An Effective Business Using Banner Ads

I am an affiliate of a large and successfully growing business. The company is BannersBroker ("BB"), a private Canadian advertising company brokering internet banner advertising, now available through offices around the world for people with internet access and a will to learn, or to be mentored.

BB is NOT an investment or passive income program.

I have decided to hold off until after the anniversary of my first spend (April) to withdraw profits, which are enormous.

What's my experience? In a word - EXCELLENT.
I understand banner advertising better than a year ago. Also, My knowledge of several other areas of internet marketing and advertising have dramatically improved. Finally, the financial rewards are really good.

I am in daily contact with a forum of 6,000 other affiliates and learn of issues as they occur and advice from those with the knowledge. There are now some 400,000 affiliates (individuals and companies) who bought packages of panels at a cost from under $100 to many thousands of dollars to start. BB wants to increase affiliate numbers to 1 million in 2013.

For a simplified explanation of banner advertising, go to: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vG0FwlKTS0    

To see the company website and opportunity, and to sign up, go to bannersbroker.com/seletar

The value of BB's website alone is assessed at around $1.5 billion by W3snoop, a website monitoring service.  The BB website Alexa rank was 426 when I last checked, which denotes a very busy website.

Unfortunately busy websites attract what we call "trolls", who, rather than try honest methods to sell their wares through honest methods, try to engorge their own website statistics using already-popular websites and linking the primary business name to a word such as "scam" to get eyes on their own offerings and ads. BB has unfortunately attracted a number of these and is taking action against them, but it's an unenviable task due to the anonymous nature of the internet.

For a run-through of the official business intro:  www.youtube.com/watch?v=Av7uQNUSFc       

If you try it but decide that BB is not for you in the first month, there is a money-back guarantee.

BB complies with international anti-money-laundering, and anti-terrorism requirements, and there are "know your customer" requirements to provide identification. BB needs simple proof of address and a copy of government ID to be scanned and sent in. Compliance with laws around the world causes disclosure limitations. No hype! So what I'm saying here may not sound exciting. So investigate this opportunity.

There is a lot of information to see, but don't get overwhelmed, things become much clearer as you get more deeply involved. Also, I am here to help and mentor you. Don't hesitate to ask questions.

Pay Per Call

Pay Per Call has interested me for some time. What is it? It's phone call advertising:

An affiliate tells a potential customer about certain goods or services being offered by a provider and gives a (usually) toll-free number for the potential customer to call for more information. If the phone call achieves the stated goals of the advertiser, then the affiliate is paid a fee.
So, an advertiser is paying for the inbound call and an affiliate is getting paid to generate it.

The affiliate needs to make sure that they are generating a quality phone call - a big thing for advertisers.

With quality calls, the advertiser not only will want to continue working with an affiliate, but may actually increase payouts. In fact, they will actively facilitate the affiliate in delivering more calls.

I'll talk further about PPC in future blog posts.

Tweet of the Day: How AirPlay Is Apple’s Little Thing to Make a Big Difference

When we’re constantly barraged with new computers, smartphones and tablets, it’s hard to take the time to appreciate small details that have a lot of significance. Take AirPlay, for example: a feature integrated into Apple’s iOS devices to wirelessly stream content to the new Apple TV.

That feature has the potential to be killer, even at its most practical level, my friend Arnold Kim of MacRumors.com points out in today’s Tweet of the Day: “didn’t really occur to me before, but instantly streaming iphone 4 captured vids to appletv via AirPlay is a pretty killer feature.”

Think about it: You shoot some video of your kids running around in Disneyland, and when other relatives visit you whip out your iPhone, tap “AirPlay” and boom — that video is streaming to your Apple TV and playing on the big screen.  (You can do the same with a photo slideshow, or some new music you just bought off iTunes).

Sharing personal media isn’t normally so seamless: You usually have to attach a cord and copy a file onto a drive, or at least yank out a photo card and stick it into a reader to undergo some sort of uploading process. Streaming is instant.

