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Social Spark has arrived! Well, it is still in the development stages but in the near future it will revolutionize blogging. For those looking to make money blogging Social Spark (SocialSpark.com) is one of the new concepts in blog revenue generation. In fact, it is a unique and revolutionary concept that combines the very popular module of blogging with the extremely popular concept of social networking. Essentially, Social Spark is a social networking platform for bloggers with an emphasis on earning revenue. This is music to a blogging entrepreneur’s ears!

Social Spark has the potential to be hugely successful because it provides the two main items that blogs need to be successful: traffic and advertising revenue. When you create a profile on Social Spark you are creating a profile not for the purpose of self aggrandizement; you are creating a profile to promote the various blogs that you have crafted. From this, the ability to significantly boost traffic is made possible because you profile becomes your main promotional hub. Other members of the network stumble across your profile and then they stumble across your blog. Not a bad deal, eh? Then again, you do not have to rely exclusively on “stumbling”. You can aggressively promote your profile which would, of course, have the resultant effect of greatly expanding traffic to the site.

Best of all, Social Spark offers direct sponsorship of the blog. That is, members of Social Spark have access to advertisers who pay flat fees ($5 - $25) to place permanent ads on your blog as well as advertisement that pay a nominal daily fee for advertisement. This is a HUGE plus over pay per click advertisement because no one has to click on any ads in order to draw revenue. There is no conversion and that makes an affiliation with Social Spark for those who may not have the colossal traffic needed for huge PPC conversion rates. This, in and of itself, makes it a very attractive venture.

Until next time, great success in all you do!

-Craig 

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Thanks for stopping by today and I hope that you find this post helpful in your quest to make money online. It is that time again. It is time for the best posts that I have found from around the Internet in the last week. I hope you enjoy this feature and if you have any favorite posts that don’t get mentioned, leave us a comment to tell us about them.

1.  45n5.com - Mark has started a great conversation on wether to blog for profit or passion.
2. SuperAffiliateMindset.com - Amit ask Does Direct Linking Still Work?
3. MyInternetLab.com - Scott updates us on his Wordpress Niche Site Project.
4. DoshDosh.com - Maki explains, step by step, how to set up a blog network.
5. ZacJohnson.com - Zac visits Google Headquarters.

Well, that is another week of great posts from around the web about making money online and improving your Interent business. I hope you have enjoyed this weeks “Best of the Rest” and hope everyone has a great weekend. See you next week!

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Many Blessings,

-Craig

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Thanks for stopping by today and I hope that you find this post helpful in your quest to make money online. As always, feel free to ask a question or leave a comment, as your participation is always welcome.

Membership does have its privileges, especially at the Country Club or the local card room. But membership can also have its privileges online too. That’s right. Membership sites are really popular right now and a lot of Internet marketers and businesses are going to them as a source of income.

The big draw to these sites is that they can bring in a regular income as compared to affiliate marketing or using AdSense. There are three basic groups that membership sites can be put into and they are: totally free, Free and paid, and totally paid membership sites. I will give examples of each below to help define each.

• Totally Free - Yahoo Groups is a great example. There are thousands of sub-groups within this membership site, but it is as far as I know, totally free to join although some restrictions to membership to apply to some groups.
• Free and Paid - Pogo.com is an example of this type. Pogo is a game site that offers free games for all to play. But they also make some games only available to “Club” members for a price of $39.99 a year. The last that I seen they had around 1.5 million paid subscribing members.
• Totally Paid - There are a lot of these around and one that comes to mind is Wealthy Affiliates. They offer membership to their site for 29.99 a month in exchange for information, how-to’s and a very nice forum with tons of experienced Internet marketers willing to help you with your Internet business.

Starting one may seem kind of hard to do, but as with everything, there are software programs that make these membership sites simple to set up and run. Just Google “membership site software” and you would have many to chose from.  One of my favorite software scripts to use is called amember.  I have had great success with it and I can highly recommend it to you if your interested in starting a membership site. 

