Category: Business

Lenovo To Buy Motorola Mobility From Google For $2.91 Billion

Techcrunch – TechCrunch has confirmed reports that Lenovo is buying Motorola Mobility from Google. This is the division within Google that the company purchased in 2011 for $12.5 billion. Motorola Mobility will go to Lenovo for $2.91 billion.

Of that $2.91 billion, $1.41 billion will be paid at the close of the deal. $660 million will be comprised of US cash and $750 million in Lenovo ordinary shares. The remaining $1.5 billion will be paid in the form of a three-year promissory note.

Google will maintain ownership of the vast majority of the Motorola Mobility patent portfolio. Lenovo will still receive 2,000 patent assets and the Motorola Mobility brand and trademark.

According to a separate report published by Reuters, Lenovo is being advised by Credit Suisse Group while Lazard Ltd advised Google on the transaction.

“As part of Lenovo, Motorola Mobility will have a rapid path to achieving our goal of reaching the next 100 million people with the mobile Internet. With the recent launches of Moto X and Moto G, we have tremendous momentum right now and Lenovo’s hardware expertise and global reach will only help to accelerate this,” said Dennis Woodside, CEO, Motorola Mobility, in a released statement.

According to our source, Google wanted to dump the asset for some time. The company had to hold off selling the division for tax reasons.

Motorola Mobility’s performance has yet to live up to its purchase price. Since Motorola split and its consumer division went to Google, it has been a constant source of red ink. Motorola lost quite a lot of money: $248 million in the last quarter alone. Google sums this well, noting that the loss was “-21% of Motorola Mobile segment revenues.” Motorola lost $192 million in the year-ago quarter, so the trend here isn’t positive.

Google previously sold off the cable box division of Motorola Mobility for $2.4 billion.

This comes just weeks after Google purchased the hot hardware startup Nest. Since then, Nest’s role in the budding conglomerate that Google is turning into has been widely speculated about. With Motorola gone, Nest’s superstar team that includes many former Apple engineers seemingly has an empty playground.

It seems this complete’s Lenovo’s quest for an established cell phone business. It was rumored back in October that the company submitted a bid for BlackBerry. That deal clearly didn’t pan out.

Simply buying its way to the top worked for Lenovo in the past. In 2005 Lenovo purchased IBM’s personal computer division for $1.25 billion. That purchase alone caused Lenovo to be the world’s third-largest computer maker. But, using the established brand, Lenovo scaled the PC division to become the largest shipper of PCs in the world. In the last months of 2013 Lenovo overtook HP.

Just last week, Lenovo announced a plan to buy IBM’s x86 server business for $2.3 billion.

As the dust settles on this deal, it’s clear that Google took a large loss on its venture with Motorola Mobility. Google acquired an established brand with a vast portfolio of patents, a mature distribution system and a knowledgeable manufacturing arm. Even after pouring money and resources into the historic American brand, Google couldn’t make lemonade with Motorola. Maybe Lenovo, the now-leader in personal computers, will have better luck.

January 29, 2014
Top 5 Sites for Freelancers and Buyers

Over the years doing some spare time job has been a very good way of financing your education or buying a cup of coffee for your troubles, exploring the web for business exposure has become a second nature to most of us, so the need of having an avenue for such exposure becomes a must. Discover the secret of how I scaled through my limitation as a student/passionate blogger and earn quite handsomely through freelancing.

As a student, I didn’t have so many options to earn online; most ‘part time’ job I came across online are a whole bunch of scam, so I decided to ride my luck, viz.. Monetize my skills.

Freelancing is the act of rendering a particular service to individuals or group of individuals as a ‘free man’ (not committed to any employer long term). This service may include article writing, web design, health solutions, graphic, SEO help or any skill you feel you can deliver online.

If you a free man just like me: Self employed (student) and not committed to any employer long term, looking for where to showcase your products and services or you are just an individual/organization looking for where to acquire the product/services of an expert . Whichever you are here is the list of the top 5 of such sites.

Top Five Sites For Business Exposures

1. SEOClerks

SeoClerks is probably the cheapest place to get any job done. Just recently, I purchased 1,000 US human visitors for just $2, the seller provided me with a google analytics url as a prove to confirm that they were real human. The delivery was quite on time and enjoy the level of interaction allowed between buyers and sellers on this site. The website functions are pretty much like fiverr’s but there is no limit for a range of prices charged for gigs. Sellers are either online, then you will get the work within 8 hours, or offline, then you will get the work in 48 hours. Release the cash and await the job. You are also given an option to place a guarantee on your gig and create discount coupon codes for gigs.

2. Fiverr

For the past few years fiverr gigs have represented an icon for freelancers. Though sites with more features has arisen, no-one has really surpassed the credibility and originality that fiverr has always boasted of. Dealings in fiverr are called gig i.e. 1gig = $5.

3. Onedollarr

Task in onedollarr is called gig and is best for buyers who want to acquire services at a very cheap rate. Do not let the $1 fool you, as you can as well add extras to your gig without a specified amount.

4. Gigbucks

Sell or purchase products/services rate between $5-$50

5. Fourerr

Is always nice to some do something different and that’s exactly what fourerr has done. They have got a very good track record over the past two years and seems pretty much like the next big thing. I really recommend every freelancer try out this site and give your testimonies.

October 10, 2013
Legitimate Means of Making Money through Online Survey
Making money online is now the order of the day. Online surveys are one of the easiest forms of market research through which you can earn fast cash. It is one of the most popular forms active today in the virtual world. This trend is encouraged by advertisers and manufacturers, who are in favor of such forms of marketing. Online surveys help manufacturers and advertisers to learn about the potential of products or services before introducing them in the market. Both survey takers and proprietors can earn big bucks. However, there is a strong amalgamation of both scam and legit survey sites. This balanced existence of fake and original content is making it difficult for users to find 100% authentic survey sites.
Through my own experience, I have gained enough knowledge and expertise in deciphering a fake entity among legitimate ones.

