I am usually very skeptical when it comes to make money online programs. However, when my friend Garry Conn mentioned about it in his blog and after talking to him on IM, I have decided to give this a go.

PepperJamNetwork is a affiliate marketing network that has just launched but brings a lot of experience to the table being a affiliate marketer themselves. Having meddled with just Google Adsense so far, I am excited at this new platform of monetization here and elsewhere in my other blogs. PepperJam has a nice and trendy interface going for them and have a nice array of various advertisers already in their network that I can see fit this blog.

If you are a newbie to the affiliate marketing network arena, PepperJam has a nice FAQ section that answers a lot of questions in detail. Plus, the PepperJam accoutn comes with a chat facility and a knowledge vault that helps in this area as well.

This could be another one of those programs that comes out with nothingto show for, but I wouldn’t know that and I don’t want miss out on getting in early.

I don’t like to pepper my posts with referral links and I am transparent about things I do here. If you are interested in joining PepperJam, you could be nice to me and use the referral link below to sign up for it. Yes, they offer $5 for every sign up you refer so don’t forget to blog about it after you sign up. I hate to sound like a make money commercial, hey if it’ll pay for a nice dinner once in a while, why not give it a shot right?

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Wesabe has been my favorite online money management tool for a long time. if you haven’t heard, you can read my review of Wesabe and in fact check out others reviews tagged with the same name.

If you are a Wesabe user with an Internet enabled mobile or someone looking for an online money management application that has mobile support, you are in luck. Wesabe Mobile was just released this week.

With Wesabe Mobile, you can

• Check account balances
• See recent transactions
• Enter cash transactions
• Keep track of your travel expenses on the go
• Ability to enter minimal information to identify the transaction & clean up later from your computer
• Phone browser needs to support SSL (which means your stuff is encrypted unlike SMS based money management services)
• If you are a Blackberry user, consider using Opera Mini.

The biggest hardship with tracking your expenses are the cash transactions that trickle out of your wallet. You have no clue what you did with the $40 cash withdrawal from the ATM after a week. Wesabe Mobile cuts that gap for those with a data enabled cell phone.

I don’t travel as much or have a data plan on my Sony Ericsson W810i. But, I am sure this will be useful to my iPhone/Blackberry wielding readers.

> Instructions for Wesabe Mobile

> via Wesabe Blog

I am sure you are trying to shop that last minute Christmas gift online so it reaches someone by Christmas. If you shop at Amazon.com, would you like to find out how to find secret discounts at Amazon?

I have found 2 sites that share this money saving discounts and the timing can’t be better.

Secret Amazon Discount

Secret Amazon Discount works by offering you a search interface where you put in your search keyword and choose the discount you are looking for. (10% to 99% off) Amazon keeps track of their price drops and this tool helps you find those items with price drops.

It offers you a comprehensive result with discounts. You can also sort the results by relevant results or price like how Amazon lets you do it. The good part is that the results are browseable in your familiar Amazon.com interface rather than some other site. As you can see, it does let you search some international Amazon sites as well.

JungleCrazy

JungleCrazy is another great site to find Amazon.com items with deep discounts. I liked the tag cloud view this site offers as soon as you enter. On mouseover, it shows the product details and the discount % plus the rating a product has received.

Clicking on a product takes you directly to Amazon’s product page where you can find out more details about the ne you are interested in.

PriceAdvance

I know I said two services. But, who’s counting right? While you are trying to save money at Amazon.com, how about getting a price comparison from other businesses as you are shopping for an item?

PriceAdvance is a Firefox extension that can be enabled in the status bar when you want to compare prices as you shop. It works by comparing the item you are looking at with other retailers and showing you the prices elsewhere right that instant. This absolutely beats having to go to sites like Pricegrabber to compare prices yourself.

PriceAdvance works currently at major sites like Best Buy, Circuit City, Walmart, Amazon, etc. Although, reviews elsewhere have reported that they have some kinks to work out where it sometimes fails to show discounts offered or not show the current price, etc. A very interesting idea though and I am about to give it a try.

[via Lifehacker]

If you are in the market looking for a solid 4GB USB Drive, Buy.com has a 4 GB Kingston DataTraveller USB Drive for $24.95. If you sign-up for a (free) new Google Checkout account, you can get it for $14.95 with free shipping.

This is the lowest I have seen for a 4GB USB Drive and Kingston makes some really good ones. Even if you don’t need one, it could be a nice Christmas gift.

Or, you could get a 2GB Kingston DataTraveller USB Drive for $14.95. With a new Google Checkout account, you could get it for $4.95 with free shipping!

If you are wondering, what you could do with a USB drive, check out my 12 Must Have Portable Apps for your USB Drive for some ideas.

If you are into finding nice tech deals, check out the right most sidebar from Buxr. I have started to keeping an eye on it as they are pretty spot on in deals like the one I have mentioned here. This is not a sponsored post or am I asking you to click on those ads but this has to be one of the most useful ad widgets I have ever had.

It’s Thanksgiving week here in the US next week and I will be posting lightly next week. I have scheduled a few posts to go live next week when I am away but I will resume my regular posting once I get back after the holidays.

Do you have a broken iPod or did your iPhone just get bricked by Apple’s new update? You can actually make some bucks out of those with BuyMyBrokeniPod.com.

Used, new or broken it doesn’t matter. They will buy Classic, Touch, Video, Photo, Nano, Mini, 4th to 1st Generation iPods & iPhones from you, whatever condition that Apple’s piece of beauty is in. No questions asked. Plus, you can get a price estimate even before you send it to them, which I think is very important.

I tried to get an estimate for my wife’s working 2nd Generation iPod Nano in excellent condition but with no box and got a price estimate of $74. When I said it is acting weird and not sure what’s wrong with it, they offered $19 without the original box. I guess that’s not bad for something that doesn’t work, heh.

But, check this out. I said teh same thing for a broken 4GB iPhone and was offered an estimate of $117! That is not bad at all for a broken piece.

After you ship it out, they send you the money by PayPal within 24 hours of receiving your iPod/iPhone. I am not sure how true their claims are but it definitely looks like a site worth checking out. Especially if your broken iPod is a toy for your toddler, you might be able to make some lunch money out of it.

If you have used this service, I would love to hear your experience with them.

It’s a Birthday Bash at ProBlogger and there are tons of prizes estimated over $50,000 worth of prizes to be won in the next few days. If you haven’t already about it somewhere else, it’s time to head over to this post and check out all the prizes that are there for your taking.

The bash started yesterday with a few giveaways and watch out for more contests this week. It’s a great way to try your chance to win some cool prizes.

I have mentioned previously that the one newsletter I love is the one from Buy.com. They truly give out some awesome deals!

I had purchased my Kingston DataTraveler 2GB USB Flash Drive from Buy.com a few months back. Now, it is again on sale for $16.95 with free shipping!

I have ordered another one to keep it as a replacement for my current drive when it decides to break. As I have it in my keychain, it goes through some pretty rough handling but it is looking good so far.

For those who have been wanting to try out portable apps or create a swiss army knife of portable tools, this is your chance to get in on a sweet deal. Or if you have been wanting to hold a blog contest, this is your chance to snag a cheap price!

How to get $10 off

I know I had mentioned $6.95 in the title and here is how you get it. Buy.com offers $10 off for new Google Checkout customers. If you already have used Google Checkout before, no worries. Take 2 minutes to create a new GMail account and use it to order this. You will get $10 off on this purchase. I use PassPack (review) to keep track of all the new accounts I create.

Enjoy the freedom you get with Portable Apps!