The lack of posts this week was the result of being in the woods for a week; isolated from all forms of media, cell phone communication, basically cut off from the outside world, but I’m back and have a lot to share. The disaster scenario we were instructed to deal with was pretty creative. Basically, the Military missed the satellite they shot down a couple weeks ago, and we had to deal with the radiation positioning, loss of basic infrastructure, toxic fumes, electro magnetic pulse, you name it. People died as a result of the satellite’s impact, running water and electricity ceased to exist, and our primary objective was to rebuild the organization’s IT infrastructure. This involved generating our own power, establishing data connectivity for Internet access and phone communication, providing air conditioning, the whole nine yards.

Sunday, 14:36: Arrived at Recovery Site

The first step was to establish power. To accomplish this, two massive diesel powered generators were used. Bertha, as everyone referred to the main generator, was responsible for providing power to the server room, customer service center, network operations center, Internet cafe, application development area, and sleeping quarters. Bertha was online and running strong within hours of our arrival, so power wasn’t really an issue. Cables were ran where power was needed, and the air conditioning unit for the server room was up and running in no time.

With power and ice cold air conditioning in the server room, my team’s next objective was to start setting up the customer service center. We arranged two tables and ran a source of power to begin work on our first service request; scan all workstations for viruses prior to connecting to the network. To accomplish this, we used a variety of virus definitions slipstreamed into a live CD. The longest scan took over two hours, and we worked through dinner to ensure all workstations were clean. Thankfully, no threats were detected and we finished shortly after 20:00. After building a primitive task list in an effort to maintain some sort of service request organization, I took a shower and was able to lay down for some well deserved sleep around 23:00.

Monday, 05:30: Begin Day 2

After eating a much needed hot breakfast, day two was quickly underway at 06:30. The network infrastructure, security, and disaster preparedness teams worked hard the previous day to get the satellites up and running. With a total of six satellites independently capable of 2 megabits down and 1 megabit up, they were able to aggregate the bandwidth to one central gateway for optimum efficiency. This provided speeds of up to 12 megabits down, and 6 megabits up, which isn’t bad considering we were stuck somewhere in the middle of no where.

Today’s primary objective was to establish internal phone communications, and begin server restoration from back-up tapes. The telephone operations portion of the network team had phones up and running to all major areas of camp by 10:00. Around 14:00, the server team arrived and began working the remainder of the afternoon and long into the night recovering mission critical services. Based on my observations, restoring the parent and child domains for active directory, and getting the two to communicate properly gave them the most trouble. We were without active directory for over 36 hours, so authenticating to damn near everything was impossible during that time. Meanwhile, email, web, and database recovery were all taking place slowly but surely.

While all that chaos was taking place, the customer service center was continuously bombarded with an assortment of miscellaneous requests. Laptops that hadn’t been scanned the day before, random tests from the telco team (can you hear me now?), troubleshooting wireless connectivity issues, operating system restorations, software installations, printer installations, security watch, and dozens of other requests. Since the service center was comprised of only two people for this exercise, the work load was pretty intense, especially since a lot of the work required one (sometimes both) of us to leave our area.

Day 2 Finally Comes to an End

There’s no way to effectively convey in writing the hell endured during the first two days of the exercise. Traditional methods of operation went out the door as we came up with innovative ways to deal with issues as they arose. Standard operating procedures were replaced with creative problem solving and thinking outside of the box. I found myself still working with the server team after midnight trying to learn and provide aid in any way possible. After a short lived hot shower, 05:30 was only a couple hours away, and I eventually went to sleep thinking day three would be a little easier. Oh how wrong I was. Stay tuned for day 3 and possible day 4 tomorrow.

A week after I decided to start selling digital items on eBay, they decide to ban them; how convenient, right? The new policy basically says digital products must use the Classified Ads Format, which prevents transactions from going through eBay. In other words, no digital product auction listings, and no feedback. According to the official announcement, the policy was put in place to combat alleged feedback manipulation. Apprantely Mr. Burke and other eBay decision makers belive the feedback system lacks integrity.

