After a one-month break that I used to work on a few blogs as a part of the first round of Blogger Stimulus, I’m now back in action and ready to ease more “liquidity” into the system. But I do believe that I completely botched the first round of stimulus by completely ignoring the money-multiplier effect of stimulus packages!

What I did WRONG in the first blogging stimulus package on Jimvesting dot com

The purpose of a truly economic “stimulus package” is to have money flow through the system in as many ways as possible. My first blogging stimulus promised a great new blog with a premium theme to anyone who wanted to sign up for a new web hosting account. The logic here was that if you wanted a blog… you’d need hosting regardless. By signing up under my affiliate link with HostGator, we created a profitable scenario for both of us…. but this wasn’t much of a stimulus because it stopped multiplying through the system right there! Read the rest of this entry »

When I first started out on Twitter, I remember being absolutely astounded at the sheer amount of users trying to make you buy products that would supposedly make you “God of Twitter.”

Now, as I have developed my own method for gaining followers, and thus status & power on Twitter, I have seen my account even more preoccupied with Twitter-based profit schemes. It seems that the more affiliate followers I pick up, the more Twitter promoters I am seeing! These programs don’t work, are overpriced, and need to be stopped.

I am so frustrated with the millions of promoters for hundreds of Twitter “miracle systems” out on the internet. :devil: Because of this, I’ve developed a method that works just as well… and is almost fully automated… that you can get without downloading anything, without signing up to any newsletter and without paying!

Why am I doing this for free?
Well, because I’m so darn foolish! Read the rest of this entry »

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 »

I think that it is fair game to say that most of you reading this post either own a blog now, or would like to own a blog sometime in the near future. It comes as no surprise that many of us, myself included, like to monetize what we have with some advertisements to get some extra cash in our pockets. The average blogger will earn around $200 a month from private ad sales. But no matter how you decide to monetize your blog, it’s important to understand how pricing SHOULD work, so you can maximize your profits!

The most typical forms of blog monetization are through text ads and banner ads, both of which can be located pretty much anywhere on your website. Regardless of the format, what I am going to be talking about will apply as long as you offer your ads paid on some kind of periodic system. For example, maybe you charge your advertisers every month to put a banner up on your site; maybe you instead go by the week, or even semi-annually. Whatever the case, chances are that an ad today, is worth less than an ad tomorrow if you are running a successful blog. This is what we call in economics the “time value of money.”

The Time Value Of Money: So why is a dollar today worth less than a dollar tomorrow? Holding inflation aside, which will naturally cause the value of money to appreciate over time, we assume that you could always invest anything that you own today and make more money into the future! The less time you have to invest, the less money you will have in the long run.

So what am I going to talk to you about today? I’m going to talk about properly valuing your ad real estate using compounding interest rates. This is an important lesson, as you could be losing hundreds of dollars if you don’t keep this in mind when you negotiate.

Don’t Rip Yourself Off!

Just a few days ago I received an order for a text link ad, only the advertiser wanted to buy a text link for an entire year… that’s 12 months worth! While this was great news, ordinarily I would have just asked him to pay for one month at a time. Not wanting to lose such a massive sale, I decided to use a compounded interest chart to map out what the fair cost would be.

A typical blog owner would say that if my current rate per month is $20.00, then 12 months would be $20.00 x 12, or $240. This sounds fair, right? WRONG! If this was your answer, you need to seriously rethink the way you do business. Assuming that you are running a decent blog, your rates will go up over time, correct? Therefore, we need to adjust for this when we work the rates into a 12 month period.

What I have done is create a compounded rate excel file that will take a starting rate (e.g. $20.00) and adjust it up x% for each month, depending on how quickly you predict you will develop your website and increase the value of the advertisement. A small note, this is not the same as adding 60% for 12 months of 5% growth… this is wrong. The way that this works is that we would start at our base price, $20.00, then add 5% for the second month, or a new cost of $21.00. After that, it is a third month at the second month cost plus 5%, or $22.05. This process continues all the way to the 12th month, when each ad spot would cost $34.21 adjusting for that 5% growth we expect.

Think it doesn’t make much of a difference? Think again!

If you had used simple straight-line growth at a constant rate, you would have billed a total of $240 for the ads. However, if you used a 5% growth per month, you would have billed a total of $318.34… that’s a difference of $78.34! This is revenue that you are just giving away if you are going to give an advertiser the same rate into the future.

Jimvesting’s Advertising Cost Model – A FREE Gift to You!

I have developed in Microsoft excel a model that will take two inputs, a base ad price and a rate (specified by you), and generate a 12-month pricing plan… showing you the difference between constant rates and compounded rates. It’s very easy to use, but if you need some help, follow along in the video so that you can see just how to use this powerful model.

DOWNLOAD THE NET FOOL’S ADVERTISING COST MODEL

Remember, you can really use any growth rate that you want, and my 5% is only a sample. Suppose you are a newer blog and you are going to grow tremendously in the first few months… maybe you would like a rate closer to 20% growth? Or suppose you are an old timer who doesn’t increase traffic as much as you should… perhaps you use 2.5% growth? My model can pump out valuations 12 periods into advance, and you can look anywhere in the middle and pick out, let’s say, 8-months of payment if you’d like.

