November Business Updates

BUSINESS UPDATES:
 

• The North American payment platform is currently under testing. I’d like to give you an exact date when it will go live, but I can’t. But I can tell you that this is DubLi’s #1 priority right now (along with eliminating any future server crashes).
• Speaking of servers, DubLi has a server farm being built at a co-location in Dallas, TX.  We’ll have more info about this system later.
• If you google “DubLi,” you’ll see the libelous spinfactor site has been knocked down to the eighth spot. In the last year, that nasty, anti-business site has been sitting in the second spot.  So this is cause for celebration.  DubLi is committed to honest, ethical business practices, is compliant with federal and state laws, and is now a publicly-traded company, in a sincere effort to show their commitment to building a long-term business.  Can’t ask for much more than that.
• Combine the Google “search cleanup” with the fact that the servers crashed because of too many customers in November, and we’re starting to see what DubLi will become.  I look at the “too many customers” situation as more proof that our business model is very attractive to people!

INSPIRATION

INSPIRATION

Inspirational Videos:

>         Mandino, Og - "The Secrets to Success" - Sep. 2009 (posted date) (17:38 min.)

>        Smith, Will - "Law of Attraction" - Aug. 28, 2008 (on Tavis Smiley) (6:23)

>       Williams, Art - "Do It (Part 1)" (7:51) and "Do It (Part 2)" (10:31) - 1987

>         Vujicic, Nick - "Limbless Giant of a Man" - Nov. 02, 2006 (6:12)

>         Scott, Matt - "Nike No Excuses" TV commercial - Jan. 08, 2008 (1:15)

>         Hoyt, Dick & Rick - "A Father's Love For His Son" (father & wheel-chair-bound son do triathalons) - Feb. 11, 2007 (9:59)

>         SimpleTruths.com -"Finish Strong" quick stories - May 06, 2009 (4:14)

>         BluefishTV.com - "Famous Failures" never quit - Dec. 11, 2007 (1:16)

>         Grasshopper.com - "Entrepreneurs Change The World" - May 03, 2009 (2:19)

>         Epipheo.com - "How the Internet Changed Advertising" - July 01, 2009 (4:36)

>         Did You Know? - "Did You Know?" awesome info age stats - Oct. 21, 2008 (4:56)

>        Boyle, Susan - "Britains Got Talent" - Apr. 10, 2009 (7:08)

>        Pay it Forward Movie Preview - "Pay it Forward" - 2000 (8:36)

2009 Inspirational Articles:

>       Canfield, Jack - "Good Things Come to Those Who Ask" - June 2009 (pdf)

>      ZenHabits.com - "How To Pursue Dreams in the Face of Naysayers" - May 2009 (pdf)

>      HarvardBusiness.org - "Why You Need To Fail" - July 2009 (pdf)

>       Maxwell, John - "Discipline - The Path to Potential" - July 2009 (pdf)

Classic Articles:

>       MacManus, Theodore - "The Penalty of Leadership" - 1915 (pdf)

Classic Books:

>        Allen, James - As A Man Thinketh - 1902

>       Haanel, Charles F. - The Master Key System - 1912

>        Hill, Napoleon - Think And Grow Rich - 1937

>       Stone, W. Clement - The Success System That Never Fails - 1962

The Biggest Online Winners And Losers For 2009: EBay Traffic Collapse

EBay Traffic Collapse Some of the largest websites in the country had extraordinary swings in their audiences in 2009.  Many of the most well-known web destinations lost large portions of their traffic. Based on data from Hitwise comparing US traffic market share from January to figures from November, Ebay (NASDAQ:EBAY) lost 37% of its visitors.  Craigslist lost 43% of its traffic, making it the largest loser among the top 25 sites.  Neither number is surprising.  Ebay’s earnings have been lackluster.  Classified postings for apartments and jobs at Craigslist may have been hurt by the recession. Other sites that had sharp drops in visits include Yahoo! (NASDAQ:YHOO), Yahoo! search, and News Corp’s (NYSE:NWS) MySpace, all of which were down more than 20% during the measurement period.  The MySpace figure is not surprising.  The social network has been losing members to Facebook.  Among the top 25 sites, Facebook has the largest gain, up 236%.  The Yahoo! figures support data from other research firms covering search traffic.  Yahoo! has been losing ground to Microsoft’s (NASDAQ:MSFT) Bing and Google (NASDAQ:GOOG).  Google was the most visited of all sites measured by Hitwise and its traffic rose 7%. Among the largest e-commerce sites, Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT), the 20th most visited site among all US destinations, had a 64% increase in visits compared to Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN), the No. 15 site, which had a 26% increase.  Wal-Mart and Amazon are locked in struggle for holiday shoppers and both have cut prices on popular items including e-books and DVDs.  Visits to Target.com (NYSE:TGT) were 69% higher.  Best Buy (NYSE:BBY) visits rose 23%. Other notable increases among large sites were MSN, up 58% and YouTube which rose 109%, confirming the trend of improving visits to online video sites. Sports sites did particularly well. Visits to ESPN.com were up 48%. Yahoo! Sports traffic rose 51%. Very few people would be surprised by the site among the top 50 that gained the most. Visits to Twitter were up 559%.