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Another Day, Another $100 Contest!
2007-11-30 11:03:00
Here we go with another way to win $100 to your PayPal account. The Benjamin seems to be something people like to toss around these days in the blogosphere and the more chances to win it, the better!If you like winning prizes, I highly recommend you head over to Contest Blogger. It's a blog all about contests and gives you great chances at all sorts of prizes. You can subscribe to their RSS feed here.Contest Blogger will be delivering $100 PayPal to one lucky winner on this coming Monday. Today's the last chance to enter. In order to qualify you need to give a link back to the Making Sales Making Money homepage using the anchor text: home based business opportunities and the Contest Blogger homepage using the anchor text sweepstakes. Very easy way to qualify for a chance at $100, but do so today!Refer back to 3 other ways to win $100 online here. Who said moneymaking online is tough?Win $100 from Writer's Manifesto!How to Win $100 Part 2How to Win $100 Part 3
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Save on Tech with TechBargains.com
2007-11-30 06:30:00
The Monetizer is always searching for good deals on tech gadgets and computer gear. A website called techbargain.com seems to make that search much easier. Tech bargain.com provides you with ways to find "the best deals in tech" including bargain news and exclusive deals . The site is easy to navigate and provides a nice search box which lets you query either eBay or the TechBargains site or just search "for lowest price". Scanning through the main site listings today revealed a nice list of current deals including memory cards, cell phones, hard drives, ipods, Nintendo Wii's and other assorted computer goodies. There were even deals displaying for Reebok shoes and plane tickets, so it's not limited to tech deals alone. You can check out their cheap ipods listings or search for a cheap digital camera for an example of the deals they offer.Techbargain.com also offers you coupons/rebates, a comprehensive database of products, and product reviews. There's also RSS feeds, so yo...
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My 1st Contest Win & Lady Bloggers
2007-11-28 21:01:00
Even though the Cow spelt my name wrong, I'm still a winner of John Cow's RSS Ad contest. 10 winners were selected, including THE MONETIZER, and they will each receive an ad placed in the Cow's RSS feed. Pretty sweet deal. Check out the official announcement over at Cow's blog.Monetizer also spent a lot of credits over at EntreCard today to advertise on the Cow blog as soon as it opened up. As mentioned in the previous entry, you really have to keep an eye out on that site for good opportunities. I read on another post that John Chow (not Cow) has been rejecting people. But then again Mr. Chow has stated many a time that he is evil in his practices. EntreCard does seem a bit like high school at times where people reject or approve blogs. Can't we all get along in the blogosphere? It's all good though. I may also try for Joel Comm (Mr. Adsense)'s blog site as he seems to get a steady amount of traffic over there.I wanted to also give a shout to a few female bloggers ...
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5 Tips for Advertising with Entrecard
2007-11-28 14:25:00
Back to the moneymaking and marketing/advertising! Several posts ago, before all the contest announcements and write-ups, The Monetizer discussed the new online business card, EntreCard . If you're a blogger and haven't signed up yet for this free widget service, you really should. It can bring a newer blog with low traffic and readers more visits. It won't quite be like getting Dugg, but if you play your EntreCard right, it can bring some advantages. The best advantage is you are getting free ad space on blogs that normally charge hundreds of dollars for it. So why would you not want that deal?Here's 5 tips for how to best advertise using EntreCard.1 - Build and save your credits - To get the credits, drop your card off on other blogs. You can do this 1x per day on a blog, and earn 1 credit every time you drop your card off. Other bloggers will start to drop their card off for you, giving you 1 credit each time they do. If you do this enough, your ad price (in credits) g...
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iPod Touch Giveaway
2007-11-28 00:57:00
The iPod Touch pictured here is one sweet piece of technology, and it seems blogs are just giving them away these days. Monetizer managed to find us a contest over at this new mixed drink recipe site called "Mixed Drink World". These guys offer a cool site about you guessed it, mixed drinks and even how to make your own cocktail recipes. Not only that but they have decided to give away 1 iPod Touch to a lucky winner by November 30th, just for blogging about their contest. Doesn't get much easier than this.. Head over to the win a new IPOD Touch blog contest and check it out if you want a shot at one cool piece of technology. I'm thinking I made the right decision to sell my 30 gig today, because through positive karma and this contest, the iPod will come back to me.