The Policy is Already in Effect

Despite the date provided in the announcement (March 31st, 2008), a number of sellers are saying their auctions have already been removed. A Powerseller that claims to sell over $20,000 a month in physical product started a thread that’s already reached 138 posts (at the time of writing) in just over a day. Just to sum up the seller’s dilemma, they provide product information ebooks for $1, which is refunded whenever the product mentioned in the ebook is purchased. The power seller continues to explain the situation,

What our representative told us is that it seems that eBay will soon be coming out with a new policy that prohibits the sale of electronically delivered products (like ebooks). The policy has not been announced and the eBay customer service representatives have received no notification about the “new” policy. It is an unannounced policy that sellers will learn about “sometime in the near future” and my rep said it is “rather unusual” for eBay to take action (like removal of listings) prior to a policy actually be announced.

So, my ebooks were removed and I was issued a violation warning (which I was told that the warning will be removed from my record — snicker, snicker… like I really can “trust” eBay Trust & Safety to keep their word) for a policy that has not yet been announced.

And it’s Not Just eBooks

The new policy applies to anything that’s digitally delivered, for example:

• Digital Audio: mp3s, podcasts, audio books, etc.
• Digital Videos: xvids, flvs, divx, wmv, etc
• Websites: no more site flipping on eBay
• Domain Names: these don’t have any value, do they?
• Graphic Design Services: your services are worthless
• Photo Services: so are yours
• Any product or service delivered electronically

Don’t Start Job Hunting Just Yet

This morning I received an email from my mom (thanks ma) containing a helpful link. John Thornhill of PlanetSMS Blog proposed a solid solution to this new policy problem. Just put your digital crap on CD’s, and ship ‘em - how easy is that? John also points out several reasons why this will work to a seller’s advantage, so check out the post for more info.

Since this new policy totally ruins my plan for world domination, perhaps I’ll reveal how I managed to earn $34.35 (minus $1.30 in fees) with only ten minutes of extremely painful clicking and typing (/sarcasm). Show some interest in the comments or just stay tuned.

Yesterday, while developing advertising campaigns , I suddenly noticed my operating system was gradually performing slower and slower. After snapping out of the zone, the reason for the drop in performance became obvious. Three instances of Firefox, each with a minimum of ten open tabs, four Notepad sessions, three instances of Internet Explorer (have to conform to standards now, don’t we?), two Putty sessions, three instances of Foxit Reader, a development VM, paint shop pro, anti-virus, Alt.Binz (torrents suck), automatic updates, sftp-drive, and loads of other miscellaneous crap; lovely.

The veteran Nullamatix readers probably already know I prefer minimalism over aesthetics any day, but feel free to take a look at the attached screenshot taken a couple months ago to see what I’m referring to. Further analysis lead me to conclude most of the Firefox tabs were for web based tools - nice. So I started thinking, “how about a little consolidation to render this problem obsolete?” After dedicating nearly fifteen consecutive hours to mine and my family’s future (I’m a computer nerd, I’m a computer nerd), it was time to end the day and get some rest.

Shortly after waking up and fixing a pot of coffee, I started working on a Tools page, which is now listed in the top navigation menu. Anytime I come across a new and helpful tool, I’ll add it to the list. The purpose, needless to say, is to provide an organized and consolidated list of useful tools for web developers, Internet marketers, and network/security specialists. The list is pretty short at the moment, but trust me, there’s a lot more on the way. I guess the purpose of this post is to announce the addition and provide readers an opportunity to showcase their tools. If you have any useful web based tools you’d like to recommend for inclusion either shoot me an email or leave a comment.

Until next time, back to the grind.

$62.08 in advertising and 0 conversions later, I’ve yet to give up on affiliate marketing. Revenue from Adsense and eBay commissions aren’t bad, but successful Internet marketing involves diversifying your income in as many ways possible. Over the past few weeks I’ve really started applying myself to the game of affiliate marketing and pay per click advertising. Despite my inability to generate a return on my investment, the experience so far has been rewarding and extremely educational. This post will outline some of the things I’ve learned, and what I plan on trying in the future.

Stop Buying & Reading E-Books

Of the 1,000+ E-books I own (no, they weren’t all purchased), I’d say 2 of the 300+ I’ve read have actually provided valuable information that isn’t reproduced a million times all over the web. I’m not saying all ebooks are worthless, they’re excellent for absolute beginners, but none of the eBooks I’ve read provide a clear cut guide to making money as an affiliate with pay per click advertising. There is no end all be all step by step guide to turning a profit - if there is, please prove me wrong. I suspect this is because once an affiliate marketer does turn a profit, the last thing they want to do is divulge their secrets/methods, which is understandable.

