Making Money with Domains

PHP- Tips

10 Spot Domain Dot Net Blog — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 14:00:00 GMT

I have been an ASP man for years.Recently however I found a need to program a project using PHP and Imust say to my surprise I found the experience exhilarating, for programming anyway.

Watch out!

Biggest pitfall in PHP is the requirement of the semicolon as aterminator for each line of code. One reason I liked ASP was there wasno such silly requirement. Your first attempts at PHP will likely befraught with error messages about "... unexpected T_STRING, expecting ',' or ';'.." PHP's interpretor will also be giving you a line number for the error that isdown the page from the missing semicolon. Very nice! So just check forthis and get your right pinky in the semicolon habit.

A few more PHP stumbling blocks

Another great one is that functions in PHP like $_POST are casesensitive - $_post will get you a misleading error with or with out thesemicolon. Many of the newer methods don't return a text string ratherthey return a resource and require a specific function toutilize the returned information if you echo a variable that contains aresource you will just get something like Resource Id #3 so in thedocumentation pay close attention to which functions are required towork together as there are a great many similarly named functions manyof which are depreciated or have been removed in later versions of PHP.

All in all these are the worst of it. Most of using PHP was a breezeand less coding than Microsoft's dang object oriented ASP. My projectturned out great check it out here Multi-File Uploads.

Happy New Year 2010!

10 Spot Domain Dot Net Blog — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 14:46:28 GMT

Remember when 2010 was the name of a movie! We can only hope that
things will be better, with a little hope we can make a plan. One thing
you might want to consider is your own domain internet business
- domain reseller plan from Be Your Own Daddy costs less than
$100 per year and all you do is promote it and they take care of the
rest! You get a piece of all the domains and services you web
site sells: domains, hosting, email, shopping carts, blogs &
more more more! It's easy!

Happy New Year!

Att. Spamers ==> Post your spam track back here!

10 Spot Domain Dot Net Blog — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:42:00 GMT

10SpotDomain services all have spam proofing - of course nothing is perfect but since I have switched my email to 10SpotDomain spam has been reduced to a few messages a day down from a few hundred!

This blog is Spam proof too! If you post a track back that is spam the blog software automatically marks it as spam and your spam doesn't get posted!

So go ahead and post your spam messages here they will never see the light of day!

Spam proof blogs just one more great free service from 10spotdomain.

Selling on Amazon

10 Spot Domain Dot Net Blog — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 14:16:00 GMT

The Pro-seller experience: "double secret probation"

In addition to consulting, programming, web design, 10spotdomain and all. I have recently become involved with Amazon.with a Pro-seller account. I have a line of BBQ RUB products called Ivan of the Ozarks. I am a long time customer of Amazon and I have found over the years that Amazon is a reliable source for new and used goods, a few of my purchases include: Used out of print music CD's like the Who's Quadrophenia, electronics like my Cannon digital camera and my Samsung widescreen TV, and the last thing I bought was a some Stash Double Spice Chi Tea.

Amazon is not only a good place to buy things on the net but a great place to sell stuff too. They have developed a great marketing system for goods that all can share. Amazon of course gets a 'cut' of every sale making them super rich, but you as the seller gets the advantage of the huge eye-ball count of Amazon buyers out there. So if you have some old stuff you want to turn into money Amazon may be good for you.

You can sell all kinds of used stuff on Amazon but not toys. It seems that to list your stuff on Amazon your stuff needs to have a bar code. (I get my barcodes from BuyABarcode.com) If you have your own products like I do you can't use a regular account you have to get a commercial account. I don't have any experience with the regular low level type selling on Amazon I went right to the Pro-Seller account.

Caveats include: Pro-seller will cost you $40 per month - unlike the regular account which I understand is free - Amazon calls this a subscription fee. When you first sign up with Amazon's Pro-seller account as a new seller you will be on "double secret probation" I am telling you all of this because I found out the hard way. When you sign up for stuff you don't really read all the big long legal agreements do you? I know I don't - I mean as far as I know I have sold my soul to Microsoft years ago with the click of mouse button. No really I am calling it "double secret probation" because tech support at Amazon will not tell you how long the probation will go on they only give vague clues and just say that that information is proprietary.

