Environmental awareness will be a key issue for the coming years, and the most mundane use of fossil fuels is our daily commute to our place of work. I am lucky enough to work within walking distance of my home, so I walk to work twice a week during the Summer months and less often in the Winter - how about you?
Recently I have talked about maintaining a style and keeping an 'audience' with consistency, but the truth is that sometimes a complete re-think is required. Although we should not be slaves to ranks and visitor figures, RSS feeds and the like, if something is blatantly not working, then the knife has to come out. If you decide to cut off the 'rotten fruit', then do so swiftly and with purpose. Personally I like to give a project every chance to succeed, but sometimes you have to just let go.
I have seen sites very successfully transform from a blog into a forum overnight. Of course, this does not really happen overnight and an awful lot of thought and planning went into the switch beforehand. When the change was made, the planning paid off as the forum looked already totally established because the webmaster had put so much planning into the project.
Once your decision has been made, act on it - start your planning for your new project immediately. Maintain the 'old' project until you are ready to switch to maintain what audience you have, promote like mad and when you are ready (My second rule of blogging is that you are never really ready...) make the switch and don't look back.
Each time I get spam emails I learn about medicines that I never knew existed, you can now apparently have Phentermine no prescription why would I want a medicine without prescription? Well apparently it’s a slimming drug… Obviously the email senders can’t know what I look like otherwise they wouldn’t try getting my attention with slimming drugs!! In fact if spam is targeted then I have been mistaken for someone who is both overweight and impotent – rest assured neither is the case!
I realised while I was creating a previous post that I had wandered into an area that requires further explanation. I talked about remaining true to yourself or your 'character'. By character I am referring to blogs that are written in a specific style which is not the writers natural style. I know of one blogger who has written posts on a blog assuming a specific character, when I visited another of his blogs, the style of writing was so refined in contrast that you would not know it was the same person. The writer had assumed a persona for the purpose of writing on a specific blog.
Building a character helps to build an interest in your blog, in the same way that a 'shock jock' builds up his listeners. You don't have to use 'shock' tactics, though that might be appropriate... you can use any sort of style you want, but retaining that style will be essential to maintain your audience who will grow to expect consistency. If they were to 'hear' a different 'voice', they may feel that they have been misled or their interest in the blog may wane. I have never actually tried this tactic personally, though I have been tempted. I would love to create a blog with a truly obnoxious personality but with a lot of humour... Don't be surprised if this turns into my next project...!
Joseph Rey Sator is an IT student and a blogger from the Philippines . His blog ‘The Rock | xTended’ has the subtitle: extending information through speeding highways and has a very impressive ‘night and day’ contrast theme which in itself is worth visiting this blog for alone… Jospeh has spent a lot of energy reviewing sites and presumably getting reciprocal reviews if his technorati ranking is anything to go by.
I counted over 40 categories on this blog, so we are talking general rather than niche blogging here. The categories are as diverse as comic strips, current affairs, fashion and movies.
The posts are generally well-written, the blog has a very nice layout and was easy to read. I liked the idea of mixing up blog posts with songs, the way these have been integrated into the posts really works well. Searching through the posts I found some interesting comments on blog hacking, but the majority of the posts are site reviews. Overall a very pleasant viewing and reading experience.
I saw this post at Suburban Wife's Daily Dollar Diary and thought I would pick up the Theme/Meme... Here are my list of things that I don't buy compared with the Suburban wife:
So, if you’re a blogger, consider yourself tagged. Be sure to link back to this post or leave a comment so I’ll know you participated. If you’re a reader without your own blog, please don’t leave without sharing the 8 (or so) things you don’t buy. I look forward to hearing from you.
The rules are simple:
If you are becoming a slave to:
Every so often, one comes across something (very often on the internet) which just makes you say 'what the...?!?'. Such an event happened to me today when I discovered beer pong. According to Wikipedia, this is a drinking game where ping pong balls are bounced into cups of beer which the opposition must then drink. How quaint you might say, but wait on... that's not the end of it, Oh no... there is a whole industry created around this with official beer pong tables available to buy and all sorts of other paraphernalia. After a little consideration, I think I'll wait for it to come out on the Wii.....
I have recently launched a new travel blog called 'Really Traveling'. My friends at mmmtalk helped me out with the title as I very nearly chose an English spelling preference 'Really Travelling' with the extra 'L'. I hope you will take a look and leave a comment (do-follow), I will be featuring places I have visited along with my photo's, travel news and travel advice. Eventually I hope to build this into a real resource for travelers and would really appreciate your visit, your comments and your 'diggs'... I have spent some time sorting out the design and trying to get it 'just right' before launch. There are always tweaks and adjustments to be made, but I hope my visitors will appreciate a nice clean blog filled with good quality content.
