It’s been a long time since I’ve done anything here. I have spent the last year buying a bank owned fixer-upper home and selling our previous house at the worst point in the real estate downturn, and in so doing we lost over $70,000. The good part is that we moved to a far better area, we downsized and now our housing and almost every other living expense costs less, including car insurance. I have spent almost every minute of my time working on our 1956 ranch style fixer-upper.

I have not done much in the way of IM at all while working on this house. As the house projects get fewer and smaller, I’m going to try to get back into this racket.

Scott

It’s that time of year again! Mark Hendricks’ 12 Days of Christmas giveaway for internet marketers is on and as great as ever. This is the ONLY giveaway I ever join because it’s the best.

To find out more, you can read my post from last year about it, or go now to the 12 Days of Christmas giveaway. Happy Holidays!

Put away your money, nothing to buy here.

Those crazy women of Wacky Wednesday sale fame, Denise Hall and Kathe Lucas have created this brilliant free make money online guide called “Creating Wealth: 7 Steps to Online Income.”

Have you wondered what the best ways to make money online are, but weren’t sure where to start? That’s the biggest problem. There are so many different ways to make money online, that it can be overwhelming to even attempt to approach it.

In this free make money online guide, the best tried and true, most reliable ways to make money online are presented in an easy to read, easy to follow way. This is perfect for beginners, or even if you’ve tried and not had much success.

The best part is that at the end of the guide, you are provided with a way of making money with the guide itself. It’s actually pretty brilliant and is an illustration in itself of one of the many ways to make money online.

So put away your money an go check out “Creating Wealth: 7 Steps to Online Income.”

Andrew X & Steven Lee Jones, the masterminds behind the super-affiliate tactics in ‘Google Massacre‘ have just released Google Ambush.

Google Ambush is the metamorphosis of all Andrew and Steven’s learning and expertise. In short, it’s software that removes all the hard work and automates their mega-profitable six-step process to set up and optimize all your PPC campaigns.

Just for starers, you get a keyword finder that finds profitable keywords you can dominate. Plus a very cool automatic landing page generator that maximizes your conversions.

The result… you get a campaign up, running and profiting in 10 minutes flat, not days or weeks. Then you rinse and repeat.

They’ve set it up as a monthly service. Sign up, generate as many campaigns as you want whenever you want 24×7, and pay only a small monthly fee.

It’s not rocket science, it doesn’t matter whether you’re completely new to PPC or making profits already. If you want to totally slash the time it takes to set up winning campaigns, Google Ambush is going to knock you off your feet.

There’s also 50 “fast action” bonus packages up for grabs… so go now and check it out at Google Ambush

NOTE: If you want to buy, don’t forget to attempt to close the sales page window so the little discount opportunity window pops up.

Wow, it’s been a long time since I have written. I know I get a few people popping in here now and then. I’ve had a lot of home and family things to keep me busy, so I haven’t had much time for online working.

Anyway, it time again for the 30 Day Challenge. For those who don’t know, the 30 Day Challenge is a free one month online training camp to teach you how to make money online.

The 30 Day Challenge is headed up by Ed Dale and Dan Raine. If there were ever saints in the internet marketing world, these guys would be them. They don’t charge anything. There is no pitching. It’s their way of giving back. They make millions online and they want to show others that it’s possible for anyone to have an online business.

Whether you are new to internet marketing, or you already have an online business that needs some direction or a kickstart, this is the place to go.

The 30 Day Challenge is FREE and it starts today, August 1. Check it out!

I guess it’s like, no news is good news.

It seems to me that the guys in this business who write a ton on their blogs are the ones who have sort of “made it.” They have the time to write a lot because most of their stuff is tuned and making money on autopilot, at least for the most part.

So anyway instead of writing here, with what little time I have, I tend to my niches, building links, and learning how to do all this stuff. The best thing that happened recently was my first $100 day. It was actually over $143 with two sales from the same affiliate program. All natural Google traffic. Really made my day. Now if I could double that on a daily basis, I could kill my day job.

I have recently got some cool software and scripts and when I get some time I’ll write some reviews. At some point I’m also going to make a “toolbox” page to list all the tools I use (and would like to use).

