April 29, 2008

Patterns are a beautiful thing

Over the past 2 months I have noticed a pattern with my adsence income from my blogs. I have been using adsence for 2 years now and I have just recently decided to track all of my click through rates and income from them, I have learned two very important lessons from this. First, I always have more people click the ads and visit the website from original content. If you have noticed 90% of what I publish isn't my content. I still plan on publishing others people's content, but I will always find new ways to integrate ads inside my content. As long as it doesn't take away from the content. Second, every time I publish content there will be a few more dollars in my adsence account. I know this make sense, but there is something else I discovered. The days that there is published more then one post there is a higher viewing rate of by posts. The adsence amount doesn't seem to change from a 5 post day to a 1 post day, I still need to spend some time to figure this out. Everyday that there is published more then one post there is a jump in the website visits and blog views. I believe this is because out of the 5 posts that are published someone will scroll through and maybe one of them will grab there attention. They are faced with a different choice now. Instead of "should I view this post?" the viewer is now thinking "which post should I view?" This system has worked for me. Let me know if it works for you.

April 26, 2008

Online Photo Sharing in Plain English

If you love digital photos, it makes sense to keep them backed up online. Plus, if they're online, all sorts of fun things are possible.

Blogs in Plain English

A video for people who wonder why blogs are such a big deal.

Wikis in Plain English. What is a wiki

Here the the best way to have multiple people work on one online project. You can collaborate, edit and design anything with a wiki and no detail is left behind. We made this video because wiki web sites are easy to use, but hard to describe. We hope to turn you on to a better way to plan a camping trip, or create the next Wikipedia.

Video - RSS in Plain English. Do you know what RSS is?

Save time with RSS. We made this video for our friends (and yours) that haven't yet felt the power of our friend the RSS reader. We want to convert people and if you know someone who would love RSS and hasn't yet tried it, point them here for 3.5 minutes.

April 15, 2008

www.go2web20.net - Review by Online-Income-101.com

Take a look at this website. I have never seen so many links that focus on all elements of the web 2.0 world.

February 11, 2008

8 Ways To Make Money Online Using Private Label Rights Info Products

I feel that private label rights is going to become a more popular trend in the future. Private label rights (also known as PLR)

is a way that you buy a product in it’s raw stage and modify the content and turn it into your own. Below is a video that stats 8 different ways you can make money with PLR, but I want to point out 2 different types of PLR.

First, you buy content from someone and they give you the right to resell that ebook or article. You have to remember that your not the only person this content will be sold to for the purpose of resale. So what are you going to do to make this original content? If it is a ebook, you can reformat the book and give it a new look and feel. Then add content, not just more words but pictures, a table of contents, glossary, a link page to other resources and affiliate programs of yours.

Second, produce your own content and offer private label rights. To get people excited you might only offer 5 resell rights and sell the PLR for top dollar to the 5 lucky people. You could get your product translated into a different language. If you don't know someone who speaks Spanish (for example) you can always find freelance people to do it. If I were to get a information product of mine translated I would find at least 2 people to work on it. One to translate and one to check over the work.

If the PLR trend gets more popular, over time expect to see a flood of the same content. Try to make your PLR your own. Always remember that someone will always try to sell the same content cheaper.

Let me know about your success. Below is a video that covers 8 different ways you can use someone else's PLR content.
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February 1, 2008

BecomeABlogger.com

Here is a great resource about the basics of starting a blog. There is a 10 part video series about the WordPress blogging platform and many features of it. You can watch these videos in two places.
http://www .online-income-101.com/series/becomea/blogger.html
http://www.becomeablogger.com/

Website Review #2 - Online-Income-101.com

Have you ever gone to a website that was so ugly you wish the back button was closer to your mouse? If you want to make money online, do you feel a great looking website will a track and keep more visitors? Here is a website that I came across that has a lot of "Do Not" in its layout.

January 31, 2008

Website Review #1: Better Site = More Profit?

Have you ever gone to a website and it looks so bad that you don't want to view it anymore? I have come across so many websites that are trying to sell ebook and online courses and a large majority of them have the ugliest looking websites. I will be doing many screen casts on website layout. I do not claim to be the best website designer out there, but I hope to share a few things that I have learned over the years. It is now easier then ever to make and host a website. This new ease has developed a group of people that want to sell products online but don't want to learn website design. If your one of those people, find someone to make your site for you. It doesn't cost much these days. In this video I will go through 2 website and show you what I like and what I don't like. I hope that you can learn a few facts about website design.

