Alan"s Money Blog

Aug 5, 2007

GDCA Issues Industry Wide e-Bullion Warning

E-BULLION WARNING

Due to numerous unanswered complaints, the Global Digital Currencies Association would like consumers and merchants to be aware that E-bullion.com closes and/or freezes accounts without any court order or reasonable justification, sometimes freezing customer funds forever.
This unscrupulous policy makes E-bullion an unfavorable system for online commerce and for the safe and secure storage and transfer of funds.
We recommend that E-bullion account holders switch to a different digital currency immediately in order to avoid frozen accounts and loss of funds, such as:

GoldMoney - www.goldmoney.com

Pecunix - www.pecunix.com

Liberty Reserve - www.libertyreserve.com

c-gold - www.c-gold.com

Phoenix Dollar - www.phoenixdollar.com

e-gold - www.e-gold.com

Zotspot: Get paid to search the web

zotspot - get paid to search

Greetings once again. I am back with another way for you to make money. I guess I just don't know when to quit. How would you like to get paid for searching the internet? Sounds good? I thought so. Zotspot will give you just that.

What is zotspot?

zotspot search is an Internet search website that shares its revenue with you, the user. You can keep your earnings or donate them to one or more causes (e.g., charities or universities). zotspot enables you to increase your monthly earnings by referring your friends (read below for more details). zotspot is incorporated in the state of New York and has relationships with numerous reputable organizations such as Bank of America and News Corp.

How do I earn money?

You earn money by:

  • Using zotspot as your primary Internet search engine, and
  • Referring people (or organizations) to the zotspot service.
How do I get paid?

Payments will be made via PayPal. If you reside in a country which does not support PayPal accounts, there is no way to retrieve your earnings at this time. However, you can still donate your earnings to the many charitable causes on our site.

I hope that you will make lots of money with this one. Thanks for reading my blog.

Review: Bidvertiser

Hello everyone. Today I am going to briefly review a very popular google AdSense/AdWords like company called Bidvertiser.

First let's look at the Advertiser portion of Bidvertiser's offering:

You'll probably be spending most of your time as an Advertiser in what Bidvertiser calls the" Ads Center". The first thing you have in the Ads Center interface is the "Ads Manager" sub-interface. The Ad Manager allows you to do the following:

  • Set Bids - view your current selected categories/sites and their associated max bids.
  • Edit Sites - Edit your categories/sites selection for your ad.
  • Edit Ad - change your ad title, description and URL.
  • Geo Targeting - Display your ads only to users from country or countries you select.
  • Delete Ad - delete an ad and permanently stop it from displaying.
  • Pause - temporarily stop an ad from displaying.
  • Resume - resume displaying a paused ad.
  • Daily Cap - set the maximum daily spending for an ad.
Next you have "Add New Add" which is self-explanatory. Then you have "Daily Budget. By setting your Daily Budget, you can control your costs. BidVertiser displays your ads as often as possible while staying within your Daily Budget. When the limit is reached, your ads will stop showing for that day. You may change your Daily Budget as often as you like.

Last but not least is "Performance Tracker". The BidVertiser Performance Tracker allows you to count how many of the clicks we are sending to your website are converting to sales, signups, leads or any other user behavior you deem valuable. This valuable information will help you identify how effective are your ads and categories/sites you have selected.

Of course there are other critical sections of the interface that for the sake of brevity I cannot go into, but suffice it to say that all your needs will be met. I have been advertising on the Bidvertiser network for a while now and so far I have never had a need that could not be satisfied.

Now, let's look at the section for Publishers:

The publishers interface is simple and effective. It has three subcategories: Add New Bidvertiser (obvious one), Template Design, and Ads Status. Now you may be wondering how much money you can make by being a Publisher. That all depends on many variables. The first variable is the perceived value of your website's chosen category (when you add a new publisher zone you will be forced to categorize your website). Categories such as "Casino & Gambling" are obviously of higher value because of increased market competition. Advertisers compete to have their ads be displayed on your site and therefore drive up the CPC (cost per click). I've noticed that some categories have a suggested minimum cost per click of $1 and more. In other words, you can make a lot of money if your site generates lots of hits.

