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Flying Hovercraft for $190,000

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This vehicle “ glides over land and water yet also soars in the air up to 70 mph with the aid of integrated wings.” That’s what Hammacher Schlemmer is promising with the $190,000 flying hovercraft. This vehicle definitely falls in the big boys toys category.

Boa that flies and runs on ground – Hammacher Schlemmer

flying hovercraft

Amazingly this hovercraft can Operate in fresh- or saltwater and up to 30% inclines over sand, mud, grass, swamp, desert, ice, and snow.

Hammacher Schlemmer –Hovercraft that can fly

Its wings and horizontal elevator enable pilots to simply hop over water- or land-based obstacles up to 20′-high unsurmountable to a typical hovercraft.

The Flying Hovercraft [Hammacher.com]

Is this the new “Aussie facebook”

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Zurker is the newest sociial network on the scene and its got a very tempting offer for new users to join. I don’t know if this offer will last for long  as it sure sounds like a free give away  to get members for now.

What makes  Zurker different from Facebook is that its owned and run by its owners that is you and the privacy and other  features also get voted by you  to avoid over commercialisation of the network

ZURKER

When you sign on as a member you can earn Zurker Virtual Shares or vShares by recruiting other members. You get one vShare for every member you recruit.

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The Zurker rules  are quite strict on multiple accounts

Alternatively, members can buy Zurker vShares for $1 each if you are in the US. For Aussie members  there is no further information on buying shares yet.

Zurker is currently in beta testing, and is not available to the general public without an invitation. ( invitation Below)

-> JOIN ZURKER NOW

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once You get registered , if you gets other members to sign up rapidly  within 24  hours you get bonus shares  which all adds up in value.

or you can get a invite from facebook

Amnet Internet is fair Dinkum

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I switched from IInet to amnet or amcom telecom about 4 years ago and  definetly a happy camper.Despite of tempting things like Naked DSL and  other nice offers, i have stuck with amnet. I was with TPG  telecom before ..good plans.. but bad service

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Prompt and reliable internet broadband -Amnet

Its just because they are a smaller company and they provide good service . Over the period i had their internet connection they have had problems only twice, and eve when they did  , both times i was quite surprised that they called immediately saying  that their Bulwer exchange had a problem and they were currently fixing it , NOW that’s personal service.

Good Internet download limits, Local human customer service personnel

Their broadband is fast enough and their speeds and limits are awesome, infact tehy were giving me 150 GB download limits long before the top internet providers started doing the same. One thing thats very important for me is getting a local human on the customer line who cares, and amcom certainly does have that and  on the 2 occasions that i needed some support i got real nice friendly an prompt service from a customer rep.

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If you looking for a reliable , good internet provider , you surely cant go  past amcom , there might be other providers a bit cheaper or with more download limits.. but it certainly makes up for that with good and reliable customer service  and broadband.

Special offer – Amnet Australian ISP

They recently had a special offer of a  FREE month and FREE connection on the 12 and 24 month  and also being fair to older customers “12 oldest residential customers  were given a free month each to share in the 12 th birthday celebrations

Get a free ipad 2 for refferals

Currently there is also a offer where you can refer 3 friends to Amnet by using our Refer-A-Friend promotion, and you will get  an iPad 2 for your efforts. You need to be a member for this , so let me know before you sign up (contact me ) as i will give you a referral  ( which will include a $20 credit to your account) and then you can do the same and share the love and prizes by referring friends.

Here are the prices

http://www.amnet.com.au/broadband-internet

Do contact me for a referral and credit before you sign up to be eligible for the credits and free ipad offers

Can Pinterest put a pin to Facebook’s bubble

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They say

“A  picture is  worth a thousand words”

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Pinterest in Australia

With millions of users flocking to pinterest and registrations happening at a rapid pace , Pinterest the website that uses pictures on a pinboard to interact with its users could be the new Facebook or twitter and surely get these rivals worried.

Pinterest now has over 10.4 million registered users

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Pinterest  has no plans of a Australian focussed website, but is now available more freely for  Australians  to register on their website as well. Pinterest  is now  just trailing Facebook and twitter in popularity  to become the third most popular  social website in the US.

Now, even Barack Obama has a Pinterest profile, it’s safe to say the site is getting pretty popular.

So what is pinterest ?

