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Our Little Online Biz

Posted on November 10, 2010 by greenbucks| Leave a comment

Aside from blogging, the hubby and I engage in a little online business. We have several friends’ online accounts and some of hubby’s corporate clients in our roster. We don’t really earn from this little biz but from what little we get, this is enough to cover for monthly expenses which include my sites since I am not paying, lol.

Not much problem since we started except one that has to do with our friend. The problem’s resolved for now, I hope it won’t resurrect again and have us scratching our heads and tsk-tsking where we went wrong.

I’m not saying we are the best web hosting provider in this little corner of our universe but no one’s complaining. Yet 😀

Posted in File and data management, Interesting Topics, making money online, Tech Talk

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Blogging Can be Hazardous to Your Work

Posted on June 24, 2008 by greenbucks| 7 Comments

I have blogged about blogging hazards before but I just can’t remember where I have written the post and here is the link 😀

Can blogging be hazardous to your work?

Yes it is,whether one works in a workplace or if one is a stay-at-home-person. How and when can blogging be hazardous?

Here are some, yes, some signs:

  • Are you more often than not late for work because you blogged till the wee hours?
  • Is your dominant wrist hurting?
  • Do you talk about what other people are saying, unofficially, rather than quoting the dailies?
  • Do you get the news faster than the media networks?
  • Do you feel happy when you have a free day to blog?
  • Do you take photos of anything and everything that you can probably write a blog post about?
  • Do you try to jot down thoughts that you just had before you forget, and write a post about it?
  • Do you constantly think about what you are going to write next?
  • Do you forget to cook your meal or prepare your food because you just had to finish reading or editing this last post?
  • Do the dishes pile up in the sink?
  • Are the clothes scattered on the floor and not picked up? Yet?
  • Are your front flabs sagging more and more?
  • Do your eyes feel tired and dry and hurting?
  • Do you feel like you want to sleep whenever you have the chance to do so?
  • Do you have ants on your computer table due to the crumbs that fall when you eat in front of your computer?
  • Do you bring your laptop anywhere with you?
  • Do yo know more about what is happening to your blogger friends’ lives than your relatives or neighbors who don’t?

Ah, there are still so many things to notice but these will do for now.

How many did you check?

Here is an interesting snippet that I want to share which I quoted here in this post:

In the end, the biggest threat isn’t that you’ll fail to learn to blog. It’s that if you blog regularly for long enough, and begin to get comments and links from other bloggers, you’ll have trouble doing your day job.

Posted in blogging101, Current Events, making money online, social consciousness, Thought Bubbles, web tools

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Underground Text Link Seller

Posted on March 3, 2008 by greenbucks| 2 Comments

First day of February, this email came:

 

—– Original Message —–
From: A___ K____
To: abcdefg@teacherjulie.com
Sent: Friday, February 01, 2008 12:19 AM
Subject: can i buy an ad on your teacher julie site?

Hey ______,

Your list of “you might be in Education” is really funny…and true. I like #14

Say, I was wondering if I can place an ad on this page http://teacherjulie.com/2006/08/05/you-might-be-in-education/
for someone who runs an online learning site?

I don’t have much, but I can pay $___ for an ad there. If this works for you let me know and I’ll send you over the ad and the payment.

Thanks,
A___K____

This was the reply I made:

 

From: abcdefg@teacherjulie.com
Sent: Thu 1/31/2008 2:28 PM
To: A____ K______
Subject: Re: can i buy an ad on your teacher julie site?

can i buy an ad on your teacher julie site?

A____,

Thank you for the interest in putting an ad in that particular page. I am skeptic though because you see, the post I made was not my own since the source can be found below it, www.teachingheart.net. I think that that would not be fair to the site where I got the article.
I am sorry I think I have to refuse your offer, even if it sounds so tempting because your $____ is a lot of money where I am.

I hope you understand.

Best Regards,
http://teacherjulie.com
http://homeschooling.teacherjulie.com
http://greenbucks.teacherjulie.com

P.S. #14 is funny, yes, I am a teacher but I do homeschooling.

To which the man replied again:

Magandang Umaga!

Thanks for getting back to me so soon. Great News – I took another look at your site and found 6 pages that I’d like to get ads on. I can offer you $_____ for advertising on these 6 pages.

Here are the 6 pages I’d like to get ads on:

http://homeschooling.teacherjulie.com/2007/11/11/sibika-mag-anak-family/
http://teacherjulie.com/2007/11/23/amazing-blogger-award/
http://homeschooling.teacherjulie.com/2008/02/01/science-centrum-field-trip/

http://homeschooling.teacherjulie.com/category/photo-hunters/
http://homeschooling.teacherjulie.com/2007/09/07/bodies-of-water-anyong-tubig/
http://homeschooling.teacherjulie.com/?s=fruits

On this page http://homeschooling.teacherjulie.com/2008/02/01/science-centrum-field-trip/, here’s the ad that I’d like:

—————————————–
http://www.dimacc.com/users/Alex/teacherjulie.html
—————————————–

Please avoid using the words “ADS” or “SPONSOR” as this actually decreases clicks.

If this works for you I’ll send you over the other 5 ads for the other pages. Once they’re live, I will pay you through PAYPAL or a CHECK (whichever you’d prefer).

Thank you for your time,

A____

I don’t know but I didn’t reply back.

Then in a group mail subscription that I am a part of, JMom included a link that made me think about this harder.

Were those offers I got were from underground text link server?

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Philippine Banks – PayPal

Posted on January 30, 2008 by greenbucks| 4 Comments

New! Withdraw Your Funds to Your Philippine Bank Account
 

Now you can add your Philippine bank account to your PayPal account, so you can withdraw your money directly to your bank. It saves you time and gives you faster access to your PayPal funds!

Plus, there is no charge to withdrawal amounts over PHP 7000*. So go ahead and add your bank account today!

That is the message I got from PayPal yesterday though I have read this in my PayPal account last Sunday. I am sure everybody from the Philippines got this message too. Hooray!

There is this teeny tiny bit of information one needs to know: there is PhP250.00 return charge if incorrect information is given. Still, this is good news. So call you local banks now and get it’s code and make that transfer from your PayPal account directly to your local bank. It is VERY important to get the codes right. Most Philippine banks, or at least those who will answer your queries will give you blank answers because they have no idea about what PayPal is or the PayPal Philippines Bank Codes are. There is a list of bank codes from the major banks in the Philippines from ebay.ph. If in doubt, call your local bank and ask them to be sure.

Below is a list of the Philippine banks code from ebay.ph:

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