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ibibo ads Review

Shabbir — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 12:14:21 +0000

Few months back I experimented with ibibo ads on my MBA Forum. I got an email from them today that reminded me of the experiment and so here I am with yet another review of Indian ad network – ibibo ads.

Positives

Accepts Indian Traffic

There are very few ad networks that accept sites that have major Indian traffic but ibibo ads being Indian ad network they accept Indian traffic.

100% Paid Ads

When they don’t have any ads to fill, they fill in house ads that are paid on cost per lead or CPL basis.

Negatives

Uses OpenX

They manage their publishers and advertisers through OpenX self hosted ad platform which is very basic ad management software and don’t offer advance ad targeting options like Interest based which means they do not offer such options to their advertisers. I assume OpenX does not offer these because OpenX is not part of NAI.

Apart from that as a publisher, I expect one ad code for my ad zone and the campaigns would be targeted using OpenX interface that suits my site audience but they don’t do it this way. They email each campaign ad codes to the publisher and publisher needs to rotate banners and campaigns. Yes you read it right. Even the banners of one campaign needs to be rotated by publishers. So if a campaign has five banners, they will email you all the five codes and you have to rotate them and see which one works better on your site. Something I would not prefer.

Horrible Payment Process

As far as I remember they had Net 90 as payment terms and though they have sent me an email asking for invoices for the month of October,

They actually missed my September payment.

Apart from that my understanding was they needed soft copy of the invoices but as per an email today I see that they need hard copy of the invoice.

Mostly CPL Campaigns

OpenX has very limited audience and geo targeting options they can only offer CPL or CPA type of campaigns to publishers and advertisers. The same thing is reflected on their websites

CPL campaigns rely too much on the third party implementation of tracking code. See the screenshot below where you can see I had very good conversion for ibibo campaigns but not as good conversions for other campaigns and this could be a tracking glitch as well. You never know.

Low CTR

I had very good conversion ratio which made my eCPM decent but the ads were not getting very good CTR. Comparing the same with Adsense at the same position and size has few times higher CTR.

Final Thoughts

If you are ready to take the pain of rotating your banners and campaigns, I think you can experiment with ibibo ads on your site for a month or two.

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MGinger Review

Shabbir — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 06:34:52 +0000

What is mGinger?

An Indian site for Indian audience, that pays you for SMS ads you receive on your mobile. You have to register on their site, and verify your mobile number. Based on your profile they send you daily SMSes and emails for which you get paid for.

Do mGinger actually pay?

Yes. See the check in my Wife’s name. Click on Image to enlarge

How much mGinger pays?

The amount is very very low for you to earn any significant amount. The rates are 20 paise (USD 0.004) per SMS you receive. If you refer a friend you get paid Rs 2. Apart from that you also get paid a recurring 10 paise on 1st tier and 5 paise on 2nd tier for each SMSes your network receives.

Who Can Earn from MGinger?

Theoretically any Indian who has a bank account can earn from mGinger but practically no one can make anything significant through mGinger and so according to me it is a waste of time.

The minimum amount before you can request a check at mGinger is 300 Rs or (USD 6.5). My wife hardly uses the site and so she did not realized until last week that she has made more than Rs 300.

Why my wife made a Payable amount?

She has more than 1000+ people in her first level network and that is the secret to making a payable amount in mGinger. The reason she has so many referrals is because once upon a time I had an Indian site where I was using mGinger banner when I had no advertiser and that lead to lot of people signing up under her network.

Currently she has Do Not Disturb or DND activated on her mobile phone and so she doesn’t receive any SMSes but still manages to earn few paise daily because of a very large network. If you are looking to earn some amount of money with mGinger, you need to make few thousand referrals.

Final thoughts

I don’t recommend mGinger to anybody unless you can have few thousand people joined under your network. Just in case if you still wish to join under my wife’s network use the following link to signup – http://imtips.co/go/mginger

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Crap PayPal Exchange Rates

Shabbir — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 10:05:24 +0000

Every Indian who has done a transaction in PayPal complains about their exchange rates. See for yourself how crappy the currency conversion and exchange rates in PayPal is?

Client sent me PayPal payment in GBP. When accepting the payment instead of converting the payment in USD, I preferred to keep the payment as GBP balance.

