Introducing VStream for Streaming TV, Movies, and More

Have you ever thought about doing a "digital audit" and looking at how much money you spend for everything you use digitally, such as cable TV, streaming services like Netflix, music services like iTunes, your internet provider, and more? Cable TV is one of those things that just hasn't gotten any cheaper, and in some respects, it feels like they're pricing themselves out of the market, with people choosing to drop cable in favor of streaming services.

If you're interested in reducing your bills and shifting to a streaming service, you might want to check out VStream. You get over a thousand channels, access to thousands of movies and TV shows, international movies and TV, radio stations, and more.

It's a portable system that works with any TV; basically it's a small box. The system is easy to use and runs Android 4.4 KitKat. It has built-in wifi with an external antenna, and the manufacturers promote it as having stable receiving. Plus, you can deal with just one remote control instead of a zillion of them.

And if you're looking for a business opportunity, you can become a VStream Licensed Media Consultant and set other people up with the system. In my opinion, this is one of those products where if you try it yourself and love it, you'll be a natural at selling it, too. After all, who doesn't want to save money on their digital media bills? For more info, contact http://www.tvcableguy.com/.

A Guest Post about Making Extra Money Online

Below is a guest post from Scott, who encourages people to join him in earning rewards for completing activities online. In short, the way it works is that advertisers are happy to pay to reach consumers and get our opinions. This particular rewards program (Inbox Dollars) has an affiliate program where you also get credit if a new consumer signs up using your referral link. The following is Scott's story of making some extra money online--and his invitation to our blog readers to sign up, too.

I registered for free on a money-making site a little over a year now, and so far I have earned six checks: $55.03, $56.80, $51.59, $42.99, $41.14, and $51.14. I've earned a total of $298.72--real checks in the mail and cash in my bank account. Its not making me rich, but hey, its a nice little extra coin. Who doesn't need some extra pocket money? And with a little more effort than I put into it... who knows?

You earn money by viewing emails, taking surveys, using the reward site's search engine, trying different offers, and checking out different websites. There are many other ways to earn, too, like signing up for special offers.

Besides the extra cash, I've gotten some great freebies, too. Much of my earning activity has come from trial offers where I earn money by trying and keeping a product. Through my participation, I've received free Dr Seuss books, a kitchen knife, an indoor gardening tool set, outdoor gardening info cards, a kids outdoor adventure set, recipe cards, and much more. Plus, I've been turning a profit while trying these products.

It's free to join and easy to participate. Are you thinking you would like to explore this? I hope you'll sign up for free through tryit4money.com.

When you check out the site, you can explore the many ways offered to earn, and I'll make myself available to give you straight answers to ANY questions you have. I can tell you what I do to earn money on the site and also what I do not think is worth my time. If for some reason I don't have much experience with what you're asking about, I'll tell you. In other words, I'll only tell you the truth from my experience.

To sign up, visit tryit4money.com. You can contact me with any questions at tryit4money@gmail.com.

Thanks, Scott!

Introducing Website Traffic Team, a Site for Targeted Website Traffic

Sometimes a website just doesn't have the traffic that you want. Maybe it's a new site. Maybe you're trying to get traffic in a very competitive niche. There could be many reasons why you aren't getting the eyes on your site that you'd like.

Website Traffic Team is a paid service that helps you get targeted website traffic. Their site is very clear in explaining where the traffic comes from, too. What they do is work with a company that owns a lot of high-traffic expired domains. Then they work with you to find expired domains that match the niche you are targeting. So if you want people who are interested in cats to find your site, WTT will find some cat-related expired domains and redirect the users who click on those domains over to your site.

I've read about website traffic services which simply inflate your traffic numbers using bots, etc, but WTT gets actual people who are interested in relevant subjects to look at your site. Pretty clever, I'd say.

There's lots of info about how to increase website traffic on the WTT site if you want to check it out. You can even use it for affiliate marketing sites. I have to admit that I learned more than a few things by reading through their FAQ.

Meet Jack of Win a Free Home

Jack runs a website called winafreehome.co.uk; the concept of the website is simple: users are invited to win a house worth £300,000 for free. Users must earn entry tickets by completing offers, in much the same way that a cashback website works. There are completely free ways to earn tickets so that users can have a chance to win without risking any of their money.

1. What gave you the idea for Win a Free Home?

Back in 2008 at the start of the financial crisis, a large number of win a house competitions were springing up in the UK and abroad; basically because the housing market had crashed, people were finding it very difficult to sell their properties. They started running raffles, competitions, and prize draws to try and raise money to move house.

I looked at this and thought it was a brilliant idea: giving someone a chance to win a property when mortgages were so hard to get. There were, however, a few draw backs that I noticed. Many of these competitions were charging relatively high entry prices of between £30 & £100 per ticket. Obviously for the winner these prices are a bargain for a house, but for anyone on a small budget, the ticket was quite a large outlay for them. Another issue was that the location of some of the properties up for grabs made them less desirable.

