One of the best features about PayPal is the ability to create limited access sub-accounts. You can specify exactly what each person can see or access. If you outsource (and you should), this is perfect because you can let your customer service team to handle refunds, check validity of orders, or give your book keeper access to download reports. Setting up limited access sub-accounts is pretty easy and straightforward. Here are the steps you need to take. Log Into PayPal As Primary Go to PayPal.com and log in as the primary account holder. Go To Profile On the menu, locate the Profile link and click it. My Settings On the next page, you should see a menu to your left. One of the options is My settings. Click to go there. Manage Users Somewhere in the middle of this screen, you should see an option to Manage Users. Click the Update link for that option. Add User Click the Add User button. Security Confirmation You may be asked to confirm some account information before you can proceed Create Login Enter the user’s Name ID which will be used to log in Password User Permissions Select what you’d like the user

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If you do any kind of business online, you’re bound to have an account in several social networks and you often have a profile page where people can read your last shares. That’s all great, but admit it. It’s sometimes difficult to remember the URLs to these profiles. Beyond that, I often wonder at marketers – and I admit making this very same mistake – why we are so smart when it comes to creating affiliate redirects but not for social profiles? Sadly, nothing lasts forever. While I don’t foresee Facebook, Twitter or even Pinterest closing down yet, nothing is set in stone. Great example – Google Reader closing which came as a surprise for many. Truth is, companies cut stuff out all the time. There may not be a rhyme or reason to you but they surely have very legitimate reasons they won’t tell you about. Why would they? Besides the ‘fear’, what about more practical reasons? Take Facebook Pages as an example. A new Page has to achieve a minimum number of fans before you can request for a unique URL. Most of us just beg our friends and network before we promote the Page. Nothing wrong with

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Believe it or not, it is super easy to put up a link for people to download a PDF from your WordPress powered site. Create Links To Download A PDF In the post (or page) you want people to download the file from, place your cursor where you want your link to appear. Click the Add Media button Click Upload Select the PDF file you want to share or drag and drop it into the media uploader. Then click Insert into post. By default, WordPress will use the filename as the link text. You’ll want to edit that to something that makes more sense like “Download”. Be careful! If you select the text and start typing you will lose the link. The best way is to place your cursor in front of the link. Start typing and only then delete the portions you don’t want. This will give you a simple link when clicked, will download the PDF. Please note however, different browsers and plugins on users browser can modify this behavior. For example, if your visitor is using Chrome, all PDF links open up inside a new tab. This really isn’t something you can change and personally, I prefer

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October 1st, 2011 is the deadline for Facebook apps to use secured URLs. So… this is an app thing right? What has that got to do with you and your Facebook Pages? Here’s what. If you have created custom tabs for your Pages and you host these customized tabs yourself; Or, if you used a WordPress plugin to create content for your Page, guess what? You most likely have created a Facebook app. You didn’t know you were a developer did you How to be sure? Step 1: Go to your own Facebook Page. Take a peek at the tabs (links) down the side on the left. Are there any tabs there that you created yourself? If there are and you used a Facebook app to create it – and you are pretty sure you didn’t create this app then go ask the app creators or check out their pages and web site to see if they have taken steps to support this change. They should. If you still have no idea whether you are hosting the content on the tab yourself, using Firefox or Chrome, click on the tab. Right click anywhere on the tab content – make sure it’s

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I’m working on something for our fabulous BlogEnergizer Premium members that’s still kind of hush-hush at this time and hit a predicament. I have 81 CSV files that needed to be merged into one huge file.  I had all of them in one folder and sure as hell didn’t want to sit here copying and pasting 81 files. As someone who loves automation and tries to batch my work as much as possible, I had to dig for a solution and found one using good old fashioned DOS. You know, I love modern computing and the snazzy interfaces but at the same time a lot of ‘real computing’ knowledge like using DOS commands is also lost. I’ll admit I’m no where near a DOS ninja I don’t know how to do many things in DOS plus this stuff is kinda scary. However, this was easy. First, I opened command prompt. If you’re following along, you’d go to Start >> Run >> type cmd in the box and hit Open Then, I navigated to the folder where all my files are. For convenience and less typing you could simply move the folder containing all the files you want to merge to

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