Friday, 29 February 2008

Make Money With SponsoredReviews.com

One of the ways that I've been making some extra money online is through SponsoredReviews.com as site that basically pays you to write a blog post about a certain product or other site of your choosing.

Pay ranges from US$5 to US$100 per post and this will mostly depend on how valuable your blog is (calculated by Google Ranking and other factors) and how much you choose to charge for posts on your blog.

This blog isn't high traffic by any means with the average number of unique visitors daily being around the 15-30 mark yet I've still made over US$160 in the short time I've been a member.

If you have a blog I highly recommend signing up for SponsoredReviews. Great service, fast payments (through PayPal too!) and very flexible.

Give it a go!

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Labels: blog, internet, make money

Wednesday, 14 November 2007

A New Look Phase 1

As you can probably tell, my blog is going through a few big changes right now. That's right! After years (literally) of talking about a new layout I'm finally doing it!

What you see now is kind of a rough draft of what the finished layout will look like. Things will be where you see them but the colours will all change as will several other things.

A word of warning, several of the links on the menus on the right are broken right now but don't worry, I'll have them fixed soon enough!

Besides working on this layout, I've been really busy with my Japanese study! Almost all of my free time has been devoted to Kanji and now more advanced conversation study. The thing is though that I'm really liking it!

I'm flying through the Kanji thanks to this book and the full Japanese Teach Yourself book is everything I'd hoped it would be.

I'll pass Level 2, easy!

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Labels: blog, Japanese

Friday, 10 August 2007

Blogging for Money is EASY!

Just read THIS POST over at Kumiko's and can't agree more. So many bloggers bitch and bitch about how hard blogging is when basically all it is is writing about whatever you want while your site brings in the money.

Recently I've been lucky enough to be getting quite a few offers from companies to write about their sites and services on my blogs and it's been great! I'm nowhere near quitting my day job but it's a start. My Adsense on several of my sites has really taken off as well and I think I'll meet my New Years Resolution by the end of the year quite easily at the rate I'm going.

Sure it takes time and effort, but it's something I enjoy and a hell of a lot easier than a "real" job. I think that's why everyone is trying to make money online in the first place, it's easy.

Anyway, speaking of my New Years Resolution, let's see how I'm going 8 months in:

Get to a conversational level in Japanese. Umm... am getting there! A lot better than this time last year. Really need to dig my heels in.

Work out at the gym six days a week. Well I don't have a gym membership at all now as I've been happy with daily Yoga in the comfort of my own home. However am thinking of picking up capoeria.

Make Yoga Today a part of my daily regime. Done!!! Sure I've missed a day or two but I've been pretty good with this and my body really feels the difference!

Work to live. Don't live to work. Working less now which is good. Am getting there.

Get my sites to a point where I can make at least US$300 a month (currently in the US$45 range) via GoogleAdsense, Revver, EmailCash.com.au and other programs. US$1000 a month would be dandy but I think US$300 is a bit more realistic. Well I'm now at about US$60 a month and it's rising monthly! Am feeling pretty good about this one!

Relax more. A lot better than I was in January. Am getting there. Work in progress.

Not bad at all!

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Labels: blog, internet, new year, Yoga Today

Wednesday, 25 April 2007

Is it offensive... or does the truth just hurt?

I began thinking this morning about my previous post about infidelity in Japan and what I would think if I were Japanese reading it. I would probably assume that the writer was racist or had an anti Japanese view on the subject matter and probably hasn't lived in the country very long. But if a Japanese person wrote the article, I bet I wouldn't have a problem.

It's weird that works. It's like someone bringing up the obesity level in Australia. When a non Australian says it it sounds like a jab at the country but if I said it (being Australian) it would be an intelligent conversation starter about social problems (seriously I swear Australians are getting fatter every time I go back and it's not due to me being surrounded by skinny Japanese people. A fair share of Japanese people are overweight. Almost every businessman on the Tokyo Metro is unfit and sleep deprived.)

