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Check out this new startup company that earns you passive recurring monthly income. Sign up is completely free! Response has been overwhelming. It's: www.adgoggle.com

Blogging and AdSense - http://blog.worldvillage.com

It never seems to amaze me how people can be so creative to generate workable and profitable business ideas that revolve around the Internet. I read the e-mail below today by Joel Comm. He is basically sourcing for content for his blog (http://blog.worldvillage.com) and agrees to credit your AdSense account directly for any clicks on Adsense advertisements that are shown with your article (50% of the time).

Joel makes money from his own advertisements that are shown the other 50% of the time. But Joel does not have to do any work! Just sits back, relax, and earns Adsense dollars. He basically leverages off the content from all the people that contribute to this blog. And if his blog has scale ie. sufficient readers, it has upward spiral affect - more readers, more clicks on ads, more writers, more readers and on and on.

A simple and wonderful business model. I am sure we can learn something from this and apply it somewhere else.

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Joel Comm Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 9:42 PM
To: Horr Wai
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Hi Horr,

Blogging and AdSense.

They go together like peas and carrots.

It's where the money is.

But sometimes it is difficult to get started with your own blog...

... and that's where I come in.

If you want to have an instant opportunity to earn with AdSense,
I'm going to provide it for you right now, completely and totally
for free!

As you may know, WorldVillage.com was the very first site I placed
online. Since 1995, this site has been a portal to the web.

Last year, I started a free service on this site called The
WorldVillage Blogger Network.

http://blog.worldvillage.com

Essentially, this site provides you with the opportunity to create
original content to be placed on the WorldVillage.com site AND earn
AdSense revenue!

Not only that, but you can also get a link back to your website
from your articles.

So how does this work?

It's simple.

1) You apply for a WorldVillage Blogger Network account at:

http://blog.worldvillage.com/sys/signup2.cgi

2) Once approved, you simply login to the site, put in your
personal information, including your AdSense publisher ID, and blog
your articles.

3) Your AdSense publisher ID will automatically be inserted in the
AdSense Code on the page and display with your articles 50% of the
time. That means ads that are clicked when your publisher ID is
active will credit DIRECTLY to your AdSense account!

It's really that easy.

Signup. Blog. Earn.

While we don't approve EVERY blogger for the site, we are looking
for people who want to create original content in their area of
expertise in order to share their information and earn more AdSense
revenue.

So what are you waiting for Horr?

Join the WorldVillage Blogger Network today by applying at:

http://blog.worldvillage.com/sys/signup2.cgi

Live life today!

Joel

P.S. - You will also get benefit from a link in your bio box going
back to your site!

P.P.S. - Remember. Original content is the way to earn with
AdSense. This is not a place to duplicate content that you have
published elsewhere.

P.P.P.S. - I am expecting a good number of applications. Please be
patient and we go through them and approve accounts!

InfoMedia, Inc., 1151 Eagle Dr. Ste. 325, Loveland, CO 80537, USA

Make MONEY from Web Videos Ads!

Blinkx, one of the world's largest and most advanced video search engine has recently launched Blinkx AdHoc, a service that allows you to earn money from advertisements placed above the web video! All you need to do is register with Blinkx, and have a valid PayPal e-mail account (registration is free at PayPal). Do remember that only text advertisements that are relevant to the video will be displayed (similar to Google Adsense showing relevant text ads for relevant words, but in this case its for videos). Not all videos will have ads displayed. blinkx's AdHoc technology looks for relevant ads and only shows those that it predicts will be relevant and useful for your viewers. As a result, there will be times when there are few or even no ads shown, and you won't make money. Payment is made directly to your PayPal account once you have accumulated USD20.00.

Overall, getting started with Blinkx is super easy, and it took me a few minutes to figure out how it works, despite being new to web videos in general.

I believe Google will be offering this VERY SOON for its YouTube videos. This will allow people who post videos on YouTube to potentially earn advertisement dollars! Another revenue stream for the general public. Wonderful.

In the meantime, I have applied the Blinkx AdHoc system below. Check out the video and do CLICK ON THE ADVERTISEMENT LINK in the video. I will monitor and report back in this blog whether this scheme by Blinkx really works.

Here's the video, and don't forget to click on the advertisement (if you see it. You may not see any advertisements depending on whether Blinkx has any ads to serve). You may need to click on the ad twice before the pop-up window opens to the advertiser's side (1st click is to activate the control, 2nd click is to pop up the window)

AGLOCO! What an elegant business concept.

How do you build a large network of users super fast?

Check out http://www.agloco.com/. Agloco stands for 'A Global Community', and its business model is all about serving advertisements to its network of users through a proprietary 'viewbar', which is a small toolbar that sits at the bottom of your computer. The toolbar looks like this:

The toolbar is quite unobstrusive, and does not interfere with your work.

