Surveys that Earn Me Cash! Must Try! at 11:23 PM

Heard of earning cash from surveys? Yes! They are very true!

Take note however that in the world of internet, 90% of the earning opportunities are most likely scam and only 10% of those are legit. So if you bump into some opportunity, be cautious and do your independent research. Not because someone is earning it already means that it's legit. Most of the time, it's scam.

We'd like to help you avoid scam and give you an idea, if you still don't have, on how to earn cash from answering surveys. We want you to experience only the best, as far as our experience is concern, and we assure you that these are 100% legal and paying (though it really take some time).

Without further-ado here are my list of survey-offering sites that pays:

I-PanelOnline

i-PanelOnline site is one of the most famous platform where you can earn points by answering surveys, publishing your opinion and even just for logging in!

i-PanelOnline awards you points ranging from 1-1000 for survey participation. If you started answering a survey and eventually screened out, you will still earn 1 point. You can also earn (30 to 1,000 points) from inviting others to be members of i-PanelOnline. This is apart from the 5% of the earnings of your referrals' earning that will be paid to you. 1,000 points is equivalent to P500, in Philippine currency, that will enable you to cash out. There are also sweepstakes here where you can earn significant amount.

Compared with the others, this platform is the most versatile for me and I highly recommend it. It's not the highest paying though, but you can participate with all other programs to maximize earning opportunity.

Click here to join i-PanelOnline

Survey Savvy

Another one is Survey Savvy. The core concept is basically the same.  You will earn by answering surveys. You will also earn by referring your friends and the general public.

What's unique with Survey Savvy is that you will be able to earn from referral two different ways. The Tier 1 is earning from direct referrals. The Tier 2 is earning from the referrals of your referrals (indirect referrals). This means that the more referral you have, the more earnings you can get! Sharing Survey Savvy opportunity is really rewarding. There are also sweepstakes and contests here where you can earn significant amount.

You will need to earn only $1 in order to request pay out. That's awesome!

Click here to join Survey Savvy

PaidViewPoint

Next one is PaidViewPoint. I've been with PaidViewPoint for three years now and I would say they are "tried and tested" when it comes to paying for answering surveys.

With PaidViewPoint, you will need to answer random "trait surveys" that will increase your "trait score" the higher the trait score you have, the greater your payment for answering the surveys will be. You will also earn by referring your friends and the general public to register and answer surveys.

I rarely receive surveys from this program but enough for me to earn something to buy coffee. :D Maybe because of the location? I read some blogs about how often people receive surveys from this program - they're not from Philippines. But it's also worth trying, nothing to lose.

In this program, you will need to earn $15 for you to cash out.

Click here to join PaidViewPoint

iPoll

With iPoll, registration alone will give you a $5 bonus!

Unlike the other program, referring to the program will not earn you anything (even I will not earn referring you here). But what's wonderful here is that they are the best/highest paying per surveys answered compared to the others here. There are also sweepstakes here where you can earn significant amount.

With this program, you need to earn $25 for you to cash out.

Click here to join i-Poll.

Global Test Market

Same as the other, you can earn answering surveys.  You can also earn by referring your friends and the general public. There are also sweepstakes here where you can earn significant amount.

With Global Test Market, you will earn 30-100 points by answering a survey and 20 points for referring your friends. 1,000 points can be converted to $50.

You will need 1,000 points to claim your reward/cash out.

E-mail me for me to invite you at Global Test Market.

Here's the Catch

We are confident that you will earn and will not be scammed joining the program we introduced to you, 100%. You will earn because, they (and their clients) need your opinion. Since they need your opinion, they are willing to pay for it. Most of these are market research companies and they are being engage to conduct study of their clients' market.

With all of these programs, you need to answer profile questions for them to know you better and for them to find the more appropriate surveys for you. It will take some time at the start but once you're done with it, you will start receiving appropriate surveys that will enable you to earn.

Our disclaimer here is that, you will earn cash answering survey, but it's not enough to replace your job. Spending less than 30 minutes each day answering survey will not make you rich. It will only give you some rewards that you can call "extra income" rather than wasting your time in the internet.

