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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" media="screen" href="/~d/styles/atom10full.xsl"?><?xml-stylesheet type="text/css" media="screen" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~d/styles/itemcontent.css"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:openSearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/" xmlns:georss="http://www.georss.org/georss" xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" xmlns:feedburner="http://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/1.0" gd:etag="W/&quot;DkEARHo_eCp7ImA9WxNbEkk.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6939370084470385228</id><updated>2009-11-15T08:24:05.440+08:00</updated><title>Banicmanic's Point of View</title><subtitle type="html">Personal blog talk about anything from my daily life to business, education, money, personal, shopping, travel, movies and everything else!</subtitle><link rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://banicmanic.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://banicmanic.blogspot.com/" /><link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/" /><link rel="next" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6939370084470385228/posts/default?start-index=26&amp;max-results=25&amp;redirect=false&amp;v=2" /><author><name>Banicmanic</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04028980495851582246</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author><generator version="7.00" uri="http://www.blogger.com">Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>321</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><xhtml:meta xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" name="robots" content="noindex" /><link rel="self" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/Banicmanic" type="application/atom+xml" /><feedburner:emailServiceId>Banicmanic</feedburner:emailServiceId><feedburner:feedburnerHostname>http://feedburner.google.com</feedburner:feedburnerHostname><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com" /><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;CE4GRXk9fSp7ImA9WxNbEkk.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6939370084470385228.post-9127421872795174376</id><published>2009-11-15T07:42:00.003+08:00</published><updated>2009-11-15T07:55:24.765+08:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2009-11-15T07:55:24.765+08:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Sponsored Posts" /><title>The Real Property Management Midwest</title><content type="html">When the need arises, you might want to hire someone who is professional from RPM Midwest especially if you live in the Midwest for it is the best place to have your property managed. The &lt;a href="http://www.rpmmidwest.com"&gt;Real Property Management&lt;/a&gt; Midwest. With its known good reputation, there is no doubt that your properties will be managed accordingly whether for tenant placement, collections, inspections, accounting, credit and multi-state criminal background screening or just assuring that your tenants are handling your properties well.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;RPM Midwest has being awarded as "Franchise of the Year, Honorable Mention" award. They are the fastest growing property management company in the country. They help owners rent their places quickly, They collect the rent, inspect the properties 3 times per year to ensure that the tenants are taking care of the property. They cover the cost of any eviction (if necessary). They are the best property management company in Cincinnati and Columbus, Ohio&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;script expr:src='"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~s/Banicmanic?i=" + data:post.url' type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6939370084470385228-9127421872795174376?l=banicmanic.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Banicmanic/~4/7rTkb3t2JHo" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://banicmanic.blogspot.com/feeds/9127421872795174376/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://banicmanic.blogspot.com/2009/11/real-property-management-midwest.html#comment-form" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6939370084470385228/posts/default/9127421872795174376?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6939370084470385228/posts/default/9127421872795174376?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Banicmanic/~3/7rTkb3t2JHo/real-property-management-midwest.html" title="The Real Property Management Midwest" /><author><name>Banicmanic</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04028980495851582246</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty name="OpenSocialUserId" value="02808168763430595136" /></author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://banicmanic.blogspot.com/2009/11/real-property-management-midwest.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;CUYDQn49fCp7ImA9WxNbEk8.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6939370084470385228.post-8515617760124247316</id><published>2009-11-15T02:25:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2009-11-15T02:26:13.064+08:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2009-11-15T02:26:13.064+08:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Money" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="internet" /><title>Working for someone else unfortunately will not make you wealthy - not in the real sense.</title><content type="html">There are some people making very high incomes working for a big company but that's not truly wealthy - not when you have to work 60 or 70 hours a week, plus travel in heavy traffic each way.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Up until the New Economy, going to work every day was the only real way. That was called Industrial Age work practices - much like our parents and grandparents did.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Remember, these are the people who taught us that "hard work" was the answer. And where did "hard work" get them?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Frustrated, blaming the economy, blaming big business and most likely broke in retirement.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The New Economy operates very differently - our school systems have not yet caught onto this unfortunately so the "hard work" plan is still being taught.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the New Economy the borders have disappeared, the opportunities have increased exponentially, the barriers have disappeared and anybody can make a fortune regardless of their experience, culture, religon or background.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The only barrier is attitude. A bad one will kill you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Industrial Age means you work for money.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;New Economy means money works for you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's about identifying legitimate and proven "growth vehicles" in which you can invest your time, energy and money for returns and growth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And always remember that your income can only increase as much as you do. Invest in your own self growth and the rest will take care of itself. It's the Law of Cause and Effect.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;script expr:src='"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~s/Banicmanic?i=" + data:post.url' type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6939370084470385228-8515617760124247316?l=banicmanic.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Banicmanic/~4/r1yCf-e7QWg" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://banicmanic.blogspot.com/feeds/8515617760124247316/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://banicmanic.blogspot.com/2009/11/working-for-someone-else-unfortunately.html#comment-form" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6939370084470385228/posts/default/8515617760124247316?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6939370084470385228/posts/default/8515617760124247316?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Banicmanic/~3/r1yCf-e7QWg/working-for-someone-else-unfortunately.html" title="Working for someone else unfortunately will not make you wealthy - not in the real sense." /><author><name>Banicmanic</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04028980495851582246</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty name="OpenSocialUserId" value="02808168763430595136" /></author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://banicmanic.blogspot.com/2009/11/working-for-someone-else-unfortunately.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;C0YCRXsyeSp7ImA9WxNbEk0.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6939370084470385228.post-9094165757830872298</id><published>2009-11-14T19:45:00.003+08:00</published><updated>2009-11-14T20:19:24.591+08:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2009-11-14T20:19:24.591+08:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Sponsored Posts" /><title>Great Videos Already Submitted - Don’t Miss Your Chance To Win $5,000</title><content type="html">I am a very visual person, I am constantly looking at everything! Lately my eyes have been hurting. My vision has gotten worse in the last few months. It’s making me feel horrible! I think part of it is spending way too much time staring at this flat screen. I’m always in front of my office computer 8 hours a day and my laptop most of the time at home. I’m feeling that I no longer have perfect eyesight than I used to have. I was about to get computer glasses last week but I opted to wait for a few more weeks until I have enough money cause I really want to have Benetton frames instead.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have been increasing the font size on my computer which I now see is not a good thing. The idea is to challenge my vision. I have a mirror set up beside me on the computer. It is annoying because I hate to see myself in the mirror. The reason it is there is so that I can ‘catch’ myself squinting, furrowing my brow or resting my chin on my palm. I would love to avoid wearing glasses. I think it’s a possibility. I just need to start working on it now!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But the good thing is, I still have near perfect vision. But for those of you who are not as fortunate, why not join "You Gotta See This" contest by Abbot Medical Optics Inc. (AMO), the global leader in laser vision correction? They just launched this contest to see how poor eyesight can get in the way of anyone enjoying life. Entrants only need to share through videos, music or movie, on how an improved vision made an impact in their lives. Here are specific categories:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;a. “My contacts are getting in the way of my good time”&lt;br /&gt;b. “My favorite sport or activity would be so much cooler with better vision”&lt;br /&gt;c. “You should see life after the iLASIK procedure”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The &lt;a href="http://socialspark.com/metrics/click/post?slot_id=86772&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.GottaSeeThisNow.com" rel="nofollow"&gt;iLASIK Video Contest&lt;/a&gt; asks the participants to shoot a video to show the impact of improved vision in peoples livesAccording the contest website, many people have already submitted great video contents like original music videos, videos on boxing and swimming or simple videos that reflect how people’s daily lives would improve through a better vision.