I suppose it makes sense. Drawing from the popularity of websites such as Google by creating a website called gooooogle or googlle to capitalize on profits. Create a website with a misspelled domain name and rack up on the dough right? Well, maybe, depending on how lucy you get. Over the past few years people have been scoring thousands of dollars off of misspelled words, they either get monetary funds through advertisement programs such as Google Adsense or they end up selling the domain to the company for a profit.
Friday, 25 July 2014
Dumb Habits.
We live in a capitalistic society; what that means is money is up for grabs for anyone with the ingenuity and perseverance to chase it. Jumping in a wind tunnel full of Ben Franklins and grabbing as much as you can is profitable, but you can’t do that for a living. Instead you have to plan and execute specific actions to ensure you remain financially solvent. If you want to spend your retirement years swimming in a vault full of coins like Scrooge McDuck, avoid these nine dumb habits that keep you from earning money.
1. Float Like a Social Butterfly.
Social media is a useful marketing tool, and every so often you need to connect with your followers. The problem comes when you spend all your time on social media. The likelihood of links posted in social media being clicked is dependent on how many followers you have. Expect a 1/1000 ratio (one person clicking a link for every thousand that view it) on average, and don’t waste all your time marketing on social media.
One of the easiest ways to avoid wasting time on social media is to avoid reading feeds. If you use Twitter to keep up with trending topics, make a list to ensure you’re only seeing the subsection of people you follow whose updates consistently keep you in the loop on topics you follow. Also, downloading a social media aggregator such as Hootsuite or RebelMouse will allow you to merge multiple social media accounts, so you can expand the reach of your message while minimizing time spent socializing. Now get back to working on something more important!
2. It’s Called a Lunch Hour for a Reason.
It’s OK to take breaks, and we have a great lifehack discussing the importance of them. If you work for a company, it’s mandatory they give you a break; if you work on your own, you need a lunch break to give you time away from working. An hour is usually a decent enough break, although 30-minute and two-hour lunches have their uses as well. The problem comes when your lunch takes up too much of your work day.
You don’t want to eat a heavy meal that will make you lethargic, and as for heading to the movie theater every day at lunch: you’re triple-dipping into your resources, as you’re not being paid to work, spending money with no return, and wasting time that could be productive. If you’re going to take a long lunch, you need to make up the hours on the back-end, or you’ll never get ahead financially.
3. Waiting for the Right One.
Some people will turn down job offers because they’re waiting for the right one. This does have its advantages, but you can still be doing something to make money while you’re waiting. Instead of sitting by the phone, waiting for someone to call, try pursuing odd jobs, temp work, or selling art online.
You can also pick up freelance and temp work or get paid to blog as a guest expert. The internet is filled with ways to make money online. Make use of the time you’re waiting to make money by making money, or you’ll never make any money.
4. Me Fail English? Unpossible!
Communication is important; if not for communication, human beings would never have banded together to form society, invention, and the Internet. If you don’t know how to communicate what you want, you’ll never get it. It goes much deeper than just a grasp of the mechanics of English, though.
The world is filled with people with a variety of backgrounds, experiences, and beliefs. It’s important to understand how to craft a message specific to your audience. Different words and phrases are taken different ways by people with different perceptions. Be sure to think carefully about the methods, words, and tone used when communicating for business. Otherwise you’ll come off as either overly wonky or out in left field. Either way, people will perceive you as incapable and won’t want to hire or pay you.
5. Motivated by Money.
It’s OK to be motivated by money, but it shouldn’t be the sole motivation driving you. In order to keep up with inflation, at the very least, you need a decent and consistent raise. We have several lifehacks discussing how to ask for a raise, and it all involves proving your worth before asking for more money. If the only reason you’re working is for money, it’ll show in your work. You may think you do enough, but there is always someone doing more, and they’ll get the hefty raise you wanted.
The same thing works for promotions; if a hiring manager has to choose between someone whose focus is on making more money vs someone whose focus is helping the company get ahead, it’s clear who will receive the promotion. We discuss other ways to get a promotion in this lifehack. By working on a career path you love, you’ll reach monetary bliss well before your financially-motivated foes.
