We’ve seen a lot of logos around us, but only some of it manage to make us stop there for a moment and enjoy its brilliance. These are some example of logos using negative space to express the message. Negative space log often has 2 images complementing each other and hence tell what the logo is all about wihout further needing to explain it.

Fitting the “I” between the word “fit”

You can see 2 glass and a house in between

Food Writers

Lockey

You can see the shape of Australia

One of my favourite

Cullogo.com  would like to take this chance to invite you to our newly launch website.

Its been a rough 4 months working on my latest online project. Its now officially live and working.  You can launch design contest such as logo design, website design, merchandise, twitter background design at only $100.

We have looked though the web and we can safely say that Cullogo offers the lowest fee compared to other logo contest website. For each contest you launch on Cullogo.com, we charge you $25 listing fee and a 10% prize handling fee. You can expect between 40-60 design entry for your contest. However it depend on your prize award really, the more you award the designer, the more entry you will see coming.

To test the website, I launch my own contest for cullogo.com logo and receive over 84 design entry with only $150 award prize.  I was quite happy with the entries and even secured a winner. You can see the new logo for Cullogo.com being used now.

You could also make use of the upgrades available to you when creating a contest. You can choose to create your listing in bold, highlight it or even apply a blinking star at the side of the listing to make it unique from other listings. This should attract more designers to your listing. Other than that if you receive less than 30 design entry for your contest, we will REFUND you with no question ask. So you can be sure you won’t lose your money with us.

Launch a design contest now!

Most blogger are thrilled to get comments on their blog but for me I don’t. After 2 months abandoning my other blog I was shock to log in and see I have 2662 pending comments ready to be published. Guess what!? All of them are spam comments by stupid russian geeks. I’m sure that’s Russian. Anyway the blog I abandoned was created just to review website, and thus get paid for it. It has a pagerank 3 when I bought the domain so I decided to sign up for a couple of sponsored review network. I receive offer from advertiser to review their website occasionally. Payout is not that great, ranging from $7.50- $12 for 200 word review on product/website.

Abandoning the website also means abondoning the sponsored review network. I haven’t log in to the network since 2 month till yesterday I saw 12 pending offer each offering $8 average per review. That’s $96 for me to grab! So I hired a few writers from DP forum and ask them to write simple review on the webistes. I knew I couln’t write all those 12 reviews on my own so a few writers will help me clear the load.

The sponsored review network I’m talking about is Blogsvertise. You can sign up as a blogger or advertiser if you want to get your product/services reviewed. For bloggers, I recommend you have a pagerank of 2 and above to get approved into the network.

I just bought the BlackBerry Bold 9000, the latest Blackberry model after the Blackberry Storm.  Its been 2 days since I bought it and everything is fine except for the messaging function. I can’t seem to link my gmail account to my Blackberry. I already did the online registration to activate the messaging fuction with my service provider, Singtel but it still won’t work. I guess I have to go down to Singtel myself to solve this problem. I signed for another 2 year plan with Singtel so I got the Blackberry Bold for SG$539. The retail price for the Blackberry Bold 9000 is around SG$800+. Below are some pictures of me unpacking my new Blackberry Bold 9000.

Oh yeah, be bold and make the right choice. haha

I just love the packaging.

Here are all the goodies that comes with the BlackBerry Bold Smartphone

That is wicked!

This is what the startup menu looks like. You can always change the shortcuts. One thing that I really like about the Blackberry Bold is that you can personalize and change almost everything. There’s so much option that sometimes it could get overwhelming.

Oh wait..Isn’t that…my blog! I connected through Wi-Fi connection. The connection is fairly fast allowing you can do simple things like checking your emails and stuff. But don’t wish to do heavy surfing on the Blackberry cause it could get frustrating after a while since you have to zoom in to the content and the cursor is not that great.

Its been a long time since I posted anything. For most part, I was very sick the past week so I was just too lazy to update the blog.  Since I recovered I am busy with a new porject I intend to complete by early september. I am working on a new website and if this goes as plan, the site can bring me up to $6,000 monthly. I am putting aside $1,000 for site promotion alone. I’ve also found a programmer/designer over at Scriptlance and they’re now working on the website. This is the first time I’m actually working with someone on a big scale project and invlove quite a sum of money.

Onto the main topic, I recenly sold a website of mine for $US5,600 over at Flippa. I put it up for auction and the starting bid was a measy $500. It just take one interested person to bid and the bids will start rolling in. That’s the thrill in running an acution, you will constantly be surprised. The changeover of the website went well, buyer happy, I am happy. I used Escrow to run the transaction so no one will be cheated. In all, the changeover took 1 week to be settle and for me to get paid. I’m using that money for my new project, hopefully this investment is worthwhile.

The only thing that’s bothering me right now is my National Service coming this october. I have to serve my country! I won’t have time to manage the site as I’m practically away from home on weekdays and only have the weekends to check on my online business. That’s the reason I sold my site, to lighten my burden. This kinda shit happens in life and you just can’t get away from it. Now I have to think of how to keep my online business running while I’m serving my country. Any suggestions?

