The best affiliate network in the world is showing that they don’t just care about the big moneymakers. Market Leverage is proving it over and over again with their awesome carepackages to the little guys like us. I came home from a weekend out of town to find a pretty little package with the Market Leverage logo neatly placed on the top. As soon as I saw the logo I was pretty excited. I didn’t expect Market Leverage to send me anything, but they did. There are very few businesses that work hard to keep a personal relationship with their clients, which is why I am so satisified with ML. I have read all over the internet that you shouldn’t stick with just one source of income, or one affiliate network, but I have confidence in Market Leverage, and to me, loyalty is greater than money.

This is the carepackage I got from Market Leverage. A Nike Golfing shirt, a T-Shirt that says “I’m Blogging This”, a nifty Market Leverage hat, and a 2GB USB 2.0 Pen/Flash Drive. Awesome gifts!

This is the Pen! The pic below is the pen unscrewed so you can see the flash drive.

So, I was thinking about giving away the Pen, but I am not really sure how I want to go about it. Feel free to post your suggestions in the comments, or let me know if you even want the pen! I would keep it, but I have plenty of flash drives, and plenty of pens, and I LOVE giving you stuff. So, tell me how I should give away the pen.

Also, if you haven’t checked out Market Leverage, then click here to check it out and JOIN!

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Digg is a very popular tool for keeping yourself updated on current events, and new web creations. While there are plenty of other Social Bookmarking sites, I would like to focus on this one specifically because it is currently the largest, and most popular.

Some of you may not be familiar with what Digg is, and how it works. I will give you a basic rundown of Digg. Being a basic user of Digg doesn’t require anything from you besides typing in the URL, and clicking a few links. Now, if you want to comment, submit your own stories, have a friends list, view your Digg history, you will need to sign up for a free account. Once you have an account, you can do all the things I listed above. You can submit stories to Digg for other people to read and vote on, post comments on other peoples’ stories to tell them how crappy it was, etc.

Digg can bring you a decent amount of traffic if you get your story on the front page. Yes, traffic will come occasionally from just having a mildly popular story up, but the real hits start rolling in when you make it to the front page. To get on the front page, you need to get votes. The first thing everyone should do when they post a story on digg is tell their friends. Give your friends, enemies, acquaintances a link to the story, and tell them to Digg it. The more Diggs the article has, the more Diggs the article can potentially receive. The more Diggs the story receives, the closer to the front it gets, and the more traffic you can get.

I wouldn’t recommend spending your life on Digg, trying to get people to vote and whatnot, but it is certainly not to be ignored.  I personally do not have any results to show you from Digg, not because I don’t want to use it, but because I can’t. I won’t get into that though!

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Congratulations to Simon for winning the iPod shuffle! Simon, you will get an email from me soon for details. I know you said that you aren’t sure about if Amazon supports your country, so we need to figure that out. If you can’t receive the prize through Amazon I will be happy to order it through another website for you if possible. Just let me know if you find one that allows “gift” orders like Amazon.

Congrats to Simon again!

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Well, you may have noticed that I haven’t made any posts for about 4 days now. I just wanted to let you all know that I am still alive (luckily), and will be posting more helpful information on how to get some cash soon. I had a pretty terrible weekend which started on Friday and gradually got worse. Today was the first day I ate anything since Friday night. I have finally decided to not let anything get me down anymore, so expect to see a lot more words from me soon! Sorry for the lack of posts over the last 4 days!

Also, I will be picking the winner of the iPod tonight! Good luck to everyone again!

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I am sure some of you will see this entry as bragging of sorts, but I can assure you that is not my intention.

I have been giving all these tips on how to make money online, how to get traffic to your website or blog, and I haven’t even proven to you that I know what I am talking about. So I decided I would show you a little something I got soley from money making online. Its nothing major, but I guess in a way its a little encouragement for those of you who don’t have faith in the moneymaking powers the internet holds. With a little time, work, and dedication, you will be making money in no time.

This is my motorcycle. I just bought it last week from another student of my college. It is a Kawasaki Ninja 500R.

Sorry about the poor lighting. It was raining when I took this pic, and I didn’t really want to take it outside. I will take a new one and change it in this entry when I can.

