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Adrian Tan Speech for NTU, Meaningful
2010-10-31 11:57:00
Written by Adrian Tan, author of The Teenage Textbook (1988), was the guest-of-honour at a recent NTU convocation ceremony. This was his speech to the graduating class of 2008. if you are done reading, let me know, I will be bringing this post down soon, unless there are others who happens to stumble upon this post as well. —————&mdash ;—————&mdas h;——— I must say thank you to the faculty and staff of the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information for inviting me to give your convocation address. It’s a wonderful honor and a privilege for me to speak here for ten minutes without fear of contradiction, defamation or retaliation. I say this as a Singaporean and more so as a husband. My wife is a wonderful person and perfect in every way except one. She is the editor of a magazine. She corrects people for a living. She has honed her expert skills over a quarter of a century, mostly by practising at h...

Happy New Year to Anyone Who Stops By
2009-12-31 10:08:00
Happy New Year . I personally created this new year poster (to save cost anyway) using photoshop and hope we can achieve great things together in year 2010 Enjoy your holidays and time to start losing weight too! Regards Andrew
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Magic Article Rewriter Spinner Software – Video Review of My Experien
2009-12-25 03:42:00
Magic Article Rewriter is one of the best tools I have used so far for spinning my articles.  Every time I have completed an article, and approved by ezinearticles, I will take this article, and use magic article rewriter to spin the article and submit to freetrafficsystem.com. You cannot believe how much time it is going to take me to spin a 800 word article, starting from scratch. I am going to write a few pointers on why I like the software and please continue watching my video review of magic article rewriter. 1 – thousands of words ready in the database to give you suggestions 2 – the flexibility of Magic Article rewriter is that I can add in my own variations, and continue building a database of word variations and with just a click of a button, the software will immediately find all the words in the database I have build, and add in the variations for all the words that can be found in the article.  It is going to save you a lot of time 3 – the ability to ...
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Merry Xmas to Anyone who stops by BusinessPeanuts.com
2009-12-25 02:19:00
Hi Everyone, just want to say meRRy XmAs and a Happy New Year to anyone who is still sober from the Xmas Parties. I am not a Christian but I have always enjoyed this festive season (there is a sense of happiness amid the dark times).  And it was nice to have a Kentucky Fried Chicken family feast, as well as some sushi with my family (too bad my mum had to work late).  And this will be my beloved niece’s 2nd Xmas.  She has been eyeing the presents I have for her. (borrowed this belowed picture from freetrafficsystem.com and will be writing a post about them soon) I know it has been a long time since I have updated this blog with any new posts but writing is not really my forte i guess.  Anyway, another few days and the new year is upon us too.  So it is time for reflections, for new targets (or in my case, renewing my old targets).  These are the questions that always pop up in my head every year end (yes, I tend to talk to myself): - So how was your year? - Do you see...
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John Yeo’s FREE Blogging Report – Earn Your 1st $100 From Blogg
2009-08-17 21:25:00
My buddy, John Yeo (the wedding blogger, as well as the author of bloggerspaycheck, productwealthsecrets and blogcashmentor.com), has just written a FREE Blogging Resource Report for his readers and he has allowed me to share his report with my readers here as well.  There are no opt-in forms to fill, just download the report and read it straight away. It has the entire blueprint of how John make US$3000 from his wedding blog. Click here to download now. P.S: It comes with Master distribution rights and you can give it away, sell it or do whatever you want it.
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BlogCashMentor Is Finally Up!
2009-07-24 12:14:00
It’s been a long time since I last updated my blog. This actually is a good thing because I have been very very busy. Make Money Blogging Membership Site First up, my collaboration project with one of the up and coming blogging expert John Yeo is almost done. Project BlogCashMentor is finally up and running.  He is the man for blogging and it has been a great learning experience collaborating with him on this membership site.  I am definitely not the marketing and blogging guy but in terms of technical skills, and the technical needs of this site, it has been a challenging experience. Using Amember to power up the membership site has shown me one very important thing on the Internet Marketing scene.  And coming from a guy who used to work in programming, documentation of how to change the needs of these software is bad.  No offense to these software creators from Amember, DLGuard and affiliate-prophet but after testing these software, the documentation provided is amazing...
