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If you dabble in Photoshop and you're anything like me, then you'll always be on the lookout for some cool Photoshop brushes and gradients. Being a bit of a tight ass, my favorite Photoshop brushes are the free ones. I'm sure I'm not the only one that likes free stuff so here are a few links to Photoshop brush downloads that I've found useful and/or cool. Enjoy!

Download the grunge corners and edges photoshop brush pack
Download the Retro Gradients Pack for Photoshop
Download the Dark Resources photoshop brushes
Download a variety of photoshop brushes including a bunch that are useful for manga inspired stuff
Download splatter brushes for photoshop
Download Smashing Magazine Grunge Photoshop Brushes

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I believe this offer is only available for Australian residents, and with Melbourne Cup Day just around the corner there may be a few of you out there that would find this useful.

Betfair are currently offering a free $50 bet for anyone the makes a deposit and bets at least $50. In other words you bet $50, and they'll give you $50.

All the details are here: FREE $50 Bet at Betfair

I have close to zero interest in horse racing so don't bother asking me for tips!

If that doesn't interest you would you prefer 25 free MP3's instead?

Go check out eMusic.

PLEASE NOTE THAT SINCE I ORIGINALLY POSTED THIS FREEBIES4WEBMASTERS SEEM TO HAVE CHANGED. THEY DO NOT APPEAR TO BE ACCEPTING NEW PUBLISHERS AND I AM STARTING TO READ REPORTS OF PEOPLE NO LONGER RECEIVING PAYMENT.

Since I posted about Freebies for Webmasters a month ago, I've had a few people ask if they actually pay, which is a fair question to ask of any newly discovered program.

I guess I felt that it was my civic duty to give Freebies4Webmasters a shot, and with that said I am more than happy to report that Freebies4Webmasters do pay!

For all the Nervous Nelly's out there, here's an edited screen grab of my PayPal account showing the payments I've received from Freebies4Webmasters to date.

So there you go, evidence that C.S.I Miami would be only too happy to stand behind.

Go join up Freebies4Webmasters now and start making easy cash!

In case you don't know what Freebies4Webmasters is all about, here's a quick recap. Freebies4Webmasters.com will pay you £5 per month (which is almost $11 AUD depending on the exchange rate) via paypal for displaying a banner ad on three individual pages on your site. Here's the description from their website.

You will receive your free £10 payment for joining when your first banner is live on more than three pages of your site. After that you will receive monthly £5 payments by email if the banners are still on your site.

You can choose the pages you want to have the banners displayed on, with the only criteria being that you need to have the banner on at least three separate pages in order to get paid. Whack them up on your 'about' page, your 'contact us' page, where ever. As long as they are up, you'll get paid.

I was browsing through MarketLeverage today and saw this offer that people from the US might be interested in.

Do you want the chance to win a $100 American Express gift voucher?

Well if you're a resident of the US, all you need to do is click on the banner below, follow the simple instructions, and you're in the draw.

It's all pretty simple really.

Damn I hate having to insert this sentence in just so the banner doesn't overlap with that Adsense block that sits right here.

I've recently discovered ZIP submit (and email submit) offers, and have come to the conclusion that that are beautiful money making things.

What is a ZIP submit offer?

From an affiliate marketers point of view, a "ZIP submit" offer, is a Cost-Per-Action (CPA) program in which the affiliate marketer earns a set fee anytime a user enters their ZIP code and submits it. It doesn't need to be anymore complicated than that. The user visits the site, enters their ZIP code, hits submit, and the affiliate (you) makes a set fee (usually between $1-$3) per submission.
The companies that pay for this to happen usually do so on the basis that it will generate them leads etc. The affiliate marketers promote these offers because they are usually a good way to make a bit of extra coin.

CliffNotes version, a user makes five keystrokes and hits submit and the publisher makes some money.

Why do ZIP submits work?

People usually comfortable completing a ZIP submit offer as the process does not involve them handing over and real personal information. ZIP submit followed the "Email Submit", which relied upon consumers giving up more personally valuable information, that would make them hesitant to complete the form. That is why the ZIP submit is relatively easy to make conversions on in comparison.

MarketLeverage offer a range of ZIP (and email) submits, and they are definitely worth exploring.

Here are a couple of other examples, check them out, and day dream about the potential... I'm sure there are a lot of affiliate marketers out there making a lot of money out of some of these.

PLEASE NOTE THAT SINCE I ORIGINALLY POSTED THIS FREEBIES4WEBMASTERS SEEM TO HAVE CHANGED. THEY DO NOT APPEAR TO BE ACCEPTING NEW PUBLISHERS AND I AM STARTING TO READ REPORTS OF PEOPLE NO LONGER RECEIVING PAYMENT.

When it rains it pours, so here's an interesting way to make a little extra cash. Freebies4Webmasters.com will pay you £5 per month (which is almost $11 AUD) via paypal for displaying a banner ad on three individual pages on your site.

You will receive your free £10 payment for joining when your first banner is live on more than three pages of your site. After that you will receive monthly £5 payments by email if the banners are still on your site.

You can choose the pages you want to have the banner displayed on, and the only criteria seems to be that you need to have the banner on at least three separate pages in order to get paid. What does this mean? Well, if you're trying to monetize a site, chances are you're not making too much money from you "Contact Us" page or your "Disclosure" page, so now you can whack these banners on those pages and you can start earning around $10 per month, plus the £10 (around $21.50 AUD) sign up bonus.

My recommendation, head on over and jump aboard the gravvy train before it is no longer taking on new passengers.

Go join up Freebies4Webmasters.com now.

Edit: Here's a live example (see below) of the banner ad you are given to display. Basically, so long as I display this banner, plus two others (which are on other older posts), I'll get £5 per month. How easy is that??