Yahoo! recently announced a new version of its Yahoo! Mail application that allows users to send free SMS messages from Yahoo! Mail to mobile phones in the US, Canada, India, Argentina, Australia, Bolivia, Hongkong, Indonesia, Kuwait, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and the Philippines. Earlier something similar was being provided by Rediff. This PC to Mobile service is currently in its beta version and claims to be compatible with all major Indian cellphone networks viz. Airtel, Aircel, Hutch, RIM (Reliance India Mobile), MTNL (dolphin) , Idea, (Read the rest of this story.)

Here is a news for the subscribers of mGinger concept. There is a competition to pay them more for reading advertisements. If you have gone through my earlier post on mGinger SMS pay backs, then you must be aware of the fact that mGinger is paying back its readers 35 paise in all.

Here is another Delhi-based company TechnoApex Softwares which has jumped into this field with its website admad.mobi offering you to pay back upto 51 paise per SMS through a 5 level affiliate model.

But the point is not just this lucrative pay-out structure, but who will gain the critical mass of advertisers and strike a right balance of readers too, so that it can make all of them happy for using their services. As of now, none of these companies are known to be providing with sufficient no. of paid SMS to their registered readers due to lack of advertisers. But perhaps its just the matter of time the things will pick up.

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Yesterday, I set a target to promote this blog to a level that it can get around 500 visitors per day within two months time frame. But HOW? Its a big question. For some time now, I was already receiving emails willing to know about how I am going to promote my blog in the coming days. I would like to suggest all of them to go through a white paper on this, produced by a renowned professional blogger Mr. Yaro Starak of Australia. This Blueprint on Blog Profits written by him was emailed to me by one of my friends Ashok Arora when I confronted him with the same question of how to promote my blog to get more visitors.

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Last month my sister sent me a referral link to mGinger - a website with a unique business model of paying to read SMSs on your cellphones. As I don’t use any cellphone connection I just had a look at this website critically. But I found it to be a good and practical business model. mGinger.com, started by three engineers, works on the principle of permission-based marketing. The website was launched on 19th April, 2007 with a beta version and had less than 50 registered members at that time. SMS advertisements which used to irritate cellphone users could turn out to be money-spinners with this Bangalore based website. It will pay to those who willingly register with it to receive advertisements through SMSs at their convenient hours. For each ad received, the mobile phone user gets (Read the rest of this story.)

Dynamic pricing of Air Fares has created a lot of confusion about purchasing and budgeting Air Tickets. To ease it, yesterday a website was launched which claims to predict Air Fares seven days in advance with guaranteed 75% of accuracy. That means, this website will pay your extra charges in case your fare exceeds its predictions. Thats an added offer convincing about its reliability of its predictions. These kind of services will give some kind of relief to comprehend dynamic pricing of today’s market. Lets see how it functions. Log in at Fare Cast and see for yourself.