And The Winner is

Okay, now its time to announce the winner of 5000 Entrecard giveaway contest. As I told you in my previous post that the contest is not doing much for me as I was assuming it to do. Though I earn few e-mail subscribers and some blog posts about the contest but not as many as I was expecting. May be due to the bad marketing of the contest or you guys think 5000 Entrecard Credits are not enough to enter in a contest like this.

I have not included those e-mail subscribers in the participant list who just fill in the e-mail subscription form and not actually confirm and activated the e-mail subscription. Sorry but you need to activate the e-mail subscription link to compete in the contest.

I list down the participant and used random.org services for drawing the winner. I randomized the list and the winner is …

As you can see in the above picture that furniture is the winner of 5000 Entrecard credits.

Congratulations furniture i will contact you soon to transfer the winning EC credits.

Thanks to all those who participated in the contest. It’s been a wonderful experience still if not resulted much fruitful.

Hope to see you around always. And yes furniture please write a post about your winning experience and what you would like to do with the winning 5000 Entrecard credits.

Make Money Online with Clickbooth CPA Network

Clickbooth is the best choice to make money online if you opt for CPA price model advertising on your website. But before we precede further elaborating Clickbooth let me explain what CPA pricing model is. According to Wikipedia

Cost Per Action or CPA is an online advertising pricing model, where the advertiser pays for each specified action (a purchase, a form submission, and so on) linked to the advertisement. Direct response advertisers consider CPA the optimal way to buy online advertising, as an advertiser only pays for the ad when the desired action has occurred. An action can be a product being purchased, a form being filled, etc.

Basically if you decide to put advertisement on your website; compensation of which is payable to you on the basis of CPA pricing model then you will get paid when someone click the advertisement and visit advertiser’s campaign landing page and do some actions -like signing up for e-mail, purchasing of goods, or a filling a form or form submission whatever the advertiser demands. It will then only amount a sale and you will get paid by the advertiser for it through your affiliates.

As a payment model, CPA means advertisers pay publishers per lead. The lead is a set action by the advertiser which publishers’ users must complete. Such actions range from inputting email address or zip codes to purchasing a product. Payouts for set actions vary accordingly.

Why CPA pricing Model?

80% of affiliate programs today use revenue sharing or cost per sale (CPS) as compensation method, 19% use cost per action (CPA) and the remaining 1% are other methods. So if you wish to skim the cream out of second largest internet advertisement segment of affiliate marketing then you must put CPA pricing Model Advertisements on your site.

Why Clickbooth?

Clickbooth CPA Network is the only and preeminent affiliate that you can trust for maximizing your site’s monetary benefit in an online CPA network. There are many reasons for you to join Clickbooth CPA network;

- Publisher representatives routinely monitor and analyze the traffic publishers are driving to campaigns.

- Traffic medium specialists work to find the publishers best suited for individual campaigns.

- An in-house system objectively compares offers in multiple splits against each other pushing top offers to exclusive publishers.

- A complete marketing solution ensures campaigns’ conversions and performances surpass expectations.

- Network admittance requires a rigorous approval process including phone verification and several interviews.

Clickbooth for advertiser

Clickbooth offers quality service to advertiser and make sure advertiser get value for money by constantly monitoring traffic assuring advertisers receive the highest quality in return. CPA pricing model eliminates fraudulent clicks on advertisement by publishers a system of sub ID tracking provides advertiser the ability to see how many leads and clicks each publisher is driving to their offer so they can optimize it according to each publisher’s needs.

Clickbooth Referral Program

Clickbooth offer its publishers a defensible referral program. Publishers can use the Clickbooth Publisher Referral campaign and receive 2% gross referral credit for life plus an additional $10 bonus for every affiliate referred.

I want to be ME

Its very interesting Margaret from eyespi20.com asks her readers in her blog “Is Shanker Bakshi the Next John Chow? ” She says-

Its quite apparent that he is a worshipper at the John Chow altar of online success since, without the lunch posts, he emulates Mr Chow in many things and writes about him often. I think Mr. Bakshi is successful enough in his own right and more importantly, with the style that’s emerging as time goes by that’s uniquely his own that he could now afford to sever those apron strings.

