A Moustache for Movember
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There were a number of local twitter-ites that I noticed were talking about moustaches so I decided to see what was going on with it. So I thought it was a good idea.
What is Movember?
Movember is an annual, month-long celebration of the moustache, highlighting men’s health issues – specifically prostate cancer.
The idea for Movember was sparked in 2003 over a few beers in Melbourne, Australia. The guys behind it joked about 80s fashion and decided it was time to bring the moustache back. In order to justify their Mos (Australian slang for moustache), they used their new looks to raise money for prostate cancer research… never dreaming that facial hair would ultimately lead to a global movement that would get men talking about a taboo subject – their health.
A Mo Bro starts Movember – the month formerly known as November – clean shaven, and grows a moustache all month long, garnering support from friends and family in the form of donations. What’s more, a Mo Bro is a walking billboard for the cause as his new look opens the door for him to talk about prostate cancer – making the moustache a symbol, much like the pink ribbon is for breast cancer. Each Movember culminates in a Gala Partè in major cities around the globe where Mo Bros dress up to match their Mo, channeling the likes of Tom Selleck, Ghandi and Ron Burgundy, vying for the ultimate accolade: Man of Movember.
The money that is raised goes to the Movember Foundation to help fund mens health issues. The money raised in Canada goes directly to Prostate Cancer Canada. Prostate Cancer Canada will use the money raised by Movember for the development of programs related to awareness, public education, advocacy, support of those affected, and research into the prevention, detection, treatment and cure of prostate cancer.
What Can you do?
One thing that you can do is donate to support my moustache. My goal is to raise a minimum of $500, so if you have the spare few dollars help me out. Or you can register and grow your own ‘stache.
You can even simply link to this post and help spread the awareness of Men’s prostate cancer.
Cheers,
JM
My PHP abilities are gone.
I have completely lost me touch with PHP. I tried to simply use a simple include(“file”); to allow me to simply make some footers and headers on a static site I was working on. Shouldn’t be that hard, right? Well, everything that I tried didn’t work, when I would go to the page it would download the source file rather than show me what I wanted.
I spent about an hour going through forums, searching and searching on Bing and Google to see if there was something that I could do. So now, well, I am back to Wordpress as the default.
The issue I didn’t just use wordpress in the beginning is that I am noticing huge speed issues when I have multiple sites on the same hosting account. Even without any plugins enabled they seem to crawl. If I figure out what is going on with it I will let everyone know.
Help me?
So do you think you know what I was doing wrong? Please let me know in the comments. I have already decided to jump to Wordpress for this site, but in the future I would like to be able to develop some static sites again. Without pulling out my hair.
Where have you been?
Well I guess I am not much of a blogger, so I think I will start calling this my, “place where I try to organize my thoughts”.
I have tried using twitter to do this, but I have found that most of the time I can’t clear my head of what I am trying to get out in 140 character increments.
The Scene
Let me set the scene for you, my reader, for where I am at and what I am doing. As you can probably recall from previous posts, I seem to spend some time every couple of months re-grouping. Not that this is necessarily a bad thing, the problem is that typically I have a good run then something major happens and I never reached that critical mass.
The latest event that has really hurt is the change that ebay made to their payment scheme. They have gone from a percentage model to a CPC model. Basically they are going to pay you per click what they feel your clicks are worth.
I have read a lot of talk of marketers getting hit hard by this, but they also mention that they were making the majority of their income from ACRUs. I on the other hand had been making almost all of my income from sales. The difference was that you get paid a set amount for every new member that you get to sign up to Ebay, the other is that you get a percentage of the fees that are generated when someone that you send to the site makes a purchase. This was my bread and butter, and because of this I foolishly thought that I would get a decent EPC for the traffic that I was sending.
However that was not the case. From about February till September my effective EPC was about $0.45, now it is $0.15 and lower if someone happens to come to my site, click an ad not like what they see, hit back and then click another.
Where Now?
Needless to say this was one in a line of huge hiccups in my trek. I haven’t given up however, I am flaying around a bit at the moment, but I am starting to dabble in some direct linking with some promising affiliate offers. If any of them are a hit I will then build a site around it and get serious. My plan is to go after a bunch, if I spend $50 and not get anywhere I move on, if I see promise I will tweak and let it go for another $100. From there is when I make the decision whether or not to go for the site.
I will let you know how it goes.
