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I think I’ve figured it out. My road to millions. The path to happiness and success. Now that you can make money podcasting, it’s time for me to package up some how-to system and make an infomercial to hawk said system.
Or, perhaps, not.
Tags: Podcasting
So it looks like my DSL connection at home should be reconnected soon. Happy about that.
I’ve worked in a lot of IT environments and very often we’ll purchase 24×7 vendor technical support. That sounds like a great idea in theory. You get ’round the clock support so no matter when a critical issue pops up, you’re covered.
There’s a dirty little secret that they don’t tell you about though. It doesn’t work.
As some people may know, I run shownotes.info. And as anyone who’s looked at the shownotes.info wiki has probably noticed, I have had some adsense ads up for a while. I have been getting frustrated recently though because the ads are just so non-contextual. I don’t expect to get rich of selling ads on web pages, but I do think that if the ads that got served were a bit more relevant I would have a higher CTR and probably make a few more bucks.
So recently I decided to apply for the Yahoo! Publisher advertising beta test. Basically this is Yahoo’s adsense-killer (or at least adsense competitior). I didn’t know what to expect but I figured anything was worth a shot. So I signed up and got accepted. Recently I added Yahoo! ads to the bottom banner in hopes of highly targeted spot-on contextual ads.
I noticed that Bank of America has a new program/promotion called Keep the Change. Basically how it works is that when you make a debit card purchase they round it up to the nearest dollar on the back end, and take the “change” and deposit it into your saving’s account. So reluctant savers are able to put away some cash without really trying.
Seems like a cool concept. Obviously not for the savvy international financeer, but I think useful for normal folks who need a little helping hand jumpstarting their piggy bank. Plus it’s always fun to see new consumer banking products. Way to go BofA.
Tags: Bank of America, Banking, Debit, Savings
I’ve updated my current reading link on the navigation area to reflect my actual current reading. I picked up Old Soldiers Never Die: : The Life and Legend of Douglas MacArthur
Well as probably was obvious from the last post I basically hit rock bottom, and bounced. But I’m clawing my way back now. Slowly but surely. No internet access from home for the time being, so that makes it hard to update this site regularly. I think I’m going to add a Paypal tip jar to the site for those who feel compelled to give me lots of money. 
