100k Job Blogging From Home

You’d wish you are a Singaporian or Philippino to get the most out of your Olympic gold medal. The following is a list of bonus offered by different countries, feel free to rectify or add to the list (updated August 27, 2008 thanks to readers contribution):

Singapore - $708,800 (SGD 1 million)
Thanks to one of our readers for the information. See the comment.

Philippines - $340,909
Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on Friday raised the Olympic incentive to 15 million pesos (340,909 U.S. dollars) for any Filipino athlete who gets a gold medal in Beijing.

Malaysia - $307,000
Malaysia, which has never won an Olympic gold medal, is offering a bonus of one million ringgit (307,000 dollars) to any athlete who can bring home the top prize from this year’s Beijing Games.

Thailand - $300,000
Thai gold medallist at the Beijing Olympics will be rewarded of 10 million baht (about 300,000 U.S. dollars), runner-up will get a six million baht bonus and bronze medallist four million baht.

Greece - $290,000
and a lifetime civil service job

Iran - $290,000
Iran awards 200.000 euros for a gold,150000 for a silver.100000euro for bronze

UAE - $272,000
Also silver medal winners would be paid just over $200,000 while those winning bronze would get $136,000.

Kazakhstan - $250,000

Italy - $208,000
Italy awards 140.000 euros for a gold, 75.000 for a silver and 45.000 for a bronze

Uzbekistan - $200,000
Also $100,000 for silver medal and $50,000 for bronze medal

China - $131,000 ($51,000 (350,000 yuan) from government & $80,000 from other sources)
Central sports officials in China have not said how high the bonuses they give will be, but the Chinese-language Sports Weekly reported they are likely to hand gold medal winners 350,000 yuan ($51,000) each, plus big payments shared out from sponsors.

Hungary - $123,000 (20mil Ft)

Russia - $100,000
Russian gold medallists at the upcoming Beijing Olympics are to get a bonus of 100,000 dollars (63,700 euros), Russian Olympic supremo Leonid Tiagachov said.

Japan - $100,000

Bulgaria - $76,620 (100,000 leva)
Every Bulgarian athlete who wins a gold medal at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games will receive a 100 000 leva bonus from the Bulgarian state.

Israel - $67,500 (NIS 240,000)
The IOC also announced on Monday that any sportsman who will set a new personal best at Beijing will receive a bonus of NIS 10,000. A winner of a gold medal will be awarded NIS 240,000.

Dominican Republic - $30,000
Winners could also get a car. It is the first time the Dominican government has made such an offer.

USA - $25,000
The USOC gives $25,000 for gold, $15,000 for silver and $10,000 for bronze

Australia - $20,000
AUSTRALIAN Olympians are expected to get a $20,000 government bonus for gold medals at Beijing - less than winners from the USA, Japan, Germany, Israel, Thailand, Malaysia, Greece and Russia.

Canada - $19,000

Inspired by a post on zdiaz.com by zigfred, I feel like to think about what I’m doing on this special day 08/08/2008, supposed to be a lucky day in the mind of billions of Chinese or Chinese originated people.

Apart from daily routine of MyBlogLog, Entrecard and blog posting activities, I’m drafting a game plan(not for Olympic Games though). It’s for making my living online. There will be several point to be included in the plan: what niche do I target(make money online, stock investing, how to information, health or else), what tool do I use(blog, affiliate, ebook, or software), how do I generate traffic to my blogs and web sites.

While I’m reading this, I received an eBook named “Getting past the newbie stage of Internet marketing”. Some wording in the eBook are mostly suitable for the context here, for example:

“Whichever method of making money online you are working, are you optimizing your efforts? For example, if you are an affiliate, are you certain that you know how to pick the products that are most likely to be top sellers? If you are using AdSense, are you doing so in the most effective and profitable manner?”