Here are few tips for survey takers to use when looking for legitimate websites:
1. Search for websites that are the highest paying ones. You can check out survey review websites. Through them, you can get enough information and details about both new, as well as pre-existing survey websites. Through the acquired information, you can single out the fake ones and target only those websites that have got higher ratings for payouts from users.
2. Scan the scams instantly. 60% of online survey sites are nothing but scams. Most users are entrapped in these scams because of promises and high dollar numbers. Therefore, it is important to take out enough time and get information about survey sites from reliable sources before joining any. Remember, if a site is asking for a fee payment or money and promising thousands of dollars over a payment of a small fee then think twice.
3. Join numerous survey sites. There is no restriction or limitation. All you have to do is create accounts, provide the required information about yourself and then work from there. The surveys will match only with survey takers whom they find are suitable and appropriate. Therefore, signing up with multiple survey sites will only increase your chance of getting notified and accepted.
4. Get a mixed bag of payout forms. If you need cash payouts then sign up on only cash paying survey websites. But it is always profitable to join both cash and reward point paying websites. Do not avoid sweepstakes oriented sites either. There are winning chances and occasional success opportunities in them too.
5. Update your subscriptions. Survey sites offer work mostly to their consistent survey takers. This is because they are on the lookout for reliable users. So, if you refuse offers on a constant basis, you might lose out on opportunities or even get your accounts suspended. Therefore, make sure to update your account and profiles on all websites and take surveys in a periodical manner.
Surveys are fun and not at all time consuming. You earn good cash without putting in much effort. Therefore, becoming a survey taker is surely a profitable deal all together!
October 6, 2013
Role of Technology in Business Expansion
Technology plays a very important role in the expansion of a business. Business technology such as social networks, virtual office technology as well as video conferencing helps in removing boundaries at work place that limit business expansion. Technology in business helps in targeting a wider customer base that help an organization grow to higher levels. Therefore, choosing, deploying and managing the information technology which is necessary for business expansion is important. This article provides information on the role of technology in business expansion as explained in the following paragraphs;

Diversification

The use of technology serves the purpose of opening doors to different types of people globally in the work place together with different perspectives to projects. Diversification is an essential function that a business must have to be able to compete in the global market. Through diversification a business will expand in different ways including;
- Opening opportunities for the business to expand and operate globally.
- Bringing people from different countries and cultures – this offers a different perspective to business projects and environment. It gives a wide variety of diverse, creative as well as unique views that helps in growth and expansion of the business.
- A new approach of business gives the institution a competitive edge which is beneficial for growth and increased sales.
Efficiency in Communication

Effective communication is a basic necessity to achieve business expansion. Technology works to improve communication in the workplace. Business expansion is achieved through;
- Interactive communication among workers in attending to clients’ needs through phone calls
- Workers are able to use electronic mails instantly to reply and sell business products without interrupting the recipient
- Improved communication with business partners using multiple channels of communications is an advantage for the business. This is an assurance that a business will expand at the end.
Information Storage

Safety and accessibility of a company’s information is important. The prospects generated and their use for the company needs to be stored safely and should be accessible to people who need it. This information will be used by;
- Workers in the office as reference material to sell company’s products
- Sales people use this information to teach new and existing clients about the business and its products
- Other business executives need to use this information even outside regular business hours
Accessibility of business information is very important when it comes to selling its products. So, technology serves a good purpose to ensure this information is safe for future use. Deploying IT systems plays an important role in expanding companies.

Mobility

The use of technology in a business allows more movement of people. Business partners do not need to meet in one room to discuss essential matters concerning the business. The use of video conferencing has made the operation of business easier in the following ways;
- It has enabled businesses all over the world to interact with one another.
- Businesses save time, expenses and space
- People can set up virtual meetings and distribute data without the need to be in the same room.
- With technology businesses can establish a global presence at a fraction of the cost.
Andrea Jayson

Author Biography:

Andrea is a Blogger and Write from UK. She loves to write articles on various categories like Finance, Technology, Travel and Health. As If not she is doing a research work on ukba.
October 5, 2013
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BidVertiser is a ppc online advertisement program that grant their advertisers $20 on sign-up, unlike the Adword program, Bidvertiser credit can be used before you purchase any ads package.

This feature enables you to master how the advertisement platform works, be able to make necessary adjustment to how your ads are served, try various ad types and finally decide whether or whether not to continue with your advertisement campaign.

Why I Recommend Bidvertiser

Is unlike me to recommend advertisement programs to anyone (don’t ask me why). But since I have been a constant user of the Bidvertiser advertisement program for the past 6 months, I think I’m in a more better position than anyone else to have a say on this.
- Bidvertiser has a simple user interface which is easier to use and understand compared to the complex advertisement platform of other website I have tried in the past.
- Bidvertiser allows you to set your custom bid per click, even as low as $0.1 per click my ads still get clicks (bad market for publishers).
- Reliable support: At a point my account was not credited the moment I issued a billing. I didn’t get to panic, just called the support and got the issue fixed within 3 mins. There is also a contact form just in-case you don’t like talking over the phone.
Base on the type of quality support and reliability provided by Bidvertiser and my six months experience as an advertiser, I proudly recommend Bidvertise to anyone with a low budget advertisement campaign, with a high budget advisement campaign but low daily budget and to anyone who is trying to bring a new website to spotlight.

If you think you have a better opinion, you are free to express your opinion on the comment section below.

