Making Money

AuctionAds a Waste of Time

I recently decided to give AuctionAds.com a try and, so far, have found it to be a huge waste of my time. Here’s the deal: AuctionAds is a new ad service which allows you to run banners which contain live Ebay auctions. Essentially, its a banner network like Adsense, but the content of the ads [...]

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Blog Monetization, PayPerPost and Ebook Affiliate Saturation

Here is my introductory diatribe from this week’s WebbyOnline newsletter. To get this in your inbox each week, just subscribe in the form at the top of this site.
Oh, busy times. Busy times. As I said last week, I am putting Miraserver development into hyperdrive. And I’m feeling it now since I stayed up last [...]

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Why a Drop in Adsense Revenue?

I recently made some adjustments to the layout over at PCMech. Nothing I thought was very drastic. I was simply re-organizing some elements and fixing some long-time problems (like creeping CSS layers in IE). Well, after I went live with the new layout, I began keeping a close eye on the various revenue sources. One [...]

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Traffic Secrets Course

One of the things I am working on this year, as I have mentioned, is kicking business and revenue into high gear. One of the things I am doing to get this done is to broaden my horizons and learn from others. Now, I’ve already learned alot from others, but one thing I have never [...]

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Leveraging Your Site

I saw a blog post by Andrew over at Web Publishing Blog which talks about leveraging what you have. I find it amazing how Andrew ends up echoing what I’m doing in my own business over on his blog. This week, leveraging what I have has been big on my mind. And, the end result [...]

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Is Your Site STOPPING Customers From Buying?

Shortly before my wedding, when I was still working, I attended a web conference put on by Marketing Experiments. They put on these conferences every few weeks and they are always pretty insightful. The subject of that particular conference was how technology can affect your online conversions. In other words, is your website getting [...]

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Wordpress Plug-ins for Earning Money

Every blogger likes to make money doing what they do. There are some good sites dedicated to this art, including ShoeMoney, ProBlogger and CopyBlogger. For Wordpress users, Lorelle has a good list of plug-ins to help you monetize your blog.
BTW, got a kick out of Jeremy’s post about Jenna Jameson. Looks like this lady is [...]

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AdBrite InVideo Is Launching

I got a notification in my inbox this afternoon that AdBrite is launching their InVideo product. AdBrite is, of course, the ad marketplace founded by Philip Kaplan, famous for F-ckedCompany.com fame. A few weeks ago, I posted here about this new service which got mysteriously leaked to the blog community and no doubt generated [...]

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Mozilla Being Hypocritical?

I saw on another blog that Mozilla has placed the Adblock Plus add-on onto their list of recommended add-ons. At the same time, Mozilla is said to have brought in $72 million in revenue in 2005, most of it from Google Search ads. Is this hypocritical? I would say so. For those of us in [...]

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Increase Online Sales by Reducing Customer Anxiety - The Scientific Approach

This afternoon I attended the web seminar mentioned in the previous blog post. The seminar was put on by Marketing Experiments Journal, a very professional outfit that takes the science of online marketing to levels you would normally expect from a college course. The subject of the seminar was how to decrease customer anxiety levels [...]

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