Christmas stocking fillers will soon be on the minds of almost everyone around the world. This is an opportunity for you to add to your home business income.

All sorts of products which don’t usually get a lot of traffic start developing huge traffic spikes over this period.

If your looking for some products to promote over Christmas, then the eBay 2007 Hot Holiday List is a good starting place.

Here the top 25 hottest eBay seller are listed. They provide a good indication of what people will be looking for over the Christmas period.
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If your based in the US or Canada then Pre-Paid Legal Services is a program which may be of interest.

Pre-Paid legal services is a company which provides a type of legal insurance. Put simply you put a little away every month and if you need to use legal services then its already paid for.
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Dominiche is a service from Ed Dale which teaches you how to buy a website.

Now you don’t need to buy the product and you don’t need to spend a lot of time there, but the videos at this location are well worth viewing.

They cover the very basics of pricing a website for purchase, including both the earnings multiplier and pay per click pricing.

They also show you a good website to find prospective purchases. Read the rest of this entry

A little while ago WordPress 2.3 came out, so I decided to attempt the WordPress 2.3 upgrade on a few of my blogs.

There are a number of features I wanted to try out and we have a policy of always keeping to the latest version.

With this release there are also a number of new features that looked interesting including:

• Tagging support which allows tags as well as categories to be allocated to posts.
• Upgrade notification of plugin and WordPress upgrades. Not so worried about WordPress as this is well publicised but getting notified about plugin upgrades is really useful
• URLs have been tweaked to make them cleaner for search engines
• WYSIWYG editor has more features.

The team at WordPress make a few suggestions about preparing for an upgrade. They are: Read the rest of this entry

Offto.net is a free offering from Jonathan Leger which rolls a few free tools into one simple package.

For quite a while I’ve used tinyurl when shortening links or just plain hiding an affiliate url in forums, Mylot and Yahoo Answers etc.

Jonathan’s tool takes it a step further, by adding some extra features. Here’s a summary of what Offto.net does: Read the rest of this entry