IZEA – You Do Want To Make Money, Right?
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If you aren't familiar with the name IZEA, you need to pay attention for the next couple of minutes. If you are familiar with IZEA and their resources for blog marketing and making big bucks but aren't using their services, you need to seriously rethink your position and get with the program. The fact is, IZEA's programs are great for helping you make money blogging. After all, that's what you are trying to do, isn't it?
The two main programs offered by IZEA are SocialSpark and PayPerPost. I am a member of both of these services, although I've yet to fully explore SocialSpark. I do know of many folks making pretty good money with it. My area of expertise would have to be PayPerPost.
For those that don't know, PayPerPost is a service that you can sign up for, get your blog approved, and start making money by making your original posts about topics that you can choose from (which are based on your blog rankings, etc.). The great thing is that you can submit multiple blogs (after successfully completing 10 posts) and that will give you more specific control of posts related to your niche. Not only that, if you have a blog with a higher Google Page Rank, you can make more money per post. I believe SocialSpark has the same basic feature, but they tend to be more of a 'social network' for bloggers.
If you haven't joined PayPerPost yet, you should. In fact, I'm going to make this easy. There's an ad in the sidebar for them that will take you directly to the signup page. Also, they have another feature you should know about, called 'Review My Post'. Basically, a new user can use that feature (as seen below) to sign up and get paid to review the post that the link was clicked from...which means you get to select which post you review first!
PayPerPost has been my best money making program so far. I guarantee that if you are a halfway decent blogger and have the motivation to do the job, you will make good money from IZEA's programs.
This is a sponsored post, but I do love IZEA!
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Bloggerwave: Still Going?
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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Is Squidoo a Viable Way to Make Money Online?
For those of you who have no idea what I have done, I decided to check into the Squidoo zoo and see what the buzz was all about. I know Squidoo has been around for a while now, but I'm slow. Really, my laptop is running Windows 98 (and it a Pentium 133), hence the attempts to make some extra dough.
My lens, How I Get Money to Burn, has been online for about 2 days. With only the 20 or so visitors, I have earned affiliates in a couple different programs (just a couple signing up for a few programs can make a difference). Of course, these programs aren't designed to make anyone rich (except their founders), but the fact is that a little money CAN be made with them. The trick? Don't focus on completing thousands of offers. Instead, get tons of affiliates and let them do the work for you. Lazy? Not really, because affiliate marketing, as I am learning, takes quite a bit of effort and critical thinking. But one way to give your marketing a kick in the pants is to start a Squidoo lens about whatever it is you are marketing. Naturally, people will find it, and eventually (if your page is motivational enough), you will start seeing some outclicks to your stuff.
Personally, I like the idea of being able to set up a free mini-site in a matter of minutes on a reliable host where you can make money, not only from what you are marketing to your viewers, but also through royalties based on what Squidoo earns via your lens.
Squidoo seems to be a very good way to help promote your affiliates and/or services, and is definitely a good tool to help boost your revenue.
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How to Make Ten Bucks Starting Now
I just signed up to get information on the 30-Day Challenge. I know, it's designed to help people make their first $10 online with zero investment, which I have already done, but I'm curious to see how their system works.
When it comes to making fast (and relatively easy) money, I like to find new ways to get cash in my pocket. I have a full-time job, but the problem for me (as it is with most people) is that no matter how much I work, it seems like there's never enough left over for little things that just make me smile: a couple of pawn-shop CD's, cheap flash drives, etc.
So here's a couple of my tips on how I have made a (relatively) quick $10 bucks.
1. Recycle - this has been one of my best methods of making fast cash. At work (and many of my previous jobs) people tend to drink sodas that come in aluminum cans. Just pick them up (usually on the top of the trash cans, you can dig if you like but it's not required), put them in a plastic bag, and add them to a 'recycle bin' at your house. At the end of the week (or whatever) sell them for cash, and if it's only a couple of bucks, put it in a change jar. Oh, and don't just stick to aluminum cans, copper and brass are worth considerably more, and easy to get in larger amounts (especially brass). Car batteries have paid up to $5 each in my experience, and I'm sure you can find 2 of them with almost no effort whatsoever.
2. Pick up change - yeah, it's just a penny. Guess what? Five pennies are a nickel, and I'm sure you'd pick up a nickel if you found one. Put change in jar, repeat.
3. Sell something - DVD's, CD's, other miscellaneous junk can be sold either on eBay or Craigslist for fast cash. We are planning a yard sale as we speak.
4. Scavenge - use Craigslist, freecycle, or just ask people for their old junk computers. Here's the kicker - you can usually get older, working (or semi-working) systems for free. Fix them up, install some OS, and sell the whole system (monitor, keyboard, mouse, cpu) for $10-20 bucks. You'd be surprised how fast someone will drop that for an internet-ready machine that you got for free.
Now, $10 bucks might not be a ton of cash, but it's a building block for making more. Using these tips, I have made considerably more than $10 over time, and you can too. Just think, with that cash sitting in the coin jar, you can buy some cheap hosting, a cheap domain name, and start making more money online!
Now get to it!
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