Author Archive | Gerri

Monetising with News

Here is a video I came across on TheNewsRoom which is quite interesting. It is a short piece on a once anonymous blogger Daniel Lyons, a senior editor at Forbes magazine who assumed the persona of Steve Jobs, Apple’s chief executive. TheNewsRoom is a news site that gives you access to an array of fully […]

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Ebay Bargain Search for Misspelt Items

I just stopped by ebestagent and came across a fantastic tool that can be used when looking for eBay! bargains and/or items to resell. A countless number of items are listed on eBay! with spelling mistakes in the descriptions. This leads to a high chance of buyers not being able to find these items. If […]

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Make Money via Facebook

Do you have a Facebook account? Do you want to make a bit of money from it? Well, PayPerPost has launched a Facebook application that lets you do just that. All it entails is linking up your Facebook account to your PPP account and getting your friends to sign up, that easy. I must say […]

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Is Blog Monetization Bad?

There are so many blogs out there that look like they have been put up purely to make money and are plastered with ads. Some of them claim to make a decent amount of money and others say they are hardly making any. A lot of them have content that is not particularly focused which […]

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Online Auctions – Buy To Resell

There are quite a few items for sale on eBay!, uBid.com, Bidz.com and so on that you can buy to resell on eBay! or other auction sites and make a good profit. There are so many things that sell for as little as 99c that you can go on to sell for up to $20. […]

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$2500 blog contest – this is crazy!

This Turned out to be a SCAM!! The Contest was won by a blog that had only been up for a couple of days before the closing date. It left a lot of bloggers very unhappy and Ashwin got a lot of nasty comments from them. The posts have since been deleted but the blog […]

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Get Paid Up To $100 For Testing Blogger

I was reading through blogger buzz and came across their post Test Blogger and We’ll Love You and Pay You. It briefly outlines a usability study where you use a Google product or prototype and give feedback on it. There are four different types of studies where you either go to a Google office, do […]

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Buy Me A Beer? – PayPal Donation Button?

I read through other blogs whenever I can and quite a few of them have a Buy Me A Beer (or similar) plugin or a standard PayPal donation button. I see this whole concept of buying someone a beer or basically donating a really small amount of money to them as a show of appreciation […]

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Yahoo! Publisher Network

Yahoo! Publisher Network (YPN) is a contextual based advertising program providing cost per click contextual advertising, similar to Google Adsense. YPN has a unique feature, Ad Targeting which allows you to identify the types of ads that you think your visitors will find appealing and target these specific ads towards them. It is currently not […]

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