Micro-Fit Computer Services 447 Internet Marketing E-Books for $5.00

(My Original Blog Post: http://ping.fm/BeOWT)
If you are a interested in starting a business or giving you existing business a big boost, then you should get this great collection of 447 Internet Marketing E-Books and programs  for $5.00. This collection is growing in size which is currently at 706 Megabytes and the price will always remain the same at $5.00.

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Blastoff is fun, free and EASY. Receive chances to make money with your hobbies!

(My Original Blog Post: http://ping.fm/fijQa)
My name is Craig and I'm a blastoff member looking to help others utilize what we have to offer through our site as far as helping people make money through an easier system.

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Complete tasks and get paid by Micro Turks for free

(My Original Blog Post: http://ping.fm/At4fy)
I ran into Micro Turks today and it looks like the paid to complete tasks website has some really good promise to it. Besides the nice $1.00 sign up bonus it looks like there are some really easy ways to earn money by completing simple tasks. You can earn by signing up on other free sites, posting comments on blogs, and much more.

On top of earning with Micro Turks, you can also promote your website or offers on their website. You can be creative as you want, but you need to make sure you pay your workers good enough that they'll actually want to take the time to complete your offers.

The only gist I have with these types of sites is that affiliate spammers are always prevalent and very much annoying. These spammers will sign up with multiple accounts using multiple ip addresses and fake e-mail addresses and complete the same offers over and over again. It's got to be a little bit time consuming for these fakes, but none the less they continue to be rip offs in the field.

As long as Micro Turks is doing a good job of stopping these spammers it shouldn't be a problem. But let me tell you that it's really hard to spot them.

One good thing I like about Micro Turks is that you only need to earn $9.00 in order to get your first payout through Paypal. It shouldn't take too long since that's a pretty small amount. And if you're like me and are too lazy to complete the tasks you can always just refer others and earn that way.

Because I really like what Micro Turks is doing I decided to add them to the top of the list on my get paid to sign up bonus list.

Earn money for free with Cash Fling

(My Original Blog Post: http://ping.fm/ejimF)
I ran into Cash Fling today while surfing around another get paid to website. Cash Fling looks like it has a similar template to some other GPT sites I've run into. The only difference is whether or not Cash Fling will be around for the long haul or not. So far the administration running the site seem to be really forth coming and are currently promoting their site with a referral contest. I'm taking advantage of this, how about you?

You will get a $1.00 sign up bonus just for joining Cash Fling. After I signed up and confirmed my email address the $1.00 bonus was immediately added to my account.

After taking a quick look at some of the offers Cash Fling currently has available, I really wasn't too impressed. A lot of them are kind of low in payout. What does this mean to me? Well, if I'm going to put the time in to sign up on their offers, it better be well worth my time. Because of this I probably won't complete any offers and just promote the site only.

Cash Fling has been added to the sign up bonus list as an OK GPT site to join. Please leave comments on your opinions of them as well.

Whether it's a bull or bear market, you need to be using stop orders to protect your gains

(My Original Blog Post: http://ping.fm/utQw5)
You live and you learn, you know what I'm saying? I love being an investor, but I love it even more when I know I'm being a smart investor. One of the hardest lessons I've learned about investing is that you absolutely must protect your gains when you got them.

How do you accomplish this?

One of the easiest ways to do this is to put in a stop order a little bit lower then where you're at. You also don't want to blindly go into a trade either, unless you're solely a fundamental investor.

The best way I've found to get into a stock is when the 50 day moving average crosses above the 200 day moving average. Of course, this is only one indicator and you may want to use more.

You can also use a trailing stop order as well. I don't like these as much because it could possibly work against you. You can even use a combination of a stop order at a lower price and with a  trailing stop on top.

In a bear or volatile market like we are in now where we don't know how low the market could go, stop orders can really protect a good percentage of your gains and get you completely out of a stock if it's going to drop below your initial entry point.

If you are new to investing in individual stocks or haven't considered using stop losses yet. I hope this info helps protect your stock gains and keeps you out of a bear market in this wonderful global economy we are living in now. You know, where a Country on the other side of the globe (Europe) is crashing and the whole economy suffers because of it. That kind of market.

Nicholas Payton trumpet solo on Woody N' You

(My Original Blog Post: http://ping.fm/OAyb8)
Here's a really nice trumpet solo of Nicholas Payton on Woody N' You. He performed this awesome Jazz trumpet solo with The Airmen of Note. I really like how Nicholas Payton makes great use of space and only does a few crazy lines with the majority of his trumpet solo being quite melodic.

It?s a Balancing Act as More Homeowners Face Foreclosure

(My Original Blog Post: http://ping.fm/guC8s)
The first months of 2010 proved to be tough times for homeowners facing foreclosure as a record number of houses were reclaimed by banks to payoff distressed real estate loans, according to this MSNBC article.

A new real estate report by a service that tracks foreclosure notices states that this is the highest number recorded in at least five year as one in every 138 U.S. housing units was subject to a foreclosure filing during the quarter of the year.

An official with the tracking service predicted that there would be 1 million bank repossessions this year if the tempo continues.

This follows last year’s pressure from the federal government to modify loans in an effort to keep borrowers in their homes which, along with other attempts by some states, seemed to slow the momentum. However, the trend now appears to be reversed as federal programs have only helped a small number of these homeowners so far, according to the story.