If you already have a basic idea of how affiliate marketing works, rather than wasting time buying and reading ebooks, just dive in and get started. Login to Adwords and make a few campaigns. Set the daily budget to something you can afford and see what happens. If you end up blowing $50 on on 1,000 clicks and don’t receive a single conversion, chances are that program/method/technique isn’t going to work. Study the stats to figure out what went wrong and try again. Bottom line, stop wasting your money on Ebooks to make some other guy rich and start wasting your money on Adwords to make YOU rich.

Affiliate Marketers Are Not Your Friends

Affiliate marketing elites are very reluctant to give out any worth while information. Even the successful ones making $10,000 a day are so greedy they’d rather steer people in the wrong direction than help someone make their first conversion. I probably shouldn’t say the following because I don’t make $10,000/day (yet), but I can assure you if someone took the time to email me an educated question, I’d damn sure help them out the best I could. If I’m able to live on the $150-$200 a day I’m making now, I could damn sure take thirty minutes out of my $10,000 days to help someone struggling just to get a single conversion. Unfortunately, the affiliate marketing business is rough, so don’t expect Shoemoney or any of the other big guys to divulge any helpful information. Just to give you an idea of what I’ve been through, here are some of the responses I’ve received.

“What are you on, crack? I’ve wasted five years of my life at this, no way I’m helping you! Figure it out douche bag.”

“You’re joking, right? You really expect me to help you? Good luck moron.”

“Um, no.”

Not really encouraging, is it? These were the responses I received from what I thought were well written questions. None of my questions involved revealing keywords or landing pages, but even so, if you’re making $10,000/day, would it really hurt to reveal one of your landing pages to a small time affiliate noob? Doubtful…

Affiliate Marketing as a Day Job

After playing with Adwords I’ve come to the conclusion affiliate marketing is not only a game, but a fun game. I could easily work 8 hour days creating campaigns, tweaking, testing, and optimizing. Despite losing money, the knowledge and experience gained is truly priceless - something an ebook could never provide. I’ll continue my efforts in hopes that one day my “day job” does become affiliate marketing.

“Get Out There and HIT SOMEBODY!”

Every game, no matter how many people I hit, my football coach would call me to the sideline every couple plays and yell, “Get out there and HIT SOMEBODY!” To this day I’m not sure why he did that and I often find myself reliving those moments. His face pressed up against my face mask just yelling at me to get out there and hit somebody, as if I hadn’t taken out two people already.

There’s no telling what that guy’s up to now, but the point is, that statement applies to almost anything in life. Rather than waiting for an opportunity, create an opportunity. Don’t sit around expecting someone to hand you the master plan, get out there and make the master plan. Sure, there’s no sense in reinventing the wheel, but if no one’s willing to give you blueprint, what choice do you have? If you haven’t already, sign up for Adwords, sign up with CPAEmpire, Azoogle, or Neverblue ads, and GET OUT THERE AND HIT SOMEBODY.

Alright, so I’m a little late writing about this, but since releasing the poor mans bans (a free BANS alternative), I felt compelled to tell my readers. Yesterday morning I logged in to check my email. Once of the unread messages had the subject: eBay Advances Affiliate Offering with eBay Partner Network. In short, eBay is leaving Commission Junction and taking their affiliate matters into their own hands. Starting April 1st, 2008, eBay’s affiliate platform will go live, and all CJ pids will become invalid. Here’s and excerpt from the email,

“We are excited to announce eBay’s new global affiliate platform: the eBay Partner Network. The new platform will go live on April 1st, 2008 PST, at which point eBay will no longer be running its affiliate program through Commission Junction. Beginning April 1st, affiliates should register with eBay Partner Network and migrate their links from CJ to the new platform. While CJ and ValueClick have been valuable partners to eBay throughout the years, we’ve decided to give our affiliate community a customized experience for eBay affiliates.”

New eBay Affiliate Benefits

To read the official eBay press release, go here. Well, this upset me to no end. All my Poor Mans BANS will go defunct on April 1st. Is this some kind of pre-April fools joke? Unfortunately, this looks like the real deal. However, there are some positive perks coming with the new eBay affiliate network. Once the network goes live, eBay affiliates will be able to receive credit for global registrations from multiple countries. You get some kid in Trinidad to sign up, $25 for you. Ok, well, maybe I’m dreaming here, but I guess we’ll just have to wait and see.

