Owner: Tips: How to Blog for Money URL:http://howtoblogformoney.blogspot.com Join Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 04:14:50 -0500 Rating:1 Site Description: This site howtoblogformoney.blogspot.com is dedicated to helping anyone that is keen to make some money out from blogging. I shall share with what I know and hopefully will be useful to some of you too.
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BAK2u on Yahoo.com (A LoJack for Cell Phones) 2007-06-14 15:03:00 Reader Manfred Wedell writes: A day or two ago I asked if you knew of any "LoJack" type service for cell phones, to which you said you didn't and suggested simply getting another phone. However, I've stumbled upon what may be just that!Manfred sent me this link to a review of a software product called PhoneBak, which appears to be very similar to what LoJack for Laptops offers. According to the review, the software works like this: PhoneBak doesn't do anything unless a new SIM card is inserted into the phone, at which point the phone sends you a text message containing information that could help you identify the phone and its new "owner." That info includes the SIM card's ID number, the phone's ID number, and the phone number of the new SIM card. With this info it should be much easier to track down where the phone went... more Read more:Yahoo
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Cash upfront or cash buildup? 2007-06-13 03:55:00 This is a common question that my students always like to ask me ... better to have a cash payment for blog advertisement or to let it build up (through pay per click) and then get a lump sum later?I always reply with a question 'do you prefer to get a monthly salary for the work done or the total sum only end of the year?'For payperclick, it is accumulated over time when potential buyers click those advertisements .. then perhaps when the amount hits a certain figure you be paid by a cheque.But for those more direct, hassle free ones ... you get paid immediately when you place a banner for like 30 days at your blog. Short and sweet.There are Pros and Cons but just remember, study your own blog first and yourself what type of values can you also give back too. Look for long term not just hit and run with a one time advertisement campaign. Also measure how much effort is needed too. If just by placing a simple HTML codes on your 'not-many-people' visit blog, how can you expect to ea
[REVIEW] AllAboutSymbian.com: PhoneBAK (E70) 2007-06-11 23:16:00 AllAboutSymbian.com: In today's security conscious world, there is one thing that all customers are hoping to get from their various insurance policies: peace of mind. I managed to get my hands on the brand new S60 3rd Edition version of PhoneBAK and I was more than eager to see if it really helps you sleep better...moreAuthor: Bak2U Version Reviewed: 1.0 Score: 82Other news: PhoneBAK Mobilephone Gen II ready for your N95, E65 etc!
The New PayPal.com 2007-06-27 04:25:00 Do you know that PayPal
will be undergoing some changes in its website?I discovered it this morning when check for some payments from a partner.The new site is much visually pleasing and able to provide quick to find information. A great improvement!Just go to Paypal.com and click on the top 'Preview the new PayPal Homepage'
Singapore blogs at MyBlogLog.com 2007-06-29 23:47:00 Was doing some research on MyBloglog.com when I clicked on the tag 'Singapore
' and boy we see those familiar faces like EastCoastLife, Cobalt Paladin, ClappingTree, Sparklette, Malique, Ms Loi, my wife Chainofbeads .. many from Ping :)And many others not seen on the screen captured here. Click image to view.
How much have you earned? 2007-07-04 20:21:00 Since starting have you keep track of how much have you earned? Are these advertisements, banners, pay per click giving you any incomes or you are just giving up your blog space for free advertisements? One thing about placing banners at your blog and with no one clicking it, either the advertisements are not targeting the right crowd or it is just placed wrongly where it doesnt attract any eyeballs on it at all. In the end, you are just giving free advertisements to the service provider and to the advertisers. Do something to it, monitor it and then do a trial and error to the location and make a note to the result if it matches your effort too.------Tags: payperclick, advertisement, money, banner, cash
Withdrawiing money from Paypal 2007-07-19 20:27:00 Ok so you have made some money from those advertisements on your blog. The money is accumulating and it is time to draw them out from Paypal into your pocket. Will be giving a screen by screen shots on how to do it in the coming tutorial over the weekend.
