Blogging for Cash

I have run across banner ads for Today.com on so many occasions that, in the end, I decided to sign up following the advice in a forum from a writer colleague. Today.com is a blogging network, where you get the opportunity to blog for some extra cash.

If you enjoy writing, if you have a hobby, or something to tell the world and a spare fifteen minutes a day, this might be a good opportunity for you. As they usually say: “You would do it anyway, so... why not get paid for it?” In this blogging network you get paid $1 per post containing at least 100 words. Post once a day and get paid $30-31 a month. It doesn’t sound like a fortune but so far this is the only network I have found that pays you to blog about anything you want.

You don’t need to advertise someone else’s products, they don’t pay you to write reviews or endorsements, this is not one of this payperpost schemes. You just choose your subject and blog as usual. Publish and get paid.

At Today.com you can also make extra money in different ways:
-By their referrals program, (for bloggers) you get paid $5 by referring a friend to blog for cash.
-By their referrals program (for advertisements) sell advertisement spots on your site (by placing a link or writing a post) and share part of the revenue.
-Be paid $2.00 per 1000 unique visits to your site.
-There are even monthly bonuses for the blogger with the biggest number of referrals.

Some of their members report getting hundreds of dollars of monthly income.

To create an account is straight forward and easy. Apply following the link provided below (or clicking on the banner at the top), you will have to choose the name of the blog and the subject. In the question where they ask who refer you indicate the name of the blogger that is referring you. I enter as user name: magan.

It might take some days (or even weeks) for the blog to be approved as there is a high number of applications. But once you receive your approval, they will send you the link to activate your account. Once activated you are on your way, start blogging! (they review your blog after you publish 30 posts over 30 individual days, so hold on there it is just your first month)

At the end of the day, what is 100 words for some extra income in your pocket?

Get paid to BLOG at Today.com

Hubpages, the hidden potential

Everybody seems to know about Squidoo, but not everyone seems to know the hidden potential of hubpages.

Hubpages is a free website, in which you can publish your articles in any topic you want and make some extra income. The extra income comes through advertisement from sources such as Google Adsense and Kontera, also from affiliate links mainly from Amazon and Ebay among other sources.

However, you can also use hubpages to double your efforts and your sales results when you are marketing your products and your website. This social media can actually bring traffic to your website, in this way you can promote your website and your products while attracting traffic. The effectiveness of this media is in their double use as a free standing website with content and products to sell and as a free marketing tool that will attract the traffic and close the sale. At the end of the day, what business check are numbers and conversion rates, what we actually need is a powerful marketing tool and Hubpages might have that potential

Twitter: Users & Traffic

Twitter seems to be the next big revolution. I opened my twitter account recently this year to keep updated friends and family on my online endeavours. A few more fans have been so kind as to follow me in my efforts.

To set up a twitter account is as basic as "abc", literally in a couple of minutes everything is set up and you are ready to start sending your first tweets. What is a tweet? A tweet is a short online message of 140 characters that answers the question “What are you doing now?” As idle idea as it may seem Twitter has now over 6 million users even president Barack Obama seems to be a twitter advocate with over 539,000 followers.

Lately some big companies start to recognise the marketing potential of twitter. Could you believe that the times of most active traffic in Twitter seem to be working hours? That is food for thought!
If you want to join me, feel free to follow me on my twitter account: http://twitter.com/i_magan

Secrets of the Millionaire Mind

The task these days is keeping myself motivated and still on track which is proving to be quite a challenge but at least, I am keeping on track.

I have recently put my hands on this book, a real winner, if you need motivation, this book will cover your needs and more. T. Harv Eker examines the roots of success and failure, the rich and the poor, those roots are situated in a place as deep as our own mind, there, in your thoughts is where your success starts. Do you see challenges in life as opportunities or as obstacles?, do you play in life to win, or are you the kind of person that is happy with “not to lose”? Do you think you are the author of your life or a victim? Do you create your life or life just happens to you?

Those are the kind of questions that differentiate a rich person from a poor. T. Harv Eker says: “Rich people make their money work hard for them. Poor people work hard for their money” The book is full of small pearls of wisdom together with very personal advice to see you from where you are to where you want to be.
And…Who is T. Harv Eker? Well, the guy actually has certain authority to talk about millionaire mind; he took a $2.000 credit card loan and opened a fitness centre which he turned into a chain of 10 stores in 2 years and a half and ended up selling it for over $1.5 million.

Secrets of the Millionaire Mind is the book that will push you into action. If you have missed it I can really recommend it. You will not be able to stop reading until you get to the last page. Guaranteed!

Visualization tool from The Secret

I have finally finished watching my “pending part” of the film. What a great film, it is just that nice positive sensation that you feel after you finish watching it. I was just checking in youtube today and I found this nice video. If you liked the film, now the team from The Secret has created a visualization tool that you can download for free and you can use every day "The Secret to you". You can go to their website http://thesecret.tv/secret-to-you

Meanwhile, just turn up your speakers and enjoy.

The Secret to riches

This weekend I decided to watch, at last a film I have waited long to watch, although I haven’t managed to watch the whole movie, it has felt really inspirational. I have still pending the last part of the film but I hope to finish it this week.

“The Secret” is such an acclaimed and well known movie, although it is actually a series of interviews about what attracts riches and success to your life to have everything you ever dreamt of. It’s about the universal law of attraction, a secret known to many successful people and how they used it in their lives to reach their goals. A really nice film, if you need something uplifting, this is definitely a good one.

Adgitize, alternative to Google Adsense

This is my last discovery which I have been trying for a few days now and so far so good. You place Adgitize adverts in your website and they pay you for it.

Well, actually no, it is not that simple, it gets even better. The network pays you just for displaying the adverts in your website; if visitors don’t click you get paid, if visitors click on them you get paid more. When you become part of this network everything becomes a win-win situation. They even pay you to get involved in their community, to visit other blogs inside the network.

The network sends visitors to your page. I have seen my number of visits increased since the few days I have been part of their network. What is more they even pay you to blog. This is not similar to “pay-per-post”, nobody asks for any review of any product or website. You just submit your rss feed to the network and when their feed spiders crawl your blog if you have a new post? You get paid.

Everyone knows that blog that doesn’t get updated frequently loses its visitors. No visitors equal no clicks on adverts and therefore no visits to the advertised companies either. Adgitize response is a clever one; they give a nice incentive to bloggers to keep updating their blogs. In this way everyone wins, bloggers are happy, advertisers are happy, Adgitize is happy.

Adgitize is free and easy to sign up, you can choose the number of adverts you display, the size and the place where they will go on your website. As easy as that, you get the code you add it to your blog.

You can check day by day the reports easily accessible to see how much money you have accumulated in the day, in previous days or in the month.

Even the minimum payment is an advantage. Set up at just $10 by Paypal, Adgitize is a serious contender to Adsense. I find difficult to find something I don’t like from Adgitize. In fact, until now, I haven’t found anything yet.

Should you have any problems, contact their support team through their website and they will reply straight to you. Personally, I have found them quick and friendly.

If you decide to join the network, please consider using my link, provided, I appreciate your support.