DealDotCom is like a discount web site for internet marketing related products. There is an internet marketing product on sale everyday and it lasts for only 24 hours. If you miss it, you won’t get another chance.

Product creators may submit their products to be sold on DealDotCom. The best thing about DealDotCom is their 2-tier affiliate program. According to their official documentation, you get paid 35% of DealDotCom’s profit for every item that they buy. If someone you referred to DealDotCom refers someone else, you get paid 15% of DealDotCom’s profit every time they buy something for the rest of your life.

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I found a 50% discount for the popular screen recording software BB Flashback. The catch is you have to donate money to DonationCoder.com to be able to access the forum post with the discount code. There was no minimum donation policy when I joined but I am not sure if this will remain the same in the future.

I tested the BB Flashback discount coupon 3 days ago and as you can see it is still valid. The original price is $199. I consider this the best value for money screen recorder. If you can’t afford to buy Camtasia, BB Flashback is the next best thing available.

If you are on a tighter budget, you may want to consider getting BB Flashback Express. There are no editing features in this version and it lacks some other features of the normal version. At only $19.50 after the 50% discount coupon, this is a real bargain!

I won’t do a review of BB Flashback because Donation Coder has already reviewed most of the screen recorders available in the market today.

Tagged As: BB-Flashback, BB-Flashback-Express, Camtasia, Discount-Coupons, Donation-Coder, Screen-Recorder, screen-recording

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PayPerPost is a blogging advertising network. They pay you to write about advertisers who list their products or services in their directory. I am not 100% sure about the blog requirements but here’s what I know at the moment:

• You need a blog with at least 20 posts in the last 90 days. Therefore, you cannot simply create a new blog and blast 20 posts to qualify. You need a blog that is relatively popular and active to get accepted.
• You will need a PayPal account to get paid.
• You have to post a “disclosure badge” to show readers that your post is a sponsored post.

You can make money with PayPerPost in the following ways:

• Blog about a product or service in their directory.
• Refer people to the PayPerPost network. Your referrals get $15.00 once the their first blog posting is reviewed, approved and then finally accepted 30 days late.
• After you have referred a new member to PayPerPost, you get paid $7.50 if they signed up through a “Review my post” PayPerPost link.
• Advertise your blog with the “PayPerPost Direct” badge to tell prospective advertisers your blogging rate so that they may contact you to blog about their products.

PayPerPost does not enforce you to say nice things about the products and services in their directory. It is totally up to you. However, I am not sure what will happen to you if you write negative reviews about some of their products. There will be lots of opportunities in their directory that will have almost nothing to do with your blog’s target audience and I hope people do not “sell out” by blogging about something totally unrelated to their blog’s main topic just to make a few dollars.

You’ll see more and more bloggers put the following banner at the end of every post. If you sign up and get approved by PayPerPost, you have to option of reviewing this post to make money while I get $7.50 as described above. As of now, I still cannot find anything suitable from PayPerPost to promote on this blog… I hope you can find something suitable.

Tagged As: Blogging, make-money-blogging, PayPerPost, PayPerPost-review

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I was trying to move some domains out of RegisterFly. One of them was going to expire soon so I knew it would be too late to try to move out of RegisterFly. The other domain I had a long way to go before expiry. I have tried to ask RegisterFly’s support on how to find my domains’ EPP codes but they are not responding. I searched on Google.com for help and realised a lot of people are having the same problem right now.

I read a post in a forum that mentions you can enter a random number into NameCheap.com’s EPP code verification box and get your RegisterFly domains transferred without any problems. I tried that for 2 of my domains and I am still waiting for the whole thing to process. I am not sure if it is going to work. It seems like RegisterFly is having problems with their EPP code system.

Therefore, if you have domains that are going to expire at RegisterFly, it would be better if you extend your domain with them for another year and move out once that extension is confirmed. My domain transfers have been dragging on for almost 2 weeks and they are not resolved.

Do yourself a favour next time, don’t do business with RegisterFly.