Another simple form of a membership site is to develop a web page with information about your membership site.  Have a payment link for joining your membership, and then re-direct them to your favorite autoresponder with weekly or monthly information, or an email newsletter, ect.  for a specific period of time, say 3, 6 or 12 months.  Naturally, there is a lot more to running a successful autoresponder membership than what I can explain in a paragraph, but maybe in the near future I will have something with more detail for you to sink your teeth into.

The main thing with running a membership site is to have enough valuable information to give to your members that they see it as a benefit to be a member and pay for the information.

The same aspect is true also if you plan on joining a membership site. If the site does not benefit you or does not have enough information and products worth the membership price, then by all means leave them. A decrease in members will wake the owner up and let him know that something is a miss.

As with most things on the Internet take your time and do a lot of research before you strike out with your membership site.

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Many Blessings,

-Craig

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Thanks for stopping by today and I hope that you find this post helpful in your quest to make money online. As always, feel free to ask a question or leave a comment, as your participation is always welcome.

To make money online many people automatically go for setting up Google Adsense,  finding a high paying affiliate program to promote or set up Google Adwords and guiding traffic to their own website to sell a variety of affiliate products.  A lot of people dismiss the fact that they have enough knowledge available in their little noggin’ that other people would be willing to pay for, but remember that their are a lot of people that are willing to pay for knowledge because it is more than they have themselves.

Now, you just can’t throw down a bunch of words and thoughts on a subject and expect people to pay for it. You will need to lay it out nicely or you can pay to have someone make it look great for you. That little investment may mean thousands of dollars more in income than if you did it yourself.

Once you have your project done and it is ready to be sold, you now need to place it on a digital product site like  ClickBank or $7 Offers to make it available for others to buy and to promote. The never ending question is always why should I give someone a cut of my profits when I could earn it myself? My answer is always the same. I would rather have 1000 people selling my product for a $15 profit than only me selling a hundred copies for $30 profit. If those 1000 sell ten copies each, I then make $150,000 compared to $3000 I could make. Now you can take that to the bank!

So the next time you think that you are stuck and can’t make any money online, just dig deep into your brain and make a product for yourself to sell. I bet you will surprise yourself at the results. Take care and will talk to you soon.

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-Craig

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As many Internet marketers and online business people struggle to find a niche that is perfect for them, most of them ignore what is right in front of their noses every single day. All you have to do is go to Yahoo, MSN or your nightly news and read the headlines and there is your niche!

It sounds simple, but timing is everything. You have to be right on top of the news break and take action right away. I read an article on a recent event that took place that one person took advantage of and it paid off.

If you recall, a certain political leader from the state of New York was caught in a scandal that involved a call girl and this person was one of the first to get articles, a website with affiliate links, pictures and info out on this call girl and boy did she reap the rewards. She said her normal website traffic is around 25,000 hits a day and it went up to 1.5 million within hours of getting listed in Google and that she made about 8-9 months income in one day. Wow!

So, now the question is, is it right to make money off of someone else’s misfortune? I say no, but in this certain situation I think it was done correctly. The subject of the website was directed towards the call girl, who chose this profession, therefore this was not an attack on her unlike directing toward the ill fated ex-Gov who was caught cheating, letting his family and all of the people of New York state down and is now out of a job. Celebrity gossip is is a huge field, but be careful how far you take it.

So the next time you see some breaking news coming on the nightly news, get off your duff and take advantage of it and make some money. Thanks for stopping and will see you next time.

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-Craig

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Thanks for stopping by today and I hope that you find this post helpful in your quest to make money online. It is that time again. It is time for the best posts that I have found from around the Internet in the last week. I hope you enjoy this feature and if you have any favorite posts that don’t get mentioned, leave us a comment to tell us about them.

