While most consumers tightened their real-world purse strings in 2009, but that did not seem to hurt sales of virtual goods. Users of virtual world Second Life spent $567 million buying virtual goods in 2009. 65% year-over-year increase in spending on user-generated virtual items for avatars. It’s marketplace saw virtual goods sales of $6.1 million. The economy is based on the Linden™ dollar (L$), Second Life’s virtual currency. You can buy and sell L$ on the LindeX™ the official virtual currency exchange of Second Life. In 2008 more than USD $100 million worth of L$ were bought and sold on the LindeX. While Facebook gets the media hype, Second Life generates real money – even though it starts as virtual money. Let’s look at the figures.
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Second Life v Facebook: Which Makes More Money?
February 15th, 2010 · View Comments · Second Life
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ClickBank Analytics Part 6, Data Availability
August 10th, 2009 · Comments Off · Technical Writing
Clickbank’s analytic data is refreshed multiple times per day. You can view the last time your analytics data was updated by checking the Data Last Updated box. This contains the date and time your data was last refreshed.
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ClickBank Analytics Part 5, Compare Specified Dates Hour by Hour
August 8th, 2009 · Comments Off · Technical Writing
The ClickBank Analytics tool helps affiliates and customers track the success of their sales and the performance of their digital products. In this article, I’ll show you how to compare specified dates hour by hour.
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ClickBank Analytics Part 4, Compare Stages of the Sale
August 6th, 2009 · Comments Off · Technical Writing
The ClickBank Analytics tool helps affiliates and customers track the success of their sales and the performance of their digital products. In this article, I’ll show you how to compare stages of the sale.
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ClickBank Analytics Part 3, Analyse Sales by Trends
August 6th, 2009 · Comments Off · How To
The ClickBank Analytics tool helps affiliates and customers track the success of their sales and the performance of their digital products. In this article, I’ll show you how to explore by attributes of a sale.
Tags:Affiliates·Analytics·Clickbank·credit cards·Digital·digital goods·Digital Products·ePayments·metrics·online payments·Paypal·reporting·trends
ClickBank Analytics Part 2, Analyze Sales by Stage
August 4th, 2009 · Comments Off · Technical Writing
As an affiliate in the ClickBank Marketplace, you probably know that prospects work their way through several stages in the sales process. For example: a prospect (potential customer) might start by clicking on a Hoplink from an affiliate.
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ClickBank Analytics Part 7, FAQs
August 2nd, 2009 · Comments Off · Technical Writing
The ClickBank Analytics tool helps affiliates and customers track the success of their sales and the performance of their digital products. In this article, I’ll look at FAQs regarding this tool.
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ClickBank Analytics Part 1, Tracking Sales & Performance of Digital Products
August 2nd, 2009 · Comments Off · Technical Writing
This series of articles explains how ClickBank’s new and improved analytics reporting works, how it differs from its original reporting system, and answers questions related to this reporting. Also includes FAQs on analytics, metrics, reporting, trends, digital goods, affiliates, online payments, and credit cards.
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ClickBank Analytics Part 1, Tracking Sales & Performance of Digital Products
August 2nd, 2009 · Comments Off · How To
This series of articles explains how ClickBank’s new and improved analytics reporting works, how it differs from its original reporting system, and answers questions related to this reporting. Also includes FAQs on analytics, metrics, reporting, trends, digital goods, affiliates, online payments, and credit cards.
Tags:Affiliates·Analytics·Clickbank·credit cards·Digital·digital goods·Digital Products·ePayments·metrics·online payments·Paypal·reporting·trends
Ukash virtual cash launches into Italy with epay
July 30th, 2009 · View Comments · Technical Writing
Ukash virtual cash launches into Italy with epay. Ukash, the online payment specialist, closed a deal with epay, a division of Euronet, to make its online cash vouchers available in Italy. The expansion of Ukash into Italy will see Ukash vouchers available at 1,250 epay locations across the country.
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Why Debit Cards? Debit is the fastest growing payment method globally
July 12th, 2009 · Comments Off · How To
Why Debit Cards? Debit is the fastest growing payment method globally. 70% of the world does not have a credit card (PayPal research 2009), which suggests there is a compelling case for alternative forms of online payment, such as debit and pre-paid cards.
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Indian e-payment market worth $150 Billion
July 12th, 2009 · Comments Off · How To
Swati Prasad reports in BusinessWeek that India’s retail e-payment market is likely to grow by nearly 70% in the next two years.
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PayPal – UK Online spending to hit $40 Billion by 2011
July 12th, 2009 · Comments Off · How To
PayPal’s UK Online Retail Report expects that online shopping with double to almost $40 (£22 STG) billion by the end of 2011.
Experian, who performed that research, believe that online shopping will be a key driver in getting UK retail out of the recession.
Looking at the numbers:
1. 137% growth in online spending
2. UK web [...]
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Is GameStop in denial? Digital Downloads Not Relevant Until 2014?
July 11th, 2009 · Comments Off · Technical Writing
Matt Peckham reports in PCWorld that GameStop is playing with numbers as it tries to play down the relevance of downloadable games.
It cites the IndustryGamers reports which says that ‘GameStop doesn’t expect digital distribution to be a threat to stucco-and-rebar-retail until 2014.’
5 limitations of Clickbank & where it needs to improve – Part 1 Delivery Problems
July 10th, 2009 · Comments Off · How To
I’ve used Clickbank to sell digital products for 10 years. In that time I have seen other competitors, such as eJunkie.com and PayLaodz.com arrive and give Clickbank a run for its (digital) money. What disappoints me about Clickbank is that its failure to address its weakness and improve product designs that would make it a truly remarkable product.
With a little tweaking, Clickbank could be in the industry standard for selling digital products. So, if anyone from Clickbank is listening here are five areas you could improve.