If you ask me the same question I will smile and say “God Knows”.There is only One John Chow. I better be myself –the original Shanker Bakshi. Read the full article HERE

Share your thoughts with the world

Today am giving you a thought, a very good thought that will help you stirring that creative persona of yours and also that inner ability which you probably eager to express out. So you need to express your thoughts in writing before the world, I will tell where you can express yourself in the better way. All you have to do is to open an account with thought.com and you can start your very own blog right away.

Thoughts.com is where you can create a completely free Blog and can share your thoughts with family, friends and other community members. This is the first when any open source for blogging platform works as social media tool. You express your thoughts, your postings will be displayed through the site and the community can easily find them and you can have immediate responses from other community members.

We are a 100% free online blog community with added features that you won’t find on other blog sites including unlimited bandwidth, photo, video and podcast sharing, community forums and live news discussions. We started www.thoughts.com as a place for people to share their thoughts. It has quickly developed into an online community of bloggers world wide.

What can you do on thoughts.com?

Create Blog Posts
Share Photos & Videos
Share Music Files & Podcasts
Post in the Forums
Discuss Current News
Meet New People

No HTML knowledge required, sharing pictures, video and audio podcast was never so easy before.If you join now there is one very interesting contest waiting for you. Essay Writing Contest is up at thoughts.com. To participate in contest write an original, 300-500 word essay beginning with:

“Hey, I just had a crazy thought, What if…”

All Thoughts.com members can participate in the contest. One lucky winner and a guest will be pampered for 2 nights and 3 days stay. Last time I November it was to Las Vegas. The deadline for all entries is Midnight, Wednesday April 30th, 2008. So hurry join thought.com now try your luck for happy vacations.

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share your world with the world

How much passion you have for blogging?

I can’t stay away from my blog for long, I eat it, I breath it and I loved it more then anything else. Its just like my second love. Ask my wife and she will explain how much passionate I am for blogging?

Blog for your passion not for the sake of money.

John Chow said it in an interview given to TV breakfast news show that “one mistake people usually dose is that they blog for the money and not for their passion”. Its 100% true. Your each and every post should come out from within; it should reflect your passion for your blogging desire.

Passion is:
· Feeling or emotion
· The trait of being intensely emotional
· Something that is desired intensely
· An irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action
· Any object of warm affection or devotion
· The suffering of Jesus at the crucifixion

So your blog must portray your inner desire. It must tell about your hunger, which you have about writing post and your love about people who comment on that. It should also depict your personality, as its speak on behalf of you as a person.

Money is a peripheral that comes along with success.

Money is an attachment, a peripheral, and a secondary object, which comes along when you get success. The format of business entrepreneurship is so designed that when you get succeeds, the inflow of money will automatically come under your way. People love to spend money to get a “specific word” pronounced from your mouth.

Go on and embrace your blogging passion.

Drown yourself down in that pool of your passion. Go and steal the show, tell them how crazy you are to be there and in doing that.

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So Where Will You Park Your Vehicle In London?

LONDON is running is out of space for parking. If you have visited the city recently then you knows very well how difficult task it is to find a space to park your car. The laws and bylaws are very strict for parking that means you can not park your vehicle where ever you can find a little space for that. Start of a fresh morning and soon you find yourself in the midst of a jungle of vehicles, struggling to find a space to park it, well, no body would like to start his day like this, it’s absolutely crazy and not a very good idea.

There are few people who had faced the similar problem in the past and come up with an answer to this million dollar question “where you can park your vehicle?” And the answer is Park Let – The UK Marketplace for Parking Spaces & Garages for rent in London, Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham, and all other UK towns and cities with more then 10925 parking spaces and garages currently available for monthly rental!

Well, Park Let are an agent that specializes solely in parking spaces and garages. This focus has turned us into the UK’s largest agent for parking spaces and garages, and has given us a level of expertise you cannot find elsewhere. So that means no need for running here and there for finding a suitable space for parking your vehicle and moreover if you have an empty space which is free and not in use you can call them for your help to make money out of it by renting it for parking. They say no income is as sweet as you get from rent.

We offer the largest number of parking spaces and garage spaces available in the UK. All of our spaces are available to rent immediately on a monthly contract, at competitive prices that undercut traditional car parks and storage companies. Also, if you can’t find anything suitable simply call our friendly, professional staff, and we will work on your behalf to find something for you.

With Park Let you will find the best deal in finding rented space for parking.