1. Performancing.com - An article on how to Use WordPress to build a Web Directory and also a link to a past article on 48 Unique Ways to Use WordPress.
2. WinningTheWeb.com - Check out this contest worth(at the moment) $9,191 called Craziest Internet Marketing Contest You’ve Ever Seen.
3. 45n5.com - Mark with another great post, this on is on making money in the UK.
4. GarryConn.com - Gary explains How He started Using Gmail.
5. AffiliateWatcher.com - Another vote on the power of article writing from a post about how to Dominate Your Local Niche Like A Pro.

Well, that is another week of great posts from around the web about making money online and improving your Interent business. I hope you have enjoyed this weeks “Best of the Rest” and hope everyone has a great weekend. See you next week!

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To Your Success!

Many Blessings,

-Craig

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Thanks for stopping by today and I hope that you find this post helpful in your quest to make money online. As always, feel free to ask a question or leave a comment, as your participation is always welcome.

Since eBay was founded back in 1995, it has grown to be a very viable option for many people as a place to start an online business and to make money online. Currently eBay has over 276 million registered users around the world and an amazing $2039 worth in goods are traded on eBay every second! With stats like that it is no wonder people turn towards eBay when the start their online business.

Today I would like to look at the different ways that you can use eBay to make money. Some things may be obvious, others, maybe not. (Don’t forget to include eBay’s fee structure when you set the price of your items.) The money made on eBay can be for used for seed money for another online venture or just to put some money in your pocket.

This is one of the very first ways I generated seed money to push my Internet Business forward.  My wife and I would gather old items and sell them.  She would also go out to garage sales in our area and buy things dirt cheap and then list them on Ebay, and make a little money that way.  I even sold a bunch of old Hotwheel cars on Ebay to help fuel the fire.  I hated to get rid of them, but I knew my Internet Business had much more profit potential than what these Hotwheels could ever bring in.  They were just a “vehicle”, no pun intended, to provide me seed money towards where the real profit lay. 

I know this isn’t the most glamorous of ways to make money online, but if your looking for some easy money to help give you a real push then this could be a solid method for you.  It is up to you.  So here we go…

1. World sized yard sale - The best way to get rid of unwanted items that you may have.
2. Sell your car - More and more people are selling their car on eBay and getting the price they ask for. Maybe you can find a cheap one and fix it up for a hefty profit.
3. Sell your own prducts - Are you crafty or do you make your own product? What a cheap way to introduce it to the world.
4. Auction finder - The best deals found at auctions can be the best money makers on eBay.
5. eBay arbitrage - Find a product that is out of season or in a wrong category and buy it cheap, then resell it in right category for a profit.
6. eBay’ers are human too - Some listings on eBay may not do well because the people listing them may have made a misspelling in the items title. Therefore it does not fall under anyones search and leaves a bargin for you.
7. A flare for the dramatic - Do you have a truly unique item to sell? Like the world’s longest french fry, a rare baseball card or a whole town maybe? Then eBay is your place to get tremendous viral marketing for you item. News travels fast when a unique item is posted on eBay.

I hope this list gives you some ideas so that you can make some money online today. It is not hard to open an account on eBay, so give it a go.

Thanks again for stopping by and I hope you have enjoyed today’s topic.

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Many Blessings,

-Craig

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Thanks for stopping by today and I hope that you find this post helpful in your quest to make money online. It is that time again. It is time for the best posts that I have found from around the Internet in the last week. I hope you enjoy this feature and if you have any favorite posts that don’t get mentioned, leave us a comment to tell us about them.

Daily Blog Tips - Another great post from DBT called “10 Signs That Your Blog Is On The Right Track.”

Jim Kukral - Jim tells us “How To Become A YouTube Partner.”

My Internet Lab- Scott over at MyInternetLab.com is trying out a “Full Time Traffic Building” program.

DoshDosh- Maki asks the question “Why Are You Giving Away Content For Free?”

Steve Pavlina - Steve writes about how to deal with “Hopeless Situations.”

I hope you have enjoyed this week “Best of the Rest” and hope everyone has a great weekend. See you next week!

