3 posts tagged “blogging”
The podcast below helps explain my business model. I think my model takes the high ground, I give you 90% of everything for free.
I keep my blog ad free (those Google ads at the bottom keep VOX hosting free for me). My sidebar simply has referral links for you to join programs that I have already joined and are making money at. And finally I have created downloadable seminars so that you can get the other 10% I do not reveal on this blog. These include the scientific method of buying and selling stocks and the 3 fat frugal techniques guaranteed to save you thousands of $$$.
Thanks to the folks over at Frugal Yankee for this podcast.
First, you better join this program if you have not already done so. I will have earned 280 Swag Bucks in less than 4 months.
In dollar terms, each Swag Buck is 7.14 cents (redeem 70 for $5 paypal cash).
Here are some tips to help you maximize your effort:
- Typically, you'll earn 2 Swag Bucks a day through normal searching, on average.
- Every single day they pick a Swagger who posted a Tweet that included "#swagbucks" and hook them up with 10-20 Free Swag Bucks. The tweet can be about anything related(or not) to the world of Swag
- If you want to try for more Swag Bucks, enter their Mega Swag Bucks Swagstakes
- Check the web site every hour you can. Random winners are posted every hour and you'll win 5 instant Swag Bucks by clicking the claim link
- Get the toolbar to make searching easier
- Friday is Mega Swagbucks Day. So don't skip Fridays.
- I sent in an old cell phone to be recycled and got 1 Swag Buck (they paid my shipping)
- You will get more Swag Codes if you follow them on Twitter, become a Facebook fan, read the Blog, and subscribe to their newsletter (these are all on the Swagbucks home page)
Many bloggers believe they can make money selling links and ads on their page. My research shows otherwise. Here are some examples:
- Yahoo announced it was shutting down last century's hot social-networking-esque service, GeoCities, for which it paid $3.5 billion in 1999.
- Credit Suisse puts YouTube's estimated 2009 losses at nearly half a billion dollars.
- Getting million of new users in the Third World sucks, because Facebook will never be able to monetize those eyeballs
- Proof of payment from an typical blogger - no revenues after February?
- Research found that the 6% of the online population accounting for most of the click-throughs skews toward male Internet users ages 25 to 44 with household income under $40,000. They were also more likely to visit auction, gambling and career sites.
- Competition – many bloggers are now using Google ads
- Annoying techniques (pop-up/under ads, ads that you must close to see web content, flash based entry points, and commercials prior to videos) are driving users crazy
- Consumers want less marketing – CANSPAM, Do Not Call List, Do Not Track List
