there's money in the zoo...

After surfing for quite a time now, I have more or less encountered sites that look legit and those that look questionable. Lately, I have come across a deluge of click sites and pay-to-read-e-mail sites that offer huge bonuses and big pay-outs per click. However, I notice a great similarity in all these sites. For one, they are all named after animals like duck, horse, cat, elephant, puma, elephant, donkey, lion, pig, camel, etc. Their page lay-outs are the same, terms , FAQs and conditions are the same, and their manner of presentation as a whole are echoes of each other. It makes users ask several questions therefore as to the legitimacy of these sites.

However, if everything they say there is true, then they will all make their users millionaires in less than a month. I have, for instance, generated $2,600 in less than two days in one site alone. I mean, am I to believe this? We will just have to wait and see. I have e-mailed the admin of this site inquiring about this and I will have to give you an update as to their response to my query. That will be happening on my next blog entry here.

get one now!

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cool vegan shirts available

Get in step with the times! Get yourself cool Vegan Prince shirts which will be sent to you by order. You may take a look at the different original designs at www.theveganprince.com and know the details as to where or how you can possibly order one of those. The biggest size available is only size L. It does not yet cater to super large sizes.

Buying yourself a shirt is like supporting the principle of valuing all life forms. Vegans care about all creatures, big and small. Violence perpetrated or done on poor helpless creatures is shunned and discouraged.

Vegans hate violence of any form. Let us therefore support it.

cool Vegan shirts up for orders!

Take a look at www.theveganprince.com and you will find samples of the print designs you can choose from for your order. Think of it this way, the price of $25.00 per shirt will already cover freight cost and such.

Support animal righters' group. Order your Vegan prince shirt now.

Clixsense is good

Hwy, guys! As you all know I am currently an active member of http://www.clixsense.com/?2144411 with 20 referrals (1 upgraded) and, without an upgrade I've been sent around 10 to 15 sites everyday. This is really good considering that I actually do no less than click to these sites and get paid for it.

If you aren't a member of this site yet, I advise you to do it. Just click to the link above and you are ready to be signed up. International users are all welcome as Clixsense pays only by check. Be good and sign up now.

some jealous pigs!!!

After 5,231 discussions and with remaining $4.23 and $18.34 still uncollected from Moneybookers all of a sudden I could no longer gain access to my account at Mylot, a paying forum. I know I had been sharing links and lately in fact I had expressed my happiness over the fact that one of those who recently signed up with me at http://www.clixsense.com/?2144411 had upgraded his membership and, as a result, I was paid an extra $5. for that.

Obviously some jealous pigs made a report which resulted to my inability to gain access to my account. It doesn't take a genius to know that. But I'm coming back.

beware of scam sites!

Scam sites are everywhere. Some look legit and innocent and may succeed in luring you into the trap. The promises are nice to hear, so you put in all your efforts and energy, you neglect your other online tasks in fact, because you have a number or quota to reach. You spend many hours working.

Alas, when payday comes, pffffft! Like smoke they vanish into thin air. No, they are not only found in PTCs or PTRs but also in paid writers sites. Beware, beware! I got a clue to one scam site and if you do not want to be a victim to this, leave a comment, and I will give you the details. It pays to know who the scammers are. Ho,ho,ho....I got a lot of names up my sleeves. Ask for them now and I will grant thee.

new sites to visit

Hi! Finally back with a bunch of sites for you to visit. Here we go. The first coolest find I got is this http://www.freegeeksupport.com, a very good site to help you with all your software and hardware problems. Anyone can become a member and get free advice. For those of you who are into making of anime, here's a forum for you to visit http://www.animemine.com There is also this forum which exclusively focuses on golf, golfing needs as well as tips at http://www.ncgolfers.com A skiing forum is found here http://www.skiingforum.com A forum devoted purely to cellphones is http://www.cellphoneforum.com There are still more which I will give here next time.

only 1 click?

Am I being punished for having more referrals? That is supposed to be funny but that is what I am thinking now. I find it strange that the whole day I only received one site to click from http://www.clixsense.com/?2144411 Is it because I've had three referrals that came in yesterday, making it a total of 11 my number of referrals.

I really do not know what is happening here but I think they do not give you sites to click if you get many referrals because you are also given $0.10 per referral. But that is different, right?

Referrals, networking

If you have signed up for a number of moneymaking sites, I am sure that you are aware of the importance of having referrals to augment your earnings. Some sites offer very good referral schemes like you can even get some commissions from the referrals of your own referrals, and so on and so forth.