General Feature of Bidvertiser Advertisement Program
1. Geographic targeting: Bidvertiser allows you to set your ads to display within a geographic range or location. For instance, since I’m a Nigerian, I can simply set my ads to target only Nigerian visitors (i.e: my ads will only be seen by visitors from Nigeria). Simply choose your geographic targeting and your ads will be shown only to users located anywhere in the country or countries you selected.
2. PPC: Pay Per Click (ppc) means you will only per for the clicks you receive. You choose how much you are willing to pay for each click in each of the categories you have chosen to display your ads on.
3. Keyword and category targeting: This means that you can set your ads to display only for some specific keywords and categories related to your website or necessary to your website niche.
Bidvertiser offers advertisers program for website owners who wants to bring their website to the spotlight and publishers program to website owners who wants to monetize their website through advertisement programs. Click here to grab your $20 Free Credit I hope you enjoy this article inasmuch as I enjoyed writing it? Please feel free to share your views and experiences with Bidvertiser advertisement program on the comment section.
September 1, 2013
VoguePay.com: Receive Payments Online For Your Small Businesses

This article was written by: Joseph Onyemakonor

As the internet users grow by the day in Nigeria, one of the challenges of growing the eCommerce side of it has largely been online payment solution. This is largely due to the start-up cost of integrating payment gateways, which can gulp up to N200, 000. Many businesses in Nigeria cannot afford this sum.

If you are one of the small business owners that can’t afford the costly payment portal integration but would still like to see the benefits of sales and productivity, you need to give VoguePay.com a try. VoguePay provides a convenient way for customers to shop easily on the Internet while also providing the innovative solution that Small businesses in Nigeria can rely on to receive online payment in Nigeria.

If you are a small business owner, you can now receive payments online in Nigeria using VoguePay even if you do not have a website and have your funds transferred to your bank account. VoguePay accepts payment across the major cardholders in Nigeria, namely Verve, VISA, Mastercard, e-transact and interswitch. The company focused on addressing the issues that are relevant to the successes of the small business owner, Infopreneurs and internet marketers in Nigeria who want to use the internet increase their sales to their market audience.
For example, imagine clients of your bulk SMS site buying and paying for SMS units online, right there in your portal with their ATM CARD and automatically have their account credited with the exact amount of SMS they paid for real time. Don’t you think this will attract more customers to your portal? Don’t you think it will increase efficiency and productivity?

Well, VoguePay is FREE to use as at the time of publishing this, though you pay 1% commission on every transaction for the total transaction cost. You will also pay 1% of withdrawal amount + ₦50.00 whenever you withdrawal funds to your bank accounts from your VoguePay wallet. Feel free to sign up at www.voguepay.com Now!

July 17, 2013
Make Money By Starting Online Business

Possibly this is the best time in history to start a new Online Home Business because now everyone is moving toward internet for any kind of solution and anyone who have time and internet knowledge can make lot of money by starting various Online Businesses. The best thing about this trend is that anyone can make money by it and here are few business ideas by which these can start a successful online business.

Start an E-Commerce Website: Indeed, it is not a new idea but this type of businesses are growing and now people are buying more things from online stores compare to earlier time so chances are very high that you can make good money by
starting an e-commerce website. If you plan wisely you can start this online business without investing lot of fund in it. On your E-Commerce website you can sell products from your local market and to get and deliver these products you can collaborate with local vendors. By this method you will need to pay for an item to local vendors only after having a conform order and with the help of them you can also deliver it without investing lot of time in it. If your local market has any proprietary material then you can sell that product on your E-Commerce website as a unique product and you can generate more money by this.

Help others with knowledge: People always look for more information, suggestion or solution and you can earn money by providing them what they need. Indeed it’s not an easy task and you cannot answer every query but a group of people can easily do it. You can contact few other experts who are from different field and after making a pool of these experts you can create a website where these experts will help those people who need personalized solution. This pool of experts can remain available on forum without any payment for general problems but for personalized solution person must need to pay to expert and you get your commission in it.

Do Freelancing: If you are not comfortable with above two suggestions than you can do freelancing that is known as the best online home business in the world. Freelancing is a different way of working in which you can get the work from people or organization based on your skills and experience and you will get paid after you deliver the requested work. To get work as a freelancer you can take help of many website that provide a platform to freelancer and work as a bridge between freelancer and organization. The best thing about this work is that you can do it as per your timing and your preference. If are good in writing you can do writing, if you are good in designing you can do designing and similarly you can get a work for the field in which you find yourself comfortable. In start you can do it alone and when you get success in it you can hire few employees to assist you in it.

Paul

Author Biography:

Paul is a regular blogger and freelance writer and he write about income support, travel, technology and finance on his blogs. Before working as a freelance writer, author worked as an IT manager for almost ten year and gained technical and financial experience in this job.

June 28, 2013
Liberty Reserve Gone? Top 3 Option for Online Payment Gateways!

The shutting down of libertyreserve by the US government is probably the saddest news any internet marketer would want to hear. Now the question surrounding the whole affaire is why were they shut down? and is there an alternative? I can not give you answer to the first question but the later is what we are going to consider here.

When payment gateway is mentioned, the first thing that comes in mind is paypal but is paypal really enough?
In most countries like Nigeria, Lebanon, Ghana etc paypal is completely out of bounds (registration is not available to users from such countries). What is the payment option for a user from such countries? Lets take a look at the the top 3.

Top 3 Option for Online Payment Gateways

Perhaps, the US government is sounding a warning bell to all global payment exchange network, so it is important you consider your options wisely.
Why Liberty Reserve was shut down
On the 24th of may 2013 Arthur Budovsky Belanchuk was arrested is Spain under charges of financial crimes during worldwide investigation. He is the founder and owner of Liberty Reserve, one of the most popular electronic currencies online

Security expert Bryan Krebs said Liberty Reserve’s features such as using only a name, date of birth and an email address as a means of identification had made it a popular among cybercriminals who wanted to move funds and make payments anonymously.

