I’d like to announce my latest Squidoo lens:

How I make money on Twitter

Why should you check it out? Well, basically it’s about 90% of my Twitter strategy. What’s the other 10%? That’s what you might call a trade secret…heh.

It does give details on how I run my Twitter campaign, so I hope this will help you either duplicate my success or formulate your own strategy for monetizing your Twitter account.

Read. Enjoy.

Read more about: lens, make money with twitter, money, squidoo, twitter

I’ve been watching this video off and on. It’s a presentation where John Chow laid everything on the line about how he’s been able to make money with his blog. This is very good information! There’s a lot of marketers on the net that would charge for this kind of information, but here it is, free to the web.

You can either see it at JC’s blog, which can be found here, or watch the video below.

My Blog Business Model from John Chow on Vimeo.

Read more about: blog, Blogging, john chow, make money blogging, Video

It seems like every time I’m hanging around on the Digital Point forums, I see somebody ask questions along the line of ‘how can I make money online with my site?’ only to be bombarded with a salvo of answers that contain one piece of advice.

Not that getting a random persons favorite network (most likely Google AdSense) is a bad thing, but many people fail to branch out beyond one network at a time and simply choose to sit around scratching their heads wondering why they aren’t putting money in their pocket.

If you have ever watched any stock market advice shows, or listened to Dave Ramsey, you already know the best method. The answer is simple: diversify!

First, if your website is getting a ton of traffic, then Google AdSense might be a good thing to run. However, if you only rely on AdSense for income, you are not playing with a full deck. You are simply trusting that some of those visitors will click on the ads. Since that’s not guaranteed (and many people tend to get ad blindness), you need to do more than just run AdSense.

You might look into something a bit more mouse-catching, like Kontera. No, I’m not saying replace AdSense…run both! Kontera, at least for me, gets more clicks because many people are curious about the double underlined keywords in my articles. Not only that, but there are many people on the net that aren’t quite as marketing savvy as some of us, and see a link that looks a bit funny and are, for some unknown reason, compelled to click it just to see what happens.

Yeah, those are the people that want you to fix their computer on the weekends because their kids broke the dang thing on that internet…whatsit…

But lets’ take this a step further. You can have all of the good traffic in the world, but if people don’t click your AdSense or Kontera links, you get nothing. That’s why, if you are pulling good traffic, you need to also get hooked up with a CPM ad network like ADSDAQ or AdBrite. That way, you get paid based on the number of impressions the ad makes, regardless of whether people click it or not.

Also, if your blog is well established, you could probably sell some adspace directly to readers or other bloggers in your niche. Pure profit is a good thing!

If you are only using one or two monetiziation methods on your site, you are missing out on untapped opportunity. Branch out! Get paid!

Read more about: adbrite, adsdaq, adsense, Blogging, google, kontera, Money

Yesterday I came home to an envelope that had already been opened. No, not by anyone I don’t know, so it’s cool.

It was my first check from Logical Media!

For those that may not know, Logical Media is an affiliate network that has some pretty good offers. And yes, it is confirmed now, they are very legitimate. Of course, if I didn’t have people tell me about them to begin with, I would not have joined.

This check was for $121.05. That may not seem like much, but I really do put a very small amount of effort into marketing in what little time I have to do it, and I mainly stick with just ONE of their current campaigns. I’m not telling which one. :p

If you are looking for a good affiliate network, you should check out Logical Media. There’s a banner on the right hand side of the site that you can check them out and/or sign up with.

They were offering a $25 signup bonus at one point. Not sure if that’s still going on, but it’s worth a shot.

Read more about: affiliate marketing, affiliate networks, check, cpa, cpc, logical media

We are all on high alert for the latest Twitter tools. This one didn’t quite fly under my radar, although I have to admit that it really did try to.

But how could I pass this one up?

Breadbox64 is a new Twitter client that runs on none other than a Commodore 64. Since it seems that the social media generation falls primarily in an age group that has for the most part never seen (or heard of) reel-to-reel or 8 track tapes, some of you may be left scratching your heads. Surely this blogger has to be kidding, right?

No, I’m not kidding. Here’s the video:

While this might not be quite as portable as your iPhone, it will allow those really old school geeks (like me) to dust off that old hardware. And since the digital TV switch, you probably have an old analog television set sitting around that you can connect your C64 to!

Download Breadbox64 here! (For C64, NOT Windows…)

Read more about: breadbox64, commodore64, retro computing, twitter, twitter client, twitter tools

I totally was expecting the Facebook servers to implode under all of the stress of a massive influx of users. Fortunately, there was not a single FailWhale to be seen.

Yes, I got mine.

http://www.facebook.com/wessrocks

Check it out! Hope to see you all on Facebook!

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Steve Schuitt from TubeNinja.com made a great video about how to add a mailing list opt-in box to your Facebook page. Yes, I did this. Yes, you should also!

Here’s the video. Enjoy. Learn.

Read more about: email, Facebook, mailing list, opt-in, social marketing, steve schuitt, tubeninja.com