I had 163.17 GBP in my PayPal account. When converting GBP to USD, PayPal would give me 251.58 USD.

In currency converter form of PayPal 251.58 USD and 163.17 GBP does not give the same amount in Indian Rupees.

Withdrawing 251.58 USD

Withdrawing 163.17 GBP

Finally money was withdrawn without converting the GBP Balance to USD.

Final Thoughts

Avoid currency conversion in PayPal. It is the best way to get the most out of your PayPal Balance.

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Job Crusher Review – My Experiences & Facts

Shabbir — Fri, 27 May 2011 11:53:16 +0000

Job Crusher Review along with some key facts and my experience’s with the program to help you understand what it is all about?

Official Website: www.JobCrusher.com
Program Author: Bill McIntosh, Eric Louviere & Matt Gill
Price: $1.00 for first 10 days, then $44.00. ($1 gives you full access) [Click Here for Details]
Overall Rating: (5 star)

About the Authors

It’s important to know the men behind JobCrusher Program. JobCrusher program is created by three very successful internet marketers - Matt Gill, Eric Louviere and Bill McIntosh. Matt Gill is one of the true Internet marketing pioneers who started his online career in 1998 and had made tens of millions of dollars. Eric has been in the Internet Marketing world since 2004 and from his other mentoring program sites I know that he has a great teaching style that anyone can understand. Bill McIntosh is an experienced marketer with tons of experience with private consulting and coaching in the Internet Marketing Arena.

JobCrusher Overview (What’s It’s All About)

JobCrusher is an online internet marketing course that teaches techniques, methods and strategies that three of the best internet marketers in the world are using to generate millions of dollars.

When I first saw the product I was not overly excited about the product. The main reason for no excitement was because being Internet Marketing Industry for quite some time now I have seen lot of such programs that don’t live up to my expectation. Still made the purchase mainly to provide an honest and unique review about the product and it would only cost me $1 to get started.

Within 60 seconds of paying $1, I could get access to the complete product.

I started to follow the step by step course and within few minutes I could sense that JobCrusher is a lot different than any other Internet Marketing Course and I am saying this after 5+ years of Internet Marketing Experience with fairly successful forums and blogs online. I am sure JobCrusher team would not mind me sharing just one tip I learnt recently from the program here for my readers.

Purchase a lot of keyword-rich domain names and drive traffic to your site. Give some thought to common phrases and words internet surfers are likely to type directly into their browser. Up to 10% of traffic is just typed-in traffic. The domain name traffic market is very niche specific, keyword-rich and you can make it to work to your advantage.

Soon after I searched for some domains and registered one – Techalysis.net (TechnicalAnalysis).

Positives points for JobCrusher Program

Step by step guide to help you get started very fast and very easily.
More than thousand minutes of exclusive video content with more and more added on a regular basis.
Very easy to understand style of teaching of Eric.
Innovative ideas to internet marketing success. The content reflects the experience and knowledge of the creators i.e. Matt, Bill and Eric.
You get started by paying only $1 and if you don’t like the program you can get your $1 refunded as well.
Access to live sessions with JobCrusher Team
Access to private forums where you get a chance to interact with other members using the system.

Negative points for JobCrusher Program

Lack of physical copy for the eBooks. At times many people don’t prefer reading on PC and so if I can get the physical copy of the book or even kindle version of it can help.

Customer Support

I sent in a support ticket and I saw a response in around 6 hours. Remember I am based in India and I sent the support ticket in the morning India time. The response was very detailed and answered all my queries.

Final Thoughts

JobCrusher is an online internet marketing course for everybody i.e. from newbie in Internet Marketing to Advance marketers who are looking to generate passive income online from the comfort of your home.

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VibrantMedia Review – A Better Alternatives to Kontera

Shabbir — Thu, 12 May 2011 04:56:42 +0000

In December 2010 when I reviewed Infolinks, VibrantMedia invited me to their network and after 4 months I had my first VibrantMedia Check in my hand.

So let me review VibrantMedia and compare it with Kontera with respect to InText Advertising (VibrantMedia even offers banner advertising). The benefit of using InText over other Ad methods always remains the same for both the networks.

