How To Get Adsense Account Approved Quickly
Getting Google Adsense account approved quickly when i just entered into the blogosphere of blogging. But after a long research i have learned how to get the adsense account approved quicky by the Google.
Earning Online is an masterpiece job in our present scenario. Lot of guys don't even know about what is Adsense. Adsense is an publisher account from the Google which share the revenue with the publishers and make them to earn lots of bucks. So getting Google Adsense approved account is an humbug. But i have some ideas to get the adsense account approved quickly.
Now a days according to adsense they only accept the sites or blogs which has a domain registered at least 6 months and i got my adsense account within 2 months.
Its because i had a good domain registered domainnamehere.com. I just started the site an posted some 5 to 10 posts and 5 different pages. After 2 months i applied for google adsense and after 2 days i got the approved adsense account.
To learn more about the google adsense just wait for a couple of days till we update the contents.
There is one more effective way to be approved quickly and it through here at blogger.com. Just create an account here, add articles or contents like 5 entries or go and get articles at ezinearticles.com and then apply. In less than a day, I was approved.
Friday, June 19, 2009
Blogger turns 10, now Google wants to make (more) money from it
Google's blogging service, Blogger is turning 10 in August. Google published a list of fun facts about Blogger today, including the fact that 2/3rds of Blogger's traffic comes from outside North America, the most popular sport for bloggers using the service is soccer, and at any given minute, 270,000 words are written on Blogger.But while Google provides users with tools to publish Adsense ads on Blogspot sites (which can certainly help the company raise a fair bit of cash from all of those words), Google doesn't require users to post ads. And that means some users are basically using the service for free without generating any real revenue for Google. Full story...
Building Social Media Services for the Financial Services Industry
Very interesting article in ComputerWeekly about use of Social Media in Financial Services. A private meeting was held a few days ago where:
A behind closed-doors meeting of bankers, social media experts and technologists at The Financial Services Club last night revealed how the sector which traditionally leads technology innovation views social media technology. The event, held at the Lloyds building in London, delivered a clear message that banks must embrace social media. But work needs to be done by banks to work out how and where to use it.
There are some interesting quotes from it, I've tried to group the comments under the issues we see most commonly:
How Futureproof are the current tools:
- "Websites like Twitter and Facebook are just blips but it's what comes after that matters,"
- "Twitter is interesting but I do not know why. It is interesting because people are using it."
But banks know that what follows the likes of Twitter and Facebook will depend on how businesses develop the technology.
Rationale for Adoption.
- "Social media is the plumbing of collaboration."
- "Most businesses in this country are one-man bands and most of these are online. They would like to be able to run their businesses online including dealing with banks and the tax office for example."
- "Banks will have to get used to the idea that there will be some customers will want to use the web."
- "There will be a bonus for banks that experiment early with social media."
- "Social media is a good way of engaging with employees as well as customers."
- "A lot of it is total bollocks."
- "Once a customer question has been answered by a corporate through a social media site it doesn't have to be re-answered again and again."
- "In 1923 the head of the Post Office said he could not see any uses for a telephone apart form calling servants."
Barriers to Adoption
- "If you want to adopt social media you need to listen to what people are saying about it by monitoring online discussions."
- "Businesses can facilitate customer services through social media but it is not the answer to everything."
- "If the way to make money out of social media was obvious Facebook would be doing it."
- "Banks can't experimented because of heavy regulations."
- "I am not certain [banks] are in a position to use social media credible."
Concerns
"We do not deny that this technology will be used by us but to do this will require things we do not know."
- "In financial services we are still in the educational phase."
- "The designed for purpose of technology in banks is never the purpose it is put to."
- "We might make a product designed for loans and it could end up being used for payments."
Options for Small Acorns (starter projects)
- "Banks could start working with third parties for technology because it is hard to change legacy systems."
- "Corporates are already monitoring data feeds to see what people are talking about through mechanical scanning of social media feeds."
- "How does social media transfer to the corporate context is what banks are trying to understand. There has to be a new way found for doing this."
- "Two banks ask me to build a community for them every week."
We have put in a major social media strategy for one Financial Services company already, and would reflect that many of these concerns are very valid - it is not a simple transfer from the low security, non transactional consumer world to a financial service environment with its much more stringent requirements. (Twitterers are the first to call #FAIL on banks that are perceived to have made a mistake, that should convince you of that).
Also, quite bluntly a fair bit of the consumer technology is just not up to the thrashing / hard conditions it will get in a business environment (or struggles to integrate etc). You need serious Open Source gear like Drupal, and sometimes need to build your own on top of the LAMP stack unless its fr fairly low risk usage.
