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How Can You Make Money With Your Blog? A guide to monetizing your blog.

How Can You Make Money With Your Blog?

A guide to monetizing your blog.

So you fancy yourself a writer? You think you have value to give your fellow man, and you can't wait to share it, but you've realized that blogging and being a popular blog can cost you a little cash and take over your time, so you want to know how can you make money while doing what you love? Well here are a few ways you can go about making blogging profitable!

There are 3 main ways to make money with your blog, sponsored posts, affiliate marketing, and going out and grabbing your own sponsors. For any of these to actually make any money you will need a steady flow of traffic to your website/blog. No one wants to pay you for dead space. (What your blog is if you're the only one reading it!) 

Sponsored posts. What is a sponsored post? A sponsored post is a post that you are paid to write usually about a company or product on your blog. These companies are paying for your positive review of their services, site, or product to get your readers attention. Please keep in mind that if you write about world hunger and you suddenly post a review for a designer shoe company this will confuse your readers and probably not be profitable for the company. You are providing a service so make sure your posts are inline with your audience, to keep both your readers and your client happy. Sponsored posts can be obtained through a couple of different places. 

1. Social Spark
2. She Blogs
   
3. Mom Dot
   
4. Business 2 Blogger

Those are the blogger to company programs I currently am enlisted with most have communities as well as their own blogs attatched to their businesses... I prefer the people at mom dot but maybe that's because they are just getting started trying to hook up their blogging community with sponsors.

Getting your own sponsors. If you intend on going after your own sponsors let me suggest that you know what you want, and start small. Don't jump on your dream sponsorship and mess it up right away. Start with the mom and pop company work out the kinks in your pitch and then grow from their until you are very comfortable and know what to expect companies to ask about your blog and what you have to offer. Know what you want. Don't under sell yourself but don't promise things you can't produce. If your blog gets 100 unique views a month you can't produce 1,000 hits on their page/website/sells ect. within a month. Make sense? You will get more personal attention from the mom and pop small business owners, but they will also expect more value for their dollars so just be aware of that when you get started.

Affiliate Marketing. There are many ways to go about marketing for affiliate marketing companies. You can use google adsense to try and drive traffic to your sponsors, you can use email marketing, facebook ads, posting ads/banners on your own site, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), misspelling name registrations, and other black hat spammy type methods, and finally article posts. In blogging you will be dealing MOSTLY with article posts which may include product reviews. With my freebie blog if there is a company that is offering some sort of giveaway this fits in VERY well and with a high traffic following this would pay for the blog and my time easily. Finding those magical companies, that fit right in with your niche is hard! There is something that would make your life much easier however, having a good and responsive account manager assigned by the affiliate programs. Unfortunately, most of the programs I've been involved with this far only want to assign account managers to companies that are consistently producing $10,000 a month in commissions (if I were producing that kind of cash I don't know that I'd need their account manager any longer!) BUT, I haven't given up on finding a company that will fit my blog like a glove and be so easy to use and understand that I won't need help, or will have that affiliate manager available to me while I grow. These are a few of the companies I currently use.

1. Max Bounty
2. Commission Junction
3. Link Share
4. Google Affiliate Network
5. Click Bank

That being said Ebay, Google, & Amazon all have their own affiliate networks that pay you for product referal sales on their websites. I was unable to secure approval from Ebay, I am a part of google adsense and use several google webmaster type products, and Amazon I am a part of but it hasn't converted well at all for me but that might be user error and not their fault! 

There are a few things that don't exactly fall into the above categories, that involve selling ad space one way or another on your blog.

