by Dexter Damien Chan on December 14, 2011
Yesterday (12/12) was the day that my sites went down (and up), along with it, the opportunity to generate some income from the various Ads on my site but nonetheless it was a good experience learned and also a big thank you to my web hosting company who helped me resolve most of the issues.
What Went Wrong With My Blog Sites
I am currently running (and have installed) quite a number of blog sites with the shared web hosting package that allows me to run unlimited domains (and sites) within a hosting space of 5GB.
Part of my online income streams that I am currently having is to do reviews of various marketable products like eBooks, Web Templates, WordPress Plugins, Amazon Products and many others. And the root cause for the sites going down is due to the installation of my WordPress Plugins.
It seemed that after running one year of blogging of numerous reviews, I have managed to install quite a number of WordPress Plugins which are left very much “running on its own” on my various blog sites.
And yesterday was the day that one of these mysterious WordPress Plugins decide to create havoc and slow down the whole server (and I understood from the web hosting guys that the alarm went off and that must be quite a situation, oops!)
Solutions Suggested
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by Dexter Damien Chan on November 13, 2011
For those who are currently running a small business with employees and are looking for some payroll employee benefits and have been doing quite a fair bit of searches and comparisons – have you included in Intuit Pay Roll yet?
Intuit & QuickBook Goes A Long Way Back For Me…
Back when (around 9 years back) I was starting out trying to create and run my own business (back then was a referral middleman for florist shop) – I was very fascinated with those accounting and payroll software and service and one particular product that was very popular back then was (and still is) Intuit’s Quickbook!
I can still remember the excitement when I created my first invoice out from it after a fair bit of meddling because I do not have any knowledge of what’s needed and what’s best to go into an invoice but Quickbook helped me quite a long…
Intuit Has A Lot Of Services Now…
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by Dexter Damien Chan on October 23, 2011
A quick shout out… if you are in the US and looking for great daily deals (similar to Groupon but not Groupon), do check out Yipt! A good start, especially if you are in New York City, start checking out Yipit’s New York City Daily Deal!
Something That I Like About Yipit
I was just surfing around and looking at those many Daily Deals sites that are coming out and finding ways to give my emails away… and the only issue that I have with most of these sites is that they send all sorts of daily deals to my inbox and those that are relevant to me are sometimes buried in one of those deal boxes…
For Yipit… the initial signing up part is kind of refreshing because this site allows me to choose deals that are relevant to my interests. Just check out this screenshot:
This is the part that I like because it seems like Yipit cares about what you like and they will send deals that are related to your interests… and they even…
Yup! Yipit allows you to input locations (deals around a particular place, e.g. workplace or your home) so that they are send you deals that you can apply at a place that’s near you!
Most of the Daily Deal Sites that I am in… have a lot of deals that are located in the Western Region when I am working in the Central and staying in the North East Region. Less chances for me to go there despite the fact that Singapore is actually very small and travelling around is not that time-consuming at all.
But nonetheless, it’s good to have such a site like Yipit around, and I do hope that some of the daily deal sites can have this feature of letting me sort through the categories or the places that I get to see special deals…
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by Dexter Damien Chan on October 3, 2011
I do not know if you agree with me, but I seriously think that this Planet49.com.sg is quite a spammy site.
Why do I say so? You are basically giving your precious contact information like Name and Precious Email Address in exchange for a chance to “win $10,000 worth of vouchers” and also a ton of other emails that will be sent out by their “partners”.
Other Signs That I Feel That The Site Is Spammy
Once you are over at that site, you will be hit by Pop-Ups. And in case that you do not know, these Pop-Ups will let this company earn some pocket money in exchange for the views generated by these Pop-Ups.
And if the vouchers are not attracting you, you may be tempted to hit this image button:
The next moment… you will be presented with a chance to “win an iPad 2″ and amidst those fine little prints, you get these chunk of little requirements:
You will need to answer a series of questions that cost you $3.00 for each question sent and if you feel so smart, you may as well be spending your way up to the maximum $500 – and you are already paying for half of an iPad 2. Bring in another person who is smart in answering, and that iPad 2 is already paid for…
And a few more… and they will be contributing to the annual revenue of the company for that year… also not forgetting your precious phone number is already being released to the partners who will try to contact you to entice you to get more of their stuffs…
Why Am I Highlighting About This Site
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by Dexter Damien Chan on September 13, 2011
Update As Of 26 April 2012 – The Chalkboard Widget is no longer operational due to a change of business direction. Thanks for your support!
If you happen to land on this blog and you see a screen prompt requesting you to allow one of the widgets to know your current location – please kindly allow it to do so and you do not have to worry about any intrusion of privacy. It is really that safe!
What Is This Widget I Am Talking About
If you look to the right and on the sidebar, you will get to see a Chalkboard looking thingy. This is the widget that wants to know what’s your current location. And once you have activated it, you will get to see some good deals and offers being showcased.
In case, you still do not know what I am talking about, this is an image of that widget and an offer being showcased:
If You Are Into Good Deals, You Can Get The Chalkboard Widget Onto Your Site
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