Where Does My Money Go? Simple Tips To Stop Being An Energy-Hog

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My first encounter with the energy hog was when I received a electric bill, one year ago.

I really was shocked when I seen a $812 bill.

I was thinking to make a drastic thing. I was consider downgrading my cell phone.  Yes, I was thinking to get rid of my Samsung phone, and just keep my Nokia with me. Yes, fortunatly I own two cell phones.

However, being a big saver and having some money on my pocket I managed to avoid facing problem.

The chart below(energystar.gov) is a breakdown of the average American home’s energy consumption. The annual energy bill for a typical single home is approximately $2,200.

Heating and Cooling – 46%

Heating and cooling put togheter consumes half of your home’s electric bill, almost $85 per month, if we consider that the average American family spends $2200 on electricity per year.

If you want to save money on heating and cooling costs I’ll suggest to following these simple tips:

Check up your A/C – When it comes to improve the efficiency of your heating and cooling system, first and foremost you have to upgrade your old central air-conditioning. Modern central air conditioners can work at a range of speeds and consume far less electricity.

Install a programmable thermostat - There are a range of options to choose from, from ultra-cheap ones to a bit more expensive. After reading a few “How-to” articles online I found some great tips that helped me take the  next step, I summoned the courage to check out a few models of thermostats.

Water Heating – 14% (about $26 per month)

Amount of hot water is used at home, in particular for showering, washing dishes, and getting dirt and grime out of your clothes.

We all know that solar heaters harness heat energy from the sun, and use this energy to warm enough water for your home.

Also, numerous tax incentives exist to help families pay(some expire at the end of this year) solar panels and solar water heaters that drastically bring down the cost of energy to your home.

For more Energy Home Tips I’ll suggest to follow this interesting video created by Tom Kraeutler for ENERGY STAR.

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What’s Your Spending Personalities?

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“If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher’s stone. ~ Benjamin Franklin”

Recently I throught about the difference in spending styles between myself and my friend and things we preferred to spend money on. So, I throught to write an article on this topic in particular and make a classifications of some ways of defining ours particular spending style.

Leave a comment below and tell me how your spending style are.

Realistic spender – Anyone aspires to this spending style, certainly is aware and realistic about their income vs. expenses. I reccomend to constantly ask yourself, “Do I really NEED this?” before spending your funds. For instance “Do I Really Need An IPad?” when I already have an notebook. If the money runs low, don’t spend money you don’t have.

Incentive spender – This people like save money. In this case spending is often motivated by good deals, special offers and promotions, and low prices. However, they don’t become an incentive spender  just because there’s a good deal. Often when their finances force them to get rid of their debt or save for retirement/emergencies they become an incentive buyer.

Posessive spender- This stage comes after obsessive and spending a lot of money become normal for people, but they don’t realize that have more credit card debt, than available closet space.

Creative spender – There’s something to be said about more creative ways to finance your life. For instance, if you have exceptional bartering skills, you can make a good living for long time.  If you have something that people want, swapping goods is an creative way to get resources. You no need money if you have inventive.

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Image Credit: Omri Suissa

Obsessive spender – This type of person once in the stores feel compelled to buy. It’s just like an hobby for them, not a necessity. Of course, a very expensive hobby because the obsessive spender once in the stores have need to spend money again and again. It be like an addiction for them.

Impulsive spender – Many people go to a store are driven by impulse. They do not set a list, just they buy because have need for instant gratification. However, the lack of impulse control bring to make unnecessary purchases and let you lose money for nothing.

Passive spender – These people don’t like shopping and hate spending money. Usually they don’t have time and are lazy people. They choose to pay more only for convenience, for instance for prepared food than cooking.

Impressive spender – People in this stage buy the lates gadget as soon as possible and for them a luxury brand is an indication of quality.

Final Consideration

When it comes to necessity spending, I probably fall into Incentive and also Impulsive. I like getting a good deal on anything I purchase, which is very good for saving money. However, often when I find a great deal, I can instantly become an impulsive.

