Have you tried making money from public domain products? When a work is in public domain it means these works are available for the public to use for free without having to pay any royalty fee. Public domain works generally fall under four categories:

1. Generic information like facts, numbers, ideas, titles, blank forms, etc.

2. Works granted or donated to the public domain.

3. Works by the government or its agents.

4. Formerly copyrighted works that have fallen into public domain or lost their copyright due to a number of different situations.

(www.publicdomainriches.com)

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I’ve never seen so many Premium Themes up for grabs in one contest! Thirty, yes you got that right. Thirty Premium Themes are to be given away at WPThemeDesigner. There are loads of free Wordpress themes out there but having a premium theme wil make your blog stand out. To be honest I am not yet ready to buy one so the next best thing to do is join the contest and try my luck.

Here are the Premium Themes to be given away:

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In today’s economic crunch, we should always prepare ourselves for any event affecting our personal finances. There’s no such thing as job security. Small companies close shops and bigger companies sometimes need to trim down employees. Even government is rationalizing and getting rid of redundant organizations and positions. In events like these, we have to thank for rakets or freelance jobs to cushion the effects of loosing a permanent job.

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Filipinos as tourists are spenders. Bringing home ‘pasalubong’ is a must. A loved one would always receive a small token from someone’s vacation. Thus, with a booming tourism industry comes the need for souvenir items. This can be a good raket for additional income especially for those who are employed like myself since demand for these products are seasonal so it will not require a lot of time.

When thinking of a souvenir item, it should be distinctive of the place, can easily be packed and light weight. What comes to mind are Souvenir T-Shirts . The technology is readily available and materials can be accessed easily. It also doesn’t need much of start-up capital.

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Upcoming food events:

1. 2008 World Food Expo (WOFEX) Visayas on 16-19 April 2008 at the Cebu International Convention Center, Cebu
2. 5th International Food Exhibition Philippines (IFEX) on 16-18 May 2008 at the SMX, Convention Center, Pasay City
3. 2008 Food Processing and Packaging Technology Expo on 18-21 June 2008 at the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, Davao City
4. 8th World Food Expo (WOFEX) on 6-9 August 2008 at the World Trade Center, Manila

I haven’t updated this blog lately since I was quite busy with the full-time job. There were a lot of things I wanted to blog about but I needed references and images. Searching for these information requires time and effort and make blogging a challenge.

I am glad I came across a Firefox plugin called Zemanta which can make writing posts a lot easier by suggesting relevant links and related content to your post. This plugin integrates with your WordPress, Blogger, TypePad and even self-hosted WordPress installations and helps you by providing links while you are creating a new post.

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Kung Hei Fat Choi! Bacolod City celebrated the Chinese New Year with an Evening Lantern Parade of the Twelve Zodiac sign animals which started from SM City and culminated in the Provincial Capitol Lagoon with a fireworks display.

Companies often use surveys to know the needs and wants of their customers. Surveys help managers make business decisions that are essential to the company. With the emerging number of bloggers and social networks, marketeers are now using these venues in reaching out to their target customers by conducting surveys. One such website is dNeero.com.

DNeero allows researchers and marketeers to create surveys composed of various questions which dNeero publicize to bloggers. In turn, bloggers make money by answering the surveys and gets additional payment when they post the survey answers to their blogs. If a blogger wants to earn even more, dNeero also has a referral program.

Here’s an example of a survey I took on Blue Jeans. You are free to post your own answers.

make money image credit: cristimate

Last Friday, January 18, 2008, I was able to attend lectures from the country’s most sought after marketing experts at the University of St. La Salle-Bacolod. Ms. Carolina Escareal-Go and Mr. Josiah Go of Mansmith and Fielders were the resource persons. Such lecture would have cost a fortune if it wasn’t sponsored by the Insititute for Negros Development of the USLS-Graduate School. Local entrepreneurs as well as educators attended the event.

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It’s interesting that it took a Singaporean to note that the Philippines is the Blog Capital of the World. He has also some nice things to say about Filipino friendliness and charm. Well, I’m quite flattered. It’s not everyday that you hear kind words from foreigners. This observation has come to light because of the number of Pinoys using Entrecard.

For those who don’t know it yet, Entrecard was launched in November 8, 2007 where you can drop your card on somebody’s blog in exchange for credits. You can even buy Ad space from other bloggers using 125 x 125 Ad format all in exchange for credits. The idea is like exchanging business cards. You gain credits by dropping your card to other blogs and when bloggers drop their card to yours. Simple but effective method for gaining traffic.

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