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Every blogging wannabe knows that you make money by adding Google Adsense ads to your web pages right?
In theory that’s going to make you great money… and it can.
But the truth is there is a way to earn up to an additional 25% more from your website – without doing ANY extra work on your part – and squeeze extra revenue from every post by adding JUST ONE LINE OF JAVASCRIPT to your website.
Here’s how we do that as customers of IntentClick, the company that enables our In-text links.
You just sign up, grab your personalized code, plug it into the footer of your website and you have created an entirely new income stream that automatically adds text links to keywords in your blog posts.
Why should you consider this…
1) You need to maximize the revenue of your blog. That’s just common sense.
2) Not all PPC Advertising is created “equal”.
Did you know that the text block ads like Google are mainly attractive to unsophisticated readers or people just searching for information? That means that people who actually come to your blog to READ it are less likely to be producing revenue for you. Isn’t it a bit insane to work like a dog to build up READERSHIP when that could actually be reducing your revenues somewhat because the more serious readers aren’t there for the ads?
How do you attempt to resolve that issue? Text links targeted to your blogs content are the type of ads most likely to reach the serious readers are reward your WRITING!
You really need a variety of ads to reach a variety of customers most serious professional bloggers have found.
3) Automated linking must be involved. The script does all the linking… you don’t have to insert a link in the first place or CHANGE the link when the offer expires. Any longstanding blog will have thousands of such links and changing them is impossible unless they auto-update.
4) Guaranteed payouts are essential. “CPA” offers are a shot in the dark usually. They pay when an action is taken, but frankly, you just want to be paid when people click usually. IntentClick offers a GUARANTEED MINIMUM PAYOUT of 7 cents per click plus more for clicks that “convert”. That sounds fair to me!
5) TARGETED offers keep your readers happy. If someone comes to your website because they are interested in having a Better Income or Saving Money, they probably don’t want to see offers about distracting if not insulting products (you likely know what I mean). Because Intent Click only works with qualified blogs focused on people wanting improved income, they make sure your readers see offers that jibe with your site’s themes!
If you want to stop letting money slip through your fingers, consider checking Intent Click for the best payout from every blog post!
We chose IntentClick for our blog… if you’re an income related or money saving blog, you may be leaving money on the table if you don’t investigate this option thoroughly!
Note: Thanks to Intent Click for sponsoring our blog today. We are satisfied customers and you can see their text links on our pages!
Guest post written by my buddy Aldo Mays
Man, I hate having to deal with automated phone systems when I call a business. I just don’t understand for the life of me why anyone would call somewhere and just EXPECT to get on the phone with a robot – the Post Office is the worst about it. So when I set up my small business I made sure that my phone in the office would ring through to my cell phone so I could get calls even when I wasn’t sitting right in front of my desk. I spent a lot of time researching business phone service and I didn’t skimp since I feel like that’s something really important in terms of customer experience. I didn’t want my customers to have a hard time when they were trying to reach me so I think this was a good move right upfront for both me and my business. There are some things you shouldn’t waste time on deciding and I think that picking a good phone company for your business is one of them, to tell you the truth.
Many small businesses are asking if Groupon is “a good deal”.
Well, the answer is possibly!
You have to determine several things first:
1. What the average value of a repeat or lifetime customer is.
2. Whether the customer you obtain from an advertising source would otherwise patronize your business.
3. Whether you have a means for following up on one time customers to make them repeat customers.
4. Whether you can obtain new customers through a given advertising outlet for less than their “lifetime value”
THEN you may be able to rationalize using an advertising resource like Groupon.
Here’s one other thing that you should answer… how will you respond to a surge of business. Can you do so profitably?
Check out this story: Baker Forced to Make 102,000 Cupcakes for Grouponers
In addition to the advertising, she had to pay $20,000 in extra wages to accommodate the surge – an extra cost of nearly $3 per customer.
She charged a 75% discount or $10 and obtained 8500 new customers.
Personally I can see how that would hurt.
But if the store can retain even 10% as ongoing customers who turned a profit… would that be worth it?
Just scan the web and you can find autoblogging sites and formula article built sites… They’re mostly trash. Obviously written to serve the search engine and keyword instead of the human reader. I think they are actually designed to drive you nuts so you look for a link to click.
Is it every possible to automate writing and not produce 110% manure?
Possibly.
But it won’t be cheap.
Here’s how one programmer learned to do Automated Writing.
And here’s a summary of his opinion… automation can write about facts and figures… otherwise human writers need to intervene:
A common, and funny, question I get from journalists is: “when will you automate me out out of a job?” I find the question humorous because built into the question is the assumption that if our software can write the perfect story on a particular topic, then no one else should attempt to write about it. That’s just not going to happen. What’s happening instead is that media companies are using our software to help scale their businesses. Initially, that takes the form of generating stories on topics a media outlet didn’t have the resources to cover. In other cases, it means putting our stories through an editorial process that customizes the content to the specific needs of the publisher. You still need humans for that. There will be less of a need for folks to spend their time writing purely quantitative pieces, but that should be liberating. Now, they can focus on more qualitative, value-added commentary that humans are inherently good at. Quantitative stories can — and probably should — be mostly automated because computers are better at that.
Bottom Line: It’s not as easy as you think. In the end YOU have to add your content to what a computer churns out. It’s that simple.
Related Link: How To Make Money From Writing – Free Tutorial
Should you attend Blog World 2011?
There are good reasons why people who really make money from blogging REFUSE to go…
Here are 11 reasons why one full time blogger WON’T be attending Blog World 2011 this year…
I think you’ll find the reasons actually MAKE SENSE.
If you’re looking for an excuse to hit a resort area… go for it. Some or all of your vacation may be tax deductible if that’s “fun” for you.