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How Do You Keep Motivated To Write?

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I often receive questions that help my readers to clarify my goals, but one of these in particular I found on my contact form was:

Hi Nicola,

you write from several years…..Where does your motivation come from?

Well, actually I have been blogging since 2006, and I started with the3dtechnologies.com, which currently is my main blog about marketing, affiliate marketing make money online and save money online. Before to switch to WordPress I starting to build it by using HTML language(and I can attest, it was very hard…).

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Since then I wrote over 1000 posts here, hehe a lot, almost every day. So how do I keep my motivation to writing to my blog? Well, I can say that with all the motivational factors mentioned below, I don’t have days when I just don’t feel like writing.

First comes the comments I get every day and feedback via emails is very stimulating. Second I like my job and I’ve interest to the topics I write about. Any aspect of marketing, money, affiliate programs, fascinate me too. Third things help me a lot is the money. Adsense, affiliate programs lets me to work at home. It also helped to plan new projects over the years.  Latest but not least, I stay motivated with my blog when I build a community around it.

All these point get something back from my efforts and let me do mine home work even on the days I don’t feel like it. If I do not have these help, most probably I would not be as motivated.

So, how do you keep motivate to write?

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How Fran Kerr Make Money With Her Acne Profitable Blog

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Since I’ve promised to do most reviews on many case study of successful bloggers, today I want to mention about the story of Fran Kerr who is behind HighOnHealth.org.

I discovered Fran because I’m an appassionate of health products due my two sites natural-supplements-tips.com and quality-natural-supplements.com.

As I  was reading about Fran successful story I was impressed as succeeded to turn her blog into a make money machine, so I just throught to follow her advices and open another blog about acne called ideasforyourhealth.com. Actually, as you may notice there still no article but I hope to start write soon as I installed my Frugal theme.

This post will do know more about Fran’s story, how she created her blog about health  from scratch and make money by it as well.

WHo Is Brief Fran

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Fran is a brillant girl which was able to choose a niche very profitable. She has a popular health blog with over 15.000 people where writes articles about acne, launch cool videos, and make money through affiliate marketing and other type of revenue.

She also has an e-commerce store where sell physical products, a membership site, and two ebook that sell. Also, she has a YouTube channel which help her to attract new visitors to her site.

This video is an example where Fran show a few awesome products that I found in NY health food stores…

Before start this new adventure, Fran’s had a very bad web development business. She has started up a web development business but she didn’t work too much and she just managed to scrape by.

According to the interview released to Yaro’s blog she already had a little experience with natural health. First at all, she studied holistic counseling and nutritional medicine at college in Brisbane, but just for interest not for making a carrer.

When she start her blog was just like an hobby, she never throught to have a great success as it was instead.

Fran was a member of Yaro and has followed his systems before to become so famous. She is become an expert and started his own menthor program. His a case where having a coach and mentor really made a difference (Fran was her first private coaching client).

What really differentiate a successful blogger like Fran’s from another out there, is the passion, constancy and effort who put into her blog.

On her blog Frans explore any aspect of his topic and try to find solutions necessary that could help people with problem about acne. That’s the reason many people follow her.

Make Money With An Health Blog

When it comes to make money with an health blog, Fran is surely the best in such subject where to take inspiration. Today she earn from $4000 to $12000 per month through her blog, and the most appealing side is that she’s making something she loves.

In a nutshell, Fran earn through three me

1. Affiliate marketing – Primarily Fran earn through affiliate marketing, by using the content as mean to promote affiliate offers about her niche site.

2. Direct advertising – The second method she use to make money is through direct advertisising. She has an area on the right sidebar that she use to sell space on her blog and place ad banner 125×125.

3. Book – She sell two ebook, one called How To Clear Acne Scars and the other Eat Away Your Acne. Also she make a special discount if you purchase both.

4. Acne Cure Coaching With Fran - Fran also earn by offering personalized acne cure coaching tailored specifically to people needs. She be answering all of people questions and co-creating a treatment plan to cure the acne.
If you have any question feel free to ask.

