How to Stay Active on wikiHow Despite a Busy Schedule

It may happen that life gets busy suddenly..school, work, college...the list goes on. But that doesn't need to mean you must take a wikiBreak if you do not want to.

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   On your user page, notify others that you will be busy and not on wikiHow as much. Perhaps this may mean your response time to messages will grow longer-say this as well.
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   If you have any pending business, take care of it. This includes having placed a Deletion tag on an article.
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   Be efficient with your time. Procrastinating may mean you have less time for wikiHow.
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   Every day, if possible, quickly scan your talk page for new messages. Reply to them, allotting no more than five or ten minutes per day for this. This way, you will not be ignoring those in need of help.
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   Set aside one hour or so a week, or more if you can, to contribute to wikiHow. This could be RC patrolling or writing/editing/boosting articles (if you are a booster).
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   Be realistic. If your schedule has gotten too busy, it may be time for a wikiBreak. If this happens, place a notice on your user page.

How to Make Money with a Wiki

Are you looking for a way to make money with the internet? Consider starting your own wiki. This article will show you how to create and operate a wiki for profit.

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   Register a domain name.
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   Obtain wiki software.
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   Find a company willing to host your site for reasonable fees. Reliable web hosting is very important because your wiki needs to be up and running at all times.
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   Choose a theme for your wiki. Some common themes are encyclopedia wikis, educational or instructional wikis, and wikis that provide a niche service such as music lyrics.
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   Find people willing to provide content for your wiki without compensation. Think of other ways to reward them, such as giving out a virtual star when they start a new article. Create a sense of community and belonging, and make your contributors feel they are a valued part of an important cause. In this way you satisfy their emotional needs while they help you satisfy your financial needs.
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   Choose administrators for your wiki. Make sure administrators know their future at your wiki will not be bright if they don’t toe the company line, which is to generate as many articles as possible (to maximize page views, which in turn generates advertising revenue).
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   Hire at least one person to work as an administrator. Through this person you can set the tone for how all the administrators are to act, and exert a certain amount of control. Don’t hire more than one or two people for this, as other administrators will be working for you for free.
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   Find companies willing to pay you to display their ads on your wiki pages.
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   Revenue permitting, advertise your wiki on high traffic web sites. Particularly search engine sites like Google.
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    Spend the remaining ad revenue on nice things for yourself. When the right offer comes along, sell your wiki for a profit and move on.

How to Make Money Online with Resale Rights

Making money online with resale rights is a way for people to earn an online income. Learn how you can make money online with e-book and software master resale rights.

It requires some work, but once you've gotten the hold of it, you can decide how much you want to earn each day!

Steps

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   Get your own website and domain name. Stay clear of free web hosting - it doesn't instill buyer confidence in purchasing your own products.
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   Purchase a product or products with resale rights to sell. Digital products like e-books and software are the most common resale rights products. The best thing is you don't need to constantly carry stock or worry about ever running out of stock because they are digital products that your customers can download again and again without ever diminishing. Another benefit is that you don't ever need to worry about delivery of goods because once your customer has ordered, they can download the product to their desktop, and you don't need to worry about postage or packaging to get the product to your customer. Immediate access and immediate download is what makes digital products attractive.
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   Get a payment processor to collect credit card payments.
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   Upload your product sales page and thank you pages up to your website. Most products that come with resale rights, come with a pre-designed sales page and accompanying graphics for that product which means you don't have to worry about creating a sales page of your own for the product. Once you have uploaded the pages complete with your payment link at the bottom of the page and the product to the website, you are pretty much ready to start taking orders online.
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   Get targeted traffic to your website. If your resale rights product is about "How To Train A Dog" you need dog owners visiting your website, so not just any traffic, but carefully targeted traffic. You can use pay per click search engine advertising such as Google's Adwords or you can find e-zine's within your niche to advertise in. Many e-zines allow you to send solo-ads to their mailing list. What this means is that you pay for an email advertisement to go out exclusively with your offer to all of the subscribers to that ezine. This can be expensive, but often produces the best targeted traffic for your offering, and more often than not, is profitable in returns. You can even post in forums, or write articles with a link to your website in the resource box. These are all great ways to get targeted traffic to your website and resale rights product sales page.
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   Collect email addresses. You need a mechanism to collect the email addresses, namely a form that people can "opt-in" to your mailing list. Growing your own mailing list is by far the most important activity to concentrate your efforts on. If you are getting traffic from paid advertisements, unless you collect their details, once they are gone from your website they are gone forever. Unless you have some way of getting them back. This is where getting them to subscribe to your mailing list is vital. Most of the time, resale rights sellers direct their customers to a "Squeeze Page" which is a page that offers the visitor only two options. Option one is to subscribe to move to the next page and find out more information - Option two is to leave the page. Often, a free gift, or free mini e-course is offered as a reward for the person to subscribe to your mailing list, making it an attractive proposition. Using a service like Aweber or GetResponse makes the whole process of creating forms, follow up messages and building your mailing list very easy and manageable and is recommended.
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   Follow up with visitors who have not purchased on their first visit. Some people will have subscribed to your mailing list AND purchased your resale rights product, but many more will have subscribed and NOT purchased. That's okay, because now you can send out a series of emails to them, that you have already created in your autoresponder service (like Aweber). This will automatically email them at intervals set by you to offer them good reasons to revisit your website. It might be the answer to the top 3 questions people have asked about your product, or maybe an email of testimonials or even an email just offering further tips with the link back to your website at the bottom of the email. The important thing is to get them visiting your website again

