At least I now know I am the only one having problem getting meaningful support from their GoDaddy Helpdesk.  In any case, I have advised my friend to consider shifting away from GoDaddy Hosting already.  Thanks to all who reply.

In the past 1 month, we have seen quite a few products launches (eg from Ewen, Cody, Jon, Joseph, Anik etc).  I was also given opportunities to preview 3 of them prior to pre-launch and I must say the packages are getting bigger (but not necessary better in some cases).

Beside the above product lauches, there were also changes to 2 major powerhouse on the Internet Marketing scene, namely ClickBank and Amazon.  I am an affiliate for both programme (I'm sure most of you are too) and I know these changes will definitely help you.  It has helped in my Clickbank sales conversion.  Read further below to find out how the changes benefit your sales.

Dan is one of the marketing gurus that I spent a lot of time studying after.  I have a lot of his tapes, home study course and books.  His practical advices have helped in my marketing effort many times over when I first started off (in non-internet niches).

Hence, I was happy to find that Michael Senoff has posted up the seminar presentation by Dan on his HardToFindSeminars.com site.  Listen to the marketing wizard himself as he markets his own product (Magnetic Marketing System) ; an indelible treat that alone is worth a fortune.

Part 1:

The most talk-about news in the Internet Marketing space in Aug 06 must be on the product "Web Law Generator" that had violated the copyright of Bob Silber.  Bob is now out to protect his rights by threatening to sue those who continues to use the templates generated from this tool.

For those unfamiliar, "Web Law Generator" is a $47 software tool that was sold on the Internet with Master Resell Rights.  It was meant to help create Legal templates that you can place on your website (for your TOS or disclaimer etc)

Bob Silber (owner of the Legal templates) claims that he had not given out his rights for those Legal templates to be sold.  Hence, he is seriously looking into this.  He contacted and threatened to sue some of the big marketers such as Mike Filsaime.  To be fair to those marketers, they were not aware of this infringement in the first place when they use the tool.  In the end, this was settled by paying $3,000 to buy over the rights for those templates by each marketers who wants to continue to use the templates.

Hence, if you are using "Web Law Generator" to generate any templates for your site, take my advice and take them down immediately!

If you are looking for alternatives, try the following:

Option 1: Get Your Lawyers To Help You Craft The TOS, disclaimers etc

This is an expensive option but you should consider this if you are running a serious and big business.  This should be part of your business expenses.  Don't save on pennies and paid pounds in the end.

Option 2: Check Out the Legal Resources Sites

I got the following tips from Charles Smith of WebProfitSchool.  You can find useful forms in these two free legal resource sites:

• Lectric Law Library Forms ( http://www.lectlaw.com/form.html )
  This site claims to be the largest collection of free legal forms on the Web. Forms are divided into two broad areas: law practice and business and general. There is also a section on Premium Forms that links to the commercial vendor U.S. Legal Forms, Inc. where forms can be purchased. Law practice forms are subdivided into general practice and litigation. Most of these forms are free, however, use diligence in checking their accuracy, currency, and validity
  
  
• Another source for free legal forms is from the Internet Legal Resource Guide ( http://www.ilrg.com/forms/ ).
  These forms cover a variety of topics, including basic agreements, employment, leases, transfers, and other areas of legal practice.

So start protecting yourself now!

About the Author:
Keith Choy runs the WealthMountains Internet Portal which offers tips, tools and news on path to multiple streams of income. To sign up for his WealthMountains Newsletter, go to http://www.wealthmountains.com/news.htm

Since the start of Aug 2006 to early Sep 06, ClickBank has made 2 changes to its system.

First Change:  Order Form

In early Aug 06, ClickBank replaces their previous 2-step order form with a 1-step order form.  Previously, a buyer of your ClickBank product needs to enter their country and postal code on 1st page before being shown an order form on second page.  I believe this allows ClickBank to determine the amount of country-related tax that it needs to include into the final sales computation.

With this new 1-step order form, this is now simplified for the buyer.  Not only does the new order form looks more professional and updated, the related-tax amount is also automatically computed.  The buyer does not need to go through 2-steps.  It has been known that the Order Form is one of the critical point in which the buyer may drop the idea of purchase.

Hence, having this latest change does help in sales conversion.

On one forum, there were a few marketers who reported that their sales conversion has increased after this change by ClickBank (they have not made any other changes).  Personally, I have also seen some increase in my own sales.

Second Change:  ClickBank Home Page and MarketPlace

This second change occurred in early Sep 06.  If you go to ClickBank now, you will notice that ClickBank has updated its website design.  It looks new and professional compared to its previous dated design.

Even the Marketplace has been upgraded to include a search function.  You can also create your own affiliate link directly by clicking on the "create link" for each product in the MarketPlace.

The Bad part

I noticed that my feeds update from ClickBank was affected after this series of changes.  In particular, my ClickBank Buddy setup was not able to connect to the ClickBank database to download the product information anymore.  I am still checking back with the creator to see if there is a workaround for this.

Other changes to come?

In my testing, I noticed that ClickBank may be including in an option for recurrent charging.  This option is not active yet.  This option was also observed by Sam Stephens of DLGuard.

This is indeed a great news for those who are running membership sites that needs to charge their customer on a regular basis.  I guess ClickBank is now working on the final details such as how to handle refunds, how to notify the seller and its affiliates of each sales etc.  Do stay tuned for any update in this area from ClickBank.

Honestly, I am happy to see that ClickBank is finally changing and upgrading itself to keep up with times.  This was the first payment processor that I have used and I am still using them now.  This is so as I like some of their features like build-in affiliate program and automatic payment handling to affiliates.   I have also used other payment processor such as PayDotCom but each providers comes their own strong and weak points.  With the appearance of other competitors such as PayDotCom, I am sure we will see more changes coming up in ClickBank soon.

By the way, do expect to see some major changes in PayDotCom soon.  Mike Filsame has announced that he will be shifting 80% of his programmers to working on the upgrade to this site soon.  That's good news for us too.

To learn more details on ClickBank, click here.
To learn more details on PayDotCom, click here.

About the Author:
Keith Choy runs the WealthMountains Internet Portal which offers tips, tools and news on path to multiple streams of income. To sign up for his WealthMountains Newsletter, go to http://www.wealthmountains.com/news.htm

http://www.professionalecovertemplates.com/freecovers/

This is an online tool where you select the eBook template, submit your front cover design and it will help to generate your own 3D eBook cover.  This is a simple 5-steps process.  You can then save the images to your harddisk.

The book "55 Ways to Have Fun With Google" contains over 220 pages and is available to buy at Lulu.com for $16.50 or Amazon for $19.66.

However, Philipp Lenssen of Google Blogoscoped has released the full PDF of his wonderful book for FREE at http://www.55fun.com   You can also download the full book as PDF (or Word)... it’s free to share & remix & do fun stuff with.  In this book, you’ll find Google-related games, cartoons, oddities, tips, stories and everything else that’s fun. Reading it, you won’t be the same searcher as before!

There are also other version of the same book in the works.  There is a Chinese translation effort available at 55fun.cn (there are already different Chinese versions), as well as two English HTML versions (some of these projects are works in progress).