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simon

simon has written 37 posts for simoncrabb.com

Help! My Clickbank Sales Have Stopped!

I’m a relatively new Clickbank vendor, and whilst I love the thousands of affiliates their system provides, I’m a bit concerned about their sales tracking.
I have one product on Clickbank (with more in development), and am selling, on average, about one a day. Sometimes it’s 2 or 3, sometimes it’s none.
A couple of weeks [...]

Direct Recruiting of Off-Shore Freelancers

Over the years I’ve used all sorts of freelancers.  Whilst nothing beats having a real live person sat in the same room as you, you’ll usually pay handsomely for the privilege.
Off-shore outsourcing online is nothing new, it’s been happening since the 90s.  More recently in this century it’s become apparent that countries such as the [...]

Domain Name Trademark Dispute

Today my company received a Notification of Complaint and Commencement of Administrative Proceeding from the World Intellectual Property Organisation.
This weighty communication, numbering probably around 200 pages of A4, was sent from Switzerland by UPS.
The jolly large multinational corporation that owns the trademark don’t seem to be too happy with a domain name that my [...]

Really Easy Panoramic Photo Stitching

Recently I wanted to stitch some photos together to make a composite panoramic picture of an radio controlled race track.
I had half-a-dozen or so photos, and wanted an easy way of stitching them together into one photo, to display a large area all at once, and as a future aide-memoire so we knew what done [...]

iPhone Battery: Why letting your iPhone battery run flat is a pain in the PC.

By the time I went to bed yesterday, my iPhone battery was in the red zone, nearly flat.  I woke up this morning to a dead iPhone…
I hadn’t put it on the charging cradle properly, or something, so it hadn’t charged, and I now had a flat battery.
I plugged it in to the charger again, [...]

Overweight + Internet Marketing = Two Birds with One Stone?

I’m currently overweight. About 2 stones overweight.
I’m an Internet Marketer. I have been for about a decade.
Lately I’ve been wondering how to lose weight, and get fit again.  I’ve also been wondering lately what my next Internet Marketing project might be.
I decided to lose weight mainly by weight training.  I love to eat, [...]

Playing with Toy Cars

I’ve played with, and raced, Radio Controlled model cars for years, since I was 11 or 12 or so.
Back when I was a teenager, I used to race off-road buggies all over the North East of England, at club meetings, and at BRCA Regionals.
I gave up to go to University.
As an adult I started racing [...]

DIY Single Pallet Garden Planter

 
I wanted to make a raised planter for my patio out of an old wooden pallet I had stuck behind the shed.
Searching the internet I found some elaborate schemes for creating planters out of multiple pallets.  I even found schemes for making playhouses, sheds, space ships and yachts.
But I didn’t find anything for a simple [...]

Walker’s Builder’s Breakfast

So, Builder’s Breakfast won the Walker’s Flavour Election.
I though it was okay, kinda meaty and saucy at the same time. Just like a builder then!
The other flavours were less nice.
Fish and Chips: reminded me of scampi flavoured Nik Naks.
Cajun Squirrel: kinda hot and meaty, I liked these the most.
Chilli and chocolate: just weird, tasted [...]

Have you read .net magazine lately?

 
Back in the mid-90s, .net magazine came along and told all us geeks about revolutionary things like commercial websites, popular newsgroups and dialup accounts.
 
I read it for a year or two, and then forgot all about it.  Recently it caught my eye in Tesco.  I picked up a copy, and it seemed to have changed, [...]

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