The usual question that crops up in the mind always is how can I have a small business with minimal or no investment at all? Chances are you really would need some cash necessary to put up even a very small business. But if you don’t have that cash, think of other ways to make money. You will need only to think of something that can be beneficial to you and give you some additional income without any capital. Other than goods, you can tap on services. Services or personal skills can turn into a profitable business in the long run.

Do you have some skills in writing? Just simple basic writing, as if you are writing a journal of your daily activities and life? You might be surprised but this can be a real business when you give it the much needed attention. Blogging is the term used in this style of writing. This can be a small business blog which if you try to learn about the steps can be a form of source of income. In order to be successful in this venture, you have to know what topics are really interesting, so that you can generate more viewers and readers on your blogs.

Here are some tips on the best money making blogs technique  that can possibly help you:

Advertising. This is one way to make your blog popular. You can use Google Adsense for this one. Adsense allows a code  into your website which makes it easier to match the content of your blogs. Every click is equivalent to a certain monetary value that can give you earnings. That means more clicks, more money for you. This how you make money blogs via advertising.

Donations. Blog with various useful and free content. You can request donations for doing this. Not all people who read your content will give donations, but somehow, one way or another, there will be some who will enjoy and like what you are blogging and they will definitely have the heart to donate.

Showcasing your writing skills. Write blogs that are interesting and well thought of. If possible write blogs for other sites. Choose to write on a variety of topics that can showcase your talent as a writer. This can land you a job in the long run.

 

 

I used to believe that to be able to get good quality work in doing my medical transcription, I have to be typing way about 100 wpm without errors.  But after that, I started to be frustrated with what I can only achieve.  I am a medical transcriptionist but I can merely type between 35-40 wpm.  I used to not pass job applications because a number of companies require above 60 wpm or higher.  I keep in mind that at one time, I attained 50 wpm in one of my tests and I was very happy.  Although that was not achieved at a one-time test alone because I did that after several attempts; somehow I got used to what I was typing.

I learned to type using the old fashioned type writer.  I then started to learn typing using the computer keyboard doing my undergraduate thesis in college.  I liked using the WordStar at that time.  I never did it the correct way.  I mean, I type not following the correct finger assignment.  Nowadays, fortunately there is Autocorrect in MS Word that I can take advantage of some time to attain more than 500 lines a day doing my medical transcription work.

One fortunate moment was when I passed preliminary screening in one company.  The first test included typing test and I think the passing score was 35 wpm.  I couldn’t remember how I managed to reach 40 wpm on my initial attempt and so I was hired.  I learned after that half of the applicants that time was sent out.  Of course, the initial screening also included English knowledge assessment to pass.

I have this post in my personal blog one time about my typing skill, and I think I will never learn to do the right thing because of my inflexibility.  All I can do is I can type faster while my earphones listening to voice of the doctors rather than copy typing.  There are a lot of typing tips on how to type faster and master your keyboard.  Some tries to just be more accurate than speedy.  Your speed will follow then.  Of course, practice is still considered the best method.  Try to feel the home keys first then proceed with to the point you need not to look at them.  Warm up before starting your typing or voice transcription.  It really helps as we normally do with any of our activities.  Know by heart your keyboard as well, but do not bring to bed your keyboard.  There is also this thing that rhythm as you go along typing your voice transcription.  Also avoid distraction when typing.

But in all honesty, there are only a few medical transcriptionists who can type 100 wpm.  Are you one of them?  Tell us your experience.

I’ve always been a home buddy since I start working at home and it is like home-my kids’ schools-home on weekdays and home-church-home on Sundays.  My youngest son is a first-time school boy and then once I had a chance to go out with him for a school trip.  It seems that I am more excited than him that I prepared our things for the early leave the next day.

The places we visited for the school trip seemed nothing new to me, but it was his first time so I let him enjoy the places and took pictures.  The last place that we visited was something very new to me.  I saw the place and sign before when I was working in Cubao and was still living in Quezon City.  The tour guide asked everyone to prepare our camera phones or cameras and he said that it is a huge place with different paintings on the walls, ceilings, and even floors.  Everyone was so excited to wear our pair of foot covers at the door of Art In Island.  It is an interactive 3D art museum located in Brgy. Socorro, Cubao, Quezon City.

The first part of the paintings was the common optical illusions and at first, I can’t take pictures because we were so amazed of the wall paintings.  When we get inside the place more, there were different themes and really huge paintings that change the atmosphere of the place.  Since it was a mother and son event for the two of us, I took more of the picture of the place with my very handsome good boy.  Well, I can say that there were just a couple of people who volunteered to take a photo of us both like the huge message in the bottle.  We sat in the middle of the two walls and that is the middle of the painting of a huge bottle that was floating in the ocean with beautiful scenery of the sunset as a background.

There were some parts that it seems like you were in a jungle, Egypt, Milan, Snowy Mountain and a lot more.  There were also parts in front of the painting that has a sign of camera; it means that is the good spot to take a picture.  When we were on our way home, I was so surprised that I took more than 50 pictures in that place and I uploaded more than 180 pictures from the places that we visited that day.  It was fun and we’re planning to visit it again with some friends or family members. 

This post was contributed to us by a work at home mom.

Home-based audio transcription is increasingly popular in the Philippines.  A lot of audio transcriptionists or sometimes called as transcribers  nowadays are trying to get clients directly from the source. Through the advent of internet, many Filipino transcriptionists are able to get jobs or voice files from the USA, Australia or even in the UK.

With appropriate skills and equipment, one can start immediately at the own comfort of your home.  One must consider several factors in starting a career in home based transcription. In the Philippines, since majority of Filipinos have good grasp of the English language, they can immediately acquire the trust of transcription clients all over the world.

