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Nominate Your Fav App!

Anthony — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 20:46:19 +0000

The 2008 iDezy Web Worker Award recognises the number web app or tool you can’t live without!

Now’s the time to head on over to the awards page and nominate your favourite tool or app so it can be judged by the panel of experts. Judging this year is Darren Rowse from ProBlogger, Veronica Belmont from Revision3 and Chris Garrett from Chrisg.com.

Plus you can win one of 5 GoDaddy gift cards or an all access pass to animoto if you nominate an app.

I encourage you to check it out and go nominate!

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Who Still Uses MyBlogLog

Anthony — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 08:02:22 +0000

I’m interested to know who still uses MyBlogLog – the once popular tool which allowed you to create a community around your blog and showed you who had recently visited your blog.

It seems as thouh it has almost completely died as im not seeing it on many blogs. So heres the poll, are you still using it?

Who Still Uses MyBlogLog

P.S Hit me up on Twitter and send me your blog url as I will be doing a few reviews over on my blog. I would love to checkout your sites!

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How Not to Interact Online

Anthony — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 03:16:11 +0000

The web we use these days is all about being social and interacting with others. Whether its posting a comment on a blog or Tweeting on your Twitter account, every action you make has an impact on your personal brand. And seeing as your brand is your most valuable marketing tool, its in your best interest to look after it.

Here are my tips on what NOT to do online.

Post generic comments on blogs – “nice post” may sound like your complementing the blogger, but really you are just leaving a lifeless, generic comment that adds no value to the conversation. Keyword “value”!
Post comments promoting your products – there are plenty of other more suitable places to do this. And besides, your comment already links back to your site.
Respond to Trolls – Trolls are those who comment with the sole purpose of being negative and trying to milk a reaction from you. Get over your ego, ignore them and don’t honour them with any response.
Only post about your site on Twitter – Its easy to post about yourself. Why not do something challenging and post about others. Talk about others and they will talk about you.

All of this has been said before – in fact its probably said better here, but the big point I would like to make is adding “value”. If you can contribute to a conversation no matter what form its in (blog, comment, tweet) you are on the right track.

Make sure you follow me on Twitter, check out my blog or you can contact me anthony@feint.me – I would love to hear your thoughts on interacting through social media

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Join SurveySpot To Make Some Extra Money

Matthew Henrickson — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 22:37:41 +0000

We’ve been with SurveySpot for over a year now since joining Surveyspot. Our first check was received March 15th, 2007 for $28. Since then I’ve been able to earn a pretty steady extra few bucks for just a few minutes of time. Not to mention free samples and got paid to try a few products.

Take Surveys with SurveySpot

Many survey sites are pretty dodgy and claim to pay you, but never do. Or maybe pay you once then just start spamming you. In a year of use, I’ve never had such problems with Surveyspot.

There are quite a few reasons to join SurveySpot:

Minimum Payout $5. This should only take 1-3 surveys to reach. I’ve found most surveys are $3-5.

No SSN/credit card. This is one of the few websites that pay me without asking for a social. Of course never join a survey site that needs your credit card information. Some continue to charge after you cancel!

The More You Take. It seems the more surveys you take, the more often you get them.

Payment History

Survey sites can be shady and I would never promote it without confirming I’ve been paid. So I took a screenshot of my payment history. For the last year you can see that in the last year I’ve earned $267. I can definitely confirm I haven’t participated in every survey and generally don’t take long surveys for the big $. That brings our all time total to $525.

Our good friend Sir Jorge is also a big SurveySpot advocate and has shared his payment status with us. He’s been with SurveySpot from October of 2006 – Sept 2008 and earned $509, including some Amazon money he earned through a particular set of surveys.

Are you getting paid for your opinions on surveys? Join SurveySpot today. Make sure to confirm your email to start getting your surveys.

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OIOPublisher Goes Down, So Does My Blog

Matthew Henrickson — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 21:29:48 +0000

Update

After installing a clean version of OIOPublisher all is back to normal!

You may notice that our ads are gone due to OIOPublisher causing problems. I first noticed a problem when I was trying to log into Free Sample Deals. There was an error from OIOPublisher.

Then going to BAYB I noticed all of our comments weren’t right. I suspected it may be OIOPublisher causing the troubles. I tried upgrading. Instead, that made everything worse and I couldnt even deactivate the plugin.

After removing the plugin completely all the errors were gone.

Has anyone else been experiencing any errors caused by OIOPublisher?

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Perfect Business Update

Matthew Henrickson — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:00:04 +0000

I just wrote about the Perfect Business Competition. I am working on winning, the prize is $1,000.

Perfect Business Update

Well good news, the girl who went from 3-4th to 2,000+ votes has been disqualified. This means that now I’m only about 80 votes from first place.

This seems pretty attainable, at least to catch the women in first place.

The voting system has changed a little bit. Now you have to go to my profile, then click vote for me. Remember you can vote once per day!

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Jamie Kennedy Contest Winners

Matthew Henrickson — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 18:00:37 +0000

Our Jamie Kennedy Contest went well, but it could of done better. On August 1st we launched our contest giving away Jamie Kennedy autographed items. It got around on a lot of the contest blogs, but many of them didn’t follow the “rules” to enter. Therefore we got the word out and a lot of links, but not very many entries.

Grand Prize Winners

There are three grand prize winners. Each person will receive a package of autographed Jamie Kennedy items.

The winners are:

Due to the fact as I mentioned that the entries were low, we chose 3 as key chain winners.

Congratulations to all of our winners, make sure to get in contact with me to claim your prizes.

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April Fool’s Spotlight

Mark Sierra — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 03:08:28 +0000

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It has been WAY too long since I’ve posted here. So I thought I’d get back into the swing of things by posting a collection of April Fool’s jokes that have made their way to the Web today.

