I was recommended to use aMember Pro so I tested it.

Simple Installation and Free Installation

You can either did the installation yourself or you can opt for free installation. Yes, aMember offers free installation in 24 hours.

I did the installation myself and it was pretty straight forward:

• I just needed to upload it to my web hosting and it self extracted automatically.
• Then I just needed to follow its step-by-step guide,
• Created table using cPanel,
• Setup cron,
• Done!

Integrated with Many Payment Systems

I like this feature because having only PayPal as my payment system is very risky. Once my PayPal account was put under review so I couldn’t receive payment nor transferred my money there. It was frustrated to solve it with PayPal.

These are among the aMember supported payment systems: PayPal, WorldPay, ClickBank, 2Checkout, 1ShoppingCart, and many more.

Several of them also support recurring payment, which is great for membership subscription and recurring income!

Membership Protection

Here’s another feature that I like. aMember Pro has built-in password sharing prevention. It logs the IP used to login to aMember. If there are more than 5 different IPs login within 24 hours, the suspected member account is automatically suspended. Off course this setting can be changed according to my preference.

Integrated with Autoresponder System

It’s just too bad that aMember Pro doesn’t support integration with GetResponse.biz that I’ve been using. It works with Aweber, Autoresponder Pro, HiveMail, and some others though.

Forum Integration

I also like this feature. I plan to use it sometimes. Having forum can make my members more loyal and reduce my support desk’s load because they can interact some others and support themselves

vBulletin, phpBB and SMF are among the supported forums.

WordPress and Joomla Integration

I haven’t tested this feature so I can’t really tell how it works.

Image Gallery Integration

aMember Pro supports Coppermine, 4Images, and PhotoPost so that you can show off your photos! It’s just too bad Gallery is not supported.

Affiliate Management

aMember Pro has built-in 1-tier affiliate program with recurring commissions support. I can upload banners and other promotional items for my affiliate.

Unfortunately it uses flat commission rate for all of affiliates so I can’t set special commission rate for JV partners and super affiliates.

Overall aMember Pro is a powerful and full-featured membership and subscription software. It’s great if I’m not picky with its limited affiliate management and I use GetResponse with it.

Its idea is simple: share your tidbit of knowledge with others. But Qassia takes it to another step:

• You’re allowed to add your sites.
• You’re encouraged to share your knowledge with others by writing articles (Qassia calls it intel).
• You get revenue sharing from AdSense that’s published in your intel page.
• You get Qassia credit for writing intel or rating other intels.
• You can exchange this Qassia credit to display your sites.

Will Qassia take off and be succesful like Naver in South Korea or it’s a blunder like Agloco? Time will tell.

Qassia is currently closed to public. You can only join Qassia through this link and it’s free to join.

When you join Qassia, make sure to change the AdSense ID into yours.

I’m curious, what do you think of Qassia?

Here are the two requirements:

1. You must be a verified PayPal member.
2. You need to add a local bank account into your PayPal account.

Important: Please note your first name and surname on your PayPal account must match the name on your bank account. If it does not, your withdrawal request may be rejected by your bank.

More detail information is available in PayPal official page here.

Update:

• 1/30/2008

  I just called 2 of the Indonesian major banks that I have accounts with, and asked for their 7-digit bank code that’s required by PayPal to identify the local bank where to withdraw to. Here comes the problem:

  • BCA (Bank Central Asia) only uses 3 digits for their bank code. When I asked for 7-digit bank code the customer service reps said BCA only uses 3-digit bank code. So I persisted to ask for 7 digit code and said it’s require to transfer from PayPal. Then the customer service reps said BCA doesn’t have any partnership with PayPal so such transfer can’t be done.
  • Bank Mandiri only uses 5 digits for their bank code. When I asked for 7-digit code to transfer from PayPal, the customer service reps didn’t know what PayPal is and there’s no such 7-digit bank code.

  Hence don’t put your hope high yet. Such transfer from PayPal to local Indonesian banks can’t be done yet as the local banks don’t have the PayPal’ required 7-digit bank code.

• 1/31/2007

  I finally found the 7-digit code for BCA. Here’s how to find it:

  1. Don’t call Halo BCA or the local branch directly. It’s useless as the customer service officers haven’t been trained yet and they don’t know how to answer this.
  2. The code for BCA is 014.
  3. Find the code for the local branch code here. It’s a 4-digit code.
  4. The BCA 7-digit code that PayPal required is 014 + the 4-digit code from step 3.