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Thanks for stopping by today and I hope that you find this post helpful in your quest to make money online. As always, feel free to ask a question or leave a comment, as your participation is always welcome.

So, do you have a “grab ‘em post” or article that always brings in your readers? A post that your readers always look forward to and return to your site just to read that special post or article. Most of us don’t, but that is OK, because it takes time and a little luck to find yours. Let me give you an example.

Jeremy Schoemaker over at Shoemoney.com has a weekly post at his blog called Free Shirt Friday and is very popular with his audience and the people he is giving a plug to. Basically all it is some business or website sends him a shirt, he takes pictures with it on and makes a post about the company and shows the picture of the shirt.

Big deal you say? Well that company is out a shirt, but has a cool plug on a PR - 6 site and it also exposes their company to Shoe’s 15,000+ blog subscribers and Shoe gets all the traffic coming to his site to check out the new Free Shirt Friday post and they probably check out other posts too. Pure genius!

It is an all around good thing for everyone and should be a motivating factor for everyone to step outside the box and come up with something unique like this. Mark over at 45n5.com has a unique feature also. He made a pledge to make a post everyday on his site that had a video in it for a whole year. Besides the great and entertaining content, there is always the wonder in the back of your mind if he is going to make it or not. One neat thing he does with these videos is that he also gives a written summary of the video below it in case you can’t watch it right at that time(like for those at work ).

So, will you ever find your “Grab ‘em post” or not. You probably will, but most likely it will find you! Thanks for stopping today and will talk to you soon.

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Many Blessings,

-Craig

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Thanks for stopping by today and I hope that you find this post helpful in your quest to make money online. It is that time again. It is time for the best posts that I have found from around the Internet in the last week. I hope you enjoy this feature and if you have any favorite posts that don’t get mentioned, leave us a comment to tell us about them.

DailyBlogTips.com - The folks at DBT give their insight on a problem every blogger goes through, so check out “Hold Tight, It Will Only Get Better” at DBT.

TerryDean.org - Terry gives an update on his Intern project in a post called “Pursuit of Happyness.”

5StarAffiliatePrograms.com - 5 Star gives us an insight to a new video widget from Amazon.

ProBlogger.net- Everyone can use help with their writing skills and this is what is presented over at ProBlogger in a post called “5 Killer Ways To Improve Your Writing Right Now” written by Rob Siders from 52 Novels.

CashQuests.com - Cash Quests gives us a quick insight on how to use pop culture to make money online.

I hope you have enjoyed this week “Best of the Rest” and hope everyone has a great weekend. See you next week!

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Today I want to have a little fun. I know a lot of us have dreams and probably have nightmares too, of being a Super Affiliate. A Super Affiliate is a person that accounts for a majority of an affiliate programs sales. He is the guy that can sell ice to an Eskimo in the dead of winter, he is the guy that we all want to be.

So the question I ask today is, “How do you know when you are a Super Affiliate?” Well, I can only imagine what it would be like, but I visited some Super Affiliates websites to get a clue as how you might know when you have reached that level. Here is what I found.

1. You can post a copy of your affiliate programs check and not be ashamed.
2. Posting how you made $30,000 last month and not worry about someone stealing your secret.
3. Your FeedBurner counter has five digits!
4. You have to hire a Personal Assistant to help you with e-mail, comments and little stuff like that.
5. Your personal training school classes are booked for the rest of the year.
6. You post a copy of next months affiliate check and it has doubled!
7. Half of your blogs posts are about attending this and that affiliate convention and everyone knew YOU!
8. You get tons of gear from your affiliate program managers every week.

Well I hope you enjoyed that and I hope I didn’t offend any Super Affiliates as it is all in fun and most of all I can’t wait to accomplish what they have. It is also a tribute to them also, as most of these Super Affiliates could be quiet as a mouse and not tell a soul about their how they earned their well deserved fortune.

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Many Blessings,

-Craig

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