Come one come all… the Net Fool is now JIMVESTING!

We’re transitioning our old blog located at The Net Fool to our brand new website at Jimvesting.com! Why the sudden change? Well there were plenty of pressures pushing me toward re-branding, and I think there are going to be numerous benefits involved with making the switch. Sure, there will be an initial knee-jerk reaction to switching over cold turkey, but it is a move that needs to be made!

Major Advantages of Moving to Jimvesting Dot Com:

• “Jimvesting” is a more recognizable/brandable name than “The Net Fool”
• The added professionalism provided by the Jimvesting name will add to the overall credibility of the site’s content
• Our new theme will allow for more streamlined content, better monetization and a renewed focus on content quality over aesthetics
• A fresh new look should encourage a renewed surge in participation and interest. The old theme & brand had gotten a bit tired… and Jimvesting.com is a great solution to start things up again!

One of the biggest changes here is dropping the old theme and adding this new one. I think that I will be selling the rights to the old theme, as it seemed to be quite popular. However, I think that one of the disadvantages of that theme was that it took too long to load and see the actual content — the header was so large you could hardly see the first post when you loaded up the page!

Our new theme, based on a design from ProductiveDreams.com, lets you see the first post as SOON as you load up the page. There is plenty of advertising room to work with, and there is much more of a social media presence all across the site. As the web is evolving, we want to move with it… so while the old theme was certainly “fun,” Jimvesting’s new look will allow us to deliver a better experience and Search Engine Optimized performance. The advantages are real, and the design is still just as slick, sexy and original!

Welcome to the new website, let us know what you think below!
-Jimvesting Dot Com

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Everyone knows that the economy is rough right now. While the worst may be behind us, there certainly won’t be any measurable amount of “recovery” for quite some time. As people search for more work in tough times, I remind you that blogging may provide that supplemental income to put you over the edge… and quite possibly make you very very successful down the road!

Want to Start a Blog, but Don’t Know How to “Get the Wheels in Motion?”
Introducing Jimvesting’s “Blogger Stimulus Package!!!”

I believe strongly in lending a helping hand to others who are interested in starting their own online ventures, but just don’t have the “know how” to do it all themselves… at least, not without burning a LOT of time on learning how. Therefore, I am reinstating my previous “Blog Domination” package, but I am UPPING THE ANTE and making the deal even sweeter. Now, not only will I design your blog for you… but I will personally go out and buy you any commercially available “premium” theme that you want… for free!

What you get in the Blogger Stimulus Package:

• FREE Premium Theme from the website of your choosing
  • Try Unique Blog Designs, WP Theme Designer, WooThemes or Elegant Themes to get your hunt started
• FREE Custom Logo designed by me to fit your blog style/niche
  • I’ll whip up a high-quality logo made custom just for you
• FREE Copy of Jimvesting’s Blogging eBook
  • Get your blog off the ground with this easy to understand tutorial!
• FREE Blog Consultation from Jimvesting!
  • I’ll talk you through the process of blog ownership personally to get you on the right track to making money online

Sounds like a great deal, eh? I’ve had many satisfied customers in the past, and I hope that you will be one as well. You may be asking what you need to do at this point to get eligible to enter into this promotion… well there is really only one requirement for you:

REQUIRED: Sign Up For HostGator Webhosting Using This Link!

HostGator is the web’s premier web hosting company, and has literally millions of websites hosted on its servers… including mine! My website loads very fast considering that it is built on almost 100% images, and I have the speedy servers at HostGator.com to thank for that. By signing up for web hosting under my name (do this by using the link above), you will be telling HostGator that I sent you, and it becomes a win-win situation for me to provide you with all of the set up on the front end. There are no hidden “gotcha” costs involved, I act as an affiliate for companies like HostGator that like to see steady business… and heck, you get a new blog designed by a pro!

Jimvesting’s Blogger Stimulus Package: We will be running this offer for a limited time… so be sure to get into it as soon as you can if you are interested. All you have to do is sign up for hosting using this referral link and then shoot me an email (or drop a comment on this post) to let me know that you are in. No gimmicks, No fuss!

Stay Bullish on the Net!
-Jimvesting

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When you visit a website… what is the first thing you see?
The answer (to this “lay-up” question) is THE HEADER!

While it may be an overstatement to say that theNetFool.com is now sporting the greatest header that has ever been created for a weblog (and I do this simply for a great post topic ), I’ve made some more changes that I am sure you have noticed by now. By adding a clever opt-in newsletter subscription box, and in a very aesthetically pleasing manner, I will be boosting the amount of turnover this blog generates… and we all know that more subscribers = more POWER.

