This video tutorial shows just how to do that. Look below the video for the code mentioned in the video:

This is the code you put into the “post-footer” div:

<script type=’text/javascript’>
SHARETHIS.addEntry({title:&#39;<data:post.title/>&#39;,
url:&#39;<data:post.url/>&#39;
});
</script>

Leave me a comment to let me know if you found this video helpful!

We have moved our affiliate program management to Post Affiliate Pro- a powerful affiliate management system. This move will enable us to more effectively track your referrals and ensure you get the credit you deserve.

If you have already signed up as an affiliate or you want to become an affiliate, you will need to create an afflilate account within our new system.

For our current affiliates with pending commissions, rest assured your new account has already been created for you and your commissions have been transferred over to our new system.

For those that wish to become an affiliate, be sure to do so today and get your share of the profits from business you refer to Renegade Tech Consulting today!

I wish you the best in your business,

Daryl Lozupone
Owner
Renegade Tech Consulting

By making your own backups, you can restore your website the moment you realize something is amiss. And you want those backups to be automated so that you do not have to remember to do it.

This video gives you a tutorial on how to schedule backups of your hosting account using cPanel’s “Cron Jobs” feature. This will backup all of your hosting account with the exception of your mySQL databases:

The command used in the nightlybackup.sh script discussed in the video is as follows:

tar -czf /home/cPanel_username/backup/$(date +%Y%m%d).tar.gz /home/cPanel_username/ –exclude=”/home/cPanel_username/backup/*”

You should replace cPanel_username with the username you use to access your control panel. If this does not work, please contact me and I will be happy to help you with this.

The $(date +%Y%m%d) portion sets the backup file name to the date the backup was made. So if this command runs on January 1, 2010, the backup file will be entitled 20100101.tar.gz.

I hope  you find this tutorial useful, and let me know what you think in the comments.

I wish you the best in your business.

Want to be an RTC affiliate?

That’s right. You can now become an affiliate of Renegade Tech Consulting. We are offering a 10% commission to anyone that registers as an affiliate of RTC and sends business our way. It is our way of saying “Thanks” to our loyal customers for spreading the word about our hosting, domain name registration, and custom programming services.

Just register on our site, click on “Affiliates” in the top navigation bar once you have logged into your account, and click “Activate Affiliate Account” at the bottom of the page.

SSL Certificates are here!

We now offer the ability to purchase SSL certificates to secure your website. If you run a shopping site, membership site, or any site where you want the communication between server and browser to be encrypted you need an SSL certificate.

This certificate can be issued in as little as two hours, and it lets your customers know you care about keeping their information safe from prying eyes.

Keeping up with your Wordpress blogs just got easier!

We now offer a monthly service to take care of maintaining your Wordpress blogs. We know that as internet marketers, your job is to write content and engage your audience. You do not want to waste your time making sure all of your blogs and plugins are patched with the latest updates. So let us do that for you!

This service includes installing all Wordpress Core updates as they are released, maintaining and optimizting the database, and installing plugin updates as well. All for only $20.00 USD per month.

If you have multiple blogs, please contact us and we can put together a quote for you based on the number of blogs you need maintained.

Discounts on consulting and custom programming!

We are now offering a discount on our consulting and custom programming hourly rate. We charge $100 USD per hour for this service, but you can pre-purchase five hours for only $375 USD. That is a 25% savings. These hours will not expire and you can use them as you need them. A five minute task or a five hour project, the choice is yours.

I wish you the best in your business,

Daryl Lozupone, Owner

In our last blog post, we mentioned we were working on becoming able to register domain names. We are pleased to announce that time has come. We now offer domain registration in addition to our web design, hosting, and consultation services. And for those of you hosting your sites with us but purchasing domain names from other registrars, you can now transfer your registration to Renegade Tech Consulting.

With this addition, you can now have all  your web presence services in one place!

Register your new domains or transfer your existing domains to Renegade Tech Consulting today!

We have a lot of changes and additions taking place in the coming months. As they occur, we will be sure to notify you of what’s new. A quick sneak peek couldn’t hurt, though.

