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SpareFoot: Turn Unused Home Storage Space into Cash

abhijeet — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 23:13:21 +0000

Sparefoot is an innovative website which lets individuals as well as organizations rent out their extra room, parking place or workspace. So if you’ve got an unused closet in your house, you can rent it out through this site and earn some cash.

It’s also great for people who are looking for storage units at affordable prices. Units can be searched by location, size, amenities and cost. There’s also a customized lease agreement available on the site for both listers and renters. They can make use of it if they need to secure their transaction. The site charges a transaction fee equal to 50% of one regular month’s rent when your space is booked.

Features:

Lease storage space at your home, office, garage, etc.
Quickly find a storage unit by location, size, amenities and cost.
Secure transaction using their customized lease agreement.
Transaction fee is 50% of one regular month’s rent paid by the person listing the storage space.

Check out Sparefoot @ www.sparefoot.com (by Abhijeet from Appscrazy)

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SiteRedeemr: Scrap Websites For Cash

srikanth — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 01:15:23 +0000

If you are a blogger or web designer and have websites which you don’t need anymore. Here is an easy-to-use option to monetize them. SiteRedeemr is a web service that can turn your unwanted and old website/blog into cash with three simple steps:

Fill out the price quote form by mentioning the URLs to your website(s), an analyst checks the sites and you will be sent a quote in 48 hours.
If the price is satisfactory and you accept to sell the websites, SiteRedeemr transfers the domains and associated website files to their own systems.
The payment to your PayPal account will be completed within 48 hours.

Features:

Sell your old and unwanted websites for cash.
Get a free price quote for your websites/blogs.
Once you accept the offer, you will be paid via PayPal within 48 hours.
Free, no sign up required.
Similar web service: Flippa

Check out SiteRedeemr @ www.siteredeemr.com (by Srikanth AD from Techonaut )

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WhyDoWork AdSense Monitor: Monitor Google AdSense Earnings Right In Your Browser

srikanth — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 03:11:51 +0000

AdSense monitor is a Firefox add-on which enables you to monitor your Google AdSense earnings right in your Firefox toolbar. Once installed and setup with your Google AdSense account details, it gives you real-time AdSense performance reports right in your browser status bar.

This add-on supports report viewing based on time periods such as: today, yesterday, last 7 days etc. You can either view the data in a single line or as a scrolling notifier. You can also set different update frequencies for content, feeds, search, mobile and domains.

By default, a left click on the add-on will refresh the statistics, a right click on the other hand will open your account. Clicking the logo will bring up the add-on settings. These settings can be customized accordingly from the add-on settings window.

There is also a WordPress plugin that allows you to easily insert and manage Adsense ads on your blog without modifying the template. This plugin also features the ability to exclude ads wherever you like i.e. based on individual posts, recently published posts etc.

Features:

Monitor your Google AdSense earnings right in your browser status bar.
View the AdSense data in a single line or as a scrolling notifier.
Option to choose the update frequency of AdSense statistics for content, feeds, search, mobile and domains.
An associated WordPress plugin to help you easily manage AdSense ads on your blog.

Get AdSense Monitor @ addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/12735 (by Srikanth from Techonaut)

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Rotatee : Rotate Banners on your Website

Aibek — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 21:55:39 +0000

If you have a website and sell your ad space directly then Rotatee is for you. Rotatee lets you create different ad campaigns to manage different advertising spots on your website. Each campaign targets certain ad spot (ex. sidebar) and lets you specify how many ads should be shown there and how often you want each ad to appear. The implementation is very simple, simply setup your campaigns and copy’n paste provided code to your site’s template files. Sit back and watch your banners rotate.

Features

Rotate different banners in a certain area of your website.
Free account users are limited to 5 ad campaigns. That should be enough for most of the websites.
There is no restriction on the number of banners you can rotate in each campaign.
Make some banners appear more often by assigning to them higher ‘weight’ values.
Option to display multiple ads simultaneously at a random order. Quite useful for blogs with several 125 x 125 px ads.
Customize ads: change the background color, margins, etc.
Get number of views for each ad unit and campaign.
Visualize ad stats on a Pie Chart.
Premium accounts: Create as many campaigns as you need. Plus some additional features.

Note: Rotatee is still in closed beta and available by invitation only. If you want to signup you can use ‘makeuseof for invite code.

Check out Rotatee @ www.rotatee.com

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BritePic: Add Ads to the Photos on Your Website

Aibek — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 00:11:19 +0000

BritePic “Adds interactivity and ads (if you want them) to the photos on your website”. While it makes in-page images look more interactive it also provides a quick way to integrate non-obtrusive ads to the very top of the image and make some money. Extremely easy to use and requires no technical knowledge. Check ‘before’ and ‘after’ pics below.

BritePic adds the following features to the images on your website:

Integrates non-obtrusive ads.
Options for reader to email image, link to it, embed it on his/her webpage, zoom in/out, rate it (coming soon), captions, etc.
Add ‘Subscribe to RSS’ to the image menu.
and more …

Video intro and demo:

Go to BritePic [www.britepic.com]

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PubMatic: Make Most of Your Advertising Space

Aibek — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 16:24:57 +0000

PubMatic helps bloggers and other website owners to make maximum off their website’s advertising space by automatically placing highest performing ad units on each page. It scans multiple ad networks at the same time (Google Adsense, YPN, etc.), diggs into performance reports and shows ad unit with highest payout and performance. PubMatic is completely free, there are no charges or commissions.

“PubMatic automates and optimizes all aspects of decision making for how we sell our ad inventory. We no longer have to monitor multiple ad networks and rely on A/B or other testing frameworks.”

PubMatic Features

Supports several ad networks: Google Adsense, Yahoo Publisher Network, ValueClick, Komli, and more.
Create different ad unit types (based on the ad size and competing ad networks).
Automatic ad color optimization for maximum CTR (Click Through Rate).
Consolidated Reporting: View detailed performance reports from all networks in one place.
Desktop Widget (Yahoo Widgets): Get consolidated reports right on your desktop (revenue, CPM, click-through rate, impression counts, etc).
Takes less then 10 minutes to sign-up.

Video Introduction and Demo

Visit PubMatic [www.pubmatic.com]

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Ether

kaly — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 20:58:27 +0000

Ether is a community/platform that lets freelance professionals sell valuable information over the phone (or email). It’s like ebay for consulting services. So if you have some valuable information than you can make some money by selling it over Ether. It can be finance management advice, ebay selling tips, legal issue consulting, translation services, PC troubleshotting, and whatever.

To get started:

Get free Ether phone number
Set calling rates. (The amount you plan to charge for your time)
Set your working hours. (Hours when people can call you)

Visit Ether

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20+ Websites anyone can make money with (makeuseof.com)

Aibek — Tue, 08 May 2007 22:12:03 +0000

1. Bitwine.com | Ether.com – sell your knowledge by offering consultancy services

2. About.com – become a guide (publisher) on about.com, and get paid for writing content. Based on your performance, your salary can be anywhere between $500-$8500/month. Check out the list of available
topics here”

3. ……

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