Money Links (weekly)

• Rosemary Bailey Brown’s Married to a Serb Blog: The Power of ‘The Secret’

  A cautionary tale about being precise with what you want from the universe.

  tags: money, the, secret, law, of, attraction, visualisation

• Thriving Organizational Patterns – Wagn

  A very cool way to organise data

  tags: wiki, tool, wagn, money

• The Essential Guide to Growing Your Blog on Minimal Time

  tags: money, blogging, time

• How To Land Big Interviews When Your Blog Is Still Small

  A good article on how a little guy can get interviews with some very influential people, with a thought about aiming big thrown in.

  tags: money, blogging, interviews

• A Few Quick Tips for Kindle Authors and Publishers | TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home

  An interesting explanation about publishing books on the kindle

  tags: money, kindle, amazon, pricing, ebook

• Wordle – Create

  A cool site for generating “word clouds” from text

  tags: games, money, words, fun

• SEO Copywriting is Dead! Here’s Proof… | Science for SEO

  A good article on how copywriting for SEO has changed. A bit involved, especially for newbies, but a good read

  tags: seo, money, coywriting

• Anthony Robbins – Unleash The Power Within

  I really want to go to one of those!

  tags: wishlist, money

• Clothing magic « The Experiments of Magicians

  An interesting take on how to use clothing to shape our persona

  tags: money, clothing

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

About Me

This is just a note to let you know that I have updated the About Me section of the blog. Its a fairly short overview of who I am, and why i do this, in case you are curious.

Unexpected Sources of Income

Introduction

Recently, I have started with The Secret Science of Getting Rich Programme, which got me thinking of the times that synchronicity  has played a big part in my financial life. One, fairly recent incident really stands out for me, so I will share it with you here. It is a bit of a long story, but I hope it will be worth the read, and serve as a demonstration of how cunningly the Law of Attraction can work.

Background

Well, this goes back over nine years ago, long before my wife even met me. She was working at a large company as a secretary, and got a large settlement from her provident fund, which enabled her to move to Cape Town to pursue a new carreer as a make-up artist. This is also where she met me, which is a story for itself, and one which I might tell if enough people would like to know it.

About five years after that, we moved again, this time to Johannesburg, where my wife reconnected to an old friend of hers, that she used to work with.  This friend informed her that their old company has been looking for its ex-employees, since they have found some irregularities with the way the provident fund had been paid out, and they actually owed money to their ex-employees.

Thanks to her, we got the correct documentation, filled it in, sent it off, and forgot about it. This was about a year ago. We didn’t expect much from it, a couple of thousand at the most.

Recent

Of course, like it always does, life went on. We had a daughter, and decided that South Africa was not right for us anymore, deciding to move to Serbia for various reasons.

We set a goal for ourselves: To pay off all our debt, and to have a minimum of six months living costs. We were not sure how we would do this, especially since we had a large amount of debt, but we were determined.

We started off well, managing to save a little of my salary for the first month, and actually staying within our budget for the first time in our lives.

About a month after we have moved, I received an email from my mother (whom I asked to check our mail), that my wife’s old company has sent us a letter, stating that they would pay us about R150000 (approx. $15000). I did not believe this at first, actually having to read the email several times before it sunk in, and then I still had to phone my mother, just to make sure that it was not some sort of joke… It wasn’t

The money was enough to pay off all our debt, and give us about four months of living costs, which, while not completelly reaching our goal, brought us a lot closer to it.

Now

All this happened about four months ago, and is really just starting to sink in. Just two weeks ago, I got an IM message for my wife saying: “We are debt free! I just realised it!”… More powerfully than the monetary boost, is the fact that the whole story highlights the power of the Law of Attraction: We sent an intention out to the universe, held to it, and the universe replied back in a way we could not have predicted… Who could have expected so much money from a job my wife worked at almost a decade ago?

Changed Hosts

As you probably have not noticed, I have moved this site to a new host, in this case LunarPages. I have had problems with my old host, and these guys come highly recommended. The move went through without a hitch, and we will see how well they do from here.

Finishing thought on World Blogging Month

I have to admit that writing an article a day every second day turned out to be a lot more difficult than I expected… i only missed one slot, and that was due to the fact that my daughter was sick, and after a couple of days with little sleep and lots of stress, I just did not have the energy to write.

As for the effect this exercise has had on me… I hoped that it would reinvigorate me, and make me embrace blogging more. It had a somewhat opposite effect, I found the pressure to do a post every two days a bit much, and i ended up writing a ton of posts that I know I could have written a lot better.

Overall, I am glad I did the exercise, but I don’t think I will ever do this again in the future. I will have to work out a less pressing schedule that works for me.

Payment Processors

I am looking for a payment processor at the moment for a new project. I initially wanted to work with ClickBank, since I have heard good things about them, but it turns out that they do not support Serbia as a destination, so I am forced to search further afield. PayPal has the same problem.

I am looking at other alternatives at the moment. specifically 2checkout and Authorize.net. As I research them, expect a fuller review and compare article in the future.

Anyway, if you know of a good payment processor, or have any suggestions, feel free to leave a comment.

Getting an Overseas account

While I do have accounts in two countries at the moment (Serbia and South Africa), simply because of having moved around so much, I still want to open another account in one of the more ‘mainstream’ countries. I am thinking of the U.K., since I am not sure how much I trust the US banks at the moment. Of course, most EU member countries would be fine, since my main requirement is an account where I can easily receive money from ClickBank.

So, does anybody have any suggestions? I have looked into Barclays Bank, but their initial deposit of 5000 pounds put me of. Standard Bank has one with a 5000 euro deposit, but that still seems a bit high, though doable.

My main requirements (in order of importance)

• Easy deposits
• Internet access to my account
• Stable Bank
• Low transaction and monthly costs
• Debit card availability
• Interest on balances

Update

Well, I have just finished updating the site to WP 2.7.1. No, this is not the theme I am planning to stick with, but it is getting late now, and I am just quickly typing this in to get a post in, and not lose my WoBloMo track record…

Anyway, at least I am staying true to my word that changes are coming to this site. I promise some of them will be for the better

Changes and Decisions

Its week three of WoBloMo, and already I am struggling to keep up with this, as those of you that have read my other entries may have realised. The problem lies in the fact that I feel rushed to do an entry every two days, so you end up with something that emerges from me semi-randomly punding on a keyboard, a bit like this article.

I ahve decided to start taking this blog a bit more seriously, so over the next few weeks expect to see some changes coming here. I am also working on another big project, that I will announce at a later date.

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How Many Microprocessors Surround you?

I read an article which spoke about how engines were a big deal at one point, but now everybody takes them for granted… For example, nobody really cares about the specs for the engine driving their washing machine, while at one point that would have been a selling point at one time (I really wish I could find the article now, if anybody knows about it, please let me know).

The article then goes on to say that once microprocessors get to this point, we will know that they have become fully integrated into our lives.

Today, for some reason, I decided to count how many of each I ahve at my house… I have only about 10 engines (washing machine, dishwasher, food processor, etc), but the microprocessor count is in its twenties (computers, cellphones, gaming systems, dvd players, washing machine, etc)… I think they are already fully integrated into our lives, to the point where we are completely unaware of them until we stop to think.

So, how many microprocessors are in your house?Technorati Tags: woblomo, modern life

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