Online-Income-101.com got Scrutinized

Here is a video of my first website design and the changes I made with the StomperNet Scrutinizer software. In this software you use your mouse to simulate where your eyes are looking on a website. The free Scrutinizer software then shows you how your eye is receiving data. Here is a screen cast of the changes that I made to the site because of this software.
to watch the StomperNet videos first. There are very important facts that are taught.
1. Color
2. Contrast
3. Spacing
4. Shapes
5. Sizes.
And more. Watch the video below to see my experience with the Scrutinizer software.

January 16, 2008

YouTube - My main income stream went off line

YouTube Was Down

My main stream of income comes from a site that is full of YouTube videos. I noticed one evening that the money wasn't coming in at all so I decided to investigate. Upon my arrival at YouTube.com I was viewing a white screen with the simple phrase "Service Unavailable". I was shocked to say the least. My main stream of income was unavailable and no explanation of why. Luckily the site was down for only around 6 hours and most of that time was through the night. I can say that I learned an important lesson in all this. I even asked myself some questions.
First, I didn't have a backup plan. What if the server totally died? It could take weeks to get up and running again.
Second - Should I strengthen my other streams of income?
Third - Should I offer more then just video content?
Forth - Should I switch my video host?

I believe Youtube is the best video hosting site out there. I want to thank them for all the work that they do. From the lesson I learned, there is some steps I should take to prevent any future problems. I will be hosting my videos at another video hosting site, this will be a backup incase YouTube goes down for a long period of time. I do have my online focuses for my income. With that said, there is always room for improvement thought all my online income endeavors. I will now be putting in more time to grow and develop multiple streams of income.

I do depend on Google for almost all my online work. (Blogger, Adsense, FeedBurner, Analytics, Alerts) It is not just my video hosting that I should be developing backup strategies for. If one of those elements goes down I have no backup plan in place. Wow, I am scaring myself just writing this post. I am going to start my backup plan. Let me know what you do.

January 10, 2008

Site Redesign

So I am making a screen cast of the StomperNet software I downloaded. I found many ways to make this website better. Please, let me know what you think of the new look.

The SMARTS Social Marketing Strategy Guide

The SMARTS Social Marketing Strategy Guide
Here is the most amazing article and video about Social marketing. It is another video posted by StomperNet and it has my mind spinning about social marketing. I wanted to use the strategies that were taught right away, but here is this post first. One phrase I leaned from this article and video is "First Starter Advantage" which simply mean that the sooner you get in the better the results. Don't you wish you had on of the first MySpace page? Or one of the first videos hosted on Youtube. Since membership in most social network is free why not try them all out? Even the small newer ones. Social media can be the best thing that happens to your web traffic. With that said, can't it also be the worse? I believe if you create great original content and the focus is to educate the viewers, you will quickly see your content showing up all over the web. So, I have 3 things that I would like for you to do.

1. Get paper and pen ready.
2. Download this free article.
3. Watch the 50 min video.

StomperNet - Going Natural 2.0

Do you have a website or blog? How well do you know website design? Here is a video series that you needs to see, it discusses the main principals behind how your eyes work. If you understand how your eye captures and processes information, then you better understand how to layout your web-space so it can increase your conversion rate. If can be as simple as color and text changes that will make a huge difference. Below are 4 videos that you need to watch and even a free program to download. I will be following up with a video of the changes I made from watching these videos. Let me know what you think of the videos.

Click Fu - part 1 of 4


Click Fu - part 2 of 4


Click Fu - part 3 of 4


Click Fu - part 4 of 4


So there you have it, over a half hour of video about you eyes. I personally didn't think it would be as interesting as it was. I already have watched it twice. Below is the link to the free software. Just follow the steps, there is acually 2 free pieces of software that you need to download. It's worth it. If you need any more reasons to download this free software here's 10 from their website.

Scrutinizer

Google - The Cheat Sheet

The Google Cheat Sheet
Here is a page that I came accross the helped me with all of Google's services. It is called the Google Cheat Sheet and it is a 2 page .pdf with lists of everything Google.

The two pages of Google Cheat Sheets cover:-

A list of all Google domains
Company information
Founded Date
Key People
Revenue
Employees
Contact Address
Contact Phone & Fax

PageRank
Googlebot 2.1 Addresses
List of sites with PageRank 10
PageRank formula
Google Form Elements
Google Services
Query structure to access directory listings of:-
Music files
Movie files
List of basic Google Calculator operators
List of advanced Google Search operators
List of Google Investments
List of fun Google services and tools
List of 15 official Google Blogs
Google Calculator examples
Search by number examples

And more!

