Leaping Over Phone-Service Charges with VoIP
One of the big benefits of VoIP (voice over Internet protocol) is that it makes the POTS-PSTN model, together with its complicated billing structure and weird terminology, just go away. [more…]
How to Recognize Spam among Comments on Your Blog
Any unwanted message that's posted into the comment area of your blog is spam. Spam comments might look like anything from a sincere compliment to a request for more information. [more…]
Discovering the Wonderful World of Blogs
A blog — the name is short for Web log is an online journal of a person's thoughts, experiences, and interests. Blogging is not just another tool for generating Web content. Even though it's relatively [more…]
How to Figure Out How Well Your Blogging Competitors Are Doing
As you seek out and watch your blogging competitors, you can pick up tips about the topics they're covering in their blogs and analyze how well they’re reaching out to their audiences. [more…]
Planning the Content for Your Videoblog
A videoblog can be many things. It can be a personal diary, done in video. It can be news coverage, political commentary, or artistic expression. It can be a commercial promotional tool. When you create [more…]
How to View Videos on YouTube
Viewing videos on YouTube is easy. To watch a YouTube video, just click an image icon — the page changes, and the video begins playing in a little window. Viewing a video is just that simple. [more…]
How to Find a Web Host for Your Blog
After you purchase your domain for your blog, you need to find a Web host. Look for a Web host for your blog that has everything your blog software needs to run. Keep in mind that Web hosts vary greatly [more…]
How to Browse Top-Rated Videos on YouTube
Head to the Top Rated page on YouTube — it's a good bet for finding quality entertainment on the site. Videos become top-rated on YouTube when millions of registered users from all over the world rate [more…]
Keeping in Touch with Design Notes
Design Notes are ideal for communicating with other developers who are working on your Web site, but aren't within shouting distance. This Dreamweaver feature works like the [more…]
How to Browse YouTube's Most-Discussed Videos
The videos on YouTube's Most Discussed page are the ones that spurred the most YouTubers to leave comments after viewing. The most discussed videos aren’t necessarily the videos that everybody’s watching [more…]
Considering Ideas for Business Vlogs
One common topic for discussion when videobloggers get together is how to use videoblogs in a business setting, either to make money or improve a business's exposure and promotion. [more…]
How to Handle Readers' Comments on Your Blog
Knowing how to handle reader comments on your blog requires speed and sensitivity. Comments from readers is a controversial area on a blog, both in the content of those comments and in how you handle them [more…]
Auction Adhesive: Beeswax versus Museum Putty
Some online auction sellers use beeswax to secure items in an irregular position for photography. [more…]Basic Tips for eBay Sellers
Sellers, get wise to ways to handle your eBay business. Here are some basic guidelines to live by. [more…]
Bidding to Win at Dutch Auctions
In a Multiple Item (Dutch) auction, bidders can bid on one or more of the items up for sale -- and at the end of the auction, all winners win their items for the lowest successful bid price. [more…]
Calculating Shipping for a Non-eBay Item
If you want to sell a non-eBay item and accept PayPal as the form of payment, you can estimate and apply shipping costs to the invoice or money request you send to the buyer. [more…]
Consider Your Camcorder for Auction Shots
The majority of eBay sellers use a digital camera or a scanner to dress up their auctions with images, but some just use what they already own -- their handy-dandy camcorders! [more…]
Don't Dress Up Your eBay Pictures!
Although dressing up items for a picture may sound like a great idea, it's not even a good one. [more…]
Improve Auction Photos with Cloud Dome
Ambient light, light that occurs naturally, is the best light for photographing many types of items that you want to auction on eBay (especially shiny items). [more…]
Know Your eBay Auction Terms
Bolster your buying (and selling) vocabulary with these basic eBay terms: [more…]
Make Your Auctions the Place To Be!
Auctions represent the first point of entry for your prospective buyers. Although a single item caught their interest, you want to broaden that interest into multiple purchases by showing them the rest [more…]
Meeting Your Auction Customers
eBay is a person-to-person marketplace. Although many sellers are businesses (like you), the perception is that sellers on eBay are individuals (versus businesses) earning a living. [more…]
Monitoring Your Auction Action as a Seller
To find out whether anyone has bid on an item you are selling, go to your My eBay page and click the Selling link. [more…]
