People out there in the world are making money coming up with and developing iPhone and iPad applications. Some of us may have good ideas of what sorts of apps may come in very handy and ones that people would buy. As already mentioned in Make Money With Your Smartphone, we hit a snag when it comes to building the application.

If you have some ideas but don’t really want to go into the rigmarole of looking for someone at oDesk and paying them to build the app all is not lost. Appswell may be the solution for you.

Appswell is a free iPhone application that works on a crowdsourcing model where users submit their ideas. The community then votes on and provides feedback on ideas. The best ideas based on community votes are selected and built by the Appswell team. They will also take care of everything else such as launching and marketing the it.

If you are lucky enough to get your idea chosen you get a $500 payout and 10% of the profit the app makes. Submitting your idea could end up being profitable given the number of iPhone and iPad there are out there.

In order for you to be able to submit ideas you have to have an iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. One point that may not go down so well with some of you is that they keep all rights to applications but hey, you will still be getting paid something for pretty much doing nothing expect for coming up with an idea.

When it comes to iPhone apps there are many people out there who have made a killing by coming with something and selling it to the masses for $0.99. Not all of use are technically minded enough to build an application for a smartphone. We may have a good concept in mind but hit a brick wall when it comes to developing it. You can however do what Chris Guthrie has done and look for someone on oDesk and get them to develop the app for you.

If you don’t want to get that far in and are looking for an easy way of making a bit of money with your smartphone, you may want to try out WeReward. It is a mobile platform where you get rewarded for carry out certain tasks and actions. These tasks can be something as simple as taking a picture of yourself at a certain restaurant and sharing the experience on Twitter or Facebook to get rewarded.

Each point is worth a penny and you can cash out your points via PayPal once you have reached 1,000 points ($10). The WeReward site claims to have 15,000,000 businesses on their platform so getting to reach the payout amounts shouldn’t be a problem.

At launch it was only available as an iPhone app but now they have a android app available for download and soon enough they  will have Blackberry app too. All that you need to get started with them is:
- a compatible smartphone
- a Twitter, Facebook or Foursquare account
- a PayPal account

At the moment they are only available in the US but hopefully they will go global in the near future.

I have a bit of time on my hands at the moment and I’m making use of some of it by gathering all the stuff that we never use or need and listing them on Trade Me and . Besides de-cluttering and making a bit more space, I will end up with a few extras dollars in my pocket. This whole process got me thinking about people who sell items on and offline for a living and where they source their items.

Some have regular suppliers that they turn to, others may make items themselves, some use drop ship services such as Doba and others may buy items from auctions to resell via whatever methods they use. The source that I am going to talk about a bit more is government auctions.

On a recent trip to Zimbabwe I had the opportunity of attending a government auction. Up for grabs was a whole range of goods that included cars, clothing, electronics, alcohol, books, tire shipments and the list goes on and on. These types of auctions aren’t ones that are advertised too much and those who know about them like it that way. The fewer the people attending, the better their chances of walking away with BARGAINS!

What surprised me the most was the price at which the items were being auction off for. It was to say the least ridiculous! Without going into details, an example I can give is of a person that a bought part shipment of products for about US$1500 knowing that they could be sold for US$9000 at a minimum. For those attending the auction with the intention to resell, their potential profit ranges were a little below that but still very good. If that is not a good profit then I don’t know what is.

Government Auctions take place all over the world and more often than not, they just want to get rid of whatever it is they have. Because of that, you will walk away with a bargain. I can’t tell you where they take place in your part of the world. I don’t even know where and if they take place in New Zealand (but I am very keen to find out). If you are a bargain hunter or reseller and haven’t discovered the world of government auctions, attend one and see for yourself if its worth it of not. They are not that elusive if you really want to find one.

Keeping your eyes and ears open to what is going on in the world around you is something that you need to be able to do if you are looking for a gap to fill in a market. Some people can spot gaps just like that and for others it takes a bit more work at being able to spot them. Sometimes these gaps can be really obvious and other times they may become apparent by chance. What matters more is what you decide to do once you have spotted that gap.

