May 2008

It’s My Birthday Today, Man I’m Old Now!

by James Seligman on May 30, 2008

Today is my birthday! I can’t believe I am turning the big 40. Seems like only yesterday I started drinking, well I was but for another reason.

So how does that old saying go? “If I knew then, What I know now!” is feeling more and more true. Right now I have a couple of “kids” that help me do some coding and some other miscellaneous projects with some my sites. I feel like the “Old Man” when I talked to them. Oh to be young again.

So what am I gonna do to celebrate the big 40? I am going to hang out with a bunch of kids just so I can feel younger. Well kinda of, my wife and I are volunteering at my son’s school carnival tonight.

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What Accounting Software Do You Use?

by James Seligman on May 28, 2008

Last week Neil from NeilsWeb asked on Twitter what affiliates and others are using for tracking their income and expenses. So I thought I would share what I use and a couple others affiliates use.

Up until about 2 years ago I was using QuickBooks Pro and to me it was just too cumbersome for what I needed it for. So I made the switch over to MS Small Business Accounting software and I have never looked back. One of the things I love is the way it integrates with Excel, Word, and Outlook’s Business Contact Manager.

So I also poised the question to a couple others affiliate friends:

Alan LeStourgeon from Affiliate Confession:

Says that he keeps it pretty simple; his wife does the accounting and they use Microsoft Excel to track expenses.

Super Affiliate Zac Johnson:

“Excel. Many years ago I used QuickBooks, but I just use Excel to throw everything together now.”

Ian Fernando of IanFernando.com:

“QuickBooks Pro and Excel, with Excel there are some things I want to calculate out of QuickBooks when I want to find some other smaller factors, also Excel has more functions and versatility than either software.”

Chad Frederiksen of CDF Networks:

“I use Excel. I have custom scripts that dump the data I need in CSV form into the Excel file.”

A great tip for new affiliates and accounting came from Zac Johnson who said:

“If you aren’t currently INC or LLC, I would recommend it. I would also recommend using PayChex services, so they can pay you monthly/weekly and automatically. It makes salary, payment and taxes a lot easier on you.”

Thanks to those who took the time to answer, I really appreciate it.

So I will poised the question to you, what software do you use to keep track income and expenses?

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vBSEO The Results: One Year Later

May 22, 2008

Late last night I realized that my Demolition Forum has been running vBSEO for a little over a year now. So I wanted to put some quick numbers together and let you know how it’s gone for the past year. I installed vBSEO on May 18th of 2007, since then obviously have had some growth [...]

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I’ve Been so Busy Lately, It’s Crazy

May 21, 2008

I have been working on so many projects lately, I am not sure where one ends and the other one begins. I had some of this post in my unpublished file in WordPress and was going to finish this post about a week ago, but you guessed it, I got busy. I used to use [...]

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Getting it done with cold calling

May 16, 2008

I had to call on a potential new advertising partner for one of my forums yesterday. I have never spoken to before, although I have talked to some of his co-workers before, but never to him personally. So hear are a couple of tips that I have learned and use when making a cold call. [...]

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Shopping Ads and the continued misery

May 14, 2008

First off, I haven’t run Shopping Ads on any of my sites for awhile, due to all the problems they were having. But I thought I would look into them again since I was sitting right under the payout point the last time I looked, no need to have free money just sitting. So I [...]

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