http://www.barbarafeldman.com/ I am a syndicated newspaper columnist, online publisher, author, mother, wife and Net surfer supreme (not listed in order of importance, of course). My weekly newspaper column "Surfing the Net with Kids" is syndicated by United Feature Syndicate. My website gets nearly a million visitors a month, my newsletter list is over 80,000 strong, and my self-published e-books are sold on dozens of sites. Because I am often asked for advice and recommendations that don't have anything to do with "Surfing the Net with Kids" per se, but rather are about my experiences in running that business, I've created this site as a compendium of resources and recommendations. en-us 2005-08-09T09:57:57-08:00 http://www.barbarafeldman.com/first_it_was_christmas_now_its_halloween.html Last month, I wrote about Christmas in July, and today I learn that Halloween is also early. This just clipped from Dean at Lycos 50: "Making its entrance earlier than... Online Marketing Barbara J. Feldman 2005-08-09T09:57:57-08:00 http://www.barbarafeldman.com/christmas.html According to the search-term pundits at Lycos, the search term "Christmas" usually breaks into the top fifty search terms around the first week of August. This year, however, "Christmas" came... Online Marketing Barbara J. Feldman 2005-06-28T18:03:11-08:00 http://www.barbarafeldman.com/text_links_package.html Text links are the hottest thing in online advertising because they build traffic AND improve search engine placement by creating back links. After being approached by several ad link brokers... Online Marketing Barbara J. Feldman 2005-04-30T13:36:54-08:00 http://www.barbarafeldman.com/video_tutorials.html Neil Shearing just introduced twenty video tutorials showing how to generate more profit from your website. All the movies are about 10 minutes long, so you can watch one in... Online Marketing Barbara J. 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Feldman 2003-11-13T08:15:04-08:00 http://www.barbarafeldman.com/split_run_testing.html Months ago I wrote in this very blog that I was going to test a "pretty" ebook cover vs. a "plain" one. The product I was going to use for... eBook Publishing Barbara J. Feldman 2003-11-12T16:01:21-08:00 http://www.barbarafeldman.com/affiliatecredit_card_scam.html Some credit card thieves use stolen cards not to get merchandise, but to earn affiliate commissions. If you run your own affiliate program ,you need to be vigilant in watching... Affiliate Marketing Barbara J. Feldman 2003-10-16T09:01:16-08:00 http://www.barbarafeldman.com/i_did_it_and_it_was_so_easy.html I added an audio welcome message to two of my sales pages: How to Add Games to Your Site and Surfnetkids Printables Club. Here's the clip I'm using on my... Online Marketing Barbara J. Feldman 2003-09-03T11:02:58-08:00 http://www.barbarafeldman.com/audio_marketing.html I just received an audio postcard from Debbie Weil of WordBiz, and it fascinated me, so I took a look at the technology behind it. It comes from AudioGenerator, a... Online Marketing Barbara J. Feldman 2003-08-31T09:46:20-08:00 http://www.barbarafeldman.com/what_exactly_is_quotrunofsitequot.html I got an email from an advertiser this morning who had a question about the definition of "run-of-site." He thought "run-of-site" meant that his ad would appear on every page... Online Marketing Barbara J. Feldman 2003-06-11T09:13:18-08:00