Step-by-Step Guide: Withdrawal from Paypal. 2007-07-22 21:26:00 Step 1:Log in and click onto 'Withdraw'.Step 2:Do note that there's a fee for withdrawal less than S$199 SGD.Step 3:Enter the necessary information for the money to be transferred to.(You may need to check with your bank for details)Step 4:Select the type of currencies you want to draw(applicable to those with different currencies transactions)Step 5:Now all you need is to wait for a few working days for the money to be in.------Tags: paypal, singapore, money, bank, withdraw Read more:Guide
Outsource: Blogging 2007-07-27 09:49:00 As mentioned before, dont get too fixated that you can make money only through those clicks on your advertisements at your blog. You can go beyond that. How?Firstly, you gonna make sure that your blog itself is presentable before you go around telling others that you blog and attempt to make money from it. You be surprised that there are many small and medium sized companies are looking into blogs to market their products and services targeting the readers and bloggers too.Polish up your skills and market yourself as the guy that they can look to when they wanna outsource setting up a blog. This is no different from companies that look for freelance designer to do their websites. Your blogging skill is a tad different but not that much as the same effort and hardwork and a certain level of professionalism is needed to.Go figure out what you can and what you want to provide first before running around offering blogging services :)------Tags: blogging, outsource, freelance, design, skill Read more:Outsource
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Affordable Solutions For Internet Marketing 2007-07-31 21:37:00 Do you have a website that is getting very little or no traffic at all? Well, there are ways that you can change that even on a small marketing budget. We will review each of the strategies you can use to promote your website, and then we will try to assimilate them into a single, uniform strategy that is both highly effective and affordable.First of all, TV commercials, radio ads, and print advertising are very expensive. This is undoubtedly the best way to launch a business, but the costs are prohibitive. A full page ad in a prominent magazine or other publication can run as high as $50,000 per ad. TV commercials can run just as high; if the commercial runs during a popular television show or sporting event, the cost will be enormous.So, if you do not have enough money in the coffers for traditional advertising, you will likely have to use online marketing. This is not a bad thing. Offline advertising (i.e. radio, TV, print ads) is sometimes not effective. Marketing
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[Q&A] Why do you blog? - Guest: Izel Ang of Chainofbeads.blogspot.com 2007-08-05 09:14:00 Izel Ang of ChainOfBeadsWhy do you blog?I have 2 blogs. One of them is for Chain of Beads and the other one is my personal blog.Chain of Beads's blog is to reach out to my customers whom wants to know the on-goings at Chain of Beads, and also to follow my work. At the same time, I use this to keep a record of my work, design and look back at times to evaluate my marketing and designs.My personal blog is a diary for some of my thoughts. Most of the thoughts are feelings that I experienced from my daily life, happenings and also to express my thoughts about jewelry making. What do you hope to achieve from blogging?I hope to market Chain of Beads and let more customers/students and interested readers find out more about my work.For my personal blog, its a way how I communicate with some of my friends too because we are simply too busy to catch up with each other frequently, and a lot of times, I get to know my friends better, understand their thinking through reading their blog too. Do y Read more:blogspot
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[Q&A] Why do you blog? - Guest: DK of Decayonnet.blogspot.com 2007-08-03 11:03:00 In the coming days, will be posting a series of Q&A from 3 Guest
s interviewed;DK of DecayonnetIzel Ang of ChainOfBeads Cobalt Paladin of Cobalt Paladin (Hee hee)Questions:Why do you blog?What do you hope to achieve from blogging?Do your readers click onto any of the advertisements at your blog?Do you think it is possible to make money from blogging? Why?How do you see local blog scene in terms of quality? Room for improvement?-------Guest: DK of DecayonnetWhy do you blog?I blog to record down things that are happening around me so that I can flip back in the future to relive the memories. Blogging is also a way for me to get to know more friends.What do you hope to achieve from blogging?I hope to know more friends thru blogging. If possible, get some benefits from companies that want to leverage on this new media. Like getting product demo, sneak preview and demo set to try out.Do your readers click onto any of the advertisements at your blog?I just added advertlets last week. I got le Read more:blogspot