How to Make Money Online Without a Website

You don't need to have a website to make money on the Internet. Here is a proven strategy to make money online without a website.

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   Find Affiliate Product
   • Find a product to promote where you make good commission on each sale. Generally, you will get the biggest commissions on digital products. Digital products are defined as something that is downloaded directly to a customer's computer after purchasing, like electronic books or software. Since there is no extra cost per unit, no inventory and no shipping, the commissions are much greater than on regular "physical" goods. The most common commission on digital products is 50%.
   • Sign up for an affiliate membership site. This will allow you to build a residual income and the retention rate is much higher than just selling a product once and getting paid.
   • Sign up as a reseller (also called affiliate) for a product that looks the most appealing to you. After you sign up, you will get a unique affiliate link where you need to send people to purchase the product. Your affiliate link will have a special code that will tell the product owner that it's you who referred the customer. The affiliate link code will allow your commissions to be tracked correctly and assigned to you.
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   Get Domain Name
   • Get a domain name to redirect to your affiliate link. A domain name is a .COM. You can get it for under $9 at GoDaddy.com. GoDaddy.com will allow you to redirect your domain name to your affiliate link at no extra cost. It's important to note that unlike having your own website you don't have to pay for hosting which is usually more expensive than buying and registering a domain name. Domain forwarding allows you to have a legitimate presence in the world of online affiliate marketing for only a few dollars! Some affiliates offer mentoring and training to assist you in your pursuit of making money online.
   • So when someone types in your .COM domain in their browser, it will go to your affiliate link. The visitor will see the website with the product you promote, and the commissions will be tracked correctly.
   • The reason why you need a domain name is that it's memorable and it makes you look more trustworthy. Affiliate links tend to be too long and arouse suspicion. For example, most people would rather click on the link bestwidgets.com as opposed to abcwidgets.com?reseller=john
   • A domain name will make your affiliate link look like it's your own website. So basically, you will have a product to promote and a website to send people to and get commissions – without really having your own website.
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   Get Traffic
   • In order to make sales, you need to get visitors to your domain name (which will forward them to the website of the product that you resell). You can pay for advertising and hope that your profit will be greater than advertising cost, or you can use free ways to generate traffic.
   • The most effective way to get free targeted visitors to your domain name is by writing and submitting articles. You can write short articles on the topic related to the product that you promote. At the end of the article, you include your author bio and your domain name link.
   • You will then submit your articles to various websites, and allow them to publish your articles as long as your link is included. Your articles will get published in many places on the Internet, and will be advertising your affiliate link at no cost to you whatsoever. People will read your articles, like what you have to say and click on your domain name link ready to buy.
   • Once you start getting regular sales from your articles, you can go back to step 1 and find another product to promote using this strategy. After a while, you will build up a nice source of Internet income – without even having a website.

How to Make Money Online

Although the global market has not yet reached “Jetson” caliber with people flying to the office in compact spaceships, it has evolved to allow workers to never have leave the comfort of their own computer. Below you’ll find a variety of ways to make money online as well as general advice for anyone who wants to succeed in the online world.