Some of you may think the green is ugly, but if you have been reading my blog, you would know its about making money online. I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but money is green

If you keep up with my tips, and even take to heart a few of them here and there, you will be able to make money online as well. There is a good chance you would make more than me! It is an endless learning process, and I am definitely a long way away from a shiney new BMW. Maybe in a few years I will be posting up pictures of one!

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The internet is full of good ways to get traffic to your blog without spending any cash. Entrecard is one of the best methods that I have come across. If you have a blog, I would definitely recommend you check out Entrecard.

Entrecard is a great way to bring traffic to your blog. It is basically a virtual business card. You sign up to Entrecard, and set up an image for your card. Then once you have completed the signup and setup you will be able to get the code to put your entrecard on your blog.

After you put the Entrecard on your blog, people will be able to advertise on your blog using their entrecard. They pay you in Entrecredits. The cost for advertising depends on how many people are in line for it on your blog. The first ad costs 2 Entrecredits, the next costs 4, the next 8, and it doubles for each person after that. Some blogs cost over 4,000 Entrecredits because there is such a long line of advertisers. If you stop getting advertisers for a couple days, your line gets shorter, and the cost goes down.

Selling Advertisements on Entrecard isn’t the only way to earn Entrecredits. You can earn Entrecredits by “Dropping” your card on other blogs. Just go to other blogs with the Entrecard widget, and click “Drop”. You will then receive an Entrecredit for the drop, and so will the person you dropped your card for. Chances are that person will drop one in return. Some blogs will have a “U Drop I Follow” image under their widget. This means that if you drop for them, they will return the favor. Most people will drop a card for you whether they have that image or not though.

Getting Entrecredits isn’t all about the exchange though. In fact, Entrecard actually encourages you to sell Entrecredits for real money! So, you can go around earning a bunch of credits, and just sell them. Or, you can buy credits from other people, and use them to advertise your blog on other bigger blogs.

Here are my Entrecard stats so far (after 4 days of membership):

• 50 cards dropped on me
• 134 credits earned via drops
• 84 cards dropped by me
• 64 credits to advertise on my blog
• 4 credits earned via ads
• 6 ads bought from me
• 57 clicks from entrecard.com to Buck it All

Now, I have probably spent 20 minutes total on dropping cards. Thats not bad at all for 57 unique visits to a newbie to Entrecard.

I have dropped around 84 cards in the past 4 days, and I have received quite a few drops on my card as well. Some bloggers really don’t think that Entrecard is worth the work put into it. They don’t feel that the traffic brought from it is significant enough for what you put into it. Well, it takes about 2 seconds to drop a card, so I feel that its worth it. Honestly, I feel that any traffic is worthwhile, especially for a new blog.

I will keep  you updated on my experience with Entrecard.

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As you can probably tell from the advertisement to your right, I have recently signed up on the affiliate website known as Market Leverage. I submitted my application last night, and received a call today at around 11AM. I was quite impressed to have gotten a call from them so soon, as most networks take a few days, or even weeks. Market Leverage is definitely on top of the game, thats for sure.

The affiliate manager that was assigned to me was also very impressive. A very polite, and respectable person. He seems pretty easy going as well, which makes it easy for a skiddish person like myself to talk to him and ask him questions. He too is an internet entrepreneur, so we have similar interests. I had a few questions for him, and he answered them in no time. Market Leverage is unique, because their affiliate managers not only have contact phone numbers, and emails, but an AOL Instant Messaging account as well! I can contact my manager pretty much whenever I want. Market Leverage knows how to hire. I wonder if all the managers are as good as mine. Maybe if you use them, you could give me a little input on your manager.

So far I am very happy that I signed up for Market Leverage, and I am sure that isn’t going to change. I will admit that it is a bit soon for a full review of my experience, so I will keep you updated, and possibly give a review after I have had a bit more experience with the network. As long as everything goes well I really see no need to use any other networks.

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This Contest has Ended

I am feeling in a giving mood, so I have decided to give away a 1GB iPod Shuffle to one lucky reader. To enter yourself into this drawing you must:

1. Be located in a country supported by Amazon. USA, UK, CA, I don’t know them all.
2. Sign up for the RSS feed (Click the little feedburner icon or the link up there at the top of the right sidebar).
3. Post a comment on this entry. Be sure to put in the same email you used to sign up to the feed.