Rental prices are considerably cheaper than surrounding car parks and storage companies.
Convenient monthly payment.
Your own guaranteed parking space 24 hours a day.
Off street parking that is safe and secure, for both you and your car. No need to worry about careless people damaging your car!

Never worry about having the correct change again.
The service is extremely flexible, you can rent on either a 5 day or 7 day basis, including or excluding bank holidays, to suit your specific needs.

The service is extremely flexible, you can rent on either a 5 day or 7 day basis, including or excluding bank holidays, to suit your specific needs.

Rent a Parking Space -If you have spare parking space, garage or underused car park. You can make additional income by as more then 10000 landlords are already doing it with Park Let.

As an established, professional company, you can rest assured all your needs will be met. Whilst harnessing the full power of the internet, we are passionate about providing good old fashioned customer service. A dedicated member of our team is assigned to each landlord to make the process as hassle free as possible.

Submitting spare space for renting is very easy. All you have to do is to
Register yourself with Park Let Ltd
Enter your space details
Confirmation about letting the space for rented parking

That’s all and you are done. So help other by letting your spare space for rented parking to make better the vehicle parking of London and also sweet make money out it.

Miscellaneous Ramblings of a dot com Guru April 21 2008

[1] My Interview

Shanker Bakshi dot Com thats my blog and I loved it more then anything, i love to see especially when people refer me as dot Com Guru, see this guy Eric from 1 Million dollars challenge referring me with this title in this small interview of mine which he took as I was the top commentator on his site for the month March 08. Read my complete interview HERE

[2] Meet the Bloggers

I know you love reading John Chow, he is an inspiration for so many new kids in the blogsphere, but do you know that his two little daughters Ashley Chow and Sally Chow are also blogs. Well now you can call that blogging runs in the Chow family. Both Ashley and Sally run their blog on WP theme MistyLook, but why? because their dad too started his blog journey initially with the same WP Theme, now that means they are following Dad’s foot step sincerely. Go and check out their little blogs too.

[3] Alexa Changes its Ranking System

And the world ranking of many sites affected by that. But the good news is that if you were fed up with this message which was appearing every time you checked up your blog ranking that it is NOT IN TOP 100,000 is now over and as a result new site with ranking over 100,000 can also have its graph telling stories about its traffic for the last three months.

When Alexa began displaying rankings in 1998 it was with the goal of showing Alexa Toolbar users how popular any given site was within the Alexa community. We generated the rankings through an analysis of Internet usage by people who use the Alexa Toolbar. Since that time we’ve been delighted to see that the Alexa Rankings have become a yardstick by which website popularity is measured. We are grateful to the thousands of people who come to Alexa.com each day to check the Alexa Rankings.

We believe that our new rankings system is much closer to what you asked for. We now aggregate data from multiple sources to give you a better indication of website popularity among the entire population of Internet users. You gave us many other suggestions as well, and we are working hard to implement them. We won’t tell any secrets just yet, but you can expect to see new features rolled out over the coming weeks and months.

[4] 5000 Entrecard Credits Giveaway Contest

5000 Entrecard Giveaway contest on this site is on, but it is not giving results as I expected from it. Rather I would like to say its proving to be a flop show. I have to analyze the reason for it. The model wearing Shanker Bakshi dot com T-shirt is in full swing but the contest is in fix state. What are you waiting for guys? its really simple to enter the contest and see huge 5000 Entrecard Credits are on stake. So jump in to the contest right now.

[5] Amitabh Bachachan Starts his Blog

After Aamir Khan Bollywood Actor and star of the millennium Mr. Amitabh Bachachan has started his own blog on April 18th. On his first blog post the man who rules the Bollywood film industry says;

I have today opened my Blog to find hundreds of reactions and inputs. Frankly i had never expected this. But now that i have , i am committed to respond to them. There are several that need a personal answer because of the nature of their queries or comments. I am going to start doing that as i work on my set, in between shots.

Visit Amitabh Bachachan Blog HERE

Five Reasons Why You Should and Should Not Comment

One Bad Comment, Yes one bad comment and you can loose your friend. I am saying this with my personal experience that I learn over the time. I did this mistake once and I loose one of my best buddy and some other guys associated with him (who also criticize me for making things unpleasant) so while you make any comment on blog you have to keep few things intact in your mind. These are my views on comments, your may be different from mine, if they are I would certainly like to hear from you. Please write it down below in comment form.