Method 1 of 5: Quick Ways to Make Money Online

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   Flip domain names. Domain names are valuable internet real estate and some people actually make a nice living off of buying and selling them. One strategy is to use Google Adwords to find keywords that are trending and use that information to buy domain names that you think may soon be in demand. However, since short, snappy, or straightforward domain names have already been mostly snatched up, you can also get lucky buying domain names that are random acronyms, as you never know when a person or company with those exact initials will decide to set up a website. (CPC.com, for example, sold for over $200,000 when Contract Pharmaceutical Corporation decided to go online.^[1] Not bad for three letters.) For more advice, read How to Buy a Cheap Domain Name.
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   Do online surveys. Online surveys won’t earn you much apiece, but they don’t eat up much time either and can add up when you need cash in a pinch. Read How to Make Money with Free Online Surveys for more advice.
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   Transcribe audio. Websites are getting better and better about providing written transcripts for the hearing impaired, meaning that transcriber jobs pop up fairly regularly. Transcribing is generally low paying but is also easy, fast, and doesn’t require much commitment. Check eLance or oDesk for current transcription postings.
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   Edit audio. If you have and know how to use sound-editing software, you can clean up webcasts and interviews before they go online. Again, look at a site like eLance or oDesk for opportunities.
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   Enter contests. Since you won’t get paid unless your entry wins, search for a wide range of free contests in a field where you’re already have a lot of possible entries (ex. photos, logo-making, background design) and submit your work to as many places as will have you. It might take a day to get through all of them, but even a few small successes (or, preferably, a great big one) will make up for it. The experience might even steer you in a new creative direction.

Method 2 of 5: Make Money through Online Marketing

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   Become an affiliate marketer. This is a great way to make money for promoting someone else’s products or services without having to carry any inventory. Affiliate advertisements are usually incorporated into your website/blog/page via linked articles (great when your content is strong and compelling, but must be done carefully to avoid looking spammy), product-placement videos (great if you’re funny or have performance talent), or, less and less commonly, banner ads (pretty ineffective, as most people avoid these like the plague). If necessary, you can also become an affiliate marketer without a website (by posting videos on YouTube containing links to the product, for example). Check out a site like Commission Junction for possible products and services.
   • If you have a lot of traffic, you might want to do cost-per-click advertising, which doesn’t earn you much per click but banks on the fact that the sheer number of visitors will build your revenue.
   • If you have very strong content, you might want to do cost-per-acquisition advertising, which makes you a decent commission (either a fixed amount or a commission, depending on what you’ve pre-agreed to) every time someone on your site makes a purchase with your affiliate company.
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   Become an online mystery shopper. Most people have heard of mystery shoppers in the real world, but with the shift to virtual business, it’s becoming more and more common to send mystery shoppers online-hunting. If you’re just starting out, be prepared to front the cost of your purchases, as your reimbursement will depend on whether or not you are a capable mystery shopper.
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   Do webinar marketing. This is simply seminar marketing done online – except that it’s much cheaper than doing actual seminars and doesn’t require repeat performances. If you’re an authority on a subject that others would be willing to pay to learn more about, record yourself giving a talk about it in a professional location (traditionally a conference room, though this may change depending on your subject), post it on your website, and advertise.
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   Refer other professionals for jobs. If you know somebody whose skill and work ethic you’re willing to stand behind, consider referring them to a prospective employer. If that person gets hired, you stand to make anywhere between fifty and a few thousand dollars depending on the position. Check out a site like ReferEarns or WhoDoYouKnowForDough for more information.

Method 3 of 5: Make Money through Online Content

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   Sell your music. A few years ago, Radiohead made headlines by selling its latest album via its own website and raking in the dough – for donations, no less. Though your act might not have Radiohead status (yet), many small, independent, and even big-name acts have followed suit: as it turns out, a handful of sales with no middleman adds up to a lot more than what most artists end up with once the record industry has gotten its “dues.”
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   Become a freelance designer. Create a website showcasing your portfolio and build a client list by finding work in the online classifieds. Though it takes more time to get established doing business this way, you can set your own prices and won’t have to share your profits with the graphic design house.
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   Sell stock photos. This is a good way to make money while pursuing a fun hobby. Since people search for stock photos by keyword, your work will be on the same playing field as everyone else’s, meaning you should submit any photo you think is decent. Once it has posted, your work is done, and while you won’t generally make much per sale, having a good number of photos can mean accumulating a nice monthly side income with virtually no upkeep. iStockphoto, ShutterStock, and Fotolia are a few good places to shop around.
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   Sell an ebook. eBooks are not for everyone, but if you’ve ever found an innovative solution to a desperate situation and wished you could have simply paid someone to give you the answer sooner, it’s likely there’s a market out there for an ebook on the subject. Shop around to see what else is available and look for people posting in forums with similar issues. Don’t waste your time writing an ebook about something someone can readily find answers to; it’s something you want to reserve for people who are at their wit’s end.
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   Sell an app. In a multi-million-person marketplace, $1 or 2 per sale can go a long way. If you have a great concept but no programming know-how, it might even be worth it to hire a programmer. Just make sure you shop around for similar ideas, find ways to one-up your competition, and comply with the rules of the company on whose devices you’d sell the apps.
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   Sell articles. Lots of small businesses, websites, and marketers need good written content and smooth keyword integration to help them get more traffic. Though you won’t make much to start with, most articles will only be 200 to 300 words, which are a snap to crank out. As you prove yourself to be capable, you can start charging more for your services. If you’re a skilled writer, you might even try submitting your work to formal publications.

