well, its very old article that helped me on several occasions and I needed it badly today, I am posting it for my readers, the credit goes to the actual Anonymous writer.

When things in your life seem almost too much to handle, when 24 hours in a day are not enough, remember the mayonnaise jar… and the coffee…

A professor stood before his philosophy class and had some items in front of him. When the class began, wordlessly, he picked up a very large and empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with golf balls. He then asked the students if the jar was full. They agreed that it was.

So the professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured them into the jar. He shook the jar lightly. The pebbles rolled into the open areas between the golf balls. He then asked the students again if the jar was full. They agreed it was.

The professor next picked up a box of sand and poured it into the jar. Of course, the sand filled up everything else. He asked once more if the jar was full. The students responded with a unanimous “yes.”

The professor then produced two cups of coffee from under the table and poured the entire contents into the jar, effectively filling the empty space between the sand. The students laughed.

“Now,” said the professor, as the laughter subsided, ” I want you to recognize that this jar represents your life. The golf balls are the important things-your God, family, your children, your health, your friends, and your favorite passions-things that if everything else was lost and only they remained, your life would still be full. The pebbles are the other things that matter like your job, your house, and your car. The sand is everything else-the small stuff.”

“If you put the sand into the jar first,” he continued, “there is no room for the pebbles or the golf balls. The same goes for life. If you spend all your time and energy on the small stuff, you will never have room for the things that are important to you. Pay attention to the things that are critical to your happiness. Play with your children. Take time to get medical checkups. Take your partner out to dinner. Play another 18. There will always be time to clean the house and fix the disposal. Take care of the golf balls first, the things that really matter. Set your priorities. The rest is just sand.”

One of the students raised her hand and inquired what the coffee represented.

The professor smiled. “I’m glad you asked. It just goes to show you that no matter how full your life may seem, there’s always room for a couple of cups of coffee with a friend.“

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Well, you know you can make a lot of money being an affiliate, but sometimes you need some quick cash for your projects or any other needs, so lets consider I need some quick cash for my children : lol, and I need it fast, I am already affiliated with Clickbank and have been promoting products there.  So lets do some sneaky tactics to get cash quickly..

Sometimes, since there are thousands of clickbank affiliates, if anyone likes your Ad / promotional information they will buy the product, but what they normally do is go and buy that product through their own affiliate link OR use their friend’s affiliate link, even if they first found that product through your website or your Ad, now thats what I hate most, been promoting a product and at the end someone else gets the affiliate commission. Ok, here comes the cookie stuffing rule

What you do is create a page for that specific product, and while linking to that product (clickbank link) dont use your hop link, this will make the person think that you are not even affiliated with clickbank. So now what we are doing it stuffing our cookie while the person is reading details, how ? The simple redirect cookie stuffing method with .htaccess Cool I can gurantee you will see a lot of increase in your commission. There is always risk involved in cookie stuffing, but I dont see any problems here since you are getting credit for putting the information and making a promotional page for that specific credit. So good luck !

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Well, let me start by saying the most people do not talk much about it STILL, because they don’t want you to be in the competition. Really.. that’s a fact, there are thousands of visitors you can get for free easily..

Ok, let me tell you one thing, if you use Google Adwords or any other PPC (pay per click) program, you have to pay to get targeted traffic, fine ! and then you will have to check whether or not your Ad is working, and if working you will have to take care of many things, like number of clicks, impression, title, ctr etc etc, and by that time you will loose a lot of money in just testing, I am not saying that it a bad idea to use PPC, but at the same time why should you use PPC ? when you can get a lot more traffic than you will get from PPC and emptying your wallet.

So, is this a REAL method to get FREE TRAFFIC and KILL THE PPC ? Yes ! But its not new, but its an automatic traffic machine system, its called Social or Buzz Marketing. Now, you will be thinking its an old news that utilize social bookmarking websites and get traffic, TRUST ME IT WORKS, and here are a few benefits of submitting your article/news to sites like digg.com, slashdot.org, propeller.com, netscape.com etc.

1. If your article / story is good enough you get a burst of thousands of visitors in a single day.
2. When you get visitors, you can make LIST (subscribers), Yes - a list can make you hundreds of thousands  of dollars in no time (I am saying this based on my personal experience)..
3. You get thousands of FREE BACKLINKS from blogs, forums and news websites and all the traffic is extremely targeted.