If you wanted to launder money, you would open an account with Liberty Reserve, providing them with a name, which could be fake, and an e-mail address. The key to the scheme was that you couldn’t then deposit money directly into the account. Instead, you had to work through middlemen, who were called “exchangers.” These were typically unlicensed moneymen in countries like Malaysia, Nigeria, and Vietnam, who bought Liberty Reserves in bulk from Liberty Reserve. You would pay them dollars (or whatever currency) for a certain sum of Liberty Reserves, which they would then deposit into your account. And when you wanted to withdraw money, the process worked in reverse, perhaps with an exchanger in a different country. (Liberty Reserve itself took a one-per-cent fee on transactions, while the exchangers typically charged five per cent or more.) The point of doing it this way was that the Liberty Reserve bank would have no identifying data for you (no record of how or from where you sent the money), since the deposits and withdrawals were all done through the exchangers.
This arrangement made money laundering easier, which seems to have been the main function of the network.

Although, many will ague that they have used liberty reserve for only legal transaction but the LR currency is not legal as it does not have any limit of currency that can be produced, Budovsky can choose to produce 1Million LR for himself if he so wish.

What are the alternatives?

1. Payza

Payza, previously known as Alert Pay has improved over the years and gradually placed himself as the direct alternative to paypal. Unlike Liberty Reserve, Payza plays the middle man between your bank and your internet transaction. You fund your account via your credit card and also withdraw your money back to your back account. This is pretty convinient as it allows users to transfer money from one user to the other and uses a very tight verification system..

2. Payoneer

Payoneer provides their users with a credit card that can be used globally, It is pretty much like your bank account, the verification requires you to provide a government issued identification such a driving licence, passport or national id. You can also send and receive payments from various local eWallets such as WebMoney, Payza etc from any part of the world.

3. Perfect Money

Perfect money like Liberty Reserve uses a currency exchange system, if you are addicted to the Liberty Reserve system of transaction then Perfect Money is just the ideal option for you. Best online sellers and buyers of perfectmoney, paypal, and other ecurrencies which you can trust are
myecurrencyexchange.com, wm-center.com, alerexchanger.com and you mention…

Above: Preet Bharara, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, describes charges against Liberty Reserve, The New Yorker.

June 17, 2013
Why Did Criminals Trust Liberty Reserve?

Liberty Reserve, the alternative-payment network and digital currency that federal prosecutors shut down a couple of days ago, was not, as it described itself, the Internet’s “largest payment processor and money transfer system.” (PayPal, obviously, is much bigger.) But Liberty Reserve was, by all accounts, the Internet’s largest payment processor for illicit and criminal transactions. The Justice Department says that since the founding of Liberty Reserve, in 2006, it has handled more than fifty-five million transactions totalling more than six billion dollars, and as of last year it had more than a million users. In effect, Liberty Reserve provided a key piece of the infrastructure for criminal activity on the Web. What makes it so interesting is that it was only able to do so by getting hundreds of thousands of criminals to trust it.
Descriptions in reports of the legal action against Liberty Reserve have made its day-to-day business sound enormously confusing. So let’s walk through how it worked. Liberty Reserve functioned like a bank that only took deposits in its own currency (also called the Liberty Reserve). If you wanted to launder money, you would open an account with Liberty Reserve, providing them with a name, which could be fake, and an e-mail address. The key to the scheme was that you couldn’t then deposit money directly into the account. Instead, you had to work through middlemen, who were called “exchangers.” These were typically unlicensed moneymen in countries like Malaysia, Nigeria, and Vietnam, who bought Liberty Reserves in bulk from Liberty Reserve. You would pay them dollars (or whatever currency) for a certain sum of Liberty Reserves, which they would then deposit into your account. And when you wanted to withdraw money, the process worked in reverse, perhaps with an exchanger in a different country. (Liberty Reserve itself took a one-per-cent fee on transactions, while the exchangers typically charged five per cent or more.) The point of doing it this way was that the Liberty Reserve bank would have no identifying data for you (no record of how or from where you sent the money), since the deposits and withdrawals were all done through the exchangers.
This arrangement made money laundering easier, which seems to have been the main function of the network. But Liberty Reserves were also used as a digital currency, in the sense that that there were “merchants” who would accept L.R.s as a form of payment for goods and services. (Liberty Reserve actually designed a shopping-cart interface for their Web sites.) These merchants were, at least according to the government, “overwhelmingly criminal in nature,” engaging in transactions in which both the buyer and the seller had an interest in anonymity. They included traffickers in stolen credit-card and social-security numbers, drug dealers, and hackers. If you wanted to pay for someone to hack a company’s data, you could just transfer L.R.s from your bank account to theirs. What Liberty Reserve offered criminals, in other words, was something that had, relatively speaking, the anonymity of cash (since all that identified you was an e-mail address) in the virtual world.