Due to this issue (and others), many of the old competitions failed to give away the full prize, and some of the organizers even ended up in debt.

Around this time I had just started looking at affiliate marketing as a way of making money online, and the two ideas seemed to tie in together really well. My idea was that I could run a win a house competition in the same way that a cash-back website works. Instead of earning cash-back for shopping online, taking surveys, etc, the users would be rewarded with free competition entry tickets. This means we don't have to charge a fee for entry, making the competition affordable for all and meaning there is no risk involved for participants.

Also, to ensure that potential entrants are not put off from entering due to the location of the prize, we decided that instead of giving away a particular property, our competition is going to give the winner the choice of any property they want, up to the price of £300,000.00. We are even providing a small team of house hunters to help them find the property of their dreams (only winners from the UK get this added bonus).

2. When did the contest start, and when will you be holding the final drawing for the home?

We soft launched the website back in August 2013; basically most of the development work was completed, and there were only minor enhancements left to complete. We have only just started to actually promote the competition this month (September 2013). As for the final draw, we are trying to be realistic here: we are aiming to raise a large amount of money, and that is going to take some time.

We have set the prize draw date for a few years' time, giving the competition plenty of time to find entrants and raise money. The current date for the prize draw is set at the 20th July 2016.

3. Do entrants need to live in the UK, or can people from other countries enter as well?

The competition is geared towards the UK public; however, unless there is a legal reason why you are unable to enter from your country of residence, you are welcome to join in.

The only issue we currently have with worldwide entry is the fact that most of the advertising offers are set up for a UK audience and may not be available in the USA and other parts of the world. We have further development to the website planned so that we can include country-specific offers. Check the blog on our website; when there are offers available for different countries, we will make an announcement there.

4. How many different offers are available for entrants to complete to earn entries, and are advertisers still able to get involved in this project?

We currently have 24 offers available from 24 different advertisers. Entrants can earn tickets to the competition by completing a survey for free; this takes about 15 minutes. Entry tickets can also be earned when people do their weekly food shop, order takeaway items like pizza and burgers, and when buying items like perfume, aftershave, and loads of other products which people require in their daily life anyway.

We are still on the lookout for new advertisers to work with, so if your company has an affiliate program and you are interested in getting involved, please contact us.

We are also offering users the chance to earn a larger number of entry tickets by donating to charity. We currently only have one charity on board but are on the lookout for more good causes to support. Please contact us if your charity is interested in getting involved.

5. What responses have you been receiving so far to this contest?

It is still early days for the competition, but new entrants are signing up every day and responses to the site seem to be mostly good so far. As with anything, there are a few teething problems but no show-stoppers.

We are hoping that with additional promotion and publicity, the competition will soon start to really take off.

We have a built-in sharing mechanism within the website which rewards users who choose to share the competition with their friends with free entry tickets. We hope that this will help the competition to "go viral," so we can reach a large number of potential entrants in the UK and further afield.

If you would like to find out more about our prize, then please visit our website at http://www.winafreehome.co.uk.

P.S. I would really like to thank you for the opportunity to take part in this interview. I hope that it is interesting for your readers and that they choose to get involved. To anyone who does get involved I would like to say "Good Luck."

Thanks, Jack!

Meet Mohammed Shaker, Entrepreneur

Mohammed Shaker is an entrepreneur who launched Panda CashBack LLC last year. PandaCashBack.com is a rebate website that rewards shoppers with cash back for shopping online when they shop with affiliate partners. Panda Cash Back currently partners with over 2000 online retailers. Members can also get the latest coupons and offers for these stores as well as locate the best local deals in their city.

1. What inspired you to start Panda Cash Back?

I was always interested in helping people save money. When I was a student, I enjoyed the idea of student discounts, and I ended blogging about them, but I always felt I wanted to do more. I wanted to help people everywhere save money on their shopping without going through a lot of trouble (it sometimes takes hours for a user to find a legitimate coupon on a coupon website). I knew that rebates are a great way to save money, and so we established our website to help shoppers get rebates. We were also able to find a way to allow online shoppers to get the latest coupons directly from the merchants on our website. Our users now can enjoy both coupons and rebates without going through the trouble of lots of searching, or running the risk of using expired coupons.

2. In reading the "about us" page on your site, it seems to me that your company turns the concept of affiliate marketing into a profit-sharing model. Is this a fair way to describe how your site works, and what are some of the brands/companies you partner with?

That is true. Affiliate marketing has always been a one way street for affiliates to earn money. We are changing that trend. Most online shoppers are not aware that a single click can bring hundreds of dollars to an affiliate marketer.

