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Amazon Raises the Free Shipping Minimum
This week Amazon made a major change that will affect how much a buyer will need to spend to qualify for free shipping. If you are a Prime member this will not affect you. Prime members pay $79 a year and receive free two day shipping on millions of items and other perks with their membership. If you are not a Prime member you may be frustrated by the increase. It seems like everything is going up these days! This price change comes just ahead of the busy holiday shopping season. No surprise here! The minimum order size needed to get free shipping has been raised from $25 to $35…
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Weekend Marketer Live
Last weekend I drove to Las Vegas for Connie Ragen Green’s first Weekend Marketer Live event. It was a privilege to take part in the training and learn from Connie and other fellow marketers. Connie is a former classroom teacher, real estate broker, and appraiser who decided to change her life and came online in 2006 and has built herself a very successful online business. She loves to share what she knows and help other aspiring entrepreneurs. Live events are not only an opportunity to connect with someone you have been following online in person, but provide you with the opportunity to meet others who understand your passion and are…
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Keyword Planner Instructions
Let’s take the mystery out of the Keyword Planner. Most of us online have been using the free Google Keyword Tool for research to find the keywords or terms that people are using when they do a search on Google or the other search engines such as Bing and Yahoo! Using keywords helps us design our posts and websites so people will find the information they need. Google has now changed the tool to what is called the Keyword Planner and it is fairly simple to use. Don’t let the new changes derail you. I know it can be frustrating with all the new Google updates going on and it…
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Gmail Tabs Got You Fuming?
I have multiple Gmail accounts and am enjoying the new tabs on some of my accounts but have decided on others I like the option to go back to the old style of Gmail delivery. Particularly accounts where I don’t receive a lot of email, the Gmail tabs serve no useful purpose. Plenty of people hate the new tabs, especially the promotions tab, where so many of their marketing emails are now getting sent perhaps never to be seen. As marketers this can be challenging and you may not like the change. If you are angry and frustrated by the new Gmail tabs feature there is a very easy fix.…
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Gmail Promotion Tabs are Great!
In the last few weeks Google has rolled out their new Gmail tabs bar that separates your Gmail into 5 main tabs: Primary – Personal conversations (Can’t be moved) Social – Emails such as Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Etc Promotions – Marketing emails and offers Updates – Statements, invoices, and automated updates Forums – Any online groups and forums you belong to Love it or hate it here are some things to keep in mind. The beauty of this filtering, particularly for those of us selling online and learning internet marketing, is we tend to be on too many lists. How many times have you signed up for a free gift…