I must admit that ever since I saw last year’s April Fool’s jokes by Google, April 1st couldn’t get here fast enough for me so that I could try my hand at a little fun.

Here are just a few that I’ve come across. If you’ve found some, don’t be shy and post them in the comments.

MeAndMyDrum – Google Announces The G-String iPhone Accessory
Darn Good Reviews – Frog Soap That Washes Away Fat?
Google – Virgle: The Adventure of Many Lifetimes
Garry Conn dot com – I Got Banned From Google Adsense!
Chris Pirillo – Chris Pirillo Gets In Fight With Wife and Quits His Job
Google – Gmail Custom Time
John Chow – John Chow Cola – The Official Blogger Drink
Freelance Writing Gigs – Men with Pens Expands with Freelance Writing Gigs

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Germ of an idea for a How To… blog

Ed the Editor — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 19:21:11 +0000

A while ago, Matt gave me an idea to broaden my blogging horizons – he suggested I start another blog! I set to thinking about a topic I would enjoy writing about day in, day out, in a niche that I know well to the point of being an authority. After dismissing the idea of a How To Make Money Blog, I went back to my roots. Would anyone undertaking a home decorating project be interested in a How To… blog written by a master painter with a modicum of humor? Who knows, but I aim to find out.

Rather than launch myself into it feet first, I have decided to test the water and post a sample article. I think it could do with some images, but for now, what do you think to the following. Worth pursuing, or re-think?

10 tips for using a paint roller without getting more paint on you than on the wall.

Before I launch into the list of tips, rest assured you are reading the words of a real painter who actually went to college for 4 years to learn the basics of the trade. Unlike most painters who learn at the School of Experience, I was taught the principles as well as the mechanics of painting. I hope that subtlety shines through in the following list.

1 – Wear a hat, unless you want to end up looking like Richard Gere.

2 – Wear coveralls, unless you have more money than sense. If you are so loaded you can afford to ruin your best clothes with latex paint, why not employ a professional painter and save yourself a trip to the clothes store.

3 – Cover the floor and furniture with plastic sheets. As in tip 2, if you have so much cash that you don’t mind wrecking expensive couches and rugs with $10 paint spots, use the money to employ a professional painter.

4 – Place your roller tray on a sheet of cardboard. You will be able to work faster because you won’t be preoccupied with paint dripping off the tray onto the plastic sheeting (or carpet, if you are lazy). You can also keep the tin of paint right next to your roller tray, which means you can drag the whole lot around very easily and don’t waste time walking back and forth keeping the tray filled with paint.

5 – Always use a roller pole. Trust me, it is easier, faster and gives a better finish. Extendable poles that start life at about 3 foot and extend to 10 are the most useful. Obviously, don’t be afraid to take the roller off a pole if you are getting wedged in a tight spot!

6 – Use the appropriate roller sleeve for the surface and the paint you are using. The smoother the surface or the shinier the paint, the shorter the nap or pile you need to use. Rather than give an exhaustive list, the simplest way to choose the correct sleeve is ask the guy in the paint store, or if you are in Home Depot, read the labels.

7 – Trim the ends of a new roller sleeve with a pair of scissors so you get rid of the long nap AND WASH IT UNDER A TAP TO GET RID OF FLUFF. This tip from SCH is one I never came across before in 18 years of working, but it makes sense. (Basically, under use, a sleeve wears out at the ends first, and it isn’t unusual to see pros using what you might consider to be a half bald roller sleeve. They are happy painters, though, because the knackered looking rollers don’t leave lines like a new fluffy one.)

8 – Pour the paint out the back of the can – ie away from the label that tells you the color and type of paint. Also, wipe the excess paint off the rim using your brush. There is nothing worse than replacing the lid, standing on it to wedge it tight, and then walking off with paint on the sole of your shoe! Do not ignore this tip, even if you know you will definitely use all the paint from the tin in one session.

9 – When filling the tray, pour from a few inches high, not a few feet. Splatterville is not a good place to work. Also, very important, don’t let the paint flood the well of the tray and spill onto the section where you charge the roller.

10 – Take a breather. Now you have the room, you, a roller sleeve and a roller tray prepared for painting. But don’t even think about rolling anything until you have a) read the next round of tips on rolling, and b) painted around all the edges of your first wall with a paint brush!

You heard it first. Opinions welcome.

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Everything’s Under Construction

Rhys Wynne — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 20:39:04 +0000

Admit it you have been making a website, got bored, thought “sod it, I’ll come back to it” and thrown an image like the one to the right. Why? Is it because that coding HTML is as backbreaking as manual labour, or you feel the need to throw something up before it was ready, and think “at least it’s getting spidered”.

That’s very true, but the icon to the right is got as much to do with website design as Paris Hilton has with NASA. It’s just the look screams to potential readers “We design websites like it’s 1996″.

Or maybe, more likely, is that nothing online is ever finished. Take my blog (yes, I had to get a plug in somewhere), recently I launched a new site design which, despite achieving wasn’t quite there. It took a comment from a brave girl (she was brave, she criticized) called Celeste to put the finger on what was troubling me.

It was too busy.

Yes! That was it! Fantastic. I spent a few hours therefore this evening going through the template, stretching out the content and tidying up the god awful comment box. Now I am content, and I can get on with blogging.

Of course, if you spot anything on your travels, please do. Like I would with yourself. Therefore, we won’t need to wait with baited breath for your new site whilst a man shovels away at an endless pile of rubble.

Rhys Wynne is a 5 year blogger, 10 year web designer, and regularly wolf-whistles at attractive ladies whilst coding HTML. You can read more from him at The Gospel According To Rhys, or even talk to him on his forum.

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