So if you haven’t notice, I was not blogging at Balkhis for a while. Yeah, I keep saying that I will blog and I barely do it anymore here. The sole reason for that is lack of balance. I am still trying to find balance between school, clients, social media profiles, and sites. I didn’t even get a chance to update you guys about the presentation that I gave earlier this month at WordCamp Atlanta 2010.

WordCamps are just events for WordPress users. I have been attending a lot of WordCamps lately. Since Novemeber, I have been to three WordCamps and I spoke at Atlanta. I will be attending WordCamp Miami and I am a confirmed speaker there as well.

So you guys are probably wondering how was my speaking experience. First thing I will say is that it was pretty cool. I consulted with many clients, talked with some known names, but I have never really stood in front a lot of people at a conference and gave a presentation. I was giving a presentation on WordCamp Security and as soon as I looked up, I saw one of the lead developers of WordPress sitting in front of me. Yup, it was Mark Jacquith.

Have you ever had a feeling when you are trying to explain something to somebody and all of the sudden you see the person who actually built that something. Well its not very comfortable when you see someone in front of you who probably knows a lot more about this script than you do because he is the lead developer. Anyways, I have talked with Mark on my past events so it was not that big of a deal. I stood there and gave a pretty decent presentation.

You can check out the presentation slides below:

Now till that day there was something I was doing wrong. Removing WordPress version number. I knew many security tricks but I didn’t know that WordPress also sends out the version number in the feeds. So now if you remove it in the header its ok, but if someone really wants to get it they can just go to the feeds and get it.

After talking with Mark, I wrote an article on WPBeginner how to correctly remove WordPress Version Number.

I hope you guys like the presentation. It was scaled for a beginner session, but there are a lot of stuff that you can use, so definitely go through this presentation.

Internet is a place where you can make money in so many ways by just sitting at home. There are a lot of jobs online that pays you well if you have talent. Most people think they don’t have the talent, so I have compiled a long list of things you can do to make money online. So just look. There are some ways you can make money online by spending a fraction of your time. I am not saying you will make millions. But you will make some extra money on the side. Below are 113 ideas / ways you can make money online.

Note: I am giving ideas in this post. You would have to do a little research on your own as well to make these ideas work. You will not do it successfully unless you do a short amount of research on these topics.

Love Books?

1. Write eBooks and Sell them.
2. Write Books and sell hard copy through a publisher.
3. Buy Books from Good Will and Sell them on Amazon / Ebay.
4. Buy Books from Garage Sales and Sell them on Amazon / Ebay.
5. Review Books and Get Paid.
6. Sell other people’s book and get referral fee.
7. Sell your own used books on Ebay / Amazon.
8. Sell other people’s old book on Ebay / Amazon.

Good at Writing?

1. Write quality articles and charge per 100 words.
2. Write essays for people.
3. Create a blog and Write about something you like and sell ads on it.
4. Proof Read for students. Review grammatical errors etc.
5. Start your own content creating service.
6. Write email templates for small start-up companies.
7. Be a Paid Guest Author.
8. Get Paid to Post on empty Forums.
9. Get Paid to post on forums you regularly visit. There are some that offers cash.
10. Get Paid to write comments on Blog.
11. Enter Writing Contests.

Know HTML?

1. Code templates for others as a free lancer.
2. Make Custom Blog / Forum Templates.
3. Make Blog / Forum Templates and release them for free with sponsor links.
4. Create Myspace Layouts.
5. Code templates for different scripts.
6. Become an administrator of a site that requires few updates a week.
7. Fix small errors on websites.
8. Make Websites W3 valid.

Can you program?

1. Develop a script and resell it.
2. Develop a paid plugin for another script or platform.
3. Develop facebook applications for other companies.
4. Develop websites for others.
5. Make Canned Websites – Develop a website in a specific niche and sell multiple copies of it.
6. Edit scripts and customize it for people.

Web Industry?

1. Buy and Sell Domains for profit.
2. Buy and Sell websites for profit.
3. Flip Websites.
4. Start your own website / product.
5. Invest in beginning online business.
6. Start your own website and sell ads.
7. Start an Online Store that sells products from Ebay and others.

I know you wish to see more, so just read on the full post.

So I increased a little bit more activity on digitalpoint to do an experiment. But while I am visiting it more often stupid threads with titles, make big money blogging. Where the guy ask a question how do you make big money blogging. Or someone saying start blogging if you want to make big money blogging. First I will say big is a very subjective word. Second I will show you how I make money blogging.

How Much Money do I make?