Tagged As: domain+renewal, domain+transfer, epp, registerfly, web+domain

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I used to use RegisterFly a lot but not anymore. I like their cheap prices but their system sucks. I wonder why they could not create a better system. Their programmers must be mediocre!

In this blog entry, I will go through some dos and don’ts when using RegisterFly. Should you fail to apply some of these tips I mentioned, be prepared to spend a lot of your precious time fixing them. Time is money, if you do what I say, I guarantee you will spend less time getting their system to work.

1. Do not submit replies to your support tickets if RegisterFly has not replied

I learnt this the hard way. RegisterFly puts you in a queue when you submit your support request. Should you reply to your support request, you will put to a lower position in the queue. I don’t really understand how this works exactly but I think it is very stupid. Other support systems have an urgency criteria for you to select from something like critical to not so important issues. RegisterFly uses a “first come first served” queue system. They push you back to the back of the queue if you reply to your own support ticket too many times.
I highly recommend you pick up the telephone and call their support team directly if your issue has not been resoved in a reasonable amount of time. They seem to get things done faster this way. Please try to be polite to their staff, it is not their fault. It is the fault of the people who created such an inept system.

2. Do not use their “whois protection” service

One of the things that attracted me to RegisterFly was their free “whois protection” service. Don’t use it! Why? Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t work. I remember I had to enable ProtectFly for my domains one by one because the mass update form doesn’t work!

Simply enter RegisterFly’s contact information and address in your domain’s profiles to get a “fake ProtectFly” profile. Alternatively, enter some “dummy data” and save it. Whenever you need to update your domains’ information, load it up and mass update all your domains at once. Sometimes their mass update tool does not work and you will have to update them one by one. You have been warned!

3. Create multiple RegisterFly accounts to organize your domains

I highly recommend you create multiple RegisterFly accounts to organize your domains. I use multiple accounts for the different groups of web sites I own. It is so much easier to mass update information and get support for my domains this way. You may “push” your domain to another RegisterFly account quickly and easily. This is one feature that I am very proud of RegisterFly because I have not experienced any screw ups here.

4. Always fund your account before purchasing domains

It is not a wise move to enter your credit card at the end of the domain checkout process. RegisterFly is famous for charging you for error purchases. What that means is you pay money even when the order did not go through. If you do not wish to go through lengthy chargeback and refund procedures, simply plan how many domains you wish to purchase and deposit the exact cost of those domains to your account.

One more thing… Do not use PayPal as a checkout option. I thought using PayPal during checkout means that my PayPal money will go into RegisterFly’s PayPal. My PayPal money went into my RegisterFly account instead and I had to do another order to complete my initial order. It is like paying for an item with an ATM card and having the cashier withdraw cash from your ATM card via their cash drawer and you return that cash to them. Does that make sense to you? What a waste of time!

5. Call them up if you are using a totally new DNS

If you wish to create your own DNS for your web sites, don’t use RegisterFly. Get another domain registrar to do this work. You cannot trust RegisterFly for something as important as your DNS domains.

Sometimes your web host might assign you with DNS RegisterFly has not seen before. When this happens, RegisterFly will give you an error when you try to link that DNS to your domains. I find the support staff too slow on these issues. Simply call them up and tell them to add your DNS to their “registry”. This will allow RegisterFly to let you to use this DNS for your domains. Strange I know… but this is how they work.

Conclusion

I might have more issues to bring up but this is all I can recall at the moment. I rank RegisterFly as my second worst online experience after some other major issues with some other lousy merchants. I do not recommend RegisterFly as your domain registrar of choice because the wasted time you spend fixing your issues will cost you more time and time equals to money, therefore you are wasting your precious time and money on them when you could get better deals for your domains elsewhere. If you must use RegisterFly to save money, I recommend following some of all of the tips I mentioned in this blog entry.

