Posts Tagged ‘Marketing’

Hey all, this is not Mark, but this is Nathaniel from green-flamingo.com. I am filling in for Mark, for as you should know he was injured. I said I would write a guest post about a week ago, but I forgot what I was going to talk about. Now I will tell you how to blog like a monkey and stand out.

Collect bananas - Well, monkeys are associated with bananas right? You have to collect them and then you can eat them. To collect bananas you must stay focused and on the job. Maybe you could have a few of your fellow banana collectors help you out, or you can join programs to help you monkeys get bananas.

In a way you can understand - Making money online is associated with blogging right? You have to make the money and then you can spend it. You have to stay focused, seeing ahead and making sure you are doing things right. You may consider visiting some of these friends which will help you to make the best of your blogging. You might have a few fellow bloggers help you out, and that would help. You can also join affiliate programs to increase and most likely start (unless you have a product or services to sell) you making money online. Some good affiliate programs:

-Google Adsense-

Google Adsense is well known by most, and well recommended. If you want to get the most out of adsense, visit robinhaney.com, maximizing your adsense earnings part one, part two, and recently part three.

-PepperJam-

I myself to not know much about pepperjam, but I hear it is good, and according to the site, they have been ranked one of the top 10 SEO firms in the United States. They are also honored to be recognized as one of the fastest growing privately held business in the US.

-OIO Publisher-

Here you find the tree with millions of bananas, too bad it is not free. You can get discounts though, which is good. OIO publisher is regarded very highly and it would be a good program to join, but make sure you want it before you buy it. What it really does is automate your monetization so you can do what really needs to be done: writing content!

Those are only a very few of some worthwhile affiliate programs, just browse around those trees and you will find many more.

Sell your banana collectors - Now it is time to promote and sell your products. Market well, but don’t be too spammy otherwise people won’t go for it. Carl Ocab can sometimes be a spam seller and spam promoter, which is really annoying. So find the right way to promote and sell your product and done!

Write like a monkey - Stand out, be creative, swing from vines, and from that writing get some bananas. Go ahead and be your fuzzy or fat self. Just be you in your blogging. Write not just in an ordinary way, but write with character and use of the force you must.

After you have those bananas, keep going for more until you have dominated the monkey world. Just to blog like a monkey, work hard, stay focused, be creative and be yourself.

Well, first off, I really want to thank you guys for the great response I got on Part One of my “Networking With Digital Point” series. I know that 5 comments, (one by me ) is not very many, especially for some A-listers like John Chow or ProBlogger, but for me, it was a great response nonetheless.

Because of getting such great feedback, I’m not hesitating in releasing this Second Part to the series.

In Part One, we discussed the benefits of having a large IM list, (which you harvested from Digital Point), one being the fact that with such a list, anything you might need, be it designers, coders, etc. , are just an IM away.

In this Part Two of the series, we are going to discuss something that I don’t think many really think about as being a benefit, but in my opinion, it’s a big helper. In fact, I personally have benefited greatly from this.

When I first started working online, and webmastering and freelancing and whatnot, I was extremely naive. I believed almost anything, and I followed almost any person, idea, or eBook , be it “Work from home!”, or “Make $10,000 a week! Guaranteed!”, or even “Make 100 dollars a month with no work at all!”. Of course, being stupid and unexperienced with the way online business really works, I bought into these scams.

“But what does this have to do with Digital Point?”

Now now, calm down, I’m getting to it.

As some of you brought out in the comments to part one, Digital Point is over run with scammers. And that is precisely why I am warning you. But, what if you didn’t have a warning? Well, some scams on DP are extensive, but most are really just small pocket change lost here and there. These scams are just babies compared to the huge complex “pyramid schemes” out there. With that in mind, Digital Point serves as almost a learning ground, showing you just a taste of how people really work online, and can teach you to be much more careful about where you spend your hard earned money.

I know this may not seem to have anything to do with Networking or Digital Point, but to me, it’s something that I find interesting and should be brought up. Digital Point serves as a network where you will soon learn how people are and how they operate.

I hope you guys enjoyed this read, I know it’s a bit off topic so please forgive me, but I felt it was something that would be interesting to post and discuss in the comments.

Part Three of this series will be much more on topic I promise. So Subscribe to the RSS Feed and don’t miss it!

I’m sure many of you guys know of Digital Point Forums, one of the largest, if not the largest webmaster forum on the Net.

Now, I’m not the first blogger (nor the last I’m sure ) to bring up Digital Point. One difference is that many bloggers and other webmasters are starting to talk bad about Digital Point.

While I must agree with them on some things regarding the downsides of DP, (yes I’m abbreviating it from now on ) I still believe that there are some great things to gain from this “internet giant.”

This is Part one of a 3-5 part series, (Haven’t decided how long I should make it ) on Networking using the Popular Webmaster forum Digital Point.

Digital Point is one of the best places to waste time reading useless threads network with other bloggers. Your provided with a pretty even playing field, and there are some easy ways to build up your rep as well. (More on that later)

One thing in particular that helped me with my networking was the IM username feature. This was one very useful tool that quickly rose my MSN/Yahoo Buddy list numbers from 15-20 to over 300!