Five reasons why you should not comment on blogs

[1] Don’t Comment when you have nothing to say

Despite of this fact people comment on blogs just like Great, Good, Nice Post etc. This is nothing but just showing that you are selfish person and need only a back link from that link which you leave while commenting, and you don’t anything great to express.

[2] Discuss and not Dispute

You can discuss your views on the post in form of comments and if possible by replying in threaded comments but don’t just force everybody there to accept your view and don’t mess up with the whole topic.

[3] Don’t comment just to include your name in TOP COMMENTATOR list

People are over smart, when they see top commentator widget installed on certain blog they instantly look at the bottom for bearing in mind how many comments has been made by that last commentator in that list. If lets say comments made by the bottom last commentator are five then they will pick up six latest posts and start commenting as fast as a derby horse. Are you serious? Are you really making any point up there?

[4] People don’t love annoying comments

Please do not ruin someone’s pleasant morning. Please do not make any comment that burn up the ass of that hard working blog publisher. Be respectful to others. Make value addition to the topic. Be sensible learn the art of saying harsh words politely. Articulate your sayings. Make some points in your comments and don’t be noisy all the time.

[5] Don’t use comment as traffic generating tools

80% of blogger visit back to your site via link which you create while commenting but don’t just use commenting as traffic generating tool. Believe me there are other more good tools are available for that purpose.

Five reasons why you should comment on blogs

[1] Comment even if you have very little to say

Now this is very interesting, your small little encouraging word will definitely boost up the moral of blog publisher. Even if you have not enough time to make solid comment just leave a small message that you like that post. That’s it.

[2] Discuss the topic and create dispute if you can

Mingle with the big boy, make noise and make your point listen by all the people in the forum or in a post comment. There is this kid named Neil Patel who says if you want to rich? then start talking shit. Spill and spread around your logics. Be there and try to hit the blogsphere hard, prove your existence.

[3] Try to be in the TOP COMMENTATOR list

This is the only way thru which you can have quality back link from big boy’s blog. Always visit there and make some good comments. Now tell me if by commenting and including your name in to the top commentator list your blog can get that extra edge, recognition and quality link then why you should not do that? It’s not a big SIN.

[4] People love all kind of comments

Don’t hesitate that your comment will annoy somebody; people love to see comments on their blog. Go ahead guys and say whatever you wish, it’s a free world, don’t forget the administrator or publisher always has this choice to delete or moderate your comments so why hesitate in expressing your view – harsh or straight.

[5] Comments to generate traffic

If comments can generate good traffic and help you winning some unique visitor to your site then what is the big deal in using commenting as a traffic tool. Do whatever you wish to boost some extra traffic to your site whether it is thru commenting or by any other mean for that matter.

Conclusion

Now you are definitely searching for me to kill. The reasons I give you for not commenting on blogs are the same for commenting on blog, that mean there is no hard and fast rule that govern commenting on blogs. In the real world you always use some rationale for doing or not doing anything, so you are the better judge in deciding what to do and what not to do while commenting. But yes be sincere and be real while commenting on blogs.

Make Money online with TNX

It’s not a rocket science anymore; to make your site PageRank up in search engines you need some quality back links inbounds from various High PR sites to your site. There are two possible “human ways” through which you can achieve this situation.

1. Reciprocate links with buddies
2. Buy some quality links from high PR sites

You know very well the first process is very time consuming, so you go for the other option available, but yes there is this doubt comes in your mind, Will Google slap your site and throw your site out of their index for acquiring paid links. Yes Google will surely do this. Now the million-dollar question is; can we do this in any legitimate way. The answer to this frequently asked has been sorted out. There is one site, which can help you getting as much back links as you wish moreover you can make money even by selling paid links from your site with this new free tool which makes paid links look NATURAL for Google. See what they are saying on this-

There are no marks of any kind that would let search engines identify links sold or purchased through TNX. All links look like they were installed manually, so there is absolutely no way a search engine can identify your website is selling or purchasing links through the TNX system.

This is exactly what you were looking for, you can earn points by showing paid link on your site which although you can convert in hard cash or you can use it for buying paid links.

Let us see how this system works?

TNX.net allows publishers to sell links on their website, and for advertisers it allows to buy millions of links from other site, so in just few minutes you can have thousands of links from hundreds of high quality relevant sites linking to yours site. Whatever points you earn by showing paid link on your site you can use it to promote your own websites by taking advantage of TNX system as an advertiser. That’s so cool.

