Archive for May, 2007

What Makes YOU, a Successful Blogger?

Upon reading my Feed Reader this hot afternoon, I asked myself: “What do these guys have that made them successful in such a way?! What do they have that we don’t?� So I’ve been doing a little research and got some stuff on my head. Just to give a little reason what do these successful guys have.

Brand, brand, brand – I told this tons of time because honestly, the brand really matters. It’s just like the foundation of a company. Take Coca Cola for example: They had this new formula that got an A++ on the taste test (Better than the original) but when they sold it in the market, it failed, people still buy the same old Coke they love. Why? Because they got used to the same old Coke. It’s not the taste that matters. It’s the brand.

And by the way, did you know that in various taste tests, Pepsi almost…

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Kelly Felix Bankrupt? What A Jerk!

Is Rick Jerk Going Poor?

According to ShoeMoney, Kelly Felix is selling “The Rich Jerk Empire” for about $8,000,000 (Any takers?) here’s a snip:

Kelly Felix says he is just about bankrupt and hoping to climb out of the hole and even make some profit. The source also says that Kelly blew a ton of investors money buying advertising on Howard Stern and fake commercials/tv spots to make it look like he was rich.

“The Rich Jerk Empire” contains the following major domains:

TheRichJerk.com
RichJerk.com
RichJerkRealEstate.com

Have a look at Kelly’s ad on BizQuest.com.

By the way Kelly, is this for real, or ANOTHER marketing ploy?!

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Top 10 Best WordPress Plugins (According To Me)

You have your best WordPress plugins, I also have mine. I have this list 2 months back but unfortunately I accidentally deleted it (accidents happen all the time ) So that gave me an idea to post a new list A better list Here’s my list of Top 10 Best WordPress Plugins:

Contact Form with Spam Protection

Afraid of spam? Don’t want to give away your e-mail? Tired of making images with your e-mail on it? No worries, Contact form is here! WP contact form lets your readers e-mail you faster, easier and risk FREE! I can’t imagine a blog without this plug-in. It would be a nightmare.

Related Posts

If you’re lacking pageviews recently, this plugin is for you! With related posts plugin, you can add related posts in each of your posts in just 1 tweak. This helps you generate extra pageviews and to keep new visitors or old to discover posts on…

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Ask Carl: How to Make 3d Crystal Buttons - Photoshop Tutorial

Last week I launched the AskCarl feature thinking that it would be a great success. But I was surprised seeing nothing but dirt on my mail box this past week that wants to ask a question and participate to this new feature. Special thanks to Techzillo who dropped me a comment asking how did I make those 3d crystal buttons.

I didn’t waste any time and made a tutorial (To keep the new feature alive! ). So, here it is, enjoy!

How to Make 3d Crystal Buttons - Photoshop Tutorial

1. Start, by creating a 125 x 125 image (Like the C Image right) and put it in an empty 142 x 142 square.

2. Then add drop shadow (Layer > Layer Style > Drop Shadow) to your 125 x 125 square image (NOTE: The 125 x 125 must have a transparent background for the drop shadow to take effect). You can copy what I did below (Click to enlarge)

3.…

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LinkLoving - Rewarding Top Commentators Batch 2

• My Affiliate Earning For 17 Days, Satisfactory - Selaplana shares his affiliate earnings in the pasy 17 days.
• You ain’t never too young - A link worthy review of my blog. I really love how sarah points out things that she likes about this blog.
• How to Get Your Blog Indexed By Google (and other major search engines) in 5 Steps - A post by supermom on how to get indexed by “the big G” in just 5 steps!
• 10 Easy Ways To Make Yourself Look Like A Blogging Newbie - Court shares some techniques on how to be a blogging newbie.
• Top 5 Affiliate Programs - Matt makes a post about his top 5 affiliate programs. It’s also his entry in Darren’s Top 5 group writing project.

If you want to be loved (linked ) Just post a comment until you get on the top commentators list. Every week I’ll post a “linkloving” list with all the articles of the…

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Make Money Online - Batch 6

Here comes batch 6 with 5 reviews! Though I’m very sorry for posting it sooooooooo late. My big projects kept me busy. So bear with me please Maybe you’re wondering right now what it is, don’t ask me first, I don’t want to spoil the surprise Anyway here are the 5 reviews:

Sarah – A fellow Filipino, a writer poet and a designer, Sarah Cada has been blogging quite a time now on her journal managed by Blogger. Honestly she’s got the prettiest review. I really love how he pointed out the qualities that she loves about me.

Even though Sarah is just blogging about her personal ramblings, she still managed to write pretty cool stuff. I really love her entry on Darren’s top 5 group writing project.

Song Lyrics – Meet Garry or Gurbi a computer science student, a programmer, a novice illustrator, a webmaster, and a ProBlogger (Wow, he really knows a lot of…

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Don’t Let Them Get Away! Convert Them into Regular Readers with These 5 Tips

Admit it, we all want loyal visitors to read our blog. Loyal visitors are easier to convert into buyers, loyal visitors would most likely promote you, for FREE! Though the truth is, it’s very hard to keep an ordinary internet “surfer” to come back and read your blog. Therefore, keep these tips handy to convert those “surfers” into regular, loyal readers:

Pop-out Contests

Ever wonder why Mr. Chow holds tons of contests every month? What’s in it for him aside from the backlinks he gets? I mean he could sell his Microsoft Zune and just use the money to buy him quality backlinks.

But to those who hate JC, don’t underestimate him cause smart Mr.Chow does some pretty good job. He gives away something he doesn’t need (Microsoft Zune) in exchange with what he wants, Exposure! Even though he may not get as much quality backlinks, he still gets loads of exposure in the process which…

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