Method 4 of 5: Make Money through Online Sales

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   Create an online store. Selling online is especially useful if you have a niche item that can’t attract enough business to survive in a physical location, but of course online stores for everyday items aren’t going anywhere, either. If you aren’t particularly web-savvy or can be bothered to maintain a website, you can set up shop on a site like eBay or CafePress (for a fee). Otherwise, you can hire someone to design a website for you or even make your own.
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   Create a virtual store. Believe it or not, vendors selling virtual items from within online games can make money in the real world. By creating an avatar of yourself and setting up shop, you can do business with other players (or even just advertise your real-world business). Of course, you must first find a game that allows it and pay to set it up, but once you’re in, you can reach a huge range of people in various age groups and locations around the world. MMORPGs (massive, multiplayer online role-playing games) are especially good places to do this.

Method 5 of 5: Pointers when Working Online

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   Make a good first impression no matter which type of online endeavor you attempt. As with any business, your brand (web site, store, virtual portfolio etc.) must grab the prospects attention, enticing and encouraging him/her to learn more. A strong brand should include intelligently and insightfully written copy, a description of your offering, product overview, news and information and numerous opportunities to respond (call to action).
   • Differentiate your product/service from the competition. Consider what makes your business unique by focusing on the brand, the specific suite of services and how the product or service will solve the customer’s problem. Punctuate these differentiating factors in order to set your brand apart from the rest.
   • Maintain a friendly, approachable tone. You want to invite your customer to interact with you so be sure that while the copy on your site or portfolio should be informative, it should also communicate a friendly tone that will motivate communication and interaction with your customers.
   • Have a solid contract with your partner company. Enlist the assistance of an attorney or have a lawyer review your partner company’s contract so you know how you will be paid and the basis for payment (for example if it based on produced work, solid sales, sign ups, conversions, referrals, etc.).
   • Follow up with clients after an initial interaction. Because you haven’t had the benefit of face-to-face meeting, you will need to be proactive (but not a stalker) online. After an initial meeting with a client, send a thank you email a few days later to remind the client about your meeting. Open the floor to additional questions and let your prospective client know you are excited about the possibility of serving him/her.
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   Optimize your skills and knowledge in order to create a strong online presence. Although you may be a talented salesperson or graphic designer, you may not know how those talents will translate online.
   • Take an search engine optimization course. Either online or possibly offered at your local community college, learning about search engine optimization (SEO) is an important component to a successful online career. SEO training will teach you how to position your brand or store higher on Google search engine rankings so your business is hit first when potential clients are performing a search.
   • Write a business plan. Even if the business plan will never leave your computer, creating a plan will give you specific direction and goals, which will help you stay on track and focused.
   • Consult with experts. If you have a friend or colleague who has had success making money online, tap into his/her knowledge and experience. Find out what has worked well or what he/she has tried that bombed. Extract as much knowledge and insight to help guide you in how you will create your online business.
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   Make sure you have the dedication and focus to work independently. If you plan to make your online money making endeavor a success, you must have what it takes to manage your time and be dedicated to your craft.
   • Examine your financial needs. Do you need to make a large income or are you interested in making money online just to have some mad money? The level of required income will most likely dictate the amount of time and effort you’ll need to spend making your online business a success.
   • Evaluate the amount of time you can dedicate to your online business. Are you a stay-at-home mom with two small children and a demanding school and housekeeping schedule or are you single with no strings attached (or somewhere in between)? Identify the hours during the day you can commit to your business and compare those hours to the amount of money you need to make. Typically, especially with some businesses, the earlier months and years are considerably more time consuming, especially if you are building a client list.
   • Be honest about your work habits. Are you a self starter, motivated enough to stay on task and work without having a boss check on you, or are you easily distracted by the phone, kids or other environmental disturbances? Working online takes a tremendous amount of motivation and focus in order to reach your cash generating goals.
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Warnings

• Do your research before signing up for any type of online program. If the company asks for money as a “start up” or provides you with a contractual agreement, do your research by scanning Consumer Reports and obtain other reviews about the company. Predatory online companies, posing as legitimate online money making opportunities may be out to grab some quick cash but then leave you without the actual prospect of making money.