Pinterest is a social sharing website similar but different from Facebook.

australian pinterest website what is

Pinterest is a social networking site with a visually-pleasing “virtual pinboard” interface that’s likeable. Members collect photos and link to products they love, creating their own pinboards and following the pinboards of other people whom they find interesting.

Pinterest and  Amazon Affiliate Marketing

Pinterest is  a interesting concept , It is very visually appealing with its concept  and with its very reason to become popular it  also has attracted the  bad boys of the internet “ the spammers”.  Steve is 24 years old and makes about  $1,000 a day from pinterest. he makes this money  by spamming pinterest.

Steve works by creating tons of fake accounts, using spambots to re-pin certain images — all of pretty women’s dresses and boots, enough to get them on Pinterest’s popular tab. Pinterest users then click on them and are directed to Steve’s Amazon affiliate account buying stuff and earnings him a commission. You can read the full story here

Get a Pinterest Invite Australia

“Pinterest is currently  invite only”  and if you need  a invite just leave a comment  with your email or contact me via the contact page  with your email and  i will send you a invite for pinterest

Some e-marketing techniques and tutorials for pinterest on sale 

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Online blogs that are making money – Australia

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People think it’s easy to blog and make money, but things have changed in the blogging scene. This six figure blogpost has needed an update for a while, and so I am updating it for 2018.

The best  way to make money online is to follow  the people who actually  are doing it, unfortunately in the online world  Google slaps a Google penalty if you literally do that by copying successful bloggers . The sad reality is that some are just floggin it , while some are really blogging.

You could  follow the successful money makers and learn some stuff, but they will never really reveal the real money making secrets.

I have been blogging for the last 10 years. Writing a blog is no more about just writing a 400 word article and getting a lot of eyeballs to your article. It involves a lot more.

Yet even today they are many $5000 a month $10,000 a month bloggers and some top bloggers earning $20k plus a month.

Today the fashion and food bloggers niche has become popular and there has been an exponential rise in women bloggers too. The gadget and technology niche has always been a favourite niche for people to blog about and so is a very competitive niche too.

Follow the Top bloggers to become a money making blogger

But  there are some that up to a certain extent reveal the blogging secrets, and the smart people with the keen eye can get the clues from their posts and blog to apply them techniques on their own blogs. Making money online is a hard game  and I got some of my favourite bookmarked blogs that give me regular useful information about this methodology, that you might find useful too.

Some of the blogs that I follow, surely are some of the biggest money earners on the internet,  but in relation to handing out any useful tips to making money,  only a few of these blogs occasionally post anything useful when they are not flogging stuff to their viewers or subscribers.

So I have ranked and listed these blog’s below in order of importance to me – and for you.

Some of these  unfortunately as John Chow states, have pretty much become “internet marketing whores”  and they sometimes are blogs  that “who flog, more than they blog”  ( Yeh Yeh !! sure  John Chow – look who’s talking)

Check out these blogs for making money online

 

New websites ( 2018 Update)

MakingSenseOfCents.com ( Michelle)

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Michelle is said to earn $110,284.31 a month. However you can check her recent earnings on her blog  as well.

The income sources of Michelle’s blog is from Affiliate Products, Online Courses, Sponsorship and Direct Ads

 

 

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https://pinchofyum.com  – Pinch of yum

This blog is a recipe and food blog that has made it big. its been around for a while and  started making money with adsense and then affiliate products, advertising, recipe books. The blog is run by Lindsay and Bjork and they used to publish their income reports, but have stopped doing them now.

They started off with earning as low as $20 a month and now are earning well over $20k a month.  Huffingtonpost reports, 

This was their 12-month profit: $483,883.51

 

 

1. Chris  Guthrie – http://www.makemoneyontheinternet.com/

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Making his money selling on amazon  , from his blog and now makes money buying and selling websites and also now bombards me with emails selling software  and plugins daily which is just about starting to annoy me with  its increased frequency . But he still dishes out good stuff , so ill hang on for a while receiving those emails 

2. Glen – – http://www.viperchill.com/

glen viper chill blog adsense marketing online

Makes money from his blog, amazon  and other projects . Has a wealth of seo optimization information

I recently  tried his  opt in membership plugin without much success and some precious real estate  taken up on mu blog  but then  found out  that i can get  members more by just making my request more visible on blog  on popular posts and  making the request more actionable and  so now  don’t need his plugin. But his Blog posts are AWESOME  so yeh  ” look it up “

