Ok, so I'm looking around for VPS Hosting. The journey is pain staking as it appears there is a group of seemingly top class providers all with only minor differences. At the moment I'm looking about $20-$50 for about 5GB storage, 750GB/Month bandwidth, up to 100mbps, about 1GB RAM, hahah what else is there.
I really wish the process was a little bit easier. The investment is a tough because you either try make the savings though paying for a year at a time, which obviously comes with some risks. Or you spend the extra time researching, to make sure you are onto exactly the right service at the right price point.
I guess my purpose and reason for getting the hosting is important. The plan is to start up some blogs, eCommerce sites, and what ever I can think of. At this stage I have the basic skills to set up some CMSs, but probably not enough to quit my day job. I do have some other skills in photography, and I did just get a really nice camera that I'll start using to write short documentary films soon. All of these could do with a website. I have an AdSense account, so I can hook them up and hopefully see some fruits to this $500 dollar a year investment in hosting. Oh, and don't forget the yearly cost of the domains also.
I wish there was more help out there for me. If you read this and think you can help me in the right direction, please do. It will be most appreciated.
Cheers Peeps!
The life of Nengisuls
Sunday, January 13, 2013
Friday, January 11, 2013
My first attempt at making a video, not great but its a start.
OK, so I got this awesome camera the other day. A Canon 650D. The reason being is that I want to start making documentary films. As an Asian Studies student (graduated now) I really want to be doing something more closely related to my passion for Asian culture and society.
Below is my first attempt. To clarify, I'm really not that impressed. The standard lens isn't that great and the tripod is designed for photography, not film. But all good, I just need to develop filming techniques that don't rely on focus pulling, zooming and consistent panning or pitching. Anyway, check it out peeps, and please be sure to tell me just how bad it is :P
"Christmas Lights at Q House - Lumphini, Bangkok Thailand, 2013
Below is my first attempt. To clarify, I'm really not that impressed. The standard lens isn't that great and the tripod is designed for photography, not film. But all good, I just need to develop filming techniques that don't rely on focus pulling, zooming and consistent panning or pitching. Anyway, check it out peeps, and please be sure to tell me just how bad it is :P
"Christmas Lights at Q House - Lumphini, Bangkok Thailand, 2013
Thanks for watching.
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Tuesday, January 08, 2013
The Woes of Wage Slavery
Why oh why do I feel this despair. For what fate have I begged to be blessed in this abyss? There be any other name to offer, I cannot find it. And to my finality I find it discouraging. Lost as it were, into what is painful and unknown. So lost in this world. What is it to want end but not be offered? persist and continue, with depressing inevitability.
-Written some time ago from a dark place.
-Written some time ago from a dark place.
Monday, January 07, 2013
SEO and Social Marketing Suggestions I provided To a Customer Today = Insightful
Below is an email I sent to a client today. I was quite happy with what I came up with and thought I might share it with the world. Please feel free to comment should you have additional input in to the subject. Obviously, I have removed names and so forth to maintain the anonymity of the client. Happy reading :)
Dear ******,
I do hope that my email finds you well.
Further
to our previous discussion regarding social media and the marketing of
your website, I have had some time to think about different strategies
and come up with some suggestions. The services suggested below are not
something we will directly be able to assist you with, but simply some
recommendations and suggestions that could be of use. Bear in mind that
there is no one fix that will accomplish the results you are looking
for, and any solutions really need to be holistic in approach. You
might like to read this when you have some free time as it is a long
email and covers a wide range of different strategies.
1. Yelp has 1 bad review.
From
what ***** tells me, previous customers had posted positive reviews, but
Yelp had the nerve to pull them down saying they weren't legitimate. It
is my understanding that Yelp has a lot of dissatisfied users and you
might be better off removing your Yelp account all together. Some say
that there is no such thing as bad publicity, but if you don't have much
user contributed content, and what you do have is a bad review, I would
suggest that this does not represent your company that well. You might
like to have a read of www.yelp-sucks.com for more stories of the bad
business practices performed by this web service.
2. Google+ Local for reviews and as a Yelp replacement.
I
just had a quick look at your G+ Local page and it looks to be
pumping. Nice work. I think this is a far better replacement for
Yelp. That being said, the last review was placed 7 months ago. It
would be great if you could try make a target of 1 to 5 reviews on G+
Local a month. You have 18 reviews but you really want 50 to 100.
3. Facebook page needs more posts directly from your website.
Posting
links from your website will help in establishing back links that
Google will recognize, lifting your Google ranking. I believe I may
have suggested it previously, that you could easily share some select
content and products from the website direct to your Facebook page maybe twice a
week. This will be a small push to lift your Google reputation.
