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Fun making “InvestorBlogger” business cards at 123Print.com

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Do you have a business card for your job? If not, why not? Do you have a business card for your blog? No?! I don’t either. But business cards are extremely handy for giving out. They save you hunting for a piece of paper and a pen to write down a telephone number, they look good, and they give you a chance to “say” something about yourself that may be remembered long after you have been “forgotten”.

So I was wondering what a business card for “InvestorBlogger” might look like, so I made one online at 123Print.com for fun. Take a look!

InvestorBlogger's Business Card

It was relatively painless to create the business card below, though I think I’d like to have a little more advice on design aspects. Sometimes my earlier efforts looked okay, but needed some refinement. Also, some of the designs that they have looked like they were made from old Word graphics files from Word95. The photograph based images looked MUCH better.

So when I meet other bloggers at PostieCon or at Computex in Taipei (hey, John, still do you still “make money online?”!) I’ll be able to whip out my cards, and leave them fumbling for a pen and paper. Of course, if he were really smart, he’d be printing his business cards in time for his trip to Taipei. at 123Print.com. Cool!

Box.net: The whole world’s a widget away!

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Vista has ’em, Opera has ’em, Mac has ’em, even Google has ’em! Now your blog can have ’em, too. It’s a widget, and Box.net Widget is offering a neat way to manage your downloads: you simply upload them to their server, then create a widget. Place the widget in a suitable place in your blog, a sidebar, or post, or in the theme itself. Voila! Your downloads are a click away. No more messing with FTP!

With music files, you simply click and they will play within their own little player. Images simply load! i haven’t tried movies yet! My files are too big to upload! Hosting of your files is upto 1GB for free, with unlimited bandwidth. That’s not a bad deal.


Get your own Box.net widget and share anywhere!

This post is sponsored by Box.net Widget.

The Smart Way to check your Page Rank

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Page Rank is now quite a sought after asset for your website or blog. Its importance is still hotly debated, but its economic significance for some websites is no longer disputed. A higher page rank can translate into much higher income generation for websites, through selling text links, ad sales, affiliate sales, and so on.

Most webmasters used to check their page rank through a simple bar in the Google Toolbar, but these days there are quite a few pagerank tools available these days for checking the PR ranking of your website. I recently tried Smart PageRank.com and I was surprised at what a a fast and simple alternative it is. Moreover, there are a few interesting twists that might make the difference when you choose one page rank tool over another, such as automatic email if the PR changes, display of backlinks/alexa/DMOZ, and, very importantly for me, it was fast to load.

But perhaps the most important reason I found this to be a good site was the data was even fresher than I had first realized. In fact, I found out through this tool that my Alexa rating had changed since I checked just YESTERDAY. My blog had finally moved below the 1,000,000 mark, (actually, 946,176!) whereas URLTrends only updates once a month. They are still showing my OLD PR/Alexa scores. In Internet time, that is a long time!

So, I’ll be adding this PR Tool to my useful links list on the bottom left of this blog!

This page has been ranked and sponsored by SmartPageRank.com.