Here at Wired.com we’ve pondered about the big-picture potential for the Apple TV to be a real game changer thanks to iOS and AirPlay. If third-party apps such as Hulu, Netflix or ABC Player are able to incorporate AirPlay to wireless stream online video content to a TV without requiring a mess of cords or extra accessories, then Apple TV might finally be a smashing hit. Turning the iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad into a multimedia remote was a clever move that effectively turns Apple TV into a media ecosystem built around iOS mobile devices. Wired.com chief Evan Hansen thinks this strategy will disrupt the cable industry.

But as marvelous as that all sounds, building up a major alternative to the traditional cable TV subscription is going to take a great deal of time, even for Apple. In the nearer future, when the Apple TV ships in the next week or two, the hassle-free convenience of being able to share your personal media with a tap of a button should be extremely compelling for gadget lovers.

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The Six-Foot-Tall Sixty-Second History of the Microwave Oven

My childhood was remarkably low-tech for an American kid growing up in the 1980s. I didn’t have cable TV or a computer until I went to college (1997), and didn’t play video games outside of an arcade until we got a NES in 1990. So I always thought microwave ovens came into existence in 1988, when my family got one. In fact, they’d already been in commercial production for more than 40 years.

Stacy Conradt at Mental Floss gives an appropriately accelerated history of what she calls “the Not-so-microwave“:

The first oven intended for commercial sale in 1947 was almost six feet tall, tipped the scale at 750 pounds and cost $5,000 in 1947 dollars. The second version, produced in 1954, was better but still needed work: it gobbled electricity and cost $2,000– $3,000, at a time when the average cost of a new car was about $1,700… Regular households didn’t care much about microwaves until 1967, when a relatively low-energy model costing just $500 came out.

You ever wonder how microwave ovens work? It’s just slightly more complicated than this, but basically microwaves (which are like radio waves, but with a frequency closer to the infrared spectrum) pass over food, creating a weak alternating electromagnetic field. Water molecules — which are basically in everything we eat — also have a weak electromagnetic charge, and they all realign themselves to match the polarity of the microwave radiation — kind of like passing a household magnet over a pile of iron filings. When the water molecules move, the temperature raises (because molecular motion is all temperature is). Get those molecules moving fast enough and long enough, and baby, you’ve got a stew going.*

*I know, it’s the second time I’ve used this Arrested Development reference in as many weeks. It just feels right.

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Sigma SD1 Crams 46 Million Pixels onto Crop-Frame Chip

Sigma’s new flagship SD1 SLR stands out from the flood of camera announcements at the Photokina show. Why? It is a monster, a crop-sensor camera with 46 megapixels crammed onto its imaging chip.

The trick here is that the sensor uses Sigma’s Foveon tech. This stacks red, green and blue-sensitive pixels on top of each other, allowing accurate color-capture at each pixel-site. Compare this with conventional sensors which pull color information from adjoining pixels and averaging it to work out the actual colors. Sigma’s method should give better color accuracy and sharper images.

Because of this stacking, though, Sigma’s pixel-counts are effectively one third of the claimed figure if you count actual dots on the photos. In the past, this has made Sigma’s specs look rather pathetic, with the claimed 15MP of its SD15 coming closer to 5MP. With this new 46MP behemoth Sigma is saying a big “screw you” to everyone else. Even 15MP sensor is great these days.

Elsewhere, the specs are fairly pedestrian. There are just 11 autofocus points and the 3-inch LCD has only 460,000 dots compared the the 900,000 found in any other flagship camera (including compacts). This is a pre-release, so many of the numbers are not yet available. Just what will the maximum ISO be, for example, or the price?

I’m pretty excited about getting my hands on one, though. If this thing has the ISO part licked, then those could be some sweet, sweet images it pumps out.

SD1 product page [Sigma. Warning: Flash]

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Future of Reading’s Present Filled With Smart Concept Videos

With the success of the Kindle, Nook, Sony readers, and tablets like the iPad, it seems like electronic books have finally arrived. But I think we’re actually still stuck in between two developmental phases on the way to the future.

For a long time, work on interactive books was about building either theory or prototypes. People talked about what multimedia reading might or could or should look like, and they built what were mostly one-off or low-volume projects using CD-ROMs, software applications, or the web.

Now, though, the theory and the prototypes have blended: even when designers and programmers don’t have the resources to put their ideas into production, they have the visual tools (and we have the device literacy) to make concept videos that explain clearly what we think/hope the future of reading will look like.