4. Back link swaps with other websites via a links page on your website.
With
an added links page on your website you would be able to initiate back
link swaps with other websites. This would involve communicating with
other like minded website owners and exchanging links to provide on
eachother's respective websites. However, ****** has informed me that
this method is not really effective in this day and age, being swamped
by the likes of Facebook and other mass social media providers. For the
effort put in we don't believe this will provide you with the coverage
you are looking for.
5. Registering your website with AOL, and Yahoo directory listings.
This
idea stems back to the good old days before Google. Yahoo evaluates
websites on a case by case basis and includes them in listings, much
like the Yellow Pages. Users can search by different categories for
whatever they might be interested, unlike direct keyword searches and
mass website evaluation (as in Google search). That being said, you may
need to search a bit further to find the many other listings out there
for this strategy to be effective. I suggest that Yahoo and AOL would
be a good first step, but you would definitely need to add your site to
potentially dozens of different listings to see real results.
6. Contribute to community group pages, forums, and blogs for additional back links.
This
strategy holds a lot of potential if enough time and effort is put into
the task. Basically you (or perhaps an intern/work experience student)
could visit lots of different community pages from a variety of
different related industries and interests. By contributing to
discussions (and adding your link to posts) the users that read them
will no doubt click back to your website, especially if they believe
your interest in the community group is genuine. As you might imagine, a
lot of companies post more or less fake contributions to get their link
out there. However, should you actually interact with these groups,
you will start to build relationships with users that actually trust
you.
7. Contribute to blogs as a guest blogger (yes that means a bit of creative writing).
In-line
with the above point, by contributing to "respected and well known"
blogs as a guest blogger, you have the opportunity of getting your voice
to a large audience. And, there is much more potential than simply
contributing to discussions and communicating with commenters. For this
to work you would need to post articles to more than 1 blog (perhaps 5 -
10, the sky is the limit). It would also be best if the articles were
unique, but I could imagine there is still a benefit to posting the same
article to a variety of blogs. What is most important is that you
guest blog to a wide range of fields and interest groups. There is
little benefit in posting to 10 blogs in the same field, as a lot of the
visiting users visit the same blogs. By diversifying you will reach a
wider range of customers/users. Moreover, by guest blogging you place
yourself as a professional in your field, and not just a commenter.
That alone must carry some weight over just commenting and discussing
other people's articles.
8. Start a Blog, and update it REGULARLY.
This
is also an option, but you might be best geared to start with trying to
get some good slots on other well recognized blogs first.
9. More AdWords and Facebook campaigns.
Advertising
campaigns can have substantial benefits; however, you need to be sure
you have just the right keywords in order for these to work (definitely
worth getting advise from a professional in this case). Also, the
problem with this sort of method is that every man and his dog is paying
for these services, as it is the easy way out, so you could find
yourself spending a lot of money for nothing. Any investment like this
needs to be well researched or trusted to a company that has a good
track record. All things being considered, I believe a small investment
in web ad campaigns isn't a bad idea, but the previous suggestions of
contribution and interaction are far more positive and don't cost
anything. The long and slow road will build a solid base where as an Ad
campaign dies the moment you stop paying.
10. Monthly or bi-monthly newsletters.
This
is definitely something you can do in house, but depends entirely on
the size of your email mailing list. If its small I would suggest there
is little benefit to expending the time on creating the newsletters.
Well
that just about covers it. And just to reiterate, these are simply
suggestions. We cannot guarantee that any of these will work, especially
if only 1 or 2 strategies are tried. The process needs to be holistic
and needs to be a long term vision, which will no doubt change at least a
part of the way you deal with marketing from a web perspective.
In the meantime, should you require any additional information or assistance at any time, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Best regards,BenC
One thing I forgot to add to this was the importance of YouTube, and producing short films that are fun and informative. It really gives a face to the company and its staff. I doubt he would have gone for that anyway.
I look forward to continuing this discussion with my fellow bloggers.
Peace Out.
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Saturday, January 05, 2013
Concrete Variables - Bangkok
This is a project a friend of mine has been working on in Bangkok. Nice work my Brother!!!
Concrete Variables Final Edition (Artwork and Exhibition) from Fallen Thailand on Vimeo.
Concrete Variables Final Edition (Artwork and Exhibition) from Fallen Thailand on Vimeo.
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Monday, December 31, 2012
Blast From The Past
An anxious wait
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Sunday, December 30, 2012
New Found Inspiration To Be Creative
Saphan Thaksin BTS Station, Bangkok |
It's astounding the extent to which independent artists can produce films of a professional standard. In some cases we can even do better than the professional film industry. Can you believe it? Just search out there for anything relating to short films (my top youtube key words would be: Final Cut Pro, "edited in", short film, 550D). There is a lot out there, you just have to look.
So my first films will be camera tests and little lessons to get me up to scratch on my standard camera techniques and editing. But, following this small stint I plan on writing a short documentary about a friend of mine. She doesn't know it yet, but this is what I am working on.
