Market Leverage
May 31, 2008 Site News
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I’ve decided that it is in the best interests of my bank account to try to learn a bit more about affiliate marketing, so I’ve signed up with Market Leverage to see what can be seen.
There are many successful bloggers using Market Leverage as one of their main sources of revenue (see also: John Chow, et al.). I’m hoping to break out with the bucks soon.
I can honestly say that I need to work more on fine-tuning my site to be more specific in regard to advertising. I also took a little time to work on my ‘about’ page and begin writing a tutorial on PayPerPost, which I’m hoping to turn into a Squidoo lens…or maybe just a very good post.
Are there any readers who are using Market Leverage? Have you had any amount of success with them?
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Happy Birthday Carl!
May 29, 2008 Contests
Happy birthday to Carl Ocab, the Kidblogger!
To celebrate, he’s having a contest…and this is what he’s giving away:
- Five packages of Direct Response Templates worth $37 each
Sponsored by Direct Response Templates. - One copy of IM Triggers with IM Urgency 2.0 worth $9.97
Sponsored by IM Triggers. - One WordPress SEO tuneup worth $97
Sponsored by The WordPress Expert. - One spot to Jason Dinner coaching program worth $297
Sponsored by Jason Dinner Coaching. - 10 copies of the “Atomic Blogging” package worth $37 each
Sponsored by Make Money Blogging. - One copy of “Photoshop CS3 For Dummies” worth $17
Sponsored by Peety Passion. - 10 copes of “Direct Linking X” worth $47 each.
Sponsored by Day Job Killer. - Five packages of five PDF reports, two of which have never seen before worth $147 each
Sponsored by Buzz Marketing Expert Dean Hunt. - Five copies of “The Traffic Secret” worth $97 each
Sponsored by The Traffic Secret. - One copy of “Viral Marketing Manuscript” worth $47
Sponsored by Viral Marketing Manuscript. - One membership to “Profit Generator System” worth $50
Sponsored by Profit Generator System. - 12 copies of the “My First Online Product” eBook and videos worth $17 each
Sponsored by My First Online Product. - One copy of the upcoming Web Traffic Orgasm eBook worth $97
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Sponsored by Domaining Manifesto. - One copy of “Copywriting Sweetie Course” worth $77.95
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The grand prize
- One mp3 player with the whole Masters Seminar worth $697
Sponsored by Master’s Seminar.
Nice, eh? Now, go jump in!
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Tags: carl ocab, kidblogger
Bloggerwave: Still Going?
May 27, 2008 Sponsored Posts
You know, sometimes I just have to scratch my head and ask myself what the point is to sticking with a paid-posting company that really doesn’t have much at all to blog about? Well…
For those that may not know, Bloggerwave is a company that helps you make money blogging…at least theoretically. To date, I have only seen two offers (the one from Bloggerwave, about their service, and another that may be on here soon, even though it’s totally unrelated to ANYTHING that I generally talk about). The truth is, I have made a little bit of money with them (due to the fact that you can add multiple blogs and they allow you to take the same offer on each blog). Personally, I like them. They are a bit slow to pay, but they DO pay out. I hope one day business picks up for them.
If you haven’t checked them out, you really should sign up with them, just as a ’standby’ source of an extra ten bucks here and there. It’s worth that, at least.
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Tags: blog, bloggerwave, make money
Live From The Garage!
May 24, 2008 Site News
The yard sale (which I failed to mention previously, because I didn’t know about it until this morning) is well underway, and in fact beginning to slow down (thanks to most of the good stuff being sold early in the morning). I thought it might be fun to compete with the family, to see if I could make more money during the duration of the yard sale with the internet then they could. So far, they have made close to $200, and I’m at a whopping $1.44. Woohoo!
The nearly-famous couch (from which I do all my web work) is also for sale. I argued against it (because I really like the couch), but being the ‘alpha male’ of the house isn’t nearly what it was fifty years ago. In a way, I’m kind of hoping that it doesn’t get sold, but if it does I can always Freecycle my way to a half-decent office chair.
Just a side note for you green-types: EcoQuest International hot topics are available for your browsing pleasure. Or not.
These folding metal chairs are not so cool. But having the garage door open is kind of cool…we can call it free-air blogging. It’s a new revolution in information technology…pfft.
I’ve got a couple things in the works, including at least one review of a new service for making money (I’m going to be testing it for a little bit, so I can give you all a better quality review) and perhaps a tutorial on using dNeero…thanks to a reader’s request.
Leaving comments on blogs is a good way to help influence a blogger’s subject matter. Keep this in mind.
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Tags: garage sale, making money, nooo they be stealin mah bukkit, snowflaking
Always Check Your Receipts!
May 23, 2008 Personal Finance, Rant
The other day, I stopped in a convenience store (Fas-Start, on Hwy 21 in Bryan, TX…just for your information) to pick up some stuff. I payed for it with my debit card, using the ‘credit’ option. I feel that it is more secure that way, because anyone can memorize a 4-digit code, but it’s a whole different thing to successfully forge a signature.
To make a long story short, the total of my purchase was somewhere around $6.50 cents (give or take a few cents). The cashier told me the amount, I gave him my card, signed the ticket, and left.
The next day I signed in to my online checking account, to see what my current balance was. I was a bit surprised to find that the idiot had rounded my purchase up to an even $7.00 and ran it.
Now, that may not seem like a huge amount to have stolen, but for those who are snowflakers, you would understand why it sucks so much: it adds up.
So let’s look at it this way: suppose the thieving scumbags did that to everyone who made a credit purchase (and I assume that they do it quite frequently). Even .50 each time, for only 10 customers…that’s $5.00. They are helping themselves to extra bits of change. MY change. And, since they are dishonest, I have no problem sharing the location of the store in this post, to help my fellow readers and friends keep from having their hard-earned money stolen by lowlife jerks.
The moral of this story? If you feel a bit sickened by stuff like this, you can always try fresh air as a remedy, but I doubt it will help. A better idea is to always check your receipts in the store. I didn’t do this. If there had been a discrepancy, I could have asked them immediately to rectify the situation. Since I did not do this, I’m out of luck. I can guarantee that I won’t be using them again, and I will most certainly tell people not to use them.
Note: I’m not the only one that has had trouble with this store, for the record.
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Tags: bryan, fas-start, lessons, money, Personal Finance, stealing, Sucks, truck stop, tx
