Money Making Ideas

30 Day Plan To Launching a New Website

August 2, 2009 By Sherry Tingley

This is a thirty day report of statistics on launching a brand new website and building substantial traffic in thirty days. Since this is August 2, 2009, my plan is to report on thirty days worth of effort in attracting traffic to a new website. This post will be updated on a daily basis and each day’s advertising efforts will be reported as well as the number of visitors for the previous day. Since this will be an ongoing project throughout the month of August, I suggest you book mark the URL and check back to see the statistics change.

I’m not guaranteeing any great results, but if Julia Child could inspire a year’s worth of trying a new recipe every day, then certainly I can find 5 minutes a day to update this post with the advertising efforts of this new site launch. I’m sure there are plenty of people that are much better at this than I am and I encourage you to steer me in the right direction if I’m getting off target.

Let me explain that the reason for this concentrated effort. Not that I want any sympathy…well…maybe I do…but when you are a business owner you don’t have access to great health insurance. Without health insurance coverage, I had an accident that, shook me up literally. I generously offered to help my aging mother hang draperies in her home. It was a nice thing to do, I thought. However within 5 minutes of arriving at her house, I had slipped off a desk and took a spill. On the way down, (you would never guess that in my teens I was a Hawaiian State Diving Champion) I managed to hit my back on part of the chair that had supported my body momentarily. As my body hit the floor, I knew it wasn’t going to be easy for me to get up and my mind raced with, YIKES…I have no health insurance.

To make a long story short, $9,500 later, which was only 24 hours, I was laid up at home with 2 broken ribs and a lot of pain medication. Well, I’m totally healed now and totally frustrated with how difficult and expensive it is to get health insurance when you work for yourself. I decided that I would have to make at least an extra $10K a year to even afford to buy myself health insurance. So this is part of my effort to change my circumstances, learn more about launching a site from scratch and just see how fast it can be done. Maybe you will learn something from this if nothing more than you are really glad you have health insurance.

The actual creation of this new website is a lot of work, don’t get me wrong, but I figure that the hard part begins after the actual launch so I’m not going into details of the creation of the site, nor the domain name selection or anything but advertising.

The new website was completed on August 1. So here is the report for August 2009.

Rewards from Top Affiliate Companies

July 19, 2009 By Sherry Tingley

Custom Direct Wins the Gold Award at the 24th Annual Maryland Performance Excellence Awards

If you are like me, an affiliate marketer, you may not know much about the companies that you are doing affiliate marekting for. I have been an affiliate mareketer for 4checks.com for the past several years and never realized that they actually market for a company called Custom Direct.

Half of the checks that are on www.coolchecks.net are printed by Custom Direct. This company has an outstanding reputation and owns at least 10 different check printing companies.

The CEO of the company, Dale A. Dabbs, has been in the check printing business a long time and he say:

Since 1993, we’ve committed ourselves to making positive strides to continually enhance our people, products and processes to provide satisfaction and value. We put our customers first, and we seek to exceed their expectations. Thatrsquo;s the Custom Direct Difference.

Custom Direct is committed to providing our customers with high-quality, dynamic products, outstanding service, and great support from our talented team. Irsquo;m extremely proud of the people who work for CD and their dedication to helping our Company remain a leader in the industry.quot; – Dale A. Dabbs, CEO

I was happy to hear that they have a good track record and have satisfied customers all over the country.

I think that success as an affiliate marketer comes as a result of associating yourselves with a high quality, reputable company. Custom Direct fits the bill for 4checks.com and therefore…for me at www.coolchecks.net.

What is Market Leverage all about?

May 23, 2009 By Sherry Tingley

Market Leverage

Why join Market Leverage?

Perhaps you have never heard of the affiliate marketing company called Market Leverage? No one has mentioned it to you before. Now, you are wondering what is is and how it can benefit you. Why is Market Leverage always recommended by the top bloggers?

John Chow and Zac Johnson, two highly respected affiliate marketers are always recommending Market Leverage to their audiences. Why? Because it can make you some incredible money.

Zac Johnson says, “Market Leverage has been one of the fastest growing networks lately as a result of their aggressive ad campaigns and success with making affiliates money. Not only does Market Leverage have a nice amount of offers to choose from, but they are also one of the nicest groups of people around.”

John Chow has a good April Fool’s spoof on getting a job offer from Market Leverage. I know I fell for it hook line and sinker!

Market Leverage is the place where leading online and offline companies place incredible offers for getting customers to listen to their pitches. Hundreds of companies hire Market Leverage to have them send traffic to their advertising offers.

If you run a website or own one and are you are wondering how to take it to the next level, think about monetizing it with offers from Market Leverage.

Signing up for Market Leverage is free. Not only is it free, but the people that you refer to Market Leverage can benefit you.

Market Leverage is giving away a lifetime referral bonus for each Publisher you refer to their network!

Earn (5%) five percent of the commission for each and every Publisher you refer that signs up as a MarketLeverage Publisher.

How do you use Market Leverage to make money?

Market Leverage has hundreds of offers that you can choose from to publish. All of the advertising material is ready to go. You just send people to the offer and if the customer fills out a form or makes a purchase, you make commissions.