  Now that you have this code, you can add BCA to your PayPal account.

Its regular price is $46.95 per month (or $563.40 a year), but for the Holiday Special you can get it for $197 a year (that’s more than $365 saving), and you even get a second account free, plus the audio and video multimedia tools which are not part of the regular deal.

To summarize here are what you get:

• Free a second account and $365 discount.
• A web host with hundreds of free templates, photos, scripts, and a lot more worths $6,549 - FREE.
• A beautiful, profit pulling, and fully automated website fast without the headaches.
• Powerful web hosting with tons of features, control panel, 24/7 support and step-by-step website templates, graphics, stock photos, scripts and more.
• Create logos, manage mailing lists, and add pop-ups.
• Free activation and domain for a limited time.

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Pay Per Play caters to an audience that is larger than radio, television and print media combined! Billions of dollars are being spent by big brand advertisers and they are ready to pay you. Will you claim your share of the pie? Or will you let someone else have it? [Continue reading →]

There is, however, another way to build a business which still revolves around eBay but which doesn’t involve you selling a single thing in the eBay marketplace.

This “other way” opportunity is based on the eBay affiliate program and a great tool which makes entry into this opportunity not only possible but also super easy. This tool is called Build A Niche Store.

Now if you don’t know, an affiliate program enables you as an individual internet entrepreneur to promote the products of a company in exchange for a commission on all sales that you refer. You are basically operating as an internet middleman and connecting internet browsers to particular products and companies through you own network of websites and marketing methods.

If we return to the eBay affiliate program, eBay actually invites you to promote all of the product listings in the eBay marketplace and in exchange for your efforts will pay you up to 75% of the revenue they make from each sale you refer plus up to $35 for each new active eBay member you refer.

You can have a read about the eBay affiliate program here.

What this means is that you can earn up to three quarters of eBay’s revenue simply for connecting people to the products listed in the eBay marketplace.

Not only do you get to partner with the best branded marketplace in the world, you also get access to and control over ALL of the products listed in this marketplace. The eBay product inventory becomes YOUR product inventory and yet you do NOT have to stock items, deal with customers, organize shipping or process refunds.

You are no longer limited to selling only those products which you can buy and sell for a profit margin. You can choose ANY niche market and promote those eBay products relevant to your chosen niche outside of the eBay marketplace, funnelling targeted traffic through to eBay and into your own affiliate commissions.

Golf clubs, sewing kits, laptops, dog collars, diamond rings, Florida real estate…

If you know eBay you know how BIG it is – there are NO limits.

At this point you might be thinking - well this sounds interesting but in reality is there any money in it? Well, here’s the shocker – eBay’s top affiliates make over 1 million dollars a month. That’s right – 8 figures a year without stocking, selling or shipping a single thing!

Now eBay does provide some basic free tools to help you succeed as an eBay affiliate and build an affiliate business BUT it has been the development of a tool outside of eBay that has really opened this up as a legitimate business opportunity.

The tool, as I mentioned earlier, is called Build A Niche Store and what it enables you to do is build eBay affiliate websites targeted to any eBay niche you want. These act as the medium through which you funnel targeted visitors to eBay.

These are professional looking websites that contain all of those eBay products related to their target niche inside a searchable store format, each of which automatically contains your eBay affiliate ID.

These stores then automatically update as new products are listed for sale and old listing expire from the eBay marketplace and the software has built in development features which enable you to create new store pages, add content to these pages, create content pages, modify your template etc etc.

Basically, in the space of about 10 minutes (once you are familiar with how the software works) you can create a fully functional eBay affiliate website targeted to the niche market of your choice.

Your store content is all search engine friendly which will provide the foundation for attracting targeted traffic from the search engines and you can then use the development features to attract more targeted visitors which will in turn mean more eBay affiliate commissions.

It really is a brilliant concept and I’ve been hearing great things about the guys behind the project and the member forum which you get lifetime access to when you purchase the product.

Build A Niche Store comes with a step by step user manual which will walk even the most technically inexperienced through setting up their eBay affiliate website, 9 professional template layouts which can be customized (from inside your admin panel) to match your target niche, lifetime member forum access, comprehensive product support and possibly most importantly – an UNLIMITED domain license which means you can build as many of these niche websites as you want for the small one time fee.

