Stories about ‘widgets’

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By Brett Bumeter

This weekend I am catching up with Utterz and came upon a great question by Matt Thomas of Matthom.com and PainInTheTech.com.

BTW he has a great article on Zoho Metting at PainInTheTech.

His Question in Audio below, asks what people think about Widgets and whether or not they should be used on sites at all as many of them reduce the load time of a website down significantly.  Websites that have many of these widgets can load painfully slow sometimes and that translates into a bad reader experience.

Bad reader experience is bad for publishers most of the time unless...

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By Brett Bumeter

This week I experienced a fluke.  I had a run on sales of books on my Amazon Associates account.  I experienced 20% sell through from clicks.  That was amazing.  I’ve never sold anything through Amazon Associates before, and I’ve dabbled and worked at it for over 3 years.

I’ve tried a number of things over the years. 

  • I read a lot of fiction books, and I’ve tried writing reviews of the books that I have read myself, while including a link to the book on Amazon.  Result – Zero Sales.  :)
  • I’ve tried covering movies and DVD’s...

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