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An Easier Approach to Online Auction

December 23rd, 2009 izephyr No comments

This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Bidazzled. All opinions are 100% mine.

Auction is a very popular way of buying and selling stuff and there are many well known online auction service like ebay or americasauctions. There are a number of reasons for the immense popularity of online auction services. Firstly and most importantly online services give the user maximum control. The buyers, however, always look for the cheapest price and the best product. New systems like Bidazzled gives the users more chances of winning.

The main difference between Bidazzled and most other online auction platform is that a user has to buy ‘bids’ in advance so that they can bid for a listed item. The system is called ‘pay-per-bid’. If somebody bids on an item, a countdown clock begins ticking before the bidder can buy it; this is because other users are given a chance to bid on the same product. Now if the bid for a laptop, for example, starts with $1 and after a few bids it stands at $20.94 and the countdown timer is finished, it’s sold at $20.94 only. Even if the bidder couldn’t grab the item, can receive upto 50 bids in return as a thank-you gift. By using Bidazzled, you can buy stuffs saving 80% of the retail price.

Bidazzled is an easier approach to Online Auction where the user has the flexibility to resale the product to bidazzled itself. They are currently promoting their site and using promo codes they can get 15 additional bids. The codes are: Blog: BBP1202A & Twitter: BTP1202A. The offer is only for a limited time, ending on January 15th. By the way, this auction system also they have a very good ‘viral’ referral system.

It seems that Bidazzled is here to redefine the online auction market. Do the bids!

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Choosing a Good Blog Topic - The First Step in Blogging

December 18th, 2009 izephyr No comments

After you decided to start a blog, the very first decision you need to take is the main topic or niche of your blog. It should be decided, I suggest, even before you choose between a blog platform. Some sites do not give priority to the blog topic than blog platform or domain name. But because, many more things are simply related to your blog topic, you should make a choice of topic for your blog before you start with anything else.

Why Choosing a GOOD BLOG TOPIC is Really Important?

Choosing a Blog Topic Means Setting up a Target Audience for your Blog.
Why do people blog? For the Aliens coming from far far away of this beautiful planet? No. We blog so that other people visit our blog and get some handful of information that is informative, entertaining or useful. So, if you choose ‘Pet’ as your blog topic and then write topic related to it and optimize your site for search engines, you are going to get the search engine traffic who searched for Pet (definitely depending on your search engine rankings). So the topic of your blog sets the target audience for your blog.

Your Blog’s Success Partially (But Importantly) Depends on It’s Topic
Everybody wants that their blogs get visited more often than the others. But why should a user visit and then come back again to your blog? Only if the topic is interesting to the user. So, choosing a blog topic that is popular is wise; at the same time, you should know that the more popular the topic, the more competition your blog will face in the blogsphere.

Many More Things are Related to Your  Blog Topic
When you choose the blog topic it makes you to choose a design with related graphics and images. Moreover, a blog with professional ideas will surely have a different design than a music blog. Also, the blog domain (If not using free platforms) should be closely related to the blog topic. I understand that you really don’t want to name your Pet-blog.com as my-favourite-music-blog.com. So, it is apparent that many more things are related to your blog topic than you have estimated.

It is however important that you keep your blog’s niche topic in top priority when writing blog posts because irrelevant information or blog posts will distract your audience for your blog. Also, it is wise to choose a blog topic that you are well acquainted with. How could you provide the users with great and compelling content if you don’t have that much idea about the topic? It’ll then all go waste. So, make the most of your time, money and efforts.

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You Gotta See This : The Video Contest to win $5000 and Prizes

November 6th, 2009 izephyr No comments

Surfing the internet and sharing content is fun. It becomes more enjoyable when you have the chance to win thousands of dollars and great prizes only for sharing your contents. Like many other online contests, ‘You Gotta See This’ is a contest in which you have the chance to win $5000 as the grand prize and many other prizes. If you love videos then this is the contest you’ll really love to participate.

The organizer of the contest is Abbott Medical Optics Inc. (AMO). AMO is a global leader in laser based vision correction technology. They are working to improve vision of the people across the world. Through the contest the organizer want to know ‘how better vision could improve — or has improved — people’s lives’. ‘You Gotta See This’, the iLASIK Video Contest asks the participants to shoot a video to show the impact of improved vision in peoples livesAccording the contest website, many people have already submitted great video contents like original music videos, videos on boxing and swimming or simple videos that reflect how people’s daily lives would improve through a better vision.