The "probation period" includes many crippling indignities to your product listing like, your product will not show your price and sale price in most listing situations, and availability of your product will show as 1 Used and New designation rather than simply Buy New that the "featured sellers" enjoy. If someone does click on your crippled product display and moves to the product details page further sand bagging of your product continues - The details of your product listing do not appear with the photo and price of your product. You will find that right under your product Amazon has placed advertisements for competing products. Your product details appear much further down the page only visible after a page down or a long scroll.

Amazon does allow you to post a review of your own product - this is helpful so you can at least get the 5 stars to appear with your product - of course on the details page your review appears way way way down the page, I took full advantage of this and posted a video review of my product in an effort to get some attention from the eye-balls that might browse my listing but there is no tag indicating a video review is available just the same 5 stars any review will show.

Working around these problems is possible - Amazon does give you a lot of leeway way with the "product name" field. What you need to do here is put in all the information about your product that you can. So rather than just the name of the product, in my case BBQ RUB you need to put in all the important stuff, so now my product names ends up to be: Ivan of the Ozarks BBQ Rub - Big 6oz Jar - Special Amazon Introductory Price Only $8.88 - click on the stars to see my video So take that! Put me on "double secret probation" I'll show you! I'm going on a road trip.

One last thing - Amazon doesn't plan to pay you for any of your sales. I don't know for how long but right now all my profit, from my sales, after all the Amazon fees, and the $40 subscription, after all of that, what left is now in what is called - "Reserve" so my balance owed is still $0.

Tune in again for the next exciting installment of this story. Will Ivan of the Ozarks ever get off of "double secret probation"?

Welcome 2009!

10 Spot Domain Dot Net Blog — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 16:26:00 GMT

pickleknifedonkey.com one of my best domain acquisitions of 2009 - Now the trouble is how to develop it into a money making domain?!? Sure making it a dumb alais to my blog is OK - but in this eccomny everyone is looking for new ways to make money or save money. Great thing is pickle knife donkey dot com cost me less than 10 bucks but now how to make it pay? A quick turn over would be great - any offers? Reply to this blog.

More New Top Level Domain Names

10 Spot Domain Dot Net Blog — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 15:47:00 GMT

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy!Aparently this is so for domains too - many new so called top level domains seem to be comming down the pike - some like .MOBI for mobile phone web sites may be good others like .JOBS are restricted - not just anyone can buy a .JOBS domain name and the price is very high - 100- 150 $$$ per year! Hope this becomes a popular domain name and helps pull us out of this eccomnic down turn! Seems some companies don't like to idea of more top level domain names - but I still think .COMs are holding their value. What do you think about my new domain name PICKLEKNIFEDONKEY.COM?

Domains for Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa

10 Spot Domain Dot Net Blog — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 15:47:00 GMT

Hey it's getting late! Why not give a domain for a holiday gift? We have perfect .com and .net domains less than $10 and .infos are on sale for only 1.99 and they come with free hosting and email and more! Great last minute gift. Plenty of Christian and Kosher domains in stock to suite your needs! Name a star after your loved one Who will see it? Name a web page domain name after them that's love!

Be Your Own Daddy!

10 Spot Domain Dot Net Blog — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 20:17:00 GMT

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If you are in any type of internet related business you should consider adding domains and domain servers like email hosting etc.
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Key Word Domains

10 Spot Domain Dot Net Blog — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:01:00 GMT

It seems obvious that a domain name that is made up of exactly the kind of words that normal people would use to describe or find your web site on a search engine is the best type of domain name of all! Famously many single word domain names are taken names like pizza.com for example. But even so there are many possible combinations of keywords that you can buy in a domain name that can help your web site. Here is a very funny video from you tube on this subject -kinda?!?