Scott

It’s taken me a while to get back into it after the holidays.

So here is a new web 2.0 site called Qassia. This one is based on the idea of “the more you contribute, the more you get.” That sounds fair. You post articles, snippets, information, etc. sort of like a public blog. The more you post, the more exposure you get. You can add your websites, and get unlimited quality backlinks. There is no need to pay, or to link back to Qassia. Websites are processed instantly and ranked by the amount of credits you have amassed. To earn credits, you can add intel, i.e. tidbits of intelligence. You get credit for adding your intel. The more credit you get, the better your sites will rank. This provides incentive for site owners to contribute to Qassia.

The coolest part is that if you have an adsense account and put your account number in your profile, whenever anyone sees your content and clicks an ad, you get all the money, not just part of it like most other revenue sharing sites.

Qassia is currently in private beta. That means you can sign up and view intel only if you were referred by someone who is already a member, like me! So sign up and start adding your content. By the way, when you sign up you might want to have a picture of yourself ready to upload because you might not like the default profile picture they provide, especially if you are a guy.

So, go sign up at Qassia now.

Like most marketers, I have been very interested in the “Web 2.0″ social bookmarking phenomenon. But I have been wary of just blanket posting links to all sites offered by services like SocialPoster and SocialMarker because they don’t all cover the same subject matter. For example, I don’t think it’s a good idea to post your new internet marketing ebook to a news or health related site. That’s why the above services have check boxes to turn off the ones you don’t want, or shouldn’t post to.

I was wondering just how to tell what each site is slanted toward before posting. So I found this great list of 125 Social Bookmarking Sites. Each entry contains a description of what the site is for or most closely related to. This was posted by Loren Baker at Search Engine Journal.

So, before going and willy-nilly posting to every site, give yourself a little education by reading Loren Baker’s list of 125 Social Bookmarking Sites.

Well the 12 Days of Christmas Giveaway is in full swing. There is some great stuff being given away. One of my favorite gift givers is Ian Traynor. His stuff is the fourth one on the page. I got great stuff from him each of the last two years, and he has a great newsletter. He keeps a great download area on his site with tons of useful goodies.

Mark has organized the site a bit differently this year. Instead of having everything listed in advance and activating more links every two days, like I mentioned in the previous post, he just adds new items to the page every two days. So we don’t know in advance what is coming up.

Here are a couple tips. Be selective and get only the things you really think you can use, because being on a lot of lists can be overwhelming. Don’t sign up just to get the gift and then unsubscribe. Stay on the list for a while and see the quality of the info you get. If you don’t get much value after a while, then unsubscribe. At least give them a chance.

If you haven’t done so yet, go sign up for the 12 Days of Christmas Giveaway.

Mark Hendricks’ 12 Days of Christmas Giveaway begins December 1. This was the first giveaway event I experienced in this business, back in the holiday season of 2005. It is, in my opinion, the biggest and best of the giveaways. Mark has very high standards for the quality of the products he allows in the giveaway. He only allows the best in. I got so much great stuff from that 2005 one, I still go in and find something great to use.

Mark is one of my favorite “big kids” in internet marketing. He always answers his email and he doesn’t flood your inbox with promos every day, unlike a lot of the other guru types out there, who shall remain nameless. Anyway this is also a great chance to get on some top notch lists that you can learn a lot from. I’m still on almost all the lists I signed on to in 2005 and I’ve learned a lot.

Here’s the way it works. Mark compiles all the giveaway products into a web page detailing what they are and who is giving them away. Then beginning December 1, the first two or three on the page get their links activated. After two days, the next few are activated, and so on every two days until Christmas day. He does it this way to keep you from getting overwhelmed.

Don’t worry if you don’t get them all by Christmas, they all usually stay up until about a week after the new year. What I usually do is look through the list and decide what I want in advance, and then go get it on the day it becomes available.

Trust me, you don’t want to miss this if you are an internet marketer, especially if you are just stating out. There are LOTS of giveaways throughout the year, but I don’t do them anymore because they’re just too time (and email) consuming. But this one I would NEVER miss!

Go check out Mark Hendricks’ 12 Days of Christmas Giveaway 2007!