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Using Free Traffic System For The First Time
2009-04-28 10:52:00
Just a follow up on my previous blog post on starting all over again for my health website, and using the advice from Andrew Wee, I have just completed converting one of my articles to a spinnable format so that my articles can be spin into different articles.  Now awaiting for approval from Free Traffic System (easier to refer as FTS) and see what kind of results can I expect. I use a keyword i am targeting that is not that competitive and should be easy to rank as my experiment for FTS. In the mean while, I just realized I have more than 15 articles in my computer that I have written in the past but never submitted to any article directory.  Stupid move but it sure allows me to have more articles to convert to make full use of the Free Traffic System platform. By the way, to Andrew Wee, thanks for the tips in the previous blog post comments you made.  I have written down the details and executing them. Ok.  Thats it.  I have a slow plan to produce 4 unique articles for 4 diff...
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Time To Improve Clickbank Sales After Neglecting It For So Long
2009-04-23 09:10:00
Ever since I started doing videos for customers to teach them how to install software, I have became very very lazy in terms of writing articles to improve my clickbank sales.  Though I can pretty much survive just by doing videos for customers, I have to admit laziness is the middle name now.  I can enthusiastically setup software programs for people, learn new software, write my own programs but when it comes to the right things to do for clickbank, I have totally neglected my clickbank sales. This is the current sad status of my clickbank account. And truth be told, since i had found another way to find money on the Internet, I gave up clickbank for quite a while. But it was always a wish of mine to see the bars of clickbank being in blue and grey everyday. So as of now, I have only made $25.48 for the whole month of April 2009. Inspired by John Yeo of www.johnyeo.name as well advice from Andrew Wee of www.whoisandrewwee.com , I felt it was time to buck on clickbank. Consiste...
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Testing PPC with Yahoo Search Marketing In February and Google Content Netw
2009-03-11 18:02:00
I know I have barely updated my blog but this is a good thing for me.  Cause there are progress in my IM journey and that is why I seldom blog. First up, I have been helping a friend setup DLGuard and Amember software.  What a learning process to go through.  I think i can start doing some videos and selling it. Second, been running 3 campaigns using Yahoo Search Marketing and after failing to get any sales for my first 2 campaigns, my 3rd campaign is already seeing 2 clickbank sales.  Thanks to friends and a coach who has been giving us some great training.  His name will be revealed soon. Thirdly, i finally started running my polls for a CPA offer again.  Though I lost money, i still consider it a step forward.  Spent $215 singapore dollars and earn $165 from my CPA network.  This was the first time i ever surpassed $100 for my efforts from the traffic in google content network. Fourthly, subscribing to SENuke now.  Lets see how much money can this software bring my sales...
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Been Pretty Bad Sales Since December 2008 Until January 2009
2009-01-21 18:31:00
So far, it has been a pretty bad sales month for december 2008 and january 2009.  Really learnt a lesson that I should have expanded to more niches instead of relaying on just 1 niche.  Look at the stats below.  It was going up but the moment december came, things went downhill all the way. October  2008 $246.54 November 2008 $268.43 December 2008 $26.30 January   2008 $32.34 Time to buck up, buck up, buck up Regards, Andrew
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Is Your Website Accused Of Phishing? I Got Hacked And Resolve It The Hard W
2009-01-05 04:44:00
I have been pretty inactive for a while since my niche is not for xmas, my clickbank sales really took a dive.  Anyway, I was enjoying myself watching so many movies and episodes online that I have to say I really enjoyed myself throughout december. The best part of 2009 is that I found a IM coach that is coaching 12 of us to be better in our preselling of products to customers and hopefully, that works out! The worst part of 2009, the really BIG BANG for me happened on January 2nd, 2009.  I was about to prepare for a launch of my new adwords campaign and my webhost, Bluehost, dropped me a BOMB! They banned my account because my site is listed as a phishing email site. I was HACKED! Worst part, bluehost couldn’t really advise me on what to do except to say I have to remedy the situation.  First time encountering such times and sadly, when you look around online, there is alot of solutions for normal email users but not much solutions for webmasters.  It is so damn frustrat...
