Money Making Scoop

Sunday Chatter – 11/22

Chris Jacobson — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:00:42 +0000

Obama Never Used Twitter Twitter users were bummed this week when President Obama spoke at a town hall meeting in China and admitted that he has never used Twitter. The president has one of the most popular Twitter accounts there is, and used it as a campaign tool during the election. I knew he didn’t post [...]

Ad.ly Launches Affiliate Program

Chris Jacobson — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:04:44 +0000

Ad.ly is the newest advertising network for Twitter, in which normal users like you and me are making big bucks simply by tweeting out sponsored messages. Say what you will about spamming your followers’ timeline, you’re making money! The network launched their affiliate program on Tuesday, which pays you 12% of what those you refer make. [...]

Sunday Chatter – 11/15

Chris Jacobson — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 15:00:38 +0000

Google Now Offering Extra Storage Space If you’re big into digital photography and movie editing, you know how much space those files can take up on your system. Speaking personally, I’m running out of space myself. Google has now began selling additional storage space starting at $0.25/GB. You can even get up to 16 TB if [...]

Facebook Ads Just Got Better for Internet Marketers

Chris Jacobson — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:45:41 +0000

Facebook now lets you advertise to the friends of people who are already fans of you or your company. The social networking site rolled out “friends of connections” this week, which gives you an additional option when creating an ad on the Facebook Ads page. This is great for marketers who target a specific niche and [...]

News Corp Wants to Block Google From Indexing News

Chris Jacobson — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:15:11 +0000

One of the biggest news organizations around is facing off with Google in a war to remove its content from the search engine’s index. Rupert Murdoch, who owns News Corp and is behind the Sun, the Times, the Wall Street Journal, Fox News and several other outlets, is accusing Google of stealing their content by listing [...]

Sunday Chatter – 11/8

Chris Jacobson — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:40:13 +0000

Work From Home? You’re On This List There are a number of significant benefits to working from home, and similar traits that each entrepreneur share. Everything from never setting an alarm clock, to hardly driving your car enough to justify getting an oil change. Although, it’s every three months, whether you drive it or not. Michael [...]

Microsoft Lays Off Employees, Hires New Ones

Chris Jacobson — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:40:53 +0000

Microsoft continues to make layoffs, while at the same time hiring new employees to their company. In a release earlier this week, Microsoft said it would be cutting 800 more jobs, in addition to the 5,000 layoffs already announced in January. The specific areas of which job types and product groups would be affected wasn’t immediately known. While [...]

Canadian Government Extends Benefits to the Self-Employed

Chris Jacobson — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:40:37 +0000

The self-employed can now take advantage of the benefits employees at regular jobs receive, thanks to the Canadian government. As part of recently passed legislation, those who work for themselves can opt into the federal employment insurance plan and collect benefits currently available only to salaried workers. Maternity, parental, adoption, medical and compassionate-care benefits will be made [...]

Sunday Chatter – 11/1

Chris Jacobson — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 15:00:23 +0000

Slow WordPress Blog? You Need These Plugins You could be missing out on a lot of traffic, or even potential customers if your blog takes forever to load. Visitors end up leaving and all your hard work could be for nothing. Maybe you don’t even know it loads slow, because the site is cached on your [...]

Making Money with the H1N1 Flu Virus

Chris Jacobson — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:50:55 +0000

This may be a sensitive topic for some, but it can be lucrative in you’re in the Internet marketing field. I’m talking about using the H1N1 flu virus (or swine flu) to make a profit. Allow me to explain. Many people are scarred of contracting the virus and getting sick, or in the worst case scenario, [...]