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When you start a business offline or on, it’s only a matter of time when people start telling you that you should start a blog. Sadly, that’s where most stop and leave you wondering why? How is it good for your business especially when the business is not online based or when you offer a service and don’t think you have a ‘product’ for example, a belly dancer who dances at private parties and events.

It is funny how the smallest posts turn into a big and pretty serious conversation. Not long ago, I wrote a short post about RoboForm. It isn’t even that spectacular a post but it generated a lot of conversation because of the mere fact there are many more tools than RoboForm that does the same thing. As with a lot of software these days, they are becoming more and more web-based. That’s a good thing. I
This year, I volunteered to be a co-leader for the Girl Scouts. I’ve been asked to build our troops a private portal for the leaders to communicate with the parents and also a safe place for parents, leaders and scouts alike to upload and share photos we take through the year.
I’m still chewing on what I should use to build this portal. As you know, being a WordPress buff, my first instinct is to use

Here’s the deal. You promote and push those affiliate links of yours. You work hard, dropping them everywhere. In blogs, in reports, emails. Then the sales start coming in. Yay! But… from where? Which one of those links generated the sale so you can go do it some more?
That’s the million dollar question!
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Many affiliates would just love to know that but sadly, sometimes, we just won’t ever know because we don’t have

So you are told that if you want to do something (create a redirect or display a badge) all you need to do is copy and paste some code into a web page. You follow the instructions step by step and… it doesn’t work. All you see is the code you pasted onto the page. What gives?
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99% of the time, it’s probably because the code was pasted into the WYSIWYG editor. That