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$100 richer from adsense

ven — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 09:43:50 +0000

Yey! I know it’s smaller than most adsense earnings, but hey! I am now $100 closer to my new camera

Helvetica Problems

ven — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 10:18:38 +0000

every time I browse hbr, especially when I get links on twitter, here is what I see (using firefox 3.5.8)

No visible text except the ones in italic. I know there’s something written there because when I tried to highlight it:

It’s kind of annoying because in order for me to read the actual article, I have to print it to pdf. I wonder where the problem lies.. my browser? but it shows other text on the page…i’ve tried to restart..still the same. I haven’t tried other browsers though since I don’t want to be switching browsers just because I want to read HBR blogs.

Hmmm.

Update 1: I tried it on IE..there’s visible text!! what’s up. it’s my browser.

Update 2: I have found the culprit. I installed HELVETICA font the other day and it’s messing up firefox. wth. So i deleted the darn font. Boo. I liked helvetica.

we’re back

ven — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 16:50:24 +0000

Woot! Look at those BIG changes under the Google column! CMON!! (last time I checked was 4 days ago.. so that’s a huge change). This is for the other project I’m doing (guess?!). I’ve been going up and down the google charts since last week of December, and finally we’re climbing back up with a vengeance! Big yey for me! Will work extra harder these next few weeks so I can get consistent numbers. It ain’t over till I reach #1 (ok, maybe when I get to first page on google I can sleep easier hehe)

Now, on to crushing the competition

emails shwemails

ven — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 08:12:48 +0000

For the last 6 or so months, I’ve been helping my dad with his real estate biz, and although I enjoy maintaining the site, gaining leads & crushing the competition in the SERP wars (ok so maybe i haven’t truly crushed each and every one of them, but my traffic is on a high I might consider offering paid ads!), it’s also a bit disheartening for me and mi papa when leads refuse to follow basic email etiquette, and that is:

to reply when information is provided to you – no matter if the reply is positive or not.

It astounds me that so many people out there still refuse to practice basic human decency and proper manners when it comes to email. Are you too busy to even reply? Then why inquire in the first place? Or if you’re not really interested, please spare us the work and let us focus on the really serious buyers, eh?

In fact, some who’ve inquired even refuse to give out their phone numbers (when we’ve put up OUR own landline/mobile/email contact information) simply because it’s private information.. uh okay should I be suspicious of you or something?

This frustrates me to no end…I’m even tempted to put a sign on the site that says if you can’t trust us with your information, then beat it! I know trust is an important factor in selling, but let’s reverse the situation…why should we trust you if you can’t trust us? Shouldn’t that be a 2 way street? Most real estate companies do profiling first on their clients before they entertain them so what we do shouldn’t come as a shock or feel invasive to them.

But I digress, when my issue here are people who ignore our followups. Is it so hard to say, sorry we’re not interested versus ignoring a human being who worked themselves out to give you the information you need? Arg. I’m not demanding you reply in an hour or two – we have realistic email expectations after all. We expect though, a reply – maximum 3 days after we’ve sent out the email (see? is that so bad?).

So from now on, I won’t be nice. Not too nice anyway, because I’m sure there are people out there who are professional enough to reply – those are the people who give me hope and teach me to assume the good in others when experience and history proves me otherwise.

Just ranting here, as I always do

how was your work life in 2009?

ven — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 13:31:14 +0000

mine was a roller coaster like i’ve never ridden before. Had a mix of good and horrible experiences, and met people i never want to meet again. To all those people i never want to meet again: thank you for meeting you at an early stage in my life (28 – i expect to last until 65 or more), and sorry if i’ve ever done anything to annoy you – in the same way that I am forgiving you for annoying the hell out of me. Quits eh?

ranting.

ven — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 06:32:58 +0000

Whenever I say “I work at home” or “I’m working on my own thing”, these things go round people’s head:

1. You’re work isn’t “serious” work like us office troops

2. You can go out/sleep whatever time you want,

3. You’re never busy!! never!! ever!

4. You sweep aside my work as if I’m not a functional part of the work force here in the Philippines

For your information, and I’m only saying this because it gets on my nerves whenever people have this knowing look on their faces that I’m not doing “serious” work, I hope and pray you TRY working at home so you KNOW what kind of difficulties we have to deal with, one of them, the hardest I believe is the merging of my PERSONAL life with my WORK LIFE.

Unless you’ve tried working at home, I suggest you keep your funny comments to yourself because one, you sound ignorant to the plight of work at home folks, and two, you haven’t tried it so stop making sweeping statements.

Besides, hasn’t it occurred to you, that while I might not be doing “serious” work(for you), but I’m earning “SERIOUS” money – maybe even bigger than that sorry excuse for a salary you have.

Pipe in from drei: “just because your idea of a job means a cubicle and a tie doesn’t mean that’s everyone’s idea of a job”.

What the F**k Is Social Media? – repost

ven — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 14:41:02 +0000

in case anyone needs to know what i DID for a living…well one of the things i DiD hehe.

What the F**K is Social Media: One Year Later

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my accidents are more of the klutzy kind

ven — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 10:50:04 +0000

My life has been a series of well-orchestrated accidents; I’ve always suffered from hallucinogenic optimism. I was broke for more than 10 years. I remember staying up all night one night at my first company and looking in couch cushions the next morning for some change to buy coffee.”

—Evan Williams, CEO of Twitter

Why Do You Go Online?

ven — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 17:54:42 +0000

Raise your hand if you spend more time in front of the computer than talking to your um.. parents or any loved one?

Guilty as charged.

What exactly are the reasons people go online? I’m sure you’re curious to know, and I do have a variety of reason – so I can’t safely say there’s just one reason I miss taking baths because I’d rather sit in front of my PC and surf away.

So.. where do you fit in?

source: emarketer

For every door that closes…

ven — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 07:24:18 +0000