Tagged As: dns, domain+name, domain+registrar, domains, registerfly

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I have been rather quiet lately and I have been hesitant about posting new content to my blog. Why? Because most of the products I have been testing are crap and I have been through quite a bit of “hell” wasting my time and money on them. I was afraid my tone would not be too positive and it would affect the whole tone of my site with all these negative posts.
I reckon over 80% of the internet marketing products I bought over the last two and a half years are nonsense. That is why you see so many negative reviews on my blog. On one hand, I don’t want to write negative reviews about people’s products because I don’t really like to step on people’s toes. My friend told me if you keep on doing this, you won’t get many joint venture offers. On the other hand, some of these internet marketing products are so crappy I feel I must share my experience with you to add some balance to all the marketing hype (lies) out there.

The worst case scenario is I write a negative review about someone’s product and that person will never invite me to do joint ventures for his products. I am fine with that because he is pushing junk to people anyway. I am not here to be a internet marketing guru who “sells shovels” to people. I don’t care about becoming famous in this internet marketing industry. My bank account will be smaller because of my unwillingness to play along with their marketing hype (lies). I believe I can live with that rather than sending “cut and paste promo emails” to my newsletter subscribers about junk products every now and then.

I feel I am now ready to resume blogging again after taking some time out from my blogs. My next post will be on how to deal with the monster RegisterFly and reviews on 4 SEO tools I tested this week. You will be surprised at which one of the 4 SEO tools is ranked the last in my opinion.

Tagged As: Internet Marketing, registerfly, search-engine-optmization, seo

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There is no perfect domain registrar on this planet. Over the years I have purchased domains from at least 5 different domain registrars and I have compiled a list below on where I get my domains from today.

.ORG Domains

Reseller Club is my first choice of .ORG domains because they cost only $1.49 for the first year if you are a Reseller Club reseller. You will need to put in a deposit of $199 to open a reseller account. Once you have done that, you may create a customer account to buy domains at your wholesale price.

.NET Domains

RegisterFly is the way to go for .NET domains. During a weekly 48 hour promotion period, you will be able to grab a .NET domain for only $2.99. Check out RegisterFly’s Fly Paper every week before Thursday EST to see what promotions they have.

Unfortunately, RegisterFly’s system does mess up very often and I will go into greater detail about how to use RegisterFly without pulling your hair out in another post. If you can’t get a $2.99 .NET domain from RegisterFly during the promotion period, get it from NameCheap.com at $7.98 instead with the latest coupon code from Domain Name Coupons.

.COM Domains

I choose NameCheap.com for .COM domains because their system is much more stable than RegisterFly. I am tempted by RegisterFly’s $6.99 promotion but for a $1.00 difference, I do not wish to go through all the drama to get RegisterFly to work properly.

.INFO Domains

RegisterFly used to have this crazy $0.60 .INFO domain sale every Friday morning EST. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. Now they have increased the price to $0.75. If you’re only buying a couple of domains from RegisterFly, it would be manageable. If you plan to buy hundreds of them, I would recommend that you be mentally prepared to spend a lot of time fixing all the errors you get in RegisterFly’s system.

Reseller Club has caught up with RegisterFly with their “Mega Bargains Month” promotion. They are selling .INFO domains at $0.99. This is $0.24 more per domain than RegisterFly. I highly recommend you to avoid RegisterFly if you do not have a lot of time to burn. Just do a search on Google for “RegisterFly Complaints” and you will get what I mean.

Conclusion

I would normally avoid RegisterFly if I need to get my domains urgently. I used to plan my domain purchases around RegisterFly’s promotion period. Now, I simply purchase it from the alternative domain registrar as mentioned above.

RegisterFly is cheap but it comes at a price of your time. Everything that can go wrong might go wrong when you use RegisterFly. Their system is so crappy it is almost insane! In my next post I will detail how I use RegisterFly to purchase domains to get the most out of RegisterFly and to reduce my anger levels.