Building up a portfolio of blogs achieves two useful goals:
Big flashy wheels, zenon headlights and car spoilers are the typical signs of a boy-racer, but is there any real value in a spoiler?
There's no doubt some value in having decent wheels and tires along with effective headlights, but car spoilers do actually serve a purpose. At higher speeds, the spoiler generates down-thrust keeping the rear wheels firmly on the ground and adding a degree of stability to the vehicle. There is an argument that this can increase aerodynamics and fuel-efficiency, but you might be better off slowing down to a speed where you don't need a spoiler if saving the planet is your aim.
Making an impression is a meld of performance and attractiveness and we can apply that to all aspects of life. If you perform well and look good you're doing OK, if you perform well, but look drab you are doing yourself a dis-service. Worst of all is if you look great, but have 'nothing under the bonnet'....
This can be applied to how you perform at work, how your blog looks or whether your car suits your personality...
Whether you are involved in full-time or part-time work at home, occasional blogging or looking to build a serious second income from the internet, mmmtalk forum has something for you. I have been involved in mmmtalk since Greg Stratz started it about a year ago, and have found it a great way to socialise and learn from other bloggers in a friendly relaxed forum.
It will cost you nothing to join up and start commenting and reading through the information contained in the sections headed: Search Engines, Money & Trade, Web developers etc.... If you are looking for some friendly advice from fellow internet journeymen (and women...) please come along and get involved, mmmtalk wants to give advice and get your opinion too. Tell them 'Livewyre' sent you...
This blog is here to brig you information (amongst other things) about paid to blog services, and I am now in a position to review PayU2Blog.
The PRO'S:
Simple tasks of usually sixty words minimum with one link with anchor text.
Pay out at bi-weekly intervals.
Easy to complete tasks.
So far I have plenty of tasks to complete
Nice touch - you can tell them when you are holiday and not available for tasks...
The CON'S:
The vast majority of tasks are for just $5
You cannot turn a task down (need to get in touch with admin if you really object to a task)
Have to keep logging in (no email notification).
They don't have a referral scheme, so this info is for free....
All-in-all, this looks like a nice service to add to the portfolio of paid-blogging services, but note that you MUST complete the tasks you are assigned whether they are on topic or not... not for the niche bloggers wanting to keep keyword-related. Also they do not accept blogspot blogs...
Insurance is a concept that we don't like to discuss since it generally means something bad has to happen for insurance to pay out, however in essence insurance is all about offsetting the negative effects financially. I had never heard of term insurance before today, but this is like fixed-term life insurance for a pre-determined period of between five to thirty years. This can be effective for instance as cover for your children in the event of your own inability to provide for them until they will be old enough to be independent.
Although we don't like to contemplate it, being well insured shows a level of responsibility, although you should consider each policy very carefully to ensure that you are getting the best value for your investment.
Um site interessante que nós visitamos hoje é o www.suplemento-alimentar.com, uma ótima fonte de informação sobre suplemento alimentar. Todos os dados que você tem que ver sobre suplemento alimentar voce pode achar neste blog , que oferece artigos diários a respeito de Suplemento Alimentar e fornece novidades para suplemento alimentar. Dados sobre suplemento alimentar na internet é complicado uma vez que nem todos os websites abordam temas como esses Suplemento Alimentar. Encontre mais e registre-se no RSS para obter notícias novas suplemento alimentar. Faça comentários a respeito do que você leu neste blog, sobre o tema de Suplemento Alimentar. Finalmente, nós insistimos em dizer que o www.suplemento-alimentar.com é um site completo que vale a pena a todos as pessoas que querem saber mais sobre suplemento alimentar.
Você pode igualmente gostar de outro portal que publica informação de suplemento alimentar, que e sobre Conscurso!
Faça uma pesquisa noutro site sobre Suplemento Alimentar que pode ser bom também Seguros de Vidas.
Well now, it's Thursday... so no big surprise there then. You may know that the Munny4Hunny experiment was all about paid blogging and whether money could genuinely be made from it. The obvious conclusion is that Yes you can, but lately it has been getting harder. That said, I have just signed up with a new service that has proved quite prolific since I got involved - I will blog about it once I've worked out if they have a referral scheme!! Suffice to say I have made $60 in 9 days with them and and quite happy that this month will yield a healthy balance as a result. That gives me still only a couple of active schemes since some resources seem to have almost dried up. The fluctuations in PR do not help and there appears to have been some movement, but none good that I can work our from what I hear from other bloggers - even John Chow has a PR 3 nowadays, looks like Google have the knives out for him, but I guess that is the best compliment that you could pay a blogger...
