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.

57th – Forbes’ most powerful celebs

Manny Pacquiao ranks 57th among Forbes’ most powerful celebs.

I first found out about this yesterday while I was listening to the radio. The moment I heard about it, I discreetly smiled and told myself, YOU THE MAN MANNY! Haha

It’s really amazing how powerful Manny Pacquiao is getting, not just in terms of sports but in other aspects as well. At first, I was really reluctant in believing that he is a celebrity, I mean, for me he’s a good athlete, but not a celebrity… at least in my dictionary. But what more proof can prove me otherwise? See the title???? And to think that it’s a worldwide roster.

Being part of a league with people like Angelina Jolie, Madonna, Beyonce Knowles, Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods, and Simon Cowell, it really gives me great joy that even in the most little way, I’m connected with the one in number 57. It’s another source of inspiration every time I feel that I’m living in a country with a lot of problems. It’s another push factor everytime I think that some people are better than me. Thanks to this, I have extra fuel to boost my engine towards my dreams way up there.

Who knows, I may make it to that list… YOU can make it to that list or any list that you want to be in.

I just hope Manny does not go dark side or something. I believe that with this kind of power, you should be really careful with your decisions because in one way or another, they will be big.

Congratulations Pacman!

Here’s the top 25. Image from popcrunch

Be a star! replace the star!

If you always wanted to be part of a famous movie or more so, be the star yourself, then now is your time to make it happen! Haha

Yoostar helps you do that by its technology. You basically choose a scene, set up a green screen, then go lights camera action!

It’s pretty cool and who knows what are the boundaries to your creativity. It’s not being sold yet but it will soon be. Hmmmmm… I checked out their website, you can put yourself in scenes from movies like Terminator (the first one), Rocky Balboa, and Sesame Street. Cool huh? You should check it out yourself.

People are getting more and more creative… I wonder what’s next after this. And of course, more creative ideas mean more business ideas. Isn’t it exciting? I got some myself and I can’t wait for the time to materialize these ideas of mine.

Watch out for me!

Maximize Creative Juices

There are days when our creative juices are at its peak and we tend to come up with innovative/creative/wild ideas. Such ideas are sometimes solutions to problems we are currently facing, sometimes they are simply things to laugh about, and sometimes they are ideas that have the potential to make it big. These are ideas that could start a revolution because of its uniqueness and if you look at succesful companies today, they all started from this same thing… an idea… a big idea.

So what do you need to do with your idea for something big? Make it BIG. Own it, develop it, or submit it Quirky.

Quirky is a new way of developing products and is a good way to start. Basically, you go to their website and submit your idea for a certain price.

Doing this gives you the chance to have your idea materialized into something that could be used by hundreds of people. Possibilities are unlimited the same way as your idea is.

Of course, if your idea makes it big, you’ll get a cut from every dollar your product earns. Cool huh?

So there… when you wake up one day and you have an idea that has the potential to make it big, you may want to submit it to Quirky. Who knows how far can your idea reach, not to meantion how much it can earn!

Try watching the video below for more info and of course, check out their website.

And now I’m thinking what to submit, hmmmm…..