Adsense, Adsense is run by google it was mentioned earlier but I want to clarify that this is text based advertisement. It usually works best when you try to intergrate it into your website to look like links for reference and part of the content. I personally find adsense annoying because I don't know how many times I've been tricked into exiting what I was looking at thinking I was clicking a link to the same site about what I was researching. Generally I'm not an online "buyer" I do shop online but I'm usually broke :p Adsense is easy to implement and blogger just asks for your ID and pops ads into your blog at appropriate spots. Adsense

Vig Link, I find viglink to be an INCREDIBLY neat and very profitable idea for the creator. Viglink makes all the links on your site affiliate links, once you install their script to your sites main page. Viglink takes a percentage of the profit and puts in, their pockets and gives you a percentage of links that you weren't able to make affiliate links or forgot or didn't know there was an affiliate program for at all. Like I said it's easy to see how a script that is able to do this for your site and keeps a share of the profit of your site and every other site  that installs it can be easily extremely profitable for the creator. But like I said, links you didn't affiliate anyway it's no skin off your nose to run this program on your blog. Make SURE you don't turn on it's affiliate over-ride feature UNLESS you plan on using it as your only way to monetize your site. (Which could work well if you don't want to make a lot with your site and don't want the hassel of looking for affiliates to promote. This is the microwave of affiliate marketing :p)  Vig Link

There are other services that I have heard about and used through hubpages that make keywords in the text of your content links to related sites, automatically. This kinda falls into the same category as adsense I hate being tricked and am usually very annoyed when I click a link only to find that the link I clicked took me away from the website and not to the users intended content. I have also found these types of links to link to competitors websites and things not always relevant to the content that I meant to portray... there isn't enough control for this type of content and for that reason I will not be promoting those types of programs. 

Those are the main ways up until this point that I have found for monetizing blogs. There are surely other ways out there there are probably hundreds of companies I have left off that promote blogging and business direct partnerships, and 100's of other affiliate marketing companies, this is NOT meant to be a complete liste by far the internet is a big wide place and I could open an entire new blog just to talk about my experiences with the affiliate marketing companies and other ways of personal monetization.

A side note on affiliate marketing; I'd also like to mention that every affiliate, partnership, and individual company has acceptable use policies and you MUST be sure you are in compliance with their terms before promoting for them. There's NOTHING more frustrating than finding out you're getting charge-backs because the company realized you promoted their products in a way that they disapproved of. When you're in doubt about anything it is best to ask questions rather than be sorry later. Affiliate managers are there to answer queries and when there isn't one available there is a help section available!

Thanks for taking the time to get to the end of all of this and absorb my knowledge!

-Heather

PS:
If you are or know of another outstanding company that deserves to be listed in this entry please feel free to contact me! I will gladly edit this post to add your company or organization, or write a separate review for the right terms.

If I have missed opportunities for monetization entirely please feel free to contact me also I will gladly look into those ways as well, may even give you a chance to guest post, or again edit this article and credit you with the appropriate submission if you wish.

Top Level Position Sets The Network Marketing Industry On Fire!

I just discovered an incredible money making business opportunity, and I just have to share it with you! I have found something that will allow the most average individual the ability to make an outstanding amount of money just doing things they naturally do every day. This is not hype, it’s a reality. The ability to reach for dreams and goals that you might have thought weren’t a possibility. What would you dream if you knew you couldn’t fail? Would you dream of a new home, a new car, get out of debt, a vacation, help your children, or help your parents?

If you have a dream, a purpose, a passion but lack the financial backing or ability to pursue it for whatever reason, this may be the most important letter you will ever read.  Here is a way to make your dreams come true, regardless of what your dreams are, what your passion may be, you deserve to live it! The financial capital can be all yours with this unique opportunity.

Top Level Position is one of the most powerful and effective business opportunities ever introduced into the network marketing arena.  This unique system works on a revolutionary compensation plan that will give you the opportunity to make the capital you need to pursue your goals!  You will make money off of every single person that enrolls after you, for life.  This is the fairest and most lucrative plan existing in the world today, and can give you the key to your dreams and the pursuit of happiness.

Making money has never been easier.  Use your network, the people you know on Facebook or any other social site to make money for your needs and wants.  How does it work?  Simple.  You network with people every day.  Every time you pick up the phone and call a friend, post a status update to facebook, or twitter, meet a friend at the coffee shop, that’s networking. Top Level Position allows you to use that very network to earn capital.  It’s possible because of the unique compensation plan being touted by experts as a complete game changer.  This offer is backed by a zero debt, multi-million dollar company operated by some of the wealthiest individuals in America.

