Mike’s Reviews

Are you playing the game World of Warcraft? If you do then you probably know how tough it is to grow your account from scratch. There are already lots of strong players in the game and getting started is a bit tough – and also can be a bit boring.

But what if you can start with a pre-leveled account and just enjoy the game the first moment you step foot on it? Wouldn’t that be great? Well yes it would and that’s why buying and selling of WOW accounts is becoming more and more popular. Too bad though, there are scammers around who don’t deliver what they promised or don’t deliver anything at all.

Lucky for you though, you can now buy wow accounts securely and safely now from BuyMMOAccounts.COM. Via their website, you can choose to buy either Horde or Alliance accounts plus you get a 100% guarantee that you won’t receive any reclaims and your “new” account won’t be banned.

If you want to be sure that you’re dealing with real people, then you can go ahead and call their live phone support. Cool huh? Check them out and see for yourself.

I’ve been told that currency trading is a good way to earn money and while I found no real interest for it at first, I did have some sort of curiosity. With the varying currency values all over the world, it was pretty obvious that there’s money in buying and selling currency. After some time, my interest in it grew especially after having a short chat with a friend who does it as a “good sideline.”

I was thinking that if it worked for him then it might just work for me too. A short and quick look at an online guide to forex currency trading reveals that it’s a pretty straightforward process. You buy some currency and sell it as another currency and you make money out of the difference between the two currencies. But of course it’s not really that simple.

There are also scams – especially online – that have to be avoided. With businesses like this, you can expect scammers to be everywhere. The Bank for International Settlement last reported the average daily trade in the global forex and related markets to be over US$ 4 trillion in April 2007. Now that’s much money that will attract lots of bad guys.

So how do you do it? Being new in the field, I still have no idea but one can always ask from the experienced ones (like my friend – lucky to have him). I also find the FabForex Currency Trading website to be a good source of information – especially the articles they provide.

It’s very seldom that I find good websites that talk about credits, loans, and mortgages. Either I come across a spammy looking website that’s filled with all these endless sales pitches or I walk into a website that’s full with nothing but ads and referral links going to websites offering credit-related services.

However today, everything changed. ReviewMe asked me to review (paid) a website called “Credit Demystified” and at first glance I thought – nah, I don’t want to review this – but I took a look at the website anyway. Visiting the website changed my mood. This website is not just trying to sell. It’s actually trying to help more than to sell so I went on and wrote a review for it and here is it.

Site Design: Awesome and professional. The colors match perfectly and the entire look of the site tells me that they’re serious and they know their stuff very well. It’s definitely not a cheap design. Navigation is easy, in fact it’s so easy that I found the information I wanted almost immediately.

Better than the design, let’s talk about Credit Demystified’s content.

Site Content: This is actually what blowed my mind. Their website is just full of very helpful and very relevant content. They have articles on Improving Your Credit, a section called Credit Learning Center, a Credit Quotient Quiz, and even an online Library of very helpful information. While I know that this website is made to make money, all these information quickly tells me that these guys are interested in not just making sales but also in and actually more on building a good relationship with their website’s visitors.

It’s a website that I would recommend to bookmark and refer since it is a place that I would come back to when I need to demystify something about credits. If all the information on their website is still not enough to answer your question, then you can always all them via a 1-800 number prominently and smartly placed on their webite.

Finally, I decided to take a look at their About Us section and what it says there verified my feelings. Let me quote one paragraph from their website:

CreditDemystified is proudly presented by Countrywide Home Loans. The goal of CreditDemystified is to educate and inform anyone interested in credit or credit-related topics.

Emphasis Mine

There you go! It’s there goal to educate and inform and that’s what I got. Also, since it mentioned that the website is a project of Countrywide Home Loans, I decided to check www.countrywide.com too and guess what? Even the website of Countrywide Home Loans gave me the feeling of professionalism and trust but that’s a different story for a different time.

To summarize, all I can say is that this website rocks and I’ve never seen a credit-related website rock more than this – no fuss about that. It’s definitely a 5 over 5 for me.

This is a sponsored post:

Everybody wants discounts. My mom, my wife, my grandma, and yes even myself – we all want discounts. In this fast moving online world that we call the internet a.k.a. the worldwide web, one of the best ways to get a discount is via coupons. I see coupons being given away almost in every corner of the web but one of the places to find it is at 100 Big Coupons.