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How to Win $100 Part 3
2007-11-27 13:49:00
Ok, the Monetizer promises no more $100 contests (for now). This is part 3 of my "in-depth" series with yet another way for your to win $100 to your PayPal. I think either myself or one of my readers deserves the prize. This contest is named the "$100 Linkback Contest!" and it's sponsored by KingNomar.com.The contest is being run by King Nomar (not the baseball player), an online entrepreneur like many of us just looking for ways to make money online via an internet business venture. His blog deals with the topics of SEO, blogging and moneymaking among other random musings. The contest is to generate buzz for his webmaster forum which is a growing webmaster community Nomar has created. To enter you simply need to give him a backlink in a post about the contest and then contact Nomar to let him know you did so. Nomar runs a cool site all about . Monetizer already missed the early entry prize of $5, but the $100 is still available. The $100 Linkback contest ends in a few da...
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How to Win $100 Part 2
2007-11-27 13:21:00
In part 1 of this series (the previous post) the Monetizer showed you one way to win a cool, crisp $100. Here's yet another way to score that hundred dollar bill (straight to PayPal) with a contest sponsored by 134u.com called the "My Lucky Number 13 first Contest".The contest is being held to celebrate the 2 month anniversary/birthday of the "My Lucky Number 13" personal blog site. The blog is written by Diana Bajenaru who describes herself as a workaholic and has her own small company. She's also dabbled in internet work, has built websites and a B2B portal and is constantly learning about SEO, SEM and programming. Her blog provides some great tips on the aforementioned topics as well as blogging and moneymaking. And now her blog provides you a simple way to win $100. Writing a 100 word blog post (with 2 backlinks) about the contest will get you 2 entries, while subscribing to the RSS gets you 1 entry and subscribing by email gets you 2 more. The contest runs until Decem...
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Win $100 from Writers Manifesto!
2007-11-26 11:15:00
In blogging, there's no real rule for how or what you write. That's the beauty of it, you jot down your thoughts in the form you want and publish to the world. Better writing skills can never hurt though and can actually help you make money online through freelancing or paid article services. The Writers Manifesto is a blog written by Monika Mundell all about how you can be a much better writer. Monika has been working on going from employee to financial freedom through freelance writing, internet marketing and entrepreneurial endeavors.Writers Manifesto blog offers you a wealth of creative and well presented info on improving your writing skills as well as making money and marketing yourself or your writing. Monika presents her content with a great positive attitude as she chronicles her journeys in writing and making a steady income online. There is a quick start guide to earning money online through article writing which offers some great tips as well as a good list of mo...
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Share the Blog Love with RSSHugger
2007-11-25 23:30:00
RSSHugger is yet another good free way to bring your blog site some much needed traffic. It's created by Collin LaHay an experienced entrepreneur, search engine optimizer, and internet marketer. Colin set this site up in the interest of getting many bloggers to submit their RSS Feeds to the site and in the interest of readers discovering new blogs that interest them. It's free to join and have your blog listed on, as long as you write up a blog entry discussing RSSHugger in order to spread the word. There's also a paid version for $20 in which you don't have to do a post like this (but why not save yourself the money?). Once your post is approved and your blog has been reviewed by RSSHugger, it is accepted into the listings. There's a Top 100 Blog s list on the site and your blog should be included on that list within a month of submission to the site. Similar to StumbleUpon there's also a "Random Blog" choice on the menu, which gives a random blog that just might pique ...
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Traffic Analytics: 5 Ways to Get Visits
2007-11-25 16:27:00
Previously The Monetizer gave you "10 Free Ways to Increase Blog Traffic ". I decided to check out the Google Analytic's traffic sources to see which recent initiatives are working best for The Monetizer blog. I believe most bloggers and especially rookies in the blog field can start implementing the following things to start getting visitors.Here's what I'd recommend to get easy blog traffic (in this order): BloggingZoom - I gotta hand it to Courtney Tuttle and his group for building this for the blogging community. It's the Digg for Bloggers and if you put a catchy and good blog article on there for "zooming" by others it can bring you some decent traffic. It's free to join and submit your content to. Be active on the site and Zoom others while submitting your own blog posts. One thing to realize is that while you can submit articles from all blog niches, it seems certain niches perform better than others for moving up the rankings (especially SEO, blogging and make m...
