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How did you choose your domain name?

Posted on | November 19, 2008 | No Comments

I have a question for you, how did you choose your website’s domain name?

If you’ll ask me about my domain name, I never thought that I would own a site. This website was a gift from my former boss. One day while we were eating out (him and his wife invited me to eat out) and we were talking about our blog sites, he just popped the question that if I would have a website, what would be the name.

Out of nowhere ( I have no clue whatsoever on what will happen next) and I thought of it as a joke, I said I want the world to know my name so I want it to be my full name. He smiled to me and said “are you serious?”. I replied “Yeah. Positive.”

When we get back to the office he then told me that he purchased a domain for me and it’ll be ready after 24 hours. And I said to myself “OMG!@#!!”. I can’t believe it myself. Those were the times when buying your own domain was ‘expensive’ not to mention the hosting and I can’t afford it. And it was really a special gift for me and I valued and appreciate it so much -thanks again boss.

SO that’s how this blog started. But anyway, with regards on picking up a domain name. I don’t really encourage you to buy a domain name with your name, I mean look at those famous sites (yahoo, google, msn, wikipedia and etc) , these websites was able to build their name without using any of the owner or CEO’s name on it.

I think, the shorter, the better. Short because it’s easier to memorize and good for your first time visitors. Plus hey, only those people who are close to me or people who know me will have the will or want to search Gladys Muana, others don’t. Unless (probably) if I can leave footprints/ignite your curiosity/be controversial and etc then you will scan the web about me ~lol. But reality check, I’m just an ordinary person who’s like you, shouting my world in my own word and even if I know I have lots of friends, let’s face it..not all of my friends are into ‘blogging’.

Also, I clearly understand keywords play a big role/good part in terms of getting a good position on any search engine. But the thing is, do you have those keywords? Do you know SEO? Good if you do but ‘not so good’ if you don’t.

it’s so chaotic in the blogosphere right now and getting at least 200+ unique visitors or maybe 200+ hits per day is a good start. that is why, opt for a shorter and easy to memorize domain name and start your way from that. Your domain name needs to coincide with your topic too, or if not, you can create a sub-title showing what your blog is all about.

Just my 2 cents :-)

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Surviving tough times

Posted on | November 18, 2008 | No Comments

So CITIBank is going to cut off at least 53,000 employees and it’s sad. Another 53,000 families would celebrate the incoming holiday season without a job.

Whew! I hope you’re not a ‘Coach’ , D&G, Prada, Tiffany (and etc) baby so you can still afford the cost of living..

This is the time when we need to be creative, resourceful and aggressive on any available decent job to survive. Not unless of course if you have thousands of dollars in your bank account, but if there’s none, life gets tougher huh?

Or I have an idea, how about you try blogging or selling on ebay? Another possible way is to look for websites that offers FREELANCE jobs. One website that I know that offers freelance jobs is http://elance.com. Try browsing that site and learn it, see if you can get a project.

With regards to ebay, it’s a b2c website wherein you can buy and sell or re-sell items and make profit from it. On blogging, you can write advertisement and promotion for other website’s and earn from it (let me know if you need help on this and I can walk you through).

Be very resourceful, this is the only way to try to survive on tough times like this. Enough of blaming the government, it wouldn’t solve your problem. It always take time for them to give the solution plus they also need our help. Your being resourceful is your key to get a ‘not so tough’ living.

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My unpleasant experience with the directv agent

Posted on | November 16, 2008 | No Comments

How would you react if you will call the customer service of your cable company and the customer service would reply to your inquiry with an insinuation that you know how their system works?

Isn’t it that you call because you don’t know how it works and that you want a detailed explanation?

Whew!! Believe me I had my fair share of helpful and rude customer service reps. And hey, as a reminder, don’t trust the so called ‘paperless billing’ by heart because it’s not as reliable as what you expected.

It’s been 2 months now that we’ve been paying 40% more than what we signed up for our directv and of course I need an explanation with that. Firstly, I don’t have any hard copy on the bill hence I signed up for the freaking paperless billing, I only rely on the billing statement that I have on my online account.

And how would you feel if you only have the SUMMARY of your payment dues as oppose to the itemized and detailed one? Of course you’ll freak out.

So I called the hotline but instead of the cust rep helping me, he insinuate that I know what happened, he even raise his voice on me. How dare you do that to me? I am one of the many whose paying your salary so back off and help me. It’s your job to walk me through.

Base on my calculation, I only need to pay110+ a month but base in your calculation and what I paid for 2 months now, it’s $153+. And how come a simple question of “Can you explain it to me why am I paying $153+ where I know I should be paying lower than this?” makes the customer service representative mumbling and ended up raising his voice on me?

Does this imply that you don’t know how your system works as well?

Let me get it straight directv, I DON’T CARE about the diction and intonation of your customer service representatives AS LONG AS  they know the product they are selling. I need someone to who’s smart and reliable enough to answer my questions. It’s not how fluent in English you speak to me but on how you can assist me on my needs.

The next time you outsource a customer service rep., go get it a reliable one, the one that can lead your company on getting more customers and not throwing your customers out.