Now let me tell you a few quick tips, on how to get your story on the first page of these websites, even though it doesn’t get on the first page you still get a lot of backlinks and regular visitors from those pages, however lets try to get the best and be on the first page of these website, one must consider a few things in order to get his story to be talked about.. now while submitting a story you are given options like;

title of the story
short description of the story

These only options available at sites like digg can make a big difference, the most important thing is your story title, so you REALLY have to be very creative for writing one line story title for your story, if your is great but the title is not attractive you will fail and people will not visit your website, but even if your story sucks and you have a great title, you will get tons of traffic. Now see the example titles below and analyse which is effective and which is not

Title 1 : Make money online
Title 2 : 10 tips to make some serious cash
 
Now, depending on your niche, the current example  of title is of a very saturated niche, and we know that there are probably hundreds of thousands of articles and case studies on this topic, so lets try to divide it into some steps or tips in which every user will be excited ot see how only 10 tips can make someone serious money, now you have to think like if this was posted on Digg or any other website, will you click it ? if the answer isyes, then your title is perfect, if you think you will never click such an article, then try changing. Keep the same advice while writing short description, tell something the users and make them click to read the rest of the story, something unfinished, incomplete or may be the first best tip. Human mind doesn’t like incomplete things, test this yourself, consider you were watching a movie and it was a third class boring movie, and you have been waiting for 1 hour that there will be some twist in the movie and there wasn’t any until 1 hour, now trust me you will not just shot down the PC, you will certainly watch the movie till end LOL.. because you want to see the end even knowing that its a bullshit movie, so that hum psychology to complete the things, and this can be checked in many ways, so give description of this kind, its really very effective.

What about the website / Blog look and Feel ?

Now, I would give an honest advice here, and it worked for me back in 2002-2003 when I was testing many things online, the very important aspect is that do not put ads  on your website until you are getting some decent traffic. Why ? because Ads distract visitor’s attention and visitors click, its good because it makes us money, but when you have less traffic you will loose return visitors, the first focus should be your list of subscribers, the return visitors and the quality content, once you are setup with that you can monetize your blog, website like hell, when people are used to coming back to your website then you find yourself sitting on a goldmine, and it works ver well then, but in the start do not put a lot of ads on your website, less is good to start with.

As far as the article, keep it concise, read it twice (I personally don’t read and there are tons of grammatical and spelling errors sometimes in my posts, so my apologies for saying something that I personally have not adopted yet : lol), if possible split your article into points or bullets, use images in your articles; these are most effective, while talking about images since I have been doing freelance job for more than 8 years now,  I can tell that the human images work most rather than always putting some high quality 3D graphics, a simple girl or a business women image works best. Articles / news of a negative perspective work the best, lol, yeah, I personally have searched a couple of time on Google for Britney Spears exposed, Paris Hilton in Jail, Pamela Anderson Divorced again, lol, you should concentrate on getting backlinks and traffic, and just don’t care about anything else, keep in mind that backilnks = traffic = money

Good luck with your strategy and feel free to add your tips in this article.

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Blackhatters use different techniques to spam the world, do you hate spam ? Yeah I do, because I get a lot of spam emails lately, and everyday my junk mails about 400-600 emails, the problem is that I still have to go through junk mail folder since most of the times I have important emails in junk folder. But there is no way to stop spammers, oh GOD save us from spam, heh..

Anyways, search engines are always good source of information, right ? and we can also get the most active and recently added emails on the web for FREE ! oh, please don’t spam !…

Ok, its 7th May today, so we will be searching for the most recent submitted emails in Google, Yahoo, AOL and any other site you can think of, gather a list and send them your CPA offers, Gosh ! don’t ever think to spam the world, you will get yourself in trouble, want to take risk ? lets find emails..

Lets go to google and search for this month’s email addresses, here is what you will search in google, for searching email addresses.

@hotmail.com “2008-05-08″
@yahoo.com “2008-05-08″
@aol.com “2008-05-08″

You can always set the number of pages for google to display by adding &num=100 at the end of your url. You can also modify the date format for more accurate results and add keyword as well. Now think like an evil and use your mind to make more efficient searches. I personally noticed that Yahoo.com gives more results, so check that as well. By the way to find more specific buyers and sellers, you can always query the same thing excluding date at Alibaba, Amazon and eBay. You can use any email harvesters that allow you to write harvesting rules, and save all these emails, becuase it would be waste of time by copying and pasting all those email addresses from result pages.

Final words : Please don’t spam as we all hate spammers and 99% of the times your emails get deleted and no one ever reads it.

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2checkout is implementing new currency solution for vendors all over the world. I have been with them for more than 6 years now, and now they are giving FREE vendors account that usually costs $50. Here is the text from their blog

As an incentive for you to try it out, we will refund the signup fee for anyone who chooses to pay for their signup using a Visa or MasterCard and a currency other than US Dollars!

Please note, if your credit card is not based in the currency you select, your card issuing bank may credit you with a slightly different amount than you were originally charged due to fluctuating exchange rates or bank policy.

This incentive program will be run from 10am-10pm EST on Tuesday, May 6 and all currency signups placed within that timeframe will be refunded within the following 5 business days.

 You can read more details on their blog post.

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