Jonesing On A Budget Part I: Don’t Downgrade Your Lifestyle, Live It For Free

July 9, 2014 By Bridget 9 Comments

Hands down the hardest part of paying down my $20,000+ student loan debt was adjusting my spendy lifestyle to one of thrift and austerity. Effective? Hell yes. Fun? Not so much. But deprivation can be the birthplace of innovation when it comes to getting smart about your money. You might think you have to give everything up, but I don’t think that’s true. Actually, you might not have to give anything up at all.

Can you keep up with the Joneses at a discount — even free?

No, before you get excited, there is no shortcut to discipline. You have to manage your money wisely and if you want to manage your money in a way that maximizes the amount of free stuff it gets you, you have to be even more careful.

Damnable Downside: the more you spend, the more rewards you’ll get.

This isn’t fair, and IMO just the “rich getting richer” via serious credit card perks, but even a small or moderate spender can reap serious rewards if their efforts are concentrated in the right place. However, DON’T buy things you don’t want/need/like just to get points or because it’s on sale. Stores will ALWAYS be trying to trick you into doing this so you have to be vigilant.
Now the good news is when I started this post, it was so long I actually had to split it into two parts.
Amazon - There is a 95% chance something you want to buy is cheaper on Amazon, particularly if you live in the US. As a Canadian, our Amazon catalogue is limited and maybe that’s why I find most people don’t take advantage. If you think Amazon is just for books, change your thinking: I’ve bought everything from vacuum cleaners to microwaves to yoga towels on the site. Amazon is a great place to get everything you want at a great price without having to hunt around multiple stores.
Jonesing on budget: Subscribe to Amazon Prime so your get FREE 2-day shipping on all your orders. You might hesitate at the price, but it’s been my experience that the discount on items from Amazo,n coupled with never paying shipping charges, are savings that far exceed the cost of a prime membership.
Swagbucks - Swagbucks might be my ultimate secret to affording the things I want on a student budget. I constantly redeem Swagbucks for Amazon giftcards, and then I go shop on Amazon and get 1 to 2 Swagbucks for every dollar spent, building up my account all over again. Occasionally, I let them build up significantly for a “big” purchase (like how I recently cashed in a handful to get a FitBit for $60 instead of it’s regular price of $100 — that’s 40% off!) but often I will just use one or two $5 gift cards to supplement a purchase.

If you’re not using Swagbucks yet, click here to sign up.

Jonseing on a budget: install the Swagbucks search bar into whatever browser you use and turn regular searches into buck-earning binges. Redeem Swagbucks for amazon gift cards (see above) or Starbucks gift cards (see below) or even PayPal cash.
Open Table - Now that I’m employed full-time again, I’m blessed once more with one of my favorite things in the whole wide world: business lunches. Not only are these free in themselves (thanks, work!), when I book them through OpenTable I get points towards free dinners. Result? Free business lunches which turn into free personal dinners.
Jonseing on a budget: If you’re in charge of booking working lunches, look for restaurants offering 1,000 points instead of the standard 100 points. Since you only need 2,000 points to get a $26 restaurant gift card (in Canada), you get there fast with these bonus reservations.
Starbucks Rewards –  What I really like about Starbucks is gift cards are everyone’s go-to gift from a quick thank-you to birthday gifts when you don’t know what to get someone. I know I receive about $100 in Starbucks gift cards per year and by loading them onto my card and spending wisely, I get tons of free rewards. More often than not I’ll always have one or two free drinks on hand.
Jonesing on a budget: Buy drip coffee until you get to 12 coffees and redeem your free reward for a treat like a latte or food. When buying coffee for other people, or buying coffee + food, note that you will ONLY get 1 star for your whole purchase, despite buying multiple things. Solution? Make the cashier ring them in one at a time. If you feel dumb, pay for yours, walk away, and then come back and say, “my colleague just texted me for a coffee” and place your second order. BAM! 2 stars! (yes, I really do this because I really want those stars)
American Express Points – I’ve been a fan of American Express as my travel card since back in the day when I had the Platinum card and got to charge all my work travel to it (my work spending was so high, I once charged more than I earned in a year — I miss those days of majorly reimbursed spending!)  but I have since downgraded to the Gold card. Points are SO EASY to redeem for travel or are transferable 1-for-1 to Aeroplan. You can also cash them in for gift cards and other rewards. Another perk is the card doubles the manufacturers warranty on purchases you charge to the card. So that FitBit I bought with Swagbucks on Amazon was paid for with my American Express, which means I have a two year warranty on it instead of one. This means if it randomly breaks 1.5 years from now, I call Amex to get a new one. Not too shabby!
Jonesing on a budget: Charge all travel related spending to your American Express card, namely hotel stays, car rentals, and flights. You can instantly credit your own charges with your points. Additionally, the gold and platinum cards offer car rental insurance. Since this typically runs $25/day and I rent cars as much as 30 days per year, being able to skip this cost on my car rentals is HUGE savings.