I will say it like this I don’t make any where close to how big blogger make from their blog. But I am averaging around 2300 – 2400 USD a month from Balkhis. Now you are wondering how do I make that money from Balkhis. More yet, thinking how do I survive from just that little income. Because that is only 28000 yearly. But you have to understand a good portion or a major portion of my income comes from my web design company, Uzzz Productions which puts me close to six figure marks gross. Now lets get into how do I make money blogging.

Google Adsense

Adsense is something that I don’t incorporate in all of my posts, but I put it in the posts that are popular. Or the ones that are likely to get tons of traffic mostly tutorials. Aside from that, I have adsense in the header banner that makes me a decent amount of money, but it is not the majority. I mostly use the size 336 x 280 and 468 x 60. So use those because they work the best.

Private Ad Sales

Private Ad sales are a good one. I have header banner for sale as well as sidebar buttons. Also paid reviews. Those account for some of my income, but this one is still not the majority. Mostly direct ad sales are a pain to manage, but I use OIO Publisher to do it myself. I don’t believe in giving my money to any of the companies like Text Link Ads or Review me because they take up so much of the commission, you won’t get the money that you deserve. So do it directly with OIO Publisher.

Affiliate Marketing

The biggest Chunk of Balkhis Income comes from Affiliate marketing. How do I do it? Well I use Commission Junction for the most part, and Market Leverage as a secondary earner. Commission Junction have the most offer then you can imagine. So if you use them you are most likely to find offers that you want. I usually use hosting and other different sorts. If I am writing a post, and I think that I can find something that would be a good product. I head over to Commission Junction and run a search. And sometimes I write posts entirely based on the products, and it works very well also. So now if I just embed the CJ link it doesn’t do it. So I use WP-Affiliate Plugin that lets me make urls like balkhis.com/refer/xxxx so that helps me track the urls and see how it works. Now some people say Balkhis why people buy the products from your site and not from mine when I place the affiliate codes. And I will say, I really don’t know. I will probably say read the post How to make sales from your blog and earn profit. That have a little bit of answer. But that should cover that.

My costs of running / Advertisement

How much does it cost me to run Balkhis. Time and hosting fee. I switched to host gator reseller which cost me $25 monthly, and that is about it. I buy ads on a few sites thats it which is not very expensive. Rest is just social media. I am not one of those people who spend a lot of money.

I don’t think I will write this sort of post again unless I add new ways of making money. But if you are interested then head over to my make money online page.

Everyone needs some fun in their life. Well Halloween was the perfect time for it. My Friends and I decided to have a little get together. It was like a mini-version of the party. Everyone who was invited was suppose to bring a dessert. I made Fruit Cocktail (NO Alcohol). It had Whip Cream that was mixed with condensed milk, and pineapple/peaches/grapes.

I just turned 18, but it still didn’t stop me from going and collecting Candies from everywhere lol. I actually only went to one of the local Stores (Publix) because they were giving out candies.

I decided to be a Desert Prince.

You might think it is a traditional outfit, but it is not because it is really a costume that I got from Party City. Our party was fun. Everyone dressed up. We had a Scientist, we had a Pirate couple, sailor, devil, tropical girl and I can’t remember all now.

But we played a lot of games. Such as designing a pumpkin. I didn’t win because I wasn’t in all the mood to do any artwork. I gave it a shot by just randomly coloring the pumpkin. Obviously won’t post it here because I didn’t think it was all that great.

Then we played Limbo. I didn’t play that either. You might be thinking what is going on. I might be feeling a bit better, but I am not over the sickness yet. So it has everything off the hook. But I was the judge for the limbo. Beside I always lose in Limbo anyways. I am too tall for this thing.

Then we played made things with Play Doh. I came second out of 6 people. That is because I destroyed my last round entry before the final judge who wasn’t the judge before just decided to watch everyone’s. I think it was biased juding. That was fun as well.

I got good sportsman ship award. Yeah we handed out award to everyone. At least this year, I didn’t win the biggest cheater award. Or maybe I have just gotten so good, that Nobody caught me

Well it was a fun night out. I think people should enjoy life whenever they can and hang out with friends. I hope you all had fun at Halloween at least those who celebrated it.

As I promised you guys, that I will be posting my notes from Izeafest 2008. Well here is one of them that I think was very interesting. This is from the Crazy Jewish Bastard, Loren Feldman. Don’t take me wrong, I have nothing against Jews, you will understand why I made the statement as you read the whole post.