Top Level Position is out to destroy the normal standards in network marketing, and give you the opportunity to change your financial future forever.  Here is what you get for signing up for free today:

· Support from a multi-million dollar network marketing company

· The training and tool sets to teach you how to earn capital and expand your network in every action you do

· An infrastructure that will allow you to work with the company, not for the company.

· “TLP” brings you unparalleled ways to achieve unlimited amounts of income.

· The possibility to reach your dreams, your goals, and pursue your passion whatever it may be

In life, we all need a support system, a network of people to support us.  That network is a wonderful way to bring your dream to reality.  How much time will you take to earn the capital you need to pursue happiness?  When it boils down to it, you will spend forty hours a week or more too continuously pull income into your household at your job. It makes sense to put the network you naturally build to work for you, to make you income.  The tools to teach you how to do this are available, and they are absolutely free when you sign up.  Your dreams are within your grasp, stand up and take them!

It’s time for you to start working your way to the life of your dreams. Join with over 20,000 other members as they put their faith in this company, and climb to the top with Top Level Position today!

Live Inspired,

 Heather Roberts

P.S. Don't forget to join me today! Every minute you waste more people are joining, that's a big deal since you get paid on EVERY person that joins Top Level Position after you!

Join NOW!

www.toplevelposition.com/pensacola

Working from home: a reply to a friend

Working from home: a reply to a friend

Here's the thing if you plan to work from home you have to realize that you will be WORKING from home, and it will have to be a job that you have the skills to do that can be done from home... you obviously can't wait tables, flip burgers, check people out at walmart, stock shelves, ect ect from home. So your options are some sort of sales, some kind of customer service of (if you are lucky enough to find one of those legitimate positions, and have some way to keep your child completely silent while you work), research and writing, or web specifics like website building or optimization. 

Most likely you aren't going to make enough money from home to cover your bills unless you work 24/7 and even then it's iffy, most at home positions are 1099 which means you are a contractor and own your own business so you've got to get your entrepreneur cap on to make this work... 

The good news is I have opportunities and suggestions for you!

I run a freebies, sweepstakes, and deals blog. www.freebiessweepsanddeals.com I need someone to help with blog posts if you can write.

I also need someone to make sales calls for one of my companies this also might be something you could do.

Neither of these are going to make you a living unless you are super with the sales calls, and they would both be 1099 positions. That being said if you have any interest in going into business for yourself... I have these opportunities to tell you about but a warning first.

There are lot's of companies out there that promise wealth through network marketing, but I can tell you from experience MOST of those companies don't deliver and you end up sinking a lot of time and passion into something that sinks you....

I'm personally in two VERY lucrative network marketing companies myself that show a lot of promise. One is very simple and basically free to join. Like I said though a LOT of network marketing companies are a racket because you never make any money with them and usually get tricked into buying a lot of product you'll never use and that's not the case with any of the companies below. The other thing is people don't understand that network marketing companies require real effort and work, that's why they are called network marketing instead of netsitting companies :)

www.driveandeatfree.com  I suggest if you do any kind of network marketing company that you check that one out because it is by far the best deal I have ever seen. It will be the easiest to show others and get "yes"es for. This is a grocery delivery service that is all over the US and canada, and they basically pay you for telling your friends about them $300 for the first 6 people who join because you told them and then $500 for every 6 after that that's insane money if you are good about telling people about something you like ... watch the presentation on the website though it will tell you all the details.

I'm also with Pur3x www.sellpur3x.com this is a designer beverage company that is on the rise and how I personally plan to retire by 35. (click on the sell pur3x link for more info) 

If you have a cell phone with unlimited text messaging this company is completely free: Turbo Tycoon  www.turbotycoon.com/facebook  this one pays a small amount for every marketing text (which should be local deals) you receive you could also get paid by signing up local businesses to use their service... or telling your friends about it you get a small amount for every text they get too... this company is also brand new... I don't expect you or anyone else will make a living doing this company but it could mean a little spending money :)

If you are interested in any of the things I mentioned contact me... moonlightsenterprises@gmail.com I'll answer any questions you have, and I'll help you get started on any of my projects I have a couple of websites where you can waste lots of time searching for a different real opportunity too I'm not affiliated with them so I won't post them in this message but if you want I'll email them to you.

