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For those who don’t know Contestblogger.com is the Big Daddy of the online contest scene. Its site is full of every kind of contests and sweepstakes you can find. You can practically stay all day at the forum joining any contest that caught your fancy. As they say, the more you play, the higher chance you win.

Philip is also very concerned about the (mis)conception of online contest in general. Whenever someone mention online contest or especially sweepstake, the first impression will be a scam. Philip try hard to filter out all the scam like the infamous Ashwin Khanna contest scam. Recently, he also wrote an well thought out article about avoiding contest scam.

I don’t know how he did it, but he has now expand a single Contestblogger site to a network of contest site, like my favorite Photo Contests site. As far as I know, he is doing this alone. I can’t even manage three of my (not so successful) site and he is doing this while being a Marine of the US Army. Very efficient.

So do you want a chance every month to win $100? Set a permanent linkback on your blog/site to any of Contestblogger’s network of sites and wait for your name to be call. It will come.

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As I was saying last time about renewal of my old domains, I finally did renew the domain that I think worth keeping. In addition to that, I bought three new domain for three separate ventures for the year.

I got round to buying the domain (.com) for my actual name. Which if you do a bit of research, you should know the name of the domain. Since I am taking up digital photography as a hobby, I will be using that domain as my personal photoblog. Those one photo a day type.

I did some research for the right template for this photoblog. I find that Wordpress very few themes specially for photoblogs and to set it up properly requires various plugins and customizations. As per all Wordpress blogs. The research led me to Pixelpost. This is a blog software specifically for photoblog. Although like Wordpress, it has addons and templates to choose from, its vanilla install is fully capable to  display your photos as a professional photoblog. Highly recommended.

For my second and third domain, its much more simple. One of them I would like to make a Single Serving Site (SSS). Click on the link or google it to learn more about it. This type of site I first heard about in the podcast for stackoverflow.com. I am not even sure why I listen to that podcast as I know nada about programming. But the eleven episodes cover a lot of concepts and I really learn alot. Quite entertaining too. Anyway, I want to built a SSS as I want to try out web app development. I am always curious about programming and a basic SSS should be good practice for me. We’ll see. I will link it here if ever I finish it. Expectation alert: My SSS will not scored high on originality.

Last one will not be a surprise. It will be another BANS domain. This time, I will concentrate on this one site and develop it fully before I move on to make another BANS site. That’s what I found after one months of testing BANS. You NEED to promote your site properly to expect any traffic.

There, this will be another busy year before another round of domain renewal comes around.

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Went to Godaddy and all the dot info (.info)domains is now $0.99. As cheap as a song on Itunes.

Well, I think I will let go of all the rubbish domains I have and buy a new batch of .info domain to play with again.

With almost one year of experience bumping around on the web, I think I can choose better names this time.

And hope to make better use of them.

Not sure when this deal is expiring, so if you have any interest at all to host your own domain, now is the time to own a www.yourname.com .

Well, this should be old news now if you subscribe to tech news, but in case you didn’t know, FF is trying to break a world record for the number of downloads in one day. Officially, it is called Download Day. It is now know to be 17 June 2008. That’s next Tuesday.

The Download Day page is cool where you can pledge to click next Tuesday, then you then see all the different users that pledge around the world.

Setting Guinness world record is a fad nowadays. Singapore where I am at even have a game show for just for doing that. Quite a amusing show.

So support FireFox and be part of a World Record next week.

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To appreciate the power of a 7.8 quake; in wikipedia,  it is rated at 600 megaton TNT. From the same source, we know the most powerful nuclear bomb in USA arsenal is 1.2 megaton. So it’s as if 500 nuclear bomb hit Sichuan at the same time. That’s how horrifying it is.

Nothing much can be done for Myanmar, as its Government is refusing outside help to enter its country. Though if you want to donate here are some of the websites you can go to:

• Friends of the World Food Program
• Foundation for the People of Burma

The quake in Sichuan happen at a bad time (though nowhen is a good time) where all the schools is in session. So when it hit, all the school buildings collapsed, killing and trapping the school children and teachers inside. Now, most of the roads to the area are damaged, so a lot of the relief efforts have to go through the air route. Army troops are mobilized to bring in food, clean water and medical supplies. Paratroopers dropping into inaccessible areas. This is almost like fighting a battle. A battle to retrieve the dead and help the survivors.