Loren had a one hour session, and it was pretty straight forward. He told us about his experience and gave us the tips on personal and corporate videos. So here are the key points from him with my explanations:

Personal Video

• Know Your Audience – because what you say really matters. If your audience is conservative religious people, then don’t curse. Pretty simple eh.
• Don’t act like an actor – Be yourself. Have you seen people who think they are an actor when they are on a video. It doesn’t quiet work because you can act that way for one minute, but not any longer because you won’t be comfortable.
• Be Sincere, Be Honest, Be open.
• Connect with your Audience – Connect with them as they are your friend. Try to relate to them.
• Its not about the equipment, its about the athlete – People think that the video didn’t turn out good because the crappy camera. Well sometimes that maybe the case, but most of the time it is the athlete which is you.
• Practice to be Better – Look into the camera and not into your screen.
• Talk SLOWLY – Don’t worry everyone have that problem. I had that one as well when I am nervous. Try to be comfortable. RELAX
• Good Background – Find a plain background like a white wall. Otherwise it distracts the audience. But by all means have a different background if it drives the story.
• Imagine that the lens of the camera is your best friend. Look at it as it is a set of eyes.
• Don’t make BS Videos – Don’t make BS Videos. Do what you like and what you are passionate about. If you make BS Videos, it presents you as a BS Person.
• Don’t fall in love with what you do because you are not as good as you think you are.
• Edit, Cut, Cut….. and more cut, and cut, and then cut more.
• Keep the videos between 2 – 3 minutes – Honestly no one have time to watch a video that is all talk unless it is a TV Show.
• Four minutes should be the max, even with Naked Girls.
• Tag all your videos – Title, and Description are very important.
• Build your Video Audience – Don’t make response videos, or seeking out others for flash fame.
• Don’t get discouraged – If you don’t get a lot of views, don’t worry about it. Try again and do it better.
• Being Tall, Dark, and Handsome Helps – Not everyone is that. So don’t feel discouraged. Too bad Loren, I am tall, Dark, and Handsome… I knew I was special
• Always Play Big, and Play like a Winner

Wasn’t that interesting. Certainly I found it interesting. But that is just personal videos. He gave us advice on Corporate videos as well, so check those out.

Corporate Videos

• The money is in corporate video.
• Video connects with audience – If a company thinks they don’t need a video. You are dead wrong because Videos connect and relate better than words.
• Making videos bring personalization to your employees – Would you rather watch a boring director from your company tell you that you are getting a salary cut, or a rather personalized video that tells you that. I wouldn’t like either, but the second one would be better out of the two.
• Use videos as a commercial marketing tool – You can get away with alot. Loren got a company that advertised on his video. They said just go crazy. So at the end of his videos, he say something like, Check out these Crazy Jew Bastard, A credit card company.. Creative, funny, so people remember it.
• Establish Business Relations – Network, Network, Network. That is exactly why you should’ve been at that conference. I hope you will be next year
• Videos rank higher in Search Engines – It is good to have videos because you can notice that google is giving youtube videos authority by ranking them high.
• Ignore Criticism – Do what you feel like. Loren’s word not mine. I say read the comments, then if you like what they say then do it. Otherwise Ignore.
• View Counts – You can have a 1 million views with not a single important one, and have 10 views where 5 were CEO of major companies. Having that said, speak to the higher up. Get important people, because results are important, not numbers.
• If someone steals your video, take it as a compliment and move on. You can watermark your videos, but people who want to steal, will steal.
• Audio is super important.
• Tutorial Videos Rock – How to videos are a big hit.

Recommendations from Loren

Loren gave us some technical recommendations that I shall give you guys.

• Use Casio Camera – He use this one $149 camera from Casio.. Don’t exactly remember the Model Number. Maybe Loren can drop by and tell us.
• 640 x 480 Dimensions. 30 frames per second.
• PC Sucks, Use mac for video editing. iMovie and Final cut.
• I talked to him afterward for PC users, he recommended Adobe Premiere.
• Use Tubemogul.com – you can submit to a lot of the video uploading places rather than just one. Get more exposure

I really liked this session because it was dead honest. The guy came out, and said look here I can’t teach you what to do. But I can tell you how I do it. Because really it is true. Just like I can’t teach you how to make money online, but I can tell you how I make it. And maybe you can learn from it. I hope you do. Hint Hint, why this blog is not a make money online blog…

Anyways that was Loren Feldman from 1938media.com. Lets give him a big round of applause. He make alot of crazy videos. Thanks Loren for the awesome tips. I did learn a lot from your session. If you see this post, I would really appreciate if you can tell the audience that camera type again.