Teach blogging in a different ambience.

My husband thinks in shockingly fresh ways. Some of his suggestions may sound wild and even stupid to others but I have learnt something from him. For example, he suggested I conduct my blogging training sessions in a different atmosphere and settings.

Instead of the banal classroom setting, he wanted me to try out our rather private entertainment room. It has stunningly unique home theater chairs that are arranged not in an orderly setting like you see in every household’s home theater.

The entertainment room is quite large that can accommodate several rows of home theater chairs if arranged traditionally. My husband rebelled at this very idea of seating arrangement arguing that a home theater doesn’t mean it has to look like a theater.

For my next month new training session, I am planning to carry out the new idea of conducting the class in a very coy setting. I hope the trainees will learn blogging quickly.

Why can't Darren Rowse or John Chow...

It is almost two years ago that I read about a unique income opportunity using your blog posts. It is by converting all your useful blog posts into an e-book and selling it through Amazon or Clickbank, you can make substantial money.

The idea seems to be still viable but if it is so, why Darren Rowse and John Chow are not using this method? Oh yes, John Chow has published his e-book based on his blog posts but he is offering it for free to all of us.

I am an avid reader of Darren Rowse and John Chow; they inspire me a lot. There is Susan of About.com that I admire shamelessly.

Oh, I forgot! There is a web site called www.Blog2Book.Biz that offers 3 simple steps with which you can convert your blog posts into an e-book. They claim to offer userfriendly method to publish your blog as a professional looking e-book that will get assigned an ISBN code!

Hmm.. I will use them one day!

Is it so?
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To insure your car for a low premium..

How do I insure my car for less?

How do I insure my car for low premium?

You see, there is a difference between the two questions above though they might mean the same at a casual glance. If you are unsure, read it again.

Here, I will help you; read my explanation below:

Do you want your car insured for a higher value and still want to pay low premium or you are not bothered about what you can claim when something happens to your car but only want to pay up less towards auto insurance?

Or, may be you can visit 2insure4less.com and read pretty useful auto insurance saving tips and also can get free auto insurance quotes. You can them compare the data and buy the right insurance for your car.

Make money from your wordpress blogs.

This is a new earning opportunity using your wordpress based blogs though the actual method is our dear old affiliate marketing.

In this opportunity of making money from blogs, the affiliate merchant is the mighty Amazon. There is a new plugin for wordpress. It is an Amazon products plugin which when installed in your wordpress blog, automatically displays products that are related to the topic of your blog post.

Sounds like contextual advertising-right? But this is not a PPC advertising but PPA advertsing. If someone buys a product from Amazon after clicking on the advertisment alonside your blog post, you earn a commission.

The products are selected automatically by Amazon based on the tags you sue for your blog post. You are allowed to do a little bit of customization too with this plugin.

I am thankful to James who wrote about this in his blog.

The honesty bar at a boutique hotel.

I may have to explain to you what is ‘honesty bar’ but I am sure you know what boutique hotels are and why they are a special kind of luxury hotels.

These so called boutique hotels are luxury hotels that treat their guests like VIPs and extend very personalized service. Boutique hotels are the first to introduce ‘honesty bar’ which means the guest using the honesty bar pays up honestly as there are no barmen in honesty bars.

A senior executive working in Ascend Collection group of boutique hotels wrote to me a couple of months back appreciating one of my blog posts. Only at that time, I first heard about Boutique Hotels that are less advertised and known to a special kind of elite travelers.

Honesty bar-I think that my husband is making a note of this word for obvious reasons.

A blog directory for moms.

When I started blogging in 2005, I was ashamed to reveal my age. I didn't expect moms to blog. But, how mistaken I am!

Now, even, I know so many bloggers who are older than I. There are communities for moms in just about every field in the Internet. So, why not a directory for mom bloggers?

Yesterday, I found out The Mom Blogs, a directory of blogs maintained by moms and also a bloggers' forum that is not yet very active.