[Q&A] Why do you blog? - Guest: CobaltPaladin.blogspot.com 2007-08-07 21:58:00 http://cobaltpaladin.blogspot
.com/Why do you blog?I started blogging partly because I was curious about blogging: its technology, the people, the trend etc. I wanted to find out what were RSS feed, trackback, ping etc and also wanted to understand why do people blog and be aware of how it may affect my current business, if any. So the best way to find out was to start blogging and experience it myself. The other reason I started blogging because I wanted to keep a journal about my life, so that my children in future can know and maybe understand who their 'old man' really was, aside from the stern and strict father exterior. I had also wanted to share my personal experience in the entrepreneurship journey.What do you hope to achieve from blogging?Blogging has started as an experiment but now it has become a way for me to share my personal entrepreneurial experience. Hopefully, by sharing, I'll be able to let more people know that they are not alone; encouraging them to come for Read more:Guest
Does Pay Per Click work in Singapore? 2007-08-18 10:16:00 There were some discussions about if PPC will work in Singapore
, coming from the angle of advertisers and not bloggers. Why? Bloggers will sign up when such a service is available but the question is will the advertisers especially local companies be enticed to sign up for it too since they are the paymaster to the service provider and the bloggers that place the banners on their sites?This is especially so when the commercial blog scene is rather new and it may take a while for the companies to be assured that their money will be well spent even if it is a pay per click payment model.It may also be argued that many Asians tend to just view the content on the blogs and that's it. No clicking of banners, no clicking of anything with a bit of hint of advertisements (Ads by Google, Amazon, Affiliate etc are sorta a turn-off for many Asians). How true is this?We did a simple test with just a group of 35 attendees who often surf the internet and with some readers of local blogs too; Questi Read more:Click
Know the many different sizes of banners for blogs 2007-08-25 23:25:00 Google did all the homework for us, just click onto this link and it will show you the standard banner sizes
commonly used by advertisers and bloggers.Google Adsense Ad Formats Read more:different
Add video to your blog in Blogger.com 2007-08-25 01:23:00 Yes, blogger.com added this new feature where bloggers can add their own video
in.No more the need to cut and paste from Youtube or other websites. Now you can just upload yours and share immediately. Read more:Blogger
Be Honest with Blog Titles 2007-08-24 01:46:00 Too many times bloggers make use of very catchy blog titles to capture the attention of other bloggers to their sites. It can be something related to sex but has nothing in the content to justify it or some pun intented title only to have the readers themselves realised it is not as it is.Strike a balance on it cos at the end of the day, readers are not stupid nor naive. Once bitten, twice shy. They wont bother to visit your blog again, anymore.One of the example, will be in Ping.sg where some blog titles are not at all related to their content. After I visited once and found out it is just a bait, I will immediately go back to Ping.sg and click the 'I hate this blog' to highlight to me that this is a blog to avoid. The blogger is not honest, it is just a bait to have more traffic and probably to increase the chances of having some clicks to its advertisements too. Life will be better not to be associated with such bloggers.By being honest with relevant titles to your latest entries, Read more:Titles
How do I put AdSense on my blog? 2007-08-30 23:13:00 Something that many tend to ignore when setting up your Adsense in your blog.From Blogger.com:First of all, choose the blog that you want to put AdSense on, and go to the Template | Page Elements tab. You can get there by clicking the "Layout" link on the dashboard, or clicking the "Template" tab from the posting or settings page of the blog. Once you're there, click on one of the "Add a Page Element" links. Choose the one that corresponds to the area of the page that you want to contain your AdSense ads. The "Choose a New Page Element" window comes up, from which you can select the AdSense option. The next page you see will have an AdSense sign up page. If you're new to AdSense, go ahead and fill it out to create an account. If you already have an AdSense account, click the "sign in" link instead so you don't accidentally make an extra account. Once you've signed in or created or account, you'll get the configuration screen. Use the menus to select a format, and o