Now, I know that seems like too many, and sometimes it feels like it. But by doing this, I always have whatever I might need on hand. Wordpress Coders, Designers, Writers, Webmasters, Bloggers, you name it, I’ve got their IM.

It’s really helped me by adding all these people to my MSN/yahoo accounts through Digital Point. It’s helped me to build a great network between me and other bloggers and webmasters, so we can end up with a “help me help you” kind of business relationship.

I’ve benefited from this giant IM list many times before, and continue to. When starting this blog, I’ve used, (and will continue to use) this IM list to promote and market this blog, as well as get ideas and help on marketing it. Maybe I can even milk a few mentions on other blogs.

I hope you enjoyed this Part one of my Series “Networking with Digital Point”, and please leave me comments on what you thought about it.

Also, feel free to subscribe to the RSS so you don’t miss the rest of this series and other great posts.

Well, this is my first real post here on MonkeyBloggger.com, and it’s a good one. At least, in my opinion.

I really think that you will enjoy reading this one, it’s got some great information that any and all internet entrepreneur should know.

Now, I know that this doesn’t seem to make any sense at first. One thing that most people do is network with other bloggers, and bounce ideas around.

While there is nothing wrong with doing this in particular, the idea is to keep it between close business partners.

Unfortunately, there’s a lot of scummy people around the internet, who will rip off or outright steal your ideas with no disregard whatsoever. It’s a sad truth really.

Let’s imagine this: You’ve just come up with a great idea, an internet store to sell many products; Books, toys, furniture, you name it, you’ve got it! Now your on IM one day, thinking up ideas for this online store, and you decide to bounce it off a friend. Now, you’ve worked with him many times before, and you trust him 100%.

Now, you tell him, “Bill, I just can’t come up with a great name for my store. I was thinking ‘www.rainforest.com.’ ” Bill replies by saying, “I don’t know, don’t you think ‘www.amazon.com’ would sound much better?” Ah, now you’ve got a great idea, and your off to develop the site and it becomes an internet giant.

Now imagine this: Same scenario, but instead of consulting Bill here, you decide to talk to George about it. Now, from what you’ve heard, George is a pretty reliable worker. But, you’ve never personally worked with him. But you decide to ask him anyways. “What’s the harm?”, you might ask. Why don’t we find out. You tell George you can’t come up with a name for your website. So he asks, “What’s the website about?” So you proceed to tell him what your amazing idea is. Now I bet you feel pretty high and mighty when he replies by saying, “Wow, that is an amazing idea.” So you tell him www.rainforest.com is what you’ve got, and he says he’s got no good ideas.

So you continue in your search for a proper domain.

3 months later, your flipping through the channels, and stumble upon a report of an amazing new e-store! One that has blown away any competition. What’s it’s name? That’s right, www.amazon.com. And who runs it? No other than George, your “IM buddy”.

So what’s the lesson to be learned here?

Well, if you really trust someone, and they have proved themselves worthy of your trust, then by all means, bounce ideas off of them, it will almost always benefit you in the end.

But if you don’t really know someone too well, or they’re giving off “bad vibes”, then do not, and I repeat, do not tell them any business ideas or secrets, as it will always come back and screw you over bite you in the butt.

I’ve had it happen to me numerous times, took me a long while, and many mistakes to learn better. But that doesn’t mean it has to be the same way for you.

A lot of what this blog is going to be is to really help you guys, to teach you from my own mistakes and bad situations, so that you don’t have to go through the same thing. If you would like to continue learning these great things, please come back, and don’t be afraid to subscribe to the RSS feed as well!

Well, the time Has finally come. After many nights of procrastination hard work, MonkeyBlogger.com is finally launching. (whoo hoo!)

If you wanna know about who I am, check out the About page.

I’m really just a normal guy, who is 15 years old. I think that’s what makes this blog kind of special. It’s coming from someone pretty young, so it should be interesting.

This blog is going to cover a lot of things, including internet marketing, blogging, Wordpress tips, Adsense tips and tricks, some php tips that will help you, as well as some other different experiences I really think you’ll enjoy reading.

I also will be letting my readers follow me 100% transparently through all my internet ventures and such. My readers will learn from my mistakes, and also learn how to follow my successes so they can succeed online, just as I hope to.

I’m going to be posting every day, (if I can), and at the least, 5 posts a week, no exceptions. I’m going to be covering a heck of a lot, and it would be in your best interests if you stick around and subscribe to my rss feed.

I really want to also focus on building a community here, so feel free to IM me and have a chat with me about the site or other online biz, it won’t cost you a penny! (for now, at least )

So just check the site out and find (hopefully!) some great content that can help you. Because that’s the point of MonkeyBlogger, to help you, not me.

But if you do want to make me rich help me run this site, “swing” on over to the Advertise Page and sign up to sponsor the site with an advertisement! I’m sure you won’t be let down.

So, I guess that’s it, look out for some great content soon to be released, I’m sure you won’t be disappointed. And if you don’t wanna miss a thing, Subscribe to the Feed!

Regards,

- Mark Cuda