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Out Of Reservists And Back to Learning The Basics Of Affiliate Marketing
2008-11-24 18:03:00
Been pretty out of focus these days and though the sales are coming in slowly, I have decided to go back to basics.  Meaning I have been feeling a bit of loss because I seem to miss a step whenever I launch a new campaign and even though some campaigns may bring in sales, it does not really last that long, especially if there are more and more competitors fighting for the same product sales. I sign on to both Patric Chan and Affilioblueprint courses and see if i can breakthrough from my current stagnation and strive for higher sales.  My main aim is still to conquer clickbank sales to achieve at least $3000 per month from it.  Though I have temptations to deviate to CPA networks and such, clickbank is something that i would like to conquer. Lets see how both courses go from here. Technorati Tags: The Basics Of Affiliate Marketing
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Finally Found A Convertable Product On Clickbank That Really Converts
2008-11-04 11:36:00
Interesting statistics of my clickbank sales that I have been compiling today.  Since I have not been able to do anything these couple of weeks due to me being back training in the army, I was pleasantly surprise to see 2 sales for this week already. clickbank_progress_nov08 Most of my sales currently come from this one clickbank product and it has been giving me sales every week for the month of october and 2 new sales in the first week of november 2008. Total, I have already sold 17 and this is the statistics: 1 refund 9 sales generated from google adwords 7 sales generated from article marketing Highlights of article marketing: I have only 5 adgroups to get that 9 sales from google but the interesting part is that I have 13 articles to generate 7 sales. If each article cost me $4 (Singapore dollars), then I have only spent $52.  And each sales I will receive USD$26.30 so the total is USD$184 (Sing is $272). Therefore, my total profits is $272 (sing) -$52 (sing) = $220. I have a...
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Lazy Has Been My Middle Name These Days But Luckily There Is Clickbank Prog
2008-10-21 21:44:00
Frankly speaking, I have not been as hardworking as I should have been and progress has continued to be slow.  But the funny thing is sales for clickbank has been improving a bit.  In the sense that at least there are some sales this month. Still shy from really making a living online since the sales, when compare to any affiliate, is peanuts (hence businesspeanuts). Clickbank progress october I have around 60 over articles not submitted yet so progress should have been much much better i guess.  Anyway, I have to apologize if some of you are looking for some information on what i am doing.  But basically, my methods are superbly easy and straight forward. Basically I have been very lazy for this product but it seems to bring in the best results. This is what i have roughly done so far. The simple 7 steps to small clickbank sales. Step 1: Find a product in clickbank with gravity between 50 to 200 Step 2: Find long tail keywords and do abit of keyword spying on the competition, ...