Also available - earn cash as online worker. Click here for details!

Remember, you are not required to buy or spend anything in these programs so it's worth trying.  You will not lose anything (even your weight =D ).

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Your Late-Night Emails Are Hurting Your Team at 6:29 PM

I have read an article from the Harvard Business Review website with the above title written by Maura Thomas and I think it's interesting enough to share with you. I am, personally, one of the person who blast e-mails late at night, just as soon as they get into my mind so that I will not forget them, but reading this article made me realize that it's wrong. The article starts in the following paragraph.  All credits are due to the author.

Around 11 p.m. one night, you realize there’s a key step your team needs to take on a current project. So, you dash off an email to the team members while you’re thinking about it.

No time like the present, right?

Wrong. As a productivity trainer specializing in attention management, I’ve seen over the past decade how after-hours emails speed up corporate cultures — and that, in turn, chips away at creativity, innovation, and true productivity.

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Formatting Numbers in a Merge Field in Microsoft Word at 12:01 AM

You might already know how powerful the "Mail Merge" function of the Microsoft Word is! 

With only a single "letter" (assuming you are writing a letter), you can print it for a thousand recipients without manually typing all the names, addresses and other unique information. Isn't that awesome?

This article assumes that you are already familiar with, and already using the mail merge.

When performing a mail merge in Word, numbers don’t always automatically display with the correct formatting (currency, decimals, etc.). Here’s how to fix it.

Formatting Prices with a “Numeric Picture Switch”

Numbers don’t always automatically display with the correct formatting (currency, decimals, etc.). To fix that:

1. On your original source document (before completing the merge), right-click on the field and select “Toggle Field Codes.”
2. It will look something like this (where “Price” is your particular field name):
   { MERGEFIELD “Price” }
3. Place your cursor before the closing bracket and type:
   \# $,#.00(There is a space between the first # and the $.)
4. It should now look like:
   { MERGEFIELD “Price” \# $,#.00 }
5. Right-click on the field name once again and select “Toggle Field Codes” to return to the original view. Your prices should now display appropriately.

What do the Symbols Mean?

\# - Begins the “switch” which tells the document to apply formatting to the number.
$ - The character to display at the beginning of the number (in this case, a dollar sign).
, - Indicates that you want commas to designate thousands.
# - The number of number signs (#) typed after the comma indicate the number of digits that should be forced to display.
.00 - Indicates that you want to include a decimal point to two places with each number. Anytime a number to be merged doesn’t include decimals, it will display with zeros.

What can you say about this tip? Let us know! :)

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My UBER Experience - Tried UBER for the First Time! at 9:59 AM

Heard of UBER?

It's a new app developed by a relatively new business (well, at least new in the Philippines perhaps) that caters generally to commuters. It's somewhat similar to GrabTaxi and EasyTaxi, if you know any of them.

The difference is, you will not be riding a public utility vehicle but a private car. Their tagline - "Everyone's private driver".

I there are to many questions running in your mind having read the introduction and let's answer those one-by-one and as many as possible as you are reading this post. Click here, if you want to sign up and try UBER.

How to Use Uber?

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'Want' is Enough: You don't have to 'need' a thing to buy it at 5:41 AM

We have no satisfaction. Contentment is just something cannot be easily satisfied. Despite of the fact that we already have something good, we want something better or something more.

Oftentimes, we buy material things for luxury. Why? Because we want it! But the question is, do we need it? 

I am a kind of person who sticks on my need rather than what I want. Of course there are just some times when I really want a thing and I would definitely put it in my list, so when I got the capacity to buy it, I won't think twice. That's me.

A friend of mine, however, has a different perspective of buying. He buys something he doesn't need, and that is habbitual. He's as practical as I am when it comes to necessities but he's fun of shelling out considerable amount for something he doesn't really need.

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I was Born to Stand Up, Stand Out at 9:41 AM

Disappointment is pretty common in my everyday work life.  It's normal, I am full of hopes, dreams and expectations. I expect, I look forward, and I trust everything is alright.

I've talked to a person I seldom talk to, for some reasons, and asked her why was I not given a turn.  Of all things, "Your rating is low, you have to repeat your FDW." was the response.  Repeat the what...?