You'll be in awe of this stunning bespoke 3D-printed guitar

The ease of 3D printing has enabled Michael Williams to achieve his rock star dream of a bespoke axe.

We've heard for some time how 3D printing is going to make it into the mainstream. From high ambition to the high street, the latest generation of affordable printers will open new doors and opportunities.
Michael Williams has embraced the technology and used it to achieve his ambition of owning a bespoke electric guitar. Over 15 years ago Williams designed his own guitar but unless he made it as a rock star, so a guitar maker would create it, he had no way of seeing his dream instrument made whole.
"Fifteen years later the rock star dream has been and gone, but the dream of owning my personally designed guitar became reality," says the artist and musician.
Before starting the model, Michael contacted the printer Shapeways to find out about their requirements for the sculpt, and began prepping. The original design was created in AutoCAD, so, for printing, Williams recreated it using 3ds Max.
"For this design the body needed a certain thickness and strength. My first 3D print was a phone holder made of the same material, so I had an idea what I had to deal with when modelling the shell of the body," Williams explains. "If it was too thick it would have cost a lot, if it was too thin the body would be too weak and would easily break.”

Out of print

Williams' advice is to first create some small samples and print them out before you begin a big project. It's best to print out some small strips (4x1cm) at various heights so you know what you're dealing with.
"At this moment I’m waiting for my Ultimaker 2 to arrive, hopefully in the middle of February," he says. "Meanwhile I’m preparing some new [guitar] designs that can be printed out in parts and put together... well that’s the plan."

8 great plug-ins for CG artists

These brilliant add-ons all bring extra functionality to your exisiting software. But which one gets your vote?

The CG Awards is an annual event which showcases and rewards excellence in the field of computer graphics.

The Plug-In award recognises the work done by smaller teams of developers working to add functionality to existing applications. It rewards plug-ins that deliver new technologies or features to enhance the host program. Find out who's up for this year’s Plug-In gong…

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Chronosculpt

Lightwave 3D's innovative release allows details to be added, removed or changed over the course of an animation, making it a groundbreaking application.

HDRI Light Studio Pro

A cornerstone of any render is the light setup and HDRI Light Studio makes this as simple as can be with excellent results and workflow.

Plant Kit 4

Laubwerk's plant kits give users easy access to various plant species, with one-click options for ages and time of year, perfect for any environment work.

Mash 3

Mash opens up, for Maya users, the world of motion graphics that has up until now been dominated by Maxon’s Cinema 4D. It has an intuitive interface, procedural animation tools and speedy workflow.

 

Nevronmotion

Motion and performance capture reach the masses with Nevronmotion, which allows artists with the most limited budgets to get great results, using the kinect.

Optical Flares for Nuke

Optical Flares from Video Copilot has become a staple effect for many After Effects users. It’s intuitive interface and high quality results have now made their way into Nuke users toolkits.

Pulldownit

Everybody loves CG destruction and Pulldownit makes it simple and effective, handling large polygon counts with ease and the dynamics look excellent.

X-Particles

X-Particles is one of the most fully featured particle engines out there, and even has a built-in fluids solver and skinner, but remains easy to learn, despite its immense power.

Make sure you have your say and vote today for your favourite plug-in via thecgawards.com.

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