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Coffee-flavored Coffee Cream?
Now there’s a twist with Coffee-mate’s Tiramisu coffee cream, part of its recent World Cafe Collection. This coffee creamer is favored with coffee as a key ingredient to the tiramisu dessert. So now your morning coffee tastes more like coffee. Such genius I cannot believe!
After drinking this, I am compelled to express myself as Italians do and graffiti the walls of Italia.
Technorati Tags: coffee
Joined FriendFeed
Joined another social tool, FriendFeed, mainly to check it out. FriendFeed can track all your activity on other social networks like Twitter, GoogleTalk, Digg, StumbleUpon, del.icio.us, YouTube, Flickr, Pownce, and a bunch more. So with FriendFeed, you can see the online activity of your friends.
You can be my FriendFeed friend.
Pulpconnection Money Makers
Though I am far from rolling in the dough and becoming a six-figure incoming blogger, I have managed to squeeze some dollars out of Pulpconnection through advertising and affiliate programs. Here’s my list with short rundowns.
Google AdSense. After years of displaying Google ads, I finally got $100 minimum to warrant a check. While I do play around with locations of ads, I don’t really track trends coinciding ad locations with earnings. I mostly set Google Ads on cruise control and get what I can get.
Amazon Affiliate. The Amazon Affiliate program has a lot of money making potential… if you have Amazon shoppers visit your site. As an affiliate, you make money when someone buys an Amazon item you promoted. If you promote expensive items, then you can rack up earnings quickly. Amazon earning are not consistent like Google AdSense and come in spurts. The more items you sell, the higher your return referral fee. Currently, I’m still at the starting 4% referral rate, closing in on enough sales to get 6%.
In total, I’ve made $160 as an Amazon Affiliate with popular sales going to the Zojirushi EC-DAC50 Zutto 5-Cup Drip Coffeemaker
Linkshare. Linkshare is the service handling affiliates for iTunes. I’m a member of iTunes and Footlocker, but there are many other programs (aka vendors and companies) you can apply for. I’ve sold over 100 items through Linkshare, all via iTunes sales. But do the math. At a buck a song, 5% commission on 100 songs doesn’t equate to much as seen in my Linkshare checks.
Text Link Ads. My newest money maker is Text Link Ads which took some time to get membership in. I had heard of TLA awhile back, submitted for a publisher account, and actually forgot about it. To be a TLA member, your blog needs a high enough rating on Alexa and somewhere along the way Pulpconnection met the criteria. Now, TLA could be the most consistent revenue generator with projected monthly earnings around $28.
So there you have it – how I’m on my way to financial independence due to blogging. 😉 Yeah, I’ll take whatever I can get, and it’s been a long road just to get to this point. Maybe one day, my earnings can actually cover all my Internet hosting bills. Until then, keep clicking those Google Ads, buy stuff from Amazon and iTunes, and check out my TLA ads in the Sponsors sidebar.
Playing with Plurk
Seen a new service, Plurk, getting some headlines in the news so trying it out. Like Twitter with posts shown on a scrollable timeline.
If you’re interested, signup and be my Plurk friend.
What’s a Dirty DVD?
Just having fun with family members after a botched gift. My sister-in-law created a homemade DVD for her husband but had problems playing the DVD+RW burned disc in a home DVD player. She called me for tech support saying that the DVD player kept showing the message “disc is dirty.”
At that point, I politely said that I didn’t want to get involved in adult affairs between her and her husband captured on her “dirty” DVD.
Get it?
Rolling in the Dough!
It’s been years, but hey, it’s finally paid off. I got my first check from Google’s AdSense program!
I spent some of the proceeds on wishful thinking, buying ProBlogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income.
Technorati Tags: Google
Blood Donation
Gave blood for the very first time. Not as painful as I would have thought. The hole left by the needle was surprisingly big.
Was over in no time, but not as quick as the Tabasco Man and his steroid pumping blood stream.
Beware the WDC
That’s now two hard drives made by Western Digital (WDC) that have failed on me. I got my iMac back from the Apple Store after one week in the shop, and what was the fix? Change out the original WDC internal drive and replace with a Seagate (ST3500630AS Q). Fortunately, my data (approximately 200 GB) was recovered though I had a fresh install of Leopard on the drive and none of my apps so my machine was pseudo usable. Restoring from Time Machine again did the trick.
Normally, this repair would cost about $400, but AppleCare took care of that bill. Lessons learned from this experience?
- Beware drives made by WDC
- Get Leopard and use Time Machine
- Buy AppleCare
Newer iPod Vending Machine?
Did you happen to see the iPod vending machine in Macy’s Ala Moana? It’s located downstairs between the kids clothing section and the men’s shoe department. While iPod vending machines have been around for a few years, I haven’t seen one in Hawaii (not that I was looking), and the one in Macy’s looks different.
Yes, the product line is updated with iPod Shuffles, Nanos, Classics, and even Touches. The vending machine also sells non-Apple accessories like earbuds, headphones, chargers, and speakers. Heck, you need a Canon PowerShot SD850 IS or SD750 digital camera? This machine will dispense them.
What looks a little different about this vending machine (though I haven’t seen closeups of older vending machines) is the availability of memory card slots and audio controls. Other than for maintenance purposes, I can’t figure out why have a USB, SD, CF, Memory Stick, and xD slot. Can this vending machine also print pictures from memory cards??
Next to the memory slots are audio controls and a headphone jack. Does this vending machine also dispense music and perhaps even videos? Pick out a few things, and the vending machine will spit out a custom gift card with a code redeemable for your selected songs, movies, or games?? Dumb me, I didn’t watch the running demo on the video screen for any type of explanation.
Oh well. If you happen to be at Macy’s Ala Moana, stop on by and gawk a little. A few more pics.
