Bloggerpreneur
Make money online with your blog

I am always on the look out for new ways to make money online so I decided to check out the eBay Publishers Network (EPN) when I kept hearing how internet entrepreneurs were making money online with it.

As I researched EPN, I noticed how a lot of sites appeared to be Wordpress blogs with eBay auctions embedded right in them.  I quickly learned that these sites were using  a nifty little WordPress plugin named phpBay Pro.

After a lot of thinking about it, i decided to give phpBay Pro a shot so I bought the plugin and started writing this post.  I can’t recommend or recommend against phpBay Pro at this point, however, I figure that if I write down my experiences with it they could be of use to someone else.

I am going to see if I can’t get a phpBay Pro site up an running over the next week or so I and I write back here about what I am doing and how things are going.

We are going to do the 30 Day Challenge again this year. We aren’t really new to the whole making money online game, however, we’ve focused primarily on monetizing blogs. We are going to focus more on internet marketing and actually trying to sell a product or a service.

I believe that the goal is to make 10$ dollars during the 30 days of the challenge. I think last year we did about $150 with the site we set up for the challenge. My amended goal for this year will be $10 per day.

The 30DC starts Friday, August 1st, so, if you are interested in learning how to make money online, I strongly reccomend that you check it out.

Google today launched Knol which appears to be a Wikipedia / Squidoo type service where authors can publish articles on specific topics that can be edited by others, however, require the original authors permission to do so. Authors can also monetize their articles in a revenue share agreement with Google.

At first glance, Knol looks like it will become a great place to find useful information on an ever growing range of topics. You can already find articles ranging from autism to toilet repair. I wonder, however, how long it will be before spammers flock to Knol as another place to list all of their useless links.

From what I can tell from the articles already written, Knol has “DoFollow” links out to third party resources. If this will be the case for new articles I suggest you take a look at Knol as soon as you can as it will be ridden with Spam, oh, lets say, by this afternoon.

As some of you may already know we run a blog called RIMarkable that is a site dedicated to the BlackBerry. As far as our blogs go, RIMarkable is by far the most successful bringing in tens of thousands of unique visitors every day. Although we never really set out to make money from RIMarkable, it brings in more than enough to pay the hosting fees each year. To be honest, we do quite well with it.

One issue that I have with RIMarkable is that the design is very outdated. I can’t help but think that the pictures of the 3 year old devices aren’t helping too much, and, in fact, may even detract from the content a bit. Our BlackBerry blog is need of a serious overhaul and I am not quite sure if we should just slap a premium theme up or actually hire a designer to come up with something for us.

I am going to have to make a decision on this in the short term but am not sure where to even start.

It has been a long time since we’ve posted anything meaningful to Bloggerpreneur.com, however, this is going to change in the not to distant future. I’ve got a several projects that I want to tackle when it comes to blogging and ultimately trying to make money online and Bloggerpreneur is the perfect vehicle to allow me to blog about blogging a bit as well as some of the other things that we’re doing.

It only makes sense that after Toshiba decided to send the HD DVD format the way of Beta Max that Microsoft would slash Price on the XBox HD DVD Player. You can now get your hand hands on one of these puppies for $49.99 That’s only about 50 bucks more than they are actually worth, so, if you decide to get one, just think of it as buying a game that really sucks.

We’ve just had our first $400 day from AdSense alone yesterday. Still striving for that $300 per day average. We have an outside chance to hit that milstone this month but we will surely hit that mark next month.

 
We’re less than a week into our stint with BlogRush and, as you can see, have just shy of 50,000 credits accumulated. That is just from our traffic as we haven’t signed up any BlogRush Referrals just yet.

We probably should go ahead and set that direct referral link up just in case there is a blogger or two left on the internet that hasn’t already signed up.

There is a new blog syndication network in town named Blog Rush and they are claiming to be the fastest and easiest way to instantly drive a flood of targeted readers to your blog… Absolutely free.

I go into a long, drawn out, explanation of what Blog Rush is, or, I could just let you watch the video.

I think that we are going to give Blog Rush a try. If you would like to as well you can sign up here…