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Chance for you to make money with Facebook usernames

If you login to your facebook now, it will show you a notice at the top of the page which reads:

Soon you will be able to have a username
Starting on Saturday, June 13th, at 12:01pm, you’ll be able to choose a username for your Facebook account to easily direct friends, family, and coworkers to your profile…

That means you will be able to choose any keyword for your account, for most it would be their names but for many others who want to make money that would mean registering new dummy accounts and getting like these keywords below:

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Obviously you won’t be able to get keywords like facebook.com/google or any other keyword that is copyrighted, trademarked or infringes someone else’s Intellectual Property. Facebook says regarding this: Read more »

       

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Idea for your next project (case study)

If you see top sites at BuySell (by their traffic and rank) you will notice that most of them are websites that offer free stuff. And believe me, these free sites are making a lot more than most of the “make money online” blogs (including mine).

The strategy is the same old strategy: offer free stuff, increase the traffic and then sell ads.

Most of the sites that have priced their advertising opportunities competitively are making quite good money.

For example, look at this site that offers free vectors. As you can see from the screenshot to the right, all the slots on the site have been sold out.

So the site is making at least $1150 per month - that is the income that comes only from BuySell, not including direct ads and sponsorships.

Your next project

So, your next project (one of many projects that you are launching) can be something like these sites. Sites that offer free stuff. Free templates, free themes, free icons, free graphics, brushes, vectors… etc.

Free stuff is also very easy to market. You can load some money to your StumbleAds and let it run for a few months. You can set the limit to few bucks a day and let the stumblers do the rest of the job (read how to promote your site with stumbleupon here). If the site offers quality stuff, many bloggers might blog and link to it too. You got the idea right?

So, now we have two projects already; one is Windows7 that we talked before and now this “Free Stuff” project :) What do you say?

       

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Idea Realization is a Challenge

Regarding my previous post about making money with Windows 7, yes it’s true that many people are now wanting to seize the opportunity and hoping to make money out of it. But it’s equally true that very few people will actually act on their ideas. Out of all the people who want to create a website about Windows 7, most probably only 5-10% will act on their ideas. And probably even fewer people will actually follow through and finish their projects successfully.

So, most ideas will be left as they are - in the form of ideas only. Some people might act on their ideas and pick a good domain name and register it, but won’t have the will to follow through and setup a website. Some people might setup a website but the outcome (design or the content) might not be as good as it supposed to be in order to be successful. And yet, some people might launch a great website but fail in their SEO and online marketing just to find out that other less great websites had beaten them because of that… etc etc

So, my advice is - if you are confident that you can launch a decent website about Windows 7, do the proper SEO and market it online successfully then you better don’t give up on that idea of yours! Because I am sure you have a pretty good chance of succeeding in it!

How do I know it? For the same reasons that I have mentioned above - that most of the people will not act on their ideas and even if they act many of them will not follow through until the end. As for the ones who complete their projects - “no one is perfect” - I am sure you will find a way to beat them, be it in the quality of the content, design, SEO, marketing etc. There is always a way to beat the competitors.

So the challenge here is:

1. Acting on your idea.
2. Following through with it until the end (i.e don’t quit half way).
3. Do the necessary adjustments to outperform your competitors.

Sounds like a plan? Then let’s get busy with our new project!

       

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Windows 7 - Time to Make Money

Microsoft is releasing yet again new operating system Windows 7 sometime in October this year. That means there is a huge opportunity to make money for everyone especially for bloggers, since most of them are good in setting up websites, doing basic SEO and promoting it on the net.

So how would you make money around Windows 7? The possibilities are many. You could setup a tech forum for Windows 7, or make a wallpaper site, or tips & tricks site, or Windows 7 hacks site etc - all of which are very popular segments for previous versions of Windows OS; XP and Vista.

