I am glad to see that more and more Internet users and coming to their senses and start using a better browser to view the Internet.

I make no secret of the fact that I very much dislikes Internet Explorer because of its inability to cope with CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)  This results in web sites not displaying as they should and the users not enjoying their browsing experience as much as they could if they used another browser. Internet Explorer created a head ache for web developers as you always have to build in extra functionality to let IE understand your web pages which other browsers understand by default.

The only reason IE is the most used web browser in the world is because that is the default browser that gets installed if you install a Microsoft operating system. Most people, especially novice Internet users, do not know that they can use anything else.

I notice from my web stats that on some web sites only about 40% of the visits came from Internet Explorer users.

Below is a screen shot from the stats:

Browsers visiting my sites

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Here is a nice way to make some extra cash. The service is provided by one of the most trusted internet sites in South Africa.

Kalahari.net launched their new Marketplace.

The email they sent me confused me a bit at first. I thought one can sell any books on their site using the marketplace. But when I tested the system I found that you can only sell second hand books simular to the new books they have listed on their site.

So if they are selling XYZ by B Bean and you have a new or second hand copy of the same book available, you can list it on the site and they will sell it on your behalf. They take the order and you fullfil the order.

What I find amazing is that they do not charge you anything for this. I give Kalahari 10 out of ten for this idea and I hope that other businesses will learn that sometimes you have to give in order to receive.

You can not only sell books this way but also DVDs, CDs and Games.

To start listing your unwanted goods go to http://www.kalahari.net/marketplace

Buy DVDs and Books online

Those of you who have PayPal accounts and who earned commission that was paid into their PayPal accounts will know that you cannot get your funds out of your PayPal account.

I have a method to get my PayPal money back in South Africa. I am sure this same method will work in most over countries with similar problem.

You will note if you go to my shop that I am selling a short report where I reveal my secret
click here to go to my shop

I see so many people who are searching for an easy way to make money on the Internet and I also see so many people get burned in the process that I decided to write this post.

Thousands of people flog to the Internet in desperate help looking for a way to earn money on the Internet.

Mistake 1:
The very first mistake they make is: They waited too long. They waited until it is too late and now they are looking for a quick fix. Now get this early in your search and remember it, there ain’t any quick fixes on the Internet.

Because you are desperate and in a panic state you are vulnerable to the sharks out there who are making a living out of squeezing your last couple of bread money out of you. These people are heartless.

Mistake 2:
Stop looking for “Type from home”, “Data Entry“, “Data Processing”, “David Johnston’s Millionaire’s List”, “online surveys”, “make money from reading emails”, “make money click on links or visiting web sites” type of things.

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Our Dear Pres. Jacobs Zuma is a clear example that you can get away with everything in our corrupt South Africa, if you are part of the top dogs.

Before he was elected as “President” (in my eyes he is not worthy of the word President) he stood trial for rape and corruption. Instead of locking him up they locked up his buddy Shaik whom Zuma got out of jail anyway.

Now Mr Gigolo Zuma is in the news again after the birth of his 20th child which he must have made while planning his wedding to his last (of six) wife.

In civilized countries like the US a “President” who bring such shame to his nation would be expected to step down, look at what happen to Bush when he had an afair. In South Africa it seems like he just become a bigger hero under his followers.

Below is a letter I received by email which was apparently sent to our dear “President” Enjoy it.

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I have read many “newspaper” reports in IT Web and Fin24 where it is clear that there are a huge group of black people in South Africa who believe that they should grow their businesses by getting special treatment based on their skin colour. These poor soles just cannot get away of the past and use the previous government and all the bad things of the past as a lame excuse to get special treatment and get special contract. Personally I think those guys are insulting their own people. I mean; what do you teach your people with such an attitude? You do not teach them to be good businessmen (and woman) and that you must develop your business skills in order to get business.

NO, they are teaching their people that you are too pathetic to get business the usual way, so you have to use the lame excuse of being previously disadvantaged to land yourself some business and contracts. So they teach their people to remain disadvantaged so that they can be advantaged in business.

I think the longer the big guys can let the normal man on street believe that he is disadvantaged the longer they can intimidate them to go on strikes and do what the big guys tell them to do. The moment the disadvantaged rise from the dust and believe that they are not disadvantaged anymore they will not let the greedy top dogs intimidate them anymore.

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Johannesburg – New matric graduates looking for employment face a daunting task as the South African job market remains under pressure.

South Africa’s official unemployment rate is 24.5%, according to Statistics SA, while almost a million workers lost their jobs in the year to end-September 2009.

“Even though there is talk about the end of the recession being in sight, learners need to realise that they have to upgrade their skills base for the South African job market,” said recruitment group Kelly’s executive Denise Thomas.
Excerpt from Fin24.com

I attended a meeting last night where the Western Cape MEC for Finance, Economic Development and Tourism revealed some shocking statistics:
1. Of all the children who go to school in Grade 1, only 60% of them make it all the way to grade 12. The other 40% most likely become a burden to society.

2. Of all the children who go to school in grade 1 only 5% make it to a tertiary education. In Australia 75% of the children make it to a tertiary education.