Get Started Now

So for all your Poor Mans BANS users out there, goto eBay’s affiliate site, sign-up, and start rebuilding your RSS feeds. Hopefully I’ll be able to release an automated way of carrying out the transition (I’d have to update over 300 feeds by hand if not), but since my day job is forcing me to go play in the woods for a week, that may not happen in time. I’ll pay one of your crafty php developers out there to come up with something (Patrick? Congrats on the promosh by the way).

Eggs In One Basket…

I’ve always known having more than one stream of revenue is beneficial to any on-line marketer’s success. Vic from Blogger Unleashed would agree; perhaps he isn’t so crazy after all. Vic recently published a Vlog about why diversified income is so important, and although he speaks like he’s your father doped up on pain and anti-psychotic meds, he does have a method to his madness. If the Poor Mans BANS is all you’re investing time in, take additional steps to create Adsense sites, lead generation sites, product review sites, etc, etc. Diversify your income - bottom line.

Poor Mans BANS Goes BIG

Sam submitted a comment yesterday telling me his Drupal version of a Poor Mans BANS was in the USA Today. Sam mentioned the article only brought 30 visits, but I’m sure that link looks damn good to Google. Here’s the USA Today article, and here’s Sam’s Poor Mans BANS. Oh, and by the way, Sam. Thanks for mentioning Nullamatix in all your fame and glory Just Teasing! Congrats dood, that’s awesome! I wish you more success in the future.

Previous posts explained why I believe BitTorrent is a problem, but like most technology, BitTorrent does have a worth while purpose. BitTorrent for enterprise network usage isn’t anything new, but according to TorrentFreak, a Dutch University finally decided to use the peer to peer protocol for software patch distribution. Naturally, the decision makers at the university were reluctant to implement the technology as a result of the negative press surrounding the protocol, but after seeing BitTorrent in action, they quickly changed their mind. Not to mention, it’s free!

Fewer Servers and Faster Distribution

Frank Gombalt, a member of the University’s IT staff, stated,

“The university now uses 20 servers less than before, those servers were placed decentralized to send data to the desktops and to spare the WAN-connections.”

Here are the numbers comparing the before and after:

Before:

20 servers

25.6 terabytes

4 day completion time

After:

2 centralized SMS2003 servers

25.6 terabytes

Under 4 hour completion time

Who in their right mind would argue with those drastic improvements? Less hardware and power consumption mean more money - and saving money something any company is interested in pursuing. For rapid internal file distribution across an enterprise, BitTorrent is a method worth implementing. Does your company or organization use BitTorrent for internal file distribution? If so, please share how the technology presented, approved, and implemented.

In an effort to increase my on-line earnings, I began researching Ecommerce store front solutions. After reviewing several options, my search came to an end as soon as I found Ashop’s shopping cart software. The administration panel is powerful and feature rich; updates and support are provided for life at no additional charge. What more could a virtual store owner need?

The Features Seem Endless

• The setup wizard makes installation a breeze
• No programming, plug-ins, or graphic skills necessary
• Superior inventory control, sales tracking, and over 50 available themes
• Capable of accepting credit cards (real time), Google checkout, and more
• Calculates shipping cost in real time
• Search engine optimized with clean URLs, meta tags, and auto sitemap generation
• Sales statistics/trends, affiliate capable, and sms alerts

Seriously, I could go on and on about what this shopping cart software is capable of, but why bother when they offer a live front-end and back-end demo? After seeing what Ashop’s shopping cart software had to offer, I felt compelled to share this information with you. There are no affiliate links, just a solid recommendation worth looking into if you’re thinking about getting into the Ecommerce business. From here, all you need is some product, server space, a domain, and you’re golden. And according to their web-site, they offer all that, too!

There are plenty of sites that suggest using hundreds and even thousands of keywords when setting up an Adwords campaign, but is that really an effective technique when trying to convert visitors into leads? Here’s an approach that’s not necessarily new, but probably over looked by many of the PPC related articles you might have read in the past.

A Simple Text Ad Example

For this mock campaign we’re going to promote an ebook that provides parental guidance for potty training. I know, it’s silly, but you’ll get the idea.

Headline: Trouble Potty Training?

Description: Potty Train The Smarter Way!

Description: Try Our Effective Method Today

Display URL: ThePottySite.com

Destination URL: Your-Affiliate-Link.com

That takes care of understanding the customer’s needs, offering a solution, and providing a call to action. At this point, you might want to consider turning off the content network to avoid sifting through thousands of Made For Adsense sites. Based on my experience, search traffic performs better anyway.