One example that comes to mind is of a person I know (lets call him Bruce) who like many other Kiwis decided to hop across the ditch to Australia in search of greener pastures. When he got there, things were going okay but not as good as he was expecting them to be. Bruce had a niece in university and through that connection he got to know a few international students. He soon discovered that a lot of them were looking for cheap cars for the semester or two they were there.

Cheap cars wasn’t something that they were able to come across easily so Bruce decided to take advantage of the gap. What made it even easier for him is that he is a mechanic by trade. What he went and did was get his hands on a couple of cheap wrecks which he brought back life in his spare time. Getting the cars of his hands  once they were in a good working condition was easy and he made a decent profit. Bruce decided to use the money to get more cars and carry on with the little venture. He soon reached a point where he couldn’t keep up with demand and quit his regular job to concentrate on the niche he had found. This has proven to be very profitable for him and to this day he does not spend any money on marketing with all of his business coming in via word of mouth.

That there was a quick run down of how things went for Bruce. It might look like it was nice and easy but he did have to do a bit of research to see whether or not it was feasible. Fortunately for him, it was and he has managed to grow it into a viable business. For all you know, there is a gap in your area of expertise that hasn’t made itself apparent yet. If or when you do see one you need to act on it quickly and take steps to fill the gap.

When I went home to Zimbabwe on holiday an idea dawned on me whilst having a conversation with an acquaintance. This is something I am working on at the moment and all going well I will be able to tell you all about in the near future. Good luck to you in finding and taking advantage of those gaps.

I have an exam on Saturday and should really be studying for it but I just got an email from Infolinks who just told me to dream on! When I saw the subject before I opened the email I was wondering what the? But as I read the email it became apparent what it was all about and I just couldn’t pass on the opportunity. In a nutshell, they are giving a few publishers the chance to live out their wildest dreams; on them!!!

All I need to do to be in on a chance is answer two questions and here goes:

1. what about Infolinks makes you happy?

Besides them being better than other similar services, they respond to questions or requests I have in a very timely manner. That makes me very happy because there are a few services or program providers out there who you will not get to hear back from quickly or even get a reply from at all (I won’t go into details about the bad experiences I have had). An example was when I emailed them out of the blue to find out about their affiliate program which I had read about but had no idea how to join. I not only got a response (from Account Executive Jamie M) a few hours later, it included my own personal referral link. That kind of service makes a big difference in my books even more so given that I am not one of those people that makes tens of thousands of dollars a month. They take everyone and everything seriously regardless of who you are!

2. What can Infolinks do to make you happy, really happy?

This question was pretty simple to answer. Since my crazy self decided to quit my job and go back to school  (and move cities in and amongst that) I have been dreaming about getting away from life for even just a couple of  days. Why? It has been a while since my brain (which seems to have turned to mush) has had as much of a work out as it’s had over the last three months. I’ve been tired, irritable and even wanted to give up! One thing that I have dreamed about doing for the longest and even more so now is hopping onto a plane and taking a short 4 or so hour flight to Rarotonga (Cook Islands). First thing I would do when I got there is just sit on the beach for a day or two and do nothing but enjoy the weather, my wife’s company (God knows she needs a break after putting up with me especially during exam time) and go for a quick dip now and then to see what the aquatic world has to offer. After that I would take in a few sights (time permitting) before heading back to NZ. The getaway would include no laptop and I wouldn’t even bother to turn on my mobile phone when over there and completely disconnected from the world.

There you have it, a nice and simple dream that would make a world of difference! If you haven’t already done so, sign up to Infolinks (and yes, this is a referral link) and see if you will be as happy with them as I am. Back to studying now!

Last week I was looking around for a solution that would allow us to share our printer and external hard drives wirelessly and the only things that seemed as viable options were a Belkin Home Base and a Belkin 5-Port Network USB Hub. Anyway, whilst I was looking around of the stores I visited, I came across D-link routers that had stickers on them that said something like ‘share a broadband connection and make money’. That caught my attention so I decided to look into a little more.

