Jude’s Eclectic Resources

I have always liked the idea of being a secret shopper or mystery shopper, but never knew where to find these types of places to apply to without someone scamming on the Internet and charging you money for the information. Well guess what, while looking for sites to review I ran across BestMark.com which is a secret shopper service and read all of their information and from what I can see they have a quality site and provide solid solutions for companies that need to be kept informed about how their employee’s connect and treat their consumers.

This is invaluable information for companies to work with and they receive all results from these shoppers as soon as the assignment is completed. Shoppers are screened and trained and matched up to the companies which are the most compatible with the typical type of shoppers for their area. I was impressed and put in my own application, which didn’t take long to fill out. I would enjoy the opportunity to get out around the living occasionally. I love working for myself, but sometimes I think I’m a little too sequestered.

I think they also provide online surveys, but I didn’t really see a lot about that. If you’ve always been curious about finding this type of job, then give them a visit and see what you think or if you as a business need this type of surveying done then you have nothing to lose and a lot of useful insights to gain.

I was involved with a site called fair ads network and they actually think as a new contextual ad network site that they will be a contender for the most powerful of them all. I got involved because of the nice young man that ran a small forum, I mentioned him before and I actually paid 10.00 a month for about 6 months to this new contextual ad network site until I realized I was getting absolutely nothing for that monthly money.

Well, I finally came to my senses and stopped it. Just because the young man was nice didn’t mean I wanted to adopt him and besides aren’t they suppose to be paying me if someone clicks on those links and not the other way around. Well, they keep pushing launch date back and back and now it is is set for March-2008 and now it seems they have an issue with Verisign. Now come on this is all a little too much.

They do not have the backing or manpower to overcome Google or the technology and it seems they are taking advantage of so many people that want to believe in dreams and be in on the basement floor plans of the next multi-billion dollar internet business success. Oh well enough of that rant. I wish them and the supporters all the best, but it was a waste of my time, however I did learn from it.

One of the best internet companies I have worked with is PPP. I find if it weren’t for some of the opportunities I have taken from payperpost there are many websites that I would never have known about. A lot of good websites that just aren’t on the top of everyones list, but maybe should be. I enjoy blogging, but I’m still a newbie at it.

Before I started on the internet when I would hear the words google and yahoo I thought they were stupid names, but they were catchy and stood out. I still have no clue what they mean and now it seems we have another one. What in the world is a Thoof? I think the name simply comes from Ian’s horse that he loves and had to leave behind in Ireland.

When Ian was young he had a horse called Thatcher and he had a very bad hoof that kept splitting and getting infected and they thought they were going to lose him, but Ian and the vet finally nursed him back and he became a champion racer. Since his horse proved to be a champion he decided his new venture would also succeed an become a champion. So he combined the initial T with hoof and produced a catchy tribute to his horse and it makes people curious to check out the site like I did.

The 3 names have a common bond and that is the double oo’s in each so that’s a good omen, but does that mean that all three are watching us and studying us?

Well I had no idea what the site was about at first because the name simply didn’t imply or convey anything to me. So I checked it out and low and behold you’d never guess unless you had already read about it. It’s a personalized news site. It’s definitely a good way to get traffic to your site and is reminiscent of Sk*rt for women.

You can submit your articles and then you can add a ThoofRank Badge so people can see what the other members think of the articles that you have submitted and if someone that is registered doesn’t think it sounds right for some reason they can edit the summary or title or tags and then it gets voted on by the other members to see if it should be changed, a bit like Wikipedia. The badge shows your ranking for the article and 50% and over is really good.

I just registered and I usually don’t read a lot of news or just skim over it, but this is kind of cool. According to your past interests, the site has the capability of determining the type of stories you would like ( yup their studying and watching us) and as you scroll down the page the stories just keep popping up like a never ending hole and it just keeps going and going and going. If you don’t like a certain type of article you can hide it, you can send them to your friends and add tags. I don’t do digg, but I think I’ll start thoofing because I love horses.