For every 5 hours you leave this toolbar on (does not matter whether you actually click on nay of the text link advertisements) each month, you get 5 shares of the company. Currently AGLOCO™ will reward up to five hours a month in Viewbar time. Above that limit, you can keep your Viewbar displayed or minimize it at any time, though most of the Members choose to keep it up. If you don’t want your Viewbar to operate at any specific time, just minimize it and it will stop working. However, you will not earn online hours while your Viewbar is minimized.

Agloco also states that it will share with its users any advertisements, transaction commissions, software distribution fees and product distribution fees that it earns.

The beauty and elegance of this business model is that Agloco does not have to pay its users any cash for now to get them to start using the Agloco toolbar! They are offering the user shares in the company, which will only become convertable to cash IF the company gets listed. That's a BIG IF. If the business fails, or if Agloco is bought up by a big conglomerate, you get nothing!

In the meantime, as the network of users using the Agloco toolbar increases, Agloco starts to earn real cash from advertisers! Agloco states that once it becomes cash flow positive, it will share some of this extra cashflow with its users. In the meantime, users are just accruing shares in the company. But users do not have anything to lose besides having an extra toolbar on their computer, which comes with a handy search feature that allows you to search on most major search engines.

It's a brilliant concept and idea that might just work. If you want to sign up to try Agloco out, like I did, just click here to REGISTER with AGLOCO.

Interesting E-mail SCAM?!

I received an e-mail today that I thought was rather interesting. It's a SCAM, but will actually work without supposedly breaching any laws, and without hurting anybody too seriously. But like any pyramid schemes, the last group of people holding the baby will eventually get nothing at all. But the concept is truly brilliant, and really the most each person can lose is 10 dollars.

Read the e-mail below:

Comments: If I can get 20 people to pay me $5 each, I initially earn $100. If these 20 people get another 20 people, my name is bumped up to 4th spot on that e-mail chain. So there is now 400 e-mails going around with my name on 4th spot. At 3rd spot there will be 400 x 20 = 8000 e-mails. At 2nd spot, 160,000 e-mails. At 1st spot 3,200,000 e-mails! If everybody paid you $5, you would theoretically earn a cool $16,000,000!

But given leakages and not everybody getting 20 people each, your target earnings is supposed to be $50,000. Not bad eh? Even if you can earn $20 out of this, that's already a 100% return from your $5 right?

The key points to learn from this are:
- People are greedy, and want to get rich quick. If you know how to take advantage of this (legally, of course), there are opportunities
- Viral marketing grows exponentially!

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TuneMoney.com - The next AirAsia of no-frills insurance?

On 20th Septembe 2007, Malaysia's first no-frills, one-stop financial services company Tune Money Sdn Bhd launched its online insurance service under the Tune Money banner(http://www.tunemoney.com/) which is aimed at offering affordable services for the under-served market.

Offering insurance at the lowest possible premiums of up to 30% lower than the market, TuneMoney's key selling point is clear. Moreover, TuneMoney is targetting 'the little guy', the customer who doesn't earn enough to qualify for a credit card, buy insurance or even invest. With almost entirely all blue collar workers, teenagers and fresh graduates in this category, the market to be captured by TuneMoney is both large and ready.

TuneMoney currently offers insurance policies for personal accident, motorcyclist personal accident and home insurance. The policies will be underwritten by CIMB Aviva.
The company expects to add hospital and surgical and motor covers by the year-end.

TuneMoney will also be launching its payment card (ie. a prepaid credit card) very soon. This promises to be an exciting product as there are many people who need a credit card, but do not qualify to get one. But take note, this is not technically a 'credit card' as no credit is given to the customer. It is a prepaid payment card ie. you first need to deposit money into the card (via eg. online banking, POS Malaysia and other payment methods to be revealed) before you can use it. But it is a 'credit card' in the sense that you can use it just like any terminals or websites that accepts MasterCard of Visa. There will definitely be a demand for this card by teenagers who will use it to purchase products and services online (eg. books, online games, (pornography?) etc). To date, teenagers have had to rely on older friends with credit cards, or made use of other payment methods such as MOL e-Points. But MOL e-Points is not as widespread accepted as a credit card.

It will be interesting to see how TuneMoney develops. It has the potential to be Asia's largest no-frills insurance company. And if anybody can, you can expect the team at TuneMoney headed by CEO Tengku Zafrul Aziz and backed by shareholders like Datuk Tony Fernandes and Datuk Kalimullah Hassan to succeed. But it's still early days and we need more time to see how things develop.

Some key challenges, in my opinion are:

1) Payment methods. TuneMoney's key market group are people who currently do not have a credit card and/or and online banking account. So, to sell these group of people insurance, prepaid credit cards and other products, TuneMoney will need to beef up and make widespread its offline payment methods (eg. POS Malaysia etc).

