So, it seems everyone has Twitter accounts now except me, while I continue stoically avoiding the time and energy sink of telling the work I’m staring out the window/picking out shirts/watching TV. But for the rest of the world, a Twitter account is as important as a blog (and likely just as useful for the 90% of blog owners who post just once and give up).

Yesterday however, I actually found Twitter useful in business. Here’s how: I received an email from Michael Hopkins of eBookTimes.com; in visiting the …

If you’re an eBay fan, then you’ve already seen the special – five free eBay listings a month. A great idea for eBay; they lose a few pennies on listings, but gain huge on commissions. Why?

If you’re like me, a free listing means one thing: large ticket sales. Items I couldn’t afford to list time after time can now be out there. eBay loses a few microwatts of power adding my listing to their serves; but they could gain big if I sell (I even went ahead and tested …

It’s been around for awhile, but lately, POD has come into its own.

I should know: I just finished helping my wife get her book published on CreateSpace, and the result is virtually indistinguishable from a ‘big name’ printed edition.

The cover quality and text reproduction inside is the same as what I have on my shelf, and that’s no mean feat.

Of course, POD (Publish on Demand) is an old technique. I remember in the 1980s making User’s Guides to my software by going down to the copy shop, …

With this month’s AB Report, I asked members to fill in a survey on what they want to see in 2009 (the rest of it, of course).

In the past, setting up a survey would not be trivial – either you send a text file people fill and reply (and then you have to tabulate), or you use some scripting program that is unnecessarily complicated for such a rare event.

Enter SurveyMonkey. This service allows you to create simple surveys you can then share with a link. Surveys can be …

I just received an unsolicited testimonial that I got a real kick out of:

Holy cow-and-a-half, David – I joined yesterday as a platinum member and was absolutely blown away by the amount of information, plugins, etc., that are in there.

I’ve been wanting to trick-out my blogs for a while now, and now you’ve given me the tools and resources to do that. Thanks very much!

- Mike McBride

I’ve talked about the importance of testimonials from a promotional point of view (the May 2006 issue of The ActiveBlogging …