Ramblings
You can find an article about me in today’s business section of the Vancouver Sun newspaper. I’m on page D3 with a tag line that reads, “Part-time labour of love online brings in some cash.” The Vancouver Sun is the largest newspaper in BC, with a daily readership of nearly 500,000. You can read the full article by clicking on […]
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Investing
Income tax time is here again and that means every financial planner and his dog are trying to sell you some RRSP (401K or IRA in the US) to help reduced your income tax bill. Why people wait till the start of 2007 to buy a RRSP for 2006 is really beyond me but if you are in this group, […]
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Ramblings
If you’re a reader or subscriber to the Vancouver Sun newspaper, you may have noticed this little promo on front page of today’s business section. Look for the full story in tomorrow’s Vancouver Sun. Hopefully, it will available online as well. If it’s not, I’ll scan a copy so non local readers can check it out.
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Fine Dining
The Wine Cost More Than The Dinner Our Dine Out Vancouver adventure continues with dinner at Cin Cin Ristorante & Bar. Situated on world famous Robson Street, you enter Cin Cin through a winding stone staircase which leads up to the restaurant, with high arched windows that lead out to a beautiful heated terrace. CinCin’s acclaimed wine collection, housed in […]
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Business The Net
Many bloggers shy away from affiliate marketing because it puts all the risk on them and zero risk on the advertisers. Affiliate marketing is done on a Cost Per Action (CPA) basis, meaning the customers have to take some kind of action. This action could be as simple as signing up for a newsletter to actually buying a product. No […]
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The Net
There are two reasons why you’re reading this post. The first is you’re a regular reader of John Chow dot Com and this is the latest post on the blog. The second reason is you just clicked on a Google Adsense ad running on Problogger.net that looks something like this. If you belong to the second group, then maybe you’re […]
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The Net Wordpress
Last night, I added a MyBlogLog community for this blog. So far there are 90 community members. It is actually quite nice to put a face to my readers and see the blogs that they run as well. I’ve been having a great time exploring your blogs. MyAvatars for MyBlogLog was pointed out to me by Hawaii Online Advertising. The […]
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The Net
How would you like to put John Chow dot Com on your blog? I have just added the ability for readers to put a John Chow dot Com Widget on their blog’s sidebars using a new tool from Widgetbox, called Blidgets. The Blidget is a Widget that will display the latest John Chow dot Com posts on your blog. This […]
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