Well today I received a brand new HP Pavillion HDX-9200 Entertainment Notebook from the guys at HP to do a product review of it on my blog here as well as on I’m With The Band. This is the first product review that I’ve done, apart from a few CD and gig reviews on I’m With The Band, and it is also the first video review I’ve... (more...)
Well it seems as if Entrecard has gone a little bizarro world tonight. I just logged into my account to approve some adverts and what do I see, 512 credits to advertise on my blog! Weird! The after a little further research it seems like the whole Make Money Online category has gone a little haywire, see the following screencap. I was thinking about... (more...)
In a week where my RSS subscriptions have been dominated by news and commentary from SXSW I figured this was going to be a difficult TBOTW to put together, in actual fact it’s been very easy as there is still some fantastic content being produced by the ’smaller’ name blogs while all the big guys are at SXSW. So here’s this weeks... (more...)
Last week I re-did the I’m With The Band theme as we just partnered up with the local street press Reverb and needed to setup an area on the front page where people could download the latest edition of Reverb. When I did this theme change I had to mockup a quick header logo until I had the time to sit down and make a new logo / header. The other... (more...)
Here in Australia tomorrow is the end of the month, I’m sure it’s also the end of the month elsewhere in the world it’s just that ours comes a little sooner than say Americas. Anyway, being the end of the month it’s Income Report time.. cue the marching band! Today I’ll be starting to compile all the information so that... (more...)
In what I hope to make a regular segment here at Mathew Packer dot com, here’s the first installment in ‘The Best of the Week’. The Best of the Week will basically be a number of articles from all the RSS feeds I subscribe to that I think you guys should check out. There might be a few articles that you’ve already read from RSS... (more...)
I get a few emails from time to time from friends who are starting out in the blogging world asking me how I’ve gone with setting up my blog and bringing in traffic and all that sort of stuff, so I figured I would actually write an article about what I’ve done and that way I can direct people to it and hopefully they’ll find it a useful... (more...)
While I’ve been on long service leave from my 9-5 job I’ve been putting more and more effort into this blog and trying to grow a steady income from it. So far the success has been small, revenue wise, however there has been a noticeable increase over the past 3 weeks. I’m not going to bore you with all the details on how I’ve... (more...)
Earlier this month I published an article on Bidvertiser when they went live with their public beta that allowed you to monetize your RSS feed. There were a lot of complaints from people who tried Bidvertiser’s RSS advertising as basically you couldn’t convert all your Feedburner subscribers over, and you essentially had to publish a new... (more...)
Earlier today my Google RSS Reader received an updated entry from John Chow’s blog called Successful Blogging - 5 Tips for Writing With Confidence which was a guest post by seopher.com’s Steven York. Lately John’s had a lot of guest bloggers, of course this is great for their blogs as they’re probably picking up a lot of extra... (more...)