How you can use this system as Website Publisher?

[1] You can make money by selling links; not only you can sell links on main page but you can sell it on sub-pages of your website. That mean if you have a website that has lets say 1000 pages and you choose to sell five links on every page then by the simple mathematics you can come to know how many links you can sell for money. WOW!!!

[2] You have various option to utilize points earn by selling links on your pages. You can sell them for cash to other TNX members, sell them back directly to TNX or use them to buy links from various High PR sites. So it’s a unique WIN WIN situation.

[3] Its simple to sign up and install TNX code for selling links on your site, if you are concerned about what kind of links you will get to display on your site then its worth mentioning here that once ad space on your website is sold, you can see list of all links and URLs in your control panel. You will have an option to block ads, delete them or ban the entire website which advertising you don’t like. You will have the complete control over links that will appear on your site. Ads will be identical to your site category.

How you can use this system as Advertiser?

[1] It’s the most effective system to market your site. You can buy links using points earned and advertise on thousands of high priced websites. By purchasing quality of links and preferred link anchor texts you can generate that extra traffic from targeted sites with targeted KEYWORD which will in return increase your PR and search engine results for a given keyword search.

[2] Pricing of links ads is so designed that you can choose to advertise from various options available. For example if you have 5000 points in hands then you can purchase up to 5000 links from pages with PR 0 or you may choose to purchase 10 links from pages with PR 4. The choice is yours.

How you can use the system as Affiliates?

TNX proposes an affiliate program which is beyond doubt participating and different from what we see usually. You can earn point by referring publishers to TNX system. When you refer someone to TNX and advertiser pays 100 TNX-Points for a link on your referral’s website, in that case your referral will get 75 points and you get 10 points. Which is mean you have been offered 13.3% of his income. Now that’s what I call a real profit sharing affiliate program.

Whats new at TNX?

If you sign up TNX today you will get 2,000 points on your account absolutely free for testing out the system. In case you join the TNX as a webmaster you will get 5,000 TNX-Points absolutely free of charge. You can use these points to buy 5000 links from quality web pages. So why wait sign up now.

TNX system is hitting the blogsphere hard as you can judge from the stats that as of today TNX have 53521 users, links in the system are 22948047 and number of pages indexed by TNX are 34856524. It seems to me if everyone is using the TNX system to market their site as well as making fast money, well I am already into it let see where it takes me from here what say.

Make Money By Writing Your Opinion

How about making income online by just writing your opinion about certain products, services or websites? Up to now you may have come across with sites allowing you to write paid reviews and campaigns but yes there is one site with this unique idea for paying you posting your opinion about peoples, products, services and websites on your blog.

Smorty is a bridge between bloggers and advertisers. It provides advertisers to start campaigns and then deliver them to the right bloggers for publishing an opinion on their Blogs. So if you set up and maintain an account with Smorty you can:

Earn top $ with every opinion post
Select the subjects that interest you
Post in multiple blogs to earn more
Build interesting, unique content in your Blog
Get paid weekly by PayPal

Signup process is really simple, if your blog indexed by Google and Yahoo, It is older than 3 months, It must not contain any violent, hate related or adult content, It is active and have a history of minimum average 2 new posts per week and blog must not have duplicate posts or excessive duplicate content then you got a very good chances to register your self with Smorty and get paid to blog
Referral Program

Smorty also run referral program for you if you are interested in referring your blog readers. With referral program Simply place image or text banners in your blog, any new bloggers which click through these banners, sign up to Smorty and actively write posts for campaigns, will earn 5% commission of the total payments made to your referred blogger by Smorty.

Post Exchange Program

A new Post Exchange program has been introduced at Smorty which at present is in. Post Exchange works on a point based system. For every post you write, a different blogger can write a post for you in return. Exchange as many posts as you can until you have used up your chosen category of bloggers.

Post Exchange program is for the Smorty community to become stronger by helping each other. It simply aims to build a strong and ongoing inbound link structure and increase your online traffic. It is completely free to use and all approved blogs can participate.

