Dan Pereda - Yeah! You found me. » Business http://danpereda.com A Blog of Business, How-to, Rants, Reviews, and What I like to do. Fri, 23 Jul 2010 01:04:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Using Magento Commerce as an affiliate site. http://danpereda.com/2009/08/using-magento-commerce-as-an-affiliate-site/ http://danpereda.com/2009/08/using-magento-commerce-as-an-affiliate-site/#comments Wed, 05 Aug 2009 19:12:42 +0000 Danpereda http://danpereda.com/?p=245 I am now running 3 Sites with Magento. Two are Traditional Shopping cart sites, but the my newest one had to be an affiliate style site.

What I mean by an affiliate site is that when you click on the buy it now button you are taken to a 3rd party website to complete the sale. Magento does not do this out of the box, it took a long sleepless night for me to figure out how to do this. Not too many people are willing to share how they did this either. I have to thank Platinumtackle.com for their help.

I will be releasing the template that I created to do this very soon. I need to test it some more and finish building my new site.

Please Leave a comment if you are interested in this template.

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]]> http://danpereda.com/2009/03/magento-commerce/feed/ 0 Better Fuel Mileage for your 6.5L Diesel. http://danpereda.com/2009/02/better-fuel-mileage-for-your-65l-diesel/ http://danpereda.com/2009/02/better-fuel-mileage-for-your-65l-diesel/#comments Fri, 27 Feb 2009 05:41:03 +0000 Danpereda http://danpereda.com/?p=128 I just changed my oil in the truck back to this Oil. And now my Fuel Mileage has improved greatly and I alsp driving the truck a lot more often.

http://www.amsoil.com

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]]> http://danpereda.com/2008/10/odesk-outsourcing-your-personal-projects/feed/ 1 Busy Busy Busy- as always http://danpereda.com/2008/08/busy-busy-busy-as-always/ http://danpereda.com/2008/08/busy-busy-busy-as-always/#comments Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:30:09 +0000 Danpereda http://danpereda.com/?p=109 I am getting married in less than 2 weeks.  Then I will be on my honeymoon for a while.  That is my excuse for not writing more.   Hopefully I will get back in to the swing of things soon.

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As much as I hate to say it, this site will be a web 2.0 styled site.
The focus of the site will be Group Buys and Classifieds, but with a new
twist.
You will just have to wait and see.

We were going to make a site that was very flashy and less functional,
but smarter heads prevailed.
We are predicting that the Alpha and Beta sites will be very plain
graphically.
The Plain approach worked for Craigslist and Myspace, we might as well
try it.
Keep an eye out for our press release, or Check back in a few weeks to
see what we have added.
The Link to get on the waiting list for the Private Beta trial will be
coming soon.

]]> http://danpereda.com/2008/07/discount-mob/feed/ 0 Wow, I have been busy. http://danpereda.com/2008/07/wow-i-have-been-busy/ http://danpereda.com/2008/07/wow-i-have-been-busy/#comments Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:04:14 +0000 Danpereda http://danpereda.com/?p=95 I have been busy,  I have been ignoring my sites.

This whole getting married thing is a lot of work and MONEY.  anyway.  I just wanted to state that I am still here just busy doing other things.  After Sept, hopefully the posts will pick back up.

I have deleted some of the old sponsored post and I will probably not do them again.  It is too much work and I have other things to do with my time.

I made a few tweeks and Hopefully this site will start being crawled again my google,  but I don’t care.  this blog is for me.

]]> http://danpereda.com/2008/07/wow-i-have-been-busy/feed/ 0 The Web Site Overhaul Project – Have unused domains generate some type of revenue. http://danpereda.com/2008/03/the-web-site-overhaul-project-have-unused-domains-generate-some-type-of-revenue/ http://danpereda.com/2008/03/the-web-site-overhaul-project-have-unused-domains-generate-some-type-of-revenue/#comments Sat, 15 Mar 2008 14:31:36 +0000 Danpereda http://danpereda.com/?p=88 Since I have so many domains just laying around waiting for me to do something with them, one of my goals was to have them generate some type of revenue. I started by finding and build some sites designed for adsense by using Auto Content Generation. You can read more about this test HERE (Do Auto Content Generation and Auto Link Exchangers Work?). It ended up not really working and I decided my time was better spent on my new sites. You can read What I did with these sites HERE (Auto Content Generation and Auto Link Generation).

NEXT – Article Comming Soon PREVIOUS – Moving to a new server.

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It took me a while to seek out the best hosting plan. I ended up just going with my first choice. I am not here to say who the best host is, but I choose some one with very recognizable name, over great amounts of storage at a medium price point. I found everything that I was looking for in their Business package. It took a while to get set up but everything had been smooth sailing from there.

Making the Move
The Move has been pretty easy since this site (www.Danpereda.com) is the only working site. The other 10 sites were pretty easy to move. I simply logged in to my registrar and pointed my domains to my new name servers. I logged in to my new server and set up all the directories the domains will go to.

There is one site that is going to hard to move and that is this site. Danpereda.com is still on the old (slow) server. There are a lot of issues with this site and I am still contemplating all the changes to be made. I will update this post as I make the changes and move the site. My plans are to set up the blogging/cms system on the new server. Add all the plug-ins to the new system and test out some new plug-ins. I will also probably change the theme and the logo. I will then copy all the content from this site. I will test the new site. Then change the name servers with my registrar. Once all the DNS tables have propagated I will cancel the hosting with this provider.

NEXT – Have unused domains generate some type of revenue

]]> http://danpereda.com/2008/03/moving-to-a-new-server/feed/ 2 The Web Site Overhaul Project – Intro and Overview http://danpereda.com/2008/03/the-web-site-overhaul-project-intro-and-overview/ http://danpereda.com/2008/03/the-web-site-overhaul-project-intro-and-overview/#comments Thu, 13 Mar 2008 20:38:49 +0000 Danpereda http://danpereda.com/?p=86 The Web Site Overhaul Project Next – Moving to a new server.

I currently own 11 domain names. Out of that only one is actually working right now and the others are future projects or past projects that never finished. I have finally decided that I have to do something with these sites. Many of the sites are incomplete due to lack of knowledge and time to be able to complete what is/was necessary. I have one major project in the pipeline. One that I believe in so much that I am not taking a chance. I have eliminated my time/knowledge constraints by paying/outsourcing the work to someone that has the knowledge.

To get ready for this new project I have initiated a massive overhaul of all my web properties. I have my project outline below

Web Site Overhaul Project
Overview: The goals of this project is to do the following:
• Move to a more reliable server
• Have unused domains generate some type of revenue while the overhaul is in progress
• Unify the platforms that the sites Operate on(CMS)
• Build out the 2 main sites.
• Learn and Test new CMS, plugins, and other tools.
• Improve SEO of the main sites
• Build out the secondary (unused) domains.
• Improve SEO of the secondary domains

Next – Moving to a new server.

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