Reporting

VibrantMedia lacks advance reporting. It just does not have any reporting information for impressions but only shows the aggregate clicks and revenue where as Infolinks have very detailed reporting of impressions clicks and Kontera reporting is one more step further. It even shows the keywords as well as URL’s of your site that drives maximum revenue.

Earnings

Though I could not compare VibrantMedia and Kontera based on CTR or eCPM I can assure that I am making 5 to 7 times more money from VibrantMedia than I was making for Kontera at the same traffic level and this data is not for a month or two but is based on 5 months data. Earnings for the month of April is 5.6 times more than for December I made with Kontera and my traffic level is higher by roughly 20% as per Google Analytics.

To add to it, Kontera had very unstable earnings like you can see below. One day it is up, next day it is almost zero.

Payments

I had a misconception earlier that VibrantMedia does not accept Non-US publishers but they not only accept international publishers but also supports PayPal as the payment method. They need to verify your address and so the first payment is in the form of a check. I also received second payment from VibrantMedia in PayPal.

Publisher Referral

As per the official Kontera blog for every publisher you refer to Kontera, you’ll get a referral bonus of 10% of their monthly net revenue. My Kontera Review is online since December 2009 and is ranked high in Google as well but I am yet to refer a single publisher. Sound’s very strange to me. Cannot say for sure if there has been any conversion but it is very unlikely that after thousands of clicks I have not referred a single publisher or advertiser.

Now for VibrantMedia they have a very lucrative referral program.

Site Traffic (PVs per month)	Referral Award
250K – 500K	$100
500K – 1M	$500
1M – 5M	$1,000
5M – 10M	$2,000
10M +	$3,000

In How did you hear about us: add imtips.co when you Signup at VibrantMedia

Ad Control

With Kontera you have to manually add a

if you want to restrict Kontera to stop showing ads on some areas of your page like Navigation and other non-content area. Same goes to Infolinks as well but Vibrantmedia automatically detects content area of a page and display the ads only in content and not in the Navigational areas and other areas where you don’t want the ads to appear.

Final Thoughts

Your first choice should be VibrantMedia or Infolinks but definitely not Kontera.

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SEO Spammer

Shabbir — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 09:42:31 +0000

Almost everyday I get emails like this.

And normally I just report them to Google and delete it but this weekend I just thought of going through one of the spam to see what those spammer’s offer. I visited the website infoonlineservices.com and saw a website where they offer those services.

Wanted to see how well they rank their own site and saw this on Google.

Pitty. In 8 years they could not get their own site rank on first page for their own company name.

I was just curious to know more about the history of 8 years and so went on to check Whois information for the domain and found that domain was created on 30th April 2010. 1 year and still they are actually not able to rank their own site. I really doubt the future of those 30 firms from US, UK, Australia and parts of Europe.

If you want to outsource SEO don’t forget to Ask 3 Questions to your SEO Expert

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BuySellAds Review – Publisher Viewpoint

Shabbir — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 14:27:48 +0000

BuySellAds (BSA) is an Online Advertising Network that brings publishers and advertisers together, making it easier for advertisers find advertising opportunities on other related sites.

Let me share my views i.e. publisher’s view point on BuySellAds Online Advertising Marketplace.

Positives

1. Easy to Use Interface

BuySellAds.com interface is very easy to use for advertisers as well as publisher. For publisher adding a site is pretty simple and BSA automatically appends publicly available information like Alexa rank, Compete rank, Google page rank and more. If you provide twitter / Facebook details BSA adds social networking statistics to your listing. See an example listing of IMTips here.

2. Large Marketplace

BuySellAds Marketplace is very active and many publishers makes thousands of $ per month.

3. Real time Analytics

Analytics for your inventory is almost real time and same also goes for advertiser interface.

4. Fast Loading Ads

The ads load asynchronously (See how to load your ads asynchronously here) and so it does not hinder the page loading time giving better user experience.

5. You decide pricing

I am not sure if this is an advantage or a disadvantage but I have included it as an advantage because it is an advantage for me. You can decide what pricing you want for an advertisement spot. The challenge is to get the right price for your ad space i.e. Not too high or else advertisers won’t pay and not too low or else you may be giving yourself a cheap deal. The pricing strategy that can work well is to start cheaper and increase the price over time.

