Archive for March, 2008

Time Management - The 4 Piles

March 25, 2008 | Author: Rob | Filed under: Time Management

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At the cornerstone of effective time management is doing what needs to be done. It’s not that most of us are really lazy(some are) it’s just we often sap our energy doing non productive things that are not any more urgent then they are required! Ultimiately if you know where you are going and what you want in life all these decisions become easier because they either help your mission or they don’t…

In essence you want to break up activities and tasks into 4 major piles.

Important / Crises

This pile here is obviously the one that should be dealt with immediately when starting this program. Anything that falls into this category should be done asap. Basically once you begin doing this your goal is to never really have anything in this pile. Why bother when it got sorted in the next section? Examples of a crisis include “start …

Affiliate Marketing: Web Hosting + Domain Reg

March 24, 2008 | Author: Rob | Filed under: SEO and Marketing

Finally at some point yesterday what should of kicked in a while ago became clear as day. For my blog forum the best affiliates I can think of are domain registration and web hosting.

First let me point out that Bloggeries is currently running on HostGator hosting with a domain registered through GoDaddy. I had signed up for the GoDaddy affiliate program a while ago but never really gave it a chance; signed up for Hostgator yesterday. I feel good about promoting both of these services as I use both of them and have never had a problem. I’ve never had to contact hostgator for any issues since the inception of my account and if I did they have 24/7 toll free tech support.

Hostgator has a pretty awesome affiliate program. I like how you get paid $50 a referral and the …

Blog Forum Paying Members to Refer Members

March 23, 2008 | Author: Rob | Filed under: SEO and Marketing

What a concept; paying members to refer members. After all an online community is nothing without it’s members so why not pay those who already like the service to spread the word and make it better?

I was thinking the other day about how I wanted to increase membership at my blog forum and figured what better way then to pay the membership. The forum already has a 50/50 adsense revenue share so I thought this would be in keeping with our pay the members mantra and hopefully bring solid referrals as opposed to empty visits which is all to common on most advertising campaigns.

For the first month it’s going to be a monthly contest. After that it may become bi-weekly. I just want to get …

Try Microsoft Adcenter Free $75 Coupon

March 22, 2008 | Author: Rob | Filed under: SEO and Marketing

Try Microsoft Adcenter Free With $75 Signup Coupon! Title really says it all doesn’t it?

If you have a product or service that you are selling or rendering online it is in your best interest to take advantage of this offer. Spend some time on it as well. Consider it a $75 gift to your business. Who knows a Pay Per Click (PPC) campaign maybe just what your online ventured needed to get into higher gear? Click here to get your adcenter coupon code.

Microsoft Adcenter is similar to google adwords in you bid for key phrases and appear in the sponsored links in the MSN search engine. Since MSN typically gets less traffic then google your ads will probably last longer. Another really important issue NOT to overlook is that your average novice internet users just uses Internet Explorer as it comes default with there computer; microsoft search comes …

Bloggers Beware - Phishing and Scams

March 21, 2008 | Author: Dave | Filed under: Blogging

If you’ve had an email account for longer than twenty-four hours, you’re probably familiar with “419” (or Nigerian, since that’s usually the country of origin) scams and phishing in general. For those of you that aren’t, here’s an example of what I’m referring to, taken from my own email account over the last week:

“THE PRESIDENCY OFFICE OF THE CHIEF AUDITOR TO THE PRESIDENT INTERNATIONAL CREDIT SETTLEMENT DEPT CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA AND THE FEDERAL MINISTRY OF FINANCE Our Ref: FGN /SNT/STB ATTENTION BENEFICIARY: THIS IS TO OFFICIALLY INFORM YOU THAT WE HAVE VERIFY ON YOUR CONTRACT /INHERITANCE FILE AND FOUND OUT THAT WHY YOU HAVE NOT RECEIVE YOUR PAYMENT IS BECAUSE YOU HAVE NOT FULFILL THE OBLIGATIONS GIVING TO YOU IN RESPECT TO YOUR CONTRACT / INHERITANCE PAYMENT. SECONDLY …”

These are known as “419 scams” because that’s the section of the Nigerian penal code that covers this type of fraud.

And …