Great Money Making Tools
May 3 at 11:11pm by ObverseView
I’ve been compiling some tools that I’ve found useful (marked *) and some that are things I wish I had had when I started out blogging three or four years ago!
- *Linkworth
- *TLA
- Blogging
- Clickbank
- *DreamHost
- BlueHost
- ProBlogger
- TTZMedia
- *OioPlugins
- Templates
- More Tools
Hope they help others who are starting out on this great adventure called blogging.
PPP Blog Carnival: Available Now!
Jan 3 at 1:01am by ObverseView
Wishing you all a happy 2007! What better way than to find some of the best PPP blogs and recent posting by visiting the PPP Blog Carnival. It is hosted by Hunna’s Happenings. See if you can find the link to one of my blogs there!
Live Video Conferencing: Go Live and Get a Life Back!
Dec 13 at 12:12pm by ObverseView
Have you ever traveled somewhere only to waste hours on a flight, hours getting to the airport, and hours waiting at an airport? I don’t dare mention lousy hotel rooms! I know you’re a bit skeptical of video conferencing, but perhaps Video Conferencing Equipment can change your mind!
LifeSize Room™ is offering a system that can remove some of the problems of business meetings, save a bunch of money, and ease the life of busy people! They say things like:
“exceptional quality and user simplicity to make remote communications a productive, true-to-life experience.”
“See and hear colleagues clearly to improve productivity and make better decisions. With simple-to-use, high definition video communications, seeing truly is believing.”
PPP Rocks… I tell you three reasons why…
Nov 24 at 12:12pm by ObverseView
What is PayperPost?
Payperpost is a website that allows you to advertise on blogs. PPP’s reviewers will write reviews of products and services appropriate to their interest and place the posts on their websites/blogs.
Why does it rock?
I think PPP is great for three basic reasons that benefit most bloggers:
1. You get paid a little money to do something you enjoy doing, blogging and writing. You’re not quite a pro writer, yet. But it is nice, esp. if you have been blogging for quite a while to see a little financial reward for something that you care about. Blogging isn’t necessarily a ‘free’ hobby, though it seems free. Such rewards can help pay for your webhosting bills, your own advertising, a cappuccino on a blue day, … It helps.
2. You are not required to post about any particular product or service UNLESS you think you can. There’s no boss sitting over your shoulder telling you what to write and how to write. It’s quite a free and open service. So you can pour your passion into things that you care about, are interested in or think will benefit others, too.
3. Lastly, though, the act of writing, if done thoughtfully and carefully, encourages you to write more. Since you have to space posts between each PPP opportunity, at least, it can really help to encourage you to write more often, thereby improving your habit, increasing your page depth, developing your skill, and so on. In fact, many bloggers report the regular posting habit, created by PPP, helps drive extra traffic to your website as well. Now what can be wrong about that!
All in all, I do think PPP rocks, so sign up today, and enjoy it!
ReviewME vs. PPP: Good potential, different markets
Nov 24 at 12:12pm by ObverseView
With the advent of paid blogging, several websites now are quite prominent in the field. I recently signed up with ReviewMe and have been invited to give a review of the website.
Payperpost’s model for bloggers has been to create a market for the bloggers of offers from advertisers. Certain guidelines are required by advertisers, such as word limits, links, images, tone, etc. Such posts are then reviewed by the staff on behalf of the advertisers.
ReviewME has taken the opposite approach by creating a stable of bloggers that can attract advertisers who make offers to the bloggers, depending on the nature of the blogs, the writer’s experience, the traffic of the blog, etc.. The prices for the blogs are set by different criteria, including the relative popularity of the blog itself (using PR rankings, Alexa ratings, etc.) the topic field, the advertiser’s own criteria, etc.. so it looks like it’s following the intermediary route. This is quite a different model than PPP.
There are a number of other differences that over the long haul may make a difference to the bloggers, if not the advertisers.
1. There is already a wide variety of ads available for PPP. This information is easy to find out which gives confidence to the bloggers as well as advertisers that the outfit is around to stay.
2. For ReviewME, there is already a stable of writers that advertisers can find, and you can check out their weblogs to find out what they write about, how they write, and how well they write. It should be easier for an advertiser to find a suitable writer
3. There is no community of writers in ReviewME, as in PPP. So perhaps there is less loyalty on the part of the writers. I would hope that ReviewME can rectify this.
4. I would think that ReviewME would attract bloggers that standout in some way. I’m afraid many of the ‘lesser’ bloggers may find it difficult to attract advertisers for a variety of reasons. As a result, some bloggers will do very well in the ReviewME system, but many will not attract any advertisers at all. PPP may be more suitable for smaller blogs, though.