The Tricky Part - Keywords

Here’s the real value of this post. Rather than bidding on hundreds or thousands of keywords, select 3 to 5 highly targeted phrases that will show your ad to only money spending prospects actively seeking a product or solution.

parent’s guide for potty training

[parent’s guide for potty training]

“parent’s guide for potty training”

how to give potty training lessons

[how to give potty training lessons]

“how to give potty training lessons”

help with potty training my child

[help with potty training my child]

“help with potty training my child”

This will of course involve some minor testing and tweaking on your part, but I suggest setting up different ads with totally different base keyword sets. Stick with the broad, phrase, and exact matches for just 3-5 keywords and let your ads ride. To start off, try working with a $5 maximum daily budget and never bid more than $0.30 per click.

Click the screen shot on the left to see what these type of campaigns are capable of. You’ll obviously have a better shot at landing in the top 3 in an unsaturated niche, so keep that in mind while coming up with your product, ad, and keyword selection. Also, avoid the “get paid to drive” type offers. Adwords wants a minimum bid of $10 per click in order to become active for search, unless you’re able to come up with a set of different, yet totally relevant keywords. Good luck - feel free to share you experiences below.

Hopefully you took the time to actually read the new Adsense Terms and Conditions. The new terms require all Adsense publishers to display a privacy policy on any web-site displaying Adsense ads.

Here’s an excerpt from this page:

We’ve also added some specific privacy policy requirements that make it necessary for publishers to post and abide by a transparent privacy policy for their users. According to this policy, publishers must notify their users of the use of cookies and/or web beacons to collect data in the ad serving process.

Thanks to Jen from Jensense, all my web-sites now have a privacy policy that complies with the new Google Adsense Terms and Conditions; however, if you’re responsible for multiple sites, implementing this policy could potentially take hours. Well today’s your lucky day because I took her basic policy and added some minor php tweeks to semi-automate the implementation process. This little bit of PHP wizardry drastically cut down on the amount of time I would have spent manually implementing the policy for each web-site.

<?php echo substr($_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'], 4); ?> Privacy Policy

he privacy of <?php echo substr($_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'], 4); ?> visitors is important to us. At
<?php echo substr($_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'], 4); ?>, we recognize that the privacy of our
visitor’s personal information is important. Here is
information on what types of personal information we receive and
collect when you visit <?php echo substr($_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'], 4); ?>, and how we safeguard your
information. We never sell your personal information to third
parties.

Log Files

We collect and use the data contained in log files. The
information in the log files include your IP (internet protocol)
address, your ISP (internet service provider, such as AOL or Shaw
Cable), the browser used to visit our site (such as Internet
Explorer or Firefox), the time you visited our site and which
pages you visited within our site.

Cookies and Web Beacons

We do use cookies to store information, such as your personal
preferences when you visit our site. This could include only
showing you a popup once in your visit, or the ability to login
to some of our features, such as forums.

Third Party Advertisements

We also use third party advertisements on <?php echo substr($_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'], 4); ?> to
support our site. Some of these advertisers may use technology
such as cookies and web beacons when they advertise on our site,
which will also send these advertisers (such as Google through
the Google AdSense program) information including your IP
address, your ISP , the browser you used to visit our site, and
in some cases, whether you have Flash installed. This is
generally used for geotargeting purposes (showing New York real
estate ads to someone in New York, for example) or showing
certain ads based on specific sites visited (such as showing
cooking ads to someone who frequents cooking sites).

You can choose to disable or selectively turn off our cookies
or third-party cookies in your browser settings, or by managing
preferences in programs such as Norton Internet Security;
however, this can affect how you are able to interact with our
site as well as other websites. This could include the inability
to login to services or programs, such as logging into forums or
accounts.

<a href="/" title="Return To <?php echo substr($_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'], 4); ?> Home">Return To <?php echo substr($_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'], 4); ?> Main Index</a>

And there you have it. A customized, site specific privacy policy. From here, save the file as whatever.php, then drop a link to your new privacy policy. You could take this a step further and use PHP’s include function to drop this right into your site’s template.

This script assumes your site defaults to http://www.yourdomain.com, rather than http://yourdomain.com. If you’ve configured your site to not use www, you’ll need to replace every occurrence of,

<?php echo substr($_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'], 4); ?>

With,

<?php echo $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME']; ?>

Failure to do so will result in displaying domainXYZ.com, instead of yourdomainXYZ.com. Questions? Comments? Give me a shout below. If you’d like to keep up with Nullamatix, consider subscribing (top of the sidebar) via email to have posts delivered directly to your inbox, or add our full RSS feed to your favorite RSS reader.