To Our Success,

Nicola Deiana

Affiliate Marketer

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Job Opportunities, How To Get More Freelance Work

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If you are looking to find new business opportunity to make money online or you’ve your own business and you want to increasing your traffic, or you’re already done it but without success, today I want to highlight a new online business model and money making opportunity.

Recently I discovered a new web based service called WebeServe that surely could help you in the situations I’ve mentioned above. Indeed isn’t new like service, but is the first time I’ve mentioned it on my site.

What Is WebeServe?

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In a nutchell, it is a freelance marketplace focusing only on the Internet marketing niche that has been developed to help you find employer opportunity and increase visibility to your business as well.

When you register to WebeServe you have two option to choose: You can sign up like service provider and become an worker to get money or as Advertiser and get link and increase your site traffic.

If you already started an business online with a revenue-generating site, surely you are looking to promote your site for maximum exposure to make the most out of the Internet, then WebeServe is right for you.

However, if you are looking to make money online they also employ writers(service providers) as well.

Sign up For Free Like Service Provider And Make Money With WebeServe

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WebeServe allows to find employment opportunities by completing every task WebeServe give you.

People who are expert in different online marketing works such as article creation and distribution, social media marketing, video marketing, forum marketing, link building, and much more, can do use of WebeServe.

Once you have created your account, you can start browsing for the jobs(with a price) that you wish.

If you like the price, and like the job you can start working. Once you have successfully completed the job and the advertiser is satisfied with your work, then you will receive earns to your account. You can request for payment when your earning reaches the minimum payout of $20.

The following video will go into detail on how obtain a job with WebeServe

Sign up Like Advertisers And Get Traffic To Your Business

As I said before, WebeServe also provides an advertisers program, where they are able to help you to market your business and increase visibility to it too.

To start promoting your business with WebeServe all you need to do is:

  1. Start A Marketing Campaign - If you create an advertiser account to promote your business, you can specify clearly what marketing works you want to outsource for promoting your business and website, as tell them the price you wish to pay for each service as well.
  2. Worker Will Make The Job For You - Once you have created your project, a freelancer is ready to complete your work. You’ve not one person to complete the works on your project, but several people assigned to help you out. So, your works will be done very quickly.
  3. Pay only service is done - The best thing of this service is that you pay only when your project is completed. At the completion of your project, your online business will be benefited. More exposure and traffic for you business which will increase your income.

Make Money With WebeServe Affiliate Programs

Webeserve provides two great affiliate programs who are different for the two type of services they have:

1. Earn money by refering a service provider - When you refer a service provider to WebeServe you will be paid 50% commission on their first task.

For Example: Let’s say you refer a service provider who completes an article writing task of $10 dollars, when the article is approved you will receive $5 dollars from this task. Just imagine if you could refer 100 service providers and every one of them completes a $10 dollar task! You would make a total of $500 dollars!

2. Earn Money when refering an advertiser – You will receive 50% of what WebeServe makes from advertiser payments.

For Example: If an advertiser deposits $100 dollars and WebeServe makes a profit of $15 dollars, you will make $7.5 dollars.

Join To WebeServe

If you have any question feel free to ask

To Our Success,

Nicola

Affiliate Marketer

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Flattr Opens To The Public, And You Can ‘Like’ A Site With Real Money

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Flattr, the micropayment startup founded by ex-Pirate Bay associates, has opened to the public today.

Through Flattr’s micropayments business model users can “Flattr” content by setting up a monthly fee(minimum €2) to contribute for any kind of online content. If an user like something that has a Flattr button, they can click the button to “reward” the content provider.

Each month, the earn is split equally among the holders of the content that they “flattered”.

Other two company that offers a similar service are Rewrd(www.rewrd.com) and Kachingle(www.kachingle.com).

Source: www.techcrunch.com

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Ultimate Free Footer Pop Up, How I Did Money For Free With Instant Slide Up

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One thing that recently caught my attention on several affiliate marketers is that they are using a pop up alert subscription box on their homepage.