It’s not good news for those facing job losses, rising mortgage payments or an increasing lack of income. We can reach out to those in need of a positive charge and encourage them to keep working toward the goal of being financially self-sufficient and prosperous.

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Own a blog, brand yourself, and increase income from home with it

(My Original Blog Post: http://ping.fm/6nKAJ)
Many of you who know me always hear the resounding nuances of my recommendations that if you don't already own your own blog, you should definitely get on this right away. To me it's a no brainer. If you haven't taken advantage of owning a practically free, easy to set up and learn blog yet, you are basically missing out on a very easy opportunity to not only brand yourself online, but you are also missing out on some free money.

I know money isn't everything to a lot of people, but if you could increase your income from home an extra $500.00 a month, do you think that might change your lifestyle a little bit? I don't know, for most people it would make paying the bills a whole lot easier.

$500.00 is nothing really. Can you build this kind of an increase in money right away? Of course not, but over time, like anything else you will eventually have a following online with an increase of income with no limits.

How do you get started?

Well, I already wrote a pretty useful post a while back on the best recommended blogging software to choose from.  Of course setting up a blog isn't always as easy as 1,2,3. So here is another helpful article on making sure your wordpress blog is set up properly for search engine and user friendly purposes after it has been installed.

Now, here is a web page that is all about ways to monetize and increase income from your blog. These are things like free affiliate networks to take advantage of and how to get paid for placing ads on your blog.

How will owning a blog allow me to brand myself?

Your blog will be your online presence. It will make you an authority online in whatever your specific niche is in. Whether it be flowers, music, making money, you name it. Your blog will be your central hub so to speak. What I mean is it will be the site that you link to whenever someone asks you for your website.

There is so much you can do with a blog. Plus a blog is so much better than a website. Why? Because it is updated dynamically unlike a website, which is usually static and hard to update.

Let's dream together for a little bit, shall we. Let's say you have a blog set up now after you read this post. Let's also say it has been 5 years down the road and you've averaged about 10 new blog post a month for the past 5 years. During this time you've also learned a whole lot about the blogging industry and now have quite a few connections online. 10 x 12 = 120 x 5 = 600 blog post. Google has probably indexed at least 300 of these post and tons of categories and tags along the way.

Also during this time you've built up a decent subscriber base of about 5,000 give or take a bit. Now you have leverage on something that took you a little bit of time to grow managing it little by little every day. This is also a nice online advertising resource to always take advantage of as well.

I'm just dreaming, but these are very conservative numbers and most blog owners get much more traffic than this.

We'll just have to wait and see what's in store for you.

Ryan Kisor at jam session playing All The Things You Are changes

(My Original Blog Post: http://ping.fm/U0JxC)
I love this Jazz clip of Ryan Kisor at a jam session in London. Notice that I mentioned jam session, I wonder if he's had a few drinks? Well anyway, Ryan Kisor, as always, sounds amazing on trumpet even if the quality of the video isn't up to par. He nails all the chord changes to All The Things You Are perfectly. I have to ask, was that Wynton Marsalis taking a ride before Ryan Kisor?

Retirement benefits of owning a home based business

(My Original Blog Post: http://ping.fm/v6oz8)
When most people think of retirement, they think of the investments they've built up over time. Well there are more ways than simply investing your money in the market, IRAs, 401ks, and commodities to build your retirement income over time. Don't get me wrong, you should always be an investor and investing regularly all the time.

Of course you know what I'm talking about based simply on the title of this blog post. A home based business is totally what I'm talking about just in case you haven't figured it out yet.

Did you, or did you not think owning a home based business was a way to help supplement your retirement income over time before you read this article?

I know you did, I'm just asking stupid questions. With all this being said, when is the best time to start a home based business? What do you think I'm going to say? NOW!!!! Of course. Just like with stock investing and other retirement investing there is a time benefit that comes with experience and being in the now absolutely right now.

I don't know where you are in life, meaning how old you are and how far into your career you are if you even have one at all. One thing I do know is that you should have a home based business that builds you something called residual income. This is income that you build up over time that continues to pay you whether you work or not. Unlike your job, where if you stop working today, that monthly paycheck will stop coming in. A home based business will continue to pay even after you stop building it.

You can think of each person that you bring into your multi-level marketing home based business as being an asset for you. Did I say multi-level marketing? Yes, I absolutely did. Are they pyramid schemes? Of course some will be, but the majority are not. Most multi-level marketing businesses get labeled pyramid schemes because certain negative people sign up and fail because it wasn't the right business for them. They will then turn around and blame the Company instead of themselves, go figure, right?

So, you find the right business for you, then refer as many people as you can. Over time, you will have a few strong downline members that will refer hundreds of others below you which are obviously smaller assets.

Have you figured out how a home based business can help fund your retirement yet?

I sure hope so. In fact, if you are successful at your home based business early on, you will probably be able to retire from working a job a whole lot earlier than you ever thought you could. One thing I like to do is build 3 home based businesses. Why would I do this? Well, with anything in life there is never a guarantee. It is mainly a way to protect myself from any sudden downturn of any one 3 of them. In other words, don't put all your eggs in one basket, got it?

I hope this info on adding an extra retirement asset was enlightening to you.

Blimpy Cash is a GPT site that may have some promise

(My Original Blog Post: http://ping.fm/JeF5o)
I ran into Blimpy Cash today while surfing through ads at Clixsense, go figure, right? Anyway, I noticed that they were offering a sign up bonus of $1.00 for joining and Blimpy Cash looked like they had some good things going for them.