The Inspiration for Change?
My inspiration was actually a video I saw a week ago from one of the most famous MMO bloggers of all time, John Chow. Now, John takes a lot of heat from people who claim that all of his material is either 1) fluffy and unimportant; or 2) wrong or misleading. I feel that most of this is coming from the fact that he is a top dog, and people love to hate the champ. In summary, the video is about how he makes money blogging… and a lot of his success revolved around the fact that he used his blog as a machine to capture email addresses. I noticed that I wasn’t doing this currently, and I have decided to make a change by becoming more newsletter-centric. Check out his post here!

Let’s Talk About the New Header & the History

My old header originally just had the logo and a whole lot of eye candy. About half a year ago, I decided that I should be “USING” that space for something… so I took down the papers and such that I had on the bulletin board in the logo and darkened the color of it so that it would look like a chalk board. Now that my bulletin board could be “drawn” on in “chalk” (yes, I have fun with it!)… I downloaded a font called “Eraser” so that I could put up different versions of my header to promote new happenings on my blog.

The next “phase” of the header was when I decided to monetize it. I thought that this was a great idea, and it turns out that it was a major flop. What I did was add a few programs that I used often to generate money on the right side of my header. The problem here was that the affiliate links simply weren’t being clicked because they were not being seen by people using the blog… and were very transparent and small in the corner of a very large landscape heading.

CURRENT: Now, I have changed focus and totally integrated an opt-in form into my header. Not only this, but I have a very neat dynamic drop-down system that I custom programmed to deliver one of 3 eBooks with a subscription to this blog as a bonus. I don’t know ANY other blog that allows you to choose from multiple “gifts” upon registering to a newsletter… so I think I have a great system in place that will work for me well into the future.

Jim, that is indeed the best header ever… how did you do it!?

Ah, calm down a little bit… I will explain how it works! The first move on my end was to have different products to offer my readers. Many bloggers haven’t been around enough to have their own eBooks and such that they can hand out, so this was a bit of a leg up from the get go. I have a lot of content and much of it gets buried, so this is a great way to get things back on the frontpage that I’ve worked hard on!

In Aweber, I knew that there was a way to give a blog broadcast to people that subscribe with a digital download… but there is no way to do it for multiple items in different scenarios. Therefore, most of the scripting is actually run through the confirmation page when you first hit “submit.” By creating a unique variable for each offering (for example: “gift1″ and “gift1″), you can match that selection to a file name (i.e. “gift1.pdf”) and feed that to the subscriber once they confirm their subscription! It’s a bit more complicated than that… but the jist of it is creating a new variable for the book choice that Aweber (fortunately) let’s you pass on through the system!

The final piece of the puzzle was actually coding it in. I had to tear apart my existing header for this… and splice it into numerous images so that I could place a form on top of it (the thing used to be 1 big image). Then, with some clever CSS implementation for styling (example: the selection boxes highlight when they are active ), away we go!

Now I can capture more leads… and maintain a pretty sweet looking header!
-Jimvesting

What Do YOU Think About The New Header?

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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!

I WILL be moving this offer to a paid promotional the week after I release it here… I’d be a fool not to! However, be advised that anyone who is subscribed via the newsletter (link below) will be on the list to get it for free.

eBook Being Released NEXT SATURDAY
I have the book I am preparing staged to launch next Saturday… and it will only be available for my subscribers. All you need to do to qualify is sign up to the Aweber Newsletter that I have set up. You will receive absolutely no spam, and will get a few updates every now and then from what is happening at Jimvesting.com. It’s completely free too, so you have nothing to lose! Let’s call it my Christmas gift to all of you.

Remember to check back next Saturday to receive your free book… and we will certainly be emailing a unique link to everyone on our email list to let you know where you can go to download the book. We don’t mess around with spammy offers here at Jimvesting, and you can be sure that a simple click on the “Submit” button above will get you a free book with no questions asked and no strings attached.

Have a great weekend… and a happy new year!
-Jimvesting

PLEASE NOTE! THE OFFER PERIOD IS NOW EXPIRED!

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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.

Site Owners: Make sure that your emails are current! EVERYWHERE!

The lesson really isn’t to make sure your domain names expire, because any registrar will send you updates up to wazoo… my problem wasn’t that I wasn’t getting the alerts, but that I wasn’t “getting” the alerts.

At the very least, it was definitely a wake up call for me as to how much I really didn’t want to let this thing go… so I’ll be posting more often from here on out. I have a few plans in the mix, but I will round out the longest 30-day blog building challenge in the history of mankind first and foremost. Stay bullish on the net!

-Jimvesting

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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

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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

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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

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