I am always on the lookout for new ideas or products such as ebooks, plr packs, or ppc offers items in hope of finding something new and interesting to make money with or blog about (if I am really lucky both). The problem is most of the big offers are mentioned repeatedly across several different blogs writing the same thing. The overall message will be join pepperjam network, rocket profit, and others just like it and you will make money online. These sites might have awesome deals that really help a newcomer make money online but the catch is why should you read the same pitch and idea across 15 sites?

The answer is you shouldn’t. Depending on how trustworthy the sites are to you after the third or fourth blog you will probably eyeball the advertiser’s site to see the details and more than likely purchase the sign-up. If you are still unsure you might go to sites that have more authority in that area or a blog you like and see if they made mention of it. But why would you trust some site that has been around six months to a year that you have never heard of?

The reason why is they were in your shoes very recently or still are. They know how you feel and how to describe how they achieved some success and are still growing or maybe share how they failed. The catch with bigger sites is they made money and succeeded but are they still reproducing these things? If you look at Shoemoney he made his start in ringtones and made a name for himself. Now he lives off name and his previous success not what he is currently doing. Zac Johnson is another good example he made his money from a MySpace add on site and is doing the same thing as Shoemoney; he is making money from his name. Am I saying in these two examples they are morons and know nothing about today’s trends? NO, all I am saying is their claim to fame is from sites or offers that happened 3-4 years ago. They still could be pulling in good amounts from doing different offers but their claims to success have been from past dealings.

Now I have you thrown off on whom to trust the big sites with it 10,000 rss subscribers or the little guy with maybe 150 subscribers. What I am trying to convey is don’t always run to the big boys just because you have heard of their name or think they have all of the answers. Look around and do your research before using a advertiser or buy a ebook. Sadly though sometimes you have to just bite the bullet and try things out for yourself and see what works.

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Sometimes we cause our selves distractions and loose our focus because of our on faults. Sadly this past week I made that mistake and it has really effected my focus on my sites. I caved and bought a xbox360 pro and a 32″ hd tv. It is a awesome system and I find myself very distracted by it. Friday I stayed up until 5am playing gears of war on xbox live. It is a awesome addition to my gadget collection and the graphics are amazing.

I am a gamer but I normally play on the pc. I have owned most systems up until the ps2 and the original xbox. I got tired of spending so much money on games and the time invested to play. I have been wanting a 360 for a while but held off until the news of grand theft auto I. It is released next month so I knew I would cave because that series has to be one of my favorites of all time.

On xbox live my name is

Just in case you dont know who Mike Honcho is check out below. Oh and by the way if you don’t know who that is you should be ashamed and should turn in your keys to the internet.

Right now I am playing: burnout paradise & gears of war. I will be buying rainbow six vegas 2 when it is released and I already pre ordered grand theft auto 4.
Update: I just added Army of Two to the collection

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I was planning on running a decent sized contest for my site to grow rss readers and get more traffic but it looks like I have been beaten to the punch by a few other bloggers. It looks like I will have to work on content and wait for the dust to settle from all of the contest craziness and then make my move. Now that my plans have been spoiled lets see how has wrecked my plans for the month.

The University Kid he is throwing huge contest with tons of prizes. He has labeled it the Ultimate Blog Contest and I have to give him credit it very intimidating to run a Read the rest of this entry »

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I have mentioned in previous posts that I have a few eBay affiliate sites setup and wanted to give an update on how they are doing. I have been slacking on them because I have been so focused on this site and promoting it. This site has kept me so busy that that my other projects are lacking (I will admit I try to do a lot of projects at once). I have some done some link building on my supplement store and gained some traffic from it but it is still low. The one thing that is hardest for me is getting traffic. It’s not like a normal site or blog so marketing is different. Affiliate marketing is a lot of work but I think it will pay off with time.
For the month of February I made a little under $8. It is a low amount but has been the best month income wise from my sites.  I need to work on generating traffic and writing content. Right now they are setup with the main landing page just showing the items for sale with no content. I have read that adding a few posts can make a difference in generating traffic.

The main income was from eBay commission but I had a little from adsense too. The breakdown is:

eBay:
The Iphone Shoppe: $0.66
Supplement Shop Online: $6.32

adsense:
Porsche Car Sale: $1.00
Supplement Shop Online: $0.49
The Iphone Shoppe: $0.03

For next month my goal is hit $10 from my sites and keep focusing on growing them. My plans are to convert them to more of mini blogs than just eBay landing pages.

I also am working on a launching another blog about weight loss and weight loss help. I also plan to launch a blog with it as well. I already have the domains and have had this plan for a while I am just still working on getting it ready. I hope to launch the new site in the beginning of April.  My goals for this month are set high so we shall see if I can accomplish everything.

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Yesterday I took a look at my goals for last month but did not set any new goals for this month. Because I did not break my all of my goals for the month I did not change them. I decided to focus on quality content and link building. My goals for the month are:

• 2500 Visitors
• Write 15 quality posts
• Get 25 subscribers
• Comment on 3 new blogs a week

I am thinking of running another contest for the month as well to try and boost my traffic and rss subscribers. I am working on the details and trying to figure out some prizes. If you are interested in sponsoring any prizes for my contest contact me through my contact page.

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It looks like Google decided to do another round of page rank updates. It looks like it started around February 27th. I was excited to hear the new because the last update was done the first week of January and my blog was too new to get an update.

I am very please to say that my page rank went from a PR0 to PR2. I went to multiple sites checking it because I was in shock, I did not think I would get a raise in page rank so quickly. I know page rank is not as important as it used to be but I will take it anyways. It does make me feel better after looking at my traffic yesterday. It made me feel like hard work does pay off.

Make sure to check you sites and see if you got any increase in page rank.

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