I was not under the impression it was so easy to buy or sell a business these days. Up until today I never knew there was a market for buying and selling small businesses. I mean I know that you can sell out once your company is large and profitable, however this site I found today shows that you can sell even the smallest business.

If you are searching for a business for sale you should give BiZag a try. It’s a new site that offers a search engine for finding a business to purchase. If you would like to list your business for sale you can do it there as well. While they do charge a fee for listing your business it is quite inexpensive if you do sell the business.

I am not currently in the market for buying or selling a business however I wish I knew things like this existed before I let go of Codebowl Solutions. It was rather profitable and I imagine I could have sold it. Maybe in the future I will be in the market, who knows.

Sites like BiZag may be useful for those who do nothing but start up a site, then try to sell it off as a business. Hosting businesses, Design / Programming businesses and even those get rich quick scheme sites you see out there. I wonder how many people would buy into that garbage.

It has been a while since I wrote about PayPerPost so I figured I would tell all of you about it again. I joined this website a while back now and have been using it on and off for content in this blog. If you have never heard of them you should check them out. Why not get paid for writing your honest opinions of products and services?

I was a bit skeptical at first however I have been paid for every post that I have included on this site. Will it make you millions? Doubt it. But it will help with the hosting costs associated with running your site. I am sure if all you did was write about PayPerPost topics you could bring in quite a bit of money but that is not how I use it.

You will not see anything on this blog from PayPerPost that I have not used or done in the past. I will not make up stories just to post about something like refinancing your home or 0% interest credit cards.

So far I hope all of the PayPerPost content has been helpful, let me know in your comments. If you run a site, this is a good place for ideas on what to write about and also a good source of income if you push yourself.

I was reading a post today on formykountry that gives you the choice of sex or ice cream.  You are stranded on a tropical island with all the food/shelter etc. that you need.  Every afternoon you get the choice of a companion of the opposite sex for 30 minutes or you can have ice cream.  They talk about what a 19 year old with rocks in their pants will choose vs someone who knows what sex is all about.  My solution to the issue of not being able to have both…  One day choose the ice cream, save it somehow (even though it will melt), the next day have a little fun with the saved melted ice cream

I am not sure if it is too early to start looking around for Christmas gifts, however I have already started to do that.  There are a lot of toys that my oldest son has stated "daddy I want that".  I started looking around at Toys-R-Us and creating wish lists of the items I recall him wanting.  Today I wondered if I could find any online coupons for the stores I planned to shop at.  Usually I do not look for coupons I just buy on impulse.  I have checked out coupon sites in the past and they have all wanted me to install some proprietary software that only works on windows just to get a coupon.  Today I found CouponChief.com which unlike the others does not force you to install some crappy software.

Although I did not find too much on there that could be used for my kids, I did find a Columbia House coupon that will let me buy season 1 of House M.D. for $19.95 with free shipping.  This is a good deal considering tv shows usually got $39.99 for a season.

I did some more searching around and found a Hallmark coupon for 20% off an online order.  I think that this coupon site will be beneficial to a lot of people over this holiday season.  Why not save money when you can?  Coupons are out there for a reason, let’s use them while they are there.

There are a lot of stores listed on the site, I would have to say a few hundred that are offering coupons.  Be sure you check out the store listing before you go and start buying your holiday gifts this year.

From the master of terror Stephen King comes another terrifying movie called The Mist.  I have been a long time fan of Stephen King and have read almost all of his books.  While I have not yet read this book most of the time the books are better than the movies.  I think this is going to be a tough one.  After watching the 2 trailers they have on The Mist website it looks like this movie is going to be phenomenal.  The Mist was a short story written in 1985.  I have not read this story yet so I just ordered it and look forward to reading it.  I cannot wait until the movie hits the theaters.  I usually do not go to the movies because it is so expensive these days but I think I will have to go see this movie.

The Mist by Stephen King looks like it will be a box office hit, head on over to The Mist website and watch the trailers that they have posted, they also have buddy icons, wallpapers and a screen saver that you can download.  They make the movie look so good.  There are a lot of movies that spread hype about the movie and after you watch it you sit thinking why was the preview better than the actual movie.  I doubt that will be the case with this one, Stephen King has written some really good novels which have been turned into movies.  A few of my favorites are 1408 and Rose Red.  If you have not seen those and you like scary movies then you need to do yourself a favor and go watch those as well.

