Recently I moved to a new apartment closer to where I worked to save on traveling expenses. However, the costs of renovating and furnishing the place is really taking a toll on my credit card expenses. Image by The Pug Father (Not my actual apartment )

Within 2 months of moving into the nice new apartment, I realized that I have overspent on many things. Instead of trying to save some money moving to a new place to cut on traveling expenses, I have instead spent more overall.

Anyway, I can’t go returning the new furnitures or get the contractor to undo the renovations. Instead, I need to find ways to pay off my credit card bills.

Since I owe the credit card company some amount in credit card debt, I did a balance transfer credit card and immediately I could save some money. In laymen terms, this translates to owing less money to credit card companies. If you’re wondering the sort of savings we’re talking about, it’s equivalent to about $100 or more in one year for every $1000 in credit card debt assuming 10% interest on the existing credit card. Continue Reading » How I saved some money transfering credit card balances

A few days ago, a friend told me about an article he read in the Internet about people making a living via their blog sites. Since he didn’t have much experience on how to start a web site, I sent him a few links to look through. After a few days of reading and researching, he managed to start his very first blog site – Google Adsense Tutorial. The blog site was hosted on blogger.com and he asked me about the possibility of hosting on a proper web hosting company since he has heard of blogspot sites being hijacked and removed for no reason. Image by Christian Sisson.

I told him that there are many web hosting out there in the market today. It all depends on one’s needs and requirements. For some, they would go for lower cost while some would go for one which provides unlimited bandwith.

So his next question to me, where is a good place to start looking for web hosting plans? And if possible, it should show him a list of top web hosting plans so that he could easily compare them side by side.

Without hesitating, I recommended to him a site that’s at the back of my head called FindMyHosting.com

FindMyHosting.com allows one to easily search and compare web hosting plans. Continue Reading » How to find the best web hosting plan

Nowadays, removable storages such as a USB drive has become a basic gadget everyone has. Most people own not just one but many drives. One to store their music, another for pictures, and another for work documents. With these drives becoming more common and available everywhere, some USB drive dealers have taken the removable drive industry to a higher level – Custom USB drives. Image by Jubeiz

Have you ever wondered how some organizations managed to print their logos onto a thumbdrive or even shape it to look as if the usb disk was manufactured by them?

These flash drives look really nice and neat and are great gifts.

If your organization is also considering to create a custom flash drive of your own, FlashDealer.com will be able to help you with it.

FlashDealer.com is able to create any custom usb drive in any material and colors that you can think off. If you’re creating one just to specifically give out to potential clients, you could include key information in the disk such as:

• Company profile
• Products and services
• Promotions
• Key contact information

With these information already embedded in the drive, your customers definitely won’t forget you. It’s definitely a good promotional method. And imagine if your customer passes the drive around to his / her friends and family members, they too will be able to view your organization’s information. How nice Continue Reading » How to print a logo on a thumbdrive or custom make one

Are you an owner of a website? If you have a website related to business or information technology, then you should really look into this affiliate called RevResponse.

RevResponse allows you to promote business related content and make money from it. Some of the leading advertisers are:

• Oracle
• Microsoft
• Dell
• Adobe
• HP

How this works is really simple. Just sign up to become a RevResponse publisher. After you get approved, you will just need to search for business content which is related to your business area or industry and start promoting them.

Say for example, your organization is a software development company and you publish articles on your company’s blog site. One way to monetize the site would be to find the relevant content from RevResponse and promote it prominently on your site. This is an example of how the ads would look like.

If your readers sign up for any of the information they requested for and got approved for it, Ka-Ching! You will get paid. According to RevResponse, you can get paid up to $20 per lead. I have tried to promote RevResponse since early this year and can say that the average payout is only about $1.50 per lead. However occasionally I do get some which are above $5 per lead. Continue Reading » How to make money promoting business content and whitepapers