6. No Minimum Payout

There are very few quality ad networks without a minimum payout. All you have to do is request your payment amount from your account balance and you get paid in few days.

7. 75% Revenue Share

You keep 75% of the total pricing which is much higher than other Ad networks like than Adsense and TribalFusion.

8. Not for Large Established Players

Lastly BuySellAds is not for well established websites that are not using BSA. I say this because if you have other better CPM networks you would never give BuySellAds a try. Even if I want I will not give them a try on Go4Expert because having a paid ad is always better than a non-paid Advertise Here ad of BSA. This can work in favor of new sites as you have lesser publisher competing for the advertiser’s money. Though there are large well established publisher as well who have pool of advertiser’s in BSA to fill there ad inventory.

Negatives

1. No Default Ads

If you don’t have any advertiser for your spot you are left with nothing but show Advertise Here. You cannot opt for a Default Ad from some other ad network.

2. No Referral Programs

Even if you refer an advertiser, BSA doesn’t pay you any referral fees. This actually means if you have no advertiser for your website or ad zone, you show the default Advertise Here ad which actually earns you nothing even if you refer an advertiser who purchases advertisement on some other related site or your competitor you loose.

3. Niche Marketplace

Market place is mainly targeted for tech, web design and development and freelancing niche. I tried BSA on MBAGuys and had very little success. You may end up getting nothing if you have no advertiser’s in your niche.

Final Thoughts

I think if you have a fairly new website (Remember unless you have 10,000 Page views per month BSA don’t rank you in search.) related to tech, web design niche it would be a wise decision to give BSA a try. Just make sure you have keywords tagged followed with a great description for listing in the directory and to maximize search hits.

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iPage Review – Why I moved to Bluehost

Shabbir — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 15:19:29 +0000

IMTips.co is hosted on dedicated server by ThePlanet (See my Review for ThePlanet here) but the move I did was for my friend Yogin. His site is ManagementFunda.com where I am more of a tech guy.

Issue 1 – At times site becomes slow

Yogin always told me that he is experiencing site as slow quite often but when I checked I could not see anything like that but that may be because I don’t spend hours on his blog like he does. I even tried chatting with the tech support team but then you can never get the chat people understand what you mean by slow. They will always reply they could not replicate your problem.

Issue 2 – Bad control panel experience

Horrible control panel which is still a beta but their beta is not like other Beta you expect. Their control panel have their own File Manager where you cannot unzip a zipped file and for doing that you have to take some other path. I expect to upload a zip file using FTP and unzip using file manager. They have unzip option which is almost impossible to find. It is under some archive gateway.

Issue 3 – Horrible Support

Techy things like archive can be dealt with if you have good support but I just saw a horrible support. As always I will show you some horrible replies by the support team once again.

Site was down from 21st Jan, 2011. Once I saw my site down I started a chat and the person I talked with saw my site down and so he created a support ticket and you can see the details of the ticket here.

See the timing when I created the ticket and when it was resolved. On 21st Jan the issue started and it was resolved on 24th Jan 2011.

Now this is not all. The actual comedy happens in the next ticket which I created few hours after I reported the issue through chat.

You see in the first image that my site was down from 21st Jan 2011 and on 22nd Jan 2011 you see me creating a second support ticket and see the last response to the second ticket in the second image. They tell me that they cannot do anything because it is a WordPress site. Unless you opt to use any script supported by iPage (they don’t support any as far as I know) you should never be using them. BTW they provide WordPress and Joomla as a third party application and this is not what they mean by support.

The person responding Sonny Reyes acts like everything is working fine for my site and it is just my WordPress installation that has the issue. The tech team have no idea if php is working or not for my site and the person who is replying has signature as Technical Specialist. Sorry Sonny and nothing personal against you.

So once I got the message from iPage on 22nd I decided to dump iPage and started to search shared hosting provider for WordPress. I wanted to go for the one I know are the best hosts and once I saw the name of BlueHost on WordPress.org at the top, I was convinced to go with Bluehost for Yogin.

Final thoughts

I don’t recommend iPage for WordPress (Read hosting) but use BlueHost instead for all your shared hosting needs.

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Infolinks Review – A Better Alternative to Kontera

Shabbir — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 09:13:35 +0000

I have been using Infolinks on my MBA Forum for quite sometime now and so let me share with you my views reviews and experience about Infolinks.