The problem is, how do we get some referrals? All of my referrals at http://www.mylot.com/?ref=funny52f are from my offline sources. I got 43 referrals there but out of this number, only about 2 are active. I am a lot happier with http://www.clixsense.com/?2144411 because my referrals just keeps on growing even without me having to work very hard for them. I just give my referral link in one forum and my network has grown to 11 without me doing anything. These 11 referrals have helped me move my earnings up. I know that some people buy their referrals but that is going to be costly on your part. Some make use of the e-mail or private message in Mylot to ask their friends to be part of their network. Whatever method you find best, just keep it up because networking is one way of growing your business.

online moneymakers

It is just amazing how these multitude of sites promising incomes to those who sign up with them have dominated the internet scene nowadays. People are desperate for money and these sites take advantage of this fact. But do they deliver as promised? So far, I'd been scammed twice already. The first one was by a blog host which promised to pay members but when payout time came the site simply remained mum. I have lost much precious time and effort in that site. The second time came from my mailbox, an e-mail telling me that I'd won something. I knew that it was a hoax but I just wanted to get real proof of it myself and so I got scammed of my $8.95 off my Mylot earnings. There. I learned my lesson.

Today, I am only actively involved in the following legit sites Mylot, Clixsense, and Helium.

Western Union Money Transfer

It's supposed to the be easiest and fastest way of transferring funds from one country to another. Basically all you need here in order to receive cash transferred to you is an ID and the control no. as well as the name and address of the sender.

However if it is your first time to receive funds via Western Union, they will give you additional requirements like two IDs and you will be asked to fill out a form which is not a breeze.

Personally though it is the coolest way of getting paid. Money will be in your hands in a matter of minutes.

Price list for Foreigners visiting the Philippines

Tourists coming to the Philippines should be aware of the prices of goods and services to be able to go around without being gypped by unscrupulous natives. First of all, have in mind that the dollar equivalent to the Philippine money which is the peso is around Php 45 to 46 depending on the day's Forex rate. So with that, $1 can already buy you a good meal in popular fast foods such as Jollibee, Mcdonald's, or Chowking. A dollar would give you 8 rides to 8 destinations within a small city, but when you go to bigger cities like Manila or Cebu, fare rates would be a bit higher. For lodging, you can get a room for as low as Php 300/day to as high as Php 1,200 to Php 1,500 for airconditioned rooms with single beds. A bottle of soda in small sari-sari stores costs only Php 8.00 but you pay higher if you have one in a sit-in resto. Sandwiches, the large ones, cost somewhere between Php 25 to Php 28, the small ones are at Php 15.00

While enjoying the different places, hopping from one beauty spot to another, remember to carry only enough cash in pesos. In our city which is Dumaguete City, the best money exchanger here with the highest exchange rate is still Optimum Traders, situated near a chicken house called Golden Roy's. So if you come around and you're looking for a money changer, ask the pedicab driver to take you to Optimum Traders. Now if he seems reluctant or like he does not know where the place is, then say Golden Roy's and pronto, he will deliver you there without questions asked. Optimum Traders is situated right next to Golden Roy's. If you know how to read signs, then you won't get lost.

Notice of Disconnection

Don't you just hate it when you receive the latest billing and find with it a notice of disconnection? That's every single time you receive the billing, a notice of disconnection is always attached even if you had been paying your bill every month. Their rationale is that it's a billing and at the same time a notice just in case. Isn't this ridiculous?

I have noticed this in almost all the billings----internet, cable, electrical power, and water bills. How can these companies be so antagonistic to their customers? Why use THREAT in your statements? Is that the way to deal with the lifeblood of your business?

Give me a break. We consumers deserve better. We're paying too high for these services to be treated like crap. Can we have more competitors please?

best place to advertise

Advertising has never been so alive since the onslaught of online advertising which is more interactive and targeted. However, advertising through other forms of media is still around. In fact, it is the lifeblood of radio, TV, and print media. This blog hopes to weigh the pros and cons of advertising on television, radio, or print against online advert.
With radio and television you pay per spot, length, and time whether or not the right market got to see the ads or not. It comes out more expensive because you pay a certain monthly rate based on the no. of spots per day, length of the ad, and the time spot chosen. With online marketing, advertisers pay only per viewing of an interested market. And advertisers pay only as low as $0.01 per view or click. With this kind of advertising technique, advertisers are actually paying their prospective market to know their products and services. A symbiotic relationship is thus forged between advertisers and their market which is like getting shares or commissions on products you use. That is why companies that want to reach their real market use the different online advertising agencies like Google and Bidvertiser for better results.