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are great prizes for the winners as well as a grand prize of $5,000. Along the grand prize, the first prize for the contest in each video category is a&lt;br /&gt;HDTV package — a $2,500 value; the second prize in each video category is The Flip UltraHD™ camcorder — a $199.99 value.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;map name="map6102"&gt;&lt;area href="http://socialspark.com/metrics/click/disclosure?slot_id=86772&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.GottaSeeThisNow.com" shape="rect" coords="0,0,206,45" rel="nofollow" /&gt;&lt;area href="http://socialspark.com/code_of_ethics" shape="rect" coords="207,0,225,45" rel="nofollow" /&gt;&lt;/map&gt;&lt;img alt="Post?slot_id=86772&amp;url=http%3a%2f%2fsocialspark" border="0" src="http://socialspark.com/metrics/view/post?slot_id=86772&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fsocialspark.com%2Fimages%2Fdisclosure_badges%2Fdisclosure_badge_grey.png" style="border:0" usemap="#map6102" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;script expr:src='"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~s/Banicmanic?i=" + data:post.url' type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6939370084470385228-9094165757830872298?l=banicmanic.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Banicmanic/~4/BWuDKaTtKxg" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://banicmanic.blogspot.com/feeds/9094165757830872298/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://banicmanic.blogspot.com/2009/11/great-videos-already-submitted-dont.html#comment-form" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6939370084470385228/posts/default/9094165757830872298?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6939370084470385228/posts/default/9094165757830872298?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Banicmanic/~3/BWuDKaTtKxg/great-videos-already-submitted-dont.html" title="Great Videos Already Submitted - Don’t Miss Your Chance To Win $5,000" /><author><name>Banicmanic</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04028980495851582246</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty name="OpenSocialUserId" value="02808168763430595136" /></author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://banicmanic.blogspot.com/2009/11/great-videos-already-submitted-dont.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;A0cNRns8eyp7ImA9WxNbEUQ.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6939370084470385228.post-4450551518828972940</id><published>2009-11-14T19:44:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2009-11-14T19:44:57.573+08:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2009-11-14T19:44:57.573+08:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="traffic" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="SEO" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="internet" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="advertise" /><title>The most effective way to advertise on the Internet</title><content type="html">First set up a website and publish its domain name on major search directories such as Google.com, Yahoo.com [at http://www.google.com/addurl/?...... and MSN.com since 85% of Internet shoppers rely on these search directories to provide them with goods and services. In a sense, these search directories are a very large Internet Yellow Pages.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nevertheless, should your website or opening webpage fail to contain "generic" keywords, then anyone using such "generic" queries will not be able to discover&lt;br /&gt;your website. Your domain name [URL] of your website, in a sense, will be invisible, undiscoverable.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You may want to consider some simple algorithms which, when observed and committed in designing of a website with placement of various critical metatags that can surely achieve a high search engine presence and increase Internet traffic to your website. These metatag strategies work well with published webpages at Google and Yahoo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Design: Should you create an extensive Flash-based website, make sure to fill-in the property entries such as the Title, Description and Keywords. Failing to do so, leaves no hard HTML or ALT resource that can be readily indexed by search robots. Also consider the Internet audience and their incoming setup. For example, if they are on analog/dialup, Flash webpages take too long to load up and therefore analog users will likely lose interest and discontinue entering the Flash site. On the other hand, anyone on hi-speed DSL lines, will welcome Flash pages which load quickly. So before designing a pure Flash websitge, ask the simple question, "Who's my end user - is he on dialup or DSL?" And if you had to choose between these two users for maximum marketability, then select analog users since 80% of most resident users are still analog Internet subscribers and pure HTML designed webpages is best for them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A non-Flash-based website which relies on hard text, is far easier to be indexed by search robots. Limit the use of stylized text saved as .gifs since as a graphic, they are not indexable by search robots.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Avoid use of frames since any number of search robots are unable to properly classify textual material.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Placement of Metatags: A ranking or search order does take place with Google and Yahoo and it begins with the "Title" metag which should consist of no more than 65 characters separated by commas. The "Title" should describe in generic terms, the goods and services, followed by a location from which the resource is located, i.e., city, state. The placement of a domain name which is not generic within the "Title" is not appropriate, unless your domain name is a major recognizable brand name.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The second metatag is the "Description" which is usually 25-30 words to form a complete sentence which best describes one's goods and services.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And the very last category - "Keywords" are also somewhat limited to 15-16 words which can be plural and compound in nature. Again, avoid multiple entries which could be mistaken as "spamdexed entries" which is defined as the loading, and submission of repetitive words into a particular metatag category. "Spamdexing" when discovered on a webpage and reported to Google's spamreport.com can result in the elimination of your website from their search directory.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here's an example of a very highly-placed website on Google.com: Begin with the very "generic" search query "sandwiches downtown los angeles," taking note to not abbreviate Los Angeles to "LA" and of course, leave out the parentheses ("). It will bring up some 2.4 million+ search results. Check out where "Nazos.net" is ranked. It's ranked No. 1! Again, Nazos.net's high web presence was achieved by proper web design and placement of relevant metatags according to Google's publication guidelines.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;script expr:src='"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~s/Banicmanic?i=" + data:post.url' type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6939370084470385228-4450551518828972940?l=banicmanic.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Banicmanic/~4/tVvDlBzaTFQ" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://banicmanic.blogspot.com/feeds/4450551518828972940/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://banicmanic.blogspot.com/2009/11/most-effective-way-to-advertise-on.html#comment-form" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6939370084470385228/posts/default/4450551518828972940?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6939370084470385228/posts/default/4450551518828972940?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Banicmanic/~3/tVvDlBzaTFQ/most-effective-way-to-advertise-on.html" title="The most effective way to advertise on the Internet" /><author><name>Banicmanic</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04028980495851582246</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty name="OpenSocialUserId" value="02808168763430595136" /></author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://banicmanic.blogspot.com/2009/11/most-effective-way-to-advertise-on.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;CkUFQHcyfip7ImA9WxNbEUQ.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6939370084470385228.post-4268908563592573064</id><published>2009-11-14T17:11:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2009-11-14T17:16:51.996+08:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2009-11-14T17:16:51.996+08:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Sponsored Posts" /><title>Mobile Advertising</title><content type="html">If you own a business and want to reach a wide audience, consider advertising on mobile telephones. Cell phones are multi purpose communication devices in the ready hands of users, from professionals to college students. They are powerful tools that promote dynamic business connections and personal entertainment. Your business can benefit from exploring this emerging alternative phone mode to communicate with current customers or potential prospects.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YOBwYeAF6MU/Sv4jLAQ-t8I/AAAAAAAABYE/FAgSNEfSvP4/s1600-h/imgname--smaato_raises_series_a---50226711--smaato_2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 238px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YOBwYeAF6MU/Sv4jLAQ-t8I/AAAAAAAABYE/FAgSNEfSvP4/s320/imgname--smaato_raises_series_a---50226711--smaato_2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403795274847926210" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.smaato.com"&gt;Smaato&lt;/a&gt; is a pioneering mobile advertising company that operates the mobile ad optimization platform called SOMA™ - Smaato Open Mobile Advertising and partners with mobile publishers, mobile developers, mobile ad networks and mobile operators.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;SOMA’s unique feature is the aggregation of multiple leading mobile ad networks globally to maximize mobile advertising ARPU.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sponsored by: www.&lt;a href="http://www.smaato.com"&gt;smaato&lt;/a&gt;.com&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;script expr:src='"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~s/Banicmanic?i=" + data:post.url' type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6939370084470385228-4268908563592573064?l=banicmanic.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Banicmanic/~4/IOF3B7qdVUY" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://banicmanic.blogspot.com/feeds/4268908563592573064/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://banicmanic.blogspot.com/2009/11/mobile-advertising.html#comment-form" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6939370084470385228/posts/default/4268908563592573064?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6939370084470385228/posts/default/4268908563592573064?