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Myspace to Facebook Migration
2007-11-24 06:11:00
Monetizer had built up a rather sizable Myspace profile for another blog he authors. In doing so the traffic benefits, networking and pimp-ability of a Myspace profile were really helpful in building a good deal of traffic, PageRank and RSS subscribers on a well-performing monetized blog. However, Myspace seems to get stricter and stricter as time goes by. That dude Tom who wears the same white T-Shirt repeatedly doesn't seem to realize one important thing:"The members of your website are the ones providing you with all the pages and traffic."Now granted Myspace is a free site where you can set up a profile as some internet real estate. Some people even sell their profiles which have thousands of friends. But for some reason Tom and the "powers that be" of Myspace don't like people using links on their pages or in bulletins these days. They instituted a "mslinks" that transforms your links into these, sending clickers to where else? Myspace. Links will work on your persona...
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Drop it Like it's Hot with EntreCard!
2007-11-23 06:34:00
"Drop Yours" is the motto for EntreCard , the new blogging business card endeavor launched by Graham Langdom. Graham's also responsible for the Million Dollar Wiki, which has sold about 1,050 pages. Now he brings this new idea to the blogosphere, which allows you to exchange your business card with other bloggers, build credits, charge people to advertise on your site and more. You earn credits by dropping off your EntreCard on participating blogs, or receiving cards on your own. The more cards you receive per day, the higher the "credit cost" to advertise on your blog.The EntreCard website offers a very well done tutorial/informational video right on the front page which tells you all about how to use the site. It has a very futuristic feel to its presentation which is even cooler. It reminded me a bit of the hit Schwarzenegger movie "Total Recall" to be honest with you. Once you sign up, you can upload your 125x125 logo for your blog/business card. You put in your blog URL...

A Money Saving Thanksgiving
2007-11-22 15:27:00
No, no I'm far from a John Chow hater. In fact I'm a fan of Chow who loves to show pictures of the food he eats on his blog. I think that gives it a nice deviation from the norm. However while he likes $70 hamburgers, sometimes you have to live below your means in the interest of building your wealth. So here's a picture of a Thanksgiving meal that can be had for just $1 on sale! Complete with Turkey, gravy, stuffing, peas and mashed potatoes. For a Google Adsense check you could give out 100 Turkey dinners at your place and turn it into a soup kitchen!Now the point of this post is not to mock the less fortunate or John Chow. It's not a PayPerPost for Banquet microwave meals either :) Just to keep with the theme that you can always save money if needed. The Monetizer wishes a happy Thanksgiving to you and yours, and we'll all resume the moneymaking soon after we have recovered from the Triptofan nap attack!(Note: These dinners weren't part of the recent recall. Con Ag...
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Puzzled over PayPerPost
2007-11-21 11:55:00
Since joining PayPerPost I've done about 3 sponsored posts here on the Monetizer blog. On Tuesday, they sent a nice note to Monetizer that a particular post just needed two linked text items inserted and then to resubmit. I did this promptly. But today I received the following message from the site:"Hello, Thanks for submitting your post to us for review. Unfortunately, we?re going to have to reject this one as it appears you have back to back PayPerPost posts, [How I Bought $76 of Gas with PayPaltitle] & [Use Clever Tactics but Keep Your Rep Up]. As mentioned in the Terms of Service, ?PayPerPost posts may not appear consecutively on your blog. Because you do have back to back PPP posts, we apologize you will not be able to resubmit this one for review. Terms of Service, ?each PayPerPost post must be immediately preceded and immediately followed by at least one non-sponsored, original content post?. Because you have back to back sponsored posts, we do apologize that you will no...
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Win $400 of SEO for your Blog or Site!
2007-11-20 08:28:00
SEO is one thing the Monetizer is far from an expert in, but I know a thing or two about what it takes. It's a constant learning process with the various tools, tricks and techniques to get your site optimized so the search engines will pick your entries up and bring them to more people's attention. Well wouldn't it be great to get $400 worth of SEO for your blog free of charge? Well now you can, thanks to ContestBlog ger.com and Freezing Hot, a pro SEO company. The Contest Blogger site brings you the chance to win the following, courtesty of Freezing Hot: Freezing Hot, an Internet marketing company specializing in small business seo and ppc management, is running a contest and giving away a search engine optimization package worth $400 to the winner. Check out the contest on their internet marketing blog and subscribe to the RSS feed. And be sure to check out Contest Blogger, the number one source for prizes and free samples.Included in the $400 prize are the follow...