6. The Early Bird Stole Your Worm.
I have a goal to see as many sunrises and sunsets as I can in my life. It’s OK to sleep in every so often, but according to the 11 sleep habits of successful people, waking up early (and consistently doing so) is the key to success. It may not be your personal key, but it is to someone; just because you’re sleeping in doesn’t mean everyone else is. If you sleep late, know you’ll have last pick of available jobs, gigs, and opportunities to make money.
7. You Just Practice, Baby … Practice.
One of the biggest mistakes people make is being too scared to follow their dreams. You tell yourself there’s a risk, and the timing isn’t right, so you fall into neutral and treat your life as though it’s all just practice for some future event that never happens. Instead of looking into some unknown optimistic future, focus on the here and now. Treat your life like it’s always game day, and live like you’re never going to die. When you work hard enough, the money comes sooner or later (and loving what you do makes the wait easier).
8. I’ll Procrastinate Tomorrow.
Procrastination is the single biggest reason for loss of productivity. You may not want to do something right now, but you’re not going to want to do it later either. The time between now and then will be filled with stress and wasted thoughts about something you could already have done by now. Instead of putting things off, get to work!
I realize this is easier said than done, so we’ve prepared lifehacks to help you identify the types of procrastination, techniques to manage it, andways to make procrastination productive for those inevitable times when you actually need to put things off. Combining these tools and techniques, you’ll be able to eliminate procrastination’s negative effects on your bank account.
9. You Quit While You’re Ahead.
Stop getting comfortable every time you get a paycheck – it’s the equivalent of stopping for gas at every gas station you pass while driving across the country. Payday Friday isn’t a day to run out and waste all your money on overpriced beer and appetizers (and yes I’m aware it’s “cheaper” during happy hour).
Bonuses aren’t free money either – if you’re lucky enough to get an extra paycheck month, pay raise, bonus, etc, don’t overspend on your celebration, and don’t think now’s the time to sit back. Whoever gave you that money did so because they love what you do, and that love can fade quickly if you rest on your laurels. If you let your financial situation determine how hard you work, you’ll always be broke, because that’s the only time you’ll ever work hard.
Making money isn’t difficult; every year Forbes releases a list of people who make the majority of the money in the world. Instead of envying these people, pick up the pace. It’s a rat race out there, but if you navigate efficiently and run the maze fast enough, you can prove your worth by earning the money you think you deserve.
How to earn money from the Internet.
As long as you have the inclination, a little bit of expertise and some free time, you can earn some money on the Internet from the comfort of your own home. ET highlights some popular ways to make that quick extra buck:
Self publish books
If you love writing and want to get a book published, Amazon offers a free service called Kindle Direct Publishing. The service allows anyone to self publish books on the Kindle (electronic) bookstore and earn royalties from sales. There are two plans you can choose from — the 35% royalty works across any book sold in any country) while the 70% royalty plans works if you sell in a few select countries. Indian authors can choose to set prices specifically for the Indian bookstore and receive royalty payments in Indian currency as well.
Make & sell your apps
With so many smartphones and tablets, app development can be a very lucrative business. You can learn about developing apps online — there are various tutorials available for free. That's the easy part — the hard part is coming up with an idea that 'clicks'. Once you make an app, submit it to the respective app store, set a price and choose whether you want to earn from inapp advertising. Your earnings, after deducting the appropriate fees, will be paid monthly.
Sell your photos Online
Numerous stock websites like www.shutterstock. com, www.shutterpoint.com and www. istockphoto.com host photographs submitted by members. Depending on the site's policy, you can earn between a 15 to 85% royalty on each sale. The better the quality of photos and the larger your online portfolio, the more you will sell. Usually, each photograph you want to upload will have to be 'selected' by them first — and they usually have strict requirements of what can or cannot go on sale.
Sell old stuff online
An easy way to earn some money on the Internet is by selling old stuff that you have around the house. Websites like www.olx.in, www.quickr.com & http://craigslist.co.in provide a free classifieds platform. You need to create an account, enter the product details, location, the expected price along with some photographs — listing usually go live within a couple of hours. Interested buyers can directly contact you and finalise the sale.
Start an online shop
With some creativity, you can learn to make handicrafts or if you know a wholesale dealer, purchase unique things at low prices. Once you have some stock ready, you can set up an online shop to sell these goods on sites like www.ebay.in or www.indiebazaar.com.
Both sites have a simple signup process. After you get verified as a seller, they provide you with a step-by-step wizard to set your online store (how to add photos & details of items you want to sell).
