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Gimme a break “air asia”

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Here is what’s good  about air Asia

“Its cheaper than the rest”

Sadly thats where the goodness ends as i just found out. I did booking for  australia to Indonesia recently and  waited for my booking details to come through to my email as promised. In the meantime i did my hotel and insurance booking.

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Booking problems with Air Asia

I waited, no  sign of my booking details coming through on email even though my credit card is debited. Frantically i go their website and try to check my booking with the confirmation  reference i got while booking ( Nothing showing up). I register with their site and login  to check ( nothing showing up).

I try  to call them on their  AIR ASIA  Australia Contact ( 1300 760 330 Operating Hours : 24 Hours)  phone line , they say high call volume  and try calling later.

I call again.I GET THE SAME MESSAGE AGAIN.

Contact AIR ASIA for problems

Finally i call and wait through the call with a auto message going on with a person speaking in a hard to understand tone and at eh end of the message it tells me to press 2 to enquire about a booking , and finally i got to talk  to a operator who confirmed my booking.

i tried their live support  chat , that was also offline ( LINK BELOW)

Got through finally to their contact line  the support guy then managed to also link my booking to my registered login  and put the booking on the website so that i could check it online.

surprisingly  my friend who flew last year also had the same problem , you think  they would fix something like this immediately. it definitely speaks for their poor service standards

This just proves that AIR ASIA has a crappy booking system, a crappy phone support system and the only thing good about them is their cheap rates.. sometimes makes you wonder if its worth it ?

some links for air asia problems solving

Air ASIA CONTACT LINKS AT BOTTOM SITE

E FORM TO CONTACT AIR ASIA , 2nd link Air asia form

The Instagram Purchase – What Does It Really Mean?

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The investment of a cool $1 billion from the Facebook bank account was enough to purchase the digital photo-editing app Instagram, in a deal that has led inevitably to some people claiming that Zukerberg and his firm are all cash and no sense. What, in the grand scheme of it, could this purchase mean?

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Instagram to grow FACEBOOKS CLOUT

Facebook’s user lists will grow even more. For a network with a usership only slightly smaller than the population of China, it could be argued that the last thing they need is more members. However, with Instagram’s usership listed at over 30 million accounts, more viewers is exactly what Facebook will get. Many users have already speculated that it was actually this which caused Zuckerberg to get his wallet out in the first place.

Instagram Will Change. That 30 million user figure does a hell of a lot to show you that the app got something seriously, seriously right. How, though, will the new purchase change the app? It seems hard to believe that it will have no effect at all, and many users have reacted to the purchase by simply disconnecting from the app. How the changes will be made has yet to become apparent, but we’d be surprised if there were none at all.

Zuckerberg will do anything to remove competition. Whilst Instagram started as a simple photographic app, there is no denying that in the weeks leading up to the sale it was becoming a legitimate social demon. After all, the first day of use by Android users involved a massive one million uploads, making it essentially a very serious social competitor to Facebook. Or at least it was, until the ‘lightning strike’ deal was struck.

Entrepreneurs rejoice. With only thirteen staff, this sale means that the Instagram head honcho Kevin Systrom will stand to make an extra-ordinary $400 million personally, with his co-founder Mike Krieger also pocketing a cool $100 million. The Instagram sale is a proven example of what one good idea can do.

Charlotte Daniels is a tech fanatic and freelance writer working in association with FactoryFast Online Shopping.

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.

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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

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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)

michells blog

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

 

 

pinch of yumm

 

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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Converting Your Videos for Smartphone and Tablets – ZAMZAR to the rescue

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This tool is the God of Video conversion !!

You just email the content  be it a document that  needs to be made into pdf ,  or a 3gp file into another video format  ( AVI , Mpeg ) or vice versa  and its done   and ready to download , and yes it converts into heaps of formats.

pdf to doc avi to mpeg ebook free onlien conversion convert

Converts Audio ,Video and document formats online

I came across this “zamsar online conversion  tool” long ago and then lost the link in my email and did not bookmark it , did a few video conversions  for my 3gp files . worked beautifully. They email you back the converted link when its done for download . I dont need it anymore most new phones now have  the AVI of 4 mpeg format , but its still handy for converting other stuff

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ZAMZAR is a Magic Free online converter

Zamzar, a popular tool for converting files online, has added a new option that lets you convert files by email itself. You can forward your email attachments directly to Zamzar, without downloading them to the desktop, and they’ll be converted in no time.

Here is a full list of what it converts online . Im sure you will add this to your book marks , and do add my blog and give it a like or  tweet or whateva Smile

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Aussie Expired Domain sale Sets record $125,000 sale price

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Updated on  03/12/2015. An expired Australian domain( investmentproperty.com.au ) that went on to the auction market at netfleet.com.au  went on to reach a record breaking price  at$125,000. Normal  Australian domain prices range anywhere from $12 AUD to $20 AUD from a domain seller.

Amazingly, this domain was allowed to expire by the previous registrar and so the new buyer snapped up this bargain. in 2013 Only , the domain names – sydney.com.au, melbourne.com.au, brisbane.com.au, adelaide.com.au and auction.com.au – were touted for sale with a projected retail price somewhere in the order of $1 million as a total package.

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The previous high earner for this company was the sale of Electricity.com.au for 30K

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Net fleet still has some domain bargains available that are surprisingly low priced like megabyte.com.au for $50, futurestrading.com.au for just $940 , securityalert.com.au for $10.

What is .au?

.au represents the Top Level Domain for Australia and is the preferred Domain Name for all Australians.  Japan (.jp) and Germany (.de) are other examples of Top Level Domains.

com.au For commercial purposes. Includes commercial entities, currently registered and trading in Australia, as well as commercial products and services.

Five Best Australian Domain Name Registrars

( in no random order)

  1. https://au.godaddy.com/
  2. https://www.cheaperdomains.com.au/
  3. http://www.smartyhost.com.au/
  4. https://www.melbourneit.com.au/
  5. https://www.rebel.com

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