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Great News For Bum Marketers – EzineArticles Is Showing Keywords To Y
2008-10-09 03:08:00
Hi Friends, Great news if you are a bum marketer who is using article marketing for traffic.  Ezinearticles, one of the best article directory, is going to reveal the keywords that visitors use to find your articles.  The keyword search will be from august 2008 onwards.  So far, I can see my august and september search and which keywords are used to find my articles. There are 3 things that immediately comes to mind: 1 – there are more keywords that i can use to write articles 2 – these keywords can be used in my PPC campaign 3 – I can actually know how popular each of my articles are and how good/badly each article is doing Check out this blog post from ezinearticles: http://blog.ezinearticles.com/2008/10/tra ffic-search-terms.html This is another great arsenal you can use to make your own bum marketing efforts a big success. Regards, Andrew Technorati Tags: ezinearticles revealing search keywords, bum marketing tools
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Stupid Thing I Did To My Businesspeanuts List
2008-09-26 07:59:00
First of all, I realize i had not updated my businesspeanuts list for such a long time that i did not realized that people who signed were recommended to a forum that they can earn a bit of money.  I always wanted to write a “how-to” guide but was always too lazy busy. Anyway, I wanted to segregate the active from the inactive just by looking at the list and for some strange reasons, I deleted the whole list of people.  Though the list was only consisting of 20 over people, I still couldn’t believe the mistake i made. So sorry to anyone who sign up.  Deeply apologize. I better start writing that ebook, that was left half-done about a month ago. Regards, Andrew
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Latest Statistics Of My First 25 Days Of Doing Internet Marketing Full Time
2008-09-25 09:59:00
Not much clickbank sales but in terms of providing web services, income has increased.  Expenses could be lower but the itch to buy IM products is killing my profits.  Damn! I have also began outsourcing article writing on a daily basis.  I wrote 30 articles last week and it took my life away.  It is simply too boring.  Frank Kern was right, do what you like and outsource everything that you do not like. My past and present performance below. —————&mdash ;———— First week Income – $34.80 (Clickbank) Total Expenses – $170.58 —————&mdash ;———— Second week Income – $120.32 Expenses – $89.35 —————&mdash ;———— Third Week Income – $170.10 Expenses – $193.71 Breakdown Of Expenses: Buy IM Products – $121.80 Adwords – $8.41 Food – $45.00 Newspaper – $0 Taxi – $0 MRT...
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First 12 Days Of Being A Full Time Internet Marketer
2008-09-12 14:10:00
Typing this blog post at Starbucks, relaxing with a mocha frappacino. Basically, it has been a lazy 2 weeks.  First week was a transition period.  Distractions from my dogs, my baby niece as well as totally being unmotivated to do anything except eat, sleep and eat some more.  But still manage to squeeze out 1 clickbank sales from no where. Second week was much better.  Starting writing articles (about 10 so far), made changes to my adwords campaign as well created 1 new CPA campaign as well.  Got 1 clickbank sale from my article marketing effort and also got paid $70 from a friend to guide him on using some CPA tools. So overall: —————&mdash ;- First week Income – $34.80 (Clickbank) Total Expenses – $170.58 Breakdown of Expenses: Buy IM Products – $32.78 Adwords – $16.90 Food – $43.50 Newspaper – $1.40 Taxi – $16.00 MRT/Bus – $25.00 Miscellaneous – $35.00 Actions: Create 2 articles. Submitted t...
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Finally Receive Frank Kern Mass Control Welcome Kit After 2 Weeks
2008-09-06 11:26:00
Finally receive Frank Kern’s Mass Control Welcome Kit that he was giving free a while back ago.  Been waiting for it to arrive and it finally did.  From the first material, everything was better than I have already expected.  When you read his materials, it is really different from any other products that i have bought.  Simply fantastic. Technorati Tags: Mass Control Monthly System, frank kern
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Day 1: Receive Patric Chan “Inside The Underground Insider Marketing
2008-08-27 20:08:00
Finally receive my CDs of Patric Chan’s “Inside The Underground Insider Marketing Lab” course that he has been promoting recently.  This is probably one of my last Internet Marketing products that I will be buying.  I am pretty impress with his courses (I was once in his Chan Do It membership) so far and I am going to use his course to make money within 30 days. As some of you know, I am turning to IM full time on Monday 01-September-2008.  My last day on the job is actually Friday 29th August 2008.  So I will rest 2 days during the weekends and next monday, it sounds like a good day to start my journey from ground zero. Anyway, I will write down my experiences here starting from Day 1 to Day 30. Let’s see how i can apply Patric’s methods to boost my earnings for September 2008. So far, my IM earnings for August is below: Earnings from Clickbank is US$84.93 Earnings from PayPal is US$167.5 Earnings from ebay is US$5.84 Total Earnings: US$258.27 T...