Good referral contests and a decent looking site with promise I would have to say. I call it a GPT site because you can earn money by doing stuff. Basically you "get paid to" complete offers surveys, etc.. things like that.

Blimpy Cash also had plenty of referral banners to choose from including BBCode banners which I though was odd because you don't usually see that being offered by many affiliate programs.

One thing I did notice about the web design look of Blimpy Cash is that when you click on their forum, which I think it's great that they have one, you don't see any links back to their main site and it opens in a new window. This isn't a good sign, it shows a little bit of inexperience if you ask me.

Besides the forum, Blimpy Cash had a decent amount of nice user friendly affiliate features to make any member quasi satisfied which is good enough for me.

What do you think?

See more GPT sign up bonus sites and let me know what you think of them.

Properly set up your Wordpress blog for seo, speed, monetization, traffic, and the minimum required plugins and sites you?ll need to make it happen

(My Original Blog Post: http://mywebmastertips.com/properly-set-up-wordpress-blog-for-seo-speed-monetization-traffic-minimum-required-plugins-sites/)
Let’s face it, we all love Wordpress to death, right? But out of the box, it isn’t completely set up to its fullest yet because the standard settings aren’t the absolute best settings for your blog plus a few needed plugins are required in order to make sure your blog is search engine friendly.

Account settings to modify:

Let’s start off with some basic Wordpress account settings you are going to want to update first. Go to Settings in your Wordpress back office and click on General. Make sure you blog’s web URL doesn’t have a www before it. This is not needed, so if you have a new site, don’t use www.

Next, click on Reading under Settings and change blog pages show at most from 10 to 5 or less. This will dramatically speed up your blog.

Next, go to Privacy, make sure your blog is visible to everyone.

Finally, go to Permalinks and make sure to check Custom Structure and put in this:

/%postname%/

Doing so will make sure there are no unneeded dates in your blog post URLs as well as making your URLs look pretty.

Websites you should have an account with:

Let’s move on to websites you should have an account with. For Google sites use your gmail email address for all of them so you’ll be able to link your accounts together easily.

Google Analytics - Tracks visitors to your website, how long they were on your site, keywords they used to get to your sites, where they came from, etc… It’s an excellent free tool that comes with a Google Adwords account. Highly recommended and will help you immensely.

Google Adsense - This is the best way to monetize your blog to show relevant ads on your site and you’ll get paid per click.

Feedburner - This will replace your feed and you can link your Google Adsense and Feeburner accounts together to increase income and track your subscribers better. Make sure subscribes can subscribe via email in your settings.

Google Webmaster Tools - You will want a webmaster account to check stats and see how many pages of your website are indexed in Google. When submitting your site, make sure to give them website with no www and specify this in your site’s settings.

Yahoo Site Explorer - Yahoo’s webmaster center to see what pages are indexed with them.

Bing Webmaster Central - Bing’s webmaster center to see what pages are indexed.

Plugins you should be using:

So, let’s move on to needed plugins to make your blog search engine friendly and more profitable.

All in One SEO Pack by Michael Torbert - This allows you to give every page and blog post on your website a unique title, description, keywords, and canonical link. A must have for every wordpress blog.

Google XML Sitemaps by Arne Brachhold - This awesome plugin automatically generates and updates your sitemap for search engines and pings out to the 3 major search engines every time you publish a new blog post.

General Header by David Gibbs - If you’re not programmer savvy, this plugin gives you the ability to add unique code to the header and footer of your site. You will want to put your Google Analytics code in the footer to track your visitors and length of time on your site. You can also add a unique favicon to your header, this is optional of course.

FD Feedburner Plugin by John Watson - The generic Wordpress feed you get with the standard installation doesn’t give you the ability to monetize your feed and allow email subscriptions. This plugin makes it easy to link your Feedburner account to replace the generic feed.

WP SpamFree by WP-SpamFree - You won’t need this right away, but once your blog starts getting out there, the spammers will come knocking at your door with tons of spam. So this plugin will block a majority of this for you to save you time.

WP Greet Box by Thaya Kareeson - This plugin will increase subscribers to your blog by recognizing where visitors came from before they went to your site and offering them to subscribe if they are new or not logged in.

Placing Google Adsense on your blog:

Yes, there are plugins that will do this for you, but in my experience off them stealing my clicks leads me to never want to use them again. So I will quickly show you how to manually add Google Adsense to your blog. You can only have 3 ads per page, don’t break those rules or your Adsense account could get deleted.

I would first go ahead and add a google ad to one or more of your sidebars. To do this, in your Wordpress back office simply go to Appearance, then Widgets. Make a new Text widget and simply copy  the Google ad code in and save it.

Now modify your template by going to Appearance, then Editor. This is the template files for your current theme. I would add one to single.php and page.php. If you only have an index.php, then I would add the Google code to this file, do so right after the:

<div id="content">

That’s what I did for this site. Just wrap the Google ad in a paragraph tag like so

<p align="center">Google Adsense code goes here</p>

Now you should have all the required tools to make your Wordpress blog a successful one. The final thing I would like to note is the titles of your blog posts are so important. Make sure they are descriptive as possible and use good keywords and link to those keywords whenever you can. It's also a good habit to make sure external links open in a new window and internal links open in the same window.