Audio transcription in Philippines dates back to early 2000 when medical transcription became profitable for business process outsourcing companies.  Since then, the Philippines becomes the first choice of US and the UK to source out their medical transcription work.

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The technology has made it easier for us to play the games online either on the phone or the Internet. Since, smartphones play a big role in our life nowadays, we rely mostly on the cellphones when we are on break during our blogging work or free at home. There are tons of applications in the Android OS, which can be played but here we are going to mention the top 6 apps for brain teaser in Android. You can download the applications for free from the Play Store of Android and get ready to play.

The top 6 games apps are very addictive and can be considered the best to be played as a time pass. The puzzles games and the strategy games keep our attention towards them because you have to be quick in thinking how to clear the certain level and reach to the other.

Top 6 Brain Teaser Applications

The top 6 brain teaser applications of Android are as follows:

1.      Cut The Rope

Cut the Rope is a pretty simple game where you have to slack ropes to get the candy in the game. You have to collect as much as gold stars through which you can get the points in the game. It is exciting, as hanging with the rope keeps you going in this game. Though the game is easy to play, yet you will have some seconds to pass each level, which is a real brain teaser.

2.      Mahjong Connect

Mahjong Connect is a puzzle game, which has tiles in it. It needs planning ahead of time where you need to think quickly with the good coordination of hand and eye. The identical tiles should be in connecting pairs in order to clear the board of Mahjong connect. It is an exciting and fun game to play.

3.      Angry Bird

Nowadays, Angry bird is installed in everyone’s Android smartphone. This game requires planning on how to hit all the pigs in the games. You will have the option of numerous birds on each level to be used to hit the pigs in order to proceed further to the next step. There are different interfaces for each angry bird level, which makes the game more exciting.

4.      Apparatus

The concept of Apparatus game is to throw the ball in the basket. It seems easier but it is not because you have to take the measures on how to make it as a perfect throw. Thus, it is challenging to complete the levels. You have to goal the ball accordingly because there are fewer chances given in this game.

5.      Slice It

The puzzle game of Slice consists of cutting the paper into equal portions. As the levels get higher in this game, it gets trickier. You have to be very quick on how and from where you can cut the paper. There are set of numbers given to slice the paper on each stage, which you will have to reach accordingly. It is free to download and fun to play when you are free.

6.      Mixt HD

It is one of the best games, which can give you the excellent use of touch screens of your Android smartphones. You have to fill the colored wells with appropriate colored blob at the bottom of the screen. The colors can be of different combinations making the red into yellow or yellow into orange and so on.

About the Contributor: This post is written by Adeel Zia. He is a part time blogger and Internet marketing expert.

For some people blogging is just a thing to enjoy, a hobby, where one can fully express what he wants to write about a particular topic. Blogging can be real fun and you can even turn this into the best money  making blogs on the web. It is often the belief that in order to earn money from these blogs, you need to advertise or sell a product or service. While this is true, there are other ways to make more money by selling advertisement on your blog site.

Instead of you promoting a certain product or service, it will be the other way around, which means advertisers  pay you for placing their ads on your own site. Many people are now creating their blogs daily and if you are that serious to get some real cash, then learn to be different from the others. Try and become a member of an existing advertising team.

If you want to  be one of the top money making blogs, network your work through some advertisers and be an associate:

Google AdSense. This is a very good advertising network and very lucrative. Google’s ads are relatively short and usually contains 25 characters for the headline and the next lines about 35 characters only.

Expoactive. This network gives you the right to select specific advertisements that you want to appear in your site.

Crispads. This advertising network gives you the opportunity to negotiate how much you charge for a particular ad. High blog traffic means increase in the price and you have the option to do that.

These advertising networks can give you an income that you never imagine you can have. You always have the choice whether to be an affiliate or to promote your blog solo. Although it is a little bit slower when starting up with this business, in time you can have the best money making blogs with perseverance. There is great money in blogging and one must only learn the basics and guidelines to be successful and be one of the top money making blogs on the web. For newbie bloggers, read this money earning ideas.

Do you dream of becoming a Search Engine Optimization (SEO) specialist? If so, you need to have some qualities that will prepare yourself to be a qualified one.

SEO specialist is being hired by bloggers needing to optimize their blog to stand out above the rest. The following are some important requirements of an SEO specialist.

1. Beginners might be frustrated but a basic knowledge of JavaScript, HTML and also CSS is very useful.
If you are going to work on websites, you will encounter some of the different codes you may not familiar with. Others may look simple but surely there will be some that will be complicated than you think.

2. Writing skills is a must.
It is significant that you can write and communicate effectively since there are tasks that necessitate this skill.  Websites often assign SEO’s to build links and you will also need to submit contents, furnish articles and do other various kinds of writings.

3. You need to be analytical.
This is the best quality an SEO expert must have. When situations get tough, you have to think of the best solution to make and be a winner. There are difficult decisions that will need fast implementations and it will need a good analyst in circumstances like that.

4. A comprehensive knowledge about the internet.
You need to have an intense knowledge on how the internet works.  Further, promotions are needed when you are engaged in SEO marketing; therefore you have to be very good in promoting the sites assigned to you in various networks available.

5. You must possess good research abilities.
One vital role of SEO’s is research. More often than not, there will be several research works that will be assigned to you. This is very true in a lot of situations.

A successful SEO specialist should learn all the skills and needs to continue learning. In order for your services to be in demand, the best thing to do is hone your knowledge towards productivity in order to acquire best results possible. This way, you can provide satisfaction to your employer, and you deliberately add more skills to yourself. Competitions are tough therefore always give your best foot forward.