So is this website a good place to get coupons? Well, here’s what I can say…

Site Design

The site is simple – no eyecandy. Is that bad or good? Well, for a site that gives away information, it is often good to give visitors the information they want in an easily accessible manner. 100 Big Coupons have a nicely placed left sidebar listing Top Stores in alphabetical order. The right sidebar on the other hand lists coupon sources by category making it easy to find information either by store name or by category.

The Service

As a website that gives away coupons, 100 Big Coupons does it well. Clicking a store either from the left sidebar or by browsing through the categories will take to a webpage with a listing of all available coupons for give away. Selecting a coupon will show you the coupon code and open the merchants website on a separate window (merchant window popup works well for Internet Explorer but the popup is being blocked by Firefox – I’m sure they’ll get this fixed soon).

One nice part about 100 Big Coupons is what they themselves said:

We offer coupons for all the major online stores to help people save money while still getting what they want. The service is free to use for anyone who wishes and requires no registration or personal information.

To that I agree, I’ve tried it and it’s for real – the coupons are free and no registration is required by 100 Big Coupons. Cool and neat. Other coupon websites would require you for personal information before they give you the coupons but with 100 Big Coupons, it’s straight to the coupon code.

So, if you’re looking for a site that gives away free coupons so you can save then 100 Big Coupons is one of the best places I’ve found thus far. They simply give what people are looking for in a fast, and convenient manner.

I give this site a 4 out of 5 for their nice service and easy to use website.

Note: This is a paid review.

I’m no hardcore gambler but I do play games of chance once in a while. Sometimes offline, sometimes online. Anyway, this time, I was asked to review a website that talks about Craps Gambling. For those who don’t know what craps is, it’s basically a casino dice game and believe it or not, dice games have been around for thousands of years already – way before the days of the cards.

Enter The Craps Gambling Guide…

Craps Hero (www.crapshere.com) is a website that talks about the hows of craps gambling and as I see it, they’re pretty good at telling people how to play craps. The website itself is simple to navigate and amazingly clean for a gambling related website. When I say clean, I’m simply referring to the fact that you don’t see advertisements all over the page. The ads they have are nicely arranged on the sidebar and the footer – well away from the article that you’re reading but still noticeable.

The guides they offer are easy to read and simple to follow – it’s no rocket science – and they do appear to know exactly what they’re talking about. As a matter of fact, a quick scan of their guide made me think that I already know the game though I never had any experience playing it before. The guide itself is sliced into manageable sections (pages) which a typical human being can easily find on the sidebar.

The bad side… Well, every good review has to have something negative to say about the website and this Craps Hero is not exempted at all. Though their content is good and their website is free, it does appear dull to the eye. The colors are plain and the website appears to have been created by some automated software or written by a newbie. Perhaps a little styling would help to make the website look more professional.

All in all, the website – looks and content – still falls fairly above that BS filter in my head.

Ever since I started blogging, I’ve always thought of means and ways of monetizing my blog – at least to pay for itself. In my quest to find different monetization schemes, I came across many different methods including PPC, Affiliate Marketing, Paid blogging and a few more. I do believe that more ways to make money out of blogs will come and guess what, I was not wrong.

In one of the many mailing lists that I subscribe to, someone started posting about ReviewMe. They’re pretty different from the others that I’ve tried in that it pays for each review made. It may look like paid blogging but it is not since publishers are required to write a review and not just blog about something. Best of all, the pay is good – publishers like me get 50% of what they earn.

ReviewMe, like most other monetization schemes is a double-edged sword in that it provides quality service to both advertisers and publishers. Advertisers specify the rules and if a publishers takes the opportunity, the advertiser would surely get a good review of their product plus a highly contextual link to their website. End result is that advertisers get 3 benefits – a review for their product, a contextual inbound link, and of course exposure.

On the other hand, publishers are cared for as much as the advertisers. Publishers have the option to choose what to review but of course, the best part is the payout. After all, publishers do their thing for one main reason – to earn. In fact I’m already making money out of this post since this is a paid review. Not bad ei?
So, what do I think about ReviewMe? It may be relatively new but it has force strong enough to gather the attention of both advertisers and publishers. I’m personally glad that I found out about them.