I’m not one to brag about achievements (mainly because I don’t have much to brag about), but the recent trend among bloggers in the blogosphere seem to involve publishing a post displaying various statistics. This probably won’t become a reoccurring or regular thing, but at the moment, it does seem like a great way to give out some link love, and express thanks to my visitors.

Visitors, Pageviews Numbers

• 11,145 Unique Visitors - 88% Were New Visitors
• 41,865 Pageviews - Average of 2.15 Pages per Visit
• 219,086 Hits
• 3.65 Gigabytes of Bandwidth. - 2:15 Average Time on Site
• 917 Directs (Bookmarks, No Referrals)

Top 5 Referring Sites

• SiteHoppin.com (118 Uniques) - Browser-Within-Browser Site Discovery Tool
• Digg (82 Uniques) - User Driven Content
• EntreCard (74 Uniques) - The Internet Business Card
• PowerDropping.com (45 Uniques) - EntreCard Power Dropping
• JimmyR (25 Uniques) - Web 2.0 Mashup

Top 5 Referring Search Engines

• Google - 2,808 Uniques
• Google Images - 216 Uniques
• Windows Live - 41 Uniques
• Yahoo - 31 Uniques
• AOL - 13 Uniques

The Earnings (Revenue)

• Commission Junction - $195
• Google Adsense - $126.72
• Paypal Payments - $50
• Money Spent on Advertising: $31
• Grand Total: $340 (net earnings)

That seems to cover the majority of what people are interested in seeing. If you ask me, the numbers just don’t add up, but who can argue with Google’s Analytics? So far, March is looking really promising. Since landing on the top of Shoemoney’s Top Commentators plugin, he’s sent me an ass load of cell phone comment spammers, and 4 unique visitors, none of which were new comers.

You might be wondering how I know all the cell phone comment spam is coming from Shoemoney (the referrers are often blocked on these comment bots), but the truth is, I don’t know for sure. This claim is based explicitly on the coincidence that the very same day I started showing up on his top commentators list, my spam comments went from the usual,

“nice post!”

and

“very good! I like your site in google searchs.”

to,

“GET 60,000 RINGTONEZ FOR J00R TMOBILEZ ELITEZ PHONEH0H0 BY VISTIN: http://some.garbage.co.uk/?eat-me.affiliate=12223391 THEY AM FREE FOR YOU NEW PHONE, GO NO!!! G0G0G0G0!!!one111eleven!!!”

The comments haven’t stopped, and before you ask, no, I don’t use Akismet. I’m temped to just blacklist ringtones, ring tones, cell phone, cellphones, etc. Just take the keywords from my PPC campaigns and dump ‘em into the Nullamatix comment keyword blacklist. Don’t get me wrong (Jeremy, if you read this), I’m sure the human traffic I receive from Shoemoney will outweigh the amount of cell phone spam (66 and counting), but so far it’s not looking good. And again, as I mentioned, I have no way of proving the spam is coming from Jeremy’s blog, unless anyone has any tips or suggestions?

Some Other Misc Stuff

The Webmaster Journal recently asked me a series of questions and posted them up on their web-site. Click here to check out Webmaster Journal’s question an answer session with yours truly.

Dan from PowerDosh.com implemented full RSS feeds as a result of the remarks in my previous post, 5 ‘Make Money Online’ Blogs Worth Subscribing To. Since the announcement he’s only posted one entry, but I’m sure there are more to come.

Jason from The University Kid is holding a huge online contest, probably the largest I’ve ever seen. After reading the post, I decided to offer 750 EntreCard credits to give away (contribute) in the contest. A comment and a GChat session later, absolutely no response - to either. 30 to 40 minutes after offering the credits via GChat, he changed his status and signed off (or blocked me). I doubt Jason cares, but considering I’ve done business with this guy in the past, I just wasn’t thrilled by his behavior, or lack of for this matter. At least have the guts to say, “No, thanks.”

Finally, some link love goes out to Our Blog Review for reviewing Nullamatix.com. Thanks guys!

I know this post was a little out of the norm, so expect some more technical stuff in the very near future. If you have any questions about anything in the post, don’t hesitate to leave a comment.