Tell me more…

The idea is simple, basically you are going to use first mover advantage and try to be the authority website in your niche, to make your site popular and high traffic. And then put up some ads (adsense etc) and enjoy the fruits. Or sell the site and get a huge pay for it. Read more »

       

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Making Money with Twitter

While twitter is still trying to figure out how to make money, others are already making money with its platform. One such service is Magpie. Magpie is an ad-network for Twitter.

How it works:

In basic terms, you allow them to access your twitter account, and they will tweet relevant ads to your account. You get paid based on your number of followers, the rate of the ads (different category ads have different prices), and the number of clicks on these ads. How exactly they calculate your earnings is obviously known only to them.

You can define the tweet frequency, and for maximum control you can choose to pre-approve each tweet from magpie yourself.

How much you can make?

It depends on the number of your followers. Magpie has a calculator on their website. According to this calculator with my 177 followers, apparently I could make up to 8.61 pounds per month (i know.. that’s very small).

Let’s insert someone’s username who is influential on twitter. And that’s none other than @aplusk or Ashton Kutcher. He has over 1.5 million followers.

So the calculator says he could make over 90 thousands pounds every month! (see screenshot) Wow, that’s a lot!

Summary

So, as you can see, number of followers does matter. On twitter # of followers are like a “unique visitors” in normal websites. The more followers you have the more money you will likely to make when the twitter based publisher networks come out. Therefore, start building your twitter community, grow your twitter’s following. I am quite sure that twitter’s own (and other) “making money models” will rely on the number of followers that one has first. And perhaps this will be combined with the number of clicks that each ad will get.

Whatever it is, you will need to have a healthy twitter community, which is active and will actually follow your tweets. Because I am sure twitter (and other future publisher networks on twitter platform) won’t just pay you for having the most number of followers. Having thousands of zombie followers who do not click on your tweet-links won’t benefit you. Therefore, don’t try to grow your network with those automatic tools that will just fill up your twitter network with dead followers. Most of those followers are actually empty accounts that won’t get updated ever.

Well, Magpie might just have thought a lesson to Twitter on how to monetize their network.

Website: be-a-magpie.com (they should really get that magpie.com!)
Follow me on Twitter: @ades

       

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Checking out EntreCard Ad-Network

As you already know (yes you should check my miniblog) EntreCard is running their own ad-network now.

I did a test run with $25 funds, promoting my color picker software in their Web Development category. Here is the results:

From the results you can see that the CPM rate was $0.4927, and CPC rate was $0.1096. I guess they run a combination of two types. In total I got 50,739 impressions and 228 clicks for my $25 bucks.

My funds were depleted right away within 24 hours, that’s because they do not provide daily limit options.

Here is how campaign creation page looks:

Yeah, it’s dead simple. No daily limits, no campaign type (cpc, cpm) selection. Also at first they did reject my website, I don’t know why, perhaps it was not a blog? But then I see they re-approved it.

Selling your credits

I am sure most of you had EntreCard accounts and perhaps some of you have some credits in their accounts still. If you do, now you can sell them for $1 for every 1000 entrecard credits as announced by EC founder on his tweet.

So, it’s time to make money if you had thousands of credits in your EC account! If you are new, you can always sign up for EC now.

In general I think it’s a good move by EC to open their own ad-network, both for advertisers and bloggers.

Website: entrecard.com

       

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PickyDomains - let others pick domains for you

This is an interesting business model and a useful tool for those who want ‘outside the box’ ideas for their new websites’ domains.

Let’s say you are launching a new online project and thinking of finding a suitable domain name for it. You have brainstormed yourself and have listed some domain names, but you are unsure if they are creative enough or web2.0 enough. So you think, only if I could use the creativity of the internet users for this task!

PickyDomains is a website that allows you to utilize the internet users’ ideas… It’s not free but for $50 you could land a ‘million dollar domain name’ so to speak. So it works like this, you give $50 to them and wait for suggestions to flow in… once you like particular domain name you chose it to purchase it. All suggested domain names are available domain names, system will automatically check and discard the registered domain names.