I know I didn't go into too much depth on each individual task, but it is pretty self explanatory and I know you'll be able to figure everything else out after getting introduced to these various products and services.

My ftp webserver got hacked with a malicious malware script and how to fix and prevent it

(My Original Blog Post: http://ping.fm/QSK62)
A couple days ago I was so happy  with the achievement of redesigning the look of my sign up bonus site. Now, only a couple days later, I know what it's like to be hacked. It's like being raped, almost all the files on my ftp server were compromised. This is 3 sites total including the one you're on right now. Looking at my websites now just doesn't feel the same.

What happened? A genius programming hacker figured out the password to my ftp server because the one I had wasn't strong enough. After that, a script was run on the main directory of my server that found any javascript, xml, and php file where the script could input a line of php code at the top of each file. On my server we're talking hundreds of files getting changed against my will.Luckily in my case only the php code was compromised for whatever reason I do not know. This also jacked up my site because certain areas wouldn't work properly on top of the spam ads.

What did the php code do? It made pop ups come up on pretty much every page of my site to visitors all over the world. Pop ups aren't usually a bad thing, but these were labeled attack sites with malicious malware that could potentially spread viruses to many individual computers or steal information.

How did I fix it? First thing I did was updated my poorly thought out password and made it very random with numbers, special characters, upper and lower case letters, etc.. Thanks to the hosting Company I have, GoDaddy, they automatically make back ups of previous day's file structures. All I had to to was go back one day before the incident and restore the non corrupted files in each main directory. This worked like magic, but was still time consuming taking about half a day to complete. Doing the restore this way also ensured I didn't miss any hidden files in sub directories.

I also checked to make sure there weren't any extra files after the individual directory restores. Then I double checked to make sure there were no other users on my server.

What did I learn in this whole crappy experience? Passwords are pretty damn important. Make sure to properly strengthen all your passwords because they could be compromised otherwise. Also, if you use 3rd party open source code, which I do, make sure it is updated to its latest version. This wasn't a problem for me, but it could be for someone else.

Geostring $10.00 sign up bonus hype

(My Original Blog Post: http://ping.fm/KeHfG)
I don't know about you, but I've been seeing and hearing a whole lot of hype about Geo String online recently. Is Geo String just another fad site that will be forgotten in the near future, or is it a winner?

I don't know exactly what the picture to the left is supposed to represent about Geo String, but I'm going to assume it isn't anything bad.

I attempted to sign up with them and was unsuccessful. I don't know how or why, but I never received my initial welcome invitation email. No worries though, an affiliate of Signupandmakemoney.com (Gordon), went ahead and gave me his referral link. So I'm using it on the site and on this blog post.

Even though there has been a lot of hype online about Geo String, I'm not really too impressed. They have a $100.00 minimum to cash out and sound pretty much too good to be true. You know what that means, don't you?

Since it's free to join and free to try out, you might as well see what's all about regardless of it's to good to be true claim. One other thing that raised a couple red flags to me about Geo String is that there is a little bit of broken English on the site. This shows me there probably is a foreigner running the site. This usually isn't a problem, but you never know, right?

Feel free to take a look at some more free affiliate program sign up bonus sites and let me know what you think.

Signupandmakemoney has a new look

(My Original Blog Post: http://ping.fm/RFhRL)
After over a week of vigorous style sheet hacks I was finally able to come up with a decent looking yet simple new look for Signupandmakemoney.com. I would love to hear your thoughts and/or opinions of the site if you have any at all.

I'm learning new things about web programming and web design all the time. The reason I never made these  changes a while back was because I didn't know how to set up my own local server. Once I figured out how to accomplish this it was just a matter of setting up a copy of my site on my local computer. I prefer to use wamp, but there are other free ways to accomplish this besides manually setting up php, apache, and mysql.

My site (Signupandmakemoney.com) uses third party software such as wordpress, simple machines forum, and affiliate pro 4. It first started out as a simple static html based website. Along with the new look, I also parsed all the html files to act as php files with my .htaccess file. This makes it way easier to update the site. I can make one header for the entire site and only have to make one change verses 70+ changes with my old html files. That's right, I got a lot of pages on the site.

The reason I made the changes was to make a better user experience at the site. Each section had a different header, width, and footer. Now I can gladly say they all look much like the same site. The other reason I made these changes was to hopefully increase the value of the site. Which I think this will.

I still have many more updates and changes I would like to make to the site. But for now this has been a huge step forward in the right direction as to what I believe the site should look like.

Get paid to click with Paid 4 Clix plus a free sign up bonus

(My Original Blog Post: http://ping.fm/yZggy)
Found a new site entitled Paid 4 Clix with very few members. The site looks pretty legit and well designed. I noticed I'm only the 60th member. This is a little bit odd to me considering Paid4Clix is offering a $10.00 sign up bonus just for joining free.

It looks like Paid 4 Clix has a minimum payout of $20.00. So after your free sign up bonus you'll have to earn another $10.00 on your own before you can cash out. I also didn't see any limitations on which Country you are from when you join.

On top of paid to click ads, they also have some paid to sign up offers. I noticed that Paid 4 Clix gives you points and I couldn't find any information on how much value these so called points have. They also don't have a lot of ads to click on.

In my opinion, this has always been a bad thing for me. I mean, Cmon, do you really want points for taking time out of your day to do anything? This is one of the biggest reasons I don't waste my time with Survey Companies that offer you points or put you in drawings to win cash. I would much rather just know exactly what I'm going to get paid for my work and move on.

