Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Partners Help Make Money Online

Written by Garry Conn


My readership is packed full of talent. I know this more than ever after investing many hours last night speaking with many of my students in my >make money online newsletter. One huge problem I faced when first getting started in this business of making money online was the fact that I felt like I could do it all by myself. I felt like I didn't need help from others and I felt like I could handle all the elements in creating a money making machine by myself without bringing in people who obviously had greater skills than me in varying elements.


Here are my observations of my readership. I have readers who are very skilled in web design but suck at writing. I have readers who are very skilled in writing but suck at marketing and promoting. I have readers who are very skilled in programming but aren't very sociable or personable. All these great qualities in people are amazing. On the other hand, everyone has weaknesses or characteristics that aren't up to par compared to others. All in all, no one is perfect and its rare to find an individual who is well rounded in having an expert level of experience in all the elements needed towards creating a money making machine on the Internet.


I have mentioned this many times in the past. However, since I do have quite a few new readers within the last few months, I want to remind people again of how important it is to network, make friends and discover the strengths as well as the weaknesses in other people you surround yourself in. Overall, this is what I see in my readership. I see hundreds of people who have the same goals, the same motivations and the same drive to achieve winning and finding success in the business of blogging and making money online. However, another very common element I see is that not many people are successful in this attempt to make money online.


The reason being is the fact that you're not coming to terms with the fact that you can't do it alone and you can't do it all by yourself. Believe me, you are not the only one who reads my blog who has the goals and the desires to learn how to make money online and take your piece of the pie that all these other successful guys are doing daily.


My suggestion for you is to bite the bullet and recognize that bad breath is better than no breath at all and come to terms with the fact that you can't do this by yourself. However, also come to terms knowing that most of everyone else reading this blog are also in the same boat. I believe that it is simply a matter of you investing some time into contacting other people and presenting your thoughts and ideas to them. You would be amazed with the results. You would also be amazed to discover how much the other person you contact would appreciate you for making an attempt to establish a connection with them.


People are desperate in this business and everyone wants the same freaking thing... yet, everyone wants to fly solo and not seek the help from others. If people in this niche could simply learn to take their guard down and remove the protective walls that surround their ideas and thoughts, then collaborating with others will become so much easier.


What can you bring to the table in a MMO project? Are you a graphic designer but don't have a clue about search engines? Well, everyone knows that a killer looking blog will go far in the niche. But also, everyone knows that a blog dead in the water with no traffic isn't good either. A graphic designer can easily pair up with an SEO and together they can make a very successful business.


Do you see where I am coming from yet? You're not going to win in this business if you keep things to yourself. You're not going to win if you keep spinning your wheels in the mud. You need someone to help you with a good push out of the mud, preferably someone who is also stuck in the mud works well. Finding a mutual partner in this business is very comforting. Two heads are so much better than one. Three heads are better than two. The more people that you can find in starting a make money online venture the better.


What are your thoughts? Drop me a comment and let me know more about how you feel about finding partners in the business. Do you think tag teaming in an online venture is for the birds? Or do you feel like it could help you? Speak your mind.


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Monday, June 16, 2008

StumbleUpon Traffic Can Make Money Online

Written by Garry Conn


Time and time again people insist on trying to convince me that StumbleUpon traffic is useless traffic. While I'll agree to some extent, it can be useless if you're not properly taking advantage of the exposure. So here's the deal. The common complaint about StumbleUpon traffic is that it doesn't convert into money. Typically, bloggers will write something cool or interesting and have it submitted into StumbleUpon resulting in thousands and thousands of visits in a very clustered and quick time frame.


The problem that people face is that the content or the theme of the story being submitted into StumbleUpon isn't something that generates sales, leads or even Google AdSense clicks. Many people feel like it is utterly useless traffic that does nothing but waste bandwidth. While I'll agree with you on one side, I am also going to disagree on the other and here's why.


StumbleUpon Traffic Eventually Leads to PageRank


Of all the things that I have had submitted into StumbleUpon, very commonly I see multiple people turn right around and write a post about what I stumbled on their own blogs. These are backlinks. Backlinks are important towards building up PageRank. The more PageRank an individual page has the more authority and power they have in delivering their own backlinks to other pages that are more important to you (e.g. pages that make you money). You may recall an article I wrote about how you can >make money online by editing your old posts? Well there you go, that is the key to the topic in this article.


How To Make Money From StumbleUpon Traffic?


First off you need to get it out of your head that the ACTUAL StumbleUpon traffic will make you money. On that aspect, you are right. StumbleUpon traffic does not convert into leads, sales or even Google AdSense clicks. However, its in the actions of other Stumblers that will eventually lead to you making money. I agree with you, who cares about the "Burst Fire" flood of traffic that you get from StumbleUpon. Only thing that traffic does is suck your server system resources and eats up your bandwidth. However, when you stumble upon a box do you think inside it of outside of it?