Soon you will be able to purchase, renew, and transfer your domain names through RTC.

SSL certificates, too.

Okay, so enough peeking. Let’s get to the change that is coming in the next few weeks that will effect our hosting clients.

After conferring with our clients and doing an extensive in-house usability study, we have decided to move from a Plesk-based system to a cPanel-based system. Almost everyone has already used cPanel, and it is more friendly to our Wordpress customers.

This process will involve no work on your end. What it will require from you, however, is a brief period during which you do not update your sites.

Not to worry, however. You will be notified independently when your site is in migration. As soon as the migration is complete, we will provide your new usernames, passwords, and URLs to access your site control panel(s).

We are very excited about these changes and feel they will enable us to service you better than we have before. Of course, you should feel free to contact us if you have any questions.

Below is a video tutorial on how to update your installation in a few simple steps using the Automatic Upgrade option:

You want to create a paid subscription newsletter with an affiliate program. There are a number of responsibilities that come along with that:

1. Managing your membership list (keeping track of payments and adding and removing from your email list),
2. Managing your affiliates (who earned commissions that month and paying them), and
3. PCI compliance (safely storing your customer’s sensitive personal and financial data).

That’s a lot of work to make some money. Fortunately, you can put together a system that automates almost the entire process, just like we did recently for RetirementPlanningInsiderSecrets.com.

The requirements:

My client wanted to sell his twelve month retirement planning course as an email newsletter subscription. He wanted to have an affiliate program as well as use Aweber for the delivery since he was already a customer of their autoresponder service. He also did not want to be responsible for the safety of his customer’s sensitive information. So how was I to put them all together?

To summarize, the requirements were as follows:

1. A payment processor would handle the transactions and store the customer’s credit card information for the recurring monthly billings.
2. People needed to be able to sign up as affiliates and have their commissions tracked.
3. After the customer purchased, they would need to be automatically added to the Aweber distribution list for the lesson delivery.
4. If the customer chose to cancel the subscription or if the payment was declined, the emails needed to be suspended.

I began my research as to how to put this all together. Aweber was a given, so I needed a way to integrate the other elements. Fortunately, the answer was actually quite readily available and easy to implement.

The solution:

The payment processor portion was solved with 1ShoppingCart. They are a shopping cart provider that handles all of the SSL (website encryption)  and PCI compliance requirements so you don’t have to. They also have a built in affiliate program for your product. You can set the commission amounts, the payout threshold, methods of payment to your affiliates,  provide marketing collateral, and make payments to your affiliates all from within 1ShoppingCart. Everything you could want in an affiliate management service. So that took care of requirements one and two.

Now I had to integrate the 1ShoppingCart with Aweber. Enter aMember Professional. This program integrates with 1ShoppingCart and Aweber, in addition to a number of other payment services (PayPal, 2Checkout, Authorize.net, etc) and website packages (Wordpress, phpBB, vBulletin, etc). This monitors payment information and modifies the Aweber subscriptions accordingly. It automatically adds new subscribers to the Aweber list, removes them when they cancel, and halts delivery of email to accounts that are delinquent. Check off requirements three and four.

Putting it all together:

Integrating these elements was far easier than I had originally anticipated. The software and services chosen work together extremely well and allow for a lot of flexibility. And the possiblities with this combination are only limited by your imagination. In the future, we are looking at adding a forum where subscribers can post questions and discuss the newsletter material. aMember can provide usernames and passwords for the forum software, similar to how it handles the Aweber mailing list.

Be sure to contact us when you are ready to put together your membership based site!

Here is a screenshot of how the plugin appears in the sidebar:

You can see the links use all the common icons associated with the service. Pretty cool. Click here to Social Profilr in action.

And the configuration area is very simple. Just put in your user id for the different sites and away you go.  There are many more sites available than what is shown here (we only chose to show the top portion of the config page because it would have made for a very long screenshot if we included the entire list):

Social Profilr Configuration

What plugins do you use?  Leave me a comment and let me know your favorites.