What Tomizone has gone and done is that they are giving people with the high-speed internet connections the chance to earn a little money. All that is needed is a compatible Wi-FI enabled router. Once you have that, getting setup is pretty straight forward. If you don’t have a router that is Tomizone enabled they have instructions on how download their firmware. Once that is all done, all you need to do is follow the setup wizard interface in your router’s admin interface and you are good to go.

Customers who want to access your Hotspot can pay for it using a credit card, PayPal or you can sell a voucher to them with rates starting from as little as US$2.50 hour passes for 60MB of usage. As far as getting paid goes, Hotspot owners earn 50% of all revenue spent on their network. Payments are made once revenue reaches US$30 (benchmarked to your currency).

Tomizone states on their site that “Security is key” in that their software keeps users away from your internal network so that you don’t have to worry about threats. They also have a free access for guests feature which gives regular users on your list free access.

Given that I don’t have a compatible router this is something that I have not tired out (but would have liked to). If you are looking for a hassle free way of setting up a Hotspot to earn a bit of money from, this seems like a viable option. I you are setting up a Hotspot from your residence this would work well if you live in an apartment complex or place where people meet. A lot of people are addicted to the internet and if you let it be known that there is a connection available for them to use you could earn a good amount of money.

People have mixed feelings about making money via Twitter for various reasons which I wont go into in this post. I personally don’t have any qualms with the whole concept and I have been making money on Twitter via two methods so far. The first is Sponsored Tweets and the second is RevResponse and Twitterfeed (Monetise Your Tweets with Twitterfeed and RevResponse).

I recently came across MyLikes which is similar to Sponsored Tweets with the difference being that you get paid per click and not just a one off payment per tweet. Once signed up to Mylikes, you have access to a list of sponsors, their details and payment per click. All you do from there is choose what you would like to tweet about, write out what you have to say and post it, all from their site. Payments are made once you have reached a minimum balance of $2 and are paid out via PayPal every Friday.

Anyway, the main purpose of this post is to get people who haven’t tried making money via Twitter to give it a go. As an added incentive, I am going to give $25 (via PayPal) to someone once my MyLikes balance reaches $50. Once my balance reaches $50 a winner will be chosen at random and announced via a post and on twitter.

In order to be eligible to get the $25, all you need to do it sign up to MyLikes CLICK HERE via Ninety Nine Ways, leave a comment letting me know that you have signed up (don’t forget to include your MyLikes nickname so that I can verify that you have signed up) and go and make money on Twitter.

Don’t forget to tell your friends for a referral bonus of up to $10!

Some of you may be good with your hands or are bond to know people who are good at making all sorts of weird and wonderful arts and crafts. Some of you may want to sell your items but hit a snag when it comes to where to sell. Etsy is an online handmade goods marketplace that connects makers and buyers and way of turning a hobby into revenue earner.

Etsy lets you sell handmade items that you have made yourself, vintage items (by that they mean 20 years or older) and crafting supplies. The process of selling items works just like any other good online marketplace where you list your items, wait for people to buy them, get paid and then ship the items off to the buyers.

They charge a 20c listing fee per item but that allows you to list your item for four months which should give plenty of time to attract a number of potential buyers. Sellers have the option of being paid for their items via Paypal, cheque, money order or any other method not listed on the site that they would prefer. Once a sale has been completed, Etsy charges a fee of 3.5% of the sale price.

All in all, it looks like a good place where people can sell their handmade things to a global community. There is no harm in giving them a try and if that fails, you could always try the likes of (if you haven’t already done so) and other marketplaces I will write about in future posts.

Being a university student all over again, I felt the need to look around for something that could work for college/university students. That being said, I happened to come across a couple of services where students can sell their lecture notes and study guides.

Notehall.com and ShareNotes.com are two such services that operate in pretty much the same way. They provide a platform where students can get their hands on course material for a nominal fee. To be able to provide this service, they need to get their hands on relevant material that they get from students and pay them for it.

Notehall.com pays out $1 per study guide and $0.25 per lecture note downloaded. They also have a referral programme where you can earn money by referring friends to them. Students earning money with them are paid out via cheque or PayPal.

