Good afternoon Jimvesting readers!

I’ve been working on a brand new method to net you $75-$200 (depending on how often you use it) repeatedly with absolutely no potential for loss and no risk. This is something that I have done personally with great success, and I am 100% confident that any one of you can exploit this trick that I have developed over the years and trust completely.

What’s The Catch?!
Well normally, I would sell this book to hundreds of people and then sell my website for another quick collection… but this time I am going to give the book away to my readers FOR FREE! Why? Well, I haven’t been so active lately, so I want the only term for this offer to be that you must be a registered subscriber of our newsletter to get the book.

Keep in mind that you will never see a deal like this, and I know people that are charging you upwards of $100 for books like this that reveal less powerful secrets. I can personally guarantee that anyone who reads this book will be able to make in instant $75… or I will pay YOU $75! Read the rest of this entry »

As many of you may have noticed, theNetFool.com was actually UNREGISTERED for more than 24 hours! I wanted to thank those of you who came to me and let me know this right away, as you may have saved the blog’s existence altogether.

As it turns out, my registrar was sending “domain name expiration” notices to an old email account of mine that I had completely forgotten about (heck, who uses Yahoo Mail anymore anyways? ) and my domain name expired on October 11th because I didn’t notice! Luckily for me, it seems that Name Cheap, the guys I work with, have a holding policy and I was able to smooth talk my way into extending the term of my registration out another year without any penalties. Read the rest of this entry »

Okay, so I’m not actually dead… but man things are getting stale over here!
On to the lingering question:

What will happen on Day 25 of the Build-A-Blog Workshop?

Possible Theories:

• Jimvesting will be taken over by the U.S. Government
• Cash will spill out of your floppy disk drive (you still have one… right?)
• Jim personally delivers you a fruit basket for all of your waiting
• You reload the website, and your computer is infected with an incurable virus
• Jim makes good on all of the money pleas on the “Beg for Cash” post
  (seriously, look at all these)

Well, we will get back to work on Saturday, August 22nd… so stay tuned,
because when have we ever kept you waiting?

-Jimvesting

Hey Everyone.

After announcing the details of the Net Fool’s Build-A-Blog Workshop, I have decided to push back the start date from Friday, April 17th to Wednesday, April 22nd on the back of a big demand for the competition. If you haven’t heard already, I want to encourage you to check out the original contest post for full details on all that we are offering you at absolutely no cost for the 30-day hands-on event.

The New (and final) Start Date: Wednesday, April 22nd 2009

Owning a website on the internet seems to have quite a few barriers to entry on the internet. You need to have a sort of “base knowledge” about how things work to even get your feet wet. In a down economy where many are looking for sustainable income, the internet can offer a secondary boost to what you make year in and year out. I’ve turned ordinary blogs into revenue-generating powerhouses in the past, and want to help all of you do it too! With the potential to make over $10k each year, something that I can almost guarantee all of you will be doing soon after completing the workshop, it’s an opportunity that is tough to pass up. Best of all, you only need to spend 30 minutes of your time for 30 days… that’s something that everyone can live with!

Sweetening The Deal!

Over the next few days, and before the competition starts, if you have a friend or relative that you know would be interested in this opportunity, let them know about it! What’s in it for you? Every user and blogging participant that you can refer to Jimvesting’s Build-A-Blog Workshop will net you a FREE copy of my $15 eBook “Work Smart, Get Rich!” That’s right, a popular eBook 100% free just by telling a friend about a great opportunity… that’s a win win! Simply have them post on the original contest area their interest, and that they were referred by X, and we will get you set up right away!

Looking forward to a productive 30 days of blogging.
-Jimvesting

It’s time once again for Sunday Link Love… in fact, this is the 50th week that we have covered links from around the blogging universe! Woohoo!

Last update, we had a quick poll and I said that we would be giving away two free one-month links to the winners. I’ve gone back and checked in on the participants, and the winners are the users named “fas” and “Online Marketing BLog” … congratulations! Please comment in the space below or shoot me an email via the contact form, and I’ll get you hooked up.

In honor of our 50th link love, I’m giving away a free one-month 125×125 sidebar banner ad (doesn’t rotate!). What do you have to do? Simply follow this link, and give me feedback on my latest project in the comment area on this post. One of the first five people to respond (randomly) will win!

