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For many years, we have used a special self-hosted shopping cart for our company. This cart is what you currently know as Delavo. While the name is new, the software itself is not. Delavo has gone through quite a few years of re-branding and upgrades, beginning as JV Manager, Fantasos and now Delavo. We have been using the cart since JV Manager 1 days and can

Many establishments these days are concerned about the safety of people who visit their premises. Office buildings, schools, colleges are a few that come to mind. There’s been a lot of news of schools using text message systems to alert their students. Text is not only a popular tool for young people but it is increasingly popular as across the board. If you manage or have clients who manage such property, and are looking for

So news has reached me that Adii Pienarr, the co-founder of the wildly popular Woo Themes is writing a book called “Rockstar Business”. The book will be coming off the press in September. But you can secure your copy without even hitting the book store – virtual or offline – and for $0. Here’s how.

Pienarr has partnered with the guys at Wishlist Member where anyone who buys the Wishlist Member plugin between

In case you didn’t know, aMember has released their WordPress plugin for free. This plugin used to cost $40.

Also to be clear, this a an aMember plugin not WordPress. What it does it plug into aMember to create members in WordPress when a customer orders a product and removes or suspends them when the member cancels.

There is a down side to the existing plugin though, it doesn’t protect the

Last week, at the Hot Seminar Series, I was sharing 20 different ways one can use WordPress. Amongst one of the things brought up was using the P2 theme as a Twitter-like communication tool for your own private group. Well, great minds think alike so I was very pleased to see a post on How-To Geek about creating your own micro group blog using… you guessed it. P2 and WordPress. They put in

Big confession. Finances are not my strongest points. I’m in business because I enjoy working out the technical kinks for people and developing tech related products and services. Not to be an accountant. I also have a tendency to ignore it – which of course is not very good. That’s why I 100% outsource this. But what if you’re the type who doesn’t mind crunching the numbers?

This is not to be confused with

iDevAffiliate is one of those scripts that have been in the market for a long time. In those days, affiliate programs for small businesses are were pretty new, certainly not as widely implemented as they are now. Today, it is still being actively supported and developed. That on its own is a nice feather in iDevAffiliate‘s cap. You know it isn’t going anywhere anytime soon.

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When you sit down to create a product, how do you put down your thoughts and organize them into something coherent? How do you figure out what you need to include and what the scope of the product will be? If you like to think visually and in vibrant colors, consider mind mapping. Here are a 10 tools with which you can explore mind mapping with.

1. Freemind – used this one for a

This question seems to pop up frequently in VA, web development and related sites so why not share my experiences here – in case you too were wondering.

A few years ago when I re-designed BloggingStarterPack, this question plagued me too. I went for bbPress, a little reluctantly but my reasons were,

• bbPress was part of the WordPress family which I trusted
• It’s simple, clean, not bloated
• I figured, eventually

When you are at the computer store next time, take a moment to look through their bargain bin. Earlier this week, we were in Atlanta and we always hit the computer stores when we are in town – Microcenter to be specific. They always have a bargain bin for opened and returned stuff, display items or just plain torn up items.

While rummaging through, I found this oh so tiny USB drive by Verbatim