What’s fascinating about all this is that, at least for a while, it worked—drug dealers were willing to trade real drugs and hackers were willing to do real work in exchange for Liberty Reserves. That suggests they were confident that the currency wouldn’t become worthless, and that when they wanted to trade their Liberty Reserves for dollars (or euros), they’d be able to do so with reasonable ease and at a reasonable price. This is a little surprising. It makes sense to accept dollars for your work, because you can be certain you’ll be able to use them to buy stuff tomorrow—the fact that they’re the legal currency of the U.S. is a good guarantee of that. But Liberty Reserves were backed by nothing at all. They were historically pegged to the U.S. dollar—one L.R. equaled one dollar—but there were no legally binding rules that guaranteed that exchange rate (the whole point of the system was that it was outside the law), which means that Liberty Reserve could, in theory, have raised or lowered the rate at will. More important, there were no restrictions that would have prevented Arthur Budovsky (who founded Liberty Reserve) from simply printing as much currency as he wanted and using it to buy illicit goods. (This makes it different from Bitcoin, which has been algorithmically engineered to permanently limit the number of bitcoins in existence.) Had Budovsky done this, it would have radically devalued the wealth that everyone else had in Liberty Reserves. Yet, even knowing that, hundreds of thousands of people, many of whom broke the law for a living, put their faith in the system.
The reason they were willing to do so, presumably, was that the long-term value of Liberty Reserve as a business depended on it not screwing over its customers. Like good disciples of Adam Smith, Liberty Reserve’s users relied not on Budovsky’s benevolence but, rather, on his pursuit of his own self-interest. This was a good gamble for a while, but there was an important catch: because Budovsky couldn’t protect Liberty Reserve from the U.S. government, all of those L.R.s are now essentially worthless. Still, Liberty Reserve’s success (short-lived as it was) is a kind of testament, however perverse, to the fact that markets can flourish even when there is no government to supervise them, and no legal way to enforce the rules. When self-interest is well-harnessed, apparently, you get honor even among thieves.
Above: Preet Bharara, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, describes charges against Liberty Reserve. Photograph by Mike Segar/Reuters.
Credit: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2013/05/why-did-criminals-trust-liberty-reserve.html

June 1, 2013
Top 20 Sites that will Pay you to Write Articles
Are you a bookworm, review geek or simple given the gift of words? Does writing come easy for you? If you are such a person, you can earn extra cash online doing what you love – writing articles for top paying websites.

If you have tried and failed with blogging using pay per click services like Google AdSense, Adstract, Bidvertiser and other Adsense alternatives in the past, writing on established website may be your best bet on making money through articles online. Is quite simple all you need to do is to read on and start cashing your money.
Below is the top 20 websites that will pay you for submitting articles, writing product review or promoting advertisers link in your blog.
1. About.com
  In their first two years, Topic Writers are paid by the article. In subsequent years if the Topic Site grows, About.com also pays Topic Writers for page views above and beyond the minimum pay per article. Compensation is limited only by page views – while the guaranteed per article minimums are offered as a safety net, there is no cap on what a successful Topic Writer can earn.
2. Mashable
  Mashable hires freelancers and new staff, offering one of the largest platforms for tech bloggers.
3. PayPerPost
  You can earn as much as $500 or more a month writing articles and reviews of their advertisers on your blog.
4. Blogsvertise
  Their advertisers pay you to mention and talk about their websites, products and services in your own blog.
5. Review Me
  After your blog has been accepted in their network, they will pay you $20 to $200 per post that you write.
6. Smorty
  Earn $6 to $100 dollars per post you write on your blog. Amount paid for each post depends on the overall popularity and page rank of your blog.
7. SponsoredReviews
  Write reviews for their advertisers’ products and services on your own blog. They charge a 35% transaction fee for their services.
8. LoudLaunch
  Blog about the advertisers campaign releases that meet your interests. They pay once a month.
9. Blogitive
  Get paid weekly via PayPal for posting stories that interest you.
10. BloggerWave
  Select the advertiser opportunities that best suit your blog and write reviews on their products and services.
11. InBlogAds
  Write about websites, products, services and companies on your blog and get paid for it.
12. BlogToProfit
  Make $250 dollars or more by writing new posts on your blog.
13. Creative Weblogging
  Write 7 to 10 posts per week for their network and they will pay you $225 per month.
14. WordFirm
  Make money publishing books as a freelance writer from home.
15. 451 Press
  Write for a blog within their network and receive forty percent of all generated revenue.
16. Digital Journal
  Network of bloggers that get paid to report on newsworthy articles through their blogs.
17. BlogBurner
  Sign up for a free blog and get paid for writing new posts. Your commissions are generated through Adsense clicks.
18. Squidoo
  Earn money by writing your new blog, or choose to donate your earnings to charity.
19. Helium
  Earn a share of their advertising revenue by writing articles in their channels.
20. Dewitts Media
  Get paid to write your own blog. This site requires you have a minimum page rank of 3 to sign up.
January 23, 2013
2013 Bing Ads Coupon Codes!
Just launched your new website?Take advantage and make your presence known to the world!
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- Stop your campaign before the expiry of the coupon code or else you will be charged. You can also delete your Bing Ads account.
January 1, 2013
3 stressfree Things You Can Do From Home For Additional Income

An essential ingredient in frugal living is spending less money. However, there is only so much you can cut from your budget before you can’t cut anymore — or you feel so restricted that it becomes difficult to maintain your situation. If you are looking to improve your cash flow, you can look for ways to add a little more income to your budget.

Increasing your income doesn’t mean that you have to go out and find a part-time job, though. There are things you can do from home to make a little extra money. You may have to spend some time getting things started, but after a while, you might find that you can create a steady income from the comfort of your home.

Freelancing on Fiverr and Upwork

One of the most popular things you can do is freelance. You can freelance if you know how to write, if you are knowledgeable about graphic design, or if you know how to program. Technology has made it possible for you to provide your services to people all over the world. Many of my own clients have never even met me in person. Improving your marketable skills will be even more important now that you are taking in clients, and you need to be careful of scams and people who don’t pay you in a timely manner, but with a little perseverance, you can earn some money as a freelancer.

Professional Blogging

Another way to make a little extra money is to start your own web site. Think of something that you are passionate about, or that you are knowledgeable about. You can start a blog or web site quickly and fairly inexpensively. Post information that others find useful, and consider tweaking content to focus on certain keywords. You can even look for good information from other sites, and curate it in a way that attracts visitors. Content curation and creation are expected to really take off, and you can be involved.