Once the feed reaches 50 subscribers, I will randomly draw one of the emails to give the shuffle to. If the feed happens to reach 100 subscribers, I will give away two iPod shuffles.

If you want to get an additional entry to the drawing, and increase your chances of winning, then post about this contest in your blog and send me a trackback. If the trackback doesn’t go through then post another comment with the URL to the article on your blog.

Good luck to you all!

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The title of this entry says it all. MySpace is packed with people to pitch your site to. Most MySpace accounts appeal to a specific age group. If the content of the MySpace is teen-ish, teens will be interested in it, and will most likely be interested in whatever you tell them is “cool”. MySpaces can also be targetted to niches, for instance, your favorite band might be Green Day, so you create a MySpace all about Green Day, and how you can’t get enough of them. Other people that like Green Day will most likely see your Space, and go to a site that you say is good.

You have a MySpace, but you need friends. Well, I for one do not have time to sit around and add friends left and right all night long. Manually adding friends isn’t worth the trouble. So you should pick up a nifty little program that can do it for you. My personal favorite is called Friend Blaster Pro. It helped me rack up a nice amount of friends on my account in no time at all. You can add as many friends as you want with the pro version, but I would stick to around 200 per day. The trial version of the program is available for free, but it only allows you to add a maximum of 50 friends per day. If you are impatient like me, and want to get friends in a hurry, then the program is definitely worth it’s price ($29.95 for 1 MySpace account, or $59.95 for use on an unlimited number of accounts) If not, the trial version is still worth getting your hands on.

If you already have friends, or bought Friend Blaster Pro, and added friends, then you are ready for the next step. Like I said before, your visitors will most likely go to a site that you recommend, so post a bulletin every once in a while pitching your site. Don’t make it too obvious that it is an advertisement, otherwise it will be ignored. You can also post a comment on your friends’ MySpaces, however thats a risky move, because if it looks too spammy, it could just get deleted by the account holder. Try to keep them as personal as possible, and don’t overuse the same sentence in several different comments on peoples’ spaces. Copy & Paste is helpful, but use it in moderation.

After posting some bulletins, if you have enough people visiting your MySpace, you will start to get a steady flow of traffic from it to your website or blog, however you will need to keep up on it, keep adding friends, and keep posting bulletins or blog entries about your site once a week. MySpace is definitely worth the time you put into it in the long run, so happy MySpacing, and best of luck!

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The internet opens up communications to millions of people, so its only natural that you meet a few of them along your own journey. Some of them you will be glad you met, others not so much. Sadly, most of the people you meet probably won’t be worth keeping in touch with.

You have to communicate. If you just keep to yourself, and never talk to other people in your field, you will never go anywhere. I really don’t think it is even possible to make a blog or website without communicating, even if you try. Communication will bring you business connections. Knowing a guy, that knows a guy, who knows this lady’s cousin of a guy’s brother’s uncles sister is more valuable than not knowing anyone. No matter how distant the connection, a connection is a connection.

In my time online, I have met thousands of people. I probably speak with 5 of them on a regular basis, and the rest just sit on my contact list. Some of them are good people, some of them have scammed me, screwed me over, etc., but like I said before, “A connection is a connection”. I have one person on my list that scammed me out of $225 back when I first started my online business journey. Then I have people on my list that have helped me greatly along the way.

Forums like Digital Point are a great way to gain connections with other webmasters. There are people on there making the big bucks. Once a week you see a new post on there from a member telling how they finally had their first $10,000 month, while you see others whining about how they are in a slump, and only made $12,489 last month. Boo frickin hoo, right? But anyway, Digital Point is a great place to look for connections, whether you be yourself, or social engineer a bit, pretend to be something or not to get in someones good side, etc. Just be careful who you trust, because no matter how well-known a site is, there are always going to be thieves present.

Communicate Communicate Communicate. Without it you will amount to nothing online. Period. I just hope you decide to be like one of the 5 people I actually bother to talk to. Honest,  trustworthy, and a pretty low chance that they are going to screw me over.

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