In the Giving Mood

Since I am in the giving mood today, let’s go ahead and put in one heaping portion of link love. I’m DOUBLING the standard five links… so more exposure to more blogs today only! Below are ten of the best articles from the past week that you should definitely check out:

• The University Kid – What I Look For When Buying A Website
• Click Consultants – Is Pay Per Click too Difficult to Enter as a Newbie?
• Uber Affiliate – Google Adwords Strategy
• Enkay Blog – 5 Reasons for Blog Success…
• Ian Fernando – Building A List: Why I am Just Starting

Whew, let’s cut it in half, eh? A great post from the new owner of The University Kid on a very unique subject. The post is all about buying someone else’s website, and what you need to do to get a good deal… definitely smart work here (we’ll get more into that blog sale later). Derek from Click Consultants boils down his conception that getting involved in PPC marketing is just too hard for a novice, something I would agree with. Uber Affiliate outlines an awesome strategy for making cash from Google. Enkay blogs about successful blogs, and what they have that you don’t. Finally, Ian Fernando is building a mailing list, and telling us why he took so long to get around to it. Back to the links!

• Smarter Wealth – 7 Ways to Grow Your Income Momentum Online
• Mark Mason - SEO: Number of Competing Pages is the Wrong Measure
• Internet Marketing Tips – 10 Reasons Why You SHOULD Subscribe
• The Melvin Blog – 5 Things I Wish They Had Taught In School
• The Keyword Academy – Introduction to Ethical Affiliate Marketing

Moving on, we have an awesome piece from Ryan at Smarter Wealth about growing your online income with momentum to secure long-term gains. Then, Mark Mason talks to us about how Google ranks websites by analyzing competing websites, dispelling the myth that more is better. Reach Success Online (or IM Tips) brings to the table 10 reasons why you should be subscribing to opt-in lists, mailers and the like. Dean Hunt guest posts on the Melvin Blog and talks about subjects he wished were taught in school. Finally, and last but not least, the Keyword Academy brings up the subject of ethical marketing, something that I am 100% behind and thought was a good read.

Stock Market Update

We are at levels in the Dow Jones that have investors tense and ready for action. After hitting all time lows just a month ago, we are at a 20%+ rebound level across all major market indices. As it happens, the American markets closed on Friday just above the 8,000-points level. This is technically significant, as we have been trying to break above definitively from the Dow Jones being locked below 8,000. Are we getting that chance and has the bear market finally started to show signs of recovery? Or is it just another set up for a massive collapse?

The problem right now is that there is (supposedly) much more bad news to come out. As of now, investors have had reason to be happy with many major companies surprising (positively) on their first quarter corporate earnings reports (e.g. Wells Fargo). This alone has driven the market higher, but will it be overshadowed by things to come? While there is clearly some bad news that has yet to escape, perhaps we over-sold the market in the first place and are literally just catching up? There are many theories out their in the balance, making this week of trading fundamentally significant… so turn it over to CNBC at 4:00pm EST every day and see where things are going!

Blogosphere Update

We’ve had a lot of shake-up in the blogging world as of late. It is amusing to me how much this echos the overall economy. Right now, in the physical business world, many companies are either failing or begin acquired and bought out. In the blogging world, many people are stopping the steady flow of blog posts or selling their blogs and jumping ship. Earnings are down, but Jimvesting is going to ride out the storm in style.

Did I mention we have an AWESOME CONTEST coming this week? You could be one of five winners to get a very nice prize valued at $200 a pop… and this isn’t a cheesy marked-up eBook. What is it? Stay tuned to find out!

Getting back to the point we made earlier, Jason from The University Kid sold his blog to a new owner (actually two!) for $3,000. Wow! That was about the cheapest that I thought the first bid would be. While I believe that Jason got ripped off, the new owners Stanley Tang and Josh Lam made out like bandits. I am a bit upset that this wasn’t broadcasted more, as I would have paid $4k myself for that real estate. The way I see it, even if I WANTED to sell Jimvesting, I really shouldn’t because I would more than likely be underpaid. I feel that all of these bloggers jumping ship now are making huge mistakes against the long term value of their websites.

Other than that, we had a disturbing case of blackmailing at Dean Hunt’s popular marketing blog. Check it out and tell me what you think. Personally, I am a bit frightened as to what the world has come to! A good deal of April Fool’s Day pranks went down in the blogging world, just to reiterate the past few weeks. Unfortunately, I feel that people overall weren’t in as much of a joking mood as they were last year… although the folks at Google managed to pull off a stunt, launching CADIE (Cognitive Autoheuristic Distributed-Intelligence Entity)… a program that automatically writes emails for you based on personality!

That’s it for this week, stay tuned for our contest and stay bullish on the net!
-Jimvesting