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Banicmanic/~3/IOF3B7qdVUY/mobile-advertising.html" title="Mobile Advertising" /><author><name>Banicmanic</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04028980495851582246</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty name="OpenSocialUserId" value="02808168763430595136" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YOBwYeAF6MU/Sv4jLAQ-t8I/AAAAAAAABYE/FAgSNEfSvP4/s72-c/imgname--smaato_raises_series_a---50226711--smaato_2.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://banicmanic.blogspot.com/2009/11/mobile-advertising.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;CkYCR3k_eSp7ImA9WxNbEUQ.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6939370084470385228.post-7698119853316337518</id><published>2009-11-14T17:09:00.002+08:00</published><updated>2009-11-14T17:16:06.741+08:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2009-11-14T17:16:06.741+08:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Home-based business" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="internet" /><title>which are realistic or not?</title><content type="html">Internet is a great think as we all know. But with zillions of web pages it's hard to find what you're looking for. But wait! that's why they invented "Search engines" such as Yahoo. Right?!? But!! what is this? every time I search in yahoo or google I get gazillion possible web pages matching my search criteria!! well, that's a problem by itself, but today I want to focus on "Home-based businesses", I can't use this information because results are either scam or Non-realistic get-rich-overnight-schemes (or scams?) that are a waste of time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anybody has had a Real good experience which allows them to make money (modest, not overnight billionaires)??? Pls. give me your must honest opinion. THANKS :-)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;script expr:src='"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~s/Banicmanic?i=" + data:post.url' type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6939370084470385228-7698119853316337518?l=banicmanic.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Banicmanic/~4/wwa_qv6t02E" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://banicmanic.blogspot.com/feeds/7698119853316337518/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://banicmanic.blogspot.com/2009/11/which-are-realistic-or-not.html#comment-form" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6939370084470385228/posts/default/7698119853316337518?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6939370084470385228/posts/default/7698119853316337518?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Banicmanic/~3/wwa_qv6t02E/which-are-realistic-or-not.html" title="which are realistic or not?" /><author><name>Banicmanic</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04028980495851582246</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty name="OpenSocialUserId" value="02808168763430595136" /></author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://banicmanic.blogspot.com/2009/11/which-are-realistic-or-not.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;A0EHQXk6cCp7ImA9WxNbEUU.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6939370084470385228.post-4394870933689871758</id><published>2009-11-14T16:43:00.002+08:00</published><updated>2009-11-14T17:07:10.718+08:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2009-11-14T17:07:10.718+08:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Sponsored Posts" /><title>Torrents Search Engine</title><content type="html">If you are among those people who are so crazy about movie, game or music downloads, this torrent search engine is the best tool for you to find files available for download. These programs are almost all free and one works pretty much as well as the rest. I've had good luck with uTorrent and Transmission, but any of them will do; there are many available for free on the internet. These Queen Torrent clients are the actual programs that pull the absolutely free no money ever music &lt;a href="http://www.queentorrent.com"&gt; download software&lt;/a&gt; onto your computer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you learn to use the torrent search engine effectively, you will greatly increase your chances of finding the specific files that you are looking for with as little hassle as possible.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sponsored by: &lt;a href="http://www.queentorrent.com"&gt;www.queentorrent.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;script expr:src='"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~s/Banicmanic?i=" + data:post.url' type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6939370084470385228-4394870933689871758?l=banicmanic.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Banicmanic/~4/53gdJgBB6Mk" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://banicmanic.blogspot.com/feeds/4394870933689871758/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://banicmanic.blogspot.com/2009/11/torrents-search-engine.html#comment-form" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6939370084470385228/posts/default/4394870933689871758?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6939370084470385228/posts/default/4394870933689871758?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Banicmanic/~3/53gdJgBB6Mk/torrents-search-engine.html" title="Torrents Search Engine" /><author><name>Banicmanic</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04028980495851582246</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty name="OpenSocialUserId" value="02808168763430595136" /></author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://banicmanic.blogspot.com/2009/11/torrents-search-engine.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;AkUNQXw7eCp7ImA9WxNbEUs.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6939370084470385228.post-5386674324732776746</id><published>2009-11-14T11:02:00.003+08:00</published><updated>2009-11-14T11:11:30.200+08:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2009-11-14T11:11:30.200+08:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="traffic" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="tips" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Blogging Tips" /><title>Tips and steps in driving traffic to your site.</title><content type="html">The rules to getting traffic is very simple.You can get visitors by getting higher page rank .Increasing Page rank can be to your done in various ways.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The first and foremost step in driving traffic is to register your site with various search engines and relevant web directories.These can be done either by free submission or by paying its depends upon your choice.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Second step is getting links from high page ranked sites. This is the best way to increase the page rank and as well as traffic.But you have to ensure that you have got links from relevant sites and your links are placed in high page ranked pages(Because every page has got different page rank in same website ).I recommend to get the links from dating,entertainment,chatting ,music, movie sites .&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YOBwYeAF6MU/Sv4fnIJzfoI/AAAAAAAABX8/FzkwW-pZxQ0/s1600-h/up-website-traffic.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 365px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YOBwYeAF6MU/Sv4fnIJzfoI/AAAAAAAABX8/FzkwW-pZxQ0/s400/up-website-traffic.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403791359955140226" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Being the teen age themed site i recommend to use the social networking sites to view and share your ideas.Because the most of the people participating in these social networking groups today are youngsters.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E-mail marketing is the one of the way to get visitors. But try to stand alone from the crowd of spammers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I don't think that article writing will not provide expected traffic to your site because most of the age group between 12-25 are not much participate in the article reading.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;script expr:src='"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~s/Banicmanic?i=" + data:post.url' type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6939370084470385228-5386674324732776746?l=banicmanic.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Banicmanic/~4/ag-w7dKWsfQ" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://banicmanic.blogspot.com/feeds/5386674324732776746/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://banicmanic.blogspot.com/2009/11/tips-and-step-in-driving-traffic-to.html#comment-form" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6939370084470385228/posts/default/5386674324732776746?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6939370084470385228/posts/default/5386674324732776746?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Banicmanic/~3/ag-w7dKWsfQ/tips-and-step-in-driving-traffic-to.html" title="Tips and steps in driving traffic to your site." /><author><name>Banicmanic</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04028980495851582246</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty name="OpenSocialUserId" value="02808168763430595136" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YOBwYeAF6MU/Sv4fnIJzfoI/AAAAAAAABX8/FzkwW-pZxQ0/s72-c/up-website-traffic.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://banicmanic.blogspot.com/2009/11/tips-and-step-in-driving-traffic-to.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;DUAFRn85eSp7ImA9WxNbEUs.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6939370084470385228.post-6357124030803707323</id><published>2009-11-14T10:50:00.002+08:00</published><updated>2009-11-14T11:01:57.121+08:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2009-11-14T11:01:57.121+08:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Money" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="online" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="internet" /><title>Online money making isn't that easy!</title><content type="html">&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YOBwYeAF6MU/Sv4dlMXBqGI/AAAAAAAABX0/paH8o7Uf684/s1600-h/doolars-signs-300x240.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YOBwYeAF6MU/Sv4dlMXBqGI/AAAAAAAABX0/paH8o7Uf684/s400/doolars-signs-300x240.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403789127701342306" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;If it were really that easy to make money on the internet, everyone would do it. This would drive the price down cheaper and cheaper making it less profitable.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Any business with low barriers to entry (cheap to get into) usually don't pay that well.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Selling books on amazon.com or objects on ebay can give you a decent source of extra income. But doing it full-time is very hard work for the money you'd be making.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some ebays who are successful buy in bulk, and then sell it individually. They can make money, but anyone making much spends a lot of time at it, and you have to be very organized and have lots of storage rooms. (car seats were one such item that was in vogue)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Again, even in that operation the more doing it, the less profitable as people find what sells and hop in.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But I'd forget about it as a job. There's no magic golden goose eggs.