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Pimp your Garage with CarGuyGarage

We don’t have garages in Singapore. There are just not enough space to have a garage for every household. If I had a garage, I would want one like Tim the Tool man from Home Improvement. Well, if you had a garage, go to CarGuyGarage.com to see all the different ways you can pimp your garage.

“Cabinets, Workbenches, Flooring and Storage for the Garage”
CarGuyGarage tagline

Garage cabinets seems to be their specialty. I especially like aluminium garage cabinet. I didn’t know a cabinet can look so stylish and neat.

The site is easy to navigate, with pictures to everything that can be ordered. So you will be able to view your stuff before you order.

There are also different configurations of cabinets you can choose. From what I see, their items are modular. You will be able to mix and match to suit your garage. Prices are clearly stated so you don’t have to wait for a quote to decide.

From what I see, this is a comprehensive online store where you can order anything related to your garage. Head over to their site and get ideas on how to pimp your garage.

(note: Take a look at their range of Garage clocks, they are cool enough, you might want to buy for your house.)

Hi Chief, got a coupon in your pocket?

Do you shop online? If you do, you will probably aware that most of the price you see online is not the final price. There will always be a promo code or a coupon that can give you further discounts or benefits like free shipping.

Of course, you can do a Google search to search for the Dell coupons or lurk around forums like DigitalPoint to find the elusive amazon coupons codes that can give you the best discount.

Here is where CouponChief comes in. On the site, you can find coupon codes for over 100 online stores and these include prominent stores like OldNavy, Gap, Dell and BlueHost.

Now is the time of the year, where the holidays are rolling in. You need to buy gifts and presents for your love ones for Halloween, Thanksgiving and of course, Christmas. Don’t take a big hit on your wallet, make use of CouponChief to get great discounts for all the gifts in your wishlist. Don’t forget a present for your pet dog, Rover!

I am now a PayPerPost publisher

I sign up with PayPerPost sometime ago and just got accepted last week. Not sure if it is because of my PageRank (I have none)or my low subscriber count. But now that is settled, so I can concentrated on writing paid post for this blog.

Why?

Well, advertisements are not making me any money. I am not talking about $100 per day range. I am at the moment just want to cover my hosting fees plus some small change for my time spent blogging. That’s where PayPerPost comes in. It gives me an opportunity to get paid while blogging. It’s like I am now the freelancer for the newspaper call PayPerPost Times.

I think the main difference between paid blogging and ads on the side bar is that you know what you are earning for each post. You will only know how much the ads you put earn when you get your daily report. Its good to know you will get paid when you work for it.

How?

Of course by writing on BlogMunch. I know there are lots of articles that say PayPerPost articles are biased and evil. But you really have to use your own judgment for stuffs on the internet. Anyway, I will try to be as objective as possible about my paid posting. If there is something bad to be said, I will say it. A good point about PayPerPost is their word of mouth ethics. It is now required to display a disclosure badge on your post. This will promote transparency and post integrity.

When?

I am not sure how much offers I have on the marketplace for a small blog like mine. I’ll say maybe a maximum of 3 paid posting per week for starters. I will see how much money I can earn and take it from there.

I am itching to have a blog contest on BlogMunch for a while. So I think I will use any surplus income from PayPerPost to fund a blog contest and reward readers on this blog.

Wish me Luck!

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Do you hide your affiliated links?

Imagine you walk into a apparel store. There is a friendly sales person that comes over to promote the new T-shirts that arrived recently. He talk about the unique design of the print, the 100% combed cotton material and the new designers cutting of the shirt. You were so impressed that you start to tell the sales person to wrap it up. Being the nice person he is, he told you about the 20% commission that he will earn when you buy the t-shirt from him. That’s when you say, “No, I am not buying this t-shirt if you are earning a commission from it”.

Do you find the above story familiar?

You search for reviews for the best and cheapest webhosting service around. You found a article that tells you the features of a good webhost. You like it and decided to buy the plan. Suddenly, you look in the status bar of your browser and saw that it is a affiliated link. You start to get disgusted and copy the link (without the affiliated referral) so that you can buy directly from the store. Imagine if the link is just a straight link to the site, you would have click through to sign up.

Both stories above shows that irrationality of a normal person. All commissions are paid by the source and no matter who you buy from, the price you pay are the same. So why do you penalize the marketer/promoter? Doing so just unhinge all the hard work promoting to you/ researching for the review you read. You might say the promoter is biased towards their product, but if the product is really bad, you think you can’t see through the sugar coated lies?

So if you are a affiliated marketer and wanted to “camouflage” your affiliated links, here are 4 ways to do it.

1. This is from Ben Cook of BloggingExperiment. He uses a affilated jump page to redirect the buyer to the source. So a url like this “http://www.text-link-ads.com/starter_kit.php?ref=94747” would become this http://blogmunch.com/recommend/text-link-ads.php. Here’s the code for your php template.
   <html>
   <head>
   <insert tracking scripts here>
   <meta http-equiv=”Content-Language” content=”en-us”>
   <title>Sign Up with Text Link Ads</title>
   <meta name=”robots” content=”noindex, nofollow”>
   <script>window.location=”affiliate url“;</script>
   <meta http-equiv=”refresh” content=”1; url=”affiliate url“>
   </head>
   <body>
   <p align=”center”>You will be taken to the correct page shortly.
   <br>If this page does not load after 5 seconds, please
   <a href=”affiliate url“>click here</a>.</p>
   </body>
   </html>
2. If you are using cPanel with your webhost, you can also use the redirect function at the domain tab to redirect any affiliated links to your custom url.
3. You can also use a tool like http://get-shorty.com/ to install on your server to generate short and sweet url that will hide your affiliated links.
4. Lastly, like all things WordPress, your solution is only a plugin away. Use the Hidden Affiliate Links plugin.

Choose any one of the solutions above and enjoy more click-through to your affiliated programs.

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Go be the Best of The Web!

Best of the Web (BoTW.org) is a website and blog submission directory, similar to Yahoo. The difference is that you have to pay for them to review your blog for inclusion. According to their TOS, inclusion is not even guaranteed. So effectively, if you are accepted , you really are one of the “Best of The Web”.

Affiliate Program

But that’s just an introduction. What I want to talk about is really its affiliate program. You will refer your readers to BoTW like any other affiliate program and earn 25% commission from any sales resulting from it. Below is the whole services table:

So regardless of what services your readers purchase, you will get 25% of it. As you can see, it is not a one time payment only. Every month, when your readers renew their services, you will get 25% of it. That’s Great.

It gets even better!

Jeremy from Shoemoney.com now has a promo code that let you earn 30% commission. Yes, that’s 5% more money. The code is shoemoney30. You need to input this code when you upgrade to the reseller account. Don’t worry, the upgrade is free.

Now, if you want to submit you site/blog to BoTW, there is currently a 15% discount for all its services PLUS a chance to win $10,000. You have to input this promo code: WIN10K when you purchase any services to qualify for both the 15%discount and the lucky draw. Every purchase give you a chance, so the more the merrier.

So go signup now or submit your blog to be the Best of The Web.

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