http://mogul.webmogulenterprises.com Building an empire on the internet Mon, 04 Aug 2008 22:16:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Yes it has been a while since I posted about TUNS, but it is not dead :) I've recently updated it with the new eBay category numbers and it also now works on subdomains. You can see an example of this at Scrapbooking.NicheStoreMall.com. http://mogul.webmogulenterprises.com/more-tuns-updates Famous for its niche and constantly going down, Twitter still continues to be big news. Today Techcrunch has a post about Twitter and how it might become as ubiquitous as email, instant messaging, etc. I hadn't really thought about it that way, but they could be right. Which of course ... http://mogul.webmogulenterprises.com/can-twitter-be-overtaken TechCrunch has launched a new site called Elevator Pitches. The idea is as simple as it is neat, you submit a 60 second video giving your 'elevator pitch' for your startup. They then put the videos up on you tube and via their site allow users to rate the pitch ... http://mogul.webmogulenterprises.com/techcrunchs-new-site I forgot to post about my first check, which was a whopping $87. However today I got my second check and this one is a bit nicer at $206.63. If I could only double my earnings month over month I'll be rich in no time! The majority of this check came ... http://mogul.webmogulenterprises.com/second-commission-junction-check With eBay moving to their own inhouse affiliate program, I was almost dreading the changes to TUNS for it. However, like the good developer that I am :), most of the config stuff was external to the code and making the change over was pretty easy. I just took to ... http://mogul.webmogulenterprises.com/ultimate-store-builder-updated As promised by eBay, they are moving away from using Commission Junction for their affiliate program and going internal. Well last night a little before midnight I got an email for them to join their new network. Their interface is a nice departure from CJ. Nice and clean, as seen by ... http://mogul.webmogulenterprises.com/ebay-partner-network-is-live-as-promised I recently started a couple web site projects for a client and needed an invoicing solution. I didn't put much thought into it at first as I was more focused on the actual projects, then I needed to send an invoice and realized I didn't have one! The quick and dirty ... http://mogul.webmogulenterprises.com/choosing-an-invoicing-solution I was hoping to get a release of TUNS out this week or so, but as luck would have it eBay decided to drop Commission Junction and run their affiliate program in-house. Unfortunately they aren't giving details until April 1st so I can't make any changes until then. Hopefully it ... http://mogul.webmogulenterprises.com/slight-delay-for-a-release Since I started the beta testing program, I've made 19 updates to date and things are moving along nicely. I plan on having another big update tomorrow with an eye to launching in a couple weeks with a version 1.0. I've already completed the features for version 1.0 so I ... http://mogul.webmogulenterprises.com/the-ultimate-niche-store-moving-along So I have a couple stores setup with my new eBay store builder software and decided to drive a little traffic via AdWords. I was getting some good click through rates on a couple campaigns, but when I went into analytics the numbers were adding up. I wasn't seeing any ... http://mogul.webmogulenterprises.com/adwords-snafu