Link to Ted

He is calling leaders right? )))  Yes Sometimes Networking does bring changes, I think he wants us to gather around him right? THIS IS EVOLUTION or I guess  it will be

Some think that confidence is a main part of being a leader.

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We have all been waiting for XavierMedia to produce something new, interesting and yet productive tool – so what twitter users are all after is to get followers, but since twitter released the Developers API key there are now hundreds of new tools available on the net. So what are those new possibilities and opportunities since the Developers Api release?

1. Make Money on Twitter > you can make money online with your Twitter account now! here TwittAd – TwittAd lets you place a small code into your twitter account, gives you the opportunity to price the ad box, and make almost unlimited money online depending on the number of your twitter followers.

2. Feed your Twitter account >you can use TwitterFeed to twitt your blog posts automatically

3. and most amazing you can boost your followers up to 20,000 without spamming anyone. Now this is a simple and yet effective tool to achieve thousands of  followers totally free.

Thousand Free Followers >Use this effective page to get 20,000 followers right now

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Once again bloggers are asking me: where does this monetization end? How to create an ideally monetized blog? And my answer always stays very simple: It never ends due to fast developing market and on-growing technical solutions. Today you can monetize almost everything: A Photo, a Video, Rss Feed, Text, e-mail, any informational structured content. So where does the monetization start in blogging?
Well everyone has his own style, but for me the best and most effective advertising starts inside the content. Why? Because content ads are lighter and usually relevant to the content itself:

3 Basic Content monetizing techniques

1. Affiliate links inside the content- This is what I call the goldmine, this is where your content gets most relevant to your affiliate links. For those who are still beginners: affiliate link is a link which will bring your visitor to another site where you might get paid if he performs and action (Subscribe to the newsletter, buy something, or sign-up for the service whether it’s free or not). –use not more than 5 – 7 affiliate links in your post-

2. Text Link Ads – well contextual ads can simply build buzz if you have some good amount of traffic. It is one of the most beneficial monetizing methods, because you get paid each time somebody clicks the link.

3. Banner ads inside your content. Now banner ads can bring even more than contextual ads if used perfectly. One of the best options is to put 300×250 or 250×250 sized ads on the right corner of your content. But the down flow is also quite high; some people get annoyed with such type of ads. –If you don’t care about some annoyed visitors use animated banner- this brings up the chances that your visitors will click your ads.

4. Sponsored links- if you have sponsors you can offer them to place their link after or in the beginning of each post. –Personally I stay away from sponsored links due to google limitations on this option – Google does really penalize for sponsored links.

5. Monetizing Photos and Videos – If you run a site (blog) with a photo or video content, AdBrite offers a wonderful service of monetizing them.

6. This is a Guest Tip- Come up with your own preposition and get a link (www.yoursite.com)  to your blog or website. There are still several variations of monetizing the content. Come on shake your clever brain a little bit  .

The Next series of “Monetization – only for bloggers #3″ will analyse the existing Rss and e-mail monetization methods.

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Monetization – Only for Bloggers #2

1. The name of the contest must be shouting this is what brings visitors to your contest page.
2. Simple and motivating rules – never ask for too much
3. Your contest must be known to other bloggers Promote your contest through your friend bloggers and e-mail subscribers. Use multiple social network services like Entrecard, Twitter, Stumbleupon, digg, mybloglog, etc…
4. Show up with good prices but not too much Utopian in order to do this you must have sponsors or you must buy (pay for) prices yourself – which is not very good idea when you can use those money for something better.

Now lets get to the basic sense of this article:

How to Get your Contest a Sponsor

If you have tried to make a contest you will have noticed that sponsoring your own contest is not an easy job to do. During my last contest I have got lots of e-mails where some very respective companies offered to be a sponsor for my next contests. But you’ll agree with me that this kind of offers don’t happen too often. On the other hand it means that many companies are ready to sponsor your contests one of which is MarketLeverage. Here are some tips that I used to make my first most successful contest:

1. I contacted one of the hosting companies, where I told about my plans that I want to run a contest. What they did was offered me several hosting plan prices for the winners. The e-mail goes like this:
Dear Manager (or put the Name)
My name is Luke Zet the founder of Progrecious.com blog. I’m very much interested in your company and do often recommend to use your hosting service to my partners (or put friends). This time I would like to bring more of your service to my blog readers and it goes on….

2. Contact any service provider with an official letter. Let them know that you are really interested in their service and would like to promote it in your contest, But let them now that nothing in this world is free. Let them become your Sponsors!
3. Another way to bring more sponsors is to ask your blogger friends to do this. This is what I did in my last contest. This is a good thing to do when you have no sponsors at all. But I don’t recommend doing it often, especially if they are your partner bloggers. It is not very exciting to have put somebody’s ad on your site. (blog).

4. Get Social Networks Sponsor You- in this modern Internet environment almost every big company needs an Ad. So why not ask social networks to sponsor you? I think it is a great idea when there is EntreCard already offering sponsorship base on their blog where you can get sponsors from EC members.