3. Michael Gray – http://www.wolf-howl.com/

wolf howl blog Michael gray affiliate marketing

Michael blogs about a good mix of everything like SEO, driving traffic , Blog optimization and more. I like his blogs name “wolf –Howl” and he always has excellent images to go with his post which makes his blog look so good. ( hmm… hes climbed up to no 4 ranking on google.com.au for SEO Blog ..good luck buddy to the top )

4. Darren Rowse – http://www.problogger.net/

aussie blogger darren rowse affiliate adsense amazon

Had to put in fellow aussie blogger “Darren Rowse” on this list, he not only has quite detailed posts on how he started earning his money online  from his forums , but also detailed posts on how he earns money from his blogs , amazon  and how he drives traffic , build memberships  and makes money from affiliates.Dig deep into his blog to get  a wealth of information.

4. John Chow – http://www.johnchow.com/

internet marketing whores and john chow affiliates

He used to publish interesting stuff   that really helped  making money online, blogging and does  that now only once in a while ,in the meantime  he is just flogging stuff , software  etc  from his website.

5. Shoemoney – http://www.shoemoney.com

shoemoney and internet whores affiliate adsense adwords

I used to follow shoemoney quite fervently 4 to 5 years ago when he used to blog quite useful  and details posts on makingmoneyonline , making money from AdSense ,  Adwords strategy and blog optimization , but now he just  posts pic’s of himself with good looking chicks and  occasionally  writes some detailed informative posts on SEO and  other stuff as mentioned above.

 

My blog Digital grog is already the  “NO.1 on the google  Australian search” for the term “DigitalGrog”  and bookmark us  to see whats trending and how we improve our blog.

Check out my posts of how to help make your blog popular with google with  SEO and other E- Marketing and affiliate tricks,  specifically check out  our these posts that might help you speed up your blog popularity.

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Why SEO Copykat can save you time

 

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The Ultimate Guide for Blog SEO in 2020

 

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The Step by Step guide to Clickbank Income in 2019

 

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Comparison of top Webhosting plans in 2020 – Australia Vs US hosting

 

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Starting a Blog for Making Money Online in 2019

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Holiday Gifts and online spending surge benefits e-marketers

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Its that part of the year  when everybody is ready to splurge  and indulge in a little bit  a fancy gadgets  or  clothing. With the increase in online presence of  designer clothing lines, perfume shops and gadgets and  electronic and computer accessories  anyone or everyone can now compare and shop with a click of a mouse , also to benefit of many in the e-marketing  Industry. The ease of set up of a e shop  has the e-commerce advantages in the price factor over setting up a brick and mortar shop has further advanced this  sector.

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Online spending habits for 2011- 2012

The boxing day sales  and then the Christmas rush will see the online sales booming over this holiday period , so what has been selling like hotcakes online.

According to many online news and  electronic websites, gadgets seem to be one of the favourite gifts this happy season wether if was bough online or then  through a brick and mortar shop.  Australian online news journal SMH says its Bricks versus clicks this holiday season , as online stores battle with retail shops. In fact  the brick and  mortar shops have joined the Online shopping revolution  with J B HI FI  and  Harvey Norman opening their very own cheap prices Direct import online shops.

Top selling / Sales  for Online Gadgets

PC magazine says “iOS Devices Dominate Mobile Online Shopping” which will certainly see the smart e-marketers make a move on this one. They say “Statistics released this week from the retail analysis firm Rich Relevance indicate that iPads and iPhones are the top mobile devices that consumers use to make retail purchases”  . According to IBM, the iPhone and iPad ranked first and second for consumer shopping on mobile devices on Black Friday on of the High traffic Sales day in the US.

“For the holiday season through Dec. 18, nearly $32 billion has been spent online, a 15 percent increase versus the corresponding days last year” says ecreditdaily.com.

The guardian.co.uk says that e-retailing group Interactive Media in Retail Group (IMRG) forecasts in “UK consumers will spend £186m online on Christmas Day, a retail group forecasts, with the Boxing Day spend expected to be in excess of £365m” One of the popular UK online selling websites is “Argos” .

Popular online sales In UK

The most popular items were audio equipment, laptops , tablets  and gaming items, but customers also snapped up domestic appliances such as kettles, fryers, slow cookers, toasters and vacuum cleaners which were also popular in the stores.

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