About two days ago, I justed announced about a RSS Challenge which I and Carlocab will be challenging each other in a battle to see who would get the most number of RSS subscribers within a month.

At the end of the month, we would look at the FeedBurner count again to see who added the most new RSS subscribers.

I do not intend to lose this competition. Therefore I have came up with an evil marketing scheme to ensure I win. If you haven’t subscribed to my full feed RSS or via email at thie RSS link here yet, please do so now and tell all your friends to subscribe as well.

You Win, If I Win

Help me win this competition and you could win some great prizes which includes:

• A full copy of my famous Atomic Blogging 2.0 System ( Value US$197 )
• GatherSuccess blog review ( Value US$250 )
• An email blast from my subscribers to promote your blog ( Priceless )

More prizes will be added as this competition runs, if you wish to offer up a prize in exchange for some exposure just send me an email and tell me what you got.

Here’s How You Can Take Part Today

To take part, simply you just need to click here to subscribe to my RSS feed. It’s that’s simple When the competition ends, I will choose the winners randomly. If you have already subscribe to my blog, great thanks! You also qualify to be in this giveaway

Get A Higher Chance To Win When You Post About The Challenge On Your Blog

If you blog about this post on your blog and ask your readers to subscribe to my feed, the best entry will a cash prize of US$50!

Time To Get Creative!

Whoever comes up with the most creative idea to help me get more RSS subscriber will also stand a chance to win an iPod shuffle! If you can think up a new way to get more RSS readers, just place your comments below with your ideas

So let’s get the ball rolling!

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I was speaking to Carlocab recently and I thought it would be fun to start a RSS Challenge. We decided to challenge each other how much more RSS subscriptions we can increase within a month.

Here’s The Stats For Both Blogs Current:

Carlocab - 2928 Subscribers
GatherSuccess - 812 Subscribers

This challenge will start today on the 250808 and will end on 250908. The winner will be counted based on the amount been increase through out this period. Some rules we decided on was no blackhat tactics were allow, which I dont think there will be any because I dont like black hat tactics too

So if you can do click here to subscribe to me blog …

What Is A RSS ( Real Simple Syndication) ?

The orange logo that you see on your left is what we call a RSS button which is normally used to get subscribers to subscribe to your blog site.

Used mainly to publish a summary or all your entries in your blog to be updated to your readers via a RSS reader, it also helps you to give your readers a new medium to read your blog.

How Is RSS Important On Your Blog?

In the past, I used to only focus on getting opt-in from my blog but what I slowly realized quite late was that RSS was also another important element in blogging.

Not only does it help your readers to access your blog from RSS readers, it also been used as a tool to show your readers that you have a huge base of readers on your blog.

In some advertising networks, RSS Reader count also plays an important role to determine the price for your advertisement rates. So the higher the amount of count you have the higher you can charge for your advertisement on your blog.

Do Not Display Your RSS Count If It’s Below 100

If you have just started blogging, please do not display your RSS count number until you have reached at least 100 subscribers as you do not want to give your readers an impression there is no one reading your blog

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I just completed uploading all 1,248 photos from my 6 days trips in Sydney You can view the photos at the gallery here.

Here’s some nice photos I have taken at Sydney

A Photo Of Me At The Beautiful Caves In Sydney

My At Sydney Habour

The Most Sinful Desert, Pancake filled with cheese and ice cream with strawberry

Me At The ROCK Flea Market

This Was One Of My Lunch Sandwiches It’s HUGE!

Riding On The Speed Boat To The Zoo

I Let You Guess What This Picture Is… haha

Kangaroo Dreaming About Hugging Someone

Me With A Kangaroo ( He Was Kind Of Shy Keep Running Away )

Hope you guys love the photos, you can view more photos at my gallery here

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Looks like he is dead right? Well my dog named “Alex” is actually sleeping and he sure is funny when he sleeps and the worst was sometimes when I was walking to my toilet in the middle on the night I sometimes may accidentally hit into him as he loves to sleep just outside my door. Cute dog to have I must say which I adopted from SPCA.

