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PPP Direct: Let Advertisers Approach You Directly

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As you may notice from the badges on my sidebar, I am a proud member of PayPerPost. Did you see my new badge that says I am for hire at $15 per post? This is the most exciting feature that PayPerPost rolled out earlier today.

If you are a blogger who writes blog ads you will know that PayPerPost is not the only marketplace that allows advertisers to approach a blogger directly BUT it is THE only company that allows bloggers to earn the most out of their blogging.

I have joined quite a number of marketplaces but they all take a huge cut off my earnings, from 30% right up to a 100%. No doubt, they facilitate the service that I offer, but I would definitely love to get a large chunk of my share.

On the other hand, PayPerPost is only taking a 10% cut off my asking price of which half of what they get goes to PayPal and credit card processing. We ALL know those service charges are high!

Also, with PayPerPost in the middle providing escrow-like service where they will hold the payment made by the advertiser and only releases it to the blogger once an assignment is completed to the advertiser’s satisfaction, the interests of both parties are protected and there will be no doubts as to the honesty of the blogger or advertiser’s offer.

Do I need any more reason to only place PayPerPost’s badge on my blog? Definitely not. Blogging may be a hobby to most of us but who said that we can’t make money out of hobbies?

If you aren’t yet a member of PayPerPost, do sign up now by clicking on my blue and green “PayPerPost: Get Paid To Blog About The Things You Love!” badge and then you too can place a PPP Direct badge on your blog at a price that YOU set.

Computing & Internet

Meebo – Instant Messaging Everywhere

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The other day, I just formatted my computer and was lazy to install all my instant messengers. My friend told me to use Meebo. I have never heard of Meebo before, after all the internet is so huge, one can’t know about everything that is happening online even when she spends 25 hours online daily!

Meebo is rather nice to use, although its interface is like Yahoo! Messenger. If you have a Meebo account, you could log in to ALL your major messenger accounts at once from the web. Otherwise, you can only log in to one messenger at a time through the Meebo website.

Messengers that are supported include AOL Instant Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, MSN, Google Talk, ICQ and Jabber. It also supports many of the world’s languages, including Bahasa Melayu. It’s kinda cute when I switched to Bahasa hehehe

And then there’s Meebo Me, a cool chat widget that you can place on any web page and chat with your visitors. I used Chatango previously but may change to Meebo Me soon! Let’s see which is cooler!

In The News

View On Breast Augmentation News

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Did you read the newspaper yesterday about a lady who was convinced to get a boob job and somehow the “surgeon” failed in the procedure and then caused her to suffer from breast cancer? Well, I don’t know how that could happen at all but her self-esteem must have been rather low to be so easily convinced.

A friend of mine works closely with plastic surgeons. He told me that reliable centers like the Beverly Hills plastic surgery really evaluates a would-be patient to find out her real reason for having a plastic surgery performed, and not convince people to go for it like this quack doctor.

If this victim really wanted to have larger breasts, why did she not go for a Los Angeles breast augmentation instead? I am sure that if she did, none of these problems would have happened. Now she is suffering alone without recourse and the reason she came out in the open is to warn other gullible women. If someone wants to get a plastic surgery, go get it from the best surgery that has set a high standard with their service and cutting edge technology.

Like the Rodeo Drive Plastic Surgery, they offer the latest techniques in breast augmentation, using saline or silicone implants. The fact that they are the pioneer plastic surgery and breast augmentation specialty center in Rodeo Drive tells a lot. In the fickle world of Beverly Hills, if they are not good, they would have been out of the business a long time ago.

General

Weekend Chat On St. Louis Colleges

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Over the weekend, I met my friend whom I have lost touch with for the longest time. He told me that right after high school, he attended one of the colleges in St. Louis, where his sister lives. He told me that he did his research online first before registering with a college. According to him, one of the best resource website on colleges in St. Louis is at www.schoolsinstlouis.com

Too bad I am way past college age and should I continue with my education, I prefer to study online. However, I will surely share this piece of good information with friends who may be interested to gain tertiary education in St. Louis, Missouri.

It was so funny, when I first saw him, I jokingly told him, “Oi, it has been such a long time, I almost made a missing person report with the police!” Apparently, he is back to attend his brother’s wedding. There is a lot of catching up to do naturally. When I see him again this weekend, he will have to tell me about his life AFTER college!

Blogging

Putting the Bling in Blogging

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I am sure that most Malaysian bloggers would have heard of this tag line. Like it? It would have sounded better if it’s “Putting the Bling BACK in Blogging”. The BLING was there, and then it was lost but now that Advertlets is here, the Bling is BACK. Get it?

Anyway, although this company has been set up for quite some time now, I just joined them yesterday. Am I slow or what? Duh!

To be frank, why I joined was because they are currently running this review campaign where Advertlets members with the ad code successfully installed on their blogs will be able to review Advertlets and then stand a chance to earn MYR50. This sum may be small to some people but it’s good enough for me.

Their review campaign ends on 31st May, 2007 and since I only got to know about it yesterday, I did not waste time and registered pronto. After getting the ad code running on my blog, I wrote and published a post on Advertlets on my blog and submitted my permalink via email to them.

Ten hours later, I received an email from them thanking me for my post and I was told that my Advertlets account has been credited with MYR50. w00t! This has got to be the FASTEST payment I ever received from monetizing my blogs!

While I am only able to cash out when my earnings reached MYR100, it feels good to have MYR50 sitting pretty in my account. It’s better than starting from a big fat zero!

If you haven’t joined Advertlets, quickly join now and grab that MYR50. They are giving away a total of MYR15,000 to three hundred Malaysian bloggers. Why not grab a share? For more information on how the review should be like, read THIS PAGE.

Computing & Internet

LASIK Complications Resource Site

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Sometime back, I was actually advocating Lasik laser surgery for my friends who have to depend on glasses. However, I subsequently found out that not everyone will come out of Lasik better than before. Statistics show that approximately a million patients who have received Lasik suffer from complications. My, that is a lot of people, isn’t it?

When I came across this Lasik complications resource site for people with Lasik problems, I just have to blog about it. As many people depend on the internet for information, I feel that the more people who talk about this useful resource website, the easier it is for people to receive the much needed information in plain language on complications that rose from Lasik.

Statistics show that less than 3% of Lasik or other similar eye surgery patients have an unresolved eye complication six months after going through the procedure with 0.5% of these patients suffering from long-term problems. While in percentage wise, this figures are small, we should still reach out to the people.

Complicated Eyes, which was founded by patient advocate Mr. Glenn Hagele, is a sister site of USAEyes.org. They share the same bulletin boar for patient Q&A. Moreover, this organization has a global network of specialist doctors to help patients in need.

If you are or know of anyone suffering from Lasik complications, do check out Complicated Eyes.

Charity

The First Tee

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I came across this organization last month. If not for my writing of sponsored posts, I would not even have known about it. Anyway, I think this is a great set up and it gives a chance for young people from all backgrounds a chance to learn golf, a chance that they most probably would not have if not for The First Tee.

The First Tee, supported by The PGA of America, imparts nine core values to these young people through the game of golf. Even ordinarily, I have always believed that children who are actively involved in sports are better children in terms of discipline and focus. They most probably outperform children who are not into sports or music, despite spending less time on books since they have divided their time to sports as well.

The First Tee welcomes monetary donations. Such contributions are tax-deductible in full under the tax law.