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I created my own online contact management system a year or two ago that was designed specifically for my own needs. Recently I've been working on sprucing it up so that it can be used by others and it is now at an advanced stage.

The next stage is to thoroughly test it and so I need a number of volunteers to use the system and report any bugs or problems they can find. Therefore, you are cordially invited to set up a FREE lifetime account and try out the system.

By registering and using the system (named FABDEX), you discover just how easy contact management can be and will gain access to many fantastic functions that are useful to internet marketers and anyone looking to create and maintain a mailing list. This includes:

- Powerful contact search functions
- Saved searches
- Easy creation of user signup/subscription forms for your website
- Quick and simple contact management
- Categorisation of contacts using tags
- Import & export utilities
- Access to your contacts from any Internet-connected computer

As a BETA tester, you will get priority response to any technical issues you have as well as having the opportunity to shape how FABDEX evolves in the future.

I have limited the number of BETA Testers to 10 to ensure that there are no capacity issues, so if you're interested be sure to get in quick.

Create your FREE account by clicking on the link below:

FABDEX

and I look forward to working with you on this exciting project.

Mathematics is an essential element of running our personal finances effectively. Working out how much our mortgage costs us, how much interest our savings earn and how long until we have enough cash to retire can all be time-consuming tasks.

Over the years, I've used my website development skills to create a number of calculators that make performing calculations such as those described above much much quicker.

Earlier this year, I thought it would be a good idea to put them all in one place and share them with others who may also find them useful, so I bought the domain name Financial-Info.co.uk and planned to neaten them up and put them online. Unfortunately, I became busy with other projects but today I had a few hours spare so decided to get back to it.

I knocked up a quick website and added my Compound Interest Calculator to it. I have also provided the functionality for other websites to display the calculator in an inline frame so it's just a matter of copying and pasting some code to get a free Compound Interest Calculator on your website as I have done below:

I have a compendium of other calculators on my computer that require a bit of sprucing up but I expect to add them Financial-Info over the coming weeks. In the meantime, I'd be grateful if any website owners out there in Internet Land would give the calculator a go on their own websites and give me some feedback on their experiences using the comments field below or emailing me (arkad@therichestmaninatherstone.co.uk)

Cheers,

Arkad

I've been neglecting my journal quite a bit lately! My time has been taken up with working on a few different projects for future and taking a nice long holiday

Earlier today, I was checking out a few of the affiliate networks I am a member of and was pleased to discover that I've reached my $200 threshold limit for Clickbank, which means I should receive a cheque from them sometime soon.

And that was when I thought that I really should update my blog and let you know how the Bum Marketing Method I experimented with last year has earned me over $200 from Clickbank.

Towards the end of last year, following a few successful sales of The Complete Ragdoll-Keepers Handbook, I decided to expand on my work in this niche. I bought the domain name ragdoll-cat.info and set up a quick website using drupal CMS. I added all the Ragdoll Cat articles I'd written as part of the Bum Marketing Method as well a few pictures I'd found on the Internet (with the kind permission of the photographer). I also wrote a quick review of the e-book I was trying to promote and, of course, the obligatory privacy policy and website disclaimer. All in all, it took about 2 hours.

At the beginning of this year, after a number of sales, I noticed from the search terms people were using to find my website that many were looking for breeders and catteries in their area, so I created a simple breeder list. I then emailed as many breeders as I could find in Internet Land to populate the directory. I also added an option for visitors to sign up for a newsletter and wrote a few more articles. This was about another 6 hours of work.

Since then I've pretty much left it alone. There's quite a lot I would still like to do in this niche (the cat-folk I've communicated with are lovely people) but unfortunately I've been busy with other stuff.

Since it's inception, the website has sold 18 copies the Ragdoll Cat e-book with no refunds. Each book earns around a fiver, so a total revenue of around £190. Subtract the cost of the domain name (around a tenner) and that's a net profit of £180 for around 8 hours work.

Don't believe me? Here's the proof

Yeah, I know - Not as impressive as the screenshots from other websites but I'm only a beginner and at least it's not photoshopped

I'm still of the view that Bum Marketing probably isn't worth the time spent on it but I can't help but think that if I kept at it maybe one could possibly earn a small fortune.

I have long been an admirer of cashback websites such as Cashbin, TopCashBack and LineMyPocket - I find them to be a nice easy way of earning a little extra fun money (take a look at my article on Quidco gambling).

In a nutshell, these websites can save you money by giving you a certain amount of cashback when you buy from certain shops (usually a percentage of how much you spend). This can be very useful in itself, however it is possible to earn more cashback than you spend - for example, when joining bookmakers or bingo websites you may be offered £20 to put just £10 on a bet. And there's also the option of earning cashback without actually parting with so much as a penny - by applying (and being accepted) for credit cards.

At the start of the year, I set myself the goal of earning £100 in cashback by applying for as many credit cards as I could in one evening. I made the decision to do it all in one evening to ensure I was accepted for as many credit cards as possible. This is because every time you apply for a credit card, your credit rating is checked and every time your checked, it is logged in your credit rating. If a lot of checks are recorded, it adversely affects your chance of getting credit, so my thinking was that if I applied for them all at around the same time, my credit rating would not have been updated therefore giving me more chance of being accepted by the credit card companies.

I should add that one of the downsides of this project is that I have screwed up my credit rating for a while but as I don't really need credit at the moment and don't envisage I will in the near future, it wasn't really a big deal.

Anyhow, I found the following credit cards that offered a nice amount of cash for simply filling in a form:

• Goldfish - £41
• Post Office - £20.50
• Natwest - £24
• RBS - £24
• HSBC - £20
• GM Card - £22
• Vanquis - £20

The plan in place, I spent an hour and a half on the cold, winter evening of the 14th of January applying for the credit cards online (via cashback websites, of course). Goldfish and GM refused my applications, however I was accepted for the remaining five.

Over the next ten days or so, I received the paperwork and cards from the five credit card companies that had accepted me and phoned to activate each one - it took about 20 minutes. I'm not sure if the credit cards had to be activated to receive the cashback but I thought I'd be best to do it anyway to make sure.

I also checked that my applications had been tracked by the cashback websites and was happy to see that I would be receiving payment for all of them.

Well, here we are in July and I've finally received my final cashback payments and achieved my target of £100 (actually, I earned £108.50). HSBC and Vanquis were the first to pay up in March, followed by NatWest in June and The Post Office and RBS in July.

It's been a nice little earner (over £50 per hour for exceedingly easy work) and I've earned enough to take the family out for a few "free" meals. However, it's not something that can be repeated as I can only receive cashback from a particular company for a particular product once. As I said earlier, chances are that my credit rating is screwed for a while but as I don't need credit I'm not particularly bothered. It's also quite a slow process waiting for the merchant to pay the cashback website and the cashback website to pay me but as it didn't cost me anything, I was more than happy to wait.

Now, I just need to call up the credit companies to cancel those cards...