Great New Features From EzineArticles Directory For Monthly Statistics And
2008-08-15 07:37:00
I was logging in to my ezinearticles account to check my statistics for my new articles when suddenly these graphs appeared. And there was monthly tracking as well. I was pretty impressed. Look below: This was an article in March 08 and as you can see from the graph, the peak was in May 08 and after that, the traffic didn’t really pick up much. I remember that this article was bringing me one to two clickbank sales per month during those peak months. In the past, I was recording the statistics myself to track the performance of each articles so that you will know how to improve the SEO as well as get more links to it. But with the monthly statistics and graphs, it will definitely make my life simpler as an article marketer trying to make sense of how each of my articles are performing. Kudos to EzineArticles for including this new feature. Technorati Tags: ezinearticles new features, changes in ezinearticles directory
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Woo Hoo !!! 3rd Clickbank Sale In First 10 Days Using Google Adwords
2008-08-11 07:13:00
Hi, 3rd clickbank sales in first 10 days of August 2008. First time in my own slow history that i got 3 sales in 10 days. Woo hoo!! Spent $5 on advertising and got back $25.92. It sure felt great! Now, I am stuck though. I have a set of keywords using google adwords but I am not sure how to scale it bigger to increase my traffic and sales. Time to read more books and blogs to find a solution. If anyone can advise me on the next step, it would be greatly appreciated. Regards, andrew Technorati Tags: clickbank sales using google adwords, making clickbank sales in august
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Happy August 08 Using Adwords For Clickbank Sales.
2008-08-09 22:23:00
Short post on using adwords.  2 sales in early august.  I guess it is a pretty good start for me. Though i am far off from alot of people but this is the first time i have such results.  At least it is more than $50 per week.  For August, have 2 sales hitting $53.26.  Plus i just completed a website project for a client for $48 so total income for august 08 is $101.26. Lets see if i can hit $300 this month or not. Oh, will be starting a CPA campaign again.  Hope this works fine. Regards, Andrew Technorati Tags: clickbank sales for august 08, using adwords for clickbank sales
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My 4th Clickbank Sale In July And Google Adwords Advertising Contributed 3
2008-07-31 06:05:00
Just when I was about to give up on Adwords again (this is the 4th or 5th time already), the magical feeling has happened again! This is the first time in my Adwords history that I have achieved 3 sales in just 3 days using purely Google Adwords advertising. The last time I achieved a sale from clickbank was in last year september 2007 and so far, in my first 4 attempts at google adwords, I have already lost $400+. So for this fifth time, it feels great that my cost is still low and yet, the profits are there. Finally … Finally…Finally.. Why the initial dejection from me? Because I have 2 campaigns, one for a CPA offer and one for this clickbank product. I was making a lost on that CPA offer but when the smell of profit is just about to come, I seem to have been slapped on that domain by Google. And the clickbank campaign was not really making money. But after these 3 days, it has been a joy! CPA offer Campaign – Still Slapped! Clickbank Campaign – Profi...
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Experimenting With CPA Network Offers..The Story Goes On..
2008-07-28 21:13:00
As you can see, there were no post for 10 days simply because I was having such a huge learning curve when using google adwords with CPA offers. Basically, I have already spent over SIN$106.92 over a 7 day period but my earnings are SIN$41.69. So I have not manage to recoup my advertising expenses as yet. Date Clicks Cost Earnings (SIN) Profit/Loss 07/19/08 105 $25.31 $1.42 -$23.89 07/20/08 135 $24.92 $9.11 -$15.81 07/21/08 270 $50.15 $14.28 -$35.87 07/22/08 117 $21.01 $6.28 -$14.73 07/23/08 134 $19.02 $10.60 -$8.42 07/24/08 29 $3.81 $0.00 -$3.81 07/28/08 38 $4.39 $0.00 -$4.39 Total 828 $148.61 $41.69 $106.92 As you can see, there were 3 days which did not have any activity. This was because Google stopped my ads. And I deleted it because i thought i have been slapped by Google but apparently, sometimes Google will stop your ads as they will do a review of your campaign. Did not know about such things until I read this in a forum. Luckily, google adwords...
