I Just Won!!

Yep, I just won $10 tickets to see comidian Kristin Keys concert tonight here in Topeka. Yippie! Looking forward to it.

Free Tool Makes Ebay Selling Easier

This is a screen shot of the new service.


I have been talking quite a bit of late about selling on ebay. Problem is when you try to sell something there (on ebay) you have to go through 5-6 pages, just to give ebay all the informaion they need to post the item you are selling. Kind of frustrating, but hey what are you going to do.
This week though, I learned of a great new eBay listing tool. As I always do, when I hear of such new companies, I begin checking them out. My skeptisism drives me to check them out.
According to a press releaese (dated September 22, 2006)

eBay sellers can now use List’d Express (www.listd.com) to create listings with calculated shipping and more options for the amount of days a listing will run.

List’d Express, is a new, free, one-page listing tool that simplifies the process of selling on eBay. The new features were added after a number of users expressed a need for calculated shipping and more days to list items on eBay for.

Since, the site is free, I began thinking that I am going to have to try it out. Why, hasn't someone thought of this before? All 5 pages filled out on just one screen! What a concept. I am excited about this one.

The company behind List’d Express is Orlando-based Saris Technologies, a five-year veteran eBay development company, which has garnered two past developer awards from eBay.

No Credit Needed Calls Us Great

In his coments about my September payments, NCN had this to say about this blog:

has a great blog, and updates regularly.

As with every month, I have posted the current chart, that he made showing my progress.
You can visit him here.

Whats Your Opinion Of PayPerPost?

I would like to know what your opinion is of PayPerPost way to advertise on blogs?
PayPerPost was launched only three months ago, and I began testing the service about a month ago. this week PayPerPost, held a contest, with puzzle peices that annouced that they had secured a $3 million round of financing led by Inflexion Partners and with participation from Villiage Ventures and Draper Fisher Jurvetson. Dan Rua from Inflexion and Michael Barach from Villiage Ventures will take board seats. Josh Stein from Draper Fisher Jurvetson will become a board observer.
Techcrunch reported that Ted Maurphy

said his business is doing quite well in spite of (or possibly due to) all of the controversy raised by paying off bloggers to write about certain products. And Josh Stein at DFJ seems excited about the potential profitability of the company while downplaying the ethical issues raised by this and other blogs - the market will sort things out, he says.

Something the general public may not realize is that they even have a community blog at blog.payperpost.com, which I encourage everyone to read and see what other PayPerPost users are saying.
While, I personaly would rather just post articles that I am 100% interested in and believe you to be to, the reality is that this is a personal finance blog and most of my readers are personal finance bloggers. As such, I and most of the readers are striving to get debt-free within a few months to a few years. In order to do this we must bring in any additional revenues as possible. For me I need to get about $2600-$2700 paid off by December 31st. Then I have another $14,000 dollars that must be paid off within 2 years.
With that reality, I will have occasional PayPerPost (as well as Blogsvertise) posts, however, I will be very picky. Other bloggers may not be as picky as I am. I however, want to take into account my readers interest, not to mention my strict adherance to Dave Ramsey's teachings, that make it a problem for me to accept any ads that promote taking out loans.
Now, I would like to hear what you all think. Techcrunch's article reposrted that the first time they wrote about PayPerPost, many of it's readers were opposed to the concept, however the responses the their most recent article is more supportive. So again, I ask, what do you think?

September 30, 2006: Meeting Minutes: Great Mural Wall of Topeka

images in todays post comes from the safe street website.



David presented some pictures of some of the murals that he has done as in Lawrence, Kansas. He suggested that we go to the library and get pictures of some of the things that were in the material that he presented. Items such as books, information about Topeka and other items. We need material to refer to so individuals can start considering what should be in the mural.
He presented some slides showing how some students developed a mural in their area. The youth were about 15 to 17 years old and they were working out a design for their heroes. David then takes the material and turns it into a design. He stressed that he really needs an assistant preferably from Washburn University to help him pull things together.


David stated that when you have the design done then you make a grid on the wall. In some cases you can use a projector to put the design on the wall but generally he uses a grid. A grid is prepared on paper then a scale is developed in order to enlarge the picture to fit on the wall. He has been using mostly High School age students for this part of the plan development. Once the mural is on paper and the grid is developed he can decide what needs to be changed to fit it on the wall. When this is complete the picture is then transferred to the wall through the grid that has been placed on the wall.
David indicated that our wall needs to be power washed and he prefers to be present when this is done. He will check to see if the wall is smooth with no cracks or holes. The height of our wall will not be a problem. It was recommended that we might consider a hydraulic type of scaffold and possibly the scissor type. The draw back of this type of scaffolding is that it will not let us put but just a few individuals on it. It would be better to use the four-poster with wheels as it provides a greater walking platform and more painters can be on it. We will need lots of wall boards. David starts the painting process by putting down a background color first then layers the mural on top of this. He mixes the paint for the painters as needed. The Kansas City mural was painted by mostly middle school student’s ages from 11 years to 14 years old.

Income Generated in September

I am happy to report that I received 2 deposits from PayPerPost.com in my PayPal account for articles I wrote a month ago. The 2 deposts totaled $13 and will now sit in my PayPal account until November earning 5% intrest, by which time I am hopeful to earn more funds from different streams to get at least one more debt eleminated.
I also received $42 plus money for postage for a cell phone that I sold on Ebay. Later in the month I expect to get 2 deposts from blogvertise.com, www.blogvertise.com allows bloggers to say whatever they what, positive or negative, about the advertiser offered them. Both advertisers, they gave me last month were loan companies, and both were talked about negatively by this blog. For my efforts, I am set to receive $20 ($10 each) around the middle of the month.
Finally, I finally broke the $100 barrier with Google adsense, and should receive $113 check from Google by the end of the month. I am hopeful to see these funds in my accounts, and even more hopeful to see these accounts grow as I attempt to get my debts paid by the end of the year (except the car). In addition, this is the month my car tags are due as well.

Pay Per Post Says, "Big News," Coming Soon

The online internet marketing company www.payperpost.com is set to annouce tomorrow, what the company calls payperpostbignews. The company which pays bloggers for posting blog ads in their blogs says that of the marketing gimick,

This is a puzzle piece for a contest that will be announced tomorrow (Oct 3, 2006). The first person to reassemble all the pieces and post it on their blog will get paid a $1000 opportunity fee. This puzzle contains information relating to our big PayPerPost announcement next week.

To this blogger it sound like a great opportunity to try to win $1000. Oh what I could do with $1000. Pay off a bill, ease my budget some.