Whew, I was really mad earlier. What a waste of money on the company who hired them. And you know what, the only reason why my bill was higher than the usual was that the paperless billing did not work on the first month so we weren’t able to pay on the deadline date and they prompted us for a disconnection. But miraculously the paperless billing worked on the next day and debited our account with the payment due.

See how crazy their system works? This is even without any email or info from them about what happened in our cable account.  We have no idea this was happening, we have no outage in our cable, we’ve been watching shows almost 24/7 until today that I placed my second call and was lucky enough to get a cust rep that reliable.

What a crazy experience I had with directv.

So my advice to all the new directv account holders, keep your eye in your paperless billing and in your account; make sure that you don’t experience what we had because it’s a pain in a butt.

Or else, take the old fashion way, let them send you the bills on snail mail; this way you’re sure that the payment you’ll make would be successful. Plus, you can keep an eye on the charges they’ll charge you.

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Category: Living

4 Steps to Getting Started in a New Career

Posted on | November 12, 2008 | No Comments

As I was roaming around the web tonight, I found an interesting article that can help job/opportunity seekers start a career. Articles like this is always worth reading. This helps a career driven person gets motivated and try to seek more opportunity out there.

That is the reason why I am sharing this with you. Anyway, let me give you a clipping on the “4 Steps to Getting Started in a New Career”:


1. Learn about the career
Before you start looking for a job, learn as much as you can about the career, including the nature of the work, the skills needed and employment opportunities. Some ways to learn about a new career include: informational interviews with people working in the industry, attending meetings of professional associations, taking courses, finding information online and reading books about the career.

2. Develop the skills you need
Some skills, such as being well-organized and a good communicator, are helpful in many careers. Other skills are specific to the career.

Click here to read the entire article

Article source: MSN.com

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Category: Career Guide

Sears Veterans Day Sale!

Posted on | November 9, 2008 | 4 Comments

Did you know that there’s an incoming Sears Veterans Day Sale on Sears.com? If you don’t believe me, then I’m inviting you to come and check out the website now.

The website is offering 60% off on all of their outerwear and sweaters for him and for her so you might want to take advantage on this. This huge discount sale runs from November 9 until November 11 of 2008.

I went to the website earlier and look what I’ve found, a Levi’s 529 Curvy Jean for only $39.99. That is really cheap compared to other stores. The website’s Levi’s 545 Boot Cut Jean is only $24.99 too. This discount sale is in time for the incoming holiday season.

Now, let’s check of how much are they charging for shipping. Shipping matters too because there are other websites that charges shipping on every item you purchase. The shipping charge varies but the website offer standard shipping for FREE.

One thing too, if there’s a sears store near you, you can check it out too because the actual store is also having a discount sale to as high as 60% off. Come and check out the website now and enjoy the huge savings you can get by shopping on their website.

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What do you use for sending text back home (Philippines)?

Posted on | November 9, 2008 | No Comments

I know if I’ll mention the word “TEXT”, you know what I mean right? What do you usually use to text your friends or loved ones abroad?

I use Chikka and it’s FREE on the outgoing text but the incoming has a fee. It’s very cheap compared to sending text from cellphone to cellphone (international texting). Like say for example, a text from the Phils cellphone (Smart, Globe, Sun, T-mobile and etc) going to chikka account is only Php 2.50 per 165 words.

The way chikka works is that, you download the program and install it in your computer. Sign up for an account and then you can start using it. I always use Chikka when I send text back home (Philippines).

Aside from sending text, you can also use Chikka to send money or load credits to any of the Philippines Cellphone. I used to do that but when they started raising the cost, I did not use them anymore.

I only use Chikka solely for sending and receiving text.

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Category: Cell phone, Living

Kmart is giving a layaway plan

Posted on | November 9, 2008 | No Comments

Have you tried purchasing an item in a lay-away plan? I noticed that this is the hottest thing in the stores right now.
The good news is that Kmart is continuing it’s offer of giving a layaway even during the holiday season. The nice thing about layaway plan is that, the money that you allocated for that certain item goes directly on that purchase.
So there is a good chance that you can really buy it as oppose to try and save and purchase because you might use that money for other purposes. Not to mention that the item that you like (for gifts or for yourself) is the item that you will buy.

If you want to learn more about the Kmart layaway plan, you can click here for a Kmart Lay-Away linkClick Here and I will redirect you to the website right away.
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Take note that Kmart is giving FREE shipping for most of the items and 99 cents for others. That is really a good deal. I’ve been into online shopping for years now and what attracts me most is the FREE or cheaper shipping.
The picture that I’ve shown above is one of the items that I would surely love to purchase from Kmart.

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Category: Shopping guide

What makes you save a blog in your bookmarks?

Posted on | November 9, 2008 | 1 Comment

Let me ask you something, what makes you save a certain web blog or website in your bookmarks (when you’re using firefox) or save it in your favorites (for IE -Internet Explorer)?

Is it because the owner of that certain site/blog is your friend? Or is it because the articles posted on that site is valuable to you? Valuable can either be educational, humorous or anything that can sparkle your interest.

How about the ex-links? Are you still doing that? Share me your thoughts and let’s talk about it on the follow up article of this post ;-)

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