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;script expr:src='"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~s/Banicmanic?i=" + data:post.url' type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6939370084470385228-6357124030803707323?l=banicmanic.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Banicmanic/~4/l5MmNY5ZnRc" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://banicmanic.blogspot.com/feeds/6357124030803707323/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://banicmanic.blogspot.com/2009/11/online-money-making-isnt-that-easy.html#comment-form" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6939370084470385228/posts/default/6357124030803707323?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6939370084470385228/posts/default/6357124030803707323?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Banicmanic/~3/l5MmNY5ZnRc/online-money-making-isnt-that-easy.html" title="Online money making isn't that easy!" /><author><name>Banicmanic</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04028980495851582246</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty name="OpenSocialUserId" value="02808168763430595136" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YOBwYeAF6MU/Sv4dlMXBqGI/AAAAAAAABX0/paH8o7Uf684/s72-c/doolars-signs-300x240.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://banicmanic.blogspot.com/2009/11/online-money-making-isnt-that-easy.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;A04NRHY4fSp7ImA9WxNbEU0.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6939370084470385228.post-4995525055066307871</id><published>2009-11-13T17:51:00.003+08:00</published><updated>2009-11-13T18:59:55.835+08:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2009-11-13T18:59:55.835+08:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Sponsored Posts" /><title>Charter On Demand - Internet, television and telephone rolled into one.</title><content type="html">My mom and I love movies but we are busy sometimes so we really do not have that much time to go out and watch movies in the theater. Every Saturdays, we have a bonding session which includes a lot of lollies and watching our favorite TV show of all time. My mom would love to watch discovery, history or animal channel. I would love to watch Friends, Pinoy tv, CSI: Miami, Cold Case, NCIS, Numbers, and Monk series. I feel sad when I miss one of my favorite TV shows, especially CSI: Miami, Friends or Cold Case. Watching TV shows is my mommy's favorite past time. Sometimes we had to argue on what TV show we wanna watch because I'm not interested in the shows he fondly watch. There were times that I missed my favorite TV shows because of that. But that changed when I learn about OnDemand which will let us watch the show we want right away. No more waiting or worries with schedules! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;img alt="Ondemand" src="http://socialspark.com/uploads/socialspark/public/assets/1122/ONDemand.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Curious? Go ahead and &lt;a href="http://socialspark.com/metrics/click/post?slot_id=86432&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.charter.net%2Fondemand" rel="nofollow"&gt;learn more at charter.net/ondemand&lt;/a&gt; and find out what you've been missing! Like, um... over 6,000 movies and shows, that are there when you want them, not when they just happen to be airing. That's right, you choose when and what to watch. Just imagine, internet, television and telephone rolled into one. The best part of it is that you can customize it the way you like it. You can also &lt;a href="http://socialspark.com/metrics/click/post?slot_id=86432&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fchartercom" rel="nofollow"&gt;get updates and fun extras on Charter’s Facebook page&lt;/a&gt; too.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In just one site, you can have everything that you need, whether entertainment or news. Check it out.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;map name="map5702"&gt;&lt;area href="http://socialspark.com/metrics/click/disclosure?slot_id=86432&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.charter.net%2Fondemand" shape="rect" coords="0,0,206,45" rel="nofollow" /&gt;&lt;area href="http://socialspark.com/code_of_ethics" shape="rect" coords="207,0,225,45" rel="nofollow" /&gt;&lt;/map&gt;&lt;img alt="Post?slot_id=86432&amp;url=http%3a%2f%2fsocialspark" border="0" src="http://socialspark.com/metrics/view/post?slot_id=86432&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fsocialspark.com%2Fimages%2Fdisclosure_badges%2Fdisclosure_badge_grey.png" style="border:0" usemap="#map5702" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;script expr:src='"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~s/Banicmanic?i=" + data:post.url' type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6939370084470385228-4995525055066307871?l=banicmanic.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Banicmanic/~4/sTyZnIFbcz4" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://banicmanic.blogspot.com/feeds/4995525055066307871/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://banicmanic.blogspot.com/2009/11/charter-on-demand-internet-television.html#comment-form" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6939370084470385228/posts/default/4995525055066307871?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6939370084470385228/posts/default/4995525055066307871?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Banicmanic/~3/sTyZnIFbcz4/charter-on-demand-internet-television.html" title="Charter On Demand - Internet, television and telephone rolled into one." /><author><name>Banicmanic</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04028980495851582246</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty name="OpenSocialUserId" value="02808168763430595136" /></author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://banicmanic.blogspot.com/2009/11/charter-on-demand-internet-television.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;D04AQHwyfSp7ImA9WxNbEU0.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6939370084470385228.post-484922586425087958</id><published>2009-11-12T09:09:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2009-11-13T17:52:21.295+08:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2009-11-13T17:52:21.295+08:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="blogging resources" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="affiliate" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Blogging Tips" /><title>The best way to earn money from home online is to do affiliate marketing.</title><content type="html">&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YOBwYeAF6MU/SvN5Y9QiT7I/AAAAAAAABXQ/59eWXWohWh0/s1600-h/affiliate-marketing.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 250px; height: 273px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YOBwYeAF6MU/SvN5Y9QiT7I/AAAAAAAABXQ/59eWXWohWh0/s400/affiliate-marketing.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5400793847815098290" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Bottomline: It takes hard work but can easily be done with a little startup cost and alot of your time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The best way to earn money from home online is to do affiliate marketing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is where you sell goods from other merchants straight to consumers and make a commission. There a great number of affiliate marketing networks that you can join. They will provide you with merchants and their products that you could sell.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You don't even need a website (but this would be the best way of doing it). You could send links to your friends and family. You can add links in most forums in your signature line. Don't spam as people will not tolerate this.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For more information on affiliate marketing ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affiliate_marketing&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also here is a list of reputable affiliate networks that you can join to make money online. Best part, you could sign up free and start making money today...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.oppseekers.com/92499"&gt;oppseekers.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;azoogleads.com(affiliate network for goods and services)&lt;br /&gt;ShareaSale.com (affiliate network for goods and services)&lt;br /&gt;ClickBank.net (affiliate network mostly electronic media)&lt;br /&gt;Copeac.com (affiliate network for goods and services)&lt;br /&gt;LinkConnector.com (affiliate network for goods and services)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You could pretty much sell anything under the sun. Just do a Yahoo search for "affiliate program". And you will find a great number of merchants who will be happy to sell goods and services for them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you plan on setting up simple websites or even blogs to get started, I highly recommend...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;HostGator.com (low monthly cost and unlimited sites)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The best way to start is to come up with a niche (or theme) that youâ€™re passionate about. So for example, if you're into dogs, why not setup a blog about canines or be even more specific just on Golden Retreivers. Put affiliate offers related to dogs products or Golden Retreivers (basically ads) on the sides for your readers to buy from you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Do enough of these type of mini niche sites, and you'll have checks coming in â€“ in no time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Remember don't spam. Always provide useful and valuable content to your user. And they will thank you by making purchases through your site. And it becomes a win-win situation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This can easily be done from the luxury of your home. Beware of get rich schemes. Most programs that require to put money up front are usually scams. All that I mentioned about are basically free. They (the affiliate networks) pay you and not the other way around with no startup cost. Only funds needed is to get a reputable hosting company to host your website/blog. And I mentioned a good one which only cost $10/month. Yes, there are even cheaper hosting companies and some are even free. But trust me with the amount of research that I've done. And all the headaches that I went through with other companies. The company I mentioned above is not perfect. But for $10/month, what do you have to lose.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's not easy to make money from home. But it can be done. With your time and low start up cost, you have the potential to make a decent living. I know because I already do. Best of luck.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PS - Don't waste your money or time buying ebooks or "systems". They only get the creator of those items rich. All the information you need is free on the internet. Yahoo search is your friend. There are a ton of blogs and forums to learn from.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;script expr:src='"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~s/Banicmanic?i=" + data:post.url' type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6939370084470385228-484922586425087958?l=banicmanic.