Good luck,

Heather

Making money with your cell phone

So anywhere people gather, there is a way to make money off of it. This is something I've learned over time.

Twitter, facebook, blogs, mom groups, craigslist... anything that gets traffic is monetize-able.

A few days ago I blogged on a new concept to the market turbo tycoon and I still very much believe in and have high hopes for that company but tonight I realized they aren't a unique as I had thought.

I've heard people talking about making money with Twitter and I thought... uh... how? Well tonight I ran across a blog over at our friends at it's all free online.

That blog shared 2 more opportunities for making money texting and I'm stoked :) I've just gotten back into twitter I have my freebie blog updating there regularly now... and as soon as it's geared up we'll be joining with that account.

Sponsored Tweets:


Sign up here:



When you sign up for sponsored tweets you're basically giving a 3rd party permission to tweet your followers about things they're marketing that your followers might be interested in... if you were an auto repair shop maybe maintnance, deals on service, car recalls, shop supplies, ect would be things you'd want your followers to see.

For my deal blog and followers though I've got mine set for freebies, sweepstakes, deals, coupons, bogo, mom, sales, discounts, surveys, money making opportunities, key words since that's what that blog is about.

You also get to set a price you're willing to accept for allowing them to tweet your followers. Mine is set at $1 I'm going to wait and see how well it performs at such a low rate is my links are low quality I'll probably raise my price or maybe discontinue the service but I don't know that yet we'll have to wait and see how it performs.

Now there's a couple of draw backs to this program your twitter account must be 60 days old, you must have minimum of 100 followers and 100 previous tweets. You also can't cash out till you've hit $50 in payments. "we" aren't at those milestones with that account yet so we're going to have to wait to start this program but we'll let you know how it does in the future. Or if you are able to participate you're welcome to leave your own review here in the comments.


My Likes: 




My likes is an interesting program basically we all share links sometimes to friends about products that we've recently checked out and been impressed with or a favorite song or whatever... now you can get paid for sharing that info on twitter (and facebook, youtube, and various other social networks that I didn't immediately recognize :)   ) The pay for each program varies greatly... and is PPC (pay per click). This one just takes some browsing... right now what I'm not liking about my likes though is that I signed my facebook business page up for it and then realized it wouldn't work well with it... and wanted to move it to my personal page and I'm having a heck of a time getting it to remove and replace that info... *sigh* anyway over all think the program is nifty.


You aren't going to get rich with either of these programs but getting paid to do something we normally do anyway is very much worthwhile if I make $20 for something I would have done for free then I'm ahead and I'll go get my nails done with the little extra that came in for virtually nothing.

Anyway guys hope you enjoy these programs!

Live Inspired,

Moon

Pur3x

Pur3x is what got me back into this mindset. I believe in this company and there is a lot of money to be made in this budding company.

Jeremy Hamilton Explains Pur3x

Pur3x is a Designer Beverage club people enjoy designer clothes, designer handbags, designer puppies, I mean the list goes on. So why not a designer beverage with a variety of benefits? Pur3x is marketing to a niche specific crowd and for that reason along with the most incredible, simple, fair pay plan I’ve seen in this industry I fully expect this company to stay around beyond it’s 29 year scheduled, promised pay plan.

Pur3x has 3 beverages out right now and I have tried all 3.

Renew is an energy drink. When it comes to energy drinks I think the entire time I’m drinking it “God I hope this stuff works because it tastes TERRIBLE!” and I prepared myself for this same experience when trying it but I was pleasantly suprised. Renew is a carbonated beverage with a pleasant fruity taste. Renew offers the usual benefits of energy drinks without the typical crash. Renew is lower in sugar and calories then most energy drinks and has less caffeine then your average cup of coffee. One of my partners refers to Renew as instant hangover relief he owns a construction company and gives them to his workers Monday morning. (LOL)

Revolution has lived up to and exceeded its own name by redefining and revolutionizing the expectations found in an 8.4 oz carbonated beverage.  Pure Revolution delivers over 12 kinds of fruits and vegetables in each can, is all natural, contains high levels of vitamins and boasts an antioxidant level not normally found in a 8.4 oz beverage.  Feel free to indulge daily as Revolution has no caffeine, artificial coloring or flavoring.  This is truly a healthy beverage packed with the daily nutrients your body needs, no matter what age. Taste-wise revolution is my favorite or our current product line-up. This drink is also carbonated and fruity.

