| September Earnings |
Updated Oct. 1, 2007
Online Shops
CafePress: $0.00
Article Writing
Associated Content: $0.00
Get Paid To Programs
CashCrate: $0.00
TreasureTrooper: $0.00
Internet Marketing
AdSense: $0.00
ClickBank: $0.00
Commission Junction: $0.00
Amazon Associates: $0.00
Total October Earnings: $0.00
Total September Earnings: $688.24
Top Money Maker (Sept): CashCrate - $473.26
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| Wednesday, September 26, 2007 |
| Lucy the fish and setting up an autoresponder |
We got Harper his first fish yesterday. We went and picked out a small 2 gallon tank and got a small green spotted puffer fish. Mom named her Lucy. Harper calls her Doodee or Doocee. He's fascinated for whole minutes a time.  The month is coming to a close - September has been my best month as far as online earning go. I haven't finished everything I wanted to this month, but I've got a few new projects in the works. I've started setting up my first auto-responder. I've been playing around with that over the last few days trying to figure it out. I've also been working with Joomla to figure out how to use that to set up niche sites. Taking a little time to figure out these things is hopefully going to dramatically increase my earnings and streamline my projects as I go forward. The autoresponder I'm using is GetResponse. So far I'm happy with how it works - though I'm still pretty new to it. We'll see as we go. Technorati Tags: autoresponder, harper, internet marketingPowered by ScribeFire. Labels: autoresponder, harper, internet marketing
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| Monday, September 10, 2007 |
| Niches Smiches |
It's Sunday night (Monday morning) and I'm about halfway through setting up my second niche/affiliate site. I used the same template as the first one, although I've changed the images and stuff to match the new niche. I like this template and it lends itself well to a simple store setup. It has some nice features and effects - and since I'm already pretty familiar with it, the coding is going a lot quicker on this site.
I have run into a stop point as I am awaiting a few affiliate programs to approve my application. So I can't do much more to the site as I'll need those codes to place products in the site. Hopefully those will come through in the next 24 hours so that I can finish up this site.
I've been writing articles like crazy for the first niche site. I've been writing under a pen name for this niche. I plan on using a pen name for each niche - a persona I've created to become the 'expert' in each one. The persona for the first niche is actually a female as I think it will help with my credibility in that niche.
I've also set up a facebook account for that persona and begun to network on facebook through some groups that pertain to that niche. Hopefully that will help drive a little bit of traffic to my sites.
On CashCrate I started the month with 7 or 8 active referrals and about 20 total referrals. Here's where I'm at now:
 I finally hit 'silver.' I was just happy when my total first level referrals hit 100. And my second level has really started to go - I've picked up about 30 second level referrals in just the last 3 or 4 days. Then next level is 'gold.' Here's the requirements:
 I only need 150 active referrals to hit that level. That's a lot - I'm hoping to hit that level in a week and a half or so. We'll see. Right now I'm finding that for every 2 people I'm signing up, 1 of them will actually become active. To be active all they have to do is complete 1 offer. Not much. But we'll see how long it takes to get there. I'm still only spending about 15 - 30 minutes a day actively working on getting referrals - and I'm getting 10 - 12 a day right now. Not bad.
Anyways - I've got a few different niche's planned out right now. The neat thing is that I really don't know much about any of the new ones that I am trying. The first one I know a bit about, so it's not that hard to create content for it. But these new ones - well, I'm doing a lot of research to educate myself on these topics which is fun, because it's like everyday I get to learn something new. Keeps things interesting.
I've got a total of 10 add on domain spots available in my current hosting plan. I've used three - my goal is to use all 10 by the end of the month. So that'll be 9 niche/affiliate sites this month (I used two for the first niche). That's my goal - we'll see how I do with that.Labels: internet marketing, making money online, niche
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| posted by HarpersDad @ 1:06 AM |
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| Sunday, September 2, 2007 |
| My first affiliate marketing site |
I've just spent the last 12 hours working on my first real affiliate site for the niche I've been working on. I'm pretty excited about getting it completed - though now the real work is about to start as I'll have to figure out how to get some traffic there.
It is linked to the rest of the network that I've been building in this niche - but I'm also hoping to do some article marketing specifically for this site. My plan is to write about 10 good articles focusing on different keyphrases that I'm targeting in the niche - and then submit them to a few directories including ezine and associated content.
I did manage to find a nice template to use for the site from andreasviklund.com. I was really pleased with it as it was super easy to use and I think it looks a lot better than most free templates. I should know because I spent about an hour looking at various free templates before I finally came across this guy.
