In the recent months, I’ve noticed a question that keeps popping up within my ‘tribe’ or network. A lot of people want to know how or where to host their video other than Youtube. The requirements are pretty clear.

Must be able to control access to the video
Have a sharp looking player – Youtube is a [...]

This is a week I am focused on expanding my fellow bloggers and guest authors’ posts here at Sparkplugging. Today, I read guest author’s reasons for redirecting her affiliate links. Those are the exact reasons I r
edirect mine too. If you don’t know why, read her post. Alice does give a simple way of making [...]

This is cool. Bubbleply is a site that allows you to add text, speech bubbles and ultimately, links into videos from the popular video web sites like Youtube. While this is made ‘for fun’, this could be a great tool for affiliates.
The process is easy. Just paste the video URL, add your text or speech [...]

Some women like shoe shopping, my weakness (among many) is cool icons, shiny buttons and slick graphics that are so characteristic of the new and trendy web 2.0 styles. Alas! I am no designer. There is no design bone in me at all. Which is why I always jump with glee when I find cool [...]

WordPress… what can I say. I love you? Yes, it’s a great publishing platform that I sometimes wish I could run my whole business on it. Thankfully, there are always talented developers who think along the same lines. Sadly, there aren’t that many plugins for business applications and I’m not talking about just shopping carts [...]

A small business owner I know recently said,
“I know how to tell my affiliates how to redirect their links but many of them have blogs on WordPress.com or Blogspot.com which does not allow them to create redirect pages or modify the .htaccess. So how do the redirect and track their links?”
That is such a fabulous [...]

While leading a study group at Mom Masterminds tonight, we talked about how overwhelming launching a product can feel. Especially to someone who is creating their first product. I’ll  admit, after so many years launching products is a nerve wrecking experience for me as well. There’s so much to be done. There are affiliate tools [...]

Have you ever discovered a cool Wordpress theme or plugin online, only to find out you can’t use it on the free wordpress.com site?
Unfortunately, that’s how most people realize you must be self-hosted to do certain customizations on a Wordpress blog.
Thankfully, hosting companies (such as Bluehost) have applications that offer a one-touch setup even the [...]

As a web publisher, frequent conference speaker, mom, and hobby photographer, I take a lot of pictures. I even studied photography in college for two years. So when I was offered the opportunity to check out the new 7 megapixel Sony Cyber-shot, I jumped all over it.
Let me start out with the Pro’s:
This camera gives [...]

Although you may not believe it when I tell you this, there is a downside to having a popular blog. As comments and conversation increase, so does the time it takes the blogger to respond. In fact, I used to be able to respond to nearly every comment made on the site, and it broke [...]