Sneak Preview! Anti-theft software for iPod, PSP, USB flash drive, Camera! 2007-09-24 22:02:00 They're expensive, small and easy to steal. Media devices such as iPod
s, Sony PSP, USB flash drive
s, digital cameras, SD memory cards and others are hot items for thieves. Once stolen, chances are that you will never see them again. GadgetTrak enables owners to keep track of their missing or stolen gadgets through a smart service locally and globally! Owners just need to place the auto-configured tracking agent on their storage device; flash drives, digital cameras, SD memory cards, PSP, iPods, Zen, GPS, external hard drives etc to protect them If the gadget is stolen, the owner flags it on the website. The next time the device storage is accessed it will initiate communication via the internet* with the central server and send information back regarding the location and other forensic data that will help recover the device. This service works worldwide. Click image or link for more details. BAK2u.com Read more:Preview
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BlogConceptz - Bridging Advertisers and Bloggers Together 2007-09-21 23:15:00 BlogConceptz.com is very much a local service going regional catering to advertisers and bloggers.From the site:"Tapping on the power of blog influences, BLOGCONCEPTZ aims to offer a straight forward method of linking both advertisers and bloggers together; Getting the messages of companies to a wide potential group of customers through good quality blogs.Bloggers are paid around S$3.00 to S$5.00 for each ads posted."BlogConceptz.com Read more:Bridging
How to create a Buy Button in Paypal? 2007-09-21 23:02:00 For those selling stuffs on their sites and looking for a simple and hassle free buy buttons, consider using Paypal.com. It is very easy to just set up a button for buyers to click and make payment to you via paypal.Here's an example where I create
d a simple button for my company's product.Step 1:Login to your paypal account and then go to 'Merchant Tools'.Step 2:Scroll down to Key Features and click 'Buy Now Buttons'Step 3"Add in all the necessary details, such as name of the item that you are going to sell, prices (select your local currency).You can also select the different designs of the 'Buy Button' too.On the same page, you can 'Add more options' . This is where you can customize your the fields ranging from adding more qty, payment pages, customer notes and if you have more than 1 email accounts with Paypal, you can select which one to receive payment too.
[BAK2u] In Conversation with Paddy Tan, co-founder from BAK2u 2007-09-07 13:50:00 Sometime back, a Singaporean based company by the name of BAK2u have made it as a service help consumers keep track of their gadgets in CNN news. So after a couple of gatherings (from Ping.SG party to a couple of twitters and chat), BL sat down with Paddy
Tan, the co-founder
from BAK2u for an email interview to tell us more about what the company does in the realm of security, his personal trials and tribulations and how he sees the future of his company. Continue Reading » Website Read more:Conversation
GadgetTrak: New Product Launch - PhoneBAK & Digg Help 2007-09-27 20:06:00 Hello,BAK2u and our partner, GadgetTrak has launched a new product called PhoneBAK and we need your help to Digg
the story:http://digg.com/security/Phone_Stolen_Make_it_Phone_Home/If you already have a Digg account please login and Digg it! If you have never used Digg before I suggest you register for an account to see what it is all about...oh and while you are there Digg the story above! :-)We launched PhoneBAK today in USA which is a theft recovery solution cell phones and PDAs. We have two different versions, one for phones running Symbian and another for Windows Mobile PDAs such as the Palm Treo 750.We also launched our Apple Mac product, which we are also excited about and may ask you to help Digg this story as well. The Mac theft recovery software is unique in that if your MacBook, MacBook Pro, iMac, Mac Mini or Mac Pro is stolen, when the thief fires the computer up they will be asked to enter a password within a set amount of time, if the password is not entered it activates Read more:Launch
7 Marketing Mistakes to Avoid when Promoting your Business 2007-10-02 20:24:00 Many people rush into business thinking it will be easy to run, but very soon they realize that it is not as easy as it looks. A successful business is a finely tuned machine. In order to keep your business running smoothly it is important to avoid making mistakes.Here are the 7 most common mistakes to avoid:1. Not having clear objectives:Many business people start a business without clear objectives. They fail to set realistic goals for their marketing and consequently set themselves up for failure. It is important to make a list of goals and objectives based on a quarterly time line. If you do not have company goals and objectives you are like a car driving without a road map. Make sure all employees are briefed on company objectives. When your employees are not properly prepared you will not be able to achieve company objectives.2. Neglecting to analyse your potential customersNeglecting to analyse your potential customers is a dangerous mistake. It can lead to many problems. When y Read more:Marketing