2) Most people use a credit card for its credit. Yes, some people use it for convenience. But the majority of people use it for the credit (if not, banks won't be earning the huge amounts they are earning now from credit cards interest charged). The prepaid credit card does not provide credit. So, this means that the main purpose of a prepaid credit card is convenience. Or perhaps partially for image and 'glamour' of owning a plastic card. So it's hard to say how popular a prepaid credit card will be.

3) Momentum. TuneMoney will need to generate lots of momentum to make this business successful. This business is without doubt a business numbers. Large numbers need to be achieved, and soon.

On the plus side, TuneMoney has the highly successful Tune brand that has successful franchises like AirAsia and TuneMoney. It is managed by professionals who know what they are doing, and have solid shareholder backing.

Check out TuneMoney today, but some insurance, and comment here on what you think!

The NEXT BIG Thing: Mobile Advertisements?

I have always had a personal interest on figuring out how to make the mobile advertisement model work. Blasting out SMS messages to the general public (ie. SMS Spam) is clearly ineffective and costly, and is also now prohibited by the MCMC (Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission). Sending out SMS messages to your registered subscriber base is a step better, but is still ineffective after taking into account the cost involved of sending out the SMS. The lack of pick-up of SMS advertising in Malaysia is a further indication that this model is not working well. I inevitably always delete these pesky SMS adverts that I receive. MMS advertisements, in my opinion, is even less effective and cumbersome. It's also no point getting users to download an application that needs to be activated to view the advertisements. Such applications, like Java games, will need to be closed for the user to make and receive calls and SMSes.

What will work are advertisements that are continuously displayed on the user's handphone throughout the day. Better still if these advertisements can be targeted by the user's demographic, interest and/or location.

From a technology and hardware point of view (ie. the mobile phones), companies like Motorola and Nokia are already working on commercial solutions that will allow such advertisements to be displayed on the from of the mobile phone. So let's assume that this will be forthcoming in the near future.

The KEY QUESTION that needs to be answered to unravel the necessary business model is this: Why will users allow advertisements to be displayed on their mobile phones? There are a 2 feasible answers:

1) They want to get information from specific advertisers (eg. mum's who want to get the best discounts and offers from shops). So users subscribe to to the advertisements they want to receive.

2) The user gets a benefit such as a monthly cash rebate to their postpaid bill, or extra talktime if they use a prepaid account. This is the 'mass blasting' model. But will those advertisements be effective? Unlike the TV, users can hardly be expected to watch their handphone screen for hours at a time continually.

Business Week edition 8 Oct 2007 carried an interesting article on p39 titled 'Telecom Tremors: Will a Google Phone Change the Game'. The articles talks mainly about mobile advertising. It states that in the U.S., a service from Virgin Mobile called 'Sugar Mama' offers subscribers a chance to earn free minutes if they agree to view tailored ads. As of August 2007, more than 425,000 people have signed up. See also Blyk of the UK.

I know for a fact that Celcom has already formed a high level department that focusses specifically on mobile advertisements. It won't be surprising if DiGi and Maxis are doing the same. Mobile Advertising WILL BE the next big thing. The questions are WHEN and HOW. There are opportunities here for us to exploit.

I would like to hear your feedback on the following questions and issues:

1) Who controls the game? The handphone manufacturers (Nokia, Motorola, SE etc), the mobile carriers (DiGi, Maxis, Celcom), or the advertising platform companies (eg. see ThirdScreenMedia)?

2) How can we send effective and targetted advertisements to users? Not advertisements that are immediately closed and ignored when received by the user.(and thus are costly for the advertisers)

3) What is the best channel to reach the user? Via SMS? MMS? A continuous playing screen on the 'homepage' of the phone as suggested above by me?

4) What can we do to make money from this upcoming trend?

Facing Off Over Facebook?

You might already know this, but in case you don't, Yahoo! offered to buy Facebook for one billion dollars last year. Many thought that the Facebook Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg was insane to turn down that offer. But the latest edition of Business Week (8 Oct 2007) reports on page 30 that Facebook is expected to generate $150 million in revenues this year, and is selling a small stake that values the company at $10 billion! Apparently the main suitor is Microsoft, but Google may jump into the equation.

I bought the book 'Smart Start-Ups' by David Silver today (published by Piatkus Books Ltd, 2007), and Silver states in his preface that 'I'm not at all optimistic about the staying power of MySpace and Facebook'. He further states that 'Other than providing a playground for young people to meet and communicate, I question the economic durability of MySpace and Facebook'.

The number of high price tech purchases in the recent past that turned out to be duds are well documented elsewhere.

So what do you think about Facebook? Is Facebook really worth that much? Besides advertisements, what other revenue channels can be generated? Can those add-on applications on Facebook make money? Please comment.