Make money teaching Rubik's Cube algorithms

I saw a kid on TV solve the Rubik’s Cube puzzle in less than 2 minutes. How I wish I could do the same but unfortunately until this day I can’t even get pass the two sides of the cube. A lot of young people like the kid I saw on Mel and Joey could finish the puzzle in a few minutes. I wish I could too.

Now where does the money fit in the picture? You could actually make money on line or off line teaching people how to solve the Rubik’s Cube or if you have a particular talent or skill that other people would pay for to learn, you should write a book or do a video to earn money out of it.

I would certainly buy a book at National Bookstore if ever I see one that teaches how to solve the Cube. But since I’d rather watch a video to learn how to solve the puzzle I tried searching Youtube dot com but the video that I saw was not that comprehensive and it even confused me even more.

You could actually just type in Rubik’s Cube on Youtube and will be able to view different videos about how to solve the Cube. The question is this, are these people earning out of this thing that they are doing? They might like what they are doing but they certain are not making money out of it, Youtube is earning because of Adsense, but not the people who made the videos.

But this guy is different he is making money teaching people how to solve the Rubik’s Cube with his videos. He uploads it to Expert Village and then Expert Village solicits money from companies who would like to put their stuff on his videos.

So if you have a similar talent you could probably create your own videos to make yourself a whole lot of money.

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How to attract paying advertisers to your podcast

How to attract paying advertisers to your podcast

Here are a few points on how to attract paying advertisers to your podcast

* Use English as your primary podcast language. Most paying advertisers would prefer to advertise on English podcasts. So it's wise to use English instead of any other language in your program. If you listen to my first few episodes it's not in English, but when I started getting feedback to do the program in English I slowly swayed in that direction.

* Submit your podcast to podcast directories. Advertisers like podcasts that has a lot of listeners, one sure way of attracting listeners is to submit your podcast to podcast directories so that when people search for something to listen to they would be able to find your episodes.

* Podcast regularly, if a daily podcast is possible do it. Because the more you post your episodes the more listeners will find you on the net.

* Talk about interesting facts. You could discuss unbelievable things that happened, you may even use the info on Ripley's Believe Or Not. Just don't read through it you have to say the facts in your own words, give your opinion about what you read and you're on your way to attracting a lot of paying sponsors.

* Provide useful information. Discuss a new way of healing or a new way to make money. A lot of people are very interested with health and making money, you may have something that you are really interested in. Your interest may be other people's interest too, this is what you need to do, dig up, research useful and helpful information about your hobby or interest and discuss them on your podcast. Do this religiously and you will see your fan base grow.

* Make your episodes lively. Your podcast should be uplifting and always in a good mood. Try this, listen to a happy song to perk up your mood before you start an episode. Listening to a happy show is better than a gloomy one.

* Whatever the broadcasting rules and guidelines, it should apply to your podcast. Follow these broadcasting rules and guidelines to steer clear of problems and complications in the future. Remember that you are no longer just a simple listener you now have a responsibility to your listeners.

How to use Blogger.Com for your Podcast

I found this some where in blogger.com I haven't tried it but I'm posting it for future reference if you want you can try it yourself just don't blame me if things don't go well, remember I haven't tested it, good luck.

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How To Podcast Using Just Blogger.com
Create a new blog or use an existing one. Use this code in your blog's Template, this should be the ONLY code in the Template, if there is anything else things might go bad for you on some podcasting apps. To reiterate, clear EVERYTHING ELSE out of your template and place this in there. This will turn the output of your blog into a straight up podcast ready bit of RSS. If you love how your blog looks now you may want to start a new blog just for the podcast, blogger.com being the never ending supply of blogspaces.

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1) In the Settings/Publishing section give the blog filename a .xml extension. For example nameofyourpodcast.xml When you need to give people or podcasting apps the url for the podcast feed you give them http://nameofyourblog.blogspot.com/nameofyourpodcast.xml
2) On the Settings/Site Feed sectoin ensure "Publish Site Feed" is set to OFF. You heard right, we do not want this to go thru the Feed process becuase the code we put in the Template is doing that already.
3)In the Settings/Formatting section of your blogs setup make sure the TITLE and LINK options are turned on.

Now you are ready to start making some podcasting magic. When you make a new blog entry...


TITLE will become the title of the podcast item

LINK will become the url that will get stuffed into the Enclosure and Link tags

The body of your blog entry will become the podcast item's Description.

The date of the blog entry will become the pubDate

The PermaLink number will become the podcasts item GUID

The header will include some values that come right out of your blogs Basic settings.


A few things to take in mind


I had to fudge the file size in the enclosure tag, I set it to 666 in honor of our reelected bubaya.


We can use the blogger interface to generate the podcasting file and have it hosted for free on blogspot with a little bit of ugly cruft at the top of the file. This is from the banner code that is inserted by the blogger.com servers/ The good news is it does not see to bother bashpodder and a few other podcasting apps I have had reports of from others; I would be interested to hear of other podcasting apps ability to handle it or not. An example of this to test your podcasting app on is my Jean Shepherds Fathead Podcast.


Some of my blogs have the option to turn off the banners. Why? It might be because I paid for adfree blogspots way back in the pre google buy out era. The banners can also be turned off if you host the resulting file some where else via FTP or SFTP. If we host it on a non blogspot site, or use one of the blogs on blogspot with the magic bit set to turn off the banners, we get crystal clear podcasting code. An example of this to test is the orginal podcast test I did up while working out this template. But as I mentioned above, all the podcasting apps I have heard used on the resulting code worked even with the banner code in it. Sure Dave Winer might come and smack you with a trout for abusing the purity of his idea, but I say whats life without some excitement.


There are other tags that can be added to the template. Go crazy, have fun and please post back your versions here.




Friday, January 21, 2005


A couple of feedback have mentioned the generator tag. Sounds like a good one to add to the template.

Another feedback mentioned that the lastBuildDate tag is empty. Well yes it is. Lets see what blogger templare variable we can stuff in there.