Earn money with direct advertising: this is how Tyler Cruz did it

Since I fired myself several days ago, I wasn’t able to write this week’s reviews yesterday, as it should have been.
Anyway, I decided I should give myself another chance and I have rehired me on a probation period of 3 months, to see if I am worth it.
So, to come back to the review: another [...]

I’ve just fired myself

Yeap, I just did.
I have read here something that really made me think:
If you were working for a company (as an affiliate let’s just say), would your boss give you a big raise and promotion based on how much effort you put into your affiliate marketing business everyday, or would he fire you??
And [...]

How to use Yahoo and MSN Smilies in Pidgin

For the last 2 years I have been using Gaim for all my Instant Messaging needs (especially Yahoo Messenger). Recently, along with version 2.0, Gaim is no longer Gaim, it is Pidgin. I was happy to see it out of the beta, but something stopped me from using it from the first day. I was [...]

Site Review: John Chow or how to earn $12000/month from a personal blog

Initially I wanted to review Tyler Cruz’s blog this week, but I have seen today that John Chow started a contest to win some links and, seeing the prize is a 24″ wide screen LCD monitor, I decided to make this review now, since it was already programmed for the next week. I didn’t win [...]

Perseverance: The most important quality you need to be successful in life

When the world says, “Give up,”
Hope whispers, “Try it one more time.”
~Author Unknown
Everybody wants to be successful: either at your job, be it online or offline, in your projects or in your poker nights with the guys (or girls, don’t want to be sexist there ).
So, what is the quality I think you [...]

Bye-bye, Adsense! Hello, Affiliate Marketing and Direct Advertising sales!

I am more and more disappointed with Adsense (aff link – the affiliate income from Adsense is still good ). And it is not like I don’t understand the system or know how to increase CTR, click value, eCPM aso, but the earnings are going down and down, no matter what. To understand [...]

Site Review: Self Made Minds – The $100K Success story

This article starts a weekly series in which I bring to you all the blogs I have read in the last 2 years or so, blogs that really worth the time you spend reading them.
Sometime ago I was browsing around Digg and happened to see this list of blogs with the most FeedBurner subscribers. I [...]

Image: Social Map – Online Communities

I just found this one stumbling around:

(click the link for bigger version – 800K .png file)
Taken from here.

Funny Video: Telemarketer prank

One of the greatest pranks ever seen by me. Victim: a telemarketer.

I had laughed my a$$ off at this one.
via (Romanian blog)