Leaving on a road trip

Leaving on my annual spring break road trip.For the third year in a row we will be heading to Myrtle Beach, SC.  I'll be meeting Beach Guy down there.  We will be staying at the Marriott resort again, right on the beach.  The surfing is not the best but there is a lot to do.  I'm guessing that there are good spots because there are several surf shops...I just don't know where they are.
Can't wait to get there.

Free pizza samples

This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Tony's Pizza. All opinions are 100% mine.

I just received several coupons for free Tony's Pizza. They are part of a marketing campaign through Social Spark.  They are offering coupons to bloggers to try their pizza and then to blog about the pizza.  When I heard about this opportunity I jumped on it.  As America's Beach Bum I almost always take advantage of freebies like this.

I usually eat more frozen pizza than delivery.  I find that frozen pizza to be much more economical than delivery.  I might invite some fellow beach bums over after a day of beach volleyball to watch a movie or go for a swim.  It is easy to grab a pizza or two or three out of the freezer and pop them in the oven.  And it won't kill my budget.  Buying three pizzas from a pizzeria could run around thirty dollars and that would bust my budget.  Being a beach bum is not a high paying gig so keeping to a budget is very important.

After cooking pizzas for my friends I pull them out of the oven pull the rotary pizza cutter out of the knife drawer and slice each pizza into eight wedges.  I usually prefer pop [yes I said pop...not soda] with pizza.  If it is a movie night we head to the basement where I have my big TV setup.  We will camp either on the couch or the bean bag chairs and settle in to watch the movie.  Pizza and a movie with friends, life is good.

Made my Twitter goal

Yes, I finally made my Twitter goal of 100 followers.  I can potentially receive offers to pay me to tweet ads.  So far I have not had any offers.  Hopefully soon I'll have some offers.  I've set my price at $1.00 per tweet.  If you are interested in this program you can click the ad in the sidebar to join.  Of course, by clicking the ad you will become a referral of mine allowing me to earn when you earn money from tweeting.

So far I have one referral but have not earned any money from the referral.

Spring break planning

Planning another spring break road trip.  I've secured accommodations in Myrtle Beach, SC for the third straight yea,. invited a a few fellow beach bums and created a packing list.  We are hoping that the weather will be good.  Perhaps we will catch a few sets if the water temperature is warm enough.   

As in years past we will be staying at the Marriott right on the beach.  The rooms are ocean front and might over look the pool.  At least I hope it does.  Can't wait to leave.

Surfin' Sid-America's Beach Bum T-shirts

I've just opened a merchandise shop on printfection.com.  I hired a young man from the Phillipines to create a logo for me.  Once the logo was created all I had to do was create my shop at printfection.com and upload the image.  Voila! I'm in business.  I hired the young man through odesk.com and he made the logo very quickly.  I hope to sell enough shirts to pay for the logo.   

Watching the Super Bowl

I'm hoping the the Saints can win this one.  Not really a big fan of either team but the city of New Orleans could use the good news of a Saints victory.

As the Saints go up 24-17 with less than six minutes to go it is looking pretty good.  The half time show was very cool.  I love The Who!  Does that make me old?

Ok back to watching the game.

Twitter Goal

I've set a goal for myself of 100 followers on Twitter.  At that level of followers I would have the opportunity to do Sponsored Tweets.  Since Adsense has dropped me I am scrambling to replace that revenue source.  And I think that Sponsored Tweets is an easy way to fill a portion of that income shortfall.

The two hurdles to getting into Sponsored Tweets is 100 followers and 100 tweets.  As of last night I had 123 tweets and 65 followers.  Today I hope to add a link to allow my blog readers an easy way to follow me on Twitter.  That should help me reach my 100 follower goal.

Another way that I'm trying to gain Twitter followers is to find interesting people on Twitter and following them and hopefully they will follow me back.  This strategy seems to work ok...not everyone follows me back but that is part of the process.  Look for my Twitter goal updates soon. 

Amazon Associates

My previous post's Amazon ad was created with a Blogger tool that became available once I selected Amazon Associates in the Blogger dashboard under monetize.  I've had an Amazon Associates account for about a year so I didn't have to set up a new account.

After linking my Blogger account with my Amazon Associates account I can quickly place ads on the side of my blog and within my posts.  In fact there is a tool right next to the field that I am currently typing in.  Since I've been playing a lot of Modern Warfare 2 recently I'll type that into the search field and then I'll click on the "Link+Image" button.  And the ad below is automatically added to this post.  I think that is pretty cool.  It'll make posting ads to PSX Gamer soooooo easy. 

Happy New Year!

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Accused of invalid clicks

Can you believe it? I've been accused of invalid clicks by Google. So they have shut down my Adsense account. Super bummer. This morning I filled out the appeal form and submitted it. I hope that they will respond favorably to my request.

I don't make a ton of money online but a good portion of it comes through Google Adsense. Losing them as a source of income will hurt. But I hope it doesn't come to that. But in the event that it does I'm researching other advertising opportunities. Some I already use, like AdsDaq, ProjectWonderful and Performancing Ads. So it is time to explore other options.