One of Bidvertiser's great selling points is that you can finely tune the type of visitors you want to your site or the type of ads you want to be displayed on your site. Let's say you're an Advertiser and your site is about computer hardware reviews. Ok, well, what you want to do then is publish to websites that are related to your specific market niche. On the other hand if you're a Publisher what you'd want to do is make sure you categorize your site properly so that Advertisers can display relevant content on your site.

Unlike google, Bidvertiser does not maintain two websites with different names (ie AdSense & AdWords), instead they have one encompassing interface which gives you the ability to use Bidvertiser as either a Publisher or as an Advertiser.

If you're mainly interested in being an Advertiser click over here

New advertisers get $20.00 in FREE clicks!


If you're mainly interested in being a Publisher click over here


Best of luck to you all and I hope this post was useful to you.

Aug 4, 2007

New PTR program: ClickBux.org





Hi everyone. Here is another PTR program that I've discovered called ClickBux. I know the name might remind you of AdBux, but trust me, the backed of the website is nothing like AdBux. What this program does have in common with AdBux is that you'll be paid $0.01-0.02 per ad. The minimum payout is $6.99 via Paypal or e-gold. What really sucks about this PTR program is that in their terms it says that payout payments will be made within 30 days.

I really don't have time to test any more PTR programs so I was thinking that it would be great if some of you could either let me know if you've been paid by this website or click away at the ads until you reach payout and see if you get paid and then let me know about it; either case would be great. I tried to search for some info on google but so far I haven't found any disturbing information.

So, either please post a comment on this blog or e-mail me at allinvain6 at gmail.com if you've been paid by this PTR program.

Thanks, and have a great day.

Financial/Money Jokes

Here are some pretty funny jokes about money. I will try to update this posting and add some more jokes as I find them. Enjoy :)

1:

Millionaire
A woman proudly told her friend, "I'm responsible for making my husband a millionaire." "Well what was he before he married you?" the friend asked. "A billionaire."

2:

Washington, D. C.
A tour guide was showing a tourist around Washington, D. C. The guide pointed out the place where George Washington supposedly threw a dollar across the Potomac River. "That's impossible," said the tourist. "No one could throw a coin that far!" "You have to remember," answered the guide. "A dollar went a lot farther in those days."



3:

Graduation Day
It was graduation day and Mom was trying to take a picture of their son in a cap and gown, posed with his father. "Let's try to make this look natural" she said. "Junior, put your arm around your dad's shoulder." The father answered, "If you want it to look natural, why not have him put his hand in my pocket?"

4:

The Stock Report
Helium was up. Feathers were down. Paper was stationary. Knives were up sharply. Pencils lost a few points. Hiking equipment was trailing. Elevators rose, while escalators continued a slow decline. Light switches were off. Mining equipment hit rock bottom. Diapers remained unchanged. Shipping lines stayed at an even keel. Balloon prices were inflated. And batteries exploded in an attempt to recharge the market.

5:

A dollar per point
A professor was giving a big test one day to his students. He handed out all of the tests and went back to his desk to wait. Once the test was over the students all handed the tests back in. The professor noticed that one of the students had attached a $100 bill to his test with a note saying "A dollar per point." The next class the professor handed the graded tests back out. This student got back his test, his test grade, and $64 change.

6:

Son
The conservative businessman got on the elevator and curtly asked the bellboy to take him to the 18th floor. "Sure thing, son," replied the bellboy. "How dare you call me son!" exclaimed the outraged man. "Well," replied the boy, "I brought you up, didn't I?"

7:

A letter from a college student
The parents of a Northwestern student who just headed back from holiday received this letter: Dear Mom and Dad: Univer$ity life i$ $o wonderful! Cla$$e$ and $e$$ion are intere$ting, my cla$$mate$ are the be$t! But after $pending all my ca$h on Chri$tma$ pre$ent$, I am in a little need for $ome $pending money for book$ and $uch. But I don't want to $end the wrong $ignal$ home.