And, of course as any person with systems implementation experience in the last 30 years will tell you, the technology is a minority sport compared to data integrity, workflow rationalisation, people change management and training, and management support. Social media doesn't escape any of these social problems.
Also, many of the metrics that you can get digitally do not easily transfer to business value - quite a lot of work required (Its not just us that found this, MeasurementCamp in London was set up for this exact reason)
The benefits are quite wide reaching though, from higher customer acquisition and lower churn, improvement in SEO, better ability to acquire advertising and get better rates (lots of work, though). But its non trivial to get this and needs time, its not a plug and play thing.
A behind closed-doors meeting of bankers, social media experts and technologists at The Financial Services Club last night revealed how the sector which traditionally leads technology innovation views social media technology. The event, held at the Lloyds building in London, delivered a clear message that banks must embrace social media. But work needs to be done by banks to work out how and where to use it.
There are some interesting quotes from it, I've tried to group the comments under the issues we see most commonly:
How Futureproof are the current tools:
- "Websites like Twitter and Facebook are just blips but it's what comes after that matters,"
- "Twitter is interesting but I do not know why. It is interesting because people are using it."
But banks know that what follows the likes of Twitter and Facebook will depend on how businesses develop the technology.
Rationale for Adoption.
- "Social media is the plumbing of collaboration."
- "Most businesses in this country are one-man bands and most of these are online. They would like to be able to run their businesses online including dealing with banks and the tax office for example."
- "Banks will have to get used to the idea that there will be some customers will want to use the web."
- "There will be a bonus for banks that experiment early with social media."
- "Social media is a good way of engaging with employees as well as customers."
- "A lot of it is total bollocks."
- "Once a customer question has been answered by a corporate through a social media site it doesn't have to be re-answered again and again."
- "In 1923 the head of the Post Office said he could not see any uses for a telephone apart form calling servants."
Barriers to Adoption
- "If you want to adopt social media you need to listen to what people are saying about it by monitoring online discussions."
- "Businesses can facilitate customer services through social media but it is not the answer to everything."
- "If the way to make money out of social media was obvious Facebook would be doing it."
- "Banks can't experimented because of heavy regulations."
- "I am not certain [banks] are in a position to use social media credible."
Concerns
"We do not deny that this technology will be used by us but to do this will require things we do not know."
- "In financial services we are still in the educational phase."
- "The designed for purpose of technology in banks is never the purpose it is put to."
- "We might make a product designed for loans and it could end up being used for payments."
Options for Small Acorns (starter projects)
- "Banks could start working with third parties for technology because it is hard to change legacy systems."
- "Corporates are already monitoring data feeds to see what people are talking about through mechanical scanning of social media feeds."
- "How does social media transfer to the corporate context is what banks are trying to understand. There has to be a new way found for doing this."
- "Two banks ask me to build a community for them every week."
We have put in a major social media strategy for one Financial Services company already, and would reflect that many of these concerns are very valid - it is not a simple transfer from the low security, non transactional consumer world to a financial service environment with its much more stringent requirements. (Twitterers are the first to call #FAIL on banks that are perceived to have made a mistake, that should convince you of that).
Also, quite bluntly a fair bit of the consumer technology is just not up to the thrashing / hard conditions it will get in a business environment (or struggles to integrate etc). You need serious Open Source gear like Drupal, and sometimes need to build your own on top of the LAMP stack unless its fr fairly low risk usage.
And, of course as any person with systems implementation experience in the last 30 years will tell you, the technology is a minority sport compared to data integrity, workflow rationalisation, people change management and training, and management support. Social media doesn't escape any of these social problems.
Also, many of the metrics that you can get digitally do not easily transfer to business value - quite a lot of work required (Its not just us that found this, MeasurementCamp in London was set up for this exact reason)
The benefits are quite wide reaching though, from higher customer acquisition and lower churn, improvement in SEO, better ability to acquire advertising and get better rates (lots of work, though). But its non trivial to get this and needs time, its not a plug and play thing.
Recession Proof Your Interior Design or Decorating Business
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If you make your living as an interior designer or decorator the current economy has got to be hurting your business. When the economy is slow, many people who might otherwise hire an interior designer or decorator are forced to move such a ‘non-essential’ service to the bottom of their priority list. If you haven’t felt the pinch yet, brace yourself as your business could take a drastic nose-dive during an economic recession. Nobody really needs interior design services, especially in have-not times.