Passion is a sexual enhancement drink offering benefits to both men and women. This stuff not only works in my opinion but also tastes good, it’s a citrus like carbonated drink. Most products in this market are found in pill form and cater only to men; Pur3x provided a remedy to that and will leave many people with a smile on their face.

Now some of you are afraid of multi-level marketing (MLM), network marketing, pyramid scam, companies and to you I say, Mary Kay, Avon, Amway, Watkins, and even your everyday job can be classified as a MLM if you really looked into it. Does your boss get paid for telling you about your job? Yes. Does your boss get paid off of your efforts at work? Absolutely! These are the same principles applied when it comes to network marketing.  The companies I mentioned have been around for many years if someone wasn’t making money working them then they wouldn’t have made it! Average marketing techniques have gotten lost in the technology age people have so much information at their finger tips it’s hard to know in what direction to throw your advertising dollars so what better way to create loyal happy customers then paying them for telling other people about products they love and virally spreading the word about their product this is very very closely related if not precisely what viral marketing is all about. Did you share that youtube video that made you laugh so hard you cried? I bet some of your friends shared it too. That’s all there is to a business like this.

What I have always, ALWAYS said about MLM’s is that the only people who make money in an MLM are the people at the top and with Pur3x as of today that is VERY much a possibility. Let me tell you why. Pur3x was launched January 2010, this company is only 8 months old there are as I’m writing this just under 5,000 members (distributors) in this company and with a forced matrix system there is NO choice but for your downline to grow even if you, yourself aren’t working on it.

Now… that’s not to say you should sit back and expect to become the next big name/earner in the company by sitting on your bum hoping to the MLM fairy that you’ll start getting rich without doing any work at all. Any business and I mean ANY business requires work, if you are sitting at home answering customer service calls, if you are posting links to every website you can think of, if you are stuffing envelopes, sewing, posting items on ebay this is all some form of work. I’ll also go on to say that this is NOT for everyone.

Pur3x requires some start up costs (this is much higher then the types of things I will post on this site.)

• Membership                  $45.00
• Your own Pur3x website                   $10.00
• Case of product                $150.00
• Shipping on the case                  $38.00

This comes out to:     $243.oo

So for less then $250.00 you are starting your own business with everything you need to get started, and a support system to teach you how to market your business along with the tools to reach out to hundreds of people. Now I know when I heard the cost I thought OMG! You want me to come up with how much money? But I got to thinking about it. How often do you get the opportunity to be a part of something this big when it’s starting out? Next to never. What if 5 years from now someone tells me about this opportunity and the company is in 500,000 distributors or more? Won’t I feel stupid for letting this opportunity pass me up? I can almost promise you it’s going to happen. These companies grow like wildfire. You just have to get in… tell a few people and wait and watch your downline grow.

To Find out more information go to:  www.pur3x.com/pensacola

As always feel free to contact me with any questions comments or concerns.

moonlightsenterprises@gmail.com

Or simply leave a comment on this page

Live inspired,

-Moon

Turbo Tycoon

Turbo Tycoon

So what’s better then saving money, getting a deal, or making money? How about doing all 3 at once?

If you like twitter then boy do I have a deal for you. I’m a deal hunter by nature, frugal should have been my middle name… I mean I guess… I like to spend money, but nothing makes me happier then getting something I consider a good deal so when I’m not busy with facebook games, wow, or whatever other goof off type thing I’m doing, I’m deal hunting or looking for ways to make money. So while deal hunting on ebay awhile back I ran across a nifty website.  Turbo Tycoon.

Turbo Tycoon is a free MLM, affiliate marketing, deal network, all rolled into one.

If you have a cell phone with an unlimited texting plan then it won’t cost you a thing to sign up or use this service.Turbo tycoon gathers local and national deals and pays you for the privilege of sending you the text to tell you about the service. They pay you for every text you receive, every person who signs up because you told them about the service, and for every business that you get to sign up to offer deals.

