As most of you know, I’ve started running FeedBurner ads on the blog as well my full feed RSS. FeedBurner ads do really well and offers a high CPM rate. However, one of the problems I am facing is its inability to default to another network when there are no ads to show. I’ve been checking my stats and according […]
Read MoreA few weeks ago, I blogged about Casey Serin. He’s the 24 year old real estate investor from Sacramento who is facing foreclosures on all his properties because he didn’t follow basic investment rules. I Am Facing Foreclosure is Casey’s blog about what he did, how it all went wrong, and what he is going to do about it. I […]
Read MoreToday I met up with Ashley at Metropolis at MetroTown. Located in Burnaby, MetroTown is the second biggest mall in Canada, with 470 stores. Ashley is doing volunteer work at the gift-wrapping center. She does this every year. The money raised from doing gift-wrapping for mall shoppers goes to help local charities. I met up with her after her shift […]
Read MoreAt first it seems like good advice; pay cash for what you need and you’ll never get into financial problems. A slew of TV shows, like Till Debt Do Us Part and Maxed Out, feature people who got themselves into a financial mess because they let their credit card debt get out of control. One of the first things the […]
Read MoreRemember Alex Tew, the 21-year-old student from a small town in England who created the Million Dollar Homepage? Well, he’s back! According to TechCrunch, Tew is preparing for the launch of Million Dollar Homepage 2.0! Tew is reportedly on the verge of launching a second site called Pixelotto. Instead of selling each pixel for $1, he plans to sell each […]
Read MoreTonight I took Sarah and her parents to Lumière restaurant to dine like it’s 1999. After all, we are in the middle of a new Dot Com boom. Everything is going up, up, up, and what better way to celebrate wicked excess than to dine at Vancouver’s highest of high end restaurants? I invited Stephen Fung and his girlfriend Kelly, […]
Read MoreLower Traffic, Higher Income For the month of November, John Chow dot Com received 217,876 unique visitors and 329,853 page views. This is down from the record breaking 229,144 visitors and 360,967 page views posted in October. While traffic is down, blog income went up thanks to continued tweaking and the addition of new ad revenue sources. Here is the […]
Read MoreI received an email from Xavier Lanier with a message to help spread the word about Harrison Leonardo, a Filipino-Caucasian toddler that needs a bone marrow transplant to save his life. Harrison’s story was featured on ABC Channel 7 News and Xavier submitted that news story to Digg with this description: Harrison’s just 2 years old and battling Leukemia. The […]
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