Making Money Online

An Alternative E-Commerce Shopping Cart Solution: E-Junkie?

May 14, 2007 eCommerce

While I’ve already begun to set up my e-commerce website (not even close to being complete, BTW) using OSCommerce, I’m still not 100% convinced that I’ve made the right decision. One of my ecommerce mentors Dave Pitlyuk (he doesn’t even know it yet) has suggested that I use ZenCart instead, but that has made the [...]

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Selected Useful Reads from the Problogger Group Writing Project (Filtered for your reading pleasure)

May 13, 2007 Blogging

It is hard to go very far without running into a site with entries in Darren Rowse’s latest group writing project; it was a huge hit with close to 900 entries. While it is great that people are linking to one another from this thing, it seems that many involved in the project are simply [...]

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The Proliferation of Blogs About Nothing aka The Vicious Cycle of Blogs About Making Money Online

May 6, 2007 Blogging

We’ve all seen them . . . new blogs with ads at every turn, with nothing to say other then “I make money online” and “I blog about my blog.” Typically, when I come across a site like this I leave and do not return. I realize that these sites offer nothing useful to me [...]

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Affiliate Sales Model or Guaranteed Ad Purchase: Which to Choose?

May 3, 2007 Advertising

I was approached this afternoon by someone who was interested in promoting their real estate-related program to my site’s users. This advertiser wanted me to promote an online webinar and was willing to give me a commission for any sale made from people who went through the seminar and purchased their service. While the commission [...]

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Affiliate Link Cloaking: Free Tools, Tutorials & Discussions

May 1, 2007 Affiliate Marketing

Every heard of affiliate link cloaking? It is basically the practice of hiding affiliate links so your users don’t bypass them, and deprive you of a commission. Some people will argue that affiliate link cloaking is deceptive or unethical, but I’m still unconvinced either way. I thought it would be useful to dedicate a post [...]

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Don’t Just Teach Your Friends to Make Money Online. Partner with Them!

April 16, 2007 Blogging

I recently read a webmaster forum post from a guy whose friends keep asking him to teach them how to make money online. There are a few approaches to take in this situation: Three Approaches to Dealing With a Friend Who Wants Free Advice on Making Money Online Tell him to piss off and figure [...]

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9 Steps To Growing Your Business Using Forum Marketing

April 10, 2007 Advertising

9 Steps To Successfully Market to a Forum Community In a previous post The Direct and Indirect Approaches to Forum Marketing we talked about the two approaches to forum marketing. I’d like to share the 9 steps you will want to follow to forum marketing success; this is basically a primer on indirect forum marketing [...]

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The Two Models of Online Advertising & How to Deal with Potential Advertisers

April 8, 2007 Ad Networks

You can apply one of only two models when it comes to dealing with online advertisers. Establish a high set of standards and eliminate anyone who does not fall in that set. Keep your standards lax and let pretty much anyone advertise with you. MODEL 1: Keep High Standards Those people who use the first [...]

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Text Link Ads Needs to Make a Change

November 28, 2006 Ad Networks

I’ve been using Text Link Ads (aff.) for some time now, and I have to say that I’ve been extremely happy with the service. I do have some suggestions, though. As it stands, publishers can choose to approve individual advertisers on their site through the network. The problem I have is that there is no [...]