There’s also the fact that so many of your days are spent on the business-side of design; negotiating with contractors, waiting for deliveries to arrive, billing, gathering quotes, and so on. This is all time that doesn’t directly generate revenue for your interior design or decorating business, and when client billings are already meager, this can really hurt your financial situation.
Maybe you’re one of the many trained interior decorators who have ended up working in retail for a 100% commission. If the economy gets worse and you’re working purely on commission, where does that leave you? Even in good times, if you work for 100% commission you might as well be your own boss and have the freedom to market yourself to new clients rather than being tied to any one store.
When I decided to take the reigns of my life back and do something that would allow me to profit from my creativity, I considered a career in interior design. I struggled with that option countless times across a 20 year period when I was unsatisfied in my work. I researched, and even interviewed, many interior design schools in my “former life” but for some reason I never took the step to enroll. I decided with my BA, MBA and a couple decades of experience in business, being in a classroom for two to four years with kids 20 years my junior was not something I wanted to do.
Never mind tuition costs and the tremendous loss of income while you’re a student. Then who knows how many years of working experience as a designer or decorator would be needed after graduation to really start earning money. I wanted to unleash my creativity and love for decorating, but I definitely needed to start making money as soon as possible. So, I started my own home staging company.
As soon as my business was launched, the money was coming in. Within my second year as a home stager I was making up to $10,000 per month. Compare that to the median annual salary of $36,150 a year for an Interior Designer according to Salary.com this year. I’m very happy I trusted my instincts!
If you’re an interior designer or decorator and you aren’t making enough money, consider adding Home Staging to your service mix or switching to a more profitable career as a Home Stager altogether.
Here a few ways a home staging business can be more profitable than an interior design business:
• As a home stager you get the opportunity to work with different types of people than you would as an interior designer. Generally, only very high income individuals hire interior designers, which limits your target market. Home stagers work mostly with clients in the middle to upper income level which gives you a much larger percentage of the population to market to, and increases the number of projects available for you to work on.
• Home stagers enjoy a higher volume of projects than interior designers because each one is so short in nature. One interior design project might take months to complete (especially when you factor in the wait times to have upholstery done, or furniture delivered), but the average home staging project takes only a few hours or days. There’s no way I could have decorated hundreds of homes within a couple of years as a new interior designer, the way I did as a new home stager. With such quick projects, a home stager is able to complete (and get paid for) a significantly higher number of projects per year than an interior designer who often has client work on hold through no fault of their own.
• When the economy is slow, people eliminate the non-essentials. Interior design or decorating isn’t really high on the “essential items list” especially when choices need to be made about what to give up, and there’s no real deadline to redecorate or renovate a room. In uncertain times, interior design moves way down on the priority list, while home staging move up. No matter how slow the economy is or how much the real estate market has declined, there will always be people who absolutely have to sell and move by a certain date. Divorce, job relocation, job loss, mounting debts, a death in the family or a birth often get people to put their house on the market even if it isn’t the best time to sell. When a homeowner is desperate to sell their house, a home stager will often be involved since the seller stands to make a handsome profit from their services. When people have less time, less money or less equity in their house, they need a home stager so they can get whatever they can out of the sale of their home! As a home stager, your creativity and talent for decorating will serve you well in slow economic times and slow real estate markets.
I especially love the amount of creative freedom I get as a home stager. Because my clients know I’m decorating their home to sell and not for them to live in, I am able to execute my creative vision without their interference or taking their taste into consideration. I can’t imagine wasting hours sitting with a client who can’t decide which color they want for their bathroom, or which fabric to pick for their drapes. My clients don’t care what I choose as long as their house will sell quicker because of it. Besides that, my home staging business is extremely profitable which every entrepreneur wants.
If your interior design business isn’t doing as well as you hoped, it’s not too late to make a change towards living a more creatively fulfilling career that is also more profitable. Do some research into the home staging field. It’s a career that is virtually “recession-proof”.
If you make your living as an interior designer or decorator the current economy has got to be hurting your business. When the economy is slow, many people who might otherwise hire an interior designer or decorator are forced to move such a ‘non-essential’ service to the bottom of their priority list. If you haven’t felt the pinch yet, brace yourself as your business could take a drastic nose-dive during an economic recession. Nobody really needs interior design services, especially in have-not times.
There’s also the fact that so many of your days are spent on the business-side of design; negotiating with contractors, waiting for deliveries to arrive, billing, gathering quotes, and so on. This is all time that doesn’t directly generate revenue for your interior design or decorating business, and when client billings are already meager, this can really hurt your financial situation.