Also, feel free to take a look at some more free paid to click sign up bonuses and let me know what you think.

Dominant scale ii V7 I Jazz lick

(My Original Blog Post: http://ping.fm/uX9HB)
Here is a pretty easy dominant scale ii V7 I Jazz lick I got from a friend of mine some time ago. It simply starts on the tonic of the ii chord and goes up the dominant scale until hitting the 3rd of the I chord and then ending on the cry me a river Jazz riff. You can play the lick faster depending upon the tempo of the tune you use it over and hit the 3rd on the V7 chord like I do in the below video clip.


Here is a sound sample over the Bb Blues on trumpet:

How to memorize this lick in 12 keys:

The reason I call this a dominant scale ii V7 I Jazz lick is because it is simply a dominant scale pattern in whatever whatever key you're currently in going up the scale. In the above example were are in C Major. What's the 5th of C? It's G7, so we play the G7 scale starting on the 5th. You repeat the pattern until you hit the 3rd of the I chord. In the above example that would be E. So if you know your dominant scales really well, you'll have this lick in 12 keys really fast.

It ends with the cry me a river Jazz lick, which is something you can work on separately. For me, that lick is best learned in 12 keys simply by feel.

I hope you enjoy this lick, I also updated the look of the Jazz Trumpet Forum template making the blog and forum look a lot more similar. I should have done this a long time ago though. Let me know what you think of the new forum look.

Arturo Sandoval amazing flugelhorn solo on Samba De Amore

(My Original Blog Post: http://ping.fm/2BF8B)
I've been listening to this YouTube video almost every day for the past week. The head isn't all that impressive, but it's definitely catchy. What you are going to want to do is take a listen to Arturo Sandoval's flugelhorn solo at about 3:15 on the trumpet video. Just amazing. I'm going to be stealing a few licks from this video and posting them on the site because there are some really good ones in it.

I would love to get your opinions on this awesome flugelhorn solo by Arturo Sandoval.

Cool Freddie Hubbard Autumn Leaves trumpet solo

(My Original Blog Post: http://ping.fm/03LLv)
I've been recently working on the chord changes to Autumn Leaves. So I decided to browse You Tube a little bit to see if I could find some good ideas. Low and behold, guess what I found? A really cool and awesome trumpet solo of Freddie Hubbard taking a ride on Autumn Leaves. Plus you can hear how he interprets the head of Autumn Leaves as well as Freddie Hubbard's usage of the 3rd valve on As and Es on the flugelhorn.

A couple other things to note about this great trumpet clip. Freddie Hubbard does a nice cadenza at the end and shows off his trumpet style in so many other ways.

Free financial education at Blog Talk Radio by Greg London

(My Original Blog Post: http://ping.fm/Taehw)
If you don't have anything going on the night of March 31st, 2010 at 10:00pm CST (that's USA central standard time for you non-US citizens), I would invite you to join me, Greg London, at Blog Talk Radio. You never know what you could learn. Financial education is something you should always be continuing to improve and grow upon on a regular basis.

I've been meaning to get something like this going for some time now. What I wanted to do was make it like a video conference. After realizing all the extra work that would take plus me not having the required tools to get something like that set up rather quickly, I've decided that a simple audio conference would suffice.

So you can join in on the conversation. It doesn't matter what your financial background is, in debt, financially stable, or super rich. I plan on talking about a variety of subjects that will all make you richer regardless of your current financial situation.

There are certain characteristics that I believe you should have to being financially successful in life. I'll discuss what these things are, you decide what you want to take advantage of. This can take place either now or in the future, it's entirely up to you.

In case you can't make this one, don't worry, I plan on making this a monthly financial training. This is simply because you can't cover everything in one 30 minute session. So keep an eye on my Blog Talk Radio profile to see when the next financial training will be online. You can either listen in, or participate and call in to ask questions, it's entirely up to you.

Panthera Network proof of payment

(My Original Blog Post: http://ping.fm/Ey7kg)
I got my first payment from the  Panthera Network, a free affiliate network that pays their publishers on a cost per action basis and cost per sale basis. If you haven't applied to become an affiliate publisher with them yet I would highly recommend doing so right away.

You need to have a blog or website that you own in order for you application to even get approved. A good thing is that it doesn't matter what Country you're from in order to join. Everyone is welcome.

I love affiliate networks because they are free to join where as business opportunities or multi-level marketing businesses always require some sort of fee to get started along with a monthly payment.  The beauty of these affiliate networks gives you the potential to increase your monthly cash flow quite a bit.

Check I received from the Panthera Network for $50.80.

If you like the idea of joining free affiliate networks and never having to pay a monthly fee to make money, make sure to check out more free affiliate networks to join right away. About half way through the page you'll find a list of free affiliate network sites to join.

Remember, there is no risk on your part at all.

Cash4Free gives a sign up bonus but asks you to complete 2 offers to get it

(My Original Blog Post: http://ping.fm/VVexT)
I recently ran into a pretty cool, well designed sign up bonus site entitled Cash4Free. When I went through the sign up process I was asked to complete 2 offers in order to finish my sign up and hopefully get my sign up bonus. Luckily this wasn't the case.

I did not complete two offers because one, I was short on time, and two, I don't think bribing me to complete two offers is a good way to build your membership base there, Cash4Free. After checking my back office, I see the $5.00 sign up bonus accredited to my account even though I didn't complete the 2 offers prior to finishing sign up.