5. There is no five I will put your tip and a link to your site if you come up with some interesting idea on how to get sponsors. -Let your lazy brain think a little bit-

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How to get approved by affiliate networks

1. Your blog must be running at least 3month – but this is not usually the problem
2. Did you offer complete and verifiable account information? As usually the domain name doesn’t provide the same whois information that you use for your application. – the problem is that: most hosting companies have the privacy feature ON by default which makes possible to hide your whois information. If you still need to hide your info than tip3 will be exactly for you.
3. What was your e-mail address you offered? – the e-mail which is usually associated with your domain name is most often best choice to get approved. –  in this occasion affiliate networks are already clear that this or that domain name is owned by you.
4. All the personal info must be completely true to your: place of living, tel number, mob number, etc. This creates more visibility and underlines that you are who you really are. And don’t forget that some affiliate companies like PepperjamNetwork have the special bar of transparency which is growing by the factor of visibility and grows your trust with merchants.
5. Your site description is where they see you- your site description must be 100% natural and written by human!!! This is where they find you as a person. Write good motivation letter if you are asked to.

+1 Tip- For those who don’t speak English but write it well- Some affiliate Networks need to contact their publisher before they’ll get approved, so if your English is really bad just ask your friend to speak instead of you. Recently I saw such topic in one of the marketing forums where one of members was really curious why he couldn’t get approved when his written English is perfect.

This 5 and +1 tips are the basics on why you should get approved by affiliate networks. If you tried them all and still no success than the problem might be your own blog or website. Make sure that your website is full of 100% legal content, and relevant to the affiliate category that you are applying for .
Hope this tips brings you more light during the simple technical situations. Have you ever been rejected by affiliate or other kinds of networks? If yes than please tell us how it happened and why you think it happened.

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How to Get Approved by Affiliate Networks

It was just a few months ago when technorati accomplished their last survey State of the Blogosphere and in October 2008 started to inform active technorati users that they’ve Acquired AdEngage and are Launching a Self-Service Advertising Network -which was yet an Alfa version – We might be seeing technorati expanding to the new level.

So with a beta version it is still apparent that they have already started to invite publishers and advertisers to their system.  For this moment they are offering “Pho Text ads” which is a mix of photo and text where image is also click-able, and Pure text ads. Publishers can earn on a Weekly or CPC (Cost Per Click) Basis. Here bloggers decide the ad pricing, and you’ll have the option whether to approve or reject advertisements, you’ll have 48 hours for this.

Here is a screen shoot of the ad types currently offered:

After the full launch of this network they will start offering:

• Pure 125×125 ads
• Leaderboard 728×90
• Medium Rectangle 300×250
• Skyscraper 160×600
• You’ll be also able to place an ad rotation system where you can serve several advertisers in one ad block.

Publishers can choose several payment methods: PayPal, Check and Wire Transfer.

You can have a look what is it all about here: “Technorati Engage”

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Technorati Engage Ad Network for Bloggers Is ON

You are the Creator! -YOU Control your Blog!

Always stick to your own niche -first of all you must always consider the niche you are blogging in.

Never Position Social networks higher than your own blog – You must and have to think about your blog’s evolution and new strategies. (It is a known issue that people get overwhelmed when too much work is to be done.) What is to be Done? There is nothing to be done OK. You are the one who regulates and sets goals, nobody is pushing you to use all those services at ones. Your Goals must be creatable and comfortable with your own lifestyle.

You can spend hours reading various tips but not actually have any time to activate them and profit for your own good. -Last several weeks I’m all in blogging, reading other bloggers, and writing an e-book.-  Did you notice the difference between what some bloggers are doing and what I do? I spend my time reading other bloggers but I do actually use this information to have a clearer and better point in my own e-book, so do read competitors blogs also.

Throw Away Their Reputation

To follow all the well known bloggers consider their opinion as the only true one, you are loosing the freedom of your own expression. I’m not saying that you shouldn’t read them, you should read them, you should analyse, but never get it all without thinking. There are several thousands of bloggers who fail because of this heavily weighted reputation of big bloggers. SOLUTION:-All you have to do is throw away their reputation- The post Importance of Being a Confident Blogger also covers more…

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But of course we couldn’t be too transparent about how it worked because the fraudsters would just use it as a blue print to cheat the system.

Now when you are not 100% transparent you annoy the perfectly innocent and honest people who were expecting $10 for each of their referrals when in fact only one of their referrals had installed the code.

So the new system is much easier to understand and has fraud prevention built-in.  Chris
and the e-mail continues…

New Rule for Money Makers

So the new rule applies from now on performancingads -affiliates will get paid only 5% from every active advertiser or a Publisher. It seems not a very motivating idea, but for me performancingads still stays as my recommended money maker, and the main reason is that they provide almost 100% that every publisher I’ll refer to PerformancingAds will get approved and start making money online from their blogs (of-course the last one is 100% up to every individual blogger). They work hard to bring more advertisers to bloggers, because they understand that a blogger’s success is in 100% proportion of their own success and this is very important for me.