Oh, I guess, of all the things, this one's not mine.  I should give it up and give others a turn.

But wait, didn't they all have their fair turn and I should also have mine?

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Quarter Life Crisis at 10:47 AM

It is when you stop going along with the crowd and start realizing that there are many things about yourself that you didn’t know and may not like. You start feeling insecure and wonder where you will be in a year or tow, but then get scared because you barely know where you are now.

You start realizing that people are selfish and that, may, those friends that you thought you were so close to aren’t’ exactly the greatest people you have ever met, and the people you have lost touch with are some of the most import ones. What you don’t recognize is that they are realizing that too, and aren’t really cold, catty, mean or insincere, but that they are as confused as you.

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Everyday is a Unique, Extraordinary Day at 9:15 AM

A Good Fight

Every day is a new challenge.  From the time you wake up until the time you go back to sleep, there is a battle you need to fight and you have to keep winning for you to stay alive the next day and moving forward.  You get wounded sometimes but that wound can be healed, either easily today, or slowly tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. Healing may take long, but it won't last a lifetime.  Nothing last a lifetime so leave everyday like it is your last. It's just a wound anyway, you are still alive and can keep fighting.

Failure breaks your heart.  It is sad thinking that you didn't make it despite of having a good fight, despite of giving your best.  You feel inferior, you feel down. You feel like everything you have had gone. You expected too much, you hoped too much. But in the end, you end up not making it.  What's more frustrating?  How can you bring back the broken pieces of your heart?

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Job Opportunities for Practicing/Employed Accountants at 12:47 AM

Are you an employed accountant or a practicing accountant or unemployed accountant and you think you are earning less than what you need? Or you may be earning more than what you need, but less than what you want? Or just say you want to expand your clientele?

Good news for us everyone, accountants, that there is a place where we can work online! We are sharing this to you for you to explore. This might work for you, like it worked for us. Not only us, accountants, but everyone! Even your friend IT professionals, writers, and data encoders, etc.

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Wordpress custom domain e-mail address using email forwarding at 7:45 PM

Good news to WordPress users using custom domain!  You can now create your custom e-mail address using your custom domain and have the e-mails sent to these custom domain to your existing email address. That's the power of e-mail forwarding. Since it's free, this only support up to five (5) forwarding rules.

What is In It and Why Shoul I Use It?

If ever you are looking for ways to have your custom e-mail named after your favorite domain name, this is the perfect way. 

Say for example, in my case, I have this http://ocalundan.info domain, I can have my ooc@ocalundan.info e-mail address using this new e-mail forwarding of WordPress.  The e-mail sent to that custom e-mail address will be sent to my existing e-mail address that I specified, say, ocalundan@gmail.com.

Actually, there is another way of doing this but it involves tweaking the details of your domain in your domain service provider.  You can use gmail.com to host these up-to-10 e-mails, like what I did.  But if you did this alternative, WordPress e-mail forwarding will be disabled. 10 e-mails is better than just 5 anyway.  Unlike e-mail forwarding however, the e-mails received in these custom e-mail addresses will be received in your new inbox in gmail.com platform. But then the set-up is a bit complicated.  

So why bother if you can just use this simple set-up using WordPress e-mail forwarding?

How will I Use this E-mail Forwarding Feature?

To get started, go to Store → Domains in your dashboard. If you already have a custom domain, you’ll find the new Manage Emails link next to it. If you don’t have a domain yet, you can add one now from the same page.

Enter the new email address you want to create in the first field, and the destination email address in the second field. This way, instead of setting up a new email service, you can keep reading and writing your email like you always did. Any email sent to your new address will arrive at the address you specify.

To make it work you should enter the new email address you want to have in the first field, and your existing email address in the second field.

Email forwarding supports up to five forwarding rules. For example, you can create custom email addresses for up to five people, or create up to five custom email addresses to redirect to the same email (such as sales@yourdomain.com, support@yourdomain.com, warehouse@yourdomain.com.)

If you already set up a third party email provider on your domain, e-mail forwarding will be disabled.

See the related announcement by WordPress, Click Here.

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