Work online for money
The internet is full of bogus companies that promise to pay you for work but never will. For instance, all places that offer money to fill surveys or those that require payment up front are scammers. Two popular & reliable places to find work are www. odesk.com and www.elance.com.
Both have a similar system: set up a profile and take tests to prove your proficiency in certain areas. Once done, you'll be listed as a contractor/freelancer and people can hire you for an hourly rate. You can get paid more by working hard, getting better at what you do and getting good feedback (ratings) from your clients.
If you are fluent in any subject and have some tutoring experience, you can sign up on websites like www.2tion.net or www.tutorvista.com as an online tutor. The sites require you to create a tutor profile with details such as the subjects in which you are fluent, what classes/courses you want to teach, your experience level, preferred timings for tutions and the remuneration expected.
After verification, the site lists your profile on their portal where interested students can connect with you for tuitions. You can opt for virtual workspaces with built in teaching aids like live chat and collaborative whiteboards. Once you get better at tutoring, you can increase your monthly earnings by teaching multiple students simultaneously.
Earn from Advertising
A reliable way to earn money is from Google AdSense on your blog/website or ads on your YouTube channel. To get started, create a Google AdSense account at www. google.com/adsense. You can use the same account with your blog, website or YouTube channel. To maximise earnings from your blog or website, your objective needs to be to get the maximum number of visitors possible.
Write about what you know and what you're passionate about. On YouTube, make sure that your videos are original and interesting. Promote your channel to get more views. Apart from views, your objective should also be to get more people to like/favourite your video and to subscribe to your channel. The build up will be slow and Google only makes payments once your balance crosses $100, so don't get disheartened. Persistent efforts pay off in the long run.
Rough estimates of how much a newcomer can expect to earn in a month
Self publish books upto Rs 15,000
Make and sell apps upto Rs 50,000
Sell photos online upto Rs 10,000
Sell old stuff online upto Rs 50,000
Start an online shop upto Rs 25,000
E-tutoring upto Rs 10,000
Earn from advertising upto Rs 5,000
Work online for money upto Rs 30,000
Sunday, 13 April 2014
Drugs.
Let me first give you a clear example of what Drugs are.
According to Wikipedia: A drug is a substance which may have medicinal, intoxicating, performance enhancing or other effects when taken or put into a humanbody or the body of another animal and is not considered a food or exclusively a food.
According to Me: If misused, It's something that completely destroy's your life.
The most common drug and the most popular one is Cannabis, To be honest I'm a student and my friends smoke Cannabis or more commonly known as 'Weed'. And let me tell you they have failed their exams and classes and are now being kicked out of school. Why? They got addicted and started taking it, Most times they took it at night and could not get up for their exams.
Never go into the habit of misusing Drugs, It's very addictive and very Dangerous.
" Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an error of judgment."
According to Wikipedia: A drug is a substance which may have medicinal, intoxicating, performance enhancing or other effects when taken or put into a humanbody or the body of another animal and is not considered a food or exclusively a food.
According to Me: If misused, It's something that completely destroy's your life.
The most common drug and the most popular one is Cannabis, To be honest I'm a student and my friends smoke Cannabis or more commonly known as 'Weed'. And let me tell you they have failed their exams and classes and are now being kicked out of school. Why? They got addicted and started taking it, Most times they took it at night and could not get up for their exams.
Never go into the habit of misusing Drugs, It's very addictive and very Dangerous.
" Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an error of judgment."
Fairness Creams, Myth?
Fairness Creams don't actually make you fairer, The effect only lasts if you keep applying the product. Where I come from, Whitening creams are products of choice.
Every shade is good, Why else would people tan themselves and go for the Asian Tanned look?
Every shade is good, Why else would people tan themselves and go for the Asian Tanned look?
Ps4 Or Xbox One?
The battle between the Xbox One and PS4 will decide the future of home gaming. But choosing which to buy is easier said than done.
They both cost around £400 with a game, they both come from respected names with long histories in the gaming field. They even share many of the same games. To make your decision a bit easier, we've compared the Xbox One and PS4 in minute detail, from the games available to the hardware under the hood.
The most important factor with any game console is games. Above all else, you should go with the console that has the games you want to play.
Many of this generation’s games will be available for both consoles. This was true with the last generation too, but the Xbox One and PS4 make it easier than ever for developers to cross-produce for both platforms.