Prior to doing so I really want to try build a presense on the net. So, please feel free to say hi and offer me any advise you can. Also, if you would like to do a links swap, please just ask. We're all in this together.
Peace.
P.S. I wrote this at work and can't be assed proof reading so sorry for the typos and spelling errors.
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Friday, December 28, 2012
I'm back. Where did I go?
This is brief, but a warm sense is flowing and I'm glad to be back. This platform is back in my hands and I'm looking forward to updating more regularly.
For those just visiting now for the first time, please feel free to check out my archives. Lots of partly interesting stories from years passed. I can't wait to let you all know what has been happening.
For those just visiting now for the first time, please feel free to check out my archives. Lots of partly interesting stories from years passed. I can't wait to let you all know what has been happening.
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
An issue with religion
The common understanding of "I don't mind if you have your own religion, but just don't shove it down my throat", tells me that people are entitled to their beliefs regardless of other peoples beliefs, and moreover, even if that said belief is just plain wrong. Why do we allow this sort of thing in society? It seems that the many non-believers accept the belief of believers, even though the non-believer openly disagrees with the religion. Why is this???
Personally, I'm of the belief we need to pull our heads out of our asses and say something. For instance, a Christian might argue that I am unable to disprove Christianity, but the amount of religions in existence tells me that all religions represent something, but that is rarely God. So why should I say, "believe what you want, just don't tell me about it"? The world will get no where with this sort of attitude. I'm not saying Christians and Muslims should engage in yet more conflict, on the grounds that one is right and the other wrong; what I am saying is that Christians, Muslims, Buddhist or otherwise should come to find that all of their beliefs are based on stories, myth, and HUMANS. If the intention of religion is to define GOD, or comprehend the beginning of existence, which it should, then religion should be based on much more evidence than faith and heresay...
If we don't do something about it the world will surely pass along the sands of time unchanged, when progressive improvement towards logic and rational thinking is what we need.
Cheers
Nengi
Personally, I'm of the belief we need to pull our heads out of our asses and say something. For instance, a Christian might argue that I am unable to disprove Christianity, but the amount of religions in existence tells me that all religions represent something, but that is rarely God. So why should I say, "believe what you want, just don't tell me about it"? The world will get no where with this sort of attitude. I'm not saying Christians and Muslims should engage in yet more conflict, on the grounds that one is right and the other wrong; what I am saying is that Christians, Muslims, Buddhist or otherwise should come to find that all of their beliefs are based on stories, myth, and HUMANS. If the intention of religion is to define GOD, or comprehend the beginning of existence, which it should, then religion should be based on much more evidence than faith and heresay...
If we don't do something about it the world will surely pass along the sands of time unchanged, when progressive improvement towards logic and rational thinking is what we need.
Cheers
Nengi
Friday, January 07, 2011
Words of wisdom from an old friend...
"Secrets for a Happy Life... Be Guided by Goodness,
Fuel Your Life and Your Work With Fun, Avoid the Fault
Finding Feel Goods and All Unnecessary, Non-productive
Negativity, Choose Your Mood and Your Attitude, Move
From Problems To Solutions Quickly, Have High
Integrity...."
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Sunday, December 26, 2010
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
In trying to understand a difference of opinion.
I'm tired of having discussions or debates that rarely go anywhere. In the instance of talking to my friends, we share a common belief and understanding, so when we talk we agree, and we get nowhere. Whether it be about religion, society, westernism, etc, we can never make progress in our discussions because we all agree. However, when I leave my familiar surroundings and return to my place of birth, and my "old life", I find myself conflicted with the old status quo, that seems to have changed very little. In these discussion, we rarely make any progress, because my beliefs, which I hope are sound, make no impact on those that are happy with their way of life. I was told the other day, "why don't you just let people live the way they want to live?". And my answer to that is, why should we let something that seems so wrong perpetuate and become an underlying problem of western society.
I would explain more now, but I really need to pull my ideas together and elaborate further in the near future. Stay tuned (me, anyway, as I know no one reads this anymore)
I would explain more now, but I really need to pull my ideas together and elaborate further in the near future. Stay tuned (me, anyway, as I know no one reads this anymore)
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
I'll keep this short
I have come to a turbulent stage of my life. Things aren't going as planned, and everything is always unpredictable.
I'll keep this short. I need to find some way of inspiring myself to do all the things I want to do.
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Wednesday, September 08, 2010
Moments of Clarity - The Good Graces of Yawah
Tom Cosm A quote from over on the Christchurch wall "God is SO good - He spared lives, spared the horrible winds and gave us a day that is beautiful so that the suffering doesn't get worse than it already has been. May He protect those that are out there today cleaning, helping and working hard. God's favour lies over Christchurch!!!!!"
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