ShareNotes.com charges a 10% commission on every sale which means you get to keep 90%. To add to what they pay for notes, they give members rewards points for completing certain tasks such as downloading notes, posting notes and referring friends. Rewards points can be redeemed for items such as iPods and gift vouchers.

If you are a good student that takes good notes then you really don’t have anything to lose. If you have sellable material you don’t have to do much work apart from signing up and uploading your material.

Not every single college will be listed in their databases and one service may work better than the other for person to person. As time goes by they will add more and more schools but at the moment a number of people will be able to enjoy their services. The only thing that sucks for someone like me is that they are limited to the US. Maybe one day they will make their way to this part of the world?

Why haven’t I posted anything in three or so months? Well, I took a nice and longer than expected break which I spent at home in Zimbabwe with my family. The vacation also meant giving blogging a break so that I could really put in some good R & R. Even if I did want to do a bit of stuff online, that would have been a little frustrating due to connection speeds over there.

Anyway, when I was over there, I came across a guy who was heavily into computers. One thing that he was getting more and more interested in and wanted to get into was blogging. The one thing that he was not too happy about was the lack of ‘African’ themes. He went on about how if he was going to blog he wanted his site to have an African look and feel to it. I did a quick search online myself and saw that there really weren’t that many African themed themes out there (I could only find one).

Something else about this guy that got me wondering was that he had the know how on how to create themes. I quizzed him on why he didn’t just go ahead and create themes for platforms like WordPress and Blogger. He really didn’t have an answer as to why he had not thought about it and done so already. That right there is a good example of someone not using their knowledge and skills to their full potential.

Internet penetration rates are on the rise in Africa and my guess is it will lead to an increase in the number of bloggers on the continent. Chances are, there will be a number who want to be identified as being African or having a connection to Africa and would want a theme that shows just that. With that in mind I gave him the idea of coming up with some templates which he can distribute for free and eventually get to the point where he has premium themes for sale. Who knows, he could end up like the likes of WooThemes, only difference being he would be exclusively creating African themed themes.

That there was just something that came to mind during the short conversation I had with this guy and something that could turn into a potential money maker. By the sounds of it, this is something that should be a no-brainer since he already has the technical skills. Of course, it is something that won’t happen overnight and he will have to come up with a plan and put a bit of work into it but it is something that is not impossible. I don’t know what you guys think about it but I see it as a good idea especially seeing as he is using skills he already has.

What you should do right now is take a bit of time out and think about what skills you have and how you can use them to create a revenue stream.

A few hours ago MaxBounty sent out an email announcing announcing a $1000 affiliate referral contest. At the same time they also mentioned how they hoped I had already taken a look at their new site. Truth be told, I have not been over to MaxBounty in a bit of while but I like their new interface. The site looks much better than it used to and navigating around it is a lot easier.

In a nutshell, MaxBounty is a CPA (Cost Per Action) advertising affiliate network that has more than 10,000 active publishers. With more than 500 advertisers within their network you are spoilt for choice as to what campaigns to promote. Publisher payments are made on a monthly basis via cheque, PayPal or electronic transfer.

They are a network that is worth taking a look at and to help push their new interface, they are running a $1,000 affiliate referral contest:

• $650 for generating the most referral income

• $250 for generating the most approved referrals

• $100 randomly selected from all participating

Sign up to MaxBounty and be in the running to win a $1,000 bonus.

Eric Schechter from Clickbooth recently interviewed Kris Trujillo of CashTactics.net – Interview with Kris Trujillo of CashTactics.net. Kris is an internet marketer and blogger who provides a wealth of knowledge for people looking to get into internet marketing. If you are thinking of getting into affiliate marketing and haven’t already seen the interview, I recommend that you do watch it. It gives a lot of food for thought and you will be happy that you took a few minutes of your time to watch it. Here you go:

Sign up to Clickbooth and start making money!

