Archive for February, 2010
A recent news article further emphaisising my choice as a good one to back this company.
LONDON (Dow Jones)–Avocet Mining PLC (AVM.LN) Friday announces the first shipment of gold from its Inata mine in Burkina Faso. MAIN FACTS: -Inata poured first gold on Dec. 20, 2009 and this week exported 11,000 ounces of gold to Rand Refinery’s facility in South Africa. -The Company’s Burkina subsidiary, Societe des Mines de Belahouro, which owns Inata, signed a refining contract with Rand Refinery in February. -Proceeds from the sale of gold of $12 million are expected to be received next week. -The Inata mine is expected to reach a steady state production rate of over 10,000 ounces per month by July. -During the commissioning period to date, the plant recovery and gold produced have been ahead of schedule. -By Iain Packham, Dow Jones Newswires; +44-20-7842-9269; iain.packham@dowjones.com
Jump in quick and buy this stock before the price rockets further.
I’ve had a WEBSHOTS account for a few years now, way back then then computers were running just 1MB RAM (yes they used to be like that) I was creating my first digital art. A friend from work told me that this company had set themselves up called WEBSHOTS and you could load up your images for free to share with the world and also have access to images uploaded by other users.
I signed up, was a little miffed that my user Id couldn’t just be Pete as that had already gone so I ended up with Pete1111 and that’s remained to this day. Over the years I dropped out of being creative and submitting art to the site for users to download for desktop wallpaper. I just didn’t have the time or energy. But for some reason I came back not so long ago and started creating once more. To my surprise whilst I was away (I still maintained my account just didn’t use it) my total number of views had increased heaps as had the total number of users and images available on the whole WEBSHOTS site.
I’m now at the stage of nearing the 1,000,000 views mark, which for me is a major achievement. I’m hoping in a few weeks that target will be reached and in preparation for the event I’ve already created my special album called Digital Illusion 1,000,000 with a single image dedicated to all my friends and fans who have helped me reach the 1,000,000 mark.
So it’s about time I share with you some of my creations on this blog to encourage you to visit WEBSHOTS and my albums to get me to the 1,000,000 mark that little bit quicker.
I’ll update you when I reach my goal!
I really like Zazzle, they seem to have got a way of getting those sales sorted even when the world is suffering a great recession. When I first got into Zazzle things didn’t really happen at all but for some reason things have exploded recently. Today another sale of one of my products.
When sales are moving this fast Zazzle must be doing something right. they must be marketing the Zazzle corporation well and with my own campaign also running we’re becoming a force to be reckoned with.
Long my it continue!
When the financial markets are in turmoil around the world people fall back to what they see as a strong and safe position. They withdraw from the market and sink their cash into Gold or Silver.
Well this sounds a good option at first glance but is it really the best option to take?
When you buy gold or silver you pay the market price and you’re then the proud owner of your physical lump of metal. But how do you make money from it? The only way is to wait for the market to rise and then sell it on. There is no dividend payout every year so that’s your only option. when you come to sell you also run into the problem of where to sell your lump. Most gold and silver traders offer only a percentage of the current market value so the growth has to be significant if you;re going to see a meaningful return.
But there is another way of investing in Gold and Silver and that is buying stocks in a mining company. OK so you have to do your homework on the right company but once you’ve done that you’re working the metal market in a more efficient and effective way. As metal prices rise the mining company’s stock price rises, after all every rise in product price is a direct increase in mining profits.
Take Avocet Mining for example, a great company who is pulling gold out of the ground at a cost of about $600 per oz. They’re selling this at $900 per oz currently, a huge return on their investment. As the gold price increase their margin increases. Do some calculations on gold price rises and you’ll soon see just how lucrative this little investment can be.
So my advice is to buy into Avocet Mining, sit back, wait for the price of gold to rise further and watch your investment soar… oh and you’ll get your dividends along the way too.
Things continue to move my way on Zazzle with the sale of a set of post cards of my Bubble Wrap Psychedelia creation.
I like bubble wrap but lets face it the plain old monotone bubble wrap is not so pleasing to the eye. so I set about creating my very own ‘brighter’ version and this is what I ended up with. People seem to like it and they do make cool post cards.
Zazzle also provide other options for this creation and will do huge poster prints on request. Imagine a multi coloured psychedelic print on your wall. OK so it’s a bit of a marmite moment – you’re either going to love it or hate it.
So enjoy or not !
