If you have an email, most probably you have already received an email promoting some invigorating products, relationship-related promotional materials or internet marketing/advertising infomercials. I was browsing through my reader when an entry caught my attention.

“Single?” Lawn Signs Conquer the American Landscape

Reading the content, I found out that the promotional strategy done on the internet has been somehow implemented on the streets. Instead of daily emails, the advertisers placed the signs on different locations. Like spam emails that are deleted or placed in the spam folders, these signs are removed by concerned citizens or authorities. Once removed,  another location where to plant the signs is chosen.

The article which is quite very long has provided some useful information. Among these are

• how to use the internet to find information regarding website owners
• glimpse on how much the companies have earned from such advertising
• a new business concept, to plant lawn signs to promote your business on slow days instead of just sitting around

If you are a business owner and those signs can help you earn an 8-figure (in dollars) income, would you not do it?

The result of the PhilNITS exam held in Manila last October 19, 2008 has already been published. Among the passers, I am only familiar with Warren. With such drive and intelligence, I always believed he will pass the exam and he did. A total of 69 examinees passed.

FE02-0154 alcuizar em rezada
FE01-0012 alinea maverick sabay
FE01-0156 almeda benedict ian baclit
FE10-0028 amores jovelino anoos
FE03-0081 andrin rendell caldona
FE02-0235 atay paul joseph javier
FE03-0088 atiagan rosfield cabanes
FE10-0003 auza joshua joseph quira
FE03-0041 badoy larvi jerrick ocsio
FE01-0168 bangayan gringo ranoco
FE01-0081 berboso danilo javier
FE01-0075 bernardino edilou abong
FE03-0070 brion raymond ryan solomero
FE02-0056 calderero michael ibarreta
FE01-0065 ching emmanuel alpheaus mendoza
FE01-0023 coronel rod michael pallanan
FE01-0103 cortes jonathan ray mendoza
FE01-0128 diaz paul kevin te
FE06-0028 dulaca ryan ciriaco madolin
FE04-0013 espelita jonah jose salaugo
FE02-0027 flores jeshurun ray enrique
FE02-0029 garde napoleon nogra
FE04-0053 go franklin anthony mari
FE01-0033 go noel anthony mones
FE01-0032 idjao ronald carey
FE02-0223 larena rehne gibb navares
FE01-0161 lee sam christian gan
FE01-0074 lorenzo patricia ann co
FE02-0178 lozada ceff benzel maypa
FE03-0064 mahilum jedd benedict kris tahil
FE02-0077 mañacap rochelle repollo
FE01-0016 manuel warren lloyd legasi
FE01-0028 mateo mary ann francisco
FE01-0170 miranda carlos jr mulleda
FE01-0058 montemayor april rose suasba
FE01-0027 mugas arlee olayon
FE02-0007 narca matthew andreus bayang
FE01-0030 nuñez redd padilla
FE01-0151 ong paul jeffrey uysin
FE01-0050 ortega romano fegalquin
FE01-0014 ostrea allan michael manalastas
FE02-0100 padayhag maria theresa magpantay
FE04-0022 pariclas kristofferson capones
FE03-0027 plaza ian jay cañares
FE01-0086 rara eigen israel moso
FE01-0061 regidor marion paula magtabog
FE02-0041 reyes gino tristan obach
FE02-0212 reyes lemuel leogene pondoc
FE02-0101 rivera rico angelo hirang
FE01-0077 saavedra ian dave tandog
FE02-0118 sabal jeremy de los reyes
FE02-0208 salem butch ellen grace quejada
FE02-0103 santiago marion kristoffer fernandez
FE02-0257 semilla franklet morados
FE01-0035 semilla stephen tiña
FE03-0077 sereño mylene estandarte
FE01-0052 siaton florence sarabia
FE01-0130 siy glen richard chan
FE10-0052 tabada winston memberbe
FE02-0265 tan brian jefferson sy
FE02-0250 ubas apple grace otero
FE10-0029 ultra john diana
FE10-0013 uy tiffany elaine yap
FE02-0207 villafuerte therese paulette salvador
FE02-0139 villanueva andrew montenolla
FE02-0173 villanueva brent suganob
FE02-0107 yap raymond jason alcala
FE01-0140 yang genny roque
FE10-0009 yusiong john paul tan

For the complete list of PhilNITS passers, visit the PhilNITS website. The next exam will be on April 26, 2009 and deadline for applications will be on April 11, 2009.

Review materials ( a set of 5 books ) can be ordered for pick-up or delivered with additional cost.

It is still a few months away. If you were unlucky or plan to take the examination this coming April, you may want to start reviewing as early as now. According to Warren, the exam was really difficult so a little head start in reviewing might prove helpful in the end.

Why would you take the exam?

If you plan to working in Japan as an IT professional then the PhilNITS certification will be very useful.

Also, most IT courses today do not have board exams. The certification which is recognized mostly by Asian countries will give you an edge over the other IT graduates in the Asia region.

Before I started writing this blog, I was reading Twitter Secrets by Joel Comm so I visited Twitter after 3 months of not making an entry. I thought of checking some of the information presented in the ebook like designing the page in such a way that your business can be presented easily without making multiple posts promoting links.

I have found several Twitter pages that may have read the same e-book and decided to apply them but the design I like most is that of chrisgarret. It is personalized design presented simply yet very captivating.

Then, a question comes to mind.

Would you rather want your followers to read your twits and be updated? Or, get them immediately captivated with the Twitter page background that they also immediately browse away from Twitter and visit the links presented in your design without even reading a single Twit?

Short, informative twits with a great Twitter page design. Combine the two and you’ll surely get results whatever goal you may have.

Although the ebook is only 32-pages long, it has taken me about 4 hours to finish reading it. In between was writing this post, following some Twitters and checking the details presented.

Update:

I got two message offering or giving me free e-books and some of those that I had followed have done the same. Isn’t that nice?

Have you experienced writing from an idea then while writing, another topic comes up and you want to also write about that? Then, another idea keeps on drumming up on your head that before you realize it, you already have too much topic to write on and that you’ve created too many drafts. Yet, finishing them all is not possible because you don’t know where to begin and how to end. Or, it could be that there are many beginnings but the body seems to start another topic.

So, which one would you finish first? The original idea you wanted to write about or the thoughts that came out from that original idea? Which one would you publish first?