Our children are the future and it only makes sense to impart as much useful knowledge as we can onto them. Earlier in the week my wife and I were working on a budget and I looked over at my daughter and just thought how good it would be if she a good sense for money from an early age. A couple of days later I can across Amanda van der Gulik on Twitter – @Amanda_vdGulik who knows just how to teach children about money. This is what she has to say:

Do your kids have any concept of what money is and how much it represents?

Our kids didn’t.

They knew that money existed and that you can exchange these shiny coins for things you really want. Our kids used to get really exited when they received any amount of coins. They had no idea that each coin could represent a different value. A coin was money to them and the more coins, the more money they had, so they thought.

Until kids can count or know their numbers, it doesn’t really matter. But as soon as they can count, you can actually make them aware of what each coin represents and teach them to appreciate the value of money.

This is how our daughter at age 6 came to understand what the value of money really means.

She would fold plastic shopping bags for her grandmother to save space and she would get 1 penny (1ct) for each folded bag. When she folded more than 5 bags, she would get a nickel (5ct) and however many cents she earned.

At first she was not too happy with it because she only got a few coins instead of the number of bags she folded. Then we showed her that the one coin had a 5 on it and that it was as much as five of the other coins.
The first little while she would exchange the nickels for pennys because this made more sense to her.

With a little persistence, we finally got through and now she actually looks at the coins differently. She now knows that 5 cents makes a nickel and 10 cents make a dime etc.

Then, when she got money from the tooth fairy, she knew exactly how many bags she would have had to fold to get that much (the tooth fairy gave her a quarter) and appreciated it so much more.

Over the summer she started her face painting business and for each face she did (or tattoo for adults) she would receive a dollar and a half.
After one day she earned about twenty three dollars. She could not believe the amount of bags she would have to fold for that.

She told us that she likes the face painting much better than folding bags for grandmommy, it was much easier and much more fun. She also realises that this would take her to her goal, a waterbed, much faster.

Make it fun and make it mean something for them!

An easy way to get started is by taking a look at the FREE mini-course: 50+ Fun Ways For Kids To Earn Money.

One post on NNW that gets a fair amount of traffic from search engines is, Buy Me A Beer? – PayPal Donation Button? which is really an extension of the PayPal donation button. For obvious reasons, countless numbers of site owners use it to get a little extra money but you do have to be careful!

The other day I was reading a post by Rosalind @ Net Profits Today → Thinking about Using a PayPal “Donate” Button on Your Blog? which talked about how a PayPal account can be frozen leading to a loss of all revenue sitting in it because of the word ‘DONATE’.

There are a lot of people out there who are thinking about putting up a donation button and number of sites that have a donation button up but may not be a recognised charity. After reading Rosalind’s post, you will see that it pays to think about how you get readers to make a donation.

I signed up with GlobalTestMarket in 2008 as part of a little experiment I was doing to see which survey companies were legitimate or a total scam. What I quickly found out was that there weren’t too many I could sign up to or if there were ones I could sign up to I very rarely got opportunities from them to take part in surveys. That seems to be mainly because of my geographical location.

Out of all the survey companies I have signed up to, the one that has sent me surveys to take part in on a somewhat regular basis has been GlobalTestMarket. They usually email through three to four surveys per month which I usually attend to at the end of the day when I don’t feel like doing anything too taxing on my brain. It take a few minutes to get through most of their surveys but there are some that take a bit longer than a few minutes to complete but have higher payouts.

As a member, you are awarded MarketPoints for each survey completed and the number of points awarded depends on the type of survey and the length of time it will take to complete it. On average, I was earning about 35-50 points per survey and the highest I earned was about 110. MarketPoints can then be redeemed for cash with 1000 being the minimum amount required for redemption. MarketPoints are fixed against the U.S. Dollar at five cents ($0.05) per MarketPoint. It took me just over a year for me to reach the 1000 point mark and get paid out for the surveys I completed.

Do I think they are a scam or not?

From my experience with them, they seem to be a legitimate company that does pay out for completing surveys.
It took a bit of while for the cheque to arrive but it did eventually get here. As far as customer service goes, I have had a couple of issues with them where points went missing but a customer service representative did get back to me within a couple of days and rectified all the issues.

