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  • Cliff Jennings – Clever Self Marketing


    If you been watching the latest South African series of Idols, you would have by now noticed a character that keeps popping up. A guy by the name of Cliff Jennings has featured on every single show, and what a clever boy he is. If you ask anyone who has watched they more than likely will not remeber anyone, but they may remember him. His singing is not the best in the world, but he is giving away cd’s with “free posters”. He has even made his first music video. He has managed to piss off the judges to a point where they TOLD him to leave in the latest round of auditions.

    But he is clever. He is marketing himself, and getting recognised. He has quite a few groups already on facebook, and his “official group” is growing with over 300 members already. His “appreciation group” is also growing steadily.

    He has a myspace profile, and has a mate recording all of his auditions, and posting them on youtube (http://www.youtube.com/user/cliffjennings) . Using social networking to the max, and it’s working very well.

    Keep an eye on him, we know he isn’t going to make it into the final top 10, but we do know we are going to remember him for a long time afterwards.

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  • Get paid to blog

    We all need to pay the bills at crunch time, and after browsing through a couple of sites, I have come across a few ways to make money through your blog. You could advertise on blogs, or affiliate banners, but most of the time, the payout is quite low.

    One site I have come across recently is Smorty. Smorty allows you to” get paid to blog” by writing a review on a product by one their advertisers. You can also sign up as an advertiser, and ask people to write reviews on their products, which essentially mean you are getting advertising on blogs.

    Signing up is a breeze, and after your blog has been approved, you can start reviewing products right away. The site is super friendly and easy to use, and you track your payments, which are paid into your PayPal account.

    Give it a try. Blog for money now at smorty.com

  • Facebook Lifehack – No More Facebook Applications

    I know I have been posting a lot of Facebook shit lately, but I came across a handy new feature that makes me very happy. After last week’s rant about Facebook apps, I have found quick and easy way to ignore them.

    Firstly it seems that Facebook has changed the way they display the apps to the user. Instead of having the list of apps appearing under your profile picture on the left, which took up loads of space, they have now put icons for each app, taking up much less space.

    Icons

    They now also allow you to “Minimize” apps that you don’t want to see on profiles. So instead of having to scroll and scroll to the bottom of the page to see your friends wall, you can now minimize the apps, so that just the title of the app appears.

    This is what the current apps look like:

    openapps

    Now if you click on the blue arrow in the top left, it will minimize the app, and only show the title of the app.

    closed

    This way, you are able to scroll past all the apps, you don’t to see, and makes loading times much faster and uses less screen “real estate”. So much prettier :)