Bottom Line: If you are going to sell ad space to your users, you better make sure that you aren’t ripping yourself off! If somebody asks if they can pay for a year of service… don’t tell them “no!”, tell them that you need to account for 5% growth and show them my model in work… they should easily agree to the terms. Heck, it works for me!

- Jimvesting

What if I told you that you could easily be making $100s every day, while at the same time boosting your number of backlinks and increasing your Google search ranking positions… sounds pretty good, doesn’t it? I’ve found the way, and this is a true tested method for making it big. Normally, people will horde this secret and make you pay for the information… here we are a bit more open with each other.

We all know how rewarding affiliate marketing tactics can potentially be by now, and I’ve found one heck of a deal that I feel like we can all exploit till they take the offer away. For now, get in while the getting’s good! If you do the following, I can guarantee that you will make at least $50. Period.

The Idea is Formed… The Stage is Set

Once you start thinking like a marketer, ideas like these simply come to you. I’m not saying that I am smarter than your average bear… I just know how to think “greedy.” Well let’s cut to the chase, shall we? It looks like our friends over at Text-Link-Ads released a new advertising platform… and once again over-emphasized the affiliate system for us. How nice of them!

Last time it was with their text-link-ads network, this time it is with the release of InLinks.com. This site is a great idea. This “new” form of advertising allows you to buy up ad slots in the form of text links hidden within actual blog posts. For example, I can pay $15 bucks for a link with the anchor “peanut butter” on a PageRank 3 blog… and it will go put the order in, making the text on a matching blog a link that is built to my specifications.

What initially jumped out at me here is that you get a GUARANTEED $25 for anyone that signs up as an advertiser under you. That’s right… cha-ching! Not only that, but they have an awesome promotion that lets you purchase, as an advertiser, $100 worth in ads for just $1 using the coupon “100free.” So getting people to join is the easiest thing you’ve ever done… it’s a no-brainer! They try to make it a bit harder on you, but it’s nothing we can’t handle… let’s do this step by step.

Step-By-Step Path to Instant Riches

1. Signing Up As An Advertiser
If you are going to join up with the InLinks.com network, why not take advantage of their incredible $100 for $1 deal, eh? Heck, if you need a buck I’ll even PayPal you $1 just because this is so irresistible. Because you need a publisher or advertiser account anyway… let’s set up an advertiser account so we can boost our own ranks while making money. If this isn’t a win-win, I don’t know what is.

Now enter your information for security purposes (you won’t get mailed):

Now just submit your application and confirm that the email you signed up with is yours… and you are ready to go!

2. Buying Up Some “InLinks Futures”
I actually really like the idea behind InLinks.com, and it looks like something that will evade Google for quite some time. Heck, I might even sign up as a publisher later to make some more money. Until then, let’s order some “InLinks.com Futures.” Futures are essentially where you enter a keyword phrase, and as soon as a client publishes a blog post with that term in it, you get the purchase and the text becomes your link!

Assuming you want to get $100 for $1 using the code “100free,” which is what I did, I like to just buy what they call “package 1.” Click the check-box next to that and hit the refresh button to get your link entry fields to appear for your order. Simply put in the keyword phrases you want marketed, a link you want them directed to, and you are good to go!

I feel like this offer is beneficial to new bloggers, and even popular bloggers. Links are links… and when you can nab quality for $1, you take it. Bottom Line.

3. Get Your Affiliate Account Set Up
Assuming you already signed up as an advertisers… you actually have the capabilities to act as an affiliate already as a default! Simply click over to the “Affiliate” tab on the top of your screen, and you will get into the system that generates an extremely well-cloaked version of your affiliate link. What InLinks.com DOESN’T want people doing is getting their referral link out without putting their image out there too. Forget that! Not everyone can spare the ad space, and I’d rather just have a link to give to people any day… right?

What InLinks.com gives you is a javascript code that has one function to encrypt your link, and another to decrypt it once it is on your blog or website. We can get around this simply by copying their code and making our own executable file. Confused? Don’t be.

How-To: Open up “Notepad” on your computer (or another text-editor where you can save as any file type). Paste all of the code in the file and save it as “whatever.php”. Upload the new file somewhere to your server, and hop to that web address in your web browser. Your referral link should be in plain view! I like using the “text link” option instead of the banner for practical reasons.

Alternative: If you don’t want to mess with that, you could also simply upload it like they want you to and copy the actual referral link down when you click on your ad for InLinks.com. You’ll get a code like this: “http://www.inlinks.com/?ref=XXXXXX”

4. Start Marketing Your InLinks Program!
Now that you have your account, you have ads ready to go for more exposure and you have your real referral link to pass around… it’s time to put your best marketing skills to use and make money! I would suggest pushing the program on your blog along with the coupon code I suggested above simply because it is so easy to do. Nobody is going to (or should) pass up that opportunity, and you will make an instant $25 for everyone that takes your advice.

This method is something that I have developed independently, and I feel can be wildly successful. Remember, just as Text-Link-Ads took away their affiliate system, InLinks.com can do the same thing. Because of this, you should jump on the opportunity as it exists! If you liked this article, give me some props by subscribing to my blog, Digging the post or Stumbling the post.

-Jimvesting