What is Infolinks?

Infolinks is CPC based contextual advertising network that offers In Text advertising also known as InLinks or ContentLinks. Ads are integrated within the content and so no additional space is required to display ads.

As always I start with the negatives and this time it will be no difference.

Negatives

Low Per Click Earnings – If you compare Infolinks with Adsense then Infolinks has a very low per click earnings. We are here comparing apples with oranges but when both of them are CPC based advertising networks comparison is inevitable.
Unrelated Ads – Time and again I see ads which are not close to keywords. On my MBA Forum I see ads related to cars for keyword MBA Projects.

Positives

Global Inventory – The best part of Infolinks is they have a very good Global Inventory. MBA Forum is mainly Indian centric and Infolinks works much better than Kontera. Kontera’s recent product Kontera Synapse – where they don’t show ads if they think user is not likely to click actually means they have lesser inventory to fill. My Kontera earnings decreased by almost 50% in past that product launch news and when I contacted them it was not very positive.
Adds to overall income without any banner space – Inline ads never take up any banner space and so you are never concerned about the placement and it adds well to the revenue. Intext links has never been a major source of income for me (See the break up here) but it adds to the final total. Apart from that I follow couple of rules for inline text advertising.
1. I only show inline ads to guests and not to members. This gives me an added advantage to ask guests to register.
2. I only show inline ads within the content and not everywhere in headers and footers. I find it very unprofessional and also on forums I make sure the ads only appear on the thread pages and not on home page or forum/sub-forum pages.
Innovative Products – Infolinks have been very innovative with new products and their latest product – Related Tags works really well. The only problem is they don’t have reports to judge how this product is working but increase in earnings after installing Related Tags suggests it is working.
Pays with PayPal & Payoneer – Infolinks supports PayPal but recent PayPal issues in India & they soon started supporting Payoneer prepaid debit card (More about Payoneer here). Payoneer is great for publishers in India who wants to keep their business out of PayPal.
Good CTR – I have seen far better CTR for Infolinks then in kontera. 5 to 7 times better in CTR than Kontera and this compensates very well for low per click value and brings the eCPM higher.
Works with Adsense – InText links not only are banner space independent but also works with Adsense TOS and apart from that I have not seen any decline in my Adsense CTR or earnings after using infolinks. Extra income is not bad at all.
Highest Revenue Share – Infolinks offers highest revenue share in the industry i.e 70%. It is even better than Adsense which is at 68% and many other in-text ad providers give only 40% to 50%.
Infolinks has Much Better Support than Kontera – When Indians had problems with PayPal, I was using Kontera as well as Infolinks and Infolinks reacted very early to email about the updates and steps they will take to solve the issues with PayPal refunds, where as Kontera did not even respond to the support tickets for 15 days and once I posted this on Facebook they looked into it.

Final Thoughts

I have been using Infolinks for couple of years now and yet I have very less negative points to share then positives. Apart from that I think Infolinks works better for majority of people because they have great CTR and world wide ad inventory and so if you still have not given them a try go Signup Now.

If you are already using Infolinks share your experience in comments below.

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Admaya Review

Shabbir — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 07:02:48 +0000

Pankaj did a very good review about Admaya and I found the review quite helpful but when I visited the site I did not see much of professionalism in it. I will share my views more about the site than about the program because I did not felt like giving them a try after seeing the website.

1. Crappy Footer

After seeing the image do I need to say why I call it crappy?

2. Misleading information for publisher

How on earth can an official statement be – We don’t know how much we share with our publisher’s but it is in some range of 75% to 80%. We need to be doing the guessing game. May be 75% for small publisher’s but who is classified as small publisher is not mentioned anywhere on the site.

3. Too much information for Advertiser

You can advertise cheaply but do I care if I get the click for 0.025 or 0.25? As an advertiser am I not focused more on conversion and quality of traffic?

As a publisher I know before hand I will get 0.020 (i.e. 80% of 0.025). I am fine not showing ads instead of being paid like 2 cents for every user who leaves my site. This can drive big publishers away.

