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Entries from December 20th, 2008

ClickBank Merchants - Create Branded PDFs for Affiliates

December 20th, 2008 1 Comment

As (the first) part of my series of affiliate tools for ClickBank merchants, here is some simple PHP code to create branded PDF documents for your affiliates, “on-the-fly”.
I originally mentioned I was going to sort out these affiliate tools the other week, and I’ve been working on a product that does this (and then some!), which I’ll [...]

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Download Youtube Videos as FLVs and MP3s

December 18th, 2008 No Comments

1) Download Youtube videos to your PC to watch offline:
Get this: http://www.videolan.org/mirror-geo.php?file=vlc/0.9.8a/win32/vlc-0.9.8a-win32.exe
Install it by double-clicking and following the setup wizard.
Find the video you want on youtube.
Copy the URL.
Go here: http://www.techcrunch.com/get-youtube-movie/
Paste in the URL.
Replace http://uk.youtube.com with http://www.youtube.com if you’re in the UK.
Download the FLV video to your PC.
Call it something .flv
Double-click it to play it.
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Link Distribution Script

December 11th, 2008 4 Comments

I’ve been reading a fair amount about a certain link distribution script that people can use to quickly place links on a load of sites which they control. It would need to be centralised and simple to “drop” into another page. Some people seem to be under the impression it is somehow akin to rocket science. I’d like [...]

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Bobbing up in a “down” economy

December 5th, 2008 No Comments

“As the world sinks deeper into a ‘problem’ and ‘crisis’ mindset, people who act as ‘problem solvers’ will find themselves and their products in high demand!”
Just one wise phrase from the always-incisive Jim Edwards. Check out his predictions for 2009
Nice one Neil for Twittering this.

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ClickBank Merchants - Code Help

December 4th, 2008 3 Comments

I’ve been looking in detail at ClickBank recently. One thing I’ve noticed is that the most successful merchants, (ie the ones near the top of the marketplace,) tend to be the ones that empower their affiliates. This helps the affiliates to make sales, increases the product gravity and becomes a self-completing circle - new affiliates are [...]

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