Think about how many niches eBay caters to!

How big could your eBay affiliate business be?!

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DTAlpha consists of two major components:

• Alpha Bar.
  
  A tool bar that docks on the top or the bottom of your screen, depending on your preference. It delivers the latest update in the Internet marketing in a form of scrolling message. You can change the DTAlpha setting and switch skins from Option button in this Alpha Bar, launch the Media Center by clicking the VIP Login button.

  

  In addition, you can add RSS feeds and your favorite sites into the Quick Access.

  

  

  What I really like is that I can customize the icon for each Quick Access site so I know which one is which.

  

• Media Center.
  
  A floating box that has 5 components:
  1. Today on Alpha. It announces today’s news. By default Media Center shows Today on Alpha.
  2. Alpha Briefs. It announces DTAlpha News, DTAlpha Informants Blog Posts, and Events. Clicking the DTAlpha News and DTAlpha Informants Blog Posts require you to login into DTAlpha.
  3. Alpha Reviews. It announces Alpha Reviews and Alpha Offers. Customers can review products using Alpha Reviews and the readers can rate the reviews from 1 to 5 stars, as well as choosing if the review is useful or not, and reporting abusive review. (This reminds me of Amazon.com customers reviews).
  4. Alpha Store. It consists of DTAlpha Buys, DTAlpha Informants Blog Posts, and Alpha Stores. They’re currently not fully functional yet so I can’t buy anything.
  5. Directories consists of DTAlpha Directories, DTAlpha Informant Blog Posts, and Elsewhere On the Net.
  6. Video Player plays select video.
     
  7. Audio Player plays select audio.
     

  If you don’t have Video Player and Audio Player in your Media Center, you need to get the latest skin.

  Yes, Alpha Bar and Media Center’s color and look can be changed using the skin. If I count correctly, there are 19 different skins. (The ones on the screen shots uses John Childers’ skin).

And remember that DTAlpha is still in its beta version. It’s surely be much more powerful in its full version!

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According to the DTAlpha FAQ,

DTAlpha is designed to bring you the Right Information, Right Now. It is a software application that sits on your desktop and is powered by the DTAlpha website. Using some ingenious bits of technology, we are able to bring you the latest, greatest information that you can use to build your business, remain on the cutting edge, and, ultimately, achieve success.

The website is centered around information and knowledge. The vast majority of this information will be brought to you by the DTAlpha Informants - a long list of folks that reads like a Who’s Who in the Business and Marketing world. From Stephen Pierce to Jay Abraham to Jerry Clark, Willie Crawford, Coach Deb & JP Micek, and MANY more, we’ve got everything you’ve got to have.

Each time an Informant updates his or her blog, that info is heading straight to your desktop in the form of the scrolling ticker or a headline in the Media Center. That info is also heading straight for DTAlpha’s Today on Alpha page

This information gives me light for my confusion. DTAlpha is so much promising with all of its features that I have yet to explore them. So please excuse my immature first impression. There are much more to DTAlpha than it looks on the surface.

I also found a check list from this FAQ. So yes, I plan to explore it to the fullest according to the check list this weekend and I will write a full review.

I believe I’m not the only one who wants more information on DTAlpha Beta Testing, so here’s a useful link for you:

DTAlpha Beta Testing Registration, they’ll open spots for 2,500 more beta testers soon.

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You see almost all successful marketers are students of hypnosis or human psychology. They need to be so they can understand how and why people buy. Because without this knowledge their websites or shops are as quiet as a graveyard.

The problem is there’s very little quality information ‘out there’ on this hidden subject.

That changed when world class hypnotist and consultant to Fortune 500 companies, Igor Ledochowski, decided to ’spill the beans’ with… Power of Conversational Hypnosis!

It’s the most advanced course anywhere on conversational hypnosis.

In fact here’s what hypnotic marketer, certified hypnotherapist, online guru and star of the hit film The Secret says about it…

“I didn’t believe this material would be that good, but it turns out to be a breathtaking course on using hypnosis in everyday conversation. I’ve never seen or heard anything this complete, powerful, or convincing. I love it,” Dr. Joe Vitale.

And what’s even better for you it’s being released for a limited time as a digital course so you’ll be able to access it immediately.

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