It may have taken a bit of while for me to reach the payout minimum but if you live in North America for example you may get more surveys on a much more regular basis than I did and reach the payout minimum quickly. One good thing is that depending on where you live they will pay you in your local currency but if they can’t print out a cheque in your local currency you will send you a U.S. dollar cheque. If they were a scam I would not have been paid out or received as much help as I did from their customer service representatives.

If you are someone who likes taking part in surveys and you haven’t already signed up to GlobalTestMarket it may pay to do so.

Following on from the post about building niche stores with phpBay Pro, there is another WordPress plugin that lets you do the same thing but the difference is that sites are built with the Overstock affiliate program on Commission Junction. The affiliate plugin helps bloggers and niche store webmasters to add Overstock listings to their sites and maximise on their affiliate program.

About Overstock

Overstock.com is a liquidation site that offers a variety of goods at a discounted rate. They are not limited to North America as is the case with a number of similar sites. They ship to a number of destinations around the world which for you as an affiliate means that your reach is not limited to only a few geographic locations.

About phpOStock

[WPMID=29] is a plugin that provides you with a way of earning money with WordPress sites and the Overstock affiliate program. It enables you to place Overstock.com listings within the posts, pages and sidebars of a site. The plugin itself is very easy to use and after configuring it and entering a few settings which doesn’t take long at all, you are good to go.

When a visitor clicks through to Overstock and purchases an item via your site, you are paid a commission on the sale. There are a few examples of sites using the phpOStock which you can find via the plugin homepage. I would have directed you towards mine but it is still a work in progress.

Main Features

• Earn up to 7% revenue through the Overstock.com affiliate program which runs through CJ.com.
• Add live Overstock.com store listings to your WordPress site within posts or pages using a single string of code.
• Configurable sidebar widget for WordPress to list up to 50 items in your WordPress sidebar.
• List items from 11 different categories and thousands of sub categories, with literally hundreds of thousands of items to choose from.
• Multiple site license which will allow you to use phpOStock on as many WordPress sites as you choose.
• FREE lifetime upgrades.
• Comprehensive user manual.

[WPMID=29] comes in a Lite version which is free and a Pro version with the Lite version obviously coming with a lot less features but it allows you to test out the plugin before you go ahead and purchase it. The Pro version is currently available for $30 which is a lot less than you would expect to pay for such a plugin. The $30 price tag is available for a limited time and the price will eventually go up as more and more features are added. I got in touch with one of the developers and he sent through a 20% off coupon code for people who purchase the plugin via Ninety Nine Ways. This means that if you act quickly you can get the plugin for just $24. If you would like the coupon code, fill out the form below: The coupon code is:

646FBCE77E

(Note: if you have any problems using the code please do get in touch with me)

To add to that, when you buy the plugin, you also get 16 bonus items for free which include:

- 4 x Template Listing Styles
- 12 x WordPress Commerce Themes

The themes themselves cost $27 and having them at your disposal only makes the process of building a niche store that much easier. I don’t know how long they will be offered as a bonus for so it might be a good idea to get your hands on [WPMID=29] for the low price as soon as possible.

Want to Get phpOStock Pro FREE? Come back in a couple of days to find out how you can win it.

In response to the post comparing TradeUps, Gazelle and BuyMyTronics, @tradeups sent through the following:

follow up… Next matrix do a comparison of how much the major tradein programs give you for your electronics. We will win.

I decided to do just that but in order to get started I needed a list of electronics that people were looking to get rid of so I asked around to see what electronics if any people would consider selling. The prices quoted are for items in a good working condition and including everything that came with it such as charger, USB cables etc. This is what I came up with:

Sony Cybershot DSC-P8	$0	$10	-
Nokia 9300	$31.45	$4	$26.64
Apple iPhone 8GB	$119.85	$128	$106.22
xbox 360 console 20GB	$41.65	$65	$52.92
Apple iPod classic 4th generation 40GB	$21.25	$16	$18.08
Toshiba Satellite A105-S4004	$127.50	$208	-
Palm Treo 680	$36.55	$28	$22.20
Sony Playstation One	$8.50	$0	$0
Blackberry 8700G	$18.70	$12	$1.11
Microsoft Zune 8GB	$26.34	$42	$31.64
Total	$431.79	$513	$258.81

