Every year around this time, members at SoloMasterminds (which I’ve been a part of for years) work feverishly to create some fantastic $5 deals. We call it May Madness and for what you can expect to find it is madness indeed, but oh so very good for you. The time has come for May Madness again. Woot! We have put up a special too. It is a 2-day intensive class for those who: Need guidance setting up a WordPress site or, Anyone who wants to develop WordPress sites F-A-S-T without FTP, HTML or CSS Everything we do from set up to editing fonts, colors, backgrounds and even creating custom layouts is all point-and-click using the browser. There are also lots of other great offers such as PLR Graphics VA services Affiliate courses HTML templates and more… Go check out the offers now. I promise you, you won’t want to miss it. I’m getting ready to make a couple of purchases myself.

They say putting a picture in your blog post helps people understand the subject matter. It’s also visually appealing and perhaps can entice people to read. Don’t know about all the science behind that. I like to put pictures in my posts because they look nice and a tech blog can be kinda dry don’t you think? So images break things up and help people understand things – hopefully. The problem with images is, you only have so many of your own you can use, it can get uber expensive to buy stock photos for every single post. So most of us will go search and use images from Flickr or similar places. Free images usually require a link back or credits – small price to pay really. Sadly, by default WordPress captions don’t allow links. It will strip them out and you can add photo credits that link back to the photographer, I often had to relegate it all the way to the bottom which is OK I guess but rather disjointed. I could make the image clickable but I don’t think that would give a good user experience because people just don’t expect that when they click on

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If you are using aMember version 4 and getting ready to pay affiliates, you may find there are no commissions to pay. The good news is, it is not a bug but a setting. By default, aMember sets commissions to be delayed by 31 days. So any sale that is less than 31 days old is not included in the report. If you had no commission-able sales older than 31 days, aMember assumes no commissions are to be paid. To protect yourself, a 30 or 31 day delay on commission payments isn’t such a bad idea. There have been merchants who lost a lot of money on fraudulent sales. The fake sales were made using stolen credits cards through an affiliate URL. So the merchant is already out of the money from the stolen card but since they had paid the affiliate their commissions, it’s a double whammy. Of course, if you have an established affiliate program and change your payment terms, you will want to give your affiliates a good explanation and some time to get used to the idea. Anyhow, in aMember, changing the delay to 0 will allow you to generate commission payments.

Maybe it’s because I hate being tied down. For a while now, I’ve been intentionally selecting applications that can be used on multiple platforms or accessed through the Internet. This has allowed me to very easily leave the computer and office at the drop of the hat. Naturally, a big part of that is mobile applications because tablets and cellphones are easier to carry than a laptop. So what are the apps that can be found on my mobile devices that are also on the laptop and desktop? On the phone (Android) 1. BizCalendar by Mikado I love love love the many calendar widgets. 2. Navigation – this is turn by turn GPS directions that came with my phone. LOVE IT! Great when visiting new local clients in unfamiliar territory. 3. FlexT9 – I can actually ‘write’ instead of type and something else called trace or swype. You don’t type but you just trace the words with your finger this is fantastic. Unfortunately have not been able to find similar app for my husband’s iPhone. Of course with Android I can talk instead of type – it’s just… I’m not a talker. On the iPad 1. WordPress 2. Air Sketch

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