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I’m not somebody that hits the refund button that often. I like to give everything I’m trying at least a second and third chance, a lot of the time I’ll even give things a 4th chance. There does come a point though where it’s time to say enough is enough and to get your money back. I passed a new landmark in my online career today, I had to do my first ever ClickBank Refund.

How To Get A ClickBank Refund

I don’t know why but I had it in my head that I’d done this before and that it was really easy. It is simple to get a refund through ClickBank but I’d never done it before, I guess this was the first time I’d every given up on a product that I’d bought through ClickBank and not PayPal or some other payment provider.

These are the steps you need to take to get your refund from ClickBank:-

1. Find the original e-mail receipt sent from ClickBank for the product you bought. You can always do a subject search for “Receipt for your Clickbank Order”

2. Find the CUSTOMER SERVICE section of your receipt e-mail (It is below the TECHNICAL SUPPORT section). Near the top of the Customer Service bit is a link, clicking this will bring you directly to your product support page.

3. From this page there is no obvious refund request. However you need to click on the Get Support icon.

4. This is where you can pick your support request type. You want to select refund. It’s really important that you go with refund and not cancel. A lot of products are sold as subscriptions and whilst cancelling stops any further payments you want a refund. As long as you are in the standard 60 day ClickBank money back period this shouldn’t be a problem.

5. Finally you need to give a reason for your refund request. You need to be honest here, I’d also suggest filling in some comment so that you can help the product vendor. They may have lost you as a customer but they may act on what you say and it could help them retain other customers and improve their product.

Submit your refund request and that is just about all there is to it. One thing worth keeping in mind is that ClickBank refunds are not processed straight away. It can take a couple of days (although in my experience is was just under 24 hours) to get your ClickBank refund so be patient.

With all the great content (cough) I’ve churned out over the last few years I’m amazed, appalled and disgusted that the one question that seems to crop up one than any other, time and time again is:-

“How do you get those country flags next to the commenters?”

So for once and for all – the plugin you need is a Wordpress stats package called Firestats. The easiest way to install it is just to search for Firestats from the “Add New” option of the plugins menu. It adds some basic statistics functionality to your Wordpress blog and yes, those cool country, browser and OS icons!

It’s not that I’m a compulsive stats checker (much) but I do like to know how much money I’m making with Adsense on a day by day basis. There’s no way I would have spent so much time writing my Adsense Alert program if it wasn’t something I was concerned with. I bought an iPod touch a few months ago and along with playing various Tower Defence games one of the other things I was using it for was checking my Adsense Earnings, that was until they changed their system to report Estimated Earnings. That simple changed pushed the earnings amount of the screen. Here’s how to get your Adsense Earnings on your iPhone or iPod Touch.

If you’re like me then anything more than the very basics with Photoshop goes right over your head! There have been plenty of times where I’ve thought of an effect for sprucing up an image only to fall drastically short in the ability stakes. Layers, filters, effects, I am officially hopeless. I’ve just had another of these moments, rather than being out partying on a Saturday night like what was supposed to be happening I’m sat at home feeling rough as old shite. I decided to use the time to add a few images to some content pages and I needed a reflection. Sounds easy, reflections are a staple effect online, how hard can it be? Fed up I gave up and hunted around for an alternative to Photoshop. For all us Photoshop non users I’ve found the answer!

Running a small business on the Isle of Man can be an expensive thing to attempt. You see thanks to the extortionate cost of many essential services your overheads can be much bigger than you’d expect. The same was true for me when I started this, one of the biggest costs was for broadband. I wasn’t expecting Manx Telecom to charge so much more to business customers for what is essentially the same service as what their domestic customers get. Thankfully in recent times competition has emerged and that’s exactly what I planned to take full advantage off.

I did manage to source a MUCH cheaper basic business ADSL service through WiManx. A fairly new company on the Isle of Man but one which it appears will do very well (I recommend them to everybody now). Customer service and support was great and I was up and running in no time. However a problem soon came to light, my original Manx Net e-mail address. I’d used it as a business contact address when I first started out and although my contact details had been changed for a while the odd person would still contact me by it. The problem is that Manx Telecom only allows POP access to their e-mail accounts if you’re with them as an ISP. It’s probably one of the stupidest, most paranoid business decisions I’ve seen. To make things even worse their web mail interface is crap enough to almost be unusable. I had a problem, but what can you do?

I write e-mail forwarding software as a living so that got me thinking, if there was no POP access maybe there was a forwarding option hiding away somewhere in the webmail interface. Eventually I found it, it’s a great solution to this stupid problem and if anybody else is with another ISP but still wants access to their Manx Net Email then this is how I’d suggest you do it:-

• Sign into your Manx Net Email Account
• Click “Options” (top right hand side)
• In the left hand menu select the bottom option “Message Filters”
• Use the “New” option (top left)
• Create a new filter where the “From:” contains a “@”
• Set a “Forward To” action and put in the address that you want your Manx Net mail delivered to
• Save it. Once saved use the up arrow to position your new rule above the default spam rule

That’s you done, from now on any new messages that arrive in your Manx Net mailbox will automatically be forwarded to whatever address you specified, no more having to use that nasty web interface. Just one other note, and that’s that the original messages are not kept in Manx Net so make sure that the forwarding address you specify is valid.