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How to Set Up Business with IncParadise.com
2007-11-19 07:32:00
Many individuals including bloggers and online entrepreneurs, may decide that it's time to turn their trade into a full-time business venture. Starting a business can seem quite overwhelming and complex, but there are online resources to help. An online resource is IncParadise.com, a site which will help you with several of the essential items you need to maintain and operate a business.One way incparadise will help is by providing you with free forms such as Pre-incorporation agreement, establishment of your company's bylaws, or minutes for shareholder meetings. Many novice business owners overlook the fact that regular shareholder meetings are essential to having a business, even if you are the only employee. The IRS can conduct an audit of your business and will require these documents. IncParadise.com will prepare company minutes for you at a charge of $20-$25. IncParadise will also provide you a TAX ID for your business at a charge of $25, and offers corporate kits at...
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The Latest in Moneymaking News
2007-11-16 10:24:00
A few things worth noting in the Make Money Online blogosphere. Some may be news to you, others you may have seen floating around already. First up, there is Entrecard, which is a new online initiative launched by Graham Langdon (creator of the Million Dollar Wiki). In a nutshell, this is what Entrecard is:"Entrecard is your business card 2.0. It's a 125x125 image which represents you and your blog. Its part advertisement, part business card. It comes with a widget you place on your blog, so that others can leave their Entrecard for you. You can also use Entrecard to promote your blog and launch free advertising campaigns."The other big news this past week was that Google is changing how they pay for clicks. Google used to have it where a website viewer could click anywhere within the ad block and you the publisher would be paid. They now have switched it to website viewers must click on the ad title or URL link. This may not be the same for all size formats, but it could impa...
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How I Bought $76 of Gas with PayPal
2007-11-15 22:32:00
A funny thing happened at the gas station the other night. Monetizer went to use the trusty PayPal debit/credit card after making a $120 sale on eBay. So there's over $120 in the PayPal account. Gas is not cheap and Monetizer decided to get just $4 worth to get around town for the next day until more money came in. Chose "debit" at the pump and got the whole gallon :) Afterwards, the plan was to go withdraw $120 and deposit it into the real checking account. Well lo and behold, the bank would not release that $120 from the PayPal debit card from the ATM!Monetizer tried a second bank, since it was after 1 A.M. The second bank was also refusing the requests. Finally, the Monetizer headed back home and checked out what was going on online with the PayPal. Well it turns out, PayPal had put a hold on $76 for the gas station transaction of just $4! Frustrated, Monetizer searched the net and found an eBay forum where another guy had the same problem with a $30 transaction for...
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Save Money on Holiday Shopping - CouponChief
2007-11-14 19:44:00
According to the calendar today, there's approximately 40 shopping days until Christmas day hits us. Even less shopping days if you, your friends or family celebrate any other upcoming holiday. Many of us, the Monetizer included, like to wait until the last minute to buy our gifts for others. Probably the most popular way to get ahead and avoid mall crowds is by using online shopping to make your gift purchases. One way to save a good bit of money while doing your online holiday shopping is through the use of the CouponChief site.CouponChief.com is a wholly owned subsidiary of Coupon Chief, Inc. Their main goal is to provide a one stop coupon deal and discount resource for visitors to their website. They also have a strong focus on customer support and providing up to date coupon codes and promotional deals and discounts to you.CouponChief provides you with a great variety of online shopping coupons to help save some money at many top retailers online. Examples of retailers ...
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Use Clever Tactics but Keep Your Rep Up
2007-11-14 00:41:00
All it takes is a little creativity to boost your blog's popularity or traffic levels. Using a contest, a catchy blog entry or something that hasn't been seen before online can usually give your blog an increased interest level. It's something to consider implementing, but always use tactics very carefully. For example, there was the "Great RSS Battle" between Shoemoney and John Chow. While it was a friendly battle between the two top bloggers, it also benefited them both quite a bit. They gained a LOT more subscribers overall no matter who the winner was. The Monetizer was already subscribed to both of them, so it was a no contest here. But the point is, they were able to use a contest amongst them to really stir things up with friendly competition. You can do that with your own blog, depending on the subject matter. For example, if you blog about the NFL or another sport, why not have a friendly 'Pick Em'" contest against a fellow blogger. Each of you would of co...
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Monetizer Makes Money with PayPerPost!