(- = item not listed in catalog)

($0 = no value but they will recycle it for you)

So there you have it, as you can see from the matrix, it was a tie between TradeUps and Gazelle. Out of the 10 electronic devices listed TradeUps offered a higher price for 5 of the items and Gazelle offered a higher price for the rest. BuyMyTronics did not offer the best price for any of the items. When it came to the best overall price for all 10 gadgets, Gazelle came out on top and offered $81.21 more than what TradeUps offered.

In conclusion it looks like it would pay to do a bit of research to see where you will get the best price before you decide on who you are going to sell your electronics to. By the way, as I was putting together this matrix I came across another similar program you might want to take a look at – YouRenew.

As Twitter continues to grow, a lot of people are looking for ways to monetise their tweets and one of the ways of doing that is through a service such as Magpie or Adjix. One problem with them is that the particular tweet sent out may not be relevant to what you usually tweet about. Less people are likely to pay attention to them which in turn will mean lower earnings.

You can however send out tweets from RSS feeds that you are pretty certain your followers will be interested in and ones that could result in payouts for leads. Twitterfeed is a tool that automatically feeds your feeds through to Twitter for you. It gives you options that allow you to do things such as set the frequency at which you want updates to be sent out, a post prefix and suffix, the url shortening service you would like to use and a keyword filter.

As far as setting up a feed that could lead to you earning revenue goes, RevResponse is a very good option. For those of you that don’t already know about them, they are a pay-per-lead ad network with a range of free business resources that pays publishers whenever a user downloads their resources. The payouts range from $1.50 to $20 depending on what is downloaded.

The reason why I say they are a good option is because they offer a range of free business content and you will more than likely find something suitable to tweet about. You can find a full list of everything they have to offer here – TradePub. If you took a look at what they have to offer you may have noticed that each category has an rss feed that you can add to Twitterfeed and your in business.

These days, everyone is talking about going ‘Green’ and earlier today when clearing up a few things I came across a box with a few electronics we no longer use. This presented me with the problem of what to do with them but then I remembered about a post I wrote a little while back about selling old electronics. I felt it right to revisit the topic since one thing that all of us have and use in our everyday lives are electronics which are being upgraded ever so often. Most people will either sell, throw away or box (and forget about) their electronics. If you are thinking about getting rid of your old electronics and selling them would not be worth the trouble it pays to see what you can get for them from services that pay you for your old electronics. If it doesn’t have a cash value you can send it off to them and they can deal with having to recycle it for you.

If you have a few electronics you are looking to get rid of I thought I would make life easy for you and put together a table comparing three of the bigger services (Gazelle, TradeUps & BuyMyTronics) that will pay you for them:

There you have it, you can be ‘Green’ and make a little money at it as well. I hope this helps you make a more informed choice when it comes to what to do with your old electronics.

Following on from the last about my experience with phpBay Pro, I managed to get a hold of a 20% off coupon code from Wade Wells (the brains behind phpBay). This coupon code was specifically put together for people who sign up via Ninety Nine Ways so instead of paying $79 for phpBay Pro you can get your hands on it for $63.20 which is a good deal for an investment that is well worth it.

Please note that the 20% off is LIMITED to the first 50 people who take advantage of the discount. To take advantage of the offer all you need to do is email me using the form below and I will email you back with the coupon code is nothing at all. The phpBay Pro Coupon Code is:

A6C7247A5C

Note: Some people have been experiencing problems using this form. If you do not see a success message or receive an email with the coupon code leave a comment and I will get it to you. If you experience any problems using the code please do let me know.

To add to that, Hostgator provided me with a couple of coupon codes for really cheap hosting for the first month (if you don’t already have a hosting account). They are:

HOSTGATOR – $9.94 off the first month (you end up paying $0.01 for the first month)

BEACH – 20% off the first invoice.

There you go, get your hands on phpBay Pro for 20% less before other people do and you miss out on the discount.