4. Lots of server and payment issues

Check out the official blog to see how many server issues they have. I know they claim very high growth but then move to a better host as well. I see that they are hosted at ThePlanet. My site’s are also hosted at ThePlanet for quite some time now without any such issues. If you have so many issues with ads and payments it can drive away good publishers.

5. Bugs Everywhere

See the welcome email. {PASSWORD} should be either the actual password or it should say something more meaningful.

Apart from that welcome email mentions “The advertising bonus of 5$ becomes active only after you add funds to your account”. This feature is never highlighted on the website anywhere. This should act as the top feature on the list of features.

6. No long term business plan

They should have at least registered all the domains the one that are available. I even checked to see that AdMaya.com domain is also available for sale.

7. Not secured

I expected the control panel to be on https i.e. secured http and not at http. After such heavy growth (As we see in blog posts) for some reason they don’t seem to be concerned about security and so I can’t trust them with my money by any chance.

All in all I will not prefer to use AdMaya as advertiser nor as publisher. If they want to compete with the biggest internet giants to get their own share of advertisers and publishers they need to be a bit more professional.

What are your take on AdMaya’s Website and programs? Share your personal experience in comments below.

BTW if you want to still sign-up at AdMaya you can use Pankaj’s Affiliates link in his article here or go directly to AdMaya.in.

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vBSEO Review – Is “Google SEO” Only Off-Page Optimization?

Shabbir — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 12:47:14 +0000

SEO experts and especially Google SEO experts will always suggest working on off-page optimization factors more than on-page optimization for better organic ranking.

C Programming Forum was something I never had the time to work on for quite some time until recently in the first week of September I started working on it. Upgraded vBulletin, then gave a whole new look, Installed vBSEO and other relevant plugins.

After the new look I started with my marketing efforts and soon I saw traffic picking up.

I thought the traffic was because of marketing efforts but to my surprise it was not only marketing that has worked in my favour. It was Google Organic Traffic that has tripled.

As you can see from the screenshot I installed vBSEO on 5th September 2010 and hours after installation my traffic from Google organic started to rise. Remember this is was one of those low traffic forums and yet I started to see results.

Now let us see a day to day to comparison of Google Organic traffic keeping 5th of September as the pivot.

You can clearly see the effect of vBSEO.

According to me vBSEO is one of the best plugin for vBulletin which makes your forum more search engine friendly. It has some handsome lists of features but my personal favourite features are user friendly url’s (Read SEO Friendly url’s ) and guest enhancements features that lightens HTML code by removing some not so used features by guests. Features like forum jump dropdown, member DHTML menus and many others…

So after looking at the charts finally my question is – Is “Google SEO” Only Off-Page Optimization? Share your views in comments below.

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Payoneer Review – An Indian’s Perspective

Shabbir — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 07:49:13 +0000

After Issues with PayPal Withdrawal in India this February many Indians have opted to go for Non-PayPal based payments methods and so am I and after testing few alternatives the one that is working the best for me is Payoneer.

I have been using them for more than 6 months now and am going to share a detailed review about Good and Not so good things about Payoneer.

So Let us begin.

Positive things about Payoneer

1. Faster Cash in Hand

You get the cash in hand much faster than PayPal or any other alternative payment methods. Apart from that if you have a Virtual US Bank account the payment from sites like CJ which takes couple of months (1 month of check arrival time and next 21 business days for funds to get cleared) to get credited in your account now takes hardly 24 hours.

2. Virtual US Bank Account

Indian’s can opt for a virtual US bank account (There are some minimum eligible criteria which you need to ask your account manager). Having a virtual US bank account means you can withdraw funds from PayPal, CJ and many other merchants and get the cash in just few hours.

3. Works in All ATM’s

Payoneer provides you with a Master Card Debit card and so it works with almost all ATMs in India and World Wide.

4. Sending & receiving money is very simple

Sending money to anyone is as simple as few clicks. See the Load Money form for yourself and if you wish to send me some money the link is even simpler – shab.in Just kidding but the link to see how you can use the link to ask your clients to pay you.

Not so positive things about Payoneer

1. Costly

I am not sure if this should be an advantage or a disadvantage but let me first put few numbers and then you can decide for yourself. Receiving money costs a fee depending on your account type, withdrawal costs per transaction charge and forex rates are bit lower than expected.