For example, if you have a site about finding money for start up businesses, then you might want to direct people to your government grant offer. This particular government grant offer has over 5 beautiful advertising photographs and pre-written email letters just waiting for you to send to your audience. You don’t have to come up with any clever gimmicks or advertising letters to get people interested in these offers. That has all been done for you. One of the advertising photos for a government grant is listed below.

Market Leverage pays you when people sign up for the offers that you send them to.

Warning: Payouts can be generous and addicting.

Leo Babauta Blogging Entrepreneur

January 17, 2009 By Sherry Tingley

leo_babauta Leo Babauta, author of ZenHabits, a Technorati Top 50 blog with an Alexa rank of 65,645, may not think of himself as an entrepreneur however he is making a living from blogging and that makes him the ultimate blogging entrepreneur.

Background history

Leo Babauta, a native of Guam, earned a bachelor’s degree in Journalism and English. He put his writing skills to work and eventually became a successful speech-writer for the governor of Guam. His unquestionably remarkable talent and writing style has contributed to his current success in the blogosphere.

His life however was not always the peaceful, happy life he is now living. According to an article in Psychology Today, February 2009, he used to struggle with many personal problems. His addiction to nicotine was on his list of challenges. His Internet research on changing bad habits and dedication to success helped him to not only conquer that deadly habit, but to share with millions of people how they too can change their lives.

Two years ago Leo Babauta was $30,000 in debt, had maxed out his credit cards and personal loans and was struggling from paycheck to paycheck. He even appears on CNN.com with an article about how he cut up his credit cards and worked on getting himself out of debt.

What contributes to his success?

Today, Leo Babauta runs a blog, ZenHabits, which has 85,500 readers. In his blog, he writes about achieving goals, productivity, being organized, motivation, eliminating debt, saving, exercising, eating healthy, simplifying, living frugally, parenting and happiness. He achieved this success by being engaging, honest and laying his heart bare for the world to pick apart.

By listening to my readers, and having a conversation with them, I was able to figure out what they really wanted, what kinds of posts would be most interesting and useful to them, and to give Zen Habits a character that was not just mine but theirs as well.

What is the key to happiness?

Achieving goals is the key to happiness. Reach them by daily practice of good habits. True happiness can be found when you clarify what is important to you and spend your time doing only those things. Simplifying life reduces stress and focuses on that which you hold dear.

How does Leo Babauta help others become better bloggers?

At Writetodone.com , another one of his blogs, he helps people learn how to develop their own unique writing style.

By reading many different writers, and really engaging in their ideas, you enhance your critical thinking skills as well as your imaginative firepower, both of which enable you to develop a richer personality, which is what you really want to shine through in your writing anyway.

Where can I find out more about Leo Babauta?

Articles on the net you may be interested in reading:

Leo Babauta is the ultimate blogging entrepreneur. He inspires people daily and give them hope that they can improve their lives through simple changes. He is an inspiration to us all.

What inspires you about Leo Babauta?

Local Ad Link Program

January 13, 2009 By Sherry Tingley

Local Ad Link Program

Are you a website owner or a brick and mortar business owner? Are you tired of wasting money on advertising that doesn’t work?

Then you will be interested in Local Ad Link’s inventive and powerful internet advertising system.

The Local Ad Link Program company was founded by the owners of BoomJ, a publicly traded internet company. There is a lot of power behind this company. They have completely and effectively made internet advertising for local businesses affordable.

This internet advertising model is brilliant because it makes it very simple for business owners, not just website owners, to increase their revenues through geo targeted advertising on the internet.

What really counts when you spend your internet advertising dollars (whether on the internet or anywhere else) is whether you actually see more sales as a result. Well the video below will take you step by step through the entire Local Ad Link Program system and you can judge for yourself whether you think it could be useful to you.

An added bonus about this advertising system is that people can show this program to others and get a nice little payment for lining up accounts. So not only does it provide a good way for established local businesses (with or without websites) or internet businesses to build brand awareness and increase their customer base, it allows you to have a business providing this advertising for them. You can sign up to be a business representative for free. There is also a paid sign up if you want to take full advantage of the business model, but if you are tight on money as many folks are, the free model will allow you to earn money as well.

All the materials are online so you can learn at your own pace or you can be mentored. Either way, you are in a win win situation.

Imagine being able to offer affordable internet advertising to local or internet businesses that will appear on websites with the biggest brand names on the internet: www.Yahoo.com, www.Linkedin.com, www.Flickr.com, www.YouTube.com, www.Google.com, www.Twitter.com, www.Diggcom, www.Fandango.com, www.isupply.com, www.tartot.com, www.Photo.net, www.beb.com, the Wall Street Journal, CNN.com, Motor Trend, Napster, about.com, redbook.com, friendster.com yogajournal.com, and the list goes on.

Have fun and get paid with the hottest local businesses in your area!

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“This ad link business model is harnessing how local companies use their advertising dollars for local growth on the net. This is smart for companies and consumers!”

What are you waiting for?

Go to Local Ad Link now, sign up at least to be a free account executive and see if this won’t help you grow your own business or help others with incredible revenues. It’s time we bust this economic depression with the Local Ad Link Program.