December, 2012

If it’s important, you’ll find a way

So often we encounter with situations wherein we don’t find a way to accomplish things.
We find ourselves in blocks! People name it depending on their work – writers block, creativity block, productivity block etc

My Own Story
I was so much pumpedup with the idea of working online and making huge money to live a life with ultimate financial freedom 🙂

Read some success stories, took notes from their success stories: by then I knew, taking action is the key! Couldn’t wait to get started. I had all these wonderful ideas for blog posts. Wrote all those articles one after the other continuously and then started checking the stats and even replied to those spam comments, which said, I’m not able to subscribe to your blog etc 😛

After some days I had no more ideas to write. (I was new to blogging)
Later on switched topics. As human beings, we’ve interests in wide area of topics. So I had knowledge in other areas which I started sharing on my blog. Next again changed topic!

Later on, with experience learnt that sticking on to particular topic with a domain works out better!

Similar things happen in all the fields: Business, Personal life, Relationships etc

We set some expectations, we do something, we fail, and then we learn, next if we don’t quit- we excel.

Now I can almost write endlessly on the topics of my interest. I can see something special in everything I encounter, that I can share with my readers in a relevant manner.

“Once you master a craft you can recognize it in anything you do.”

Then what is this BLOCK people talk about ?
If it’s important to you, you’ll find a way. If not, you’ll find an excuse.

Possible Solution
Be solution oriented, and not problem oriented.

We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. – Albert Einstein

Find out what you absolutely love doing:

Stop telling stories which support your excuses.
Know that it’s for your goodness that you need to find a way.
If you keep giving excuses you’ll be cheating no one but yourself.
Be conscious of your steps towards your goal: Take the first step first.
Don’t keep postponing things. Have proper strategies and execute your plans.

BuySellAds PRO Announced

Few days back we hinted about BuySellAds Team working on a new release, BuySellAds PRO as they call it.

Today Todd Garland, founder of BuySellAds, sent out the following email:

Announcing BuySellAds PRO

BuySellAds PRO brings together everything you need to manage your ad space: direct sales, ad serving, relationship management, and overall monetization control. From direct advertiser invoicing to effortless day-to-day management of what’s currently serving, BSA PRO provides the tools needed to earn more from your properties and keep your entire team on the same page.

Under the hood, BSA PRO packs a powerful ad serving API and custom ad engine to help you build never-been-done-before ad products for high-end campaigns, invent new ad formats, and innovate your monetization strategy. Come build with us. The possibilities are endless.

BSA Team has done it again! Innovation as we call it. After introducing asynchronous ads for the first time into the advertising industry, now they are ready with a whole lot package of things which will revolutionaries the industry.

Key Highlights of BSA Pro

Direct Ad Sales: You can take advantage of the innovative ad serving platform of BuySellAds and Sell advertising directly to your advertisers based on your pricing.

API’s
This is what I love.
Using BSA ad serving API, now you can innovate with BSA.
Work on your own ad format and your own monetization strategies!

BSA Moto

Anything is possible
The power and flexibility to create better
advertising experiences
BuySellAds PRO gives you the tools to make the impossible possible. Build stuff that’s never been done before. Integrate ads into anything with our flexible ad serving API. The sky is the limit here – the larger the scale, the better.

Roadblocks / Takeovers
In their own words: A roadblock offers advertisers a chance to get a very focused burst of attention for an event, product launch, or just a general boost in their campaign by purchasing all of the impressions during a specific time period across one or more ad units. Using PRO, you can sell concentrated, timed bursts of traffic to advertisers while putting your other ads on hold automatically.

Most publishers only allow roadblocks one or two times per month to maintain their usual advertiser flow. The choice is up to you, and we’re happy to talk about best practices and implementation.

Site Skins
Advertiser can design the image which suites with the theme of the publisher, with the help of BSA Pro’s standard self-serve mechanism this image can be served as the background image of the site.

The skin is clickable, seamless, and premium!

Had enough of DFP?
Got confused with Google DFP? or was not able to get into DFP account due to some stupid error messages?
Whatever it might be: Try BuySellAds PRO for all your advertising needs.

A good user interface is one, which do not need a user guide!
It’s really a PRO.

Other stuffs you can do with BuySellAds PRO ..

Real-Time Stats,
Marketplace connection,
Sell across any medium,
Integrated invoicing and billing,
Sophisticated scheduling,
Custom segmentation,
Multi-user access to sell advertising on your site,
Save notes,
Assign todo’s,
See full purchase history,
Advertiser messaging,

BuySellAds PRO Advertiser CRM

Support for retina display for ad creative.
Support for responsive ads etc etc ..

image & info source: BSA

How to Install Extensions in Magento – Beware of Magento Compilations

This is a guest post by Nathan Strauss. If you want to guest post on this blog, check out the guest post guidelines.

