Wow! When the consumers arrive, they arrive in droves! One of the more fascinating elements of the CeBIT show is the variety of people who file through. Our personal favorite is the "Moving Classroom" concept in which you'll see tightly-packed groups of people moving through the halls all wearing headphones, so they can quickly get an update on what they're seeing. And you haven't lived until you see the semi-pro gamers in a large hall playing super-competitive World of Warcraft while a commentator describes every move that's being plastered onto a 50-foot screen!

Another fine day of CeBIT excitement! We're told that the show has actually decreased in attendance over the last few years from a high of a full million people in 1991, but by the crowds you'd never know it was anything but wildly oversubscribed.

As extreme as it sounds, all the halls of CeBIT were fuller today than yesterday - these are some extraordinary crowds! Europe is buzzing with new technologies, concepts and gadgets, and there may be no more exciting place to experience them.

CeBIT is no small affair, as the 18 halls filled with exhibits confirm! By the time all is said and done, the organizers expect as many as half a million attendees to move through the show.

This is a computer rendering of our CeBIT 2010 booth.

Plimus is very excited to announce the Cashflow Club for leading marketers and sellers of digital goods at the Affiliate Summit Conference on January 18, 2010.

By Simon Jones

Most online sellers work with affiliates, who market products and services in a variety of ways and earn their income through revenue shares. Affiliates themselves may use any number of different ways to attract new prospects and customers – ranging from Pay-per-Click Google campaigns through email newsletters, blog networks and many others.

What affiliates and the merchants with whom they partner have in common, without fail is this: they’re all in it to make money.

Sometimes, amidst the madness of creating spreadsheets, editing video, or updating our favorite social networks, we forget that our PCs are machines that need to be maintained regularly. Without regular checkups, PCs will eventually slow to a crawl and feel like they're quickly becoming geriatric. But with some active effort, we can prevent them from aging quite so quickly, and keep them running at peak performance.

By Simon Jones

In the retail world there is an unspoken convention that when checking out you must be bombarded by inexpensive impulse purchase-driven items. At the grocery store, you are tempted by bubble gum, magazines and phone cards. At furniture stores like Ikea, even, you may be tempted by Swedish meatballs and chocolate bars. And who ever left a fast food restaurant without being asked “do you want fries with that?”

By Simon Jones

Traditionally, online sellers have fit into one of two models. Either they are a pure retailer, selling other companies’ products at a mark-up. Or they are a ‘factory outlet store’, selling their own products and services direct to consumers.

The second – the factor outlet stores – are leaving literally millions of dollars on the table.