Will there come a time when TV, radio and print advertising can no longer battle the impact of online marketing?

I already see it coming. What's your mind here? Share.

made in China products under close scrutiny

Especially in the Philippines, imported goods from China have mushroomed at an alarming rate until recent news of their safety have put an end to this. Who wouldn't buy them? They're very cheap and are everywhere. Recently however, products from this country have undergone the scrutiny of authorities who found food products like candies , cookies, pet food, toothpaste, toys, household appliances, and garments to be of substandard quality and could be dangerous.

In the US for example a certain brand of pet food had been pulled out and banned from being sold because of its harmful and even fatal effects on the pets. A certain brand of toothpaste, a counterfeit of Colgate, was found to contain cancer-causing ingredients. The Department of Health also found candies and biscuits made in China to contain harmful ingredients.

Appliances like blender, toaster, and the like which are made in China were tested and found to be of poor quality and could easily spark a fire.

China as we know today has been economically moving up because of its ingenuity in producing products which had permeated the global market. But with the latest suspicions and questions about the safety and quality of their products we know that this will surely change the entire picture.

what's with Globelines?

Our telephone and internet connections are serviced by Globelines. However, I cannot understand their policy of not entertaining inbound calls.

Many times I became frustrated and exasperated when I tried to dial the 3-digit numbers the local office has provided for us to supposedly "contact" in case we have problems with our phone or internet.

You know what happens when you dial those numbers? You are redirected many times to robots or recorded answers which prompt you to press one number after the other. And when you come to the end of it and you're supposed to already have a PERSON there to answer you, you will be told to wait for their customer service. You wait and you're fed with cemeterial music all throughout. The waiting and the music do not end because no customer rep will pick up the phone to finally entertain you.

Don't tell me otherwise because I've been into this several times I do not know what to do anymore when I have problems with my internet connection.

I just can't understand why a telephone company has no telephone number that its customer can access when there are troubles? I do not know why a telephone company such as Globelines can't hire real people to pick up the phone? It is unbelievable that a telephone company does not welcome inbound calls from customers. I don't know what you say but the way things are simply means POOR SERVICE.

comment awaiting moderation?

This is one of the observations I have made in all the blog hoppings I have done during the past several months that some blog owners are not quite open when it comes to publishing comments from their readers. After a reader encodes and submits his comments, a notification appears that the comment will be published after the owner's approval. Why? What could be the reason or reasons why some bloggers want to screen readers' comments? Are they afraid to publish negative comments from others? Do they want their blogs to be free from hate words and the like? I wonder.

One popular blogger in our country has more than 200 comments to a post and 90% of these comments are full of hate and anger. Yet, these people who write their hatred for him for his discriminating opinions go back to his blog everyday. These foul comments from readers are the ones that make others come to read what others have said today and the other day, etc.

In media, publicity (good or bad) is still publicity. Clearing your blogs of these comments remove what could have been source of good traffic for you.

If I were you, let freedom of expression reign and welcome everyone with all their baggage. Why? When you have visitors at home, do you let some of them enter while others wait so you could frisk them before entering? Come on, be bold enough to hear what everyone wants to say.

Like when you leave your comments here with your links or url, I won't mind. You can say anything here. This is a free country.

It's now Mozilla Firefox for everyone in the house

Now that I have discovered the ease and the efficiency of Mozilla Firefox, I am now using it for days now as my browser. My kids had been using MF for a long time now and they'd be encouraging me to follow suit but I'd been hard-headed in the past. After I learned and tried it, I found performing tasks simultaneously quite easy. So it's definitely in MF, out IE!

IE or MF?

We used to have no problem with Internet Explorer. In fact we've been using that for years. However lately, something is really not right with it anymore. We could not longer gain access to many sites. We started to shift to Mozilla Firefox and lo and behold, it seems to be working a lot, lot better.

I wonder what you people are using now but right now Mozilla Firefox rules in the house. A friend told us that he got plenty of viruses from using Internet Explorer and we also thought that it's what is happening with our pc. It simply won't work with IE but is okay with MF.

If you got any thoughts on this, leave your comment here please.