And the best part is if you don’t like any of the suggested domain names, you will get back your $50.

Making Money with Picky Domains

If you have creative mind you might want to try making money with Picky Domains. You can sign up as contributor and if your suggested domain name is picked by the buyer, you will get 50% of $50, that is $25 for each accepted domain name.

Website: PickyDomains.com

       

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New publisher program for Asia

Performance Network is a new publisher program for Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia and Vietnam. It’s developed by Innity Berhad, Malaysian leading online advertising company.

It’s positioned as a premium publisher program and promises to offer highest CPM rates in the region. One of the requirements for the program is websites/blogs must have a minimum of 2,000 page views per day on average to be qualified.

It’s good to see some competition to Nuffnang and Advertlets.

With their banner exchange program you will also be entitled for free advertising in the network, and they have some pretty big sites in their network, like: NST, SinChew, LowYat etc.

So, if you live in one the countries listed above and have a high traffic site/blog, here is a chance for you to maximize your income with this new publisher program.

Website: http://network.innity.com (Good luck to Innity!)

       

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Gold prices to quadruple by 2010, Chris Wood

Chris Wood is a person who has predicted US Mortgage Crisis back in 2003. He is a managing director and chief strategist of the broking firm CLSA.

His latest prediction is that, by 2010, gold prices will quadruple to $3500 (per ounce) from the current $994 (per once) price. That’s some news!

The collapse of securitization is a much more deflationary situation in the U.S. than anything seen in Japan when the bubble collapsed in the early 1990s…

Gold may be the safest haven for investors as policy makers accelerate responses to the crisis, devaluing currencies versus hard assets such as gold in the process, said Wood. Gold is likely to more than quadruple from the current level of $986 per ounce currently to $3,500 in 2010, he said. Bloomberg

Back in Malaysia, Datuk Husam Musa, Kelantan Exco suggested that Malaysia should convert its reserves from foreign currencies to gold dinar.

“Malaysia can obtain as much as RM162.6 billion ($1 = RM3.6) for this year if the reserves were in the form of gold dinars following the rise in the price of gold globally.

“If we follow the current value, one gold dinar is worth RM518 with the lowest value being one Dirham (RM5),” said the Kelantan State Exco, Datuk Husam Musa in tabling a working paper at the Gold Dinar Seminar 2009 at University Malaysia (UM) here today.

“The price of one gold dinar this year increased 11.07 percent to RM512.20 compared to RM461.15 last year,” he said. Bernama

Should you invest in gold?

According to Chirstopher Wood investing in gold may be “the safest haven for investors”, and many other economists share the same opinion. Here is the graph of gold prices for the last 10-years. Having said that, do your own research and seek professional advice if you are serious about investing in gold.

       

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OnlineProfits.com

OnlineProfits.com is a new project launched by Daniel Scocco. Unlike other online courses that were launched previously, this one is not only about “blogging”, but it has 21 different topics (see below).

If you are the type that prefers structured learning instead of the self-learning “find here and there” method, then you should check out this project.

Here is the list of the 21 module (each has several lessons inside).

• Introduction and Business Principles
• Domain Names
• Setting Up Your Website
• WordPress
• Web Design for Entrepreneurs
• Business Models
• Choosing Your Niche
• Blogs
• Other Types of Websites
• Web Content and Copywriting
• Basic SEO
• Advanced SEO
• Generating Traffic
• Social Media
• Web Metrics
• Selling Advertising
• Email Marketing
• Affiliate Marketing
• PPC (Pay-per-Click)
• Landing Pages
• Selling Your Products

Fees for the course are at $48 a month for the initial intake (50% off), subsequent intakes will be charged $98/month.

I am not sure how the quality of the lessons will be, but judging from the tutors’ line-up, I would say the content quality should be good. Because those guys definitely know what they are doing and successful in their own fields.

Website URL: http://www.onlineprofits.com

       

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