Monetizing your Blog

Monetize your web site/blog with AdSense, as well as affiliate programs. Once you have an established following such as a site like MoneyNing.com, you can even begin offering advertising packages.

If you know a lot about something, you can offer your services as a consultant. You can do PR and image consulting, or you can provide help as a SEO consultant or social media guru. It doesn’t even have to be online.

Business Consultancy

You can base a consulting business for communications, teamwork, survey design, green living or some other subject of interest out of your home. You may have to travel sometimes, though, so that can get difficult because of the time and money involved in doing so.

Luckily for you, we have a ton of travel coupons to help you save a bit at least on the financial side of things.

December 21, 2012
5 Online Business You Can Start With Little Capital
By: Joseph Onyemakonor

Most times when people hear start a business online, they think you have to be involved in some short of Advance Fee Fraud (popularly known as “yahoo yahoo”) before you can make a good make online but they are 100% wrong. It is absolutely possible to make money online, in fact it is quite similar to any business you own at home or in your local because you have to put in your time and effort to it if you want your business to be successful in the business. Starting a business in Nigeria can be quite demanding, you need capital, land, Labour (depending on what you want to go into) but online quite different because you will put in Little Capital and start making a good amount of money when it is time to rip, but first you have to make the move by investing. Here are some business to you can start online that is sure to yield income:
1. Blogging: This is one of the many ways of making money online. With About N6000 you can start a blog. People will pay you to advertise their product on your blog and you will get to make money online. It can also be a steady source of income. Take a Look at how much the owner of Jaguda, one of Nigeria most popular music blog makes per day. Blogging can be a very lucrative business to go into online. Not because you will make money from it eventually, it gives you the opportunity to put your thoughts in decent lines and reach out to people in need.
2. Bulk SMS: Bulk SMS is a service that provision customize messages .i.e. you can send message with sender name as NairaTrain. With N10,000 you can start your own block SMS service with a reseller account. Aside the fact that people will buy SMS units from you online, you can also make money with this by sending for Organizations, Schools, Churches, Mosques e.t.c. A popular SMS site that you can get started with is linkosms their pricings is quite affordable
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- Marketing: Marketing online is similar to that offline. It requires a capital less than N2,000 to start up. You will be required to sell information, books, products e.t.c. to a customer and he pays into your bank account directly. You can also sell other people products and get commission for it.
- Article Writing: If you are a good writer, you can start writing for other bloggers and get paid once your article is reviewed and accepted. This is also another business you can investing full time. They are also sites that hire writers to continuously write for them.
- Website designing Compay: If you have skills in website designing, you can start a website design company online. The market is wider there and you are liable to more business online. Starting this business requires you to a website only and maybe a few port folio of previous work.
Once you get started online, business, it can serve as a support to your job offline or you can face it full time. It may take some time before your business gets fully established online but when it does, you will enjoy the benefits.
August 10, 2012
How to Start a Bulk SMS Business/Venture in Your Area

By: Joseph Onyemakonor

Now a days, the need to communicate and distribution information is very high. People are always looking for ways to share information at a cheaper, more convenient, and faster means. Bulk SMS is a way of sharing information to thousands of people at a time using special customized names as sender id. It is also relatively cheap. While most people keep going online to send this messages to organizations for free, some few has started it as a venture. I will further tell you that one can make a considerable amount of money rendering this service.

Starting a Bulk SMS business is very cheap and requires you to put a little time and money into it. It requires you to have no special skills what so ever, all you need is internet connection (I will suggest A cyber café ). Now lets get started

Goto www.googlebulksms.com or www.linkosms.com (They sell at very affordable prices), register with them and locate the pricing page. Depending on the quantity you are starting with, the price of each unit can range from N1 – N1.5. Start by buying 2-3000 units which will cost about N2,500. Payment most times is made either through bank deposit or using your local ATM card.

Its not buying the SMS that matters, it what you do with it. Next thing you need to do is to spread the word, you can do that by posting simply hand bills. You do not need to goto any press to do this, just type on Microsoft word and print it then make multiply photocopies and post it around.

In most cases, the people that use this service are Churches, Mosques and Schools. Prepare proposal and send to all of them. You proposal should be very interesting and versatile. Tell them they get to send the SMS with Customized Name of their own organization and it is also at a very affordable price too.

Submit your proposal to as much organizations as possible and you will get more profit from it.

When charging them from the service, charge from N4 –N10 per sms. You bought at N1 per SMS. When you send to about 500 people from a particular organization, you make up to N4000.

Start now and write a proposal and send out. You will make over N10 -50000 once you get start with this little venture

August 8, 2012
7 Sure Ways to Make Money Online

By: Joseph Onyemakonor

How to make money online:There are so many articles on “How to make money online” and over 1000 get rich quick schemes jobs online which has proven useless and abortive in assisting you in earning online. Before I continue, I want you to know that this is not a get-rich-quick scheme and I am going to tell you why it is not. This article does not promise you any sure means, through which you can make money online doing little or no jobs neither is it an investment program that you go into and sit and home. In a nutshell you have to work hard to make money through the methods you will be seeing below.

In making money online, the first thing to have in mind is that you have to be offering a service before you get paid. The services you may offer can be affiliate marketing, selling your self published e-book or someone else’s,blogging e.t.c.

1. Blogging: This is one of the most discussed means of making money online. Although most successful bloggers will just tell you to start a blog and start earning, making money online with a blog requires effort, time and hard work to keep your readers loyal. Some of the advantages of owning a blog is that you get to share your thoughts and opinion, build an audience and make cool cash eventually. You should be ready to put in your best if you want to succeed as a blogger. You can’t make money online free

–> 2. Freelancing: This is another way of making money doing various jobs online for people, organizations and companies. This method of making money is not that popular and most people do not know they can make over $1000 each week if you are skilled and have at least four (4) hours a day to put into freelancing.