My findings have really revealed that if you are prepared to work at it, you could probably make a living doing paid blogging, but this would probably require a lot of hard work on multiple sites. If you ask me would I be able to maintain my current (non-internet) earnings via the internet if I were to lose my job, I would have to say that it would take most of my waking hours to be able to raise that sort of revenue... On the other hand, is it worth 'dabbling' at the current level of operation? then yes as long as it is enjoyable, then why not get paid for simply writing your thoughts and building new sites - and at the same time explore all sorts of avenues for passive earnings (the 'real' goal). Currently I earn about $100 in passive earnings from advertising of one sort or another (not from blogs) and this gives me a basis from which to fund other sites that I might want to build. Eventually, there is no reason why this income cannot grow to substantial levels.
The mission continues...
Um site interessante que nós pesquisamos é o www.seguro-vida.org, um site legal para encontrar informação sobre seguro vida. Tudo que você precisa saber sobre seguro vida voce pode achar neste blog , que publica textos atualizados diaramente sobre Seguros de Vidas e fornece novidades para seguro vida. Dados sobre seguro vida na internet é complicado uma vez que nem todos os websites abordam temas como esses Seguros de Vidas. Você pode procurar mais e acompanhe as notícias diariamente para obter notícias novas seguro vida. Pode deixar comentários sobre os artigos, sobre o tema de Seguros de Vidas. Por Final, queremos dizer que o www.seguro-vida.org é um portal essencial e achamos que você deve divulgá-lo a todos que se interessam por seguro vida.
Entre também em outro portal que publica informação de seguro vida, que e sobre Franquias!
Você também pode dar uma olhada em outro blog relacionado com Seguros de Vidas que pode ser bom também Suplemento Alimentar.
It's Wednesday already, where does all the time go? This week (in my 'real' work) I have been involved in a sales meeting for the last two days and I do feel a little like I have been in a time-warp. This feeling was not helped by the fact that we had our annual Christmas(!??) meal last night.....
I hate being in meetings because whilst I am in a meeting I can't get on with my day-to-day tasks, and tasks build up which must all be addressed as soon as I get out of the meeting...
This is a great reason to work for yourself - no meetings... When I 'work' at my online occupations, I don't need to have meetings to work out where I am going, I have those in my head when I take a long walk... Incidentally walking to work (assuming you live within about 5 miles of where you work...) is a great way to have a meeting with yourself. Whether it is to sort out how you will approach the days work, sort out your problems, or plan your domination of the internet - taking a walk and having a good old think is an excellent way to clarify your thinking. You can call all your operators to the meeting, your marketing manager, your workforce, your development team and your accountant - because they are all in your head anyway!
I visited Smorty today and noticed a new feature on offer, this is a service to get free reviews in exchange for free reviews... Submit information about your blog, or even a specific blog post that you want people to review, and you can have it reviewed by a random member of Smorty. In exchange, you will have already completed a review for someone else from the Smorty network.
This is a great idea because it uses three-way-linking rather than reciprocal links - read more about three-way-linking here...
If you haven't already come across Smorty, then you should register with them if you are interested in getting paid for blogging...
When I first moved into our current abode some 12 years ago, I had a go at ‘smartening up’ the bathroom, but honestly didn’t do a very good job. I have given the walls a lick of paint (now peeling off again) and ‘personlised’ the walls with some sea-creature shapes. I made a new façade for the side of the bath and boxed in some pipes. The whole effect was somewhat better than the original décor, but still a little shabby. Since then I have changed the bathroom taps or as you might call them in the US bathroom faucets . I fully intend to fit a shower at some point, but I think I am going to need professional help at some point in the near future. This goes to show that although you can save a lot of moneydoing your own decorating, some jobs may require professional ‘assistance’….
It's all about social interaction - who do you trust for views and reviews? Have we stopped giving, sharing and asking for opinions? Do you Google for everything? - what are your answers??
I am pretty active despite my advancing years and like to play football twice a week, but am aware this cannot go on forever as sooner or later I aa not going to be able to keep up with the pace and my aches and pains will be just too severe… So what to do when that happens? Well it has always been my intention to take up golf when I am just too far gone for soccer… and the great thing about this is that I will be able to play golf with my wife (she is not that keen on soccer!!). As I will be a bit older and have a few more debts paid off (maybe even clear the mortgage by then) I will hopefully be in a position to invest in some equipment such as golf bags golf clubs and all the other associated paraphernalia..
Continuing with the theme of exploring other ways of raising a legitimate income online, I want to highlight 'get paid to' sites, and particularly the most popular one 'Treasure Trooper'. Treasure Trooper promotes a fun atmosphere and on the serious side of things is happy to demonstrate proof that it really pays out. You can be paid by cheque or via Paypal and Treasure Trooper is 100% free. There is no membership fee.