You can help in the relief aid In Sichuan, China by going to these website and donate:

• MercyCorps
• International Red Cross
• Singapore Red Cross
• Salvation Army

I blog about this in hope you will read more about these two disasters and know the magnitude of the destruction that is currently in China and Myanmar. Go on, spread the word, blog about it, podcast it, stream it and no matter what media you are on, get the word out. And Help…

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Well, it is not that weird actually. Most of you have a compact camera. You phone should have a camera. Your laptop have a camera. So no excuse to not participate in the Smashing Magazine – Smashing Texture Contest.

All you need to do is take a picture of interesting textures (more examples here)

…And then zip it with all the relevant information. Finally send it to sven@xxsmashingmagazinexx.com. Remember to remove the “xx” in the email before you send.

…And you can win a Canon Digital Rebel XT 8MP Digital SLR Camera with EF-S 18-55mm f3.5-5.6 Lens. The winner will be determined randomly.

The dateline is 21st May 2008.

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You place product listings in the eBay marketplace, buyers bid, you pay your eBay seller fees and what you have left is your profit margin.

There is, however, another way to build a business which still revolves around eBay but which doesn’t involve you selling a single thing in the eBay marketplace.

This “other way” opportunity is based on the eBay affiliate program and a great tool which makes entry into this opportunity not only possible but also super easy. This tool is called “Build A Niche Store” (BANS).

BANS if you don’t know – is an affiliate program which enables you as an individual internet entrepreneur to promote the products of a company in exchange for a commission on all sales that you refer.

You are basically operating as an internet middleman and connecting internet browsers to particular products and companies through you own network of websites and marketing methods.

If we return to the eBay affiliate program, eBay actually invites you to promote all of the product listings in the eBay marketplace and in exchange for your efforts will pay you up to 75% of the revenue they make from each sale you refer plus up to $35 for each new active eBay member you refer.

You can have a read about the eBay.com affiliate program here

What this means is that you can earn up to three quarters of eBay’s revenue simply for connecting people to the products listed in the eBay marketplace.

Not only do you get to partner with the best branded marketplace in the world, you also get access to and control over ALL of the products listed in this marketplace. The eBay product inventory becomes YOUR product inventory and yet you do NOT have to stock items, deal with customers, organize shipping or process refunds.

You are no longer limited to selling only those products which you can buy and sell for a profit margin. You can choose ANY niche market and promote those eBay products relevant to your chosen niche outside of the eBay marketplace, funnelling targeted traffic through to eBay and into your own affiliate commissions.

Golf clubs, sewing kits, laptops, dog collars, diamond rings, Florida real estate…

If you know eBay you know how BIG it is – there are NO limits.

At this point you might be thinking – well this sounds interesting but in reality is there any money in it? Well, here’s the shocker – eBay’s top affiliates make over 1 million dollars a month. That’s right – 8 figures a year without stocking, selling or shipping a single thing!

Now eBay does provide some basic free tools to help you succeed as an eBay affiliate and build an affiliate business BUT it has been the development of a tool outside of eBay that has really opened this up as a legitimate business opportunity.

The tool, as I mentioned earlier, is called “Build A Niche Store“ and what it enables you to do is build eBay affiliate websites targeted to any eBay niche you want. These act as the medium through which you funnel targeted visitors to eBay.

Here are a couple of examples, one targeting Color Books and the other Programming Books:

Color Books eBay Affiliate Website
Programming eBay Affiliate Website

As you can see, these are professional looking websites that contain all of those eBay products related to their target niche inside a searchable store format, each of which automatically contains your eBay affiliate id.

These stores then automatically update as new products are listed for sale and old listing expire from the eBay marketplace and the software has built in development features which enable you to create new store pages, add content to these pages, create content pages, modify your template etc etc.

Basically, in the space of about 10 minutes (once you are familiar with how the software works) you can create a fully functional eBay affiliate website targeted to the niche market of your choice.

Your store content is all search engine friendly which will provide the foundation for attracting targeted traffic from the search engines and you can then use the development features to attract more targeted visitors which will in turn mean more eBay affiliate commissions.

It really is a brilliant concept and I’ve been hearing great things about the guys behind the project and the member forum which you get lifetime access to when you purchase the product.

Build A Niche Store comes with a step by step user manual which will walk even the most technically inexperienced through setting up their eBay affiliate website, 9 professional template layouts which can be customized (from inside your admin panel) to match your target niche, lifetime member forum access, comprehensive product support and possibly most importantly – an UNLIMITED domain license which means you can build as many of these niche websites as you want for the small one time fee.

Think about how many niches eBay caters to!

How big could your eBay affiliate business be?!

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