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Banicmanic/~4/-3qE3ykYtUo" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://banicmanic.blogspot.com/feeds/484922586425087958/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://banicmanic.blogspot.com/2009/11/best-way-to-earn-money-from-home-online.html#comment-form" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6939370084470385228/posts/default/484922586425087958?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6939370084470385228/posts/default/484922586425087958?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Banicmanic/~3/-3qE3ykYtUo/best-way-to-earn-money-from-home-online.html" title="The best way to earn money from home online is to do affiliate marketing." /><author><name>Banicmanic</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04028980495851582246</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty name="OpenSocialUserId" value="02808168763430595136" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YOBwYeAF6MU/SvN5Y9QiT7I/AAAAAAAABXQ/59eWXWohWh0/s72-c/affiliate-marketing.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://banicmanic.blogspot.com/2009/11/best-way-to-earn-money-from-home-online.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;D08MQn89cCp7ImA9WxNbEU0.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6939370084470385228.post-6449384275577480122</id><published>2009-11-09T13:26:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2009-11-13T17:51:23.168+08:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2009-11-13T17:51:23.168+08:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="sell" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="ebay" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="tips" /><title>Tactics when selling on ebay</title><content type="html">I use different tactics, depending on what I'm selling. Keep in mind that in most cases you will want and/or need a tracking number, so the minimum cost for US postage on a package is $3.95 for priority mail, plus $.50 for tracking delivery confirmation. For a letter with delivery confirmation, the minimum postage is $2.79, because you can't just add a $.50 delivery confirmation to a $.39 stamp.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So that's your starting point for costs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;IMHO, you're best off to only charge the actual shipping cost. I think it works out well, because people are willing to bid higher on the item if they feel like you're not ripping them off on shipping charges.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YOBwYeAF6MU/SvO0s4PB6TI/AAAAAAAABXg/lwUiOB0vx6s/s1600-h/selling-on-ebay.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 214px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YOBwYeAF6MU/SvO0s4PB6TI/AAAAAAAABXg/lwUiOB0vx6s/s400/selling-on-ebay.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5400859061250025778" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Special situations:&lt;br /&gt;A) Item is large/heavy/fragile. I sold a mountain bike on eBay and I figured that only people physically nearby would be interested. But I didn't want to exclude anybody, and I also didn't want to waste a bunch of time figuring the shipping cost in advance. So, I just wrote "Buyer can pickup item in person, or pay actual shipping costs." As it happened the winning bidder was 1,500 miles away and the shipping cost was nearly $50. Very glad I didn't just guess, because I would have lost money on a bad guess of $20 or $30.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;B) Concert tickets. The couple of times I've sold concert tickets, I've listed "FREE SHIPPING" knowing that it'll cost me $4.50, but that the high demand should make it worthwhile. NOTE: I think this tactic only works with sports or concert tickets in very high demand.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;script expr:src='"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~s/Banicmanic?i=" + data:post.url' type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6939370084470385228-6449384275577480122?l=banicmanic.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Banicmanic/~4/lCub7cX6B5Y" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://banicmanic.blogspot.com/feeds/6449384275577480122/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://banicmanic.blogspot.com/2009/11/tactics-when-selling-on-ebay.html#comment-form" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6939370084470385228/posts/default/6449384275577480122?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6939370084470385228/posts/default/6449384275577480122?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Banicmanic/~3/lCub7cX6B5Y/tactics-when-selling-on-ebay.html" title="Tactics when selling on ebay" /><author><name>Banicmanic</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04028980495851582246</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty name="OpenSocialUserId" value="02808168763430595136" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YOBwYeAF6MU/SvO0s4PB6TI/AAAAAAAABXg/lwUiOB0vx6s/s72-c/selling-on-ebay.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://banicmanic.blogspot.com/2009/11/tactics-when-selling-on-ebay.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;D04GRX86fyp7ImA9WxNbEU0.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6939370084470385228.post-6396551893377324846</id><published>2009-11-05T09:21:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2009-11-13T17:52:04.117+08:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2009-11-13T17:52:04.117+08:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="blogging resources" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Blogging Tips" /><title>SEO a good way to get traffic</title><content type="html">&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YOBwYeAF6MU/SvN6pmPR3VI/AAAAAAAABXY/naCeToWFfeI/s1600-h/seo.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 308px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YOBwYeAF6MU/SvN6pmPR3VI/AAAAAAAABXY/naCeToWFfeI/s400/seo.gif" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5400795233205214546" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is almost essential in drawing traffic to your site. One of the easiest ways to get a large amount of traffic is to rank high in the search engines. The best way to rank high in the search engines, at least from my experience, is to get links to your site on sites with high page ranks.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can figure out which sites have high page ranks by using the google toolbar or by using SEO software such as SEO Elite. After you find the sites with high page ranks you just need to get them to put a link to your site on their site. Usually this can be done by a simple link exchange and through an email to the other sites owner.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Once you get these links you will start to climb to the top of the rankings and you'll be well on your way to tons of traffic.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;script expr:src='"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~s/Banicmanic?i=" + data:post.url' type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6939370084470385228-6396551893377324846?l=banicmanic.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Banicmanic/~4/LEMqMth_4p4" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://banicmanic.blogspot.com/feeds/6396551893377324846/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://banicmanic.blogspot.com/2009/11/seo-good-way-to-get-traffic.html#comment-form" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6939370084470385228/posts/default/6396551893377324846?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6939370084470385228/posts/default/6396551893377324846?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Banicmanic/~3/LEMqMth_4p4/seo-good-way-to-get-traffic.html" title="SEO a good way to get traffic" /><author><name>Banicmanic</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04028980495851582246</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty name="OpenSocialUserId" value="02808168763430595136" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YOBwYeAF6MU/SvN6pmPR3VI/AAAAAAAABXY/naCeToWFfeI/s72-c/seo.gif" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://banicmanic.blogspot.com/2009/11/seo-good-way-to-get-traffic.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;CEIEQ3g4eSp7ImA9WxNVFU0.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6939370084470385228.post-6031102623300261080</id><published>2009-10-26T03:54:00.004+08:00</published><updated>2009-10-26T04:28:22.631+08:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2009-10-26T04:28:22.631+08:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Sponsored Posts" /><title>Excellent Web Hosting Service From the Geeks</title><content type="html">&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YOBwYeAF6MU/SuS009r6_pI/AAAAAAAABXI/UpUyl6Re2fI/s1600-h/webhostinggeeks-snapshot-banicmanic.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 295px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YOBwYeAF6MU/SuS009r6_pI/AAAAAAAABXI/UpUyl6Re2fI/s400/webhostinggeeks-snapshot-banicmanic.gif" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5396637075501678226" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;So many people ask me how to get started on their own site and I always have to tell them how easy it really is. The first step is to find a good web hosting service. It is so critical to have an idea what it is you are planning to accomplish and find the best service for you to meet your goals. There are many web hosting available online and some of them are really great. How you can make it sure if the web hosting provider you are applying is one of the top 10 web hosting? It’s easy! All you have to do is visit webhostinggeeks.com and you can view right away the top 10 web hosting in their lists for the year 2009. Guess what? They will show you the cheap professional web hosting services under $10 a month. If you don’t want to pay much for web hosting then you came to the right place! Its very affordable and its guarantee that the web hosting provider in their lists are top notch.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To assure excellent service, Web Hosting Geeks provide independent reviews of the best &lt;a href="http://webhostinggeeks.com"&gt;web hosting&lt;/a&gt; providers. Users can also submit reviews of hosts they have used, so that other users can see who are the best rated hosts in each category e.g dedicated server or vps hosting. This means feel confident and assured being a part of Web Hosting Geeks. 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They are amazing and really know how to cheer me up!!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;script expr:src='"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~s/Banicmanic?i=" + data:post.url' type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6939370084470385228-2495787168468811648?l=banicmanic.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Banicmanic/~4/ZQTsmhihiL4" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://banicmanic.blogspot.com/feeds/2495787168468811648/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://banicmanic.blogspot.com/2009/10/you-never-know-whats-around-corner.html#comment-form" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6939370084470385228/posts/default/2495787168468811648?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6939370084470385228/posts/default/2495787168468811648?