So there is lot that you can do at Smorty. So don’t just waste any time and sign up for a free account at Smarty to start making online for blogging

Meet Three Beauties and A Beast

MEET THE BEAUTIES FIRST: Pantaloons Femina Miss India World Parvathy Omanakuttan (centre) is followed by Pantaloons Femina Miss India Universe Simran Kaur Mundi (right) and Pantaloons Femina Miss India Earth Harshita Saxena after the crowning ceremony in Mumbai on Saturday 5th April 2008

On 11th April – Miss India Earth winner, Harshita Saxena, voluntarily surrendered the title and withdrew her candidature from the pageant in view of certain contract violations cited by Gladrags officials.

Now this was very sad and unexpected from Gladrags. If due to any term of the contract between Harshita Saxena and Gladrags bar her to participate in Miss India contest then Gladrags must have bring it in her knowledge while she was participate in the beauty pageant, I mean if you ask someone to return the title after winning it on the basis that it is violating the contract is totally unfair and I must call it a stupid and foolish act.

I condemned Gladrags for doing this and forcing Harshita to return her Miss India Earth Title after wining it. On the other hand Harshita must also be knowing what she is doing, is this allow in contract she has with some other company or not.

Anyway her title is now passed to another contestant Tanvi Vyas (you had a great luck here)

I wanted to know from you people who’s fault you see in this case – Is it Gladrags or Harshita Saxena.

In the end I want to give you another shock; the contract between Harshita and Gladrags expired on April 8, 2008 just three days after the finals of Pantaloons Femina Miss India 2008 contest, that means when she won this title her contract had unexpired period of 3 days only. Bad Luck Harshita.

Picture Courtesy Times of India
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The Truth According To Wikipedia

In this film, “Wikipedians” the folks who spend their days writing and editing articles, explain how the online encyclopedia works. In addition, the parties involved discuss Wikipedia’s ethics and quality of content. It quickly becomes clear that there are camps of both believers and critics.

How reliable is Wikipedia ? Do “the people” really hold the lease on wisdom? And since when do we believe that information should be free for all?

Director IJsbrand van Veelen goes looking for the truth behind Wikipedia. Only five people are employed by the company, and all its activities are financed by donations and subsidies. The online encyclopedia that everyone can contribute to and revise is now even bigger than the illustrious Encyclopedia Britannica.

After illuminating Google: Behind the Screen Director IJsbrand van Veelen is back again with this another great documentory about wikipedia. If you have some good spare time watch this video.

What Excuses You Makes When You Do Not Succeed?

Success is a bless; it makes a person more courteous, down to earth happy and cheerful. A successful person speaks with authority, walk with confidence and command with influence. A successful person always meets and greets people with a big smile on his face. A successful person always encourages people to do the same he is doing, he always inspires people to achieve their dreams and guide them for living an impressive life.

But what unsuccessful man does. He always comes up with some excuses. He always has some valid reason to define why he failed to produce results. Success has different meaning for different people, but every one knows in someway or the other that he/she falls in which brackets, I mean he is a successful person or a failure.

I try to dig out some of the reasons which a person who is unsuccessful throws out when ask him about his story.

Excuse No. 1 : Ah I do have that much of luck

In this part of the world people love to blame all on the luck, they always claim that if they had a little bit of luck on their side they could create wonders. Is it so? Now tell me how much luck plays a part in someone’s success? I guess it is worth answering question.

Excuse No. 2 : oh my family did not support me at all

I believe that for getting success, you need someone’s support and yes if you can find that support within your family then its great. But do you also feel that it can be a reason of someone’s failure when his family stood against his decisions?

Excuse No. 3 : I am married and have obligation on my shoulder

Some of the people whom I interacted on this subject were of the opinion that a person can achieve success until he is free from all strings. The day he gets married it’s very hard for him to get his dreams come true to reality. Now again I consider this as an excuse for hiding one’s weaknesses, there are examples when a person get his due success after marriage or after becoming father for that matter.

Excuse No. 4 : Financial constraints

Money is very important for making things happen, but it’s not the only thing which can take you there. I believe many dreams ruined without lack of financial support. What role money plays in getting success is again a debatable question.

Excuse No. 5 : I don’t have time; I am stuck up in my job

Lots of people live with this excuse for years. Having no time to devote yourself in doing the thing you love most and which you always wish to do is a big limitation. To achieve that success for which you are craving from years you need to put some extra efforts. There are examples when people start working after hours, see some success in their hard work and then left the job to give over full time to their dream career.