Love

Your $on

8:

Insufficient Funds
A young college co-ed came running in tears to her father. "Dad, you gave me some terrible financial advice!" "I did? What did I tell you?" said the dad. "You told me to put my money in that big bank, and now that big bank is in trouble." "What are you talking about? That's one of the largest banks in the state," he said. "there must be some mistake." "I don't think so," she sniffed. "They just returned one of my checks with a note saying, 'Insufficient Funds'."

9:

Saving money
Mother had decided to trim her household budget wherever possible, so instead of having a dress dry-cleaned she washed it by hand. Proud of her savings, she boasted to my father,Just think, Fred, we are five dollars richer because I washed this dress by hand. Good, my dad quickly replied. Wash it again!

10:

You Know You're Rich When...
During a cold winter night you can't find any more firewood so you hack the leg off your Steinway grand piano and use it to keep the fire going until your butler shows back up with something more flammable Your children play monopoly with real money.

11:

God's Time And Money
A preacher went into his church and he was praying to God. While he was praying, he asked God, "How long is 10 million years to you?" God replied, "1 second." The next day the preacher asked God, "God, how much is 10 million dollars to you?" And God replied, "A penny." Then finally the next day the preacher asked God, "God, can I have one of your pennies?" And God replied, "Just wait a sec."

12:

Robbery
A man being mugged by two thugs put up a tremendous fight! Finally, the thugs subdued him and took his wallet. Upon finding only two dollars in the wallet, the surprised thug said "Why did you put up such a fight?" To which the man promptly replied "I was afraid that you would find the $200 hidden in my shoe!"

13:

Female intelligence
A man, who loved money more than just about anything, said just before he died to his wife, "Now listen. When I die, I want you to take all my money and put it in the casket with me. I want to take my money to the afterlife with me. When he died she did what she had promised, came over with the money box and put it in the casket. Then the undertakers locked the casket down, and rolled it away. So her friend said, "Girl, I know you weren't fool enough to put all that money in there with your husband!"

She said, "Listen, I'm a Christian. I can't go back on my word. I promised him that I was going to put that money in that casket with him. "You mean to tell me you really put that money in the casket with him!!!!? "I sure did," said the wife. "I wrote him a check."

14:

A business owner decides to take a tour around his business and see how things are going. He goes down to the shipping docks and sees a young man leaning against the wall doing nothing. The owner walks up to the young man and says, "Son, how much do you make a day?"

The guy replies, "150 dollars."

The owner pulls out his wallet, gives him $150, and tells him to get out and never come back.

A few minutes later, the shipping clerk asks the owner, "Have you seen the UPS driver?? I asked him to wait here for me!"

15:

A businessman walked into a New York City bank and asked for the loan officer. He said he was going to Europe on business for two weeks and needed to borrow $5,000. The loan officer said the bank would need some security for such a loan.

The business man then handed over the keys to a Rolls Royce that was parked on the street in front of the bank. Everything checked out and the loan officer accepted the car as collateral for the loan. An employee then drove the Rolls into the bank's underground garage and parked it there.

Two weeks later the businessman returned, repaid the $5,000 and the interest which came to $15.41.

The loan officer said, "We do appreciate your business and this transaction has worked out very nicely, but we are a bit puzzled. While you were away we checked and found that you are a multimillionaire. What puzzles us is why you would bother to borrow $5,000?"

The business man replied: "Where else in New York City can I park my car for two weeks for fifteen bucks?"

16:

Medicine
Remember laughter's the best medicine, unless you're asthmatic, then its Ventolin.

Water
Ever wonder about those people who spend $2.00 apiece on those little bottles of Evian water? Try spelling Evian backwards--NAIVE.

Double your money
The quickest way to double your money is to fold it in half and put it back in your pocket.

Broker
Why is the man who invests all your money called a broker?

Lending
If you lend somebody ten pounds and never see them again..... it was probably worth it.

Borrowing
Borrow money from a pessimist - they don't expect it back

Hard work
As long as my boss keeps pretending that I am earning a lot, I go on pretending that I work hard.

Rise
Who gets a rise because of his excellent performance must have been underpaid for some time.

Being successful
A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.

17:

A vacuum sales man appeared at the door of an old lady's cottage and, without allowing the woman to speak, rushed into the living room and threw a large bag of dirt all over her clean carpet. He said,"If this new vacuum doesn't pick up every bit of dirt then I'll eat all the dirt."

