Contents

1. Introduction
2. Fr33bies
3. Marketing and Tech Tips
4. Business Programs
5. Paid Email/Survey/Surf
6. Guest Article

Introduction

A big welcome to all new subscribers. I hope you enjoy my home business tips and feedback.

I thought I wouldn't get much done this month, with school holidays, but all it takes is a bug. The kids and I all got a tummy bug one after each other, and ended up spending a week at home. Thank goodness for PCs.....

Fr33bies

Have you ever downloaded a font? My headings were looking a little boring, so I thought I'd look for some free fonts. I checked out 1001 Free Fonts. It was surprisingly easy. I downloaded a bunch of zip files, unzipped them, went to the Fonts in my Control Panel in Windows XP, and selected Add New Font. And sure enough, Photoshop and OpenOffice happily picked up the new fonts. Of course, if you want to use them on your website, you would need to save them as an image, because otherwise the recipient will not see the font unless they also have it defined to their PC. But they're great for printing.

I also had fun downloading a free game to put on a new website. I'm creating a new dogs site, Dogs Only because it's a highly searched for subject, according to Wordtracker. Miniclip.com had a cute daggy-dating game. If I get really good with Javascript, or somehow manage to buy Macromedia Flash, I will create my own dog game. One day. But Miniclip has heaps of free games for you to put on your site.

Marketing and Tech Tips

A detailed newsletter from Phil Wiley, so long it deserves it's own page here

Business Programs

SmartWebMarketer is now officially updated and launched as of 22 April. I had another look at all the downloads included - html editors, ebooks with resell rights, fantastic tools. I'm advertising this one in startpages, so will give feedback on that after a month.

KioskLeads is now into its third month, although I have only let one month through the provided autoresponder messages. Given the purpose for which it was designed - to build a clean mailing list - it does function well. I now have a list of over 400 subscribers from that initial mailout, each of whom have been given multiple opportunities to unsubscribe. Now I will send a copy of this newsletter each month, to see if they like my other opportunities.

SFI has announced two new Veriuni products for weight loss, capitalising on the health and wellness industry. These are high-protein products, which I never really understood before. But as my husband has recently joined a gym, where the trainer told him to take protein immediately after exercising to avoid using up muscle tone, and having seen the VERY impressive results in his muscles, now I think I understand what the fuss is about. It can make a significant visible difference.

Paid Email/Survey/Surf

I updated A Get Paid Site this week, to make it a little brighter - just like this one, hehe - and to convert it from using tables to CSS. Seriously, check out the colours - they're fun.

I also went through and double-checked all the links, to make sure they were valid. I downgraded a few GPTRE programs, added the new MJV5000 Search program Search Incentive, and checked out my banner programs. Search-Incentive is a ground-breaking new concept in search engines, where you the searcher, earns the money for searching, instead of the affiliate. Then you can redeem your earnings when you actually go shopping as a discount.

AdOptimal was looking well, with half my earnings from downline referrals. I think I'll change to the pop-up option for internal pages on my site, to increase the earning rate.

FastAdvert gave me an initial shock. When I finally checked my balance, it said I had earnt over $300. So I looked on the site to see how I was to get paid. Amazingly all the contact email addresses bounced. So I checked betterwhois.com to see who it was registered with. Rubbish names and addresses. It is kind of embarrassing. ANother thing to check when joining a program.

CompactBanner had a much better reputation, so I will submit my site for approval with them. At least people are getting paid regularly there, for displays of banners, regardless of whether an individual banner is clicked on.

BannerBoxes is also new, but a pay-per-click, as distinct from a pay-per-banner-display program. But at least it has a low $2 minimum payout, so should be quick to work out if it is a good program or not.

And I couldn't resist it any longer - I joined MistyandSamsCash Everybod seems to be raving about how quickly they pay people, so let's jump on the bandwagon.