Stumbling Upon A Box and Thinking Outside of It!


Thinking out of the box here... If you want to make money, you have to consider the value of StumbleUpon traffic. While it is obvious that many already know that the actual traffic doesn't convert, its in the upcoming weeks and months that you should be concerned with.


The strategy is in creatively writing content that is geared towards a high concentration among Stumblers while also balancing another strategy in future link building to pages that will make you money. While on the surface most people quickly balk at using StumbleUpon as a means for making money online, I am here to tell you that it can be the best thing since the invention of the wheel.


Write Content For Stumble With A Trojan Horse Inside For Google


When you write content for the purpose of getting Stumbled, write your content in a way that carefully uses keywords and phrases that you can eventually use to link to relevant pages that will make you money. The Stumble traffic wave typically only lasts a few days. By then Google will have already crawled and indexed you page. A day or two later, Google will have also crawled all the pages from the other bloggers who have pointed links to your post that was submitted into Stumble upon.


If you carefully wrote your post to include targetable keywords, after a week when the Stumble traffic dies down to nothing, you can simply go back and plug those few selected keywords with links to other pages that you have created for the purpose of making money. In due time, because so many people pointed links to the original post you submitted into StumbleUpon, that page will eventually earn PageRank.


Pages Submitted To Stumble Are Very Likely To Establish PageRank


Pages that earn PageRank establish authority. Pages that are linked from other pages with PageRank also too will earn PageRank. So when you submit your post into StumbleUpon, do so in a way where you know that in about 7 days you'll be going back to plug in links that point to the pages that really count in making money. Because you linked to those money making pages from a page that is soon to be established with PageRank, those additional money making pages will go for the ride as well.


The result will be in having pages built for making money online that end up ranking very well in the search engines. Search engine traffic in many ways is perfect traffic for the fact that if you get traffic from a search engine, it is more likely that they are interested in buying what you have to offer for the fact that they came to your page as a result of searching for it.


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>GarryConn

Tuesday, June 10, 2008

The ConchoLakeAZ.com/ConchoValleyCC.com Blog Contest

The ConchoLakeAZ.com and ConchoValleyCC.com Blog Contest has official began!
The Blog Contest will run from May 26, 2008 until midnight (Arizona Time) on July 4, 2008.

Currently there are over $523 of prizes donated to the contest and growing everyday!

Prizes Donated So Far:

1. http://www.fedoraproperties.com/– iPod Shuffle, 1 GB, your choice of color (value $55 includes shipping)

2. www.ConchoLakeAZ.com– one ConchoLakeAZ.com Log Hat (value $20)

3. www.ConchoLakeAZ.com – two 150 x 130 advertising space on www.ConchoNews.info , ad runs from July to December 2008 (value: $60)

4. www.ConchoValley.CC– 1000 EntreCard credits (value $10)

5. www.DailyBlogTips.com– two winners for the ebook “Killer Domains” (value: $17 each)

6. www.ConchoLionsClub.com – two winners for a 150 x 130 advertising space on their website, ad to run from July to December 2008 (value: $60 each)

7. www.PawsArtPics.wordpress.com – Two artwork pictures by Mimi (value: $40 each)

8. www.ABookBloggersDiary.blogspot.com – a copy of the book “Staked” by J. F. Lewis (value: $14)

9. www.WhiteMountainBase.SubVets.com - Two White Mountain Submarine Veterans T-Shirts (value $20 each) and two 6-pack soda coolers (value $15 each)

To enter gain your points doing the following things:

- Complete daily task.
- Write a blog post about this competition and then leave a comment on the site. Link all sponsors (1st Task)
- Subscribe to ConchoLakeAZ.com and ConchoValleyCC.com Blog RSS feeds by mail (+1 each)
- Refer a friend - when your friend visits the website for the first time, their first comment should be “Joe referred me to the website” (+2 each).

Earn Double Points by posting your comments on both websites!

www.ConchoNews.info (aka: Blog.ConchoLakeAZ.com) - 1 entry point

www.ConchoValleyCC.com – 1 entry point

The Blog Contest Winners will be determined by a random drawing and the Winners will be announced on the ConchoLakeAZ.com Blog and the ConchoValleyCC.com Blog on Monday, July 7, 2008.

Friday, May 9, 2008

MyApartmentMap Contest

MyApartmentMap is running an interesting blog contestwhere a lucky blogger stands a chnace to win a $50 Amazon gift card.

The rules are simple: Write a review(long or short) about MyApartmentMap.com, post it on your site/blog, make sure you include a link back to our homepage. Then leave a comment on the contest post.

It’s that easy. The contest is running the entire month of May. If you have multiple blogs or websites, you may enter multiple times, the more reviews you write, the better your chances are winning.

Good luck people and stay tuned as the site will be running a new contest every month.