I know the first thing the majority will do is claim to be previously disadvantaged or put the blame on the previous (15 years ago, what a joke) government.

I my opinion the biggest problem in South Africa is that we adopted a culture of rather blaming everything and everybody around us instead of doing something. It is easier to blame the previous or current government and then sit back and wait for a donation or miracle. It is sad to say but many people in South Africa adopted an entitlement syndrome – “It is the government’s duty to give da job”, “it is the government who must give education”, “It is my parents’ duty to look after me” .

Funny enough just after Mr Windy revealed the stats he also mentioned that the education department did a surprise visit on a school in the Western Cape. Of the 200 Matric students only 19 were in class at 09h00 in the morning. So it is da government’s duty to give me an education and that gives me a license to do whatever I want because it is not my responsibility, it is the education department’s responsibility that I get an education! How is that for prosperous thinking?

It is time that people take  action  and create their own life. Somebody else cannot do it for you.  Waiting for a miracle or waiting for a job to fall from heaven will only keep you poor. I think that waiting for a job in general will keep you poor. Why sit around doing nothing while looking for a job. You might as well start your own money generating web site in the mean while so that you can at least earn something while you wait. Or you can join a MLM business. There are so many possibilities out there.

I receive many emails of people saying “but I do not have any money to start something”.
But I also receive emails from people saying “I washed cars for three days in a row to get money to buy your book or to get involved in MLM”

Why is it that some people will use any excuse they can not to do certain things.

It is your life, it is your future, only YOU can decide what you will achieve.

Setcom launched a new product called Monsterpay. Over the years thousands of web sites relied on Setcom for receiving online payments. Now web site owners can use MonsterPay to accept online payments on their web site. BUT not online can web site owners use this facility. The normal Internet users can also use Monsterpay to send and receive funds over the Internet without exposing your banking or credit card details online.

There are no setup or monthly fee, MonsterPay just takes a small percentage of each transaction.

For some years now PayPal did not treat South Africans very well. They are a bit stuck up to allow South Africans to open accounts with them to receive payments.

I see this new MonsterPay service as our South African solution to the PayPal problem.

Click here to open your MonsterPay account today.

What is the latest business opportunity on the Internet? The best way to make money online? The latest craze?

At the moment new online business opportunities appear on a daily basis. It is crazy to see how many new opportunities become available.Some of them are good but most of them are real hype where people get caught just to loose their last hard earned money.

It amazes me how infatuated people get about being part of  “the latest thing”.  During the past year that I have been selling my eBook I received some funny comments about it. The one lady told her friend

” seems like he covers adsense, affiliate marketing and online sale in his eBook. That is old news”.

Another wise crack sent me an email in response to my follow up emails saying

“Don’t worry, I think I know what it is about, it is eBooks, contact me again when you found something new”

That might be true, some of the topics in my eBook might be old news but old news are still working for me.  Funny enough not one of the people who left above mentioned remarks are financially free yet. They are both still working for a boss and as usual it is these type of people who always knows best.

Old news or old concepts are not bad. We all are still driving our cars. Although a car is OLD news, more than a hundred years old but we still use the concept. It might have been improved by now, but the basic concept remains more than a hundred years old. Perhaps I should tell the car salesman

“Hey, I know what you are trying to do, you are trying to sell me an automobile. That is old news, contact me if you found something new.”

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A while ago I complained about FireFox which became extremely slow and resource hungry. I then switched to Google Chrome as my default browser. Although Chrome is much faster in standard form it is a bit frustrating working on it since it lacks some basic functionality.

Today I found a cure for the slow and resource hungry FireFox. I implemented the changes and I am glad to report that FireFox is working like the speed of light again and I am using it as my default browser again.

This is what I have done:

Open FireFox and in the address bar type the words about:config and then hit enter.

about:config

Your browser will now display a list of setting which you can change (if you know how to). Note the “filter” box at the top.

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Sometimes I think that some business owner do not realize what the effect on bad service is on their businesses.

The thought came up yesterday when I meat a friend for coffee at one of our local coffee shops. They were here on holiday and I was telling  them where they can wine and dine.

My friend then pointed out that they had a lovely meal the previous evening at the restaurant around the corner.

I suddenly realized that I have not been there since we arrived in Langebaan 3 years ago.

The reason for that is that we once got bad food and bad service there 5 years ago. 5 Years ago we were still staying in Pretoria and we were on our way from the Richtersveld to Cape Town and stopped in Langebaan for lunch. We visited one of the restaurants next to the lagoon. We soon realised that the guys in Pretoria can prepare better seafood than this restaurant next to the sea.

We moved down to Langebaan two years later and during the past three years I referred hundreds of people to my favorite restaurants. I never ever referred anybody to this spesific restaurant.

When Gordon told me about his good experience I realised that because of ONE bad experience five years ago this restaurant lost out any many referrals and lots of business. I also realised that because of this one bad experienced I never felt like going back and see if things improved.

So, if you run your own business or restaurant keep this in mind. You never know what the effect of bad service can be on your business. One unhappy customer can keep hundreds away from your door. Also keep in mind that most unhappy customers will never tell you that they are unhappy, they will just leave, never come back and never refer others to you.