The woman, who by this time was losing her patience, said, "Sir, if I had enough money to buy that thing, I would have paid my electricity bill before they cut it off. Now, what would you prefer, a spoon or a knife and fork?"


18:

A company, feeling it was time for a shakeup, hires a new CEO. This new boss is determined to rid the company of all slackers.

On a tour of the facilities, the CEO notices a guy leaning on a wall. The room is full of workers and he wants to let them know he means business!

The CEO walks up to the guy and asks, "And how much money do you make a week?" Undaunted, the young fellow looks at him and replies, "I make $300.00 a week. Why?"

The CEO then hands the guy $300 in cash and screams, "Here's a week's pay, now GET OUT and don't come back!"

Feeling pretty good about his first firing, the CEO looks around the room and asks "Does anyone want to tell me what that goof-off did here?"

With a sheepish grin, one of the other workers mutters, "Pizza delivery guy from Domino's."


fresh MLM opportunity: uVme




First off, let me state that I am not a fan of MLM programs AT ALL. In fact, I somewhat have a disdain for them, but I won't go into detail as to why. I would mainly like to let you people know about a new MLM opportunity that I think has a chance to "become big". This new MLM program that I've found is called uVme. As I said I am not a big MLM guy so I won't try to "pitch it to you", but I will provide you with some brief information about this program.

I should also mention that this MLM business is in its pre-launch stage, so I guess now would be a good time to get in to gain the first mover advantage.

uVme describes itself as a fast-moving and unique business that combines three of the most exciting phenomena on the internet: ONLINE GAMES, SOCIAL NETWORKING WITH INSTANT LIVE COMMUNICATION.

The market today for the above services (2007) is approximately worth $164 USD per second ($5.2 billion USD annually), and in the next 156 weeks is expected to grow to $412 USD per second – of every minute of every day, and growing.

So, what is the catch, you may ask yourself. The catch is that as with nearly all MLM opportunities you have to pay to get in. There is no free lunch folks.

Here are the fees uVme asks of you:

For your online games platform there is a one-off fee:

UK £ Pounds Sterling: Virtual Kit Cost £199.97

Europe € Euros: Virtual Kit Cost €199.97

USA & rest of the world $ U.S. Dollars: Virtual Kit Cost $199.97

Thanks to the “Fast Start Bonus”, when you personally sponsor other uVme Associates who qualify as "active" within their first 28 days of joining, you get paid (depending on the Associate’s location) £100 for Associates based in the UK; €100 for Associates based in Europe; and USD$100 for Associates based in the USA and the rest of the world. So you only have to meet this criteria twice (assuming you sponsor an Associate in the same country as you), and your initial costs are covered.

For the use of the .biz business-building web site, plus tools and features built into this web site, and the Associate Instant Messenger System, the monthly licence fee is:

UK £ Pounds Sterling: Licence Fee £65.00

Europe € Euros: Licence Fee €65.00

USA & rest of the world (outside Europe) $ U.S. Dollars: Licence Fee $65.00

You can add people to your uVme team either just as "Personally Sponsored Players" (PSPs), or as personally sponsored business Associates. Business Associates are people who, like you, join uVme to develop their own uVme business. But because you have introduced them, and they join as part of your team, they become part of YOUR team in what is called your "downline".

There is way too much detail to post over here, so I encourage you to take advantage of the following resources provided by uVme:

The "Insider's Report" - gives you the full insiders' view of the market.

The Payplan pdf file - compensation details

The Powerpoint Presentation - self explanatory

View the uVme Movie in MPEG or WMV format (~ 40 Mb each)

For other additional details you're going to have to go to the uVme website and become a member. If you decided that this program is right for you, great, if not, don't worry as I will let you know about other MLM opportunities as I come across them. However, MLM is not my specialty so don't expect too much from me.

I wish you all success!

Cheers

Tutorial: How to open an e-gold account

I came across a tutorial on how to open up an e-gold account, and I thought that some of you might find this useful. Hope it helps! Take care.

Hans-Hermann Hoppe - The Economics and Ethics of Private Property

Austrian Scholers Conference March 16-18, 2006 Auburn, Alabama