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But now I would like to thank all who participated in this contest, and the Winners are:

1st Price -Riyanne

• 125×125 ad on Progrecious.Com Blog (value $30)
• 125×125 custom designed banner (value $10)
• 125×125 ad on Fragmentedblog (value $10)
• 125×125 ad on BlueCirclet.Com (value $20)
• 2000 ecs from Lasvak Blog (value $12+)
• Review of your blog on Blogsolute.Com (value $50)

2nd Price -Blogger Templates

• 125×125 ad on Progrecious blog (value $30)
• 125×125 Custom designed banner (value $10)
• 125×125 spot at Fragmentedblog (value $10)
• Text link from BlueCirclet.Com (value $10)
• Review of your blog on Surftin.Com (value $15)
• 1500 ecs from Lasvak Blog (value $10+)

3rd Price -Sherry

• 200×200 banner for a month on ProgreciousBlog (value $40)
• 125×125 ad spot on Lasvak Blog (value $20)
• 1000 ecs from Lasvak Blog (value $6+)
• Review of your blog on BlueCirclet.Com (value $15)

4th Price Akira07

• Rotationing link on Progrecious maxblogpress stripe ad (value $15)
• 125×125 ad on Lasvak Blog (value $20)
• Custom 125×125 banner design (value $10)
• 1000 ecs from BlueCirclet.Com (value $6+)
• Review of your blog on Fragmentedblog (value $20)

5th Price -Toni

• Rotationing link on Progrecious maxblogpress stripe ad (value $15)
• Custom 125×125 banner Design (value $10)
• 125×125 banner on BlueCirclet.Com (value $20)
• 250×250 ad on Surftin.Com (value $25)

6th Price -Kris

• 125×125 ad for a month on Mxyzplk.Com (value $15)
• a friendly link inside Progrecious Blog Post (value $20)

7th Price -Dhadha

• 468×60 ad for a month on Mxyzplk.Com (value $10)
• 125×125 ad on Blogsolute.Com (value $20)

8th Price -IndoContest

• 125×125 ad for a month on Surftin.Com (value $15)
• Custom Designed 125×125 ad (value $10)

9th Price -Blog Contests

• Text Link from BlueCirclet.Com (value $20)

10th Price -Peraduanku

• Review of you blog post on Mxyzplk.Com (value $15)

All Winners have been revealed with a random draw system.

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Do you make desired money online?

Whether you do make a wished amount of money or not, all the ads are in your hands and you can control them. In this post I’ll cover the important steps to make more money from your 125×125 sized banner ads, in your sidebar. We can categorize them in 3 three basic groups: Affiliate banners, CPC (Cost Per Click) Banner Advertisements like: ViralBlogAds and Real on-site advertising which pay monthly.

Make More Money Online by Tweaking affiliate ads:

1. Place your ads on Top sidebar – It is more or less evident to everyone that your affiliate ads will be clicked more if placed on the top part of your sidebar.
2. Get rotators and Monetize your blog with OIOPublisher -Rotation of your ads creates more appearance to all of your ads, My revenue has almost doubled after I have installed this tool. -  If you are using wordpress this Plugin also works well.
3. Create a Text of recommendation on top of your ads – Something like: Recommended Services, Top Shops, Top Spots, Your site Sponsor etc… There thousands of variations on creating such inviting messages- Most trusted readers will click your banners and might use the service that is being offered.
4. Create a specific sized ad groups – If you are running a specific niche site or blog, small banners like: 146×81 or slightly bigger will work well. Recommend them as best Online services, Networks etc… (Recommendation text is strongly depended on the type of niche site you have) I have also highly increased my revenue after I created the recommended money makers group. (But there is still one more – Try to exclude an animated banner in such sections – I have noticed that they may scare some of your visitors).

Make Money Online with PPC 125×125 Ads:

Today Bloggers have a wonderful chance to create 125×125 Banner ads with ViralBlogAds which is a newly established money making Network. Such ads can bring a real big money to you, remember it is still a new service and not everyone knows about it. I had about 3500 affiliate banner clicks on the newly launched website and you can only imagine how much money would I make if they where PPC 125×125 ads. Of Course there is another option to place 125×125 Adsense ads but this time they would be text links and well known already, which is not so click-able when a visitor knows that you’ll get paid. (some people don’t like when others make money, so it is kind of normal anyway.)

Make Money Online with Monthly Advertisers:

If you want to get paid monthly or even weekly but have not more that 200 visitors a day, than PerformancingAds offers a wonderful service to make money weekly. For more tips on how to make more money with PerfAds read on: Here. If you have 200+ 1000+ or more visitors also a good choice to create an advertise page, where you can offer the various ways of putting an ad on your website or blog. For example: $15, $50, or more to put an 125×125 ad on you site (blog) – (use paypal for better management of your money transfers). Also make sure to include other advertising options like inside content ads and reviews. Try Review Me for the last one.

Blogger! which way is more suitable for you?

My next series of Monetization – Only for Bloggers #2 , will discuss the point on how to make more money with inside content ads.

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