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Article Creation Results Of My Testing Of Human Spinner 1.0 Beta Version
2008-06-04 12:27:00
Completed my testing of Human Spinner 1.0 Beta .  It took nearly 12 hours for the results to be completed.  And after completion, you have to choose the sentences that you like or you can reject.  And the good thing is that the website will help you to write a seed file for use with JetSpinner. And after using jetspinner, I used the original article to compare the uniqueness between the 10 new articles. Results : Article 1  Spin-Off from JetSpinner => Unique 76.7%  -> Words: 500 Article 2  Spin-Off from JetSpinner => Unique 59.19% -> Words: 509 Article 3  Spin-Off from JetSpinner => Unique 79.25% -> Words: 497 Article 4  Spin-Off from JetSpinner => Unique 59.19% -> Words: 510 Article 5  Spin-Off from JetSpinner => Unique 52.48% -> Words: 511 Article 6  Spin-Off from JetSpinner => Unique 80.77% -> Words: 506 Article 7  Spin-Off from JetSpinner => Unique 71.43% -> Words: 470 Article 8  Spin-Off from JetSpinner => Unique 68.94% -&g...
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Testing Out This New Article Spinner By The Creators Of JetSpinner
2008-06-03 22:29:00
I have been testing out this new article spinner service call Human Spinner 1.0 (in beta stage currently) from the creators of JetSpinner.  If you have been testing out the different article spinner services, you should roughly know that a software will try to change the words to something with the same meaning.  An so far, most of the article spinner services have failed (other than the exception of ContentFX). But for this new service, Human Spinner 1.0, instead of having a program to change the words for you, each article that you submit will actually be changed by real human writers on the spot.  You can choose to pay per paragraph or per sentence to change.  I have just submitted my first article and opt for a change for all sentences just to see its result.  It will be interesting because you can have the same article being rewritten by real humans instead of some lousy piece of software.  I think it takes around 1 hour for the article to be totally rewritten for each se...
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Bum Marketing In A Refreshing Effort Starting June 1st 2008.
2008-06-01 21:04:00
Been getting back my momentum before my long awaited 3 weeks break from my job. Thanks Hannie for some valuable advice on how you achieve $100 a day and how I should focus my efforts when I do IM full time. Trying to get a schedule up and start tomorrow. Your advice on affiliate marketing for MoreNiche and Clickbank was great! Anyway, I have been bored and today is the first time I check out the market place in sitepoint and suddenly, I learn so much more about building websites to sell, how everyone sells their service and the kind of money involved in buying content, buying websites as well as the selling portion. http://marketplace.sitepoint.com Check out the website and maybe for newbies, we can learn quite alot from how some of the experts are doing. I was stunned by one of the offers on a health niche with a PR6 and looking at the website, I have no idea how google gave it a PR6. Need to really study how things worked. I just sign up Jo Han Mok’s 60minstofreedom (to...
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To Earn Money Using Resale Rights: Great Post By Patric Chan On Thinking Ou
2008-05-24 09:24:00
Patric Chan has just written a great post on selling resale rights.  I believe after reading it, it will give you some ideas on what to do with the resale rights products that you have stored on your harddisk and how you can stand out from the crowd. Please read it and enjoy the weekends. how-to-make-money-online-faster-than.html Regards, Andrew Technorati Tags: making money with resale rights
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Get Your Blog Post Republish To Other Websites For Free For The Time Being
2008-05-23 07:46:00
Hi Friends, Jon Leger (to me, he is the $7 man) has just started a new website that was launched to fill a gap for bloggers.  You can goto Share A Post now to check out what it is about. In a nutshell (hopefully my own explanation is clear enough), we submit our articles to ezinearticles.com to get backlinks as well as traffic.  Well, for Share A Post, you submit your blog post (useful and informative content) to the website and other bloggers who are looking for quality blog post to add into their blogs will republish your blog post. So you can see more of your post being republished on other blog sites. Basically, to really know more about it, you just have to test it yourself.  Currently, this website is still undergoing testing and debugging and Jon has not decided if this service will continue to be free or he will charge a fee in future.  Anyway, no harm trying it now. http://shareapost.com/ Just found out I got 2 blog post being republished already. Regards, Andrew (PS:...
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