To add your blog in the directory, you need to register first. Password will be given by them that you can change it anytime. Backlink is required from you in order to get your blog listed in the directory.

The color of the template indicates that the mom blogs is maintained by a woman but when I registered myself with them, I was not asked of my gender.

I submitted one of my blogs and it is awaiting their approval.

Just born forum for bloggers.

I owe my current knowledge of Internet marketing to hundreds of forums where I used to hand around for hours together daily reading lots of posts and visiting the web sites of every member through their signature.

Here is a very young forum for bloggers-Duoblogger forum.

There are only 29 members in it at present. I feel you can get full exposure to your topics if you do it in a constructive way.

The forum's main topics are:
AdSense
Affiliate programs
CPC
CPM
SEO
Twitter
Internet marketing

Give this forum a plug.

How to earn with every link in your blog?

How can you earn using Twitter?

Do you know that the Alexa rank of Twitter is 308?
Do you know that Twitter has about 80 million plus backlinks?
Do you know that Twitter's Google PR is 8?

Wonder what I am driving at?

If these statistics of a microblogging platform is any indication to what is coming in the near future, you better learn Twitter fully.

Here are some more microblogging platforms for all of us to explore and use.
Plurk.com PR6 Alex rank 6266
Identi.ca PR6 Alexa Rank 56,670 (This is a 'Do Follow' one)
Tumblr.com PR7 Alexa Rank 2491

I had a list of some more microblogs that pass on link juice but i misplaced it? Do anyone of you know about them?

Do you know you can also earn using your twitter profile?

Beg your pardon; I don’t hear you!

When I was handed over this ear piece, I was terribly confused. Why are they giving me a headphone before entering a granite quarry?

My nephew insisted that I accompany him to his work place at least on this special occasion when he took over the complete charge of the quarry.

I declared that I am not in the habit of hearing any music on the move. There was a hearty laugh around me.

I was immediately taken into the cubicle of the quarry’s safety officer where he explained about the ear safety equipment called ear muff that looked like a costly headphone to protect my ears from the explosive noise in the quarry.

Well, I thought, helmet is the only personal safety equipment. As if reading my thoughts, my nephew showed me various other ear muffs, eye protective gears such as eye washes etc.

Oh men, these people are risking their lives!

Where the money is?

Image by coyenator via Flickr

Blogging for money is at present the easiest and most popular way to earn money online. New bloggers enter the blogosphere with the sole intention of making a full time career off blogging.

There are countless guides and tutorials in the blogosphere on how to be a pro-blogger. Even in this blog, I have advertised several guides related to blogging.

About a year ago, I wanted to buy that most talked about and most advertised ebook, "Blogging to the bank". A few reviews here and there were not all the encouraging. But some of my friends here asked me about my opinion which of course I don't have. They are asking me where the money is, in blogosphere.

I seek your feedback on that book or for that matter any other e-book on pro-blogging or anything on blogging for money.

A 'wish' changes nothing. A 'decision' changes everything!

Oh, how I wish I have not created my wish list at buy.com! All those things on my wish list were entered purely on impulse, without a real plan or purpose. May be that is why my wish list kept growing. There was no way to shorten the list by marking off some of the things as ‘bought’.

I think it is not too late to remember this proverb: A 'wish' changes nothing. A 'decision' changes everything!

So, I decided to crop the list down to bare necessities and proceeded to find if there is any special discount sale is announced for them at buy.com where there is always some sort of discount is given to all the products.

Just then, my son peeped in and saw my list that included a stand for my laptop, McAfee virus protection and a cordless bug zapper. He gave me a look as if to ask whether I am sane. I followed his gaze and saw he was looking at the Gordian’s Knot Brainteaser Challenge among other things.

How to check your inbound links?

So, the heat is on; the tension begins for every webmaster and blogger about the impending update of PageRank by Google.

