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ClickforNick.com Blog Network, Sticking to One Topic

Wednesday, November 21st, 2007

When I started clickfornick.com, I wasn’t sure what topics to focus on, therefore I wrote about topics like watch tv online, how to build a blog, and etc… Overtime, I learned to focus on one topic for clickfornick, that being make money and save money. Overall its been a learning process.

The Blog Expansion
If you’ll notice, I added a new section on this blog called “Click for Nick Network Blogs”. These blogs are other subcategories within this blog. Rather than continue to write about watching tv online, making free calls, etc. on this blog. I decided rather to give these categories their own blogs.

They each have their own RSS Feeds, so if you subscribe to this blog you won’t receive any new postings from my other blogs. If you want to get the latest updates on how to watch tv shows online, you’ll have to browse to that subcategory and subscribe.

Why Subcategories?
I simply want to keep everything focused toward one topic. If someone wants to read about how to watch free tv episodes online, they should be able to do that all within one blog. At the same time, I want to keep everything under the same domain name.

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Save Money and not Notice you are Saving Money

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007

Do you consciously think about saving money? If money is tight, there are small ways to cut unneeded expensive out of your day without evening noticing it.

The following article comes from bargaineering.com:

“1. Cancel that Netflix Account.
How many movies do you really watch? Cancel that Netflix account and instead go with something like Redbox where you pay $1 a night (often times free with a promotional code) and save yourself that $20-$30 a month you’re paying now. I know I’ve been at my friends’ places and seen the same Netflix envelopes month after month.

2. Drink more water.
Get a water bottle, fill it up and drink from it during the day. Get used to drinking water and you won’t drink more expensive stuff like soda and coffee. Get used to drinking water and you’ll likely eat less, cutting out those expensive snacks. Get used to drinking water and improve your health, which means less in health care costs down the road that will be difficult to quantify. As a corollary, when you go out to eat, ask for water instead of your beverage of choice. This is a directly quantifiable savings because do you really want a $2 soda?

3. Visit the library.
Books are expensive and I’ve done a scientific experiment that has definitively proven that the only reason why you would ever buy a book is so that you can put it on your bookshelf to prove how educated you are. Seriously, I have done such an experiment because I know that after I read through a book once, there is a 99.99999% chance that I will never open it again and thus the only logical reason to ever buy a book is to show off. ) Okay, I’m being facetious but let the library be your bookcase and not only will you save money, you’ll save space, and even some trees. DVDs are available at the library too… so you can scratch off #1 too if you just do #3.

4. Switch to CFL.
Switching to compact fluorescent light bulbs will save you huge on your electricity bills since the bulbs use about a quarter of the electricity of their regular light bulb equivalents. Now, the bulbs will be more expensive but the lowered electricity bill plus the longer lifespan overcomes the initial price hit without minimal cost to you.

5. Reduce your phone, television, internet package or just threaten to cancel it.
Do you really need 23094820394238 minutes on your cell package? How about 290384029 channels? Heck no, I have like 500 channels and all I watch are ESPN, The History Channel, and maybe Oxygen (okay, not really Oxygen); but if you don’t want to give up all those options, consider just calling up your cable company and demanding a better rate. Verizon is coming into the neighborhood soon so I think I’ll be calling up Comcast and asking them to reduce my rate or I’m jumping ship. Either way, paying less for the same service is certainly an invisible way to save money!”

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Google Adsense, New Ad Format

Monday, November 19th, 2007

Recently Google has unleashed it’s new ad format for Google Adsense. Before a Google Adsense Ad only had to be clicked anywhere in the region of the ad in order for it to count. Now, only the title and link underneath the description are clickable. This is a method to reduce “invalid and accidental” clicks. In a sense this reduces the click zone of Adsense ads by over 50%.

Will this effect Web owners?
This certainly will have a huge effect on how much adsense publishers make on their. The biggest question is, how much money will publishers lose and will this cause people to look for other ad services to publish their ads through? Is it time to switch to Bidvertiser?

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Why You Should Not Give Up, Failure happens

Monday, November 19th, 2007

Failure, it seems to knock at my door everyday. Throughout the course of the year I’ve been looking for a job in Germany, so I could move back there, and live close to my girlfriend. Cute story right? Not really. No one wants to give me a chance. Recently I applied for a position with an internet company and thought for sure I’m getting the job. What happened today? I didn’t get it. Immediately I thought I’m going to give up. This whole struggle is pointless, what am I doing?

How Not To Give Up
I had to write this post just to remind myself that I should not give up. Rather I can keep going and succeed.

1. Look for new ideas and opportunities
Even though one idea didn’t work out. Maybe there are other opportunities that I didn’t see because I was so focused on only one. If I just give up, I close off all my future possibilities.

2. Trial and Error
If you fail the first time, analyze what you did and what you did right. Learn from your mistakes and fix them so the next time you try the next attempt, you are more successful. If you give up, you leave yourself no chance to improve.

3. Ask yourself questions
When I fail, I have to ask myself what did I do wrong. Why didn’t I get that job and what can I do to get the job? I ask myself after I get rejected: Was there something wrong with my application? Maybe there is a reason I was not qualified. Maybe I am applying for the wrong kind of jobs altogether? If you give up, you lose the opportunity to try again.

Past Failures
Before you give up, think about these other examples of not giving up. Thomas Edison tried to invent the light bulb over 9999 times. Colonel Sanders was rejected over 1000 times before someone bought his famous chicken recipe. What if they gave up?

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