I will add further edits/comments in the future, depending on my experience.
This review will be edited as my experience with ReviewME and PPP grows and develops. So look forward to parts 2 and 3.
Hosting for Resellers: You wanna make a little extra $$$?
Nov 23 at 9:09pm by ObverseView
I’ve done a little reselling in my time as a way to help others interested in webhosting their own websites. I do largely focus on helping individuals get online and learn some of the latest tools that are available. That is something really interesting for me to do.
I was pleased to come across another website that seems to offer Reseller Hosting Services that my kind of clients might like. It’s called Hosterio.
One of the nice features that you can get with this website is “…a master control panel known as WHM through which you can instantly add/delete hosting accounts of your customers. You can administer all your customer’s account from WHM itself.”
That’s a great feature in my opinion. I don’t have that feature in Dreamhost where I currently host, and I think it would help to add value to my existing customers. Each of my customers would “… get a cPanel control panel through which they can add/delete email accounts, manage databases, check site stats, create subdomains etc.” In addition, there are excellent features that my clients would love, such as Sitebuilder and Fantastico, both of which are included.
But it’s the backoffice support that I like, too. There are Billing Managers, Merchant Accounts, and Support Features that your customers can all use. Prices start at about $77.77 per Year (yes, per year) and go upto about $242.22 per year.
I think for a private label reseller website, that is pretty good. Now, I just wish I hadn’t paid my hosting bill just three weeks ago! Oh, well. Perhaps next year for Reseller Hosting
PPP Boards: Practical and Personal
Nov 21 at 11:11pm by ObverseView
I joined the forums for PayPerPost and have really enjoyed the sense of community that has developed in the writers, esp. those who frequent the boards on more than one occasion.
I really enjoyed the “Favorite Opps” forums, and I have found the forum for Q&A quite helpful as other people have managed to overcome the problems that I have faced on and off.
The Featured Blogger Den is also a good forum because it provides us with examples to help motivate us to do a better blog! Better blogs for us mean more business for PPP which means more money for us, more opportunities… and so the circle goes on…!
In the general discussion forum, I am enjoying one of the current opps a great deal, “Adrenalin rush of grabbing opps”. I wish I didn’t spend quite so much time reading that forum!
So, if you’re a blogger, join the forums, even if you aren’t a member of PPP. YOu will still learn a great deal about blogging, and let’s face it: we all need encouragement from time to time!
phpxplorer: file management software
Nov 9 at 11:11pm by ObverseView
phpxplorer >>> administration
I’m not particularly competent at it, and the documentation/help files are MINIMAL! But it is useful, you can upload stuff easily, and control who can get it, and so on… I’m testing it for some stuff. Don’t know exactly how useful it will be.
It’s a bit finicky, but I think you’ll understand quite quickly how to use it. There is also a ‘guest’ user - you may or may not want to allow them access. I suggest you monitor the guest user uploads, esp. - it is liable to abuse.
powered by performancing firefox
FTP Tools I have known and used…
Nov 9 at 9:09pm by ObverseView
I recommend this one.
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/filezilla/FileZilla_2_2_28_setup.exe?use_mirror=jaist
This will download an installable file. Just click the link. You will then need to install it.
I also found my son has been using modzilla firefox and was already on the computer - does work as an FTP program?
Firefox CAN have an FTP function, but you have to add it with an add-in.
It’s actually pretty useful. You can FTP without having to leave your browser. Now that is neat.
Kenneth
Bingr: Redirecting your traffic or retrafficking your directs?
Nov 9 at 8:08pm by ObverseView
I’m trying a new webservice, Bingr.com, that allows Bloggers to create redirecting links, then keep the stats for people who visit these links. Here’s a sample. In addition, the website allows you to track the stats upto 30 days. It’s a free service. I’m tracking one or two links at the moment through this service, to see how useful it is, in reality.
Your visitors do eventually leave your website in a number of ways, by clicking on ads, by clicking on your blogroll, and even the links through your postings that take them to other sites. You could track which of your links are more important as exits with this tool, and then see how different placements on your blogroll affect the exit trafficking. Alternately, you could take them to an exit ad before shoving them onto their destination. By doing so, you might gain additional revenue, and track which exits are more popular.
At the moment, it seems to be a free service, too. But the limitation on links expiry is only 30 days. I can’t see how that would make sense for most bloggers as traffic significance only increases over longer stretches of time. For most of us, 30 days of stats is not particularly significant. I guess that Bingr may be introducing a paid service at some point, too.