Well - the little man Harper is about to wake up I'm sure - so it's time to fix some breakfast. His new thing is dancing - it's pretty hilarious watching him sway back and forth and move his arms about above his head. He gets a huge grin too whenever he dances. Maybe I'll show him my new niche site and see if it makes him dance. Ok, probably not.Labels: internet marketing, making money online, niche
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| posted by HarpersDad @ 6:53 AM |
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| Friday, August 31, 2007 |
| My first niche site mapped out |
On Day 30 of the 30 Day Challenge Dan presented a pdf of one of his niche sites and it's reach. I thought it was really neat how he mapped it out - and it's nice to have a visual representation of the kind of network that we're trying to build with a niche using a combination of free platforms and our own domains. Two days ago I purchased a domain for the niche that I made my 30 day challenge sale ($18.78) in. I like the niche and think there's a lot of potential in it. I'm also finding a few more key phrases that fit the parameters that were looking for as far as competition and daily searches. One of the free platform sites that I put up is ranked fourth in google and is getting pretty good traffic. Anyways - I thought I would take the next step by purchasing a domain and putting up a site - which is why I haven't posted the last couple of days, been busy putting that site together. And tonight I made a map of my niche so far - I'd say about 10 percent completed compared to Dan's site. But it was fun to map out, and since I'm a pretty visual person, it really clarifies my direction with this niche for me.  - Red - Search Engine Traffic
- Blue - Targeted Key Phrases
- Yellow - Content Sites - Free Platforms
- Grey - Content Site - Domains I own
- Purple - Affiliate Product
Obviously I still have a long ways to go - but it's a good start and I'm having fun putting this together. Technorati Tags: 30 day challenge, making money online, niche, internet marketingPowered by ScribeFire. Labels: 30 Day Challenge, internet marketing, making money online, niche
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| posted by HarpersDad @ 2:34 AM |
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| Monday, August 6, 2007 |
| Niche Markets - How to put the niche in the market |
This is by far the most excellentest blog post / explanation of Niche Markets that I've seen since I began the 30 Day Challenge. I thought I understood niche markets - but after reading this post by Mike Mindel (co-founder of WordTracker) I now have to go back through and start over. But, I'm sure that's going to be a good thing. I wouldn't want to get to far into it before I realized a mistake and had to start over. And luckily I think I still have two hours before Harper wakes up. Oh. Crap. So far I think I've been super focused on the niche and forgot about the second half - the market. Anyways, I believe that this blog is going to go hand in hand with the training videos and podcasts from this point on. Like a super, free Cliff's Notes this blog is.
http://www.webventurer.com/blog/thirty-day-challenge-3/Technorati Tags: niche market, internet marketing, 30 day challenge, mike mindel, making money onlinePowered by ScribeFire. Labels: 30 Day Challenge, internet marketing, making money online, mike mindel, niche market
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| posted by HarpersDad @ 4:02 AM |
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| Friday, August 3, 2007 |
| Why I Love The Thirty Day Challenge |
You feel like you've just moved from the big city into a town of a couple thousand people. Everybody there has the same interests. The town has a general store to take care of the necessities. And you have first crack at setting up shop. If you do it right? Well...let's just say all you have to do now, is figure out what it is that these people want. Technorati Tags: internet marketing, niche, 30 day challengePowered by ScribeFire. Labels: 30 Day Challenge, internet marketing, niche
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| posted by HarpersDad @ 2:07 AM |
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| Thursday, August 2, 2007 |
| 30 Day Challenge Homework Day 2 |
Ok. The problem with telling me to generate 7 ideas for niche markets, and then handing me a list of site indexes to use as reference material, is that I end up reading stuff like this:  I seriously just lost a good 45 minutes. I actually asked myself out loud "What were you doing?" And then I found my google notebook buried under a bunch of windows and said, "Oh yeah. Niche Markets." So to make something productive happen out of my last unproductive 45 minutes - we'll go with this: Possible Niche Markets: Whale Oil for heating oilWhale BlubberWhale SteaksPopular Whale Watching Areas (affiliate products: journals, binoculars, lawn chairs, blankets w/ whale designs, gps!) Hmm...maybe... Technorati Tags: niche, internet marketing, 30 day challenge, 100 in 100Powered by ScribeFire. Labels: 100 in 100, 30 Day Challenge, internet marketing, making money online, niche
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| posted by HarpersDad @ 10:53 PM |
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| Tuesday, July 31, 2007 |
| Initial Impressions: CashCrate |