3. Simply Jobs website: Another way of making money online is doing jobs for people in five $5 jobs websites. You can make money with this by selling or reselling e-books, coming up with cool ideas and selling it to people for $5. An example of this kind of website is fiverr. If you can do 5 – 6 jobs a day, you will realize up $30 daily.

4. Internet Marketing: This is another widely discussed means of making money online. You can sell your services or be an affiliate marketer (Help someone else sell their products and services and get commission on sales). If you are a writer, you can start selling your books online or become an affiliate marketer. If you don’t have any idea or experience in writing, you can go to any freelancing sites and pay a freelancer to write for you. This can serve as a steady source of income for life. You should have in mind that this also is not easy too and requires effort.

5. Website Flipping: You can start flipping websites today after you are able to build traffic to that site. It requires time and effort. I will recommend this for people with experience in making money online and building website traffic.

6. Investment programs: You can start today and invest online and watch your money grow. Before you go into this, have in mind that you earn according to what you invest. One of the fastest growing and stable investment program right now is Justbeepaid they will lend you $10 dollars to invest with first, this will enable you understand what the program is about and how quick your money can grow

7. Articles writing: Everyday, more and more people are joining the blogging community, and they are all looking for new and unique contents to publish. If you are a good writer, you can start writing today. The best place to start is with a freelancing site. You can be paid about $2 per 400 word articles. This requires creativity and experience in SEO. You can learn all about SEO writing on ezine articles courses. You can also start your own articles websites where your write and sell articles.

Have in mind that making money online is not easy. It is a gradual process, which you have to put your time and effort to. When you become established, yoiu can earn upto $5000 monthly. Its not possible to make money online fast

August 7, 2012
Important Tips For Listing On Ebay That You Should Follow To Succeed In Your Ebay Business
The way you list your merchandise on Ebay influences the success you can achieve in your business. Your merchandise listing is like your shop front, and people will decide whether to buy your products or not based on your product listing and description. This article outlines some essential tips that you can use in your listing to make sure that you succeed in selling your merchandise on Ebay.
- Have your products’ keywords in your product description.
- The titles of your product listing must grab the readers’ attention.
- Make your product description as detailed and accurate as possible. Make sure that your product description will help people to know the nature and condition of what you are selling. Put yourself in the shoes of a potential buyer, and in your description, provide as much detail as you would wish to get about the product if you were considering buying it. Don’t lose bids and sales simply because people don’t know what you are selling precisely. If a potential customer asks you a question about the product that you have listed, make sure that you reply them as soon as possible.
- Add photos or images of your products as this will help the potential customer to see how the product looks like.
- Make sure that your product is listed in the most accurate category.
- If the product that you are selling needs to be shipped to the buyer, provide enough information about the shipping, the cost of shipping and the estimated time it will take to ship the product. It is also easier if you sell products that are not heavy and bulky. You must also offer fast or slower delivery options so that people who want to get the products delivered early have an option to get the products on time.
- If your products need shipping, you must specify your location as this will help the buyer to know that they will need to pay for shipping.
- Provide several payment options so that your potential customers can use the payment method that suits them best.
- It is also important that you list your products with low prices. This will encourage many people to bid.
These tips can help you to list your products effectively so that you get a lot of bids on your Ebay products.Credits:
Read more http://obasimvilla.com/blog/important-tips-for-listing-on-ebay-that-you-should-follow-to-succeed-in-your-ebay-business/
August 3, 2012
Important Tips For Listing On Ebay That You Should Follow To Succeed In Your Ebay Business
This article outlines some essential tips that you can use in your listing to make sure that you succeed in selling your merchandise on Ebay.
- Have your products’ keywords in your product description.
- The titles of your product listing must grab the readers’ attention.
- Make your product description as detailed and accurate as possible. Make sure that your product description will help people to know the nature and condition of what you are selling. Put yourself in the shoes of a potential buyer, and in your description, provide as much detail as you would wish to get about the product if you were considering buying it. Don’t lose bids and sales simply because people don’t know what you are selling precisely. If a potential customer asks you a question about the product that you have listed, make sure that you reply them as soon as possible.
- Add photos or images of your products as this will help the potential customer to see how the product looks like.
- Make sure that your product is listed in the most accurate category.
- If the product that you are selling needs to be shipped to the buyer, provide enough information about the shipping, the cost of shipping and the estimated time it will take to ship the product. It is also easier if you sell products that are not heavy and bulky. You must also offer fast or slower delivery options so that people who want to get the products delivered early have an option to get the products on time.
- If your products need shipping, you must specify your location as this will help the buyer to know that they will need to pay for shipping.
- Provide several payment options so that your potential customers can use the payment method that suits them best.
- It is also important that you list your products with low prices. This will encourage many people to bid.
These tips can help you to list your products effectively so that you get a lot of bids on your Ebay products.
August 3, 2012
Make Your Ebay Business Easy By Using Dropshippers
Dropshipping is one of the popular ways through which people are making money without hassles on Ebay.
By using dropshippers, you can sell a wide range of goods and you also simplify your business, which leaves you with a lot of time to grow your Ebay auction business.
This articles outlines some of the main reasons why you should use drop shipping to expand your Ebay business.
- The main advantage of using drop shipping for your Ebay business is that you have the convenience of not worrying about having inventory and also shipping goods to your customers. All that you have to do is to sell your products and when an auction has been completed, you direct the buyer to the drop shipper’s website who will take care of delivery of the purchased products to the customers.
- Using dropshippers increases your chances of earning large amount of money on the internet because you have a lot of products which you can sell. Once you have decided what you want to sell, you can choose the dropshippers to work with and then start to sell the merchandise you want. By selling a wide range of merchandise, you can increase your sales by selling to many people.
- Using drop shipping also means that you will be able to start selling merchandise and earn money on the internet quickly. You do not need to spend a lot of money to get started.
- Using dropshippers in your Ebay business means that you can research on the products for which there is high demand and then select dropshippers that sell these products at the best prices. By selling popular products at good prices from the customer’s perspective, you will be able to sell large volumes of products and make huge profits.
- If you want to start making money selling merchandise on Ebay, you can use dropshippers to make your business hassle-free. Drop shipping is one of the easiest ways to start making money online because they make it easy for you to start selling merchandise on the internet. Many people who are starting a business selling products on Ebay start by using dropshippers.
Read more http://wikibloggers.org/make-your-ebay-business-easy-by-using-dropshippers/
August 3, 2012
Tips On How To Prevent The Common Risks Of Buying On Ebay
it possible to do as much shopping as you want on the internet. You don’t need to go to a shopping mall to buy products since you can shop on the internet. You can check out many products and compare prices in the comfort of your own home on the internet.
Shopping on the internet has therefore made buying convenient. However, buying goods on the internet is different from buying in a shop where you can touch the product or even try it on. This articles outlines some of the main risks associated with buying on the internet.
- The product may not meet your expectations or may be of poor quality. While buying on Ebay, you are relying on the description provided by the seller or any photos of the products that are on the website. Because you can’t see the product in real life before you pay for it, sometimes when the product is delivered you may discover that it’s not what you expected.
- There is a risk that the seller is not reliable. While buying on Ebay, you have to believe that the seller is trustworthy; has the product as described on Ebay, and that they will ship it to you after you have paid for it. Although most sellers are reliable, some sellers fail to ship the product to the customer or the product they ship is not exactly what they described on Ebay. Of course you can’t be certain that every seller you will deal with is trustworthy, and you simply have to believe that they will be reliable and that they are trustworthy. Ebay allows sellers to be reviewed, so if you buy on Ebay on a regular basis, you may consider buying from sellers with good feedback.
- Some sellers fail to communicate with their customers. It’s possible that after you have paid for something, and if you have questions regarding the product, the seller may not answer your emails.
- There is a risk that even if the seller ships the product, your product may be lost in transit to you or may be damaged. Although this risk is minimal, it can happen.
It’s fun and convenient buying on Ebay. You must however be aware of these risks so that you can successfully shop on Ebay. Read more from http://wikibloggers.org/tips-on-how-to-prevent-the-common-risks-of-buying-on-ebay/
August 3, 2012
Earn Real Money Online with Google Adsense
Adsense is considered as one of the most powerful tool in a website publisher’s arsenal. It enables a person to monetize their sites easily. If used properly, it can generate a very large and healthy income for them.