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Banicmanic/~3/ZQTsmhihiL4/you-never-know-whats-around-corner.html" title="You never know whats around the corner" /><author><name>Banicmanic</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04028980495851582246</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty name="OpenSocialUserId" value="02808168763430595136" /></author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://banicmanic.blogspot.com/2009/10/you-never-know-whats-around-corner.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;DEAMSXc7fip7ImA9WxNVE04.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6939370084470385228.post-7205724540526701569</id><published>2009-10-22T06:22:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2009-10-24T06:26:28.906+08:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2009-10-24T06:26:28.906+08:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Personal Blog" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Personal Development" /><title>My journey has just begun</title><content type="html">I'm excited to be at the beginning of a new chapter and adventure in my life. I will go down this road with my head held high.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyone want to join me? (Lol) I am still working on it, everyday. I will never stop working on it. I travel a lot, so I am always meeting new people, and now I try to make an extra effort to hang on to some of those. I am always trying to reach out to people. I am a kind and generous person. And I never treat people badly or the way I have been treated. Everyone deserves a chance. I always try looking at someone through their own eyes and insecurities. And find that people in general are lonely. There are gonna be those who just are hurtful, and for them we should pray they find peace in themselves. Look around you and smile more. I have started more conversations just with a sincere smile, and hello. Wish me luck, my journey has just begun. Here's to all the friends I've yet to meet. Someday I shall look back and say, I can't remember a time without you. Thanks.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;script expr:src='"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~s/Banicmanic?i=" + data:post.url' type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6939370084470385228-7205724540526701569?l=banicmanic.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Banicmanic/~4/KGzMkw_M5Nk" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://banicmanic.blogspot.com/feeds/7205724540526701569/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://banicmanic.blogspot.com/2009/10/my-journey-has-just-begun.html#comment-form" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6939370084470385228/posts/default/7205724540526701569?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6939370084470385228/posts/default/7205724540526701569?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Banicmanic/~3/KGzMkw_M5Nk/my-journey-has-just-begun.html" title="My journey has just begun" /><author><name>Banicmanic</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04028980495851582246</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty name="OpenSocialUserId" value="02808168763430595136" /></author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://banicmanic.blogspot.com/2009/10/my-journey-has-just-begun.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;A04GRXk6fyp7ImA9WxNWFEk.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6939370084470385228.post-8262749924848828</id><published>2009-10-13T23:22:00.004+08:00</published><updated>2009-10-14T00:05:24.717+08:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2009-10-14T00:05:24.717+08:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Sponsored Posts" /><title>iLASIK Video Contest</title><content type="html">&lt;center&gt;&lt;img alt="Contest" src="http://socialspark.com/uploads/socialspark/public/assets/822/contest.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In college I won tickets to a "Rivermaya" concert by being the 7th caller at the local radio station. Not exactly lotto, but better than nothing. The only other thing I ever really won was a watermelon eating contest. Obviously, small town a long time ago. Sad really.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I always wanted to participate in an video contest and win.  Abbott Medical Optics Inc. (AMO) gave me this opportunity to join the &lt;a href="http://socialspark.com/metrics/click/post?slot_id=68072&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gottaseethisnow.com%2F%3Fcid%3D1004" rel="nofollow"&gt;iLASIK Video Contest&lt;/a&gt;. a global leader in laser vision correction, wants to know how better vision could improve — or has already improved — your life. By simply submitting a video in one of the following categories:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;   * "My contacts are getting in the way of my good time"&lt;br /&gt;   * "My favorite sport or activity would be so much cooler with better vision"&lt;br /&gt;   * "You should see life after the iLASIK Procedure"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You could win $5,000! In order to win, your video should have the highest votes. Every vote is necessary and the more votes your video has, your chances of winning is high. If chosen to win, any of the following prizes is yours :&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    * One Grand Prize winner will win $5,000 — selected from all submitted videos&lt;br /&gt;    * Three First Prize winners will be selected to win an HDTV package(a $2,500 value)— one per video category&lt;br /&gt;    * Three Second Prize winners will be selected to win the Flip UltraHD™ camcorder (a $199.99 value) — one per video category&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, what are you waiting for? Visit the iLASIK Video Contest to submit your video and try to see this for yourself!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;map name="map4002"&gt;&lt;area href="http://socialspark.com/metrics/click/disclosure?slot_id=68072&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gottaseethisnow.com%2F%3Fcid%3D1004" shape="rect" coords="0,0,206,45" rel="nofollow" /&gt;&lt;area href="http://socialspark.com/code_of_ethics" shape="rect" coords="207,0,225,45" rel="nofollow" /&gt;&lt;/map&gt;&lt;img alt="Post?slot_id=68072&amp;url=http%3a%2f%2fsocialspark" border="0" src="http://socialspark.com/metrics/view/post?slot_id=68072&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fsocialspark.com%2Fimages%2Fdisclosure_badges%2Fdisclosure_badge_grey.png" style="border:0" usemap="#map4002" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;script expr:src='"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~s/Banicmanic?i=" + data:post.url' type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6939370084470385228-8262749924848828?l=banicmanic.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Banicmanic/~4/O4bXhor5S6I" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://banicmanic.blogspot.com/feeds/8262749924848828/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://banicmanic.blogspot.com/2009/10/ilasik-video-contest.html#comment-form" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6939370084470385228/posts/default/8262749924848828?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6939370084470385228/posts/default/8262749924848828?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Banicmanic/~3/O4bXhor5S6I/ilasik-video-contest.html" title="iLASIK Video Contest" /><author><name>Banicmanic</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04028980495851582246</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty name="OpenSocialUserId" value="02808168763430595136" /></author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://banicmanic.blogspot.com/2009/10/ilasik-video-contest.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;DUQBQnozfip7ImA9WxNWFEk.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6939370084470385228.post-2342151958320842547</id><published>2009-10-10T23:09:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2009-10-13T23:22:33.486+08:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2009-10-13T23:22:33.486+08:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="savings" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Personal Blog" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Personal point of view" /><title>A penny saved is a penny earned!</title><content type="html">&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YOBwYeAF6MU/StSa72Qm00I/AAAAAAAABXA/DPlYQODVK00/s1600-h/piggy_bank.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 360px; height: 289px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YOBwYeAF6MU/StSa72Qm00I/AAAAAAAABXA/DPlYQODVK00/s400/piggy_bank.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392105006837453634" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;I saved enough money to travel around the country... each day I would look at a photo of where I wanted to go to inspire me. I began putting a 10% of my salary into my savings account without fail and it's been great. If you put it in savings right away then you can't spend it! On top of that I've been cutting back on unnecessary things but I still treat myself every now and then.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I also began putting all of my change into my piggy bank and it's amazing to see how much money accumulates from just change.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;script expr:src='"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~s/Banicmanic?i=" + data:post.url' type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6939370084470385228-2342151958320842547?l=banicmanic.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Banicmanic/~4/Gi0KIHsg9Iw" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://banicmanic.blogspot.com/feeds/2342151958320842547/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://banicmanic.blogspot.com/2009/10/penny-saved-is-penny-earned.html#comment-form" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6939370084470385228/posts/default/2342151958320842547?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6939370084470385228/posts/default/2342151958320842547?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Banicmanic/~3/Gi0KIHsg9Iw/penny-saved-is-penny-earned.html" title="A penny saved is a penny earned!" /><author><name>Banicmanic</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04028980495851582246</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty name="OpenSocialUserId" value="02808168763430595136" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YOBwYeAF6MU/StSa72Qm00I/AAAAAAAABXA/DPlYQODVK00/s72-c/piggy_bank.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://banicmanic.blogspot.com/2009/10/penny-saved-is-penny-earned.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;CEMNSXYzfip7ImA9WxNXGEo.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6939370084470385228.post-3148656451870600722</id><published>2009-10-07T07:23:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2009-10-07T07:41:38.886+08:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2009-10-07T07:41:38.886+08:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Personal point of view" /><title>I can keep it up…</title><content type="html">You never really know just how much you’ve improved until you have the opportunity to make the same mistakes and bad decisions that you did in the past and you do things differently.