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Monday, January 13, 2014

Graiglists And Other Classifieds Offer Great Ways To Make Money Online




Why these free ways to make money online can be effective? Well, the answer is simple. The question is always about the content, not about the mediums. That is the simple reason, why all free mediums can be excellent in promoting your ways to make money online, when you produce quality content to them.





Free graiglists and classifieds are great marketplaces for freelancers, ghost bloggers, for online business promotions and to get targeted leads. Not to mention about brand and awareness building. Most services offer chance to pick a category, which makes this medium targeted.





Some graiglists are very popular and this is a great opportunity to find ways how to make money online. There will be new people every day searching for useful information or ways to make money online and your job is to fulfil their needs. It is really a question about the content and about your ability to make a difference, i.e. about your skill to stand out from the crowd.





Classified ad and graiglist submissions take a lot of time to do. This leads your thought to the fact, whether you should choose these methods as your only ways to make money online. They fulfill many of the requirements of good mediums, so why not!





Because it is not allowed to publish a list of the best graiglists and classified ad sites in this article, you have to search for them from the internet. When you make the selection, keep in mind that lists and sites have differences as to the popularity and the image.





A good way to make a shortlist of these lists is to visit some respected online marketing forums and to ask guidance from there and to listen especially the expert marketers, who have their own experiences about those and who can tell the pros and cons.





These two medium groups build also a brand name for your online business and for your own name. The medium is an important part of your message, so when your messages are on the most respected lists and sites, they have a favorable influence to your brand image especially on the long term.





One very important thing is to pick the right category and not to put your content to whatever categories. In most cases you have to research, what kind of messages the category includes, before you can judge, whether your target people can be found from there.





The content itself must be useful, not advertising. No one wants to be an object of a sales pitch but everybody wants a useful and valuable information for free. The copystyle must be fluent and error free. Some people think that because these lists and sites are free ones, it does not matter what kind of the content they put into them.





This is your opportunity, because from this kind of circumstances you have a great chance to stand out from the crowd and to offer great value with the quality content and to make money online. Actually the job of the text is not to sell, but to persuade the reader to click the link and to visit your landing page with an excited state of mind.


Sunday, January 12, 2014

Millsberry Review – A Great, Free To Play Online Virtual World




Millsberry is an online virtual world game created by General Mills, the food giant. The virtual world is however 2D and not 3D. Millsberry can be played online and is totally free of cost. Once a player signs up and creates an account, he or she has a variety of options to choose from- the avatar's outward look, the clothes etc. These things can be purchased using Millsbucks, the currency form of the game. Initially every player is provided a certain sum of money, but later, the players have to earn this money by playing different mini games.





Every player's performance in the game is judged by the following 5 factors- Health, Fitness, Intelligence, Civics and Hunger. In fact, Millsberry is a very educative game- children get to learn to open a bank account, or to send a post at the post office and several other things, which come in handy in life.





However, what excites the children are the options available for customisation of the avatar and all the goodies they can buy once they have enough millsbucks. They can buy their own house, decorate it, make friends and visit their homes. Having said that, the virtual world lacks the X factor as it is two dimensional. One doesn't ever get a holistic idea of how the place looks like. The navigation is a little rough and there are other technical problems as well. Because of these, the children are sometimes left dejected- they create their perfect house but somehow. It just doesn't look that great in the game. This problem is compounded by the fact there is no preview option.





The Millsberry mini games aimed at the collection of Millsbucks are interesting. Games like Archery and Solver keep the kids hooked on Millsberry. They lay great emphasis on creative activities like music and photography. Thus, they promote these interests in kids and kids get to develop their skills here.





But again, they come with their own set of problems. The instructions for these games are very unclear and kids are left confused about the rules. Also, the games tend to become repetitive and boring after a point of time.





The plot of the game has weekly stories which are also related to mini games. These are updated regularly but still, there isn't a central story line running through Millsberry. Nevertheless, the weekly aspect manages to keep the kids curious.





One area that is flawless in Millsberry is the safety aspect. Parents have absolutely no reason to feel worried about their kids playing Millsberry. There is no offensive language, no obscenity at all. But this is a direct implication of the fact there is no communication in the game. Millsberry lacks any interactive qualities and has only educative books. This makes the game a little monotonous. After all, kids love to interact and make friends.





Millsberry also falls short when it comes to the community aspect. There is no sense of social bonding. One would expect it to have a strong community, it being an online game. But there are no chat forums or any platform that facilitates conversations between fellow players. There are only a select few pre-determined phrases which cannot support a normal conversation.





General Mills has also used Millsberry virtual world to advertise their own products. All the food products that can be bought in the game carry their logos. These products are ridiculously over priced and this reportedly bothers parents. They believe that since everything is so expensive, children tend to get obsessed with collecting money. They are solely driven by consumerist tendencies. However, this is one of the minor problems.





Thus, Millsberry is cute and enjoyable for kids. But it has its share of technical and thematic problems which need to be looked into.