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With the proliferation of tools for easily generating podcasts and with YouTube's distribution of
video files, how can you make the right choice when to generate a video blog vs a podcast?

Continue reading Podcast VS Video Blogging »

Posted by on March 20, 2007 9:27 AM in Blogging | Comments (0)

You might have noticed that I have been running contextual ads for the last week or so. It was my experiment to see how they generated revenue. Here are the results.

Continue reading Using Inline Contextual Advertsing to Monetize a Blog. »

Posted by on March 21, 2007 10:35 AM in Blogging | Comments (3)

Blogging as a business has matured quite a bit. I started my first blog Thinking Monkey in 2000. That's seven years ago. Back then having a blog was a relative novelty. Blogging has grown up quite a bit since then.

Continue reading Posticon 07 »

Posted by on March 23, 2007 2:04 PM in Blogging | Comments (0)

I have used Pay Per Post for building buzz for my Early Miser Playstation 3 promotion. I started using Pay Per Postafter a horrible campaign with Loudlaunch.

Continue reading Pay Per Post Update - Oppapalooza! »

Posted by on March 29, 2007 12:14 PM in Blogging | Comments (0)

This post is about how to improve your blog for Pay Per Post. In order to do that, let's look at your blog from the advertiser's perspective. Since I am a blogger and a pretty regular user of Pay Per Post as an advertiser here are my ideas as a blogger to get the most from Pay Per Post.

Continue reading Optimizing your blog for Pay Per Post »

Posted by on April 4, 2007 2:59 PM in Blogging | Comments (0)

The guys over at Pay Per Post are really promoting their blog awards. In the run up to Posticon 07 they are sponsoring a People Choice type awards site, called Blogger Choice.

Continue reading Blogger's Choice Awards! »

Posted by on April 5, 2007 2:26 PM in Blogging | Comments (0)

I recently updated the firmware on my Playstation 3. The most recent firmware update includes the Stanford protein folding application.

Continue reading Protein Folding and the PS3 - Get a free link for being good! »

Posted by on April 6, 2007 9:52 AM in Blogging | Comments (0)

One of the persistent selling hooks to many people selling one Internet marketing package or another is the "passive" income potential of a web site. Indeed the phrase, passive internet income returns a hefty 1.2 million results so it's a pretty common search term. It's also a term you should immediately strike from your vocabulary and your mindset.

Continue reading The Myth of the "Passive" Internet Income »

Posted by on April 26, 2007 11:16 AM in Blogging | Comments (2)

I was watching episode 20 of Rockstar Startup which featured Jody, the new West Coast director of sales. She met with a few agencies on the West Coast (Gen X was one, which handles Acura). That meeting was interesting because it occurred at my favorite sushi restaurant on the West side (recognized the decor) and it raised some important issues questions that advertisers have about Pay Per Post.

Continue reading Pay Per Post and Your Brand. What Fortune 500 advertisers should know about Pay Per Post. »

Posted by on April 27, 2007 8:02 AM in Blogging | Comments (3)

I use Blogger.com to publish California Mortgage News. This has worked ok for the past couple of years but it has also created some problems.

Continue reading Blogger.com - Please allow label editing! »

Posted by on May 1, 2007 3:17 PM in Blogging | Comments (0)

In an effort to stem the tide of spammish comments/unrelated comments and just people trying to leach off my blog I have turned on Typekey authentication.

Continue reading Typekey Authentication »

Posted by on May 7, 2007 9:40 PM in Blogging | Comments (0)

First off this is NOT a paid post. Just thought I would clear the air there. It's apparent a number of bloggers are underwhelmed by the recent foray of PPP into ReviewMe's space. Kumiko ssays you will make less money and John Chow says that PPP Direct "fails". Both are flat assed wrong here. It's curtains for ReviewMe.

Continue reading Review Me Vs. PPP Direct »

Posted by on May 24, 2007 9:06 PM in Blogging | Comments (0)

It's clear that my last post on ReviewMe vs PPP didn't cover all of my thinking. So I decided to do this follow-up post.

Continue reading PPP - the long tail of blogging »

Posted by on May 25, 2007 10:36 AM in Blogging | Comments (0)

Let's face it some bloggers are more successful than others. For some reason some bloggers can become highly successful even when the quality of their writing isn't great. How is this possible? Shouldn't the blogosphere reward quality writing? Well it does reward quality writing but it also rewards other things as well! So without any further introduction here are the three paths to blogging success!

Continue reading The three secret rules for becoming a successful blogger! »

Posted by on June 4, 2007 2:34 PM in Blogging | Comments (0)

I am going to take a short digression on how to build a how to build a web mashup without programming and give you a quick tip on monetizing your hosted blogspot blog by adding Ebay Auctions to it. One of the new features of Blogger is the "Add a Feed" feature which allow you to add external RSS feeds for display. It's like having CaRP built-in to your blogspot blog!

Continue reading Monetizing Blogspot blogs with Ebay RSS Feeds »

Posted by on June 5, 2007 7:46 AM in Ebay | Comments (0)

I always think of new ways to monetize content. Let's face it there are many Blogspot bloggers out there who are not taking full advantage of the power of the Blogger platform. I thought of this post as I was working on how to build a cool shopping mashup with no programming required; Part 1 and Part 2. Since many people start out with Blogger platform, it's important to build multiple revenue streams beyond Adsense.

Continue reading Monetizing Blogspot Blogs with Shopping.com & Grouper »

Posted by on June 9, 2007 11:53 AM in Blogging | Comments (0)

Previously I have blogged about PPP Direct was going to kill Review Me in the paid blogging market. Today I review how the top three blog pay for posting schemes are shaping up.

Continue reading Pay Per Post Continues Whip the Competition in the Blog Market »

Posted by on September 12, 2007 9:05 PM in Blogging | Comments (0)

After Shoemoney sold Auction Ads, it didn't take long for the service to go completely to shit. I was running Auction Ads on my Bobby Orr memorabilia site.

Continue reading Wow Auction Ads SRSLY SUCKS »

Posted by on September 22, 2007 3:41 PM in Ebay | Comments (0)