Anyway, beside this quick shortfall, I think Cash4Free has some potential since it pays a $5.00 sign up bonus and you only need to earn another $10.00 in order to get your first payment through them via Paypal. That's only $15.00 total in order to cash out.

Cash4Free has a lot of free offers to choose from which I like. One really cool thing I like about them is that they don't currently have an upgrade option. This is cool to me because it shows that they are keeping it simple. You sign up, complete free offers, make money. They never beg you to upgrade with them because they don't have an upgrade option to bother you about anyway. That's how I see it anyway, what do you think?

Find more free sites that pay you to sign up for doing tasks and let me know what you think.

Easy concert Bb7 Jazz lick

(My Original Blog Post: http://ping.fm/sgJwK)
You may have heard this easy Jazz lick before while listening to your favorite Jazz artists. It would be nice to know if you have heard the lick before, if so, please leave a comment on this post. This really is an easy lick to incorporate into your Jazz trumpet solos, no third valve required!



Here a sound sample played over The Theme by Miles Davis:

How to memorize this lick in 12 Keys:

To be honest with you, I've never learned this lick in 12 keys. I usually only use it in a couple keys like C7 and G7, that's it. You can also play this lick in C Major and G Major as well and it sounds about the same. If you feel motivated enough to learn the lick in 12 keys it can only help your trumpet technique in the long run so have at it.

**Disclaimer - An Amazon affiliate link is used in this blog post.

How to know who you should and shouldn't follow on Twitter

(My Original Blog Post: http://ping.fm/3xy6K)


Let's face it, you can't just follow anyone on Twitter unless you want to end up following a whole bunch of people that will most likely never follow you back.The list below shows how you can steer clear of this so you're ratio of followers to who you're following stay pretty close.

We all know that Twitter is an awesome tool when it comes to building a network of people online and getting traffic to a particular web URL. I never got the whole update status thing though since I use Facebook for doing that anyway.

With Twitter I use as an avenue to get people looking at the web URL in my Twitter profile. Other than that, it really has no other value to me. Another thing that makes Twitter useful is finding other sites to link to online. Everyone I follow, I also try to comment on one of their blog posts getting me a link back to my site for free every time.

We all know how expensive advertising online can be. This makes it even more important that we take advantage of the free ways to get traffic to our websites, don't you agree?

Now, you have to be careful who you follow on Twitter if you're looking to keep your ratio of followers to people you are following at least somewhat near the same value.

Who you SHOULD NOT follow on Twitter!

• People that don't have a picture in their profile.


• People that haven't tweeted very much, 10 or less tweets.


• People that don't have a web URL in their profile.


• People that have way more followers than they are following.


• People that are following way more people than they have following them back.

Now that we know this, the Twitter users below will be more likely to follow you back.

Who you SHOULD follow on Twitter!

• People who have pictures and a customized background for their profile.


• People that have lots of tweets.


• People that have a web URL, especially if it has a blog of some sort so you can comment at it.


• People with lots of followers with not too much of a gap between who they're following and who's following them.

What is a good way to follow people?

I'm glad you asked. What I do is simple. I look at my current network of people following me and just start going through the list. I try to go through about 20 a day at this point. I won't follow all of them, but the ones I do follow I'll try to comment at their blog or becomes friends with them in Facebook as well if it's available to me. Sometimes I won't follow a particular person, but instead just leave a comment at their blog because this gives me free traffic as well back to my sites.

Jon Faddis shows off his trumpet chops with Dizzy Gillespie, Moody, and Henricks

(My Original Blog Post: http://ping.fm/iee10)
I just had to share this video with everyone. Jon Faddis is really something else. How he got his trumpet chops to be so strong, I will forever wonder. Anyway, this awesome Jazz video of Jon Faddis taking a trumpet solo in the presence of Dizzy Gillespie, James Moody, and Jon Henricks.

The thing I like best about this video is being able to watch Jon Faddis adjust his embouchure to go into the upper range. I notice a lot of trumpet players do this. What do you think?

Join My Easy Task and get a $1.00 bonus for your first campaign

(My Original Blog Post: http://ping.fm/l0BC3)


Thanks to a Facebook friend of mine, I found out about site that pays you to complete various tasks online called My Easy Task. Most of the tasks simply require that you sign up through their referral and or affiliate link and they will split their commissions with you.

When you sign up for free with MyEasyTask, they will give you a $1.00 sign up bonus that you can use towards your first campaign with them. This means they pretty much want you to purchase advertising from them, but this is completely voluntary and you are not required to do this in order to reach your $10.00 minimum cash out.

It doesn't matter what Country you're from, meaning, anybody can join My Easy Task and make money. What kind of made me giggle was that I noticed that the Signupandmakemoney affiliate program is being promoted on My Easy Task. This is a good way to promote a site as long as the affiliate site you're promoting is OK with it.I don't know if my affiliate program will still be being promoted by the time you read this post or not. But I thought it was interesting.

I've noticed that a lot of members of My Easy Task tend to sign up multiple times on multiple offers. This is just the nature of the Internet, there are always people out there trying to take advantage of the system and screwing other people over.

Take a look at some more get paid to sign up bonus sites that are free to join and earn money from and let me know what you think.