Let’s have a look at the top games that are already available, and those that are coming out for each console.
Read more at http://www.trustedreviews.com/opinions/xbox-one-vs-sony-ps4#7qGejbIxVQbUVVuv.99
They both cost around £400 with a game, they both come from respected names with long histories in the gaming field. They even share many of the same games. To make your decision a bit easier, we've compared the Xbox One and PS4 in minute detail, from the games available to the hardware under the hood.
At launch, the Xbox One was significantly more expensive than the PS4. It was down to the Xbox One’s inclusion of the Kinect sensor, a separate and fairly advanced piece of motion tracking hardware. However, that’s starting to change.
The many reports about the PS4 outselling the Xbox One in its first few months have caused Microsoft to start being very aggressive about the Xbox console’s pricing. It started off at £429.99 with no games, but you can buy the new Titanfall bundle for £399.99, or even less at some online stores. If we say Titanfall is worth about £40, that makes the console just £359.99. That’s just £10 more than the PS4’s RRP – and don’t forget, you get Kinect too. Some stores are offering the console alone for £379.99 too.
The latest PS4 bundle includes infamous: Second Son, and that retails for around £384.99. Sony’s PS4 just doesn’t have a real price advantage anymore. And that makes choosing between the PS4 and Xbox One even harder.
As has been the case since launch, the PS4 is slightly harder to get hold of than the Xbox One. Microsoft’s console is available just about everywhere, but stocks of the ‘console only’ PS4 package are very limited. You’re best off looking for a bundle – either the official inFamous or Killzone ones, or a ‘store made’ bundle.
The many reports about the PS4 outselling the Xbox One in its first few months have caused Microsoft to start being very aggressive about the Xbox console’s pricing. It started off at £429.99 with no games, but you can buy the new Titanfall bundle for £399.99, or even less at some online stores. If we say Titanfall is worth about £40, that makes the console just £359.99. That’s just £10 more than the PS4’s RRP – and don’t forget, you get Kinect too. Some stores are offering the console alone for £379.99 too.
The latest PS4 bundle includes infamous: Second Son, and that retails for around £384.99. Sony’s PS4 just doesn’t have a real price advantage anymore. And that makes choosing between the PS4 and Xbox One even harder.
As has been the case since launch, the PS4 is slightly harder to get hold of than the Xbox One. Microsoft’s console is available just about everywhere, but stocks of the ‘console only’ PS4 package are very limited. You’re best off looking for a bundle – either the official inFamous or Killzone ones, or a ‘store made’ bundle.
Xbox One vs PS4 – Best Current and Future Games
Many of this generation’s games will be available for both consoles. This was true with the last generation too, but the Xbox One and PS4 make it easier than ever for developers to cross-produce for both platforms.
Let’s have a look at the top games that are already available, and those that are coming out for each console.
Read more at http://www.trustedreviews.com/opinions/xbox-one-vs-sony-ps4#7qGejbIxVQbUVVuv.99
Saturday, 1 February 2014
Chocolate.
Ok so now I'm gonna talk about a topic that you all must have eaten at least once in your life. Infact it's better then being in love, Scientifically proved.
“There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.”
― Linda Grayson
Learn something about your new love.
“There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.”
― Linda Grayson
Learn something about your new love.
It is a Aphrodisiac
Forget death by chocolate. More and more research is showing that high quality, dark chocolate (or cocoa or cacao) may actually improve your health. Here are 13 reasons to love chocolate:
1. Chocolate, cocoa, and cacao are high in the mineral magnesium which is essential for over 500 functions in your body, including: heart health and muscle function.
2. Chocolate may reduce the risk of heart failure. Murray Mittleman and his colleagues at Harvard Medical School studied data on 31,823 middle-aged and elderly Swedish women to assess the relationship between chocolate and heart failure. The women who consumed an average of one to two servings (that’s a fairly small amount) of high-quality, cocoa-rich chocolate per week had a 32 percent lower risk of experiencing heart failure. Those women who ate one to three servings a month had a 26 percent lower risk of heart failure. See my article “Nutrient Slashes Risk of Cancer, Heart Disease, Diabetes, and Osteoporosis” for more information about how magnesium reduces the risk of many illnesses.
3. Cocoa and cacao contain plant nutrients called proanthocyanidins. These phytonutrients have been shown in research to protect against carcinogens and nervous system toxins.
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