While most people hold their breath, new comers to the Internet will be expectant with joy. I envy them. I too was like them several years ago when I didn't know the implication of the little green band in the Google tool bar.

I hear that Goggle has started the work and we might see the results in about two weeks. But I already read quite a few outbursts about losing the existing PR. Forum members in several blogger forums have reported losing their PR.

Ok, so, how do you check how many backlinks your website has?
Go to Google.com
Type link:yourdomain name. in the search bar.

Example: link:digg.com

You will instantly see how many sites are linking to you.

Who helps to get social security disability insurance?

There is a widespread opinion that social security disability is a stigma; I want to voice my strong protest against this rather biased and uncompassionate view. Man, they know their pain! If you can’t feel it, at least have the courtesy of keeping your mouth shut.

When there are no such laws in my country that protect the physically challenged people, I admire and salute America for their concern for the unfortunates.

But, I am also saddened by the fact that even in the U.S., the process of application and getting the ultimate advantages of social security benefit is long and very taxing to the applicants. At the same time, I am glad that there are professional services like Allsup.com that extend excellent support for the disabled person to receive the benefits they deserve.

Do you know that they have so far helped 110,000 people successfully?

Your personal investment consultant for free.

There are several useful websites dedicated to providing information on investing in precious metals but my favorite is always Monex because of various reasons.

* Over three decade of experience in dealing with gold, silver and platinum

* Consistently providing valuable investment advice

* Spot price movements of precious metals

* Selling finest and investment grade bullion bars

* Giving insights on precious metals market sentiment

* Full Service Coin Trading offers

* Best prices for silver coins

* Offers to store your purchases safely

Time and again, I have grabbed their timely recommendations and profited by trading in gold and silver. Ever since I know them, I invest only in gold and silver and no other forms of investment interested me. I consider them as my personal investment consultant.

Extra income from your blogs.

In spite of the unique rating system introduced by Blog Cytes, there never was a single assignment from them so far. I think I wrote about them almost six months ago.

Till date, I am yet to know of a blogger that is earning from Blog Cytes. But I do accept the fact that I know only a small circle bloggers and there may be bloggers who are earning through Blog Cytes.

For those new comers to this blog, I used to dig my past posts and write about them once in way. I think I wrote about Blog Cytes long back-may be six months before.

Blog Cytes is one of those web sites that pay you to blog for their clients and they pay through Paypal. You are given the liberty to reject a given blogging assignment based on your interest and policy.

Try them today.

Four job openings for bloggers.

It seems there is a sudden demand is on for bloggers in four diverse topics.
Travel
Business and Technology
Android
Home interior.

Well, three of the above seems to be easy and hundreds of bloggers can apply for them but what is Android? I think it has something to do with mobile phone technology.

For the travel bloggers who are interested to apply for the job, it is required that they should be at ease with wordpress blogging platform and should know a lot about air ticketing industry. The hirer is Flyhub Inc.

Home interior bloggers should have a blog of their own in the topic and are required write two posts per week. It is better you go to the original source to find the complete details about this pro blogging opportunities.

A mathematician turned plumber.

My husband’s procrastination killed my patience. I could not stand his laziness anymore. This is too much.

After all, I bought the Delta faucet set with my credit card. It is me who is going to pay for it. I only need my husband’s help to install it in the guest’s bathroom and he has been giving lame excuses.

So, I decided to do it on my own. I bought a DIY (Do It Yourself) book on bathroom remodeling. After reading a couple of pages, I was stuck. Those plumbing tools made no sense to me. I don’t have them in the first place and even if I had, I would not know how to use them.

I avoided my husband’s scornful look. I knew I am taking a beating. Fixing faucets is just not a woman’s job that has never used any tools in her life apart from the whiteboard marker if at all that can be considered as a tool.

Finally, some compassion oozed out from my husband and we both installed the Delta faucet with the help of the self help book. Look at them, aren’t they gorgeous?