Here are three examples. The first (which you may have already seen) is from Microsoft, demonstrating its aborted Courier tablet project:

The second, which I think is very smartly done, is from the design consultancy firm IDEO. It details three concepts: “Nelson,” a reading application that incorporates commentary on and context for the primary text; “Coupland,” a reader with a built-in social- and sharing-network; and “Alice,” an interactive/participatory reading/gaming app where readers can “unlock” elements of a story by manipulating the device or traveling to geotagged places.

This third concept video, from Canadian new-media-publishing firm PadWorx, is for an interactive electronic version of Bram Stoker’s Dracula scheduled to ship this fall:

The breadth of approaches reflects the difference in backgrounds. There are relatively few people currently working in this space with a long history of working on interactive fiction. E-books — even future-concept e-books — assembled by traditional publishers or booksellers tend to look like a traditional publisher’s or bookseller’s idea of what a book ought to look like. Microsoft casts a wide net, but it’s fundamentally a computer software company; IDEO has futurists who work in design and advertising; PadWorx’s e-book is assembled by makers with a background in film, animation, and video game design, and it shows.

For another view of an actual (not projected/conceptual) application — one perhaps driven slightly more by a mobile app designer’s experience — look again at Stephen Fry’s wonderful, autobiographical myFry app:

I don’t think anyone knows exactly what the future of reading will look like. But I think we may finally have a handle on how we might try to see and explain it before it finally arrives.

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Volkswagen Plants Audio Ad in Print Newspaper

Readers of The Times of India heard an audio advertisement when they unfolded the print edition of the newspaper this morning. (You read that right.)

Volkswagen paid the publication to fit an audio chip inside the pages (above) that plays in an endless loop until you close the paper, according to tech blog Digital Inspiration. For power, the chip appears to incorporate a photodiode, a photo detector that converts light into current or voltage. That’s pretty clever.

Not a believer? Check out the video below showing the audio ad in action.

It’s clearly a publicity stunt on VW’s part, and it seems kind of creepy, but most readers are reacting positively to the ad on Twitter. And we’re sure The Times is enjoying the extra cash from the eccentric ad, like any print publication would these days.

“One of those rare days when ppl in #mumbai will buy times of india to see (also hear) the Volkswagen advertisement and not for news,” tweeted Moulin Parikh.

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I've tried Twitter for a month now. I'm not impressed - too many people making ridiculous posts that mask out the really interesting ones.

But I just heard about something that I think will completely revolutionize they way we communicate online.

If you have not seen this yet, you are in for a pleasant surprise!

It is a a service that looks like a rich piece of client software; sophisticated threaded e-mail;acts like IM when multiple collaborators are online at once; real-time collaborative tool; supports revision marking and versioning for workgroup editing; instant photo sharing built in; allows its functionality to be embedded into blogs and social networks; revolutionary spell checker;
supports iPhone; open-source project that lets developers write both Wave extensions … and their own servers.

Check out this (long) video here:

http://wave.google.com

Financial Rescue Using Improved MLM Model

An old internet friend of mine recently e-mailed me about something he had just found and was extremely excited about. He and I have been through a number of bad times together and have managed to survive and even thrive. So I thought I'd take a look.

Initially it was a number of videos, obviously made using a church as the setting and complete with some pastors talking about how they're using MLM to revive the economic fortunes of their flock.

Well, I have been in a number of MLM programs and found it difficult to recruit the numbers of people to join my downline AND purchase sufficient product(s) to even pay my monthly dues.

I was very interested in the model used by these churchpeople, though. They have set up their system to allow a person to join them and introduce their friends - just 2 would do. On completing that part, the new member helps their two people to get 2 people. The member is offered a position in one of several products and sets up to receive a monthly autoship.

The church then places two people under the member and they in set up an autoship. What happens next is the interesting part...

The money starts coming in - not a fortune, mind you. But within a month or two, the weekly income certainly can mount up.

Now, I don't want to hype up the possibilities. Perhaps the best thing is for you to do is go take a look for yourself:

http://www.bring2help2.com/opl/operationpromisedland/id/index.php?ref=salamandar