From an operational standpoint, these script generally all work in the same way. When visitors open the home page they display a little windows that generally includes a subscription box where people leave their name and email in order to download free book, receive newsletter, and so on.

I recently noticed using these type of script by people like Yaro Starak or Johnchow in particularly which have a huge reputation in the internet marketing.

However, as I told on my recent article despite I’ve an eBook which I’m giving away for free, I’ll prefer to do not use often of this system because I do not want to irritate my readers too, but also because the windows popup covers the whole homepage once you display it.

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To get the same result, recently I’ve tried another script on my my latest blog natural-supplements-tips.com,  called instant slide up. How you could notice it works in a different way than the common pop up script.

In general, I’ve choosen this script for two main reasons. First because isn’t intrusive, and at the same time is super effective. The pop up will be displayed into the footer of your webpages, so it do not irritate visitors once they come to your home page. Second, being a slides up, it attract the readers attention too.

You can customize your logo and pick a nice optin box to capture leads. Also, you can set the time delayed at 2.5 seconds. According to Rob after 4-6 seconds a user may leave due to lack of interest.

How Can Be Used Instant Slide Up To Improve Your Business

If you’re considering to increasing the subscription-rate, then you’ve an answer to all your problem. Instant Slide up allows you to have the power of a pop up box without being intrusive to the eye of your readers.

Instead, if you’re considering to earn money by promoting affiliate products, your own products or services, or if you are already doing so, but with mediocre results, then it allows you to increase conversion rate too.

In genreal you can use Instant Slide up when:

  • You want to increase your subscriptin rate.
  • You want to grab reader attention
  • You want sell affiliate programs.
  • You want to give away your paid product.
  • You want to make download your free ebook.

Instant Slide Up is very simple to install. Once sign up your account you can start set up any thing you wish into your control panel, and check which features perform the best.

As you can see, I’ve installed a copy of Instant Slide up only in this page to make you see the plugin in action.

How I Used This Script To Make Money Online

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As many of my readers know, I do money from affiliate marketing. Well, do you want to know a little secret?

I have another blog about natural supplements www.natural-supplements-tips.com where I’ve added a free copy of the script.

This magic script allowed me to increase my affiliate sales too. Look at the image below, this the proof of one of my commission received.

That is the first sales I received by xtend-life, but I have received other commission as well. No matter if your site is about technology news, health, make money online, and so on, whatever is your niche you can adopt the same strategy I used on my site and make money too through affiliate programs.

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Personally, I find limited number of characters, while the overlay boxes can be adjusted to fit content. Also, freezing users is useful try to convince them to optin, especially when they leave your site.

Other benefit of this plugin includes:

  • Install in less of 5 minutes!
  • Preconfigured to work with Aweber &
  • You can change the look or color of the slide up!
  • No MySQL database needed!
  • You can add any message you want in the setup!

Pros And Cons Of Instant Slideup

Below I’ve put the pros and cons of Instant Slide Up:

Pros

  • Quickly to install, in only 4 quick steps you get your plugin ready to use.
  • No Database needed. This simplify the intere installation process.
  • Not intrusive to eye visitors.
  • Great support.
  • Unlimited Domain License: You can use the plugin on all of your sites
  • Cannot be blocked by browser(unless javascript is disabled)
  • Ability to show all the time or once per visitors.

Cons

  • You are no able to integrated with Feedburner email form. However, you can resolve the problem by setting a link to feedburner popup.

Also, I’ve tested his support, and I can attest that is incredible, and once you submit a form, Rob reply within 30 minutes.

The following video will go into detail.

Price

While other Footer Pop Up plugins aren’t FREE to use, that isn’t the case with Instant Slide Up plugin. You can grab a free copy of instant Slideup with some limitation. If you want the complete version with all options, then you need to pay $67.00

Conclusion

Instant Slide Up can be used as an advertisement platform or to promoting a product, but using it as an OptIn is very powerful, since it does capture a lot of attention.

Join To Instant Slide UP for FREE now

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