What a week! I’ve been messing around with my theme files so much that some of you might have outdated files cached in your browser and thus some information/images etc might appear twisted or worse: new info might not appear @ all.

I implore you all to please clear your browser caches so you can get the most recent configuration of my theme/blog. If you don’t know how to do this on your own please try CCleaner so you can clear your browser cache and windows temporary files as well!

Tomorrow, by God's grace, I’ll be attending my very first make money online seminar hosted by a Nigerian "guru". This time around Henry Omenogor will supposedly be showing those in attendance how to make real money from The Business of : Affiliate Programs, Blog Farming & Autoblogging! As a bonus he’s also going to teach how to open, verify, fund and withdraw from Payoneer, PayPal and LibertyReserve as well as how to bid on Lime Exchange.

As always, if you stay subscribed to my feed, you’ll DEFINITELY receive a free update regarding ALL the info offered @ this seminar. This is for the benefit of those of you who can’t attend or are wary cos they’ve been conned before.

Now let’s discuss the business of the day

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Seeing that the make money online info product niche is getting seriously saturated and sales are hard to come by, some of Nigeria's internet marketing gurus have moved on to a new business model which is focused around the setting up of adsense/affiliate blogs and websites for a fee.

Most of them have announced their retirement from the information product marketing arena as they move on to blog setup services which has some serious issues as is expected.

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Daniel Scocco of Daily Blog Tips made his contribution to the make money online blogging community by releasing, sometime last year, a 54 paged free report titled Make Money Blogging  though I’m just actually taking a good look @ it’s contents

To be sincere, I’ve seen better blogging free reports such as Income Blogging Guide by Andrew Rondeau and Joel Williams but then the major difference between these two lies in the fact that, Income Blogging Guide actually guides you through setting up a wordpress blog while Daniel’s report takes on the do’s and don’ts of blogging for money and monetization strategies for established blogs

In continuation are most of the issues outlined in Daniel Scocco’s Make Money Blogging Free Report.

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I took a bold step @ achieving my dreams of becoming a singer/songwriter last Tuesday and auditioned for Nigeria’s Star Quest 2010. I did a song of mine and was asked to do another, so I did the bridge of Beyonce’s If I Was A Boy. Unfortunately that wasn’t enough for the judges. They asked me to sing yet another song this time by a Nigerian artiste and there and then singer’s block set it in. LMAO.

I can’t sing any Nigerian song even if my life depended on it. I tried TuFace Idibia’s African Queen and had to stop 10 seconds into the song cos I just sounded STUPID. I simply couldn’t fake it and the crowd burst out laughing. That moment was priceless !

End of story, I was told Star Quest 2010 was a NIGERIAN talent show and that I needed to sound NIGERIAN!

That’s one feat that I know I might NEVER be able to achieve cos none of the few vocalists in Nigeria has what it takes to make me actually want to go the extra mile to learn his/her style. Besides I’m so OBSESSED with Mariah and Christina as they are the ones after whom I’ve chiseled certain facets of my voice.

I guess that means I’m back to life as a grumpy Medical Doctor until the Big Guy upstairs says, IT’S YOUR TIME TO BE A STAR! lol

Back to the world of blogging as we know it, here are this week’s top blog posts. Enjoy!

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On Friday, June 12th, 2009 at 5:40 am, Sire of Wassup Blog began to blog about a new make money online site he had stumbled across. Snap Dollars like other sites such as Inbox Dollars offers to get you paid for referring friends, reading emails, trying out products, completing surveys, shopping online and playing games online with the opinion of getting paid in cash or kind (gifts)

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Online Surveys In Nigeria: Do They Really Exist? was the (in)famous post that triggered a lot of drama here @ StrictlyOnlineBiz a few months back. This drama became so intense, I had to shut down all pingbacks, trackbacks and comments on that post as well as delete past comments.

My review was thought to be biased and I was accused of saying a lot of untruths about a service I hadn’t ever used. I tendered my apologies with Apologies and Comments Policy Reviewed (Again)! and promised to sign up for the service and then write my own views on the outfit, Kode Surveys.

Well, it’s been almost 8 weeks since I signed up to be a participant of Kode Surveys and here are my views.

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Just wanted to fulfill a little promise I had made to my fellow bloggers

Rose Desrochers recently launched a blog competition that seeks to reward the winner with six months of free web hosting with a free domain name all from Vision This Hosting.

For more details on how to participate in this contest, do check out Win a free web hosting package from Vision This Hosting. Remember the contest runs from now until Feb 28th, 2010.

Ahmad Mukoshy, the young Nigerian entrepreneur has launched the first public Nigerian URL shortner, Yrn.me!

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It’s been one hell of week as I had to make a few trips around town as I sought to buy a laptop for my sibling who had a budget of N98,000 ($650). I succeeded in getting a Dell Vostro A840 for $15 less . If he didn’t have a certain dislike for Acer, he would have saved even more with the Acer EMachine E725 which had better features for N88,000 ($580).

At the same time I struggled to optimize the SEO tags across my blogs (this one and Patchwork Of Tips). Now that I’ve finally gotten that out of the way, I can’t wait to see if my search engine rankings improve or not

I acquired more used paperbacks to keep me company when the power goes out as is a common occurrence here in Nigeria. James Hadley Chase (Come Easy Go Easy and The Whiff Of Money: Mark Girland).

As you can imagine I didn’t have much time to go through my feed reader but @ least I’ve got a few interesting posts to share.

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Renowned Internet Marketer, Joel Comm of InfoMedia Inc., has decided to end his credit card required free downloads of Adsense Secrets 4 and other e-books.

He has decided to switch to the Opt-in model as probably most folks aren’t showing any more interest in dropping their credit card details or the economic crunch is biting hard .

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Earlier this evening, I was reading the dailies when I came across news of a victim of yet another "internet dating scam". As fate would have it this time around, it resulted in the death of the victim, a 58 year old lonely divorcee by the name, Philip Hunt.

For some reason (Greed cannot be excluded), people still fall for these scams which reports show are spreading far and wide outside Nigeria which is sometimes claimed to be the source .

I’ve decided to share a few of such scam emails for those of you who might NEVER have come across such emails. Read, digest and stay ALERT!

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