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To avoid writing an annoyingly long blog, I will say this. Yesterday, I faced a situation that normally brought out the worst of my pessimistic tendencies…and I handled it just the way I always envisioned myself handling it: with patience, poise and a positive outlook.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I feel rather proud of myself…hopefully, I can keep it up…&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;script expr:src='"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~s/Banicmanic?i=" + data:post.url' type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6939370084470385228-3148656451870600722?l=banicmanic.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Banicmanic/~4/PQMfcNkeaf4" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://banicmanic.blogspot.com/feeds/3148656451870600722/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://banicmanic.blogspot.com/2009/10/i-can-keep-it-up.html#comment-form" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6939370084470385228/posts/default/3148656451870600722?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6939370084470385228/posts/default/3148656451870600722?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Banicmanic/~3/PQMfcNkeaf4/i-can-keep-it-up.html" title="I can keep it up…" /><author><name>Banicmanic</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04028980495851582246</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty name="OpenSocialUserId" value="02808168763430595136" /></author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://banicmanic.blogspot.com/2009/10/i-can-keep-it-up.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;CE4ASXo6eSp7ImA9WxNXGEo.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6939370084470385228.post-7752469281664487200</id><published>2009-10-05T07:45:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2009-10-07T07:49:08.411+08:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2009-10-07T07:49:08.411+08:00</app:edited><title>Found this article online.</title><content type="html">Found this article online. I think it will help as long as I am able to incorporate these things into my life and don’t sabotage myself.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Don’t always “one-up.”&lt;br /&gt;It’s annoying when an acquaintance does it to you in a bar, so don’t do it to yourself. When you meet a goal you worked hard for, take a moment to celebrate the achievement instead of immediately focusing on what you can, or should do next.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. Live in the moment.&lt;br /&gt;As Ferris famously said, “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” People who get bogged down in the past or are always looking ahead to the future miss the small joys of life—like eating a perfectly well-done burger or seeing their baby smile—that are right in front of them today.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. Find a positive angle.&lt;br /&gt;Everyone experiences setbacks, but be careful not to allow a negative turn of events to color your view of the world. Look for something in the scenario that will help you learn and grow, and focus on that as you weather through.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4. Look for the good in people.&lt;br /&gt;It’s easy to ruminate on your friends’ and family members’ flaws, as I’m sure there are many of them. But by having unrealistic expectations of what people should do or how they should act, you’re setting yourself up for disappointment. The truth is that most people mean well, even if they screw up every now and then.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5. Be thankful for the big things.&lt;br /&gt;In my house, we have a tendency to “sweat the small stuff.” But come on. I have a great career, a stable family, a roof over my head, and a healthy body. Do I really need to fret over the fact that Bass didn’t take my expired coupons?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6. Beware of the “grass is always greener.”&lt;br /&gt;You don’t know the intimate details of other people’s situations, so it’s irrational to be jealous of them. And remember that you can be satisfied without being perfect. Even if you have your dream job or your dream family, you’re bound to have bad days. That doesn’t mean you should overhaul everything because you think you can do better someplace else.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;script expr:src='"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~s/Banicmanic?i=" + data:post.url' type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6939370084470385228-7752469281664487200?l=banicmanic.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Banicmanic/~4/rpK0c7ZpN5w" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://banicmanic.blogspot.com/feeds/7752469281664487200/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://banicmanic.blogspot.com/2009/10/found-this-article-online.html#comment-form" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6939370084470385228/posts/default/7752469281664487200?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6939370084470385228/posts/default/7752469281664487200?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Banicmanic/~3/rpK0c7ZpN5w/found-this-article-online.html" title="Found this article online." /><author><name>Banicmanic</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04028980495851582246</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty name="OpenSocialUserId" value="02808168763430595136" /></author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://banicmanic.blogspot.com/2009/10/found-this-article-online.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;AkIHRnY_fCp7ImA9WxNVEk4.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6939370084470385228.post-8540258721578677040</id><published>2009-09-28T20:41:00.005+08:00</published><updated>2009-10-23T03:08:57.844+08:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2009-10-23T03:08:57.844+08:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Sponsored Posts" /><title>Update Your Look Before You Update Your Resume</title><content type="html">&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YOBwYeAF6MU/SsC6__dQxhI/AAAAAAAABW4/_sdFz6g3DQo/s1600-h/gillette-banicmanic.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 318px; height: 212px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YOBwYeAF6MU/SsC6__dQxhI/AAAAAAAABW4/_sdFz6g3DQo/s320/gillette-banicmanic.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5386510762863805970" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;I am new at my job and want to be better at it, more efficient, if you will. I love what i do "office work" and want to find ways to better my job and all it entitles. My bosses are wonderful people and i am very lucky to be in the position i am in. I just want to do all i can, everyday and know that i put fourth my best effort. I love my job it fits in perfectly with my lifestyle. I can sleep in and work the closing shift. It is physically undemanding, so i have energy to clean my house and run errands when i get home. I can make posts on the internet, and it is the highest paying job i can get in town without some kind of training or degree. I love it, that's why i want to be a good employee. I figure that if i make myself an asset to this place they will be less likely to let me go or watch me to closely. I want to keep this job.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So If you are a jobseeker. According to &lt;a href="http://socialspark.com/metrics/click/post?slot_id=54212&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gilletteresourcecenter.com" rel="nofollow"&gt;Gillette Resource Center&lt;/a&gt; , when it comes to first impressions; ninety percent of HR professionals place more importance on being well-groomed than even a firm handshake. It has been observed recently that more than 500 HR professionals, commissioned by Gillette and conducted by Harris Interactive, indicate that 84% of HR professionals agree that well-groomed employees climb the corporate ladder faster than those who are not well-groomed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The &lt;a href="http://socialspark.com/metrics/click/post?slot_id=54212&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.Gillette.com%2FCareerAdvantage" rel="nofollow"&gt;Gillette Career Advantage&lt;/a&gt; is a good resource because it has the tools, information and advice needed to excel above the stiff competition in today’s job market. If you are a jobseeker or a professional visit www.gilletteresourcecenter.com take the Gillette Career Quiz and read through the Hire Guide to see what HR professional really think.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;map name="map4392"&gt;&lt;area href="http://socialspark.com/metrics/click/disclosure?slot_id=54212&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.Gillette.com%2FCareerAdvantage" shape="rect" coords="0,0,206,45" rel="nofollow" /&gt;&lt;area href="http://socialspark.com/code_of_ethics" shape="rect" coords="207,0,225,45" rel="nofollow" /&gt;&lt;/map&gt;&lt;img alt="Post?slot_id=54212&amp;url=http%3a%2f%2fsocialspark" border="0" src="http://socialspark.com/metrics/view/post?slot_id=54212&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fsocialspark.com%2Fimages%2Fdisclosure_badges%2Fdisclosure_badge_grey.png" style="border:0" usemap="#map4392" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;script expr:src='"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~s/Banicmanic?i=" + data:post.url' type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6939370084470385228-8540258721578677040?l=banicmanic.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Banicmanic/~4/XgcQONQwdzY" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://banicmanic.blogspot.com/feeds/8540258721578677040/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://banicmanic.blogspot.com/2009/09/update-your-look-before-you-update-your.html#comment-form" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6939370084470385228/posts/default/8540258721578677040?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6939370084470385228/posts/default/8540258721578677040?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Banicmanic/~3/XgcQONQwdzY/update-your-look-before-you-update-your.html" title="Update Your Look Before You Update Your Resume" /><author><name>Banicmanic</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04028980495851582246</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty name="OpenSocialUserId" value="02808168763430595136" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YOBwYeAF6MU/SsC6__dQxhI/AAAAAAAABW4/_sdFz6g3DQo/s72-c/gillette-banicmanic.JPG" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://banicmanic.blogspot.com/2009/09/update-your-look-before-you-update-your.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;C0YDRng-eSp7ImA9WxNXEUk.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6939370084470385228.post-8699021963962107183</id><published>2009-09-26T20:24:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2009-09-28T20:32:57.651+08:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2009-09-28T20:32:57.651+08:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Racism" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Personal point of view" /><title>The issue of racism.