2007-11-13 00:37:00
Good news as the Monetizer has officially been approved for payperpost after signing up about a week ago. The main reason I recommend this site is because it's a great opportunity to add another income source to your blog. With PayPerPost you can choose payed blogging opportunities to review and write about various services, sites and products. Once you sign up and have your blog approved, you will be able to log-in and check their bulletin board for any open opportunities to you. These can range in payment from $5 up to $200 or so! Some of the top bloggers featured on the PayPerPost home page have made as much as $18,000 with the program. You may consider adding this to your income sources as well, as it will provide you with new things to write about, all while getting paid! Please keep in mind some general guidelines if you plan to sign up for PayPerPost. First, you will want to have your blog up and running for a good three months. Also, it's a good idea to have two ...
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4 Motivational Lessons from Michael Jordan
2007-11-12 03:38:00
Time for some Motivation . The Monetizer was reviewing a favorite DVD recently, "Michael Jordan to the MAX". The DVD, which was meant to be watched on IMAX screens, chronicles the success of legendary NBA player, Michael Jordan . Most importantly it looks at his failures and struggles, such as not making the basketball team in High school, losing his father, and his later attempts to play baseball. It shows how these struggles defined him though and made him even better at what he was trying to accomplish in life. This DVD holds some serious messages that can really help you in your online success or life success in general. 1) Turn your weaknesses into strengths - Jordan was criticized early in his NBA career as a poor shooter and poor defender. He worked tirelessly and turned these into major strengths. MJ actually became one of the best defenders in the league, and as many of us know he's one great shooter, hitting a lot of game winning shots. Look at the things you don...
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Make Money on eBay with Terapeak
2007-11-09 22:25:00
The following is a paid review for Terapeak.com, which provides free eBay research data. With the holidays approaching fast, everyone needs quick ways to get some extra cash. One of the best ways to build up some extra spending money is via the use of eBay to sell old items and collectibles you might not be using anymore. Or selling items you find at garage sales and yard sales.Terapeak is a website offering free research data to help make the most of your Ebay sales. According to the company website, they are established as the leader for Ebay research and the only company to focus exclusively on it. The site even includes video and written testimonials from satisfied customers. The videos seemed to come from a busy convention of some sort, making some of them inaudible. However, the fact that this is a free tool to help you make money with eBay can't be overlooked.Here's the free services you'll get with Terapeak:- Find the best time of day, day of week, or month for ...
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Enter this Crucial Contest!
2007-11-09 03:20:00
Crucialwebhost.com is really in the holiday gift giving mood. They are running a "$4,000 Crucial Contest " over on their website and have some pretty nice gifts to give away. There will be six winners in the contest and here's the cool prizes you can try for:- Xbox 360 Elite + Assassin?s Creed game- A new logo design, courtesy of David Airey- 5 years of our Split-Shared hosting, a $600 value- Custom Wordpress theme for your blog- $100 Adwords Campaign- Website Critique along with 12 months of hostingAn Xbox 360 would be a nice early Christmas gift! How to enter is explained on their site's "$4,000 Crucial Contest" post. Basically you can increase your chances by signing up for their RSS or Email subscriber form, blogging about the contest (like this), and signing up for various programs or hosting. The prizes are too cool to pass up!According to Crucial, the deadline for entries is Wednesday, December 5, 2007, and the winners will be announced there on Monday, December 10, 200...
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October 07: Minor Income Report
2007-11-07 21:59:00
Yes folks, there is money to be made online. Monetizer wanted to let you in on some of the extra "minor income" (non-Adsense) made during October 2007. This income report comes as the result of a previous post, "Sites that Haven't Payed Monetizer But Will". The Monetizer signs into various accounts to check on things regularly and was pleasantly surprised to see the Payout threshold was surpassed on Squidoo! The following message was nicely displayed on the lensmaster dashboard:Squidoo - $18.32 earned (over a few months)"YOUR ROYALTIES (09/01/2007 to 09/30/2007)Your previous balance + previous Refer-A-Friend bonuses = $5.04Your new lens earnings this period = $13.28Total earnings = $18.32!So, here's how you're spending your $18.32...$18.32 will be sent to you via PayPal within a day or two (you reached your Cash Payout Threshold, congrats!)."Not even 15 minutes after seeing this, Monetizer received an email saying Squidoo had just payed out to PayPal:"Note: Zippideedooda, zi...