Ideal for novice, intermediate and advanced Google users!

Click on the picture to learn more.

PayPal Calculator

PPCalc
Click the logo to find a PayPal Calculator. Here is a PayPal Calculator. You simply put in an amount of money and it will show you the paypal fee. If you are sending, recieving, or setting you income from your products here is a tool that can help you with all aspects of PayPals fees. Let me know how you like it.

Online Business Startup Guide - Entrepreneur.com

Here is a book that set the stage for me. It clearly showed me how to make money online. Many techniques taught in this book I use in all my website.

Online  Business Startup Guide

This guide is packed with everything you need to know to launch a successful online venture.

Plus, along the way you learn the secrets of some of today's most successful cyber entrepreneurs, including NetFlix's Reed Harris, Autobytel's Rick Post, Proflowers' Jared Polis, Newegg.com's Howard Tong and many others.

This is great way to start a retail business without spending a ton of cash, or if you already have an established business, a website offers you an extremely cost-effective way to reach millions of additional customers. Either way, the internet offers tremendous opportunities for success, and our guide is the place to start.

Online Business Startup Guide



Multiple Streams of Internet Income

I am on the second reading of this book. In the first chapter Robert G. Allen describes how he made $94,532.44 in 24 hours on live television. The rest of the book teaches you how to achieve financial freedom from the internet.

Multiple Streams of Internet Income: How Ordinary People Make Extraordinary Money Online

How Ordinary People Make Extraordinary Money Online

A surefire plan for supplementing your income-or making a fortune-on the InternetIn Multiple Streams of Internet Income, Robert Allen, bestselling author of the #1 megahits Nothing Down and Creating Wealth, offers six surefire methods for making serious money online-even if youre a computer novice. Allen offers step-by-step plans for earning Internet riches, based on the timeless principles of marketing you must learn to increase the odds of your success. He also provides strategies, techniques, and visual tools for achieving the life you dream about. Learn how to:Earn profits in just one hour-starting from scratchDouble your current offline business by going onlineLaunch an Internet business in hours-not days or weeksSet up six robust streams of Internet income that flow 24/7/365Deliver your marketing message to consumers faster, cheaper, and easierOperate your business from any telephone in the worldDrive traffic to your site and get people to beg for your productsTurn junk into cash with auctionsMake advertising pay for youAnd much, much more.

Hosting: Web Hosting Solution

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I have been a member of
web hosting service for over a year now. I have been very impressed with their service and 24/7 1-800 support. Here is a look at their control panel.
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January 7, 2008

Google Checks - Another one

Google Check for Dec/07
I hope that everyone will understand why I made this picture a little blurry. It does have personal information included. Here you see is my 3rd check from Google Adsense. If you do not use google adsense and want to learn how you can use these ads on your website or blog Click Here. I guess I'll tell you a little back ground about my self and how I received this check. In 2004 I went to a audio recording school, I love to write and record music. After graduating from there I got a job at a recording studio and started there recording podcasts. "What's a podcast?" I thought when I first got the job. Over the next few months I learned a lot about the power of podcasting and how to market it online with social marketing. So, Audio recording got me into podcasting. Podcasting got me into online marketing, online marketing got me into social and niche marketing. I decided to use everything I learned and produced a website that became a huge resource of free information about audio recording and podcasting. I now receive 600 - 1200 unique visits a day to this site. I do not have a huge overload of advertisements, but I do have Google Adsence across the website that produces me a small income. All I do know is add other peoples content from YouTube to my blog (mostly) everyday and one of these checks show up every 2-3 months. It took a lot of time to set up but now it is very little work to maintain and the money keeps on coming in.

Google Ads
Here you can see 2 of the Google ads on the bottom of the page. I hope that you have viewed my 3 step mini course that teaches you how to setup and make money from Blogger and Adsence, if not, there will be a link at the end of this post. Once you have google ads on your blog or website you will have to place the ads where people can see and click them. You cannot encourage people or trick people into clicking them. Once you get enough honest clicks to equal $100 google will then send you a check or automatically transfer the money into a bank account of yours. It's easy and it's fun to have checks from Google with your name on them. Click here to learn the 3 simple steps to setup a free Blogger and Adsence account and start making some money right away.

This website is RecordBetterAudio.com


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