upgrade to so-called reseller hosting
the best hosting control panel for internet marketers (in my opinion)
why a blogging platform may be your best way to get started and which platform to use
My first website was really lame and I had no clue what I was doing. I blundered through the process, wasting a lot of time but learning a bit in the process. Over the last few years I’ve learned a lot about webmastering. For me, web hosting and webmastering is a means to an end, not a career. Knowing how to manage my own web-hosting empowers me to try new things as a marketer and adapt rapidly to changes in the marketplace. I also save lots of money because I don’t have to pay someone to work on any of my sites. I am 
Written By Loren Woirhaye, August 2nd, 2010
Reading time: 1 – 2 minutes
It’s hard to believe everybody doesn’t have a PayPal account, but some people don’t, and many with good reasons. Many people starting online businesses may have been buying stuff for years online without having a PayPal account. Since PayPal allows purchasing through it with a credit card but without an account login, many people will just do that when presented with PayPal as the only payment option.
I can relate, because I am account-creation averse myself and for a time had a running dispute with PayPal that prevented me from using my account but did not prevent me from buying stuff with PayPal by paying without an account login.
You can earn commissions when people sign-up for merchant accounts through your referral link. The commission has limits, but it’s probably worth setting it up if you market, as I do, to people who want to start or grow online businesses.
PayPal has a referral program that pays commissions but they make it really hard to find your link.
I had a PayPal account with a referral link a while back, but I closed it and stopped using it and opened another…
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Written By Loren Woirhaye, June 8th, 2010
I have had people tell me “internet marketing is a sham” when really what they are saying is that they thought making money online would be easier and were disappointed when making money wasn’t easy for them. The information and knowledge of the basics of how to build an online income are widely available – there are no secrets but there are skills to be practiced and worked on. The rewards of mastering certain skills, such as list-building, are great – but the commitment to learn them is great
Written By Loren Woirhaye, June 6th, 2010
Reading time: 1 – 2 minutes
I’ll preface this by saying that I’m not promoting this product, because I bought it and I did not find it useful to me. That doesn’t mean you won’t like it or shouldn’t buy it. What you get out of any program of this nature has a lot to do with your commitment to taking action and your own experience level. I would classify myself as a “seasoned” online marketer with mastery of many fundamental skills. A less experienced marketer than me might find this product meets their needs very well.
The salesletter and positioning of the product seem to be working awfully hard to convince us that these “scripts” product automated traffic. They don’t. They simplify some minor marketing tasks like adding meta tags to blogger blogs and searching Yahoo answers for keywords.
You might be dazzled by the spit and polish of how this program is promoted. Once you buy the upsell offer alone are dazzling in their quantity and pushiness. You’ll get many offers in your email for other products as well.
I tested the banner rotator on this blog (http://malibumentor.com)… and all I ever saw it display was a banner for the Automated Traffic
