TIPS FOR INCREASING SOFTWARE CONVERSIONS, PARTS 1 & 2
August 10, 2009
I’ve been guest-posting over during a Avangate blog upon a theme of increasing sales conversions for program sole over a web.
This five-part array covers downloading, installers, follow-up, as well as user interface design.
The initial dual posts have been up now:
Losing Trials during a Installer — because a outrageous commission of people who download never get a hearing started, as well as a little tips for mending a conversion.
Collecting Data from a Download — because pciking up a little volume of interpretation during a indicate of download is improved than nothing (contrary to renouned wisdom), how to have a form which isn’t a separator to download, what dark report to collect, as well as what we can do with which data.
I’ll let we know when brand new posts have been up, though cruise subscribing to their blog if you’re meddlesome in tips for offered program online similar to associate marketing, online payments, pricing, as well as guest posts from folks similar to Bob Walsh as well as Neil Davidson. ?And me. ?:-)
HOW DO YOU CUT CELLPHONE COSTS?
April 11, 2009
My column final Wednesday upon this theme drew lots of comments. This is a single of my prime hobbyhorses, given we right away know (from my knowledge with Rogers) that we can get deals just by asking.
The Star’s brand brand new series, Personal Bailout, is about removing smarter with your money. So, my initial grant talked about whittling down your cellphone bills, that lend towards to be pristine optional spending.
I got a couple of beneficial suggestions from readers that I’m posting below. Now we wish to listen to from we about a most appropriate ways you’ve found to revoke those large monthly costs.
Have we switched from profitable after we speak to profitable prior to we talk? This is a large direction in a U.S. as well as there have been deals to be had here during 7-Eleven as well as Petro-Canada stores.
Or have we switched from a Big Three (Bell, Rogers as well as Telus) to a single of a low-cost brands? These no-frill carriers have been stepping up their advertising, perplexing to dip up spare business prior to brand brand new bonus cellphone foe arrives after this year.
LET’S BAN AUTOMATIC RENEWALS OF ENERGY CONTRACTS
April 10, 2009
It’s a singular day when we don’t get any complaints about appetite marketers. Bad sufficient they pull we in to removing a long-term stipulate formed upon fake promises of assets or mispresentation. Worse which these contracts can be rolled over automatically if we don’t take movement to terminate them.
Direct Energy is a misfortune delinquent when it comes to auto-renewal. They have a haughtiness to assign 49.9 cents a cubic metre for a one-year healthy gas contract, some-more than stand in a stream application rate. Enbridge as well as Union Gas have been both charging about twenty-three cents a cubic metre (before adjustments, which move down a price further).
I sent 4 auto-renewal complaints to DE today, some-more than a common amount. They’re posted below. You can see a snub when people comprehend this arangement is authorised in Ontario as well as there’s zero they can do, alternative than to terminate when they get a initial check during a aloft rate. Even then, they have to wait for a integrate some-more months for a changes to be made.
Why is disastrous preference billing criminialized in Ontario, solely for appetite contracts? No a single knows this. The salespeople don’t discuss it we which a stipulate can be rolled over if we destroy to reply to a renovation letter. Even if they did, would we recollect 5 years after when a stipulate ends?
Even my friends get ensnared. Check out essay clergyman Beth’s blog, where she mentions her stipulate problems (near a finish of her post). She’s spending 5 months in Paris as well as didn’t comprehend she had to terminate whilst she was away. If not, she would face some-more overpriced heating bills when she returned.
Why is this termination routine patrician in foster of a companies? Why aren’t politicians fortifying consumer rights to get out of contracts when they expire? we feel contemptible for all a people who don’t know a manners as well as finish up removing re-enrolled during these usurious rates.
Here’s a couple to a Ontario Energy Board’s guide to what happens when an appetite stipulate nears a end. we remonstrate 100 per cent with a website name, The Energy Choice is Yours.
As prolonged as this formidable complement continues, a appetite association has a preference of never vouchsafing we out.
STOCKS: STILL GOOD FOR RETIREES’ PORTFOLIOS?
April 7, 2009
That’s a theme of a PBS Nightly Business Report upon Apr 10 (Good Friday). Previous shows in a year-long array upon early early retirement investing have been accessible here.
I haven’t seen a programs, though we consider this is a superb topic. Many seniors have been ravaged by a batch marketplace crash. They had approach as well many bearing to usual as well as elite shares, income trusts as well as equity supports in their early early retirement plans.
As seductiveness rates fell to levels never seen before, many retirees longed for an pick to investments which paid low interest. Financial advisers took value of their certitude with promises of tall earnings as well as low risk. No a single expected a astringency of a batch marketplace meltdown which proposed final year.
“It’s not about me, though my parents. we feel many adults ‘get’ your advice, though seniors have been an additional matter,” pronounced a reader who’s in a routine of suing his father’s investment adviser.
You can review a rest of his story below.