Showing posts with label Monetizing your hobbies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Monetizing your hobbies. Show all posts

Saturday, November 3, 2007

Shopping With Coupon Chief.

With the festive season round the corner, it is the time of the year to shop for presents for my family. Unlike previous years, where much time was wasted hunting for the best bargains at brick-and-mortar stores, i am going to do my shopping this year with online retailers and what better way to do it than with CouponChief.com, an industry-leading provider of online coupons and discount codes to major internet retailers.

Not only do i avoid the crushing holiday madness, shopping with Coupon Chief can result in massive savings with discount of up to 50% for selected retailers. With just a click of the mouse, everything i need is right there - from searching by store or categories to recently added coupons. And with their extensive list of online retailers from BestBuy, Staples, Target to Dell, this is the best time for me to take advantage of their discount coupons and get that Enid Blyton book from Amazon.com that my daughter has been asking for and a new desktop at Dell for myself.

So, if you are shopping online, make sure you check out Coupon Chief for all your online shopping needs and save by using their discount coupons.

Thursday, November 1, 2007

Organizing My Garage With CarGuyGarage.com

With the festive season round the corner, it is the time of the year to carry out spring cleaning of my house. While i will probably have no problems with the rest of the house, i have a massive headache when i saw the state of my garage. Overflowing with my kids' discarded toys, gardening equipment, tools, old comics and books from my youth, i could hardly squeeze into the room and it makes me determined to get one of those garage cabinets available at CarGuyGarage.com.

With the extensive range of garage storage cabinets at CarGuyGarage.com, from the stylish Ultimate series, aluminum, stainless steel to heavy duty diamond plated cabinets, it will be great to have a storage solution for organizing my old and untidy garage and together with their attractive garage flooring tiles, transform it into a stylish and functional room for my family and friends.

Saturday, September 8, 2007

Monetizing Your Hobby - About PayPerPost.

Almost everyone is looking towards increasing their incomes with catch phrases like "multiple streams of income” and “alternative streams of income” common in books on personal money management. It basically means that you get additional income from other sources besides your regular job.

Other than working two jobs, which will be extremely taxing, one of the best way to increase one's income is by monetizing your hobbies. Since you enjoy doing it, you might as well get paid for it thus turning it into an "alternative stream of income." With that in mind, especially since writing and reading are my hobbies, i recently signed up for PayPerPost, a blog marketing network that pays you to blog about things that interests you.

Being new with PayPerPost, i am not entirely familiar with the mechanics of the network but looking at their website, i get the impression that there are plenty of opportunities available for you to blog about and also a general sense that it pays better, between $5 to $20 per opportunity, than Google Adsense. Of course, it correspondingly requires more effort as it is not just a contextual ads network like Adsense. The best part is that you get to choose the opportunities that interest you and are relevant to your blog content. Nifty tools like PayPerPost Direct are also available where you can negotiate directly with advertisers who like your blog and want you to blog about their products or services.

The requirements of getting your blog accepted into PayPerPost network are minimal with your blog at least 90 days old and have 20 posts. Payment is through Paypal and with their disclosure
policy, sponsored posts are declared so that there are no deception to readers. As a matter of fact, my first assignment is to write about PayPerPost itself and i believe that i will be paid US$20 for it. Not too bad for doing something that i enjoyed and for those who are interested, check out PayPerPost, as a means of monetizing your hobbies.