Category Archives: Sponsored

A Review of Buzzfuse - Viral Marketing site

February 1, 2008 – 2:44 pm

I was recently given the opportunity to test Buzzfuse, a new viral, cost-effective marketing tool for bloggers, photographers, musicians, and more. Essentially, users can set up their own buzz network and promote their works online.
This initial sign-up was a breeze, just put your e-mail and wait for the mail from Buzzfuse. Unfortunately I received a [...]

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8 Bucks for a pair of prescription glasses!?

January 30, 2008 – 4:05 pm

Zenni Optical: Sell Rx Glasses $8 with case! Users will find an array of prescription single vision, photochromic and tinted (good for Goths) lenses along with a selection of stylish frames. Prices are kept down because you are dealing direct with the manufacturer online with no middlemen involved. So take a look and see for [...]

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JGoth gets Smorty!

January 30, 2008 – 3:21 pm

“What’s Smorty?” I hear you say? Smorty, dear brethren is the latest sponsor on JGoth.com which helps Igor get paid for blogging. Essentially Smorty, pays the blogger (in this case your host, moi) to write their opinion on a range of topics, services, products, etc. Smorty may sound funny, but they seem like a down [...]

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Moving and Art Storage

January 25, 2008 – 4:56 pm

One of the biggest hassles for me when coming to Japan was what to do with all my stuff back home. For all the regular items including chess boards and sofas and the like we were able to be free of them through a garage sale. However there were a few precious pieces of art, [...]

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Net Audio Ads

January 16, 2008 – 1:30 pm

How is this for in-your-face, or should I say in-your ear advertising.
Net Audio Ads is a pay-per-play advertising platform offering an audio-only advertising channel. The system works using a bid management style similar to that of Google’s Adwords, but with one important difference, publishers get paid based on their traffic rather than being click-based.
The system [...]

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International Calling Cards

January 9, 2008 – 1:31 pm

I took a look at some phone cards at a site called www.getmecallingcards.com, which provides a wide array of calling cards and claims to be “one of the largest retailers of phone cards, with 459 different phone cards from all major vendors.” Regardless, that is a helluva lot of cards! But which card would I [...]

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I signed up for PPP!

January 8, 2008 – 10:32 am

After covering Japan’s Goth scene for three years, I am kind of at a cross-road as to what I should do. I love the scene, but recent events in my personal life have kept me at home for a long while and I really only have had a chance to do event announcements and CD [...]

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Thinking about investing in gold?

January 7, 2008 – 7:35 pm

Are you thinking about investing in gold?
I have been talking about a number of things that are not Goth, and this is definitely one of them – although I think Goth and gold go together quite nicely.
Have you ever wondered about investing some of your own savings or capital in gold? If so, you are [...]

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iTheeSnap.com offers Wedding photo solutions

December 4, 2007 – 10:22 am

Here is something a little different for JGoth.com, but I do find it quite interesting.
Chicago-based I Thee Snap, Inc. has come up with a novel wedding recording solution. It works on the premise that while many people will be taking photographs throughout the wedding, most of these records will disappear from view, stored in shoe [...]

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