User-friendly Websites

Not too long ago, I wrote a post on a local company and that brought me so much traffic for MONTHS. I think the reason is that people would like to have more information on the services offered by this company BUT this company has a website that is so flash intensive but really, it has no information that people want.

I have been to the site time and again because I am their customer and I sometimes need more information as well but after wasting time waiting for the flash to load, the music to play and stuff, I surf around without getting the information that I seek.

You know, ten out of ten times I would be forced to call up their customer service centre. Luckily, they do have a rather good team of people working the customer service front and would answer all my questions thoroughly. That’s their saving grace!

Subscribing to Denver Magazine

The other day, I wrote about a company that provides discounted annual subscription to popular magazines. Today, I was reminded of another magazine that is open for subscription and they are charging $29.99 per year or $49.99 for two years.

A long time ago, I went to the website of Denver Magazine and today, I had the chance to check out their website again and I saw that they have revamped their website. It is so refreshing now.

Although this magazine is called Denver Magazine, I understand that people from other states also enjoy reading it. My sister is also a subscriber, thanks to a subscription gift from a colleague, and she said that there’s plenty to read even though she has no particular interest in Denver, living in Tennessee herself!

I think that $29.99 is so affordable for a year of a good read. Don’t you think so?

How Fast Can I Type?

I have so many posts to type I wonder how many words I can type per minute. I know that while I could type fast, I need IDEAS to blog on also. A friend told me that she would have to stay up tonight to complete her blogs but then blog about WHAT?

I was told of a website which will calculate the speed of our typing but each time I tried that, I was so self-conscious that I typed way too many errors.

Even when I can type fast and I can spell, I don’t know what is wrong with my fingers, untrained, unprofessional kind of typing that I will ALWAYS get that handful of words WRONGLY.

Why is that so? I talked to a friend about it and she says that she has the same problem. I think that the keys should be moved to accommodate our individual typing LOL

No More Minimum PR3?

A friend told me that she has received an assignment from a company that all along only wanted minimum PR3 for their database of bloggers. My friend’s blog fell to a big fat zero and yet she received this assignment. JELES JELES JELES LOL

Now, the funny thing was that not only did she receive an assignment on her PR0 blog, she received TWO assignments for the same advertiser on the same blog.

I think this network is screwed up too. They may keep harping they only accept minimum PR3 but when the majority of bloggers who want to blog for money have their blogs adjusted unnaturally to a big fat zero, what can he do but to distribute jobs to all these people, right? Do you think that they could afford to wait till new bloggers sign up with them? I don’t think so.

If you stick around long enough, perhaps you will also receive a surprise assignment from a company that sends out assignments in Greek that you would have to read three times to understand what they want!

Where To Get Last Minute Tickets

A friend plans to go to USA for a holiday but his company just approved his leave. He told me that he is very agitated that he only has such a short time to plan his holiday. He told me to help him with making reservations and buying theme park tickets and sports tickets so I said OK. I hope that he would help me in turn should I need help. That’s what friends are for, right?

He told me that he must watch his favorite NBA team during his trip there and is looking for a couple of Miami Heat Tickets.

I do know where he could buy last minute tickets but I think I should at least have his itinerary first before I could purchase those tickets on his behalf, right? I hope that all the hassle that he is feeling now, it would be worth it once he lands on American soil. He better get me a souvenir for the trouble he puts me through as well!

100,000 Bloggers

It was recently announced that Triple-P-ville now has more than a hundred thousand bloggers. That is a phenomenal growth within one and a half years. Of the hundred thousand bloggers, there are of course some who are inactive but there are also people with multiple blogs.

You know, it is not easy to cari makan anymore and some people predicted that this business will not survive. Well, perhaps it will because there will always be fresh bloggers joining the marketplace with fresh blogs. The old ones will die off with their tainted blogs, unfortunately.

A blogger even wanted to continue building blogs to beat he system but what god would it do? I don’t see how people could spare that much time building up blogs only to have them thwarted at the next instance.

For me, I believe I have better things to do! Most of my blog friends have channeled their energy to to something else. Blogging has taken a back seat but that does not mean that we have lost the passion for it.

Blogging as and when we like is so refreshing!!

I Dreamt Of Alexa!!!

Goodness! I think I am going crazy with all blogging. I mean, I love blogging but I hate the competitive edge that comes with keeping up with other bloggers like how high we rank in page rank, how well we rank in Technorati, Alexa score and other measurements. Oh yea, how could I forget the real ranking?

This afternoon, while taking a nap, I dreamt of my Alexa score and I would say that it was a nightmare because the reading was way higher than what I actually have for my blog.

The weird thing was that I really “saw” the Alexa widget in my dream like the one that I currently have on my blog. And it also has a blue text with white background too. It was so vivid and I was startled from my sleep. Like I mentioned, the score was way higher than my already high score now. Tell me that is not my worst dream! I think I need a break or I would start dreaming of some other blog related matters!

Random Thoughts Off My Mind