If I was in Australia I would be blogging about becoming a republic, obesity, diabetes, AIDS, gay marriage, racism and the Stolen Generation but I'm not. I'm in Japan and this country has it's fair share of problems that affects the lives of people living here.

Since being in Japan, I've become so politically minded (who'd have thought!) that serious (even though they come across as negative sometimes) issues really interest me.

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Labels: blog, japan, Japanese Social Issues

Wednesday, 7 February 2007

I've Been Interviewed!

Kumiko over at BlogInterview was kind enough to interview me about my blog, it's past, it's future and everything in between!

Click here to read the interview.

Thanks Kumiko!

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Labels: blog, I'm Famous

Saturday, 20 January 2007

Who Am I?

I just remembered that my archives (bottom of the page)were broken so I went and fixed them all. Now you can go back and explore my whole time in Japan and the countdown to me coming here!

I can't believe how fast these last few years have gone. Seriously. Come March, I'll be starting my fourth year in Japan! Gah!

It's interesting how much I've changed. I was talking to Lisa yesterday at work and we were saying how even though we were open minded back in Australia, being in Japan has made us so much more aware of certain issues such as racism, sexual equality and education.

A good example is how the general population in Australia thinks it's acceptable to put down American and America as if it's our God given right. Hell, I think most Australians (including myself a few years back) used to enjoy the odd American joke.

Part of this is due to several factors but the main one being that not that many Americans make their way to Australia. Some for holidays but definitly not to live.

But after being in Japan and working and even become friends with some kick arse guys and gals from the states I realised what a racist prick I had been and can seriously see myself now back in Sydney and defending Americans next time one of those jokes is thrown around at a party.

Having said that though, George Bush is still a tool.

I've also become more proactive in social issues, having seen first hand a society were only 2% seem to stand up for themselves and refuse to discuss important issues like safe sex, STDs, rape, national politics and religion out of "politeness".

Before coming to Japan I would be the last person to watch the news, let alone international news but after being exposed to the Japanese government's utter stupidity when dealing with the Yasakuni Shrine and their complete denial of the Rape on Nanking I find myself actually bringing several issues up and even starting conversations about these issues whether anyone is interested or not.

Who am I now? I guess I'm still growing.

I know it's a cliché, but it's true what they say. You don't stop growing when you grow up.

Labels: blog, japan, Japanese, Japanese Social Issues, Rape of Nanking, Yasakuni Shrine

Saturday, 6 January 2007

WTF!

While my blog only gets a few hits a month, apparently it's taking up 18 GIGS of traffic! Yeah, right! So my guess is people are linking to the RadioBlog files or my movie clips so I took them both down and deleted the files from the server. Sorry if you miss them.

New layout coming this week anyway.

Labels: blog

Tuesday, 2 January 2007

Happy New Year

Was finally motivated to blog something after watching the season finale of Torchwood (it's an anagram of Doctor Who! Who knew?) and then reading the latest entry at Hoshi's blog.

Anyway, Christmas was great! I threw a pot luck Christmas lunch at my place and was blessed with the presence of Masato, Finn and his brother Beau (who we thought was called Paul), Callie and Nickie and we kind of spent the whole day and night and Boxing Day drinking and watching Christmas cartoons (I never get tired of watching the Smurfs battle Satan with singing).

Will post photos soon.

I slept in until 4pm yesterday to recover from an all night Tokyo New Years celebration which I won't forget anytime soon.
What was really wierd was how there was noone was in Tokyo! There were no crowds at all! Everyone in Japan goes to visit their family for New Years and since no families appear to be from Tokyo 90% of the population up and left!

So we started the night out at the Ruby Room in Shibuya but after being bored but the atmosphere and deafened by a sound system that was turned up way too high for it's own good we swung by some conbini's and then headed for Arty Farty in Shinjuku and managed to find it literally minutes before the countdown started!

Lots of drinking, lots of dancing and lots of things that I don't want my family to find out about. ;)

Hope everyone else had as much fun as I did ringing in the new year.

Have a good one.

Labels: blog, christmas, clubbing, new year