Chitika proof of payment and it's free to join

(My Original Blog Post: http://ping.fm/vVwWP)
I recently got my first payment proof from a great ad network called Chitika. I originally heard about Chitika from a blog advertisement. It basically said something about earning off putting targeted ads on your website.

How does it work? Well, someone simply does a search on Google or some other search engine, and Chitika will go ahead and show ads on your site based off the keywords used in the search. This increases the likability of someone actually clicking on your ad because they will already be somewhat interested in what the ads have to say because they are looking for similar information already.

Paypal payment I received from Chitika for $12.44.

There really isn't much to know about Chitika other than they are a great free ad site to promote. Take a look at some more free affiliate sites to promote online to increase income from your website.

Join the Blastoff network for free and get cash back shopping for you and everyone you refer

(My Original Blog Post: http://www.signupandmakemoney.com/blog/2010/01/join-blastoff-network-free-cash-back-shopping-for-everyone/)
If you haven't heard of the Blastoff Network yet, you're in for a real treat, or I should say a free treat. Just kidding. The reason I like Blastoff the most is because you not only get cash back on the shopping you do online, but you also get cash back off of all the people you refer to Blastoff, up to 9 levels deep. That can really add up. Since Blastoff is 100% free to join, I highly recommend it as a way to save money on your shopping efforts.

You can also organize all you favorite news and sport sites and customize the look and feel of your Blastoff page. But this really isn't too important to me, but for you it may be something you'll enjoy doing and keeping up to date on a regular basis. You can also take advantage of some free games and your favorite media streams. You can also link your Facebook and Twitter account to get your social networks connected.

Blastoff has partnered with Pre-Paid Legal as well as many other successful earning opportunities online. This shows that they are trying to get their name out there in a big way.

To learn more about Blastoff, check out this video that goes into detail everything they have to offer.

Exercise that will develop the use of Diminished Arpeggios in your Jazz solos

(My Original Blog Post: http://ping.fm/vDk3Y)
Here is a fairly simple exercise that will help you develop and incorporate the use of diminished arpeggios into your Jazz trumpet solos. Diminished arpeggios, whether you use them in full or partially, are a great pattern to have under your belt as they kind of go hand in hand with the bebop scale in keeping your Jazz lines going.



Here is a sound sample of the diminished exercise on trumpet:

How to work this diminished exercise in 12 keys:

I find it best to think in stacked minor 3rds. It really doesn't matter what note you start on. It's best to get in the full comfortable range of your horn. All you are doing is going down 4, half step down, up 4, half step down, down 4, etc...

To get every key both up and down you'll just want to go up or down a half step from where you started in the first exercise and do the same thing over. Now you are alternating the diminished arpeggio both up and down.

Make sure to use a metronome on this exercise, I apologize for not doing so myself. Once you got the pattern down, try to start incorporating it into your Jazz playing. A good start is on the V7 to I chord. Start on the 3rd of the V7 chord and land on the 5th of the I chord. You'll get the b9 involved and it sounds really hip.

Global Domains International payment proof and thoughts

(My Original Blog Post: http://ping.fm/oIRZt)
I got home yesterday and saw a check come in from Global Domains International. I thought to myself at first, this is great! But then I soon realized I've been with GDI now for well over a year. I can't believe it took me this long to get my first $100.0o commission from Global Domains International.

I have to be honest, I haven't been promoting my GDI business like I should've been promoting it. I'm not making excuses, it's just that GDI was never a main focus of mine. I'm usually just focused on promoting my main sign up bonus site then in promoting individual programs, but this is me and what I think makes sense.

From what I can remember in my promotion efforts is that I would get a lot of people putting in their names and e-mail addresses to see the free GDI movie, but a super large majority of them would never go to the next level and actually take advantage of GDI's 7 day free trial. I definitely made good use of the leads I got though. I would put them through a series of 3 e-mails, more if they continued to show interest in the .ws opportunity.

Check I received from GDI for $103.00.

So, am I saying that Global Domains International is not as easy of a home based business then most people make it out to be? I do have to say that I am. It's true that there are some super duper internet marketers out there getting well over 5 sign ups a week, but at the moment, I'm not one of those marketers. I also believe most people that sign up for GDI are kind of in my same boat.

GDI has been around for awhile, their business opportunity is a great way to build residual income over time if you can get the numbers in. I do think their product is kind of losing its value though. There are so many better ways to get your own domain name and to build your own website using open source code and a separate hosting company.

The cost of a domain name is around $10.00 a year and most basic hosting plans charge around $50.00 a year plus another $20.00 for an e-mail address to go with your domain. Once you have these two things set up, you can very easily jump into a free open source code system like Wordpress or Drupal and have a professional looking CMS website with very minimal effort on your part in a very short time.

Let's do the math on the two, shall we?

$10.00/mo x 12 = $120.00 a year for GDI's website.ws services.

$10.00 domain
$50.00 hosting
$20.00 e-mail account

= about $80.00 a year elsewhere.

So you can actually save money not using GDI.

Then again, most hosting companies also have their own affiliate program through a third party network like Commission Junction or another network. This means you could very easily earn the cost of your hosting and domain plan back with an affiliate company and never pay a monthly fee.

These are things to think about. What's your opinion?

Unique Rewards has a $5.00 bonus plus only $20.00 to cash out

(My Original Blog Post: http://ping.fm/DYFla)
I thought I would give you my quick opinions and stats on Unique Rewards since I've been a free member. This is a free to join site that gives you $5.00 just for signing up and up to another $5.00 for every active referral you bring it.