Maybe you’re one of the many trained interior decorators who have ended up working in retail for a 100% commission. If the economy gets worse and you’re working purely on commission, where does that leave you? Even in good times, if you work for 100% commission you might as well be your own boss and have the freedom to market yourself to new clients rather than being tied to any one store.
When I decided to take the reigns of my life back and do something that would allow me to profit from my creativity, I considered a career in interior design. I struggled with that option countless times across a 20 year period when I was unsatisfied in my work. I researched, and even interviewed, many interior design schools in my “former life” but for some reason I never took the step to enroll. I decided with my BA, MBA and a couple decades of experience in business, being in a classroom for two to four years with kids 20 years my junior was not something I wanted to do.
Never mind tuition costs and the tremendous loss of income while you’re a student. Then who knows how many years of working experience as a designer or decorator would be needed after graduation to really start earning money. I wanted to unleash my creativity and love for decorating, but I definitely needed to start making money as soon as possible. So, I started my own home staging company.
As soon as my business was launched, the money was coming in. Within my second year as a home stager I was making up to $10,000 per month. Compare that to the median annual salary of $36,150 a year for an Interior Designer according to Salary.com this year. I’m very happy I trusted my instincts!
If you’re an interior designer or decorator and you aren’t making enough money, consider adding Home Staging to your service mix or switching to a more profitable career as a Home Stager altogether.
Here a few ways a home staging business can be more profitable than an interior design business:
• As a home stager you get the opportunity to work with different types of people than you would as an interior designer. Generally, only very high income individuals hire interior designers, which limits your target market. Home stagers work mostly with clients in the middle to upper income level which gives you a much larger percentage of the population to market to, and increases the number of projects available for you to work on.
• Home stagers enjoy a higher volume of projects than interior designers because each one is so short in nature. One interior design project might take months to complete (especially when you factor in the wait times to have upholstery done, or furniture delivered), but the average home staging project takes only a few hours or days. There’s no way I could have decorated hundreds of homes within a couple of years as a new interior designer, the way I did as a new home stager. With such quick projects, a home stager is able to complete (and get paid for) a significantly higher number of projects per year than an interior designer who often has client work on hold through no fault of their own.
• When the economy is slow, people eliminate the non-essentials. Interior design or decorating isn’t really high on the “essential items list” especially when choices need to be made about what to give up, and there’s no real deadline to redecorate or renovate a room. In uncertain times, interior design moves way down on the priority list, while home staging move up. No matter how slow the economy is or how much the real estate market has declined, there will always be people who absolutely have to sell and move by a certain date. Divorce, job relocation, job loss, mounting debts, a death in the family or a birth often get people to put their house on the market even if it isn’t the best time to sell. When a homeowner is desperate to sell their house, a home stager will often be involved since the seller stands to make a handsome profit from their services. When people have less time, less money or less equity in their house, they need a home stager so they can get whatever they can out of the sale of their home! As a home stager, your creativity and talent for decorating will serve you well in slow economic times and slow real estate markets.
I especially love the amount of creative freedom I get as a home stager. Because my clients know I’m decorating their home to sell and not for them to live in, I am able to execute my creative vision without their interference or taking their taste into consideration. I can’t imagine wasting hours sitting with a client who can’t decide which color they want for their bathroom, or which fabric to pick for their drapes. My clients don’t care what I choose as long as their house will sell quicker because of it. Besides that, my home staging business is extremely profitable which every entrepreneur wants.
If your interior design business isn’t doing as well as you hoped, it’s not too late to make a change towards living a more creatively fulfilling career that is also more profitable. Do some research into the home staging field. It’s a career that is virtually “recession-proof”.
Where To Make Money In Social Networking
Traditional brands may get the last laugh--or at least the richest laugh--on social networks. So far, companies such as Facebook and Twitter have attracted all the buzz for creating social networking. Making money, however, has proved more challenging. Using Facebook and Twitter is something like hosting a big cocktail party, observes Brett Hurt, founder and chief executive of Austin-based Bazaarvoice, which offers user-generated review platforms and expertise to other businesses. "But nobody shops at a cocktail party." Consumers, however, do shop at old-fashioned branded retailers--say anything from Office Depot and Staples for office supplies to Macy's and Nordstrom for clothing. And when someone wants to buy a product, they often like to turn to their friends and colleagues for advice. "Where the action is happening in social networking is on the brand sites," contends Hurt...
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