There are great prizes for the winners as well as a grand prize of $5,000. Along the grand prize, the first prize for the contest in each video category is a
HDTV package — a $2,500 value; the second prize in each video category is The Flip UltraHD™ camcorder — a $199.99 value.

Entering the contest is really very easy. To participate, the contestant has to Shoot an original video on a specific topic and submit the Video to the contest at www.GottaSeeThisNow.com
You can make and submit a video in one of the following categories:
• “My contacts are getting in the way of my good time”
• “My favorite sport or activity would be so much cooler with better vision”
• “You should see life after the iLASIK® Procedure”

After submission of the video, you can ask your friends to vote for your video. Votes are one of the key factors in winning a prize. So, after submission, tell your friends to see the video and vote for it. The more friends you ask to visit, the more votes you get and that would really increase your chances to win.

Finally, one Grand Prize winner will win $5,000. The grand Prize winning video will be selected from all submitted videos. There are three First Prizes, one for each category and each winner will receive an HDTV package(a $2,500 value). The Second Prize winners will win the Flip UltraHD camcorder (a $199.99 value).

So, are you in?

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Stay in the Best Hotels - Asia Can Be an Exotic Experience

October 28th, 2009 izephyr No comments

Asia-Pacific is a great place to relax and enjoy. Asia hosts some of the greatest tourist destinations in the world and is the home of a number of both natural and man made wonders. Nature has given Asia the greatest gifts and men has glorified the nature with their stunning works.

If you want to experience a beautiful Asia while staying close to the nature, out of the chaos of this modern life then Thailand, Australia, New Zealand or Fiji can be the perfect destination for you to enjoy it to the fullest. If you are interested in Asian tradition and culture then fly to India for unmatched hospitality or Bali , Indonesia for a touch of excellent traditional performance. Asia has much more places to visit. Even you can enjoy the perfect blending of modern lifestyle has been beautifully while you stay in Singapore, Japan or Korea.

But did you know that finding the best place to live can be really easy? With Accor Hotels 3-Day Super Sale Asia Pacific, Accor brings you the best deal on hotel rooms and it’s a super sale only for 3 days, started on 27th October and ending on 29 Oct 09. Here you’ll find the finest hotels across Asia at the greatest rate. In fact, price starting as low as $30 and you’ve got plenty of hotels to choose from. This great offer also give you an option to choose a room that will fit perfectly on your budget.

Do you think that the deal is too early for you? It really does not matter. With this amazing saving deal by Accor, you can book hotel rooms at some of the greatest tourist destinations for stays between December this year to next year’s April. Just as a reminder, Accor serves in many countries including Thailand, Korea, China, Japan, HK, Australia, Singapore, Vietnam, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Fiji, Indonesia, Taiwan, India and Bali. It’s also great to see you enjoying the beauty of Asia and excellence of Asian culture while saving on the Hotel fare as well as the air-tickets.

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The Blogger’s Era - Age of Blogging

October 25th, 2009 izephyr No comments

There are many mystery around the web that ‘Age of blogging’ is over or is almost over. It is true that blogging was started back in early 1998 and has grew old as a media itself. But new-age bloggers have shown the world that blogs are yet to perform a dominant role in the world wide web with millions of words written by the everyday internet users and pros.

So, don’t look at the rumors around. Be a part of the blogsphere and let the world know what you know and share a wealth of resources across continents, diminishing the boundary of the states. Even though there are unethical practices related to blogging, we’re concerned about it. There are millions of unethical websites in the web and don’t you think that these are all the same? There is two side in every coin, and we should always take the good side in practice.

Join the millions of bloggers and enjoy the web.

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USB Three : A Dream or a Realty?

August 9th, 2009 izephyr No comments

Earlier This year I came to know that USB 3.0 is going to replace the existing USB 2.0 with its great speed and versatility. It seemed to me that the speed of USB 3.0 would be promising enough as according to PC World Magazine there will be a speed boost of upto 4.8 gigabits per second. Yet, we are not getting any true sign. USB developer group has recently announced the final release of USB 3.0 in a few tech expo but it’s really doubtful whether they will be able to release it on time, since none of the announcements promise a perfect date for the release.

Now that’s promising but I don’t remember any device with USB 3.0 capability. Where are they? In a Manufacturing process?

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