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Merry Christmas to All!

Merry Christmas to all my readers. Best wished to all of you!

Tonight if you haven’t noticed already Twitter is down. It’s up for about 2 seconds then Twitter crashes once again. The issue started at 8:00 PM and continues until now (Almost 12:00 AM). The problem according to a twitter spokesman, “Our infrastructure and operations engineers are currently working to resolve this. The site could be down until approximately 3 a.m. PDT,” company spokeswoman Carolyn Penner said (http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20007714-264.html).” Right now I’m checking Twitter and getting an “Internal Server Error.” I guess I’m just have to wait until it’s resolved.

John Reese Top Affiliate Leaderboard

Want to know who the top 20 affiliate marketers on the web are?  John Reese just released a list of the top 20. Search Google for their names and subscribe to their blogs and/or Twitter accounts. They will provide you with valuable making money online information. One name I don’t see on this top 20 list is Glen Allsopp of ViperChill.com. ViperChill is one of my favorite blogs please subscribe if you haven’t already at ViperChill.com. Also, if you haven’t already please subscribe to this blog CashSherpa.com. I’d really appreciate it!

1. Frank Kern
2. Andy Jenkins
3. Jason Potash
4. Jeff Johnson
5. Eben Pagan
6. Ed Dale
7. Mike Filsaime
8. Jeff Walker
9. Jamiane Farrington
10. John Jonas
11. Yaro Starak
12. John Chow
13. Stephen Pierce
14. Brad Fallon
15. Ryan Deiss
16. Jeremy Shoemaker
17. Jeff Schwerdt
18. John Carlton
19. John Paul Aguiar
20. Craig Beckta

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Simulated Pool Art Gallery at Kanazawa City

Biggest Takeaway From Make Money Online: Roadmap of a Dot Com Mogul Review

If you haven’t heard already one of the online world’s most prolific bloggers just released a new book. The book is titled, ‘Make Money Online: Roadmap of a Dot Com Mogul’ by John Chow and Michael Kwan (Contributor). One of the biggest takeaways from the book was a little coding knowledge. The coding was how to create a Favicon which is actually a very easy process. First download the .ico plugin http://www.mediacollege.com/adobe/photoshop/plugins/ico/. Once you download this file open Photoshop and create a 64×64 pixel file. Design your Favicon. Then shrink image down to 16×16 pixels and save the file as .ico. Open your FTP program and upload file to your web site root directory. Next, insert this code into your web site:

<link rel=”Shortcut Icon” href=”http://www.yourwebsite.com”>
<link rel=”Icon” href=”http://www.yourwebsite.com/favicon.ico”>

That’s it! You will now have your very own Favicon. If you don’t already know what a Favicon is it’s that little picture in your browser next to the address bar.

Most of the information is pretty standard. Start a WordPress blog, get your own domain name, have quality content, monetize the content, don’t rely on Google, etc. After reading John Chow’s book and many other “Make Money Online” type books I’m beginning to think success is less about the formula and more about the individual. Everyone wants this complicated money making formula, but the more I read the more I realize these are just regular people who happen to have a lot of talent and a little bit of luck. Unless John Chow isn’t telling the whole truth success for him seems pretty straight forward. It boils down to he’s an interesting, personable guy, people like reading about what he’s up to. Once Chow got the traffic he optimized blog for maximum revenue.That’s it… that’s how he made all his money.

Like many successful bloggers their business goes from blogging to being an “Expert.” They then create products teaching newbies how to become “Experts” like them. This becomes their new business model. John Chow has now crossed into the “Expert” stage of the business. I get a little annoyed about everyone that gained a tiny bit of success in the online world becoming an expert, it’s nice to see these people sharing their knowledge. It’s one thing to create a ClickBank product and another thing to create a paperback book. I think Chow with ‘Make Money Online: Roadmap of a Dot Com Mogul’ took the higher road. I definitely recommend this book.

Patrick Sung Universal Packaging System

Whenever I ship something on eBay I ask myself why something so small has to ship in such a large box? A large box that takes up space and ultimately leads to higher shipping prices for all. Designer Patrick Sung  has come up with a solution to this packaging issue. They have designed a box called the Universal Packaging System or UPS. The UPS packaging is made out of corrugated cardboard that folds around the object you are trying to ship.

Here is an amazing lamp from Hammacher.com that produces over 16 million colors of light thanks to it’s The ‘s four LEDs. LEDs are rated for 100,000 hours of use. Buy the lamp here for $200.