Now comparing to PayPal which costs roughly 4%+ per transactions and PayPal USD rates as we all know are worst for PayPal I think Payoneer costs me less for higher valued transactions of $50+. You may need to make your own calculation as fees can vary depending on your card type and merchant through which you get the card.

2. Forex rates are low

The have a low forex rates. Unlike PayPal they have this mentioned on their fees page and so I am fine with it.

3. Support is ok but not great

Support (Not services) is not that good. Once or twice it took 2+ days time for getting a reply to few questions. I have not tested the phone support as there has been no need for me to do that.

4. Must sign up only through channel partner

I am not sure why but unless you find a site like Elance or some other channel partner you cannot own a prepaid debit card. Though I must say they have quite a few channel partners to choose from.

5. Private payments have upper limit

When working for clients at times I get few high payments but they have a restrictions of 1000 USD that can be sent privately at any given point of time and there is no way you can raise this amount.

Final Thoughts

I think it is a must have for all self employed as well as freelancers. Share your views and experiences of Payoneer Debit Card in comments.

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DevHub Review

Shabbir — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 06:23:25 +0000

Lets be honest… . No matter how easy it is to build your blog these days, it do require you to do lot of things like getting a good web host, find that perfect theme for your blog, Installing the plugins… . The process does not end here and you may need to wait for few months and reach some traffic levels before you get into advertising networks.

But today I will tell you something where you don’t need anything like those to make your website going and it is as simple as click, drag, drop and EARN. Yes you heard it right. Click, drag, drop is all you need to do to setup your website and start earning.

First check out my site which I have just setup – shabbirbhimani.com

You might be wondering how?

I did this in few minutes using DevHub’s Dashboard with few drag and drops.

Devhub is a website builder with a gaming touch. You can build web site or blog with which can be anything like social media page, local business website, blog, or an affiliate websites and make money with it instantly.

As you build your site you get DevHub coins which you can trade in the Market to buy services or merchandise to enhance your site.

You read all good things about DevHub now it’s the time for not so good things about DevHub.

I just keep getting error when using the DevHub Dashboard

but then when I check my site I do not see any such error. So I assume it is the error with the panel and does not affect the live websites.
The Recommendation information when you are editing your website in the bottom left corner is very annoying and no matter how many time you minimize it, it keeps coming back after each save.
You do not have much control over the navigation column and you can only work on things in the other 2 columns.

Final Thoughts

According to me it is a good place to start for people who are not comfortable at getting that techy stuff.

Do share your thoughts and experience about DevHub in comments below

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Your Views on Brazil 2014 World Cup Logo

Shabbir — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 06:22:08 +0000

FIFA revealed the logo design for the next world cup which will take place in Brazil in 2014.

The logo is a representation of the World Cup trophy formed by three linked hands in the national colors of Brazil, yellow, green and blue.

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CloudBerry S3 Explorer Review

Shabbir — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 12:55:01 +0000

This is the final Post in the S3 explorer’s review series where I shared my experience with quite a few of S3 Explorer’s.

I started with Amazon S3 Console Application which I could not work with because of errors more often than not, then I tried S3Fox but could not made it to work for caching of files, then BucketExplorer which had no issues apart from speed of operation. After few others like S3Browser and few more I found Cloudberry S3 Explorer. It has all I wanted to do with my S3 Account. So let me share with you my experiences

Positives

Features in free version were good enough to get you going with your S3 experimentation and when you want to increase your productivity you can go for PRO version.
CloudBerry Explorer supports Custom Headers for both Reduced Redundancy Storage or RRS and Cache-Control.
CloudBerry Explorer supports Default Settings For Buckets and so you do not need to do the same task of adding the headers over and over again.

Negatives

Drag Drop from Windows Explorer does not work and you have to use built in explorer to upload files.
Minimize actually makes it to go into System tray and I could not understand why.
If you downloaded the Free Version and want to upgrade to Pro you have to download the setup files for pro all over again.

Features I would like to see

Have option to upload directly from my server. Something like I backup lot of files and if I have to move them to S3 I have to either use the command line on my server or download them to my PC and then upload it but if I can move them from my URL to S3 that would be great.

Over to you

This concludes the S3 Explorer’s review series. Share your thoughts in comment below.

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