Happy Sunday!
This week, I was really busy trying to keep up with posting to the blog, but managed to keep on top of things. I am currently in the process of getting licensed in Life & Heath for the purpose of selling insurance. This studying in combination with a two-day sales conference really tied me back from posting… but this week ended up being very productive despite all that.
After a great run down of an interesting money making scheme using lead-based affiliate programs, as well as a compelling discussion between myself and John Cow on the subject of brown-nosing for potential clients, I did see a good amount of interaction from you readers on an otherwise ordinary week. But enough about me, let’s shine some light on five interesting posts from the week ending June 14th, 2008. 
- Zac Johnson – The Rise and Fall of Public Internet Ad Companies
- Blog About Your Blog – How To Sell Your Blog
- Money Bites – Alternative Networks and Earning from Social Media
- John Cow – Standing above the Crowd to Find JV Partners
- Click Consultants – Should You Use World-Wide Affiliate Offers World-Wide?
Stock Market News
Wild ride this week. The U.S. Dollar had its best week in nearly three years as it rose big time against the Euro and Yen. We had a couple of big down days, but Friday was a strong finish as things rebounded on stronger than expected retail sales reports. In addition to this, inflationary concerns were temporarily put to rest as the Consumer Price Index came in better than expected.
With a strong day on Friday, a lot of analysts are now calling for a good week coming up. One investor in particular, Jim Cramer, demonstrated that the market was dramatically oversold (meaning there will be value, and thus buyers, this week) using a market oscillator from Standard and Poor’s. This report alone got me excited, as I could really use a good week to recoup some of my losses from last week. I’m still keeping 
Yamana Gold (NYSE: AUY) my largest holding for safety’s sake, but my other holdings have seemed to hang on.
Blogosphere News
This week was definitely interesting. I had to miss out on a lot of the action, but it would seem that a lot of bloggers in the niche went ahead and ran Question & Answer segments on their blogs this week. I think it’s pretty interesting to get user input and give your guests answers they have been searching for, so I am anticipating running one of my own sometime this week.
I had a fun time arguing with John Cow over the subject of brown-nosing. We both took the offensive with no regard for human life on the subject of brown-nosing v. sticking to your guns. I defended maintaining your dignity to secure reliable traffic, even if you need to be a bit arrogant. John on the other hand, preferred to ask politely for help periodically from the big guys, and recommended doing some favors to score a link back. Both sides are fine on this, and I was honestly just doing it because I was bored and like to play devils advocate… but it was definitely interesting to get a conversation going that wouldn’t have happened otherwise. 
Contest Update
My birthday’s a thing of the past, but Jimvesting’s June Birthday Bash rolls on in full force! If you haven’t registered to win already, you can get a free brand new Flip Mino worth $180 to record some high-quality 
video with or even a $50 Market Leverage Rewards card. Entering is completely free and only takes a few seconds, so check out the ways to win and register for email updates from Jimvesting so you don’t miss a beat!
I’ve had some great entries so far, including one YouTube video which I really liked. The prizes to be won here are fantastic, and you’ll have a great shot at winning since my RSS subscriber pool is small… and my email subscriber pool is even smaller. Increase your odds by blogging my contest or making a video, and win a prize! 
The Week In Focus
This week, I am going to try and pump out another brilliant strategy for you guys to make money online, since that seems to be an attractive focus. I am anticipating wrapping up the popular “Creating A Blog” series this week as well and compiling the entries into a nice eBook for you all to use and share 100% free of cost.
Traffic around here has been steadily on the rise, and my Alexa.com ranking is really strengthening as of late… so that is always exciting. With any luck, I’ll see a nice bounce in my 45n5 Top 100 Blogs ranking after the new stats are factored in. That’s it for this weeks Sunday update… stay bullish on the net!
-Jimvesting
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I watch Cramer every chance I get.
My Alexa is also rising, I guess it’s a MMO need? Good luck with the E-book, I am actually planning on compiling some of my old posts, especially a 5 part easy to learn SEO guide in to an E-book seeing as people are more bound to read an E-book than some Articles.
Good luck the the 45n5 ranking, I’m also hoping mine will go up.
Germzs last blog post..Increase your Ad revenue by spying on your Visitors.
Wow…I’m starting to love this blog!
Desmond – GradeMoney.coms last blog post..Do You Think You Overpriced Your Banners?
Enjoyed reading Zac’s and BAYB’s(not fully explained though!) posts
Chetans last blog post...exe entensions for web content do not get indexed in Google
Just attended a gold show in Vancouver. This is a good phase to accumulate quality gold shares, which Yamana Gold is. We have it in our investment club and we can wait.