</title><content type="html">&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YOBwYeAF6MU/SsCsxc7EiAI/AAAAAAAABWw/kgbFy8-Bf4M/s1600-h/racism2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 226px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YOBwYeAF6MU/SsCsxc7EiAI/AAAAAAAABWw/kgbFy8-Bf4M/s320/racism2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5386495119912634370" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;I was watching The Tyra Banks Show with my sister last night on Oxygen. They had an episode where many bi-racial women were not accepting their African-American heritage. They have tried bleaching, even with bleach that you use for clothes. One woman said that she accepted her Caucasian part and hated her African-American heritage, even though she clearly had darker skin. She said she couldn't stand most African-Americans and thought that Caucasians were above African-Americans. She even took a picture in a KKK hood "as a joke". Even being Caucasian, I still found it offensive.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Has society made it to where color is important? To me, I am not racist. I refuse to judge a person by the color of their skin. I was taught at an early age that everyone is different, but they are human just like us. They eat, sleep, breathe, and use the restroom just like everyone else. They may have a different culture and a different way of doing things, but they also have feelings. Your life shouldn't be about what skin color everyone else has. I know most racism comes from ignorance and how some people were raised. But everyone is beautiful, inside and out. A person should be judge by the color of their skin but who they are on the inside.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;script expr:src='"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~s/Banicmanic?i=" + data:post.url' type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6939370084470385228-8699021963962107183?l=banicmanic.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Banicmanic/~4/qbm-QrYoy14" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://banicmanic.blogspot.com/feeds/8699021963962107183/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://banicmanic.blogspot.com/2009/09/issue-of-racism.html#comment-form" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6939370084470385228/posts/default/8699021963962107183?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6939370084470385228/posts/default/8699021963962107183?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Banicmanic/~3/qbm-QrYoy14/issue-of-racism.html" title="The issue of racism." /><author><name>Banicmanic</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04028980495851582246</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty name="OpenSocialUserId" value="02808168763430595136" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YOBwYeAF6MU/SsCsxc7EiAI/AAAAAAAABWw/kgbFy8-Bf4M/s72-c/racism2.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://banicmanic.blogspot.com/2009/09/issue-of-racism.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;C0EEQHY4eyp7ImA9WxNXEUk.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6939370084470385228.post-1924381419471448001</id><published>2009-09-25T20:35:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2009-09-28T20:40:01.833+08:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2009-09-28T20:40:01.833+08:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Personal Blog" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Personal Development" /><title>Differences!</title><content type="html">I am from the PHILIPPINES and typically if we want to be in a romantic relationship with someone we use words like 'i love you' (mahal kita) or 'soul mate' to indicate that type of relationship. But, if we are referring to a friendships, we say things like 'friends' (kaibigan) or 'best friends'  or other words that are far less strong than anything we would use to reference a relationship where we were romantically involved. Why do I bring this up? Well, lately I've been getting a lot of emails from people saying that they wanted to find 'lasting love' or that they were looking for a 'soul mate' and things of this nature. But, these emails were pretty business like in tone other than that and many times they were from other females. Not that I have a problem with someone homosexually interested in me. If I'm not interested, I'm not interested, regardless of the gender of the person into me. These emails are also all from people in other countries and this got me to thinking. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Do people in other cultures blurr the lines more than people in my culture? Also on some social networking sites a lot of guys leave me messages saying 'hey beautiful' or something like that and I notice these people from other countries sometimes use English words as 'best translation' from their own language , but because there are so many double meaning words in our language it doesn't translate the same. So, can someone please explain this too me. I'd like to know am I getting a dumping of people interested in me? Or is this just a mix up in understanding and these people really just want a platonic friendship.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;script expr:src='"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~s/Banicmanic?i=" + data:post.url' type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6939370084470385228-1924381419471448001?l=banicmanic.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Banicmanic/~4/NGrAiVic-GQ" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://banicmanic.blogspot.com/feeds/1924381419471448001/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://banicmanic.blogspot.com/2009/09/differences.html#comment-form" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6939370084470385228/posts/default/1924381419471448001?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6939370084470385228/posts/default/1924381419471448001?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Banicmanic/~3/NGrAiVic-GQ/differences.html" title="Differences!" /><author><name>Banicmanic</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04028980495851582246</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty name="OpenSocialUserId" value="02808168763430595136" /></author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://banicmanic.blogspot.com/2009/09/differences.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;CUYMSXc8fCp7ImA9WxNQFkk.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6939370084470385228.post-3689844158442446455</id><published>2009-09-23T01:55:00.003+08:00</published><updated>2009-09-23T02:13:08.974+08:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2009-09-23T02:13:08.974+08:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Sponsored Posts" /><title>Make profit any time and anywhere!</title><content type="html">There is good news for all investors. As you know, most of the short term investments programs claim to be involved in Forex Trading with incredible large profits in every minute, but you can be sure that when a program tells you that you will win 200% after one hour then it is a scam. Now you can start easy investments online with e-currency or bank-wire. No matter where are you now and what type of currency you have you can now invest in Nano stocks online at nanomoneycorp.com. NanoMoney Corporation is a legally registered investment company so investors can take a look at it. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The NanoMoney Corporation also offers the same privilege to everyone. as the benefits of the 21st century can &lt;a href="http://nanomoneycorp.com/account_request.en.html"&gt;Make profit any time and anywhere!&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;script expr:src='"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~s/Banicmanic?i=" + data:post.url' type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6939370084470385228-3689844158442446455?l=banicmanic.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Banicmanic/~4/sCzPXNiy36g" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://banicmanic.blogspot.com/feeds/3689844158442446455/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://banicmanic.blogspot.com/2009/09/make-profit-any-time-and-anywhere.html#comment-form" title="1 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6939370084470385228/posts/default/3689844158442446455?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6939370084470385228/posts/default/3689844158442446455?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Banicmanic/~3/sCzPXNiy36g/make-profit-any-time-and-anywhere.html" title="Make profit any time and anywhere!" /><author><name>Banicmanic</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04028980495851582246</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty name="OpenSocialUserId" value="02808168763430595136" /></author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">1</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://banicmanic.blogspot.com/2009/09/make-profit-any-time-and-anywhere.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;CEUNQ3s-cCp7ImA9WxNQFkk.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6939370084470385228.post-3006421612473499826</id><published>2009-09-20T15:35:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2009-09-23T01:58:12.558+08:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2009-09-23T01:58:12.558+08:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Personal Development" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Personal point of view" /><title>knowing english is must</title><content type="html">&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YOBwYeAF6MU/SrM8gMzYshI/AAAAAAAABWo/TRcm34He8VA/s1600-h/italy-about-us-testimonial-learning-english-is-fun-330x440.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YOBwYeAF6MU/SrM8gMzYshI/AAAAAAAABWo/TRcm34He8VA/s320/italy-about-us-testimonial-learning-english-is-fun-330x440.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5382712503528108562" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Nowadays for getting a job in our country or abroad english fluency is must. If we want to talk with a person who is talking another language, then knowing english is must. Everybody telling that if we want to improve fluency talking without shyness is must.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;script expr:src='"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~s/Banicmanic?i=" + data:post.url' type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6939370084470385228-3006421612473499826?l=banicmanic.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Banicmanic/~4/hWkDHhRu1Bc" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://banicmanic.blogspot.com/feeds/3006421612473499826/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://banicmanic.blogspot.com/2009/09/knowing-english-is-must.html#comment-form" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6939370084470385228/posts/default/3006421612473499826?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6939370084470385228/posts/default/3006421612473499826?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Banicmanic/~3/hWkDHhRu1Bc/knowing-english-is-must.html" title="knowing english is must" /><author><name>Banicmanic</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04028980495851582246</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty name="OpenSocialUserId" value="02808168763430595136" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YOBwYeAF6MU/SrM8gMzYshI/AAAAAAAABWo/TRcm34He8VA/s72-c/italy-about-us-testimonial-learning-english-is-fun-330x440.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://banicmanic.blogspot.com/2009/09/knowing-english-is-must.html</feedburner:origLink></entry></feed>