Tagged As: domain+registrar, domains, namecheap, registerfly, registrars, reseller+club

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I have been using Site5.com for over 1 year. I used to have nothing but good things to say about them but in the past 3-4 days my opinion of their service changed dramatically. I have removed the Site5 link in my footer because I no longer endorse them.

They quietly shutdown my web sites without telling me in advance because they were taking up too much resources. I am using a mid-range plan at their web site that allows me to host an unlimited number of domains. I use Site Uptime to check if Site5’s servers down and they were not down in the past 3-4 days. In fact their servers rarely go down. Therefore I don’t think I can claim anything for the “downtime guarantee” even though my web sites appear “blank” in my browser.

If I did not check my web sites manually by entering the URL into my browser, I would have missed this problem and they would continue to treat me as a fool. Their support took over 12 hours to reply to my query and they told me my scripts are using too many “httpd” request and they want me to fix it. I told them I can fix it but not in a day because I need to upload and run them in the browser and since I cannot even access my web sites, I cannot do update my scripts.

This experience has taught me a good lesson in hosting content sites. Get a VPS web hosting plan! That is the minimum plan you need to get to host a hundreds of domains. It will cost about $45 - $50 per month to get a decent VPS web host. I actually have 3 VPS accounts right now and I was planning to move my web sites from Site5 to my new VPS accounts slowly. I need to move out right now to prevent myself from losing more money from Google AdSense.

Here’s some common sense tips before you get your next web host…

1. Search the internet for “company name + reviews” to check out what other people say about the company.
2. Search the forums of the company name to see if there are any complaints and whether they remove the complaints from the forums.
3. Search the internt for “company name + complaints” to check if a lot of people are complaining about the company.
4. Email the technical support staff and not the sales staff to ask them what is their company policy if your web sites grows larger and takes up more resources than you are supposed to use. Do they simple shutdown your web site without notice or give you an advanced warning? The reason why I ask the technical support is get a feel of how their technical support staff. The sales team’s performance can be misleading because they will try to sell you on their service so they might have very fast response times but that does not mean the technical support will be as fast.
5. Email the sales staff to ask them what happens if you decide to cancel your service AFTER the guarantee period. Do they refund you your remaining credit or do they pocket your money?

When I started my first community site, I used a shared hosting plan till my site got too big for them. I switched a couple of web hosts and added a few web hosts to my personal black list because of the way they handle sites that use up too much of their server resources. They are Lunar Pages, HostRocket, HostGator, Site5, and ResellerZoom. You may be using one or more of these services above. If so, you have been warned because they do not seem to have the decency to tell you that your site is using too much resources BEFORE they shut you down. They only tell you that AFTER they shut you down. That to me is plain rude and lousy customer service.

My personal “gold list” of web hosts are ServInt and MadRooster. These people are different, they’ve got class. They will tell you your sites are growing too big for them politely. Their customer support is fast and helpful unlike the others.

Tagged As: madrooster, servint, site5, vps, web+host, web+hosting

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Here’s the internet marketing survey I’ve been talking about. It will take less than about 2 minutes of your time to complete and in return for your answers, you will receive 3 bonus software worth $100 and above absolutely free.

Simply enter your first name and email address in the form below. You will receive a URL to participate in my internet marketing survey after you have confirmed your email address. Each person is only allowed to participate in the survey once. Once you have completed the survey, you will receive an email with the links to download the 3 bonus software.

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Last week I mentioned I will announce something to kick start my own product launch formula. Thanks to Jeff Walker’s Product Launch Formula system, its not going to be a typical email going "Watch out for X date because we’re going to launch X product soon!".

I need your help… I would like to know more about you and your needs and wants:

• What you want out of your internet marketing business?
• What do you want to learn about internet marketing?
• Which internet money making model do you want to pursue?
• What internet marketing tools do you want to help make your life easier?
• What do you dislike about all the internet marketing material out there?

I will release a survey in a couple of days and it will take less than 10 minutes to fill up. In exchange I’ll give you a couple of bonuses to make it worth your time.

Cheers!

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