So far I have referred two active referrals earning my another $10.00 on top of my $5.00 sign up bonus. This means you could literally refer only 3 active members and be able to cash out. It's easier said then done to do so though. I mean, what is Unique Reward's definition of an active referral anyway? I guess this means the referral has completed a couple offers after initially signing up on the paid to sign up site. There is some good news to this though. If you refer someone and they only complete one offer, even if it's only for 10 cents, you will automatically make $1.00 off that referral.

I have to tell you the truth, I haven't done anything with Unique Rewards yet except post my affiliate link at the main sign up bonus list. I'm almost at my $20.00 cash out minimum. There are more ways of earning than just referring other free members of course. You can click on ads and make 1 cent per click. It doesn't seem worthwhile for me, but for you it may be worth your time. Of course there are paid to sign up offers to take advantage of as well as taking surveys and some cash back shopping.

Unique Rewards also has an option to upgrade to a gold member. As always, I highly recommend to seriously do your due diligence before putting money into anything online. I personally have not upgraded. I'm just not active in Unique Rewards enough to see it being of any benefit to me. This may differ for you though. In my opinion, just taking advantage of the free earning opportunities is enough for me.

I was concerned at first on whether or not Unique Rewards did a decent job of keeping good stats on my efforts. I was happy to find that they do a pretty nice job. I say nice because it wasn't anything too impressive, but it got the job done if you know what I mean.

Overall, I would have to say that Unique Rewards is an OK get paid to site. Check out some more get paid to sign up bonus sites and let me know what you think.

James Morrison shows off multiphonics on trombone and alternates with trumpet over the blues

(My Original Blog Post: http://ping.fm/lLdtF)
If you haven't seen this Jazz video of James Morrison on You Tube yet, you're in for a real treat. There are a whole bunch of cool things James Morrison (an Australian trumpet player/trombone player) shows off on. Switching back and forth between trombone and trumpet, multiphonics at the beginning on trombone, using a trombone trigger to play a bunch of Jazz licks on trombone, and of course a lot of high notes. He goes up to a high G, but mainly does it one handed while making it look very easy.

Free and Powerful takes 3 steps to a $50.00 sign up bonus

(My Original Blog Post: http://ping.fm/hRCQH)
While I was on Christmas vacation I ran into a free system called Free and Powerful that will give you a free $50.00 sign up bonus after you complete their 3 required steps. When I ran into Free and Powerful for the first time, I ignored the site because it looked like GDI was involved and that was one of the required steps. Thankfully, you don't have to pay and complete the GDI 7 day free trial in order to get the $50.00 sign up bonus. I thought to myself, "but if you're already a GDI affiliate", how can I go through all the required steps? Duh, what about existing GDI members?

The Free and Powerful team claims it will take you anywhere from 15 to 50 minutes to get your sign up bonus. It's up to you if you are willing to put the time in. In my opinion, I'm a busy guy at times, so I haven't completed my tasks to get the sign up bonus. I do know it's working for some people because I've been hearing all the hype about this free earning opportunity all over the web.

If you are more of a video person, trust me, I am too. You can check out what Free and Powerful is all about by watching this short video.

Since this site if free to join, I recommend it as a free way to make money online. I do caution you to do your own due diligence if you are serious about spending any money on their upgrade option. I've noticed in my back office they are really pushing their members to upgrade their account to Power Flex or Power Stretch. I mean that is all you see in the back office. I don't recommend upgrading your free membership. Though this is a cool site, this is also a new site, so you don't know how long it will be around.

I also noticed that there are various free trial offers at Free & Powerful. You have to be careful when signing up on free trial offers, if you don't cancel before the trial is up, you are pretty much screwed.

Take a look at some more free affiliate sign up bonus sites and let me know what you think of Free & Powerful.

The importance of making your Wordpress author comment urls open in a new window and the code to make it happen

(My Original Blog Post: http://ping.fm/EViBn)
When I first noticed that my author comment urls were opening in the same window as my blog, I kind of got annoyed by this. Why? Because I don't want people leaving my blog completely to visit a comment author's site. Instead, I don't mind them visiting a comment author's blog as long as my blog is still open in one of their browser windows.

This, simply put, is the main reason why you wouldn't want visitors to leave your site completely. Unfortunately, most Wordpress blog theme templates don't set this up for you automatically. If you're not sure if yours does, just go to one of your single posts and click on one of your comment author links. If it removes your blog completely from the browser, then you don't have the target="_blank" attribute set up properly.

Thankfully, I came across a really cool site that explains exactly how to set up your Wordpress theme's function.php file to open comment author links in a new window.

If you're not concerned about all the ins and outs of how to accomplish this, just follow these instructions:

Once logged into your Wordpress admin area, go to Appearance, then Editor. Once there, find your functions.php file. Click on it, and simply paste the following php code at the bottom of the file before the php closing tag (looks like this "?>".


// Make comment author link URL open in new window
function comment_author_link_window() {
global $comment;
$url = get_comment_author_url();
$author = get_comment_author();

if ( empty( $url ) || 'http://' == $url )
$return = $author;
else
$return = "<a href='$url' rel='external nofollow' target='_blank'>$author</a>";
return $return;
}
add_filter('get_comment_author_link', 'comment_author_link_window');

Hope this code is of use to you.