I've been spoiled by the ease of use at Treasure Trooper. That's why when I started on CashCrate I was extremely happy with how clean and easy the site was to navigate. Don't you hate those sites where it seems like everything is a big secret and you have to be Sherlock Holmes to figure out how not to get run around in circles trying to unsubscribe? Cash Crate's site is on level with Treasure Trooper's, which I love. It also works almost the exact same way as Treasure Trooper. Of all the sites that I've been researching - I think CashCrate has the most positive reviews of any other site that I've found. The site is easy, the affiliate program is excellent, and payments are always on time. Speaking of affiliate programs - CashCrate's is excellent. You're paid on two levels of referrals. The first level is the people you sign up, and the second is the people your first level signs up. And they pay 20% and 10%. Excellent. As you get more referrals your percentages rise all the way up to 30% and 20%. Here's a picture of a check that my friend Amy received from CashCrate:  Notice the total? $1855.84! Nice. Amy is actually my sponsor and has helped me a lot with getting started with CashCrate - even loaned me this photo of her check - I told her it was just until my check looked like hers! Take a look at Amy's review of CashCrate here - she has some really interesting stats in hers. Can you make any money without referrals? Of course. It's like any other pay to click program. CashCrate has a daily $0.80 survey that you can take every 24 hours. Just doing that is an extra 25 bucks a month for 3 minutes of work a day. Can't ask for much easier than that - but of course you can always do more as their are a ton of programs. So what the negative in all of this? Spam. It's like any other pay to click site - you give out your email to a lot of advertisers. That's why CashCrate can pay you - it's basically an information gathering service and advertisers pay for that, that's how you make $0.50 or $2.00 bucks an offer. I have a separate gmail account set up just for this. I give them my info, that email, and just log into that email every few days to delete the accumulated spam. Nothing really to it. As far as telemarketers - go to privatephone.com - you can get a free phone number with voicemail, so you don't ever have to worry about anybody calling you. Anyways - if you've been wanting to try a pay to click program - give this one a shot. I'm giving CashCrate a serious thumbs up for now. Here's my referral link - http://www.cashcrate.com/296022. Would love it if we both make some money on this on! Technorati Tags: treasure trooper, cashcrate, 100in100, pay to click, internet marketing, making money onlinePowered by ScribeFire. Labels: 100 in 100, affiliate, cashcrate, internet marketing, pay to click, treasure trooper
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| posted by HarpersDad @ 1:09 AM |
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| Monday, July 30, 2007 |
| FireFox, Facebook, and the 30 Day Challenge |
I'm excited. I literally was up from last night till noon today going over material for the 30 Day Challenge. I wish I had found this a week ago, so I could have spread out the learning over the week instead of cramming it all in last night, but regardless - I can't believe the progress I've made today.
I've learned how to effectively use a number of social bookmarking tools. Met a group of 5 other people taking the challenge and formed a team for it (Team iMarket). Set up a FaceBook Account to use as an interface for the team. Downloaded Skype and played around with it's features. Set up FireFox - Oh My God - I can't believe I wasn't already using FireFox. I'm one of those people where I've never had many issues with Internet Explorer - so why change? I was comfortable with it. After a few hours on FireFox I feel like a complete idiot for not changing sooner. All the same features as IE, but the applications and addons that accompany FireFox are crazy cool. I mean, I don't even ever say "crazy cool," but some of these things are crazy cool - whatever that means. I mean - I even now can control my iTunes with my browswer. It does everything.
If you haven't seen anything about the 30 Day Challenge. Check It Out. Period. I'm serious - and that goes for everybody, you don't even need to be a blogger to give it a shot. All you need is an internet connection - seriously. They're going to teach you this from the ground up. And everybody with experience I can hear you saying - "well I know all this stuff, I don't need to sit through that." Well, you're wrong. You might know it, but this project I think - but maybe you've developed some bad habits, here's your chance to strip those away and develop some excellent new habits that will help you grow your online presence.
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| posted by HarpersDad @ 8:44 PM |
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| 30 Day Challenge |
I'm getting started a little late in the game - but I'm ready to go regardless.
The 30 Day Challenge is a challenge run by Ed Dale and Dan Raine - two very experienced bloggers and Internet Marketers. The goal of the challenge is to earn $10 online in 30 days. $10 you say? Yes, I know, many of us are past that step, but really, if you can learn how to earn $10, then earning $1000 uses the same steps and techniques.
The challenge starts Aug. 1st, but when you register and start checking out the 30 day challenge blog and forums there is a ton of information already to begin learning. I've spent the evening going through the blog and it's instructional videos - and the things I've already learned have me really impressed. I am familiar with a lot of the concepts and information that Ed and Dan are providing - but they really show you how to implement different strategies and take things to the next level.
If you want to take part in the challenge - check out the site: 30 Day Challenge. Good luck everybody taking the challenge!Labels: 30 Day Challenge, dan raine, ed dale, internet marketing, making money online
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