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10 Free Ways to Get Blog Traffic
2007-11-07 18:30:00
Getting traffic to your blog is always a tough process, however with the right initiatives it's highly possible. It's also possible to do it for free, using the right strategies. Here are 10 ways The Monetizer has found that are great for bringing traffic to your website or blog. Try to put these into practice for your own blog promotional plan and see if you might increase your traffic and subscriber base.1) Join Blog Catalog.com - As well as MyBlogLog and BlogTopList. However if you were to choose just 1 of these 3, go with BlogCatalog. Submit your blog info on the site and make sure it gets approved and displays on your profile before you start adding friends. You want your blog and RSS feed to be appearing on your profile before you start to get superbusy making friends. Once you're set up, you can add friend after friend on a daily basis, and it will bring people through (other bloggers mostly) to check out your blogs (using simple clicks on their Add Friend button). ...
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Weigh Your Moneymaking Options
2007-11-06 06:41:00
In the world of online moneymaking, the Monetizer has learned a very valuable lesson we all should heed: "if it doesn't seem worth the money being made, then forget it". Case in point would be paid survey sites and those paid blogging sites. Both are nice opportunities to get a "bit" of extra money, but let's be realistic, if a site asks you to blog about a dry topic you just can't get a feel for, is it worth $10 or $20? Also, if a survey is taking you over 30 minutes to do and paying under a dollar, is it worth it? Most likely not. In either case you might be better off working a half hour extra at a real job :)The best sources of online income seem to be the one everyone loves, passive income. The type where you've set up a site, it gets search engine love and visits keep on coming. Affiliate marketing and sales would rank as numero uno for this, where you build sites designed just to promote a product and receive a percent commission of its sale. Other examples of som...
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Sites that Haven't Payed the Monetizer, But Will
2007-11-05 15:13:00
This isn't a slam against any of the following moneymaker programs and it's not a "break their kneecaps" type threat by the Monetizer either. In fact it's more of a testimony to the fact that there's other programs and ways you can use to make money online besides big old Google Adsense . In a previous post Monetizer mentioned online programs that have payed out, including Adsense which is a steady earner. Even though Adsense is tried and true, there exists other programs that tend to bring in some extra loot, and probably work well if you set them up and tweak them right. Here's 4 more online moneymakers where Monetizer hasn't been payed, but will because there's a threshold to be met. Each item will include the Anticipated Time for Payment or "ATP".1) Auction Ads - Monetizer actually likes this program and believes it could do well if used with the right niches. In fact, here's a few ideas. Video game blog/sites or technology sites will probably do very well with t...
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A Youthful Attitude = Moneymaking?
2007-11-04 00:00:00
How many times have you seen those lemonade stands as you're driving down a backroad on a hot, sunny day? Perhaps you even stopped out of admiration for the kid's entrepreneurial spirit and spent a buck or two just to make them feel richer (or you really were thirsty). Maybe you even had your own stand when you were a kid and made a few bucks and felt like King of the World from it. Or maybe you had other business ventures as a kid such as snow shoveling or mowing your neighbors' lawns. The Monetizer recalls having his parents buy candy in bulk from those wholesale warehouse places and then selling it to sweet-tooth kids on the school bus. I was making money, based on the resale and the fact I never bought the candy in the first place :) It's that sort of young, entrepreneurial mindset that can really take your places though. Now how about a kid who earned $20 an hour from a lemonade stand? Yes it's true, Tyler Dikman was able to do that, and now he runs a few multi-...
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Blogging Zoom - Explode Your Blog Traffic!
2007-11-03 00:03:00
One thing the Monetizer is always looking for is free and effective ways to promote blogs which in turn will help to generate more traffic, readers and subscribers. Thanks to Courtney Tuttle and crew, a new site has been unveiled that will help you do that, known as Blog ging Zoom.So what is Blogging Zoom? It's a social media/bookmarking site like Digg.com, but its better because it's built just for us bloggers. In fact, the only members allowed to join and use Blogging Zoom are blog owners. It's primarily aimed at helping bloggers get noticed so they don't have to fight with the big social media products such as Digg.com to get that much needed attention. You can submit your blog entries much like you do to other social sites, and receive "Zooms" rather than "Diggs". However, Zooms are coming from fellow bloggers.Some of the great advantages you get with Blogging Zoom:- You won't be penalized for submitting your own content, meaning you can submit your best blog entries t...
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