Setting up an online store can be a daunting task, as it is easy to end up with a shoddy looking website that does not give potential customers the experience that you initially wanted them to gain from visiting your site. A shoddy looking store will also mean that people are reluctant to use their payment information in your online

I was running a cross promotional campaign for my company’s daily email newsletter, ARN Daily, this morning. Almost immediately after the campaign email was sent out, DreamHost’s data center had an outage, rendering the campaign almost useless. This is the latest of many issues that I’ve had with DreamHost, unfortunately. I have a couple of other hosting accounts, with Arvixe

Several months back, I wrote about my paid email newsletter called ARN Daily in a post called “How I Developed a Paid Email Newsletter to Diversify My Business’s Income.” Since that post last spring, the number of subscribers to both the free and paid newsletters has easily tripled. This business unit now brings my company close to about $30,000 per

I’ve started my last book for 2011. Here’s a complete list of what I’ve read this year: 01 – 1/1/2011 – Doing More Faster by David Cohen and Brad Feld 02 – 1/5/2011 – Never By Another Stock Again by David Gaffen 03 – 1/16/2011 – Sex Begins in the Kitchen by Kevin Leman 04 – 1/19/2011 – The E-Myth

My company has done pretty well with affiliate advertising over the last couple of years by creating high-quality content about a product or service that has an affiliate program and including appropriate affiliate banners and links in those articles. For example, you can read a review I did of Lending Club’s peer-to-peer lending service on my site, P2PLendingNews.com. The article

Regardless of what type of website that you have, you need to back-up your websites on an ongoing and consistent basis. What would you do if your website got hacked? What would you do if your web-host goes out of business? What would you do if the server that hosts your website crashes hard? If the answer is, “I don’t

Browsing for online business opportunities on Flippa is like prospecting for gold. Most of the time, you’re not going to find anything that looks remotely like gold. On a rare occasion, you’ll find something that looks like gold, but later you found out it’s fool’s gold. On an extremely rare occasion, you can find a site that’s worth buying and

WordPress has been the single best and single worst piece of software for my company. Almost all of the sites that my company operates are powered by WordPress. On one hand, it’s a fantastic content management system that’s easy to setup and upgrade. If there’s something you want to do on your website, chances are, there’s a plugin out there

Here are the books that I’ve read in 2011: Doing More Faster, by David Cohen and Brad Feld* Never By Another Stock Again, by David Gaffen Sex Begins in the Kitchen, by Kevin Leman The E-Myth Revisited, by Michael Gerber Becoming an Externally Focused Church, by Rick Rusaw Why We Get Fat, by Gary Taubes* Kingdom Giving, by Jerry Wear

With the winter months looming close ahead on the horizon, car owners should prepare their vehicles for the cold weather by protecting the exteriors, interiors and mechanical parts of their automobiles as well as getting the right auto protection. Here are five great ways to make sure your car survive and even thrive in the cold months ahead: 1) Get