OK so I know we are pretty much now officially out of recession, but hey it doesn’t really feel like it does it. I have not yet seen all those businesses who went under come back to life, start trading again, start employing people again. We all know the stats might show we’re out but reality takes a little longer to deliver a world we left behind when all this recession stuff kicked in.
So whilst we wait for the world to get back on its feet is there anything we can do for ourselves to improve things?
Well we could look at the Internet as a way forward couldn’t we?
Millions of potential customers, potential ideas, potential ventures out there on the Internet – but where do you start in finding the right one for you?
Well I have my own strategy and method and here it is.
1. Look at the things you do that could possibly generate income. I listed things I like doing. If you like doing something you’ll invest your energy into it.
2. List them down in any old order, you’re going to cross some out later.
3. Along side write how you could use the internet to make money from each idea. Online auction, direct selling of goods, offering services etc.
4. Along side that for each one list the level of investment required to set up.
5. Anything that requires any real money to invest cross out. We’re here to make money not spend it. Investing time is fine.
6. Start a free blog and start sharing your ideas. I’m doing that right now.
7. Search other sites where the product or service your looking to work with gets some air time.
8. Get involved in that community, comment, share, invest your time. Above all always leave your contact name and web address to link back to the site where you’re looking to sell your product or service from. The more links the better you’ll be placed in search engines.
9. Get a twittter account and use that as a doorway allowing more connections with potential customers as well as potential partners.
10. Search out other businesses who will pay you to advertise their products and services. They are out there and the more you promote yourself the better coverage and income you’ll receive from such sites.
In a nut shell that’s it. It doesn’t really matter what product or service you’ve come up with, it’s all down to you promoting it sufficiently well to get noticed. Even if you’re a niche market player there are still loads of potential customers out there after the very thing you have to offer.
Be patient and allow a year to build up your profile, your Internet energy level, your visibility what ever you want to call it. It takes time but the Internet has this great ability to suddenly show exponential growth. The more you do the more it gives back.
So why not give it a try, you’ve got nothing to lose and everything to gain.
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Social network by Pete Linforth
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I must say I’m impressed with Fotolia as an organisation that I can work with. Firstly lets give you an insight into what Fotolia actually is all about. This next bit is taken directly from their site in the About Us section.
Fotolia is the first worldwide social marketplace for royalty free stock images, allowing individuals and professionals to legally buy and share stock images and illustrations.
Fotolia offers the largest image bank of free and affordable royalty free photos and illustrations perfect for any medium, web or print.
Photographers and designers constantly update Fotolia with thousands of new photos and illustrations each day, while photographers and designers receive commission from each photo sold and revenue from advertising on the free section.
Similar to the music or film industry, we believe that every artist’s (photographers and designers) image is a work of the soul and protected by intellectual property rights.
Fotolia is convinced that the principle reason for illegal pirated use of protected images is mainly due to the high price barrier created by other agencies.
Fotolia provides a compromise between photographers and buyers, by protecting a photographer’s intellectual property rights and offering high commissions, while legally lowering the price barrier so that everyone may enjoy/afford these beautiful images.
Fotolia challenges the traditional closed agency model by offering the opportunity to monetize their talents to everyone, hobbyist or professional, whatever their fame, status, or size of portfolio may be.
Thanks to our collaborative online model, Fotolia is able to offer individuals and professionals (advertising agencies, press, small business, graphic artists, designers) the greatest image collection in the world for free or as little as £ 1 .
So now you have an idea what they’re about It’s worth telling you why I’m so impressed.
I love creating art/graphics digitally. I’ve been into that sort of thing for a long time now and I’ve created thousands of images for desktop wallpaper over the years under my WEBSHOTS Id pete1111- Check them out if you want some crazy whacked out stuff for your computer desktop. They are all free so you’ve nothing to lose.
But then it occurred to me that I could perhaps use my creative juices to make a little extra income. Searching Google for a while delivered this company called Fotolia and I soon realised after reviewing their site they were the ones for me.
- I only have to worry about the creative element. They provide the business side.
- They manage all the accounts.
- They encourage contributor communications.
- They provide affiliation tools.
- They handle advertising.
- They cover a huge subject and concept range allowing me as a niche creative to get involved.
Results so far have been good, my work is up for display and I’m getting a fair amount of interest in terms of people viewing my creations and a few sales already has kept me boyant in using Fotolia as a means to generate some additional income. I’m looking at maybe a two to three year journey here in order to create sufficient images for my portfolio and for the buying community out there to get to know my creations. I’m in it for the long term but hey I love creating these things anyway so it’s no chore.