New domain names: .Info .US .biz .ME .name

10 Spot Domain Dot Net Blog — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:40:00 GMT

In the bad old days there was only .com .net .org and a few others like .edu and .gov - but now! some of my new favorites are .US - for the good ol' USA and I like BIZ and INFO too. Then there are some personal one .ME and .NAME - did you know .TV was for really for the country Tuvalu! Who knew?

Right now 10spotdomain is selling .INFO domains for only $1.99 ! And you get all this free stuff and because it's a .INFO name you will have easier time finding a name you like! Go for it!

Speculating on domain names

10 Spot Domain Dot Net Blog — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:11:00 GMT

One might think that the days of speculating on domain names would be over - in the early days people got domain names of well known companies and then 'ransomed them to companies who's name they represented. Famously the domain name SEX.COM was stolen and parlayed into a fortune. Those days of the cowboy internet are behind us but not over. Fact is as more and more people and companies become internet savvy - and there emerge more uses for the internet and therefore domain names there is just even more of a market place for premium domain names.

When you search for a domin name on 10spotdomain you will see listed some premium domain name offerings related to your search. Some are asking a few hundred some thousands. Perhaps you have an idea for a domain name that could be valuble!Why not try it!

Using Free Hosting & Email - Website Tonight!

10 Spot Domain Dot Net Blog — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:25:00 GMT

There are many ways to make money with domain names, most commonly you need to have a web site associated with your domain name and then it's the web site that is making the money.

When you buy a domain name from 10spot Domain you automatically get credits for a free web site and free a free email account for your domain. It is important to note that the free services are supported by advertising. That is your web site and your email will carry a few lines advertising 10spotdomain - now for most people the this will not be a problem - but you can buy excellent hosting from 10spotdomain starting around $3.99 per month and that includes mail too.

Even better for some people than just plain free hosting and email for their domain you will receive a credit for Website Tonight! Website Tonight is tool that allows you to create a great web site in just an hour or so! Best of all you can try it for free.

You can always convert your free web hosting and email and other free products to pay for service products at reasonable prices when you use 10SpotDomain!

Whole Lota Trouble

10 Spot Domain Dot Net Blog — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 21:14:00 GMT

Ok this is my first try at uploading a MP4 file for a PODCAST!
This recording is an oldie but a goodie It's called Whole Lota Trouble!
Give a listen.

10SpotDomain so much free with each domain

10 Spot Domain Dot Net Blog — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 16:12:00 GMT

This qucik blogcast software I am using here couldn't be easer!

I can't belive that with every domain we sell we give so much free stuff!

FREE Hosting with a web site builder tool, Free blog as you see here! Free Email, Free Photo Album.
and best of all we provide FREE 24/7 support with a live person who knows what they are talking about!
I use it myself.

Are you guys sure that this is alright? I mean are we giving away the store here?

OH, the free stuff is supported by advertising, Huh? You mean that couple of lines at the top of the page here?
That's not much advertising for what we are giving?!? How much do we charge for a domain anyway? Less than 10 bucks right? And usualy there is a sale on some domain or another right? Shesh! What a country!

I think next I will try out the podcast....

Hello! New Blog tool first look

10 Spot Domain Dot Net Blog — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 01:14:00 GMT

Well I have just started with my 10spotdomain blog not but a few clicks ago and here I am making my first entry! The basic interface is like writing and email in the web mail application. Have you tried spots' web email application? There is much more than just email there!

Let's see now how about fonts? Looks like Verdana is default - What about Times Roman? Bold! Color?
Yes Yes Yes! Very nice! What about editing? Can copy and paste yes. Using the standard ctl-V and ctl-b etc. Links: www.ezwayweb.com automaticly with a www name!

Tables

Cells

cells

clells

Playing with Tables above here limited but useful.
Undo and Spell check buttons work fine.

Indent

Welcome

10 Spot Domain Dot Net Blog — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 21:13:36 GMT

Welcome to my blog. Please check back soon for new entries.