Blogging For Fame and Fortune

Hello! I was reading some magazines before I went to a meeting yesterday. I found this:

(Picture from Entrepreneur Magazine)

It caught my attention because I really see blogging as a way to market things and knowing that a blog can get more than nine million page views per day just confirms this. It’s even more than marketing now, it can be a business itself. With that amount of people per day, companies would love to have their websites, banners, links, flash presentations and anything else to do with them advertised somewhere in your blog.

I checked out Perez Hilton (click the link if you love celebrity gossip hehe) and I saw ads from Google, McAfee, and other companies. These people pay to have their stuff advertised in the blog. Nice nice nice

But I guess you can’t just blog and expect nine million viewers per day after some years of blogging. As stated in the page I saw from the magazine (although it’s quite unclear from the picture), there are things you need to do if you want to attract millions to your blog. For me, it’s about creating a great web identity… an interesting one… an addicting one… a sexy one… a controversial one… and more and more and more.

The good thing about this is… it’s possible and if we want to take blogging to the next level, then why not?

Personalized Virtual Gifts Sent Via Facebook

(picture from Greetbeatz)

There’s a new great way to send a personalized virtual gift and it is fully integrated in Facebook. Instead of sending an e card or any of those forwarded supposed to be funny/inspirational emails, why don’t you go to Greetbeatz and have a song commissioned for your friend, loved one, enemy, or anyone you want to share a smile with. The good thing about Greetbeatz is that you can commission a basic birthday song (good for 2min) for free. Rates starts to come in when you want to commission a song for any other occasion, $9.95 for a 1:00-:30 min song, and $49.95 for a song with any length. The catch is that for the free birthday song; you can only customize a few words like the celebrator’s name and your name. As for the ones where you pay, you can customize the whole song. They have forms where you fill in the details. It’s so specific, they even ask for the pronounciation of the names you want to include in the song. They have dedicated artists who would produce your song and it takes up to 5 days max. After this, the end result appears on the recipient’s Facebook wall to be enjoyed by everyone.

Cool huh? They actually have nice songs. The birthday song I was able to hear is so cool, a lot of rap going on. It’s also a great way to make fun of someone if you think about it hehe. But of course, use it for the good. But for some laughs, yeah why not.

Oh yeah, they are also looking for artists so if you’re one, just contact them. Details can be found in their website.