This website like others I’ve mentioned and the very next blog topic I’m writing on is in pre-launch stages. I’ve gotten a couple of paid texts from them but they are working hard to get set up. The amount of deals offered in your area will be directly related to the number of people you tell about the service locally… so click the link sign up and text the link to all your friends and tell them they can get paid for receiving a few texts it’s that simple. Help the network grow in your local area to get as many deals coming as possible it’s win win for you!

I have not received a check yet from turbo tycoon nor have I qualified for one. Once your account reaches $10 they allow you to transfer your earnings to paypal.

Overall they’re a little slow on the start up and that may cost them some momentum in the long run, the idea is wonderful and I think in the long run this company will last.

You have nothing to lose and everything to gain go sign up for this project now… if nothing else you’ll make a little money here and there just for allowing texts to be sent to your phone. You’re welcome. :p

Live Inspired,

-Moon

Introduction About Us

Moonlight’s Enterprises is committed to Work at Home Mom’s (WAHM), Working at Home, Deals, Freebies, and Sweeps.

This blog is dedicated to my journey to find real money making opportunities online, and ways to save you money. EXPECT no BULLSHIT. If it works I’ll tell you if it doesn’t work I’ll tell you. This site is pledges to review these opportunities, and give you honest opinions, and real facts.

A little about me:

I’m Heather Roberts (moon, moonlight, moonie, shadow, dixie, and any combination of the above) mother to one beautiful little girl named Sarina who’s four, and wife to my dear husband, Adam. I’m the oldest of four children, my mother and father are both disabled but by the grace of God, they are still with me. I’m *gulp* 27 years old. Some of you may think that’s young but to me it’s hard to say because at this point I’m not where I want to be on my “adult plan” I’ve got 2 years and a couple months till 30, and I expected to have things a little more solid in my life by now.

That being said I’ve decided to do something about it. You see I’ve been a stay at home mom for the last three years, wannabe mompreneur, and half ass college student. I made good grades, but life keeps kicking me and preventing me from continuing with school. School with a child, husband, and a job was next to impossible, and then even when I wasn’t working I couldn’t really afford to go to school. Sure I had a pell grant, but it didn’t cover gas, insurance, car payments, repairs, or any other living expense. So finding a way to make money online and through social networking seems to be the answer, and I’ve been looking into this off and on for a few years but never as seriously as I am now.

Like I said I’ve been looking into this for awhile, so I’ve run into site after site that makes huge promises of pay outs and get rich quick schemes (PLEASE!) There is no magic ATM on the internet. There are however ways to make money online a little at a time and ways to make residual incomes through programs like google adsense, and ebay & amazon affiliates. The problems with these is that people create absolute crap websites that are usually little more then one long advertisement designed to look like real content. So with so much junk out there and people trying to sell you information it’s hard to know what is real, scam, and filler. This creates another problem all together with all the junk out there real content, people who have real knowledge and want to offer it to you for reasonable or no cost are so hard to find.

That is the problem I’m working to solve for you. I will be trying out and reviewing online affiliate programs, researching work at home opportunities and work online opportunities, reading e-books, basically testing everything that promises income outside of a traditional J-O-B (Just Over Broke).

So… if this is precisely where you find yourself searching for a real opportunity you will find this site/blog stuffed full of information on this topic. Follow me on my journey to make money online let me help you do the footwork of learning the ins and outs of this industry and let me help you weed out the scams.

I’m also an avid freebie, deal, seeker, and sweepstakes enterer so as I find those things along the way I will be peppering them in also.

If you yourself find face to face with an opportunity I haven’t reviewed, or you personally have an opportunity that I haven’t explored yet feel free to drop me a comment. If it’s legitimate and doesn’t require a large investment I’ll review it. Maybe include your affiliate link (or my tiered affiliate link). Be forewarned if you present a scam to me I WILL list your opportunity as a scam which will harm you instead of helping you. I will try and be as fair as possible in my reviews if you think my reviews are tainted let me know we can talk and maybe I’ll retract or re-review your opportunity.

Enjoy your journey!

-Moon