Website and photo outsourcing solutions

Seriously. Get great Rates with this service. I wrote a review of this service in January: Pingo's Virtual VOIP and after researching it further, I'll have to tell you how anxious I am to use the service myself. As soon as this post is up (by now of course) I will be signing up for my own free $10.00 of calls (for using this banner) and also on my way to earning affiliate credits for myself because I joined thier Affiliates program as I really believe in thier service.

If you make ANY long distance calls, it is totally worth making the switch (check the rate here to this long distance carrier. I hope you will try them yourself and I hope you agree!

I'm not getting paid for this post but if you click through the banner and sign-up (use my robin-ann [at] robin-ann [dotcom] address for the referral) and you'll help me to bring you more technology savings! Thanks :0) -RA

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del.icio.us that is...

I just opened my account, and I have a lot of new tips to share -- but that won't be until soon. Sorry I have several weekend fires to which I must attend before I can elaborate.

You can keep tabs on Robin's (my) del.icio.us links here.

More on del.icio.us tomorrow..

Labels: communities, del.icio.us, e-learning, free, goodies, marketing

Someone really loves ProLogic Web Hosting by StartLogic. This free file hosting service on RogePost is a simple site which will let you upload files and let you and others download them. I'm sure it's just a marketing ploy -- and certainly not for security data -- but average joe use... why not?!

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Since I'm talking about phone services, here is a link for $5.00 USD in FREE calls just for signing up at Pingo.com, a service for International calling cards online.

iBasis, the parent company of Pingo, is a major provider of international long distance service to phone companies around the world and the tenth largest carrier of ALL international phone calls. Pingo has a nice catchy sound and I think the company is reaching out to users the best way possible -- a buzz!

For a measly 98 cents USD per month to keep your account live, Pingo international calling cards have no additional fees. You don't have to change carriers and there is some sort of RateWatcher making sure to always give you the best rate possible.

Sorry I haven't tried it yet but I'm planning on giving it a whirl for the five bucks they've offered and I'll chat with my friend in Canada -- I know the last time I looked on my normal phone bill I was a little shocked at what I had to pay. Pingo is going to give me a rate of 1.8 cents/minute Pingo's Rates -- I just checked my phone bill and I was charged .20/minute.. I checked my carriers website and the going published rate 'today' is .19/minute Cingular Rates... Ahhhh, I cannot believe what I have just discovered!

Now you go look and compare: Call the UK: United Kingdom calling card rates or China: China calling card rates or anywhere! Pingo's Sitemap.

Talk often - Talk more -- Pay less! <--I made that up ;-) Enjoy :)!

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AdsBay Auctions, Buy and Sell your Ad Space has a free javascript online calculator to estimate the value of adspace on your website.

Yesterday I ran this Website (The Robin-Ann.com Web & World) and came up with a figure over $8.00/month for a sitewide graphic based ad pretty much anywhere on the page along with 10+ ads and I used Technology as the target market. Today I'm getting $0.00 figures but I'm not convinced so I'm giving it another few tries.

Okay, the new figure is up to $7.88/month - a number I saw yesterday in addition to the eight dollar figure. I'm going to run some additional tests on other sites I manage to see what other types of revenue I can expect.

Even though this is the third generation of the calculator, I think they are still working out the bugs because yesterday I ran into some php errors and timeouts similar to server overload, but that happens on the best of sites so no points lost in my book.

This calculator will be a good place to direct anyone wishing to advertise on my site, and your site too! I haven't seen anying like this anywhere else on the web and it seems like (they claim) it really works! Hmmmm, I'd think the figure would be higher but I don't think that is thier fault... ;-) + *smirk*

While I'm on this tangent I started thinking about my site and the links I have positioned in obvious and conspicuous places. They are there of course for me to be able to access my 'toys' easily but this calculator has got me to thinking... I 'should' be getting paid by Blogger, Technorati, MyBlogLog and Microsoft! ...I have some text links too but I haven't given those the cost analysis yet. Needless to say - I haven't seen any checks from any of them, but the free services they provide me I think more than make up the difference.

The calculator link is Adsbay's Link & Ad Price Calculator. You can read more on thier blog too. Even if it's just to satisfy your own curiosity -- I'd suggest you give it a try :)! I hope you make a million!

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While attending to one of my favorite pastimes... Web-Surfing, I came accross a website offering free web stats called Clicky Web Statistics.

The site is in beta so they are offering free services until launch. I signed up for an account and will have further review of my results and interactions with them - but I have to say the sign-up was quite painless and a little javascript insert to begin taking stats is just like Technorati and MyBlogLog and probably a boatload of similar websites will ask you to do.

I am looking forward to the results, it is always fun to see the who/what/when/where and how... Now if there only a tool for why...?

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