Christian Jessen - A Dane starting business in South America (Santiago de Chile)
Don’t Like My Country? Get Out!
Living a couple of years in Lima will give most people a true love/hate relationship with both the city and the country. But trying to criticizes the country, culture or people in general will often be met by comments like “go back to your own country!”. Here is another generalization about Peruvians: they prefer to ignore the bad things – and if you point it out, you are a bad guy.
Using Foursquare To Discover Santiago
Since I bought my iPhone 4 back in December, I have been playing around with Foursquare. Since I haven’t had a 3G plan for my phone yet, it has just been when I was at places with WiFi, usually Starbucks or similar places. However in Lima, I mostly just used it to check-in and play around, share where I was and what I was doing – the general stuff. Now I found some new uses for Foursquare, which makes me love my iPhone even more.
Adios Peru – Hola Chile!
Almost 1 year ago, I took a crazy decision while travelling through Lima about living in Peru. The plan was to take at least a year in Lima, and as it is possible to see from my earlier post, I was quite excited about staying in Lima in the beginning. A few weeks ago I took a decision in the same league, just as sudden and crazy as the last time.
Lock Your Doors! Paranoia in Peru
This is another “fun fact” about Peru; the general paranoia. Maybe there is really something about it, but the Peruvians in general do not trust anyone – besides their own family. The trust in other people simply does not exist; and it makes an evil spiral, because it then is really rare you can trust or count on anyone in Peru. (more…)
Nothing But Clouds On The Sky
“The Cloud” – an expression becoming more and more popular the last couple of years, defining the new ways of using computers. Realizing the other day, that I am moving more and more into the clouds, I thought I would try to summarize my usage of “the cloud” and where I see this going.
Dont drink and vote!
On Sunday the Peruvians will vote for the local mayors of their districts and regions, it its strikes me a bit funny, that not only do they get fined if the don’t vote, but they are also not allowed to drink all weekend. Apparently the government has so little trust in its citizens, that they need several laws to force them into voting. (more…)
Free SEO Tool Review: Check Your Rankings With SEOSupporter
With SEOSupporter you can easily follow your Google rankings, set up custom reports when you fall or rise in the SERP’s and follow your progress from backlinking to PR changes. I find this the easiest way to keep track of my SEO progress with my websites; and it is very handy when you have a bunch of Sniper sites.
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Looking Back at 2009: Being Soldier, Backpacker, Expatriate, Business Owner and Dreamer
This post is about how everything changed for me in 2009, and changed my life 180 degrees once again. Starting 2009 I just wanted to travel for half a year, and then go back to the army – never in my wildest dreams did I plan to stay in South America, let alone Peru.
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Are You a Player?
If you where in Las Vegas, and got two choices: walk away with $1,000 USD or gamble $2,000 in one hand of BlackJack or 1 spin of the Roulette Wheel (Red or Black) – what would you do? This is the big question in ShoeMoney’s latest contest, where he offers a trip to Affiliate Summit in Las Vegas, and this post is my answer on his contest.
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Why You Should Disable Google Web History
Not even a week ago, Google introduced Personalized Search for Everyone in the Google search results. This is a huge deal for most of us Internet Marketers (and Google/AdSense Snipers), who are relying on Google to feed our websites with traffic through the organic search results. In this post I’ll try to summarize what this is, what it means for your rankings and why and how you should disable google web history.