I was browsing through PPP to see what new offers were out there and I ran into one from The News Room. It seems really cool. If you are looking for timely and relevant news for your site you should take a peek. You can get paid for “mashing” news on your site. If you put a video on your site you can get paid for every time it is viewed on your website. I think YouTube needs something like this lol.

I have only spent a few minutes going through the content on their website but it seems to be really good. I have signed up for an account and will put things on here that peak my interest.  I have just tried to integrate this into my site.  I do wish they had smaller sized boxes with the video’s or allow you to embed just 1 video.  It also seemed to play tricks with my layout so I might have to mess with the CSS for the elements to make it “look” good on my site.  I am not sure if that will violate the terms of service or not, but if it does I won’t be using it on my site as it completely breaks the layout.  I will post more about how I get it to work once I figure things out.  It does look very promising and I hope to use this on the site.

While I do not use Windows on a regular basis I do have XP installed under Parallels (trial mode) so that I can test websites in IE. I decided that I would install SecureZIP - The next generation of ZIP. I wanted to test it out and see what all of the fuss was about. I have been hearing great things about this application. SecureZip is a compression program that will actually encrypt your files based on either a pass phrase or a certificate. Anyone who is worried about data security should look into this application.

SecureZip also integrates with Outlook and while I cannot say that I tested this feature it does look very nice. They state that you can encrypt attachments and then just resend the same files to another email address by forwarding the email and you will not have to re-encrypt or anything. I believe that this application is overkill for the average computer user however for companies who deal with sensitive data (and run Windows) this just might be the solution they are looking for.

From my tests the compression was not the greatest. I just tested by compressing my Document and Users folder on the C drive which is 89MB and it compressed down to 62MB. I also did my searching for a while to see if SecureZip had been cracked as of yet. This search turned up empty. It looks like it really is as secure as they are stating. I am sure in the future we will see a crack for them however I am sure the developers would be quick to change the algorithm that they use so that any cracks released would be useless.

They just need to make a mac version of this program now so they don’t leave out the best users of all

I have to admit that when I started with PayPerPost I was a bit skeptical about whether or not they would pay out. I have seen programs like this before that would pay you to surf or post things on your site and they did not survive or payout. I received my first payout from PayPerPost the other day and I have been watching as each day I get more payouts in my Paypal account.

What are your thoughts on the content I have been providing for PayPerPost? I have been trying to keep to only relevant topics and certain topics that interest me but if it does not interest my readers it is pointless. Please let me know your thoughts

Today i was browsing around and I ran into something called Forex Trading. I was confused because I have heard of the stock market and mutual funds etc. What is this forex? I did some google searching and found that there are a lot of people who trade forex. From what I have been able to gather up it is buying another currency and when the value of the dollar increases you would sell it and make a profit.

This was a new thing to me and sounds really interesting. Why not take advantage of the value of a dollar in another currency? For an example currently you can buy 1168.4 yen for $10 USD. If you did that and then tomorrow the value of the dollar in Japan increased you could sell the 1168.4 yen for say $12. I am not sure how often the rates change but it does sound interesting and I am going to look into this. Pretty much rather than investing in a company on the stock market, you are investing in the value of the dollar converted to other currencies.

I am going to Google this term more and I will post here with any updated findings. I am not even sure if you can be a “day trader” as you can with stocks without having a broker etc. I wonder if there are sites out there like E-Trade for trade forex.

PayPerPost has started up a conference for bloggers. The conference will be held in Orlando, FL on June 1st and 2nd. They have a good lineup of speakers to share information with us fellow bloggers. Why should you attend the conference? You will learn a lot, get to network with other fellow bloggers. They will be talking about how to increase the traffic to your blog and what you can do to gain more and more daily readers.

I wish the conference was closer to me. I live in VT and the conference would cost a bundle between airfare and hotel on top of the conference fee. It would be nice to attend this conference though. Who knows maybe I will make it to PostieCon ‘08. This is the first time I have ever heard about a bloggers conference being held anywhere. The cost of the conference is very cheap compared to most other conferences you are looking to pay $199.95 (currently as posted on their website).

They have 2 full days of keynotes. To see the full schedule take a look at the PostieCon website. It even looks like these guys know how to have fun. After 8pm they have a social where it says Ted will be getting naked. Gee I hope there is alcohol involved for that to happen hehe.