Magneto is an open source web technology that facilitates the development of intuitive and user friendly websites that perform. With increasing popularity of Magento in the web development space today, several companies have emerged, offering professional Magento development, configuration, implementation, and integration services that facilitates developing websites that perform and generates revenues on the long term. Magneto e-commerce features high flexibility and advanced set of features and functionalities that are particularly designed to offer extendibility and versatility. With Magento, professional developers help you build the best online shopping cart that specifically suits your business objectives.

However, this blog addresses the common mistakes or complaints pertaining to installing extensions to Magento. There are several Magento extensions offered by different companies, and installing these may come up with errors or other common mistakes. Fortunately, there are solutions to cope with the errors in installing extensions to Magento. At the same time, beware of the common Magento compilations, which are the source of possible errors and issues in extension installation.

The Errors
Two common errors that you face at the time of installing extensions to Magento via the auto-load mechanism are:

Fatal error: Class ‘Activo_Adwordsconversion_Helper_Data’ not found in /home//public_html/app/Mage.php on line 516

PHP Fatal error: Call to a member function toOptionArray() on a non-object in /var/www/includes/src/Mage_Adminhtml_Block_System_Config_Form.php on line 421

It is important to note here that both the errors may occur after you have successfully installed the extension via Magento Connect Manager and trying to access the System>Configuration area. It is also noted that both the errors highlight the same symptoms, i.e. the classes are not found properly via the Magento Autoloader. These two are the most common errors that may arise during installing extensions to Magento e-commerce website development tool. The problem is with Magento compilation, and it is important to beware of it every time you install a new extension to your Magento component.

The Solution
Mostly, such errors in Magento extension installation arises when websites are hosted in small environments, perhaps a semi-dedicated shared or VMs environment. This results into poor performance, which leads to Magento compilation. This will not occur if the sites are hosted in a nice environment, with Alternative PHP Caching or other Opt Code Caching mechanism for PHP. The best way to resolve the errors and issues with Magento compilation is to recompile.

Recompile Magento
The ideal way to cope up with the errors in extension installation is to recompile Magento. Since the major problem stems out of Magento compilation, the best way to resolve it is to recompile.
There are two different ways to achieve Magento recompilation. The first way is to go through admin panel> System> Tools> Compilation, and then hit ‘Run Compilation Process’ button.

Another way to go via the command line, as mention herewith:

php -f shell/compiler.php — disable
php -f shell/compiler.php — clear
php -f shell/compiler.php – state

It goes without saying that you have to undergo several SSH access permissions to run and execute PHP, but at the end, it facilitates Magento recompilation, helping to avoid errors in extension installation.

Author Bio:
This post is contributed by Nathan Strauss, who is the marketing head in a magento development company providing magento development services and facilitates clients to hire magento developers as per their requirement.

BuySellAds.com Pro

BuySellAds.com has turned into a 10 million dollar company (and still growing at a faster phase) in a shot period of time.

We’re happy to let you know that, BSA has revamped it’s User Interface and seem to have made software great and easy to use. With implementation of a nice looking Dashboard which includes detailed earning report, performance report and ad scheduling information. Also Campaign overview and campaign invoice.

New Layout
The new layout seems to be extremely professional and we hope the new features catch-up nicely with the publishers.

You can add new property by clicking on the + (plus) symbol present at the top menu bar. You can find profile settings at the extreme top right.

Todd Garland, Founder of BuySellAds

BuySellAds PRO is turning into a MONSTER product. Not sure if that’s good or bad. One thing is for sure, no product like PRO exists.

— Todd Garland (@toddo) December 4, 2012

Todd Garland, founder of BuySellAds.com hinting about Pro version on Twitter.

Innovation
With this new BuySellAds.com Pro(v3) version, we’re expecting something so innovative that it would improve the current marketplace systems for publishers and also helps advertisers to get better target audience for their product/service.
Remember the asynchronous ads first introduced by BuySellAds?

iPhone / android Apps
Going forward with the new release, we could even expect iPhone and android apps to approve / reject ads.

Our wishes
Personally I love BuySellAds.
It has a innovative team, lead by a inspiring person ‘Todd Garland’.
We wish every success to BuySellAds and it’s team in all their efforts.

Note:
BuySellAds Pro has not yet been released. We hope to see it in early 2013!