Conclusion

Like a successful man always has many stories to prove his worth an unsuccessful man also has many stories to defend his failure. I consider all the above as excuses because I know; if you are hungry for success nothing can come in your way. One day or the other you will be right there (with your family   )

All the Best
Picture Courtesy: Orin Optiglot

Five Great Myths about Blogging

This post is based on a survey conducted by me and my team taking a sample of over 100 people from various places through verbal discussion and exchange of thoughts through e-mails. Blogging is a new phenomenon that hitting new generation. They can easily express their thoughts view and vision thru blogging. But to my surprise there were few myths about blogging that we come to know from these people. I would like to clear the air and presenting my take on these myths that people have about blogging.

Myth No. 1: You need to be a Tech Geek to become a blogger

Now, that’s quite interesting lots of people express that they want to start blogging but do not know much about HTML or PHP, they said they are not very much into website development so they can’t start blogging. So all you peoples out there must know that it a myth, you don’t have to be a Tech Geek to start blogging you don’t need to be a HTML or PHP master to start blogging, you need not to be a We site developer for becoming a blogger. The only knowledge that you need is to how to operate a computer and basic understanding of internet. That’s it, believe me.

Myth No. 2: Blogging is a Costly affair

Many people think that blogging is a costly affair, it require some investment to start blogging. Well in reality blogging cost nothing. If you have a Gmail account you can start blogging instantly, right from today, without spending a single penny. There are many websites which provide people a platform for blogging like Blogger, Typepad, Ibibo, WordPress dot com Live Journal etc. All you have to do is to create an account with them and you yes are done, you can start blogging. These sites will provide you a URL which will be like your blog name and that website name suffix/prefix with it.

But if you wish to have your own domain name like www.Yourwebsitename.com then you need to spend some money to register a domain name and to buy some space on web. After that you can install WordPress Blogging Software on it which is off course is free blogging software. So it’s a very little amount of money that you need to spend to start blogging with your own brand domain name, that money will not be more then the cost of a ceiling fan or a branded shirt.

Myth No. 3 Bloggers are making BIG money online

It’s not that hard to make money online with blogging, but it’s also not that easy to make money online. It’s a myth that bloggers are making huge money online with blogging, there are very few who are doing so. I know couple of bloggers who are blogging for last one year and not even make it to US$ 100 so that Google can send them their first AdSense cheque (check). Most of the blogger never cross the threshold limit fixed by the various affiliates so that to qualify for getting paid. If you are making big money online with blogging then you are fortunate and done an unbelievable, sleepless, restless hard work to come to this stage. Am I Right?

Myth No. 4: Blogging is a hobby not a Profession

Most of the people we survey still believe that you can not make blogging as a full time profession, for them it’s a hobby, just an idea to spend some time and to my surprise some of them said that it just like an off line chatting system. Well, what to say, there are examples, lots of bloggers are doing it as their profession. They have proved it and if you great writing skill then you can make a living by blogging itself. Take the example of Darren Rowse or Shoemoney or Tech Church and even John Chow they all are know in the blogsphere as professional bloggers. You can also write for various other blog for money. Look this page for bloggers Job Here.

Myth No. 5: For Blogging you need lots of free time

Well, many people we talk to, think that it’s a time consuming job, in fact to the contrary its take hardy one or two hour of your daily routine. You may think over your topic all the day long, draft it on a paper, but to put on the website or to publish it on your blog it require only one hour or so of your time. If you are good at typing you can finish it off in just half an hour. I mean it.

Technorati Authority Explode

Amor passed me this Technorati Authority Explode tag.

I have randomly selected three bloggers to be tagged and I hope that they will similarly publish this post in their blogs. Its really easy! Tag others and see your Technorati Authority increase exponentially!

Now I am tagging Michelle, Scarty Jevier and Joyoz
If you wish to join, Jump in by leaving your message below and just do the job!

Benefits of Viral Linking:

• One of the fastest ways to see your Technorati Authority explode.
• Increase your Google PageRank fast.
• Attract large volume of new traffic to your site.
• Build your community.
• Make new friends!

And these are the people who already took part on this tag: (Please do not replace, just keep on adding! Yes lets hope a long list!)

*Blognation, Pinoytek, Reyna, Bluep, Kotsengkuba, Buraot, Iris, Banco De Reyna, Mitch, Melai, Malen, Beng, Sasha, Pusang Maganda, Amor, Shanker Bakshi