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But anyway enough about my dog, let’s go into the serious stuff. Recently, I have been getting many emails asking when the new Atomic Blogging theme 3.0 will be out. I just managed to get my designer to finish it up, you can view the live demo here. It is still a work in progress and much more to fine tune before I release the theme.

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I realized it’s a fact there are lots of people online and you will be suprised there will be countless number of people who will try to put you down and say you are not what you are and so on. Maybe you are currently not getting any of those emails but trust me when you start to get popular online, you get tons of funny emails coming your way everyday.

So to prevent all that you must always put on a confident look like what you can see below =)

Most often I would not even bother to read such emails now as I receive almost 1 or 3 every day telling me what I should be doing and so on. I really treasure feedback but some feedbacks can be pretty hurting when I read them. If only I can show you guys what these people email them. But other then those weird feedbacks I also get great feedbacks and keep them coming as I will be able to improve as I go along my journey in my online business.

In the next few days, I will planning some surprises on this blog to allow you guys as readers to earn some real cash prizes so stay tune to this blog for further updates. To subscribe to this blog just click here.

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I have seen my bloggers use this plug in to improve blog comments on the blog.

The plug in allows people to convert their existing blog comments to be thread based, and it also features the ability to reply to comments! After some soul searching I finally managed to find the plug in every popular blog is using at this link here.

Check out the new blog thread comments by commenting here

Requirement To Install Plug In
- Technical Knowledge on Hosted Wordpress
- A Hosted Wordpress
- A Registered Domain Name with Wordpress

Word of caution! If you are no sure what you are doing you better not install this because you need to have some technical knowledge with FTP and file upload =)

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I can actually keep this to myself, but I seriously want to help you guys so I thought of sharing this nice idea with you guys =) I am doing this in hopes someone right here who is reading this uses this and creates a product and email me for joint venture.. =P

Here is how you can get software which are totally free and sell it in 7 days or less!

1. Go to SourceForge.net (A Public Domain Software Directory)

This is really a great resource to find software for free, I found many for free there! In fact some of the free lancers online actually go here to get the scripts and reprogram it to sell! =P

When I was a programmer back then in my poly days, you will be amazed the number of scripts we copy and reprogram just to submit to our lecturers =) Almost everyone does it to get the grades.. =)

You will be wondering also sometimes how come these programmers can sell you software for $50 bucks for such wonderful software. The reason because it’s actually open source software just that they package it nicely and sell it to you!

And you can do that do legally as long as you follow the terms and condition! =) What you do at SourceForge, you find a software that you are interested to sell and download the software and test how great it is. There are tons of them there, I am very sure you will find something there =)

2. Outsource to a Local Programmer

Once you have find the software you want to market, go to forums ( not scriptlance or elance) to find programmers. Why? Because it’s cheaper there and you will amaze how faster and better they are!

Try your best to get them locally if you can so that you can meet them up or as long as the person you are working with online is easily accessible should be alright.

#Tip on outsourcing: Never pay until they deliver

3. Magic Repackaging

What you do now, get the programmer to script the whole script to remove all names of the source and input your own brand. It’s totally legal to do that as long as it’s a open source software =) Look at Linux, there are numerous versions by different vendors!

And that’s how you create software to sell.. I hope this helps.. and if you intend to really do what I just shared… do drop me an email I be interested to help sell your software =)

Here are a list of software I am finding
- Blogging Softwares
- Web 2.0 Softwares
- Submission Softwares
- Wordpress Plugins
- Wordpress Templates

If you have any of them or resell rights drop me an email here =)

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Sony sure knows how to kick start the event and create awareness for their new range of cameras, they are sure very eye catching for many =P But do check out the Sony booth they tons of freebies bundle with their products!

It very strange that we can actually get really cheap computers hardware at Sim Lim Square but everyone seems to buy a lot of stuff when PC Show starts every year.

This year it was held at Suntec City and it’s bigger then before! Just see how crowded it was there!

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