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But perhaps you’d like to be a better sport about the whole thing. In that case, I recommend reading this piece on how to keep a resolution, once you’ve made one.

• New Year’s Resolutions for the Whole Family
• How to Burn More Fat

from About Today

I’m not trying to stir any racial sentiments and troubles here, in fact I love all my Cheena, Indians, Chindians, or whatever hybrid of locals we have!

Still due to our multiracial society, we’re a melting pot of racial harmony, but we’re also the butt of racial jokes too. Of course we know it’s in the name of jest.

It’s all right to make fun at ourselves, and I mean within just us locals ONLY. Foreign talent, and ang-moh you’re not included, shoo shoo get lost.

You guys should read some of the comments under the Straits Times discussion board. Although most of the comments are sarcastic, few are malicious, but plenty many of them are hilarious.

I was reading an ST Forum post on “Disturbed by ‘discrimination’ ad“, and one of the comment read:

Commented by Bayleyan, “An Indian acquaintence of mine recently remarked that Singapore is a racist country, because Indians will be the first to die if there was ever a terrorist alert raised on the MRT system, because the Tamil announcement always comes after the other 3 official languages!”

HAHAHAHA … Only in Singapore lah.

from Money Maker

Earlier this month, I had a chance to test out the Garmin Approach S1 GPS Golf watch.

See the full Garmin Approach S1 GPS Golf Watch review on GolfGeek.net.

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How to Monetize Your Site with Widgets presentation from Affiliate Summit West 2009, which took place January 11-13, 2009 in Las Vegas, NV.

Speaker:

• Zahid Khan, Product Manager, Amazon

This discussion by Amazon Associates will go over how to enhance your site using various widgets, what works and what doesn’t, and how effective different widgets are to your site. We’ll show you easy ways you can implement widgets to monetize your site right away.

Slides from this session are available at http://www.slideshare.net/affsum/how-to-monetize-your-site-with-widgets-presentation

More details on Affiliate Summit at http://www.affiliatesummit.com/

Note: the companies and positions listed above were current as of the time of the conference. Some of this information may have changed since then.

Video: How to Monetize Your Site with Widgets

from Affiliate Marketing Blog by Shawn Collins

If you have a Youtube account you should notice that you are required to link it to your Google account. Well I didn’t notice that I linked my Youtube account to the unintended Google account. To change the Google account you first need to unlink the existing account. Here the steps to change linked Google account in YouTube.

1. Click on the account from the menu.

2. Click “manage account” at the bottom and select “Unlink YouTube and Google Accounts”.

3. Confirm the unlink. Next time when you login you will be asked to link your Youtube account with a Google account.

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from Eches – Blogging, technology, internet and earn money online

My multimillionaire uncle told me to always have three projects: a short term source of income, a medium term project or two, and a long term goal that you are making a reality. And the only way to assess whether this work is making you good, sustainable income is to look at the numbers again and again.

In this post I want to look at the numbers to $1,000,000 and see how your blogging progress is going.

Why a million?

A million dollars is a large number that most people dream about. And while it seems far off and distant for many people, for others it is quite achievable. And as bloggers we have something that other generations did not. The Internet. Google. Facebook. These giants are capable of sending tens or hundreds of thousands of visitors to your blog every week. All you need is a domain and a host and you are on your way.

Compare that to the old days when you needed a railroad or a factory or an entire office building to make that kind of money and you will realize that we have a very unique opportunity right here and now. And if you think its not possible to make a million dollars from blogging alone then you might want to think again. Darren Rowse does it. So do a bunch of others.

The numbers to $1,000,000

Lets take a look at some figures to see whether you are on track for your goal. Remember, you don’t need to make a million to change your life and perhaps even change the lives of others. You might only need $40k or $50k a year to completely change things. That’s what this post is about.

Let’s say you start a blog and you are going to make money by selling an eBook. Here are some very rough, small and static numbers to think about:

• You write three posts a week aiming to grow email subscribers and build a community
• You do some light SEO work and begin to get traffic from Google as well as social media
• You get around 100 visitors a day after six months
• You convert 10% of those visitors into email subscribers
• In one year you have (182 x 10) 1820 subscribers assuming none were gathered in the first six months
• You sell an eBook at $49 to 50% of your list and make $44,590 in your first year (910 x $49).

Sure, the reality could be totally different. It could be better or it could be worse. Some factors will push the income up and others will push it down. On Blog Tyrant, for example, I have written only 20 posts and already get around 40 to 60 new email subscribers per day. So after a year I could have closer to 14,000 subscribers to sell an eBook to. And the above equation doesn’t take into account ongoing sales, affiliates, etc.

As a blogger you need to constantly assess your goals and your targets. If you want to get to a million dollars you need to adjust the numbers and set them as targets. There is absolutely no point blogging aimlessly and hoping that one day you might strike it rich. If you aren’t getting the 1000 or 2000 (or 10,000) daily visitors that you need, then you have to take a look at what is going wrong and fix it.

What is your plan?

I am really interested in hearing about your plan. Are you aiming for a certain level? Do you have the numbers and the strategy all worked out or are you kind of just floating through and hoping that it will all add up in the end? More importantly, are you growing? Please leave a comment and let me know.

About the Author: The Blog Tyrant has sold blogs for large sums of money and blogs about how you can build your blog fast and do the same. He is a 25 year old guy from Australia and answers all the comments on his website.

from Daily Blog Tips