There is a whole subculture to get involved in, you can team up with other treasure troopers and of course they have a referral scheme that can earn you a passive income in it's own right. The premise of the scheme is that you get paid for signing up for offers that are being promoted. The companies promoting the offers pay up and then it's up to you whether you take that offer any further or just take your money and run...
Whether you want to dabble in the offers to make a bit of extra cash or you are interested in signing up hundreds of referrals to make a passive income, Treasure Trooper may well have something to offer you.
Saving money and making money go hand-in-hand. For me, I decided to make sure that I was saving as much money as I could before I embarked on my making money projects. The return from saving money is immediate whereas making money takes a little longer. There are schemes set up to help you save money with everyday purchases and WePromiseTo Cashback is one of those schemes that has a radically open approach to saving you money. They say that they pass on 100% of the commission they get for referring you to a service, just taking the initial £5 (this is a UK service) that you save as their one-off fee. They can pay you directly into your bank or send you Amazon vouchers (with a 2% bonus) as payment.
You can get cash back on your car insurance, betting with paddypower, Amex or Goldfish credit cards, but opportunities to get cashback are not limited to online buying, off-line purchases can qualify for cashback too.
Looking at some of the offers I might be interested in, I was particularly interested in the 3% cashback on Tesco wines by the case, and even better 5% cashback from Majestic wine. Right next to those offers are some for chocolate retailers, so I’m pretty much covered…
With a little work, you should be able to shave some money of your regular bills by searching through the site to find the best offers on goods and services that you are already using anyway… It’s free to join, so nothing to lose.
Lately I have been looking into more schemes to achieve what many of us are aiming for ie. to make money online. I have posted about the sort of things that I do personally, but there are a whole load of other types of schemes that although I don't do them myself, are equally viable ways to make money online. There are the schemes that pay you to sign up for something and those that offer cashback incentives for products that maybe you were going to buy anyway. I have said before that saving money is equally as important as making money, there is no point making loads if you are not careful what what you have.
So keep an eye on future posts for schemes that are available for making legitimate income or genuine savings online..
If you are the owner of a small business and have considered selling or have been offered money for your business, you really should have a proper Small business valuation. Even if you don’t plan to sell your business, a valuation will give you an idea of whether your business is growing at an acceptable rate. Protect yourself by being aware of what your business is actually worth including all the liabilities and assets that you may not even be aware of.
I am immersed in decorating at the moment, we have been decorating (and renovating) our house for the past twelve years so this is not a time-limited task in my long drawn-out experience.
The nice stage is the planning, but we don’t have much money available, so I have to get my hands dirty doing most of the work myself (hence the length of the task…). So far, in the twelve years I have re-wired the house, and gutted and rebuilt the dining room and my daughter’s bedroom, had a little go at the bathroom and got a professional in to do the kitchen. I am currently working on the hallway, stairs and landing, but am longing to get into the bedroom!!
Whilst getting lost in the current task, it is all to easy to dream about how you want the next project to work out, so now I am starting to think about how the ‘master’ bedroom should look. Like the kitchen, this is a room which has be done right so I have considered getting in an expert in bespoke fitted bedrooms which sounds very grand and reassuring…
I have visions of a beautiful wooden floor, simple but finely finished furniture with crisp linen and maybe topped off with a gorgeous sleigh-bed… I can dream, but wouldn’t it be great to get someone in while you were on holiday and come back to a brand new sumptuous bedroom?
It is becoming harder to legitimately make money with blogs and on the internet generally, so I will offer an update on the schemes that are working for me at the moment on various websites and blogs. First off, Adsense is about to pay me out for the second time this year which I am quite happy about, my average earnings with Adsense have risen steadily over the months and I hope to be able to make this work for me in the future. I have used a couple of fixed advertising schemes such as The Ad Network and 
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OK, we all know that Botox is basically for those who want to look more beautiful that they have a right to, but today I discovered that there has been a helpful side effect for those who have had Botox injections around the eyes. Of course when you think about it, there is some logic... Botox relaxes the muscles that cause the lines around your eyes, and can also relieve tension in those muscles, alleviating headaches and migraine. The new discovering is that Botox for migraines is a viable treatment and is now been offered by the medical profession.
Thankfully, I hardly ever get headaches and I am already quite beautiful...!
Who is Scarlet? seems to be the question on the lips of those with their ear to the ground for breaking news on the latest TV shows to be hitting your screens soon. David Nutter, producer of such TV classics as Smallville, Sleepwalkers, Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles ... to name but a few is THE TV producer of the moment bringing his midas touch to our living rooms via the medium of television.
