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Did you really say affiliate?
Have a bit of a new look here. I tend to write about what is important or at least interesting to me. If they are interesting to me, a very late adopter, then they might be interesting to you. So, “Let’s Share!”
And who can’t use a few extra buck$. Toward that end, I’ve decided to expierement with affiliate marketing in my bog. Nothing overly intrusive (ahem, when I do get it sorted out – please forgive the big widgets on the front.
Let me know what YOU think. Do you participate in affiliate marketing and have landing pages of your own? Let me know what works for you. This may be my first attempt openly pushing marketing but I have done it for many people and taught others to make a little living from reselling products.
The problem with playing with live fire…A New theme
StudioPress, created by Brian Gardner and others, is an incredibly success company that provides elastic themes for all sorts of WordPress blog owners. Many are cookie cutter and require very little design. Any of them however, can be modified to suit the needs of blogger with a mission.
I ran into a problem with the Featured Content Gallery not working properly. It took about 2 days but I found that the KPicasa plug-in was breaking the FCG. Keep that in mind.
I’ve elected to switch to the Corporate Theme because the entire front page is widget controlled. I’ve barely scratched the surface.
Check out STUDIOPRESS and let me know what you think.
Why OSCommerce, PrestaShop or Magento? Go WordPress.
To review: Magento is the best, most functional and diverse shopping platform in the OpenSource world. It’s also the most complicated and bloated. When things go wrong, they go big.
PrestaShop is easy to use and install. If you’re a CSS master, you can make PrestaShop look like it’s your own. But, its slow. The back end is extremely slow to manage products and maintain.
OSCommerce opened the door fo PrestaShop and Magento to make things right.
However, I believe that every shop owner must maintain a dynamic website and a blog site is the easiest (in my opinion) way to do that. WordPress has matured into a fully functional storefront, business landing page, content management system and only lacks proper document management.
WordPress with the wp-e-commerce plugin provides small businesses with every feature that the others have to offer including built in payment gateways, shipping, tax, downloadable content, etc.
For my money, the themes at STUDIOPRESS, formerly Revolution (2) Themes, with the wp-e-commerce wordpress plug-in is the right starting point for anybody, personal or professional, to build an audience and start selling right off the start.
In addition, I am a big believer in ShopIT for distributers to leave their shopping cart everywhere they go.
Have questions? Please check out my new products page.