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Press Release: Device Theft Recovery Software Leaders GadgetTrak and BAK2u Form Technology Alliance 2007-10-02 20:23:00 Press Release
Oct 2007 GadgetTrak and BAK2u have formed a technology alliance to share theft recovery software technologies, expanding protection for Apple® computers and iPods®, cell phones, Sony® PSP, PDAs and a growing list of removable media devices. Portland, OR. October 2, 2007 -- GadgetTrak (www.gadgettrak.com) and BAK2u (www.bak2u.com) have announced a technology alliance to expand device protection. Through this synergy, both companies will broaden their theft recovery software offerings to include coverage for Apple® computers and iPods®, cell phones, PDAs, Sony® PSP, GPS devices, digital cameras, flash drives and a long list of other removable media devices. BAK2u provides unique theft recovery software solutions for cell phones and PDAs as well as Apple computer products. GadgetTrak, based in Portland, Oregon provides patent-pending theft recovery software for removable media devices such as iPods and other MP3 players, Sony PSPs, digital cameras, GPS systems, USB Read more:Press
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BLOG2u.SG: Bloggers + Advertisers = More Exposure! 2007-10-14 09:34:00 BLOG2u.SG is a match-making service for Singapore advertiers and bloggers; to deliver online word of mouth of products and services from freelancers, agents and even bloggers in the most cost effective method through blogs.Target Advertisers Freelance designers, programmers, agents & individual bloggers selling products on their blogs. Target Bloggers Bloggers with at least 2 and above Page Rank.http://BLOG2u.SG Read more:Exposure
[BAK2u] Ping.sg members - S$5.00 Discounts! 2007-10-13 22:23:00 Ping.sg members will get to enjoy a S$5.00 off the latest Anti-theft software, BAK2u GadgetTrak! Get it while stock last!DetailsWhat is BAK2u Gadgettrak?GadgetTrak enables owners to keep track of their missing or stolen gadgets through a smart service locally and globally! Owners just need to place the auto-configured tracking agent on their storage device; flash drives, digital cameras, SD memory cards, PSP, iPods, Zen, GPS, external hard drives etc to protect them. If the gadget is stolen, the owner flags it on the website. The next time the device storage is accessed it will initiate communication via the internet* with the central server and send information back regarding the location and other forensic data that will help recover the device. This service works worldwide. Read more:Discounts
Google Brings Ad-Supported YouTube Videos to AdSense Publishers 2007-10-10 00:33:00 Publishers can earn revenue from companion ads, which sit atop the video window like banner ads on a Web page, and text overlay ads, which occupy the bottom 20% of the video frame. Google
on Monday said that it has made ad-supported YouTube
videos available to publishers in its AdSense network. "Video units enable AdSense publishers to display videos from several YouTube content partners," said Christine Lee, product marketing manager for Google's AdSense, in a blog post. "The video units are ad-supported, and the ads are relevant to both the video and the site content, as well as unobtrusive. AdSense publishers and YouTube content partners will receive a share of the ad revenue, so video units enable both groups to earn incremental revenue." Google has been testing video units for AdSense since last year. It has run pilot programs offering ad-supported content from MTV Networks, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, and Warner Music Group to a limited group of online publishers. Now any Eng Read more:Publishers
4 Steps to Combat Website Plagiarism 2007-10-23 23:23:00 This is a very interesting read:Publishing your website can be one of the most exciting times for a business owner. After all of your hard work and persistence, the whole world now has access to your products or services. You have either paid hundreds of dollars to have someone write your site content for you, or you have put your heart and soul (not to mention hour upon hour of hard work) into creating content of which you can be proud. In either case, you've invested time and/or money into your website copy. Now that it is out there for the whole world to see, it may be a target for all kinds of unscrupulous individuals...more Read more:Plagiarism
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