I often show you how I spend money offline like shopping and my outings. I thougt I should share with you my spendings online. To me spending online is more dangerous than offline spending. The reason being, you don’t really see the money being spend. Its like you wake up in the morning and say to yourself, “did I really buy that $$$ last night!?, omg what was I thinking”. That’s one of the reason why you should get a debit card, not a credit card. Only spend the money you can afford to pay. Well most of my spending goes back into expanding my business online. I don’t go “shopping” online. Never done that before cause I know it’ll be addictive.

So I will just recollect what I have spent since the creation of this blog which was about a month and a half.

The first thing I bought was this wonderful blog template. It’s designed by Woothemes and the template is called THiCK. I bought it for $70 and got another template of my choice for free. You can enjoy this special offer too, buy any theme now and get another one for free. This offer won’t last long.

Now that I have a template, I need a logo. I held a contest not long ago at 99designs for my logo. I spent around $204 including the listing fee and admin fees.

As for advertising my CPA offers, I spent a total of $300. I tested Yahoo Search Marketing to see how it goes and it went pretty well. At least I didn’t lose any money trying it.

Just recently, I listed one of my website for sale and am glad to say it is sold. The winning bidder bought it for $xxxx. I won’t tell you exatcly how much yet, you’ll have to read my upcoming post to know about it. The listing fee is only $29 but the success fee is a whopping $280! Success fee means that if an auction is successful and someone buys it, we have to pay the success fee which can be split between the seller and buyer. Which I did, I paid half of the success fee, $140.  Its not a fixed $280 for all website, its based on percentage. So if your site is sold at a higher price, the higher your success fee, which is totally ridiculous for a website that just do the listing and auction. I think the’re sucking too much money for that limited service. They don’t even have an escrow service for buyer and seller. I will be telling more about the auction site in the upcoming  post.

With that, I had to carry out the transaction at Escrow. This is another $160 to waste for the service. Escrow is there so that buyer and seller do the transaction and transfer of website with ease, knowing they won’t get cheated by any party. Simply put, escrow is the third party.

Grand total, I spent US$903 in online spending. See how it just total up just by doing littile things online? Its scary isn’t it.

Izea recently lauched a new sub website similar to PayPerPost. As most of you know, its really hard to get approve by PayPerPost cause they only accept high traffic blogs into their network. With the new addition to the Izea family, there’s now PayPerPostV4.8 Alpha . That’s a really weird name I hope they change it once its fully launced. For PayPerPostV4.8 Alpha, you just need to add your blog to the marketplace and it will automatically be approved. No initial reviews are needed for blog, but it has to be a blog, not a website to be appected.

Another thing that is different is that blogger will receive offer directly from the advertiser. Blogger cannot choose which offer they want to wirte about. Now the advertiser do the choosing and blogger get to decline or accept the offer. You can easily earn an extra $10 per sponsored post. So what are you waiting for, sign up for PayPerPostV4.8 Alpha now.

I don’t know if its still called Sentosa Island cause it looks very big now. With the Integrated Resort coming up and all that casino and theme park, it seems that sentosa is moving closer to Singapore. I think we can now swim across the 2 island if we’re crazy enough. So at the entrance, we already did something stupid, like paying for only 5 ticket when there’s actually 7 of us. No big deal its only $2 per ticket so they won’t loose much, haha.

Our first stop was the amazing luge ride and the skyride. That thing is wicked man, its like better than F1. Its bacically a small car sliding down a hill with tracks, no engines, basic physic. When you’re pushed down a slope, you roll. I didn’t take a picture of it cause no camera was allowed, can you believe it! The Luge and the skyride cost somewhere betwwen $7- $11 but we got a family package of 4 which cost us $28.  So the skyride will take us up the hill where we will then take the luge ride down. Only my 2 brothers and sister took the ride with me, my mom, dad and my older bro took the skyride 2 way, up and down, boring!

This is what the luge looks like. I totally forgot to take close up shot of the luge.

Me and my sis on the skyride going uphill to the luge starting point station.

While on the skyride, I saw this crazy looking mascot going downhill, didn’t know mascot enjoy rides too.

You can see the cables behind. Its bacically like a bench hooked on the cable and we are sitting in open air. Its awesome, windy and hot!

We had to wear this gay helmet that wouldn’t do much in case of any accident. This is the luge entry point. Get ready for some action!

This is what we call “merlion”. It means Marine Lion. So is it a mammal or a fish? I don’t know. You figure it out. Is it me or does the Merlion look extremely shocked in this picture?

Aha, this is a better shot of the Merlion.

From left to right. Haikal, Aslam, Zahid, Hazimah, Faisal (me)

It was great fun at Sentosa! You should go there someday too.

This is just a random post, nothing to do with make money online or payment screenshots. Haha. I found this video on youtube, you guys may have seen this before but I bet you’ll laugh watching it again. This has got to be the funniest Indian comedy ever. Indians will understand it better.

I have chosen the winning logo design for this blog and it goes to Design number 1! It was tough to choose since I was stuck bewteen design 1 and 5. Both looks good and suit my blog.  Made a little deal with designer 1, now I’ll be getting 2 design done by him, all thanks to him. Well I think that’s a good deal, at least I get to switch between the logo if I get bored at any of them.

I can’t wait to put it up on the header but I’ll have to wait for tomorrow cause I’m just too sleepy to do any work now. This is gonna be fun!

Design 1

Design 3