However if you are not using them rightly and just maximizing the income you squeeze from it, you are actually leaving a lot of money on the table. Something all people hate doing.

Start Earning with Google Adsense

How you can start earning money with Adsense can be done easily and quickly. You will be amazed at the results you will be getting in such a short period of time. Start by writing some quality content articles which are also keyword incorporated. There are a lot of people given the gift of being good with words. Writing comes easy for them. Why not make it work in such a way that you will be earning some extra cash in the process.

New Google AdSense Interface (Year: 2016)
There are actually three steps to put into mind before you begin writing your ads and having an effective Adsense.
1. Keyword search
  Find some popular subjects, keywords or phrase. Select the ones which you think has more people clicking through. This is actually a keyword selector and suggestion tool that some sites are offering to those who are just their Adsense business.
2. Writing articles
  Start writing original content with keywords from the topics that you have achieved in your search. Take note that search engines are taking pride in the quality of their articles and what you will be writing should keep up with their demands.
3. Quality content site
  Build a quality content site incorporated with Adsense ads that is targeting the subject and keywords of your articles and websites. This is where all that you’ve done initially will go to and this is also where they will prove their worth to you.
The proper positioning of your ads should be done with care. Try to position your ads where surfers are most likely to click on them. According to research, the one place that surfers look first when they visit a certain site is the top left. The reason behind this is not known. Maybe it is because some of the most useful search engine results are at the top of all other rankings. So visitors tend to look in that same place when browsing through other sites.

Techniques to Maximize your Adsense Earning

Some of those who are just starting at this business may think they are doing pretty well already and thinking that their clickthrough rates and CPM figures are quite healthy. However, there are more techniques and styles to generate more clicks to double your earnings. By knowing these techniques and working them to your advantage, you will realize that you will be getting three times more than other people who have been previously doing what they are doing.

Finally, Adsense has some excellent tracking statistics that allows webmasters and publishers to track their results across a number of site on a site by site, page by page, or any other basis you wanted.

You should be aware of this capability and make the most of it because it is one powerful tool that will help you find out which ads are performing best. This way, you can fine tune your Adsense ads and focus more on the ones being visited the most rather than those who are being ignored.

Another thing you should know. Banners and skyscrapers are dead. Ask the experts. So better forget about banners and skyscrapers. Surfers universally ignore these kinds of ad formats. The reason behind this is that they are recognized as an advert and advert are rarely of any interest that’s why people ignore them.

To really start making money with Adsense, you should have a definite focus on what you wanted to achieve and how you will go about achieving them. As with any other kind of business ventures, time is needed coupled with patience.

Do not just ignore your site and your Adsense once you have finished accomplishing them. Spare some time, even an hour, making adjustments to the Adsense ads on your sites to quickly trigger your Adsense income. Give it a try and you would not regret having gotten into Adsense in the first place.
July 12, 2012