But if you think you can go there and learn how to get rich from Blog World 2011, it’s probably not going to happen.
It’s a trade show designed to sell you more stuff and get more of your money while not getting down to the “brass tacks” you’re really wanting about how to make a full time living from blogging.
Again, 11 reasons why one full time blogger WON’T be attending Blog World 2011 this year..
Related Link: How To Make Money From Writing – Free Tutorial
The problem with blogging is coming up with good content on a regular basis.
For that reason, lots of people don’t blog or don’t update their blog on a timely basis… I know I’m guilty of that enough.
But the iPhone has ways to help that you may not have thought of. Even a lowly Android enabled phone might help in this regard!
Here’s an article on how to create an ENTIRE BLOG with just an iPhone!
How? This writer used interviews done on his iPhone.
If you’re a subject expert and you have access to other experts in your field or you’re going to a convention where such experts are traveling in a “pack”, you could get a year’s worth of content in just a few days in some short video interviews.
Here’s the article and how to get started:
5 Tips for Creating Video and Audio Content With Your iPhone
Related Link: How To Make Money From Writing – Free Tutorial
Markus Allen is at it again.
He decided to do a free teleseminar on “How to Make Money From Writing” and it’s definitely worth checking out.
Here’s what you’ll get… first you can listen (without signing up for anything, giving your email, or committing your firstborn child) to the teleseminar.
I like to read stuff so I was impressed by the addition of a lot of notes, websites to check out to illustrate his points, other articles referred to in the teleseminar and also free tutorials to use later.
The “related posts” at the end of this blog post are also well worth re-reading for anyone trying to create valuable backlinks that won’t get trashed by Google for being “artificial”.
So anyway, check out “How to Make Money From Writing”… it’s thought provoking, free, and quite helpful.
I just heard about this today.
There are evidently quite a number of folks planning to switch from the Big Banks to smaller, member owned credit unions on November 5th.
It’s Bank Transfer Day.
The description and goal of Bank Transfer Day is straightforward: If you currently have checking and savings accounts (deposit accounts) with a big bank, the organizers encourage you to remove all of your funds, close your accounts, and place your money in a new deposit account with a not-for-profit credit union. The organizers ask that you do this by November 5. And since November 5 is a Saturday, you should definitely do it before November 5 since many big banks aren’t open on weekends. account with a not-for-profit credit union. The organizers ask that you do this by November 5. And since November 5 is a Saturday, you should definitely do it before November 5 since many big banks aren’t open on weekends.
The organizer, Kristen Christian has said, “I started this because I felt like many of you do. I was tired– tired of the fee increases, tired of not being able to access my money when I need to, tired of them using what little money I have to oppress my brothers & sisters. So I stood up. I’ve been shocked at how many people have stood up alongside me. With each person who RSVPs to this event, my heart swells. Me closing my account all on my lonesome wouldn’t have made a difference to these fat cats. But each of YOU standing up with me… they can’t drown out the noise we’ll make.”
I’m not against this at all… the only problem is that in the things I’ve read about it, I still can’t figure out why they chose November 5th, a Saturday!
Anyway, if you join in… here are some Steps to make Bank Transfer Day go Easily!
Are you using QR codes in your marketing?
They’re quickly replacing the “fine print” you never read anyway and – more than that- are becoming a way to make static posters, business cards, and even web ads interactive.
Smart phone users with QR Code readers are often “addicted” to seeing what pops up when they scan a QR code… that’s YOUR opportunity to give them more information in response to their inquiry.
Here’s an example I saw today (click to see full size):
Even though the QR code looked blurry to me, my QR code scanner picked it right up.
Here’s where it lead to: http://www.amitguptaneedsyou.com/
You can create QR codes for free all day online if you “google” “Free QR Code Generator”… you can have each QR code lead to specific landing pages or perform specific operations.. it’s amazing an pretty much free to make your static images suddenly (potentially) interactive!
With Steve Job’s passing and the release of a new biography about him, issues of technology law are all over the press and the internet these days.
Most work at home folk will simply be reselling products and services from others who presumably have done their own legal due diligence. This post is about those who go on to produce their own actual products… those are the people who will need a technology lawyer!
Just consider some of the recent revelations about Apple’s once cozy relationship with Google. Jobs and Google’s CEO were fast friends with Jobs offering advice about how Google needed to stop having its fingers in so many pies and focus on products/services that they could deliver with superior impact and profits. That’s why Apple makes a “iPhone” and other handset makers squander their efforts over numerous “phones” each with marginal utility.
Google just discontinued “Google Labs” to follow Jobs’ advice. Some would argue they should have followed that advice sooner. As the new biography reveals Jobs wanted to use his fortune and last remaining days to destroy Android, the Google phone operating system. Jobs swore the software took every advance Apple had made and pilfered it and distributed it to the unwashed masses who wanted in on Job’s phone advances.
Did they? Probably.
But ultimately that will be for two teams of competing lawyers to sort out before a judge or judges. As in all cases of this nature, the courts will ultimately decide the issues at stake based on the available evidence and the skill with which they are presented. In the process there will be lots of minutiae to sort through and thousands upon thousands of billable hours on both sides.
Now that Steve Jobs has passed on, Apple has – in my opinion – lost it’s best advocate for their cause. He likely knew the details intimately and had the zeal and money to – at least – command royalties from every “Android” handset to fund the iPhone’s ongoing march to superiority.
When do you need a technology lawyer? Perhaps as soon as you have your first patent but sometimes in advance if you discover your research may be infringing on an existing patent in your field. If you truly are on the verge of a breakthrough, it pays to protect your intellectual property from – as Jobs learned – even your “friends”.
