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Are you using the Internet a lot more since the Coronavirus Pandemic hit?
If so, you’re not alone.
Millions of Americans have substantially increased their Internet usage within the past few months by streaming more TV, movies and music.
And of course millions of others are now working from home.
Millions of customers purchase ebooks for their Kindle readers from Amazon every year, but according to a recent survey a surprising number of them aren’t aware that Amazon has a 7 day return period for ebooks.
I suppose they assume that since it is a digital product similar to a music track or movie, once they buy it, they’re stuck with it. But that isn’t the case at all.
If you happen to purchase the wrong ebook by mistake, you don’t have to “just live with it” (unless you truly find it interesting and decide you’d like to keep it anyway).
Instead, return it and get your money back so you can buy the ebook you really wanted in the first place! Here’s how: [Read more…]
Question from Ellen: I enjoy taking pictures and sharing them on Instagram and Facebook, and I’ve been doing that as a hobby for several years now.
Ten months ago I started a photo blog using WordPress to try to make some money from all the photos I’ve taken over the years.
The problem is I’m not getting much traffic from Google at all to my photos.
Is there something I can do to get the photos on my blog to show up in relevant Google image searches?
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]
What Should One Know About Visual Content Marketing?Times change, and now it’s not enough to provide the readers with textual information. Visual content is what’s currently demanding their attention.
Scientists have discovered that we forget 90% of the information we receive in the textual form after just three short days.
But that improves a great deal if the facts are presented with the help of visual content. That way, 65% of data remains in the human memory even after this time passes.
Question from Allenda G.: I have several blogs and websites that I visit every day to see if any new posts or articles have been published.
It’s really time-consuming to visit every one of them every day only to find that just a couple of them have added something new.
Is there some way to set up an alert that will let me know when a site has been updated?
My computer is an ASUS laptop with Window 10.
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]