We have more than two thousands partners, and they include big brand name stores in the USA like Macy's, GoDaddy, 6PM, and FTD, and we do have global partners as well.

3. Do consumers need to disclose any personal information to use your site?

We require a minimum amount information from our users: name, email, and payment information.

4. What has been the feedback/response you have received from consumers since you started your site a year ago?

Our feedback has been good since we first started because our priority is always customer service.

5. What suggestions do you have for people who want to get the most for their money when buying online?

Always check if a store has a coupon or offer on our website. On PandaCashBack, we provide our users with the latest coupons and offers. For the majority of the stores on your site, the user can both use coupons or offers and earn cash back.

Thanks, Mohammed!

Meet Steve Metcalfe, Traveler, Geophysicist, and Blogger

Steve Metcalfe is a co-author and a world traveler who has been on the go for the past 21 years. Professionally, he's a Geophysicist who has been working offshore on research vessels. This role has taken him all over the world from Tasmania in Australia, throughout S/E Asia, India, Africa, Brazil, Mexico, USA & Canada--as well as to the North Sea, Scotland, Norway, United Arab Emirates and also New Zealand.

Although his work has also kept him away from family and friends collectively now for over 11 years, he has also, during the past 21 years, spent near 9 years at home and on vacation which has allowed him to continue his passion for traveling. Here are a couple examples of his blog posts on his travels: Paradise Island and Phuket Island.

Steve's other main interest has been learning about businesses and the internet as he's determined to grow a business online into a multi-million dollar dynasty over the years to come, which will enable him choices to return home to be with family and close friends.

1. Could you tell us a little about the work you do in geophysics and how/why this work has resulted in you traveling the world?

Yes, I am a Geophysicist and have been working in Seismic Exploration for the past 21 years working offshore all over the world searching for oil and gas reservoirs. We basically provide an image of the subsurface for the oil company to delineate their structural oil or gas trap.

Oil exploration is performed all over the world and so the reason I have travelled all over the world from the Southern Tip of the South Island of New Zealand, throughout Australia and Asia, India, Tanzania and Mozambique on the East coast of Africa. Namibia, Angola, Cameroon, Nigeria, Ghana, Senegal on the West and Central West Africa. To Europe, England, Scotland, Norway. Canada, Gulf of Mexico both in US & Mexico. Brazil and South Korea.

2. When you're not traveling for work, what are some of the activities (including travel) that you most enjoy with family and friends?

I am a fanatical Australian Rules Football supporter, I live in the North East of Thailand, and I have also studied Internet Marketing, online businesses and blogging. I have over 54 websites, many of which are in various stages of development, and my most recent addition has been my blogging over at the EmpowerNetwork blogging platform at http://www.empowernetwork.com/stevemetcalfe/.

3. What inspired you to start blogging?

It seemed like the easiest way to create a website online. Instead of learning HTML and website design, etc, you simply load WordPress on your web host and start blogging. Of course then you run into design and content issues, but the WordPress platform is so flexible that you could easily twist your blog into a full cms system and even a membership site. And for those of us who are less tech-savvy, there are other blogging platforms out there where all you need to do after purchasing an account is to log in and start blogging. This is the edge that EmpowerNetwork blogs have. Hence, for many of the older generation, this has helped them get their niche content published online.

4. How does your involvement with Team Tissa support your blog and your online business ventures?

Team Tissa supports everyone within the group to help promote the affiliate marketing side of the EmpowerNetwork (EN) product line. You can build a business for yourself using the EN products. However, you only gain 100% commissions for the products that you sell by owning the resale rights to those products.

With EN we are effectively direct sales and the amount of income you would like to earn is based on the resale rights that you possess. Team Tissa help each other understand best strategies etc that will help build your business. We have a really good short 25min recorded webinar that people can watch for more information. This will show you how Tissa is helping all team members become successful. Check it out now if you have the time.

This webinar was live earlier this month, and within the first 5 minutes Tissa will not only tell you exactly what he has to offer everyone who comes onboard with his Team, but he shows you how it's benefited many of his team members. It's a great example of why TeamTissa has become one of the most successful teams.

5. I like the title, Multiple Streams of Inspiration, of the series of books you've helped author. Are you continuing to work on this project, and what else can we expect to see/read from you in the near future?

Yes, I enjoyed the opportunity to co-author 2 volumes of the Multiple Streams of Inspiration with Johnny Wimbrey. I have more information about these volumes and the content that I contributed at my blog.

For the moment, I am blogging about my travel adventures throughout the world over the past 21 years and this